I haven’t had any problems in City, but only been in it once with the camera, however I have had friends having problems.

BFS, no problem. Been talked to once or twice being told not to take any inside the terminal, but in the viewing gallery is fine. I guess if the lens is pointing out the window, rather than the other way, no one minds.

If you mean the aircraft from MAN,
SF34.

Interesting Roger S, thanks for that.
I’m trying to draw a line between expense and quality, I am not a professional photographer, I do not regularly make money from my work and it’s a hobby, not a job, so I think the 20D and it’s future equivalents in the range are top of my league.

Be interesting to see the spec, they keep pushing the number of megapixels upwards, but for general non-publishing business, is there need? In a few years, will people be buying compact cameras like the IXUS but with 18megapixels? :S

I love this hobby but damn it’s expensive. I was pondering over whether to upgrade to the 20D in the next few months or go for L glass, I think the L glass has won, 70-200 F4 L. 😀

Let this thread give a kick up the backside for some still in school, doss around now and you can work hard for the rest of your life. Work hard now, get a job you like making sensible money and have a good quality of life.

As for me, I love what I’m doing now. Yes I have bad days, yes I have a lot to do at times, yes I have to get up early in the morning 5 days a week but I love the people and most of the work and I’ll be sad when it comes to an end, but maybe something better lurks around the corner.

Shamrock, fingers crossed you get kept on. If so, best invest in a few large bottles of de-icer for the car for those early morning shifts in winter 😀 You can’t honestly love that bit, can you, 4am wake up calls when its -6 outside and your steering wheel even has a film of ice on it haha.

Nice shots,

I was ontop of Blackhead this year again and got some results but haven’t had the time/enthusiam/patience to play with them yet. Here’s three though.

Definitely the behavaviour of these people.
However, I find it pathetic that they were 12 year old kids!

And would it be any less pathetic if they were a different age? :confused: I think it’s pathetic that anyone would be doing it, it’s more shocking that 12 year olds are doing it.

Unfortunately can be a regular occurence in N.Ireland, on emergency services, particularly ambulance crews.

Creativity is something which I lack. I always favoured maths and science over English and art in school (particularly since in art no matter how hard I tried, I was always marked poorly)

My creativity used to extend as far as going slightly more than +4 with saturation…but as they say, experience is a beautiful thing and the more I play the more creative I become through accident.

Rule of thirds and your camera isn’t fixed 5ft10 above the ground are two good tips. Too often I have taken pictures across Loughs/Lochs/Lakes (delete as appropiate) with the horizon dead centred and half sea, half sky. Boring, akward, dead, lifeless…trying to spice it up I get lower and try to get some rocks on the shore in, maybe fill 2/3s with sea, helps to reinforce it going on and on, and finally reaching the sky. Throw in a sunset or moon light and it’s far more arty.

I was in Scotland over the weekend and took some interesting shots of Ailsa Craig (for those that know it) from along the coast, during sunset and then the clear blue skies on Sunday, as well as some hills and valleys. A few years ago I’d have taken them, subject centred, horizon in the midlle etc…and thought great. Of course now I still think great when I have made them look more creative when I take them again this year, but I have progressed and continue too. Criticise your own work, note the good points.

I studied media for two years for GCSE and learnt some things that help along the way. If you want to be creative I think you have to look at the connotation as opposed the denotation. Think beyond what you see with your eyes, don’t see a hill, a field and clouds, see a landscape, fluffy white clouds, all the colours of Skittle sweets etc..

I took some shots of trucks at a truckshow from down low, to make them look tall, imposing, powerful, as they are. It was made even better by the dark grey clouds giving it more character. If I had shot from my eye level, it’s just another picture to me. Shoot from above looking down and it looks small, insignifcation and vulnerable (not referring to trucks, but things in general).

Yes, I know I know, I talk rubbish 😀 What’s more worrying is I haven’t been drinking, totally sober when writing this.