Kirislin

thanks, this is another in the sequence that I cropped a bit more. which is better?

Sensational pic! I love the composition with the wires looping through the frame. Good work! Wow, thankyou Gayle I'd seen birds landing on the wires last week and thought I should try to get a pic of them. I had to manually focus it as the camera couldn't find the bird. I cant see too well these day so I was quite happy with how it turned out.

are you sure it doesn't have two thingys at the start and end? or maybe none at all, there should be one at each end. Hope that makes sense

I took this at work today. I never know if they're swallows or swifts. Canon 400d 1/800 f 5.6 ISO 200 300mm Bird on a Wire

What a beautiful shot, what sort of parrot is it?

thanks, I cropped it alot, just for interest sakes here's the original, it looks pretty ordinary like this. Hey, I hope cropping is allowed.

thanks! it was a lucky shot. I think the parent is watching me.

Taken through the window again. It's the first time I've seen a baby being fed here. Shutter speed 1/1600 f 1.6 ISO 400 lens 50mm

Wow, this is great, it's turning out to be "a day in the life of DOLers" Do we start a fresh thread for Jan 2nd or continue on here? I have a pic, not very good so I might wait to see what the rest of the day brings.

this is the only thing I've photographed today. Canon 400d shutter speed 1/8 f 3.5 ISO 100 lens 50mm Ashanali I like the colouring on yours. I reminds me of colour picture books of the 1950's.

is Live view where it comes up on the screen as you're taking the pic? if so, mine doesn't have it. Just stick your eye to the viewfinder and start clicking! come on show us what you've taken.

Just took this through the window with the 50mm. Probably not what I would've chosen but I've only ever seen lorikeets 3 times before in the 11 years I've been here so I just took a pic with the lens that was on the camera. Taken through the window and cropped alot so it turned out better than I expected.

blow me down if those geckos aren't smiling!!

Yep the pink and grey ones are galahs. You should buy yourself a bird book, you can get smallish field guide ones.

What an amazing photograph CM!!

Great shot dieseldog, another quasimodo shot. Hey KJA when I headed this thread I didn't mean only using 1.4 or 1.8, I just meant the lens. Just wanted to see what everyone could do with it. I'm loving the pics so far.

Have fun with it and be sure to post your pics in the photography section.

What a great Christmas present. somebody loves you! It's a great portrait lens and will cope indoors even this late in the day, come on, start snapping.

I'll go back and put the shooting info on the photos. I am not shooting RAW yet, I really must figure it out soon. I am not in Auto though, haven't used it for months. mostly AV

C'mon c'mon, more pics!!!! It's been sunny and hot here most of the day but it's clouding over now so I just went out on my newly mowed lawn ( a rare occurence here) and took some pics of my handsome male models. I like it when there's no shadows. First up is Tag "get my good side mum" TV 1/250 AV 3.5 ISO 200 F/L 50mm and my darling Puck "sigh, when's dinner" TV 1/250 AV 2.0 ISO 200 F/L 50mm

I used to find frogs occasionally when I was gardening but it's only been in the last two years that I've had taddies and that all started because the frogs bred in the dogs wading pool. That lead me to buy those pretty china bowls as water gardens and it's all gone from there.

here's a little frog in my garden this morning, taken with my cheapie 18-55mm kit lens I think it might be a Litoria ewingii, but not certain cause it's got a bit of green on it.

can you buy waterproof housings for your existing camera.

oooooooooh camera envy