Kirislin

I never thought I'd say it being an arachnaphobe, but that spider is really cute. He looks like a little soldier crab.

Go back to your manual and look up white balance. You can adjust it so you dont get that awful yellow tinge. If you shoot in RAW you can adjust it even after taking the photo on your Canon program DPP. I suspect the reason you get the blurries when you dont use flash is the shutter speed slows right down to allow more light in and slow shutter speed = blur. Try increasing your ISO to maybe 800 although I found anything over ISO 400 with my 400D made it too grainy/noisy for my liking, the 450D might be better there, I dont know. Have your aperture as wide as it will go (that means a low number, not high) and try to have your shutter at least 1/125 or more. Hopefully some of the experts will come in here and give you some advice. I was assuming you're talking about night time but if during the day inside any natural light at all will help. Someone who I think is an expert at utilising that is Bec of Becandcharch. Have a look at some of her indoor pics of her doggies. They're just beautiful IMO

the high ISO would account for the graininess. Didn't your camera come with some editing program, if so I am sure that will fix the lighting problem. I took some night time photos under tungsten, I think that's what they were, they had a awful blue tinge but I just corrected it in DPP, the canon program and they looked fine. I'll have to take a pic of Pucky tonight if I remember

no no no, dont rehome it. JS is right it's the white balance and you can adjust it in RAW but you dont have to have lightroom or photoshop, the programs that came with your camera will fix it for you. Did you get a disc when you got your camera? Have you put it on your computer yet? Also the graininess sounds like digital noise and you can reduce that too. Dont be disheartened. How about posting a couple of pics with the details included, aperture, ISO etc.

I haven't tried it yet, thanks for going to all that trouble Iltby. What I want to know is how the hell do people figure this stuff out in the first place?

Have you still got your 50 1.8? Do you want to sell it? Please PM me if you do.

You and me both, we can go sit in the corner and twiddle our thumbs.

I woke up to this on my wall this morning, now I dont know where it's gone. Thats life size!! Just kidding about the life size bit. although I didn't crop the photo at all.

when I see mine charging towards me at the park I never assume they're smart enough to miss me so I start yelling and waving the dog leads in front of my legs so they veer off at the last second. It's still enough to make my life flash before my eyes.

I need reading glasses but I dont wear them much and not when taking photos, you can adjust the view finder to your own vision. I find the hardest thing for me is if I need to look at what I've just taken, I cannot really make out whether the pic is in focus or not. I just cannot get used to taking reading glasses with me everywhere I go.

what about this

If you buy Canon (not sure about Nikon) it will come with a basic editing program that will crop, sharpen, colour saturate and quite a few other things, including the ability to remove unwanted things in photos and it's free. It wont do the fancy shmancy stuff of photoshop but it might be all you need. It comes on a disc and there's Zoom browser and Digital Photo Professional.

:D I would have thought licking was the last thing you'd want him to do. I know with my friends dog Oscar that would just make things worse.

How cute is that!!

a warning to all parents http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpo...amp;postcount=1

for the last 2 years I had a 400D, which I loved but I've just sold it and now have a 7D. Not many lenses though, just 3 that I use. 70-200 2.8, 50 1.4 and 100 macro 2.8. I have one other, 17-85 but I think I might sell it as I almost never use it. Oh, forgot about my camera bag, it's a little, lowepro nova 170. I've also got a black rapid strap for my 70-200 so when it's on my camera I carry the set up from the lens, not the camera.

I am a bit confused actually, I've heard that grey market cameras come in a plain white box. I thought in buying from DWI I was buying a grey market camera but it is in the proper Canon box. That said, it's my understanding Canon wont take responsibilty for it if there's a problem so I bought the Mack warranty. I think now if there's a problem Mack has their own repairers to do the fix. I just hope they're up with all the latest Canon techincal stuff. It was alot cheaper to buy this way, but it comes with a risk. I bought my lens from another online seller and I've heard that Canon will fix that, but I am not absolutely sure about it either, so far both have been perfect so I haven't needed to test either warranty.

Sorry, I wont be watching it. The comments here are disturbing enough for me. I still have etched in my memory a photograph I saw as a child of a dog being mistreated as it was waiting for slaughter, and also the film Mondo Cane that I saw when I must have been about 7

Mine would love it if I threw a few live bunnies into the yard but it's just not on! Bones are always appreciated here. They'd probably love a sand pit to dig in, especially if it had food hidden in it but I haven't done anything like that for them.

congrats Serena on becoming part of the Savvy Studios team. Amazing, the paths our doggies lead us down isn't it.

How cute, definitely wouldn't work here, droolers................

while the whips were playing in the water yesterday they disturbed this big fat dragonfly.

great photos, wow, that's some shallow DOF! Was that the lens or PP afterwards? Good to see the whippets flying the flag too.

wow, I remember roller derby we on tv when I was a kid, it was really REALLY rough back then. I think it was held at Festival hall although I am not sure, this is like 45 years ago at least. Yours looks like they could have stacked into the crowd! They're great shots but can you make them able to be enlarged if we click, my eyes cannot make out the faces in the crowd. Where was this held, I think Nekbet does roller derby, I might be wrong though.

thanks SB, yep, I finally got a reply off them after my 3rd email and that's what they said, just the camera, not including any extras, freight, or insurance. I hope everyone else has filled their in correctly.