Oooooh err after all that you saved em anyway :p 😀

They iz kewl shots Paul 🙂 Liking Goss Air, as usual, what a crap name, KLM looking a bit grubby too 🙂

Wow Dean, fantastico as the Italians say 😉 Really like the swan reflection that’s sooper dooper kewl 🙂

One day I’ll go too! 😀

Fantastic shots. Liking the BA 747 muchly 🙂 Shame about the underground journey back though, last time I visited London was using it at rush hour which wasn’t the nicest experience! 🙂

Oooooold age creeping up… 😛 Even if you are only 27 😀

Happy Birthday.

A big thank you for your all your advice, (after checking my bank balance) popped down to my local jessops and now the proud owner of a new canon 350D along with a Tamron AF 55-200mm and even managed to get thrown in a 2 gig memory card.

Will post some pics once I master how to use it.

Cheers
Tim
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Yaaaaaaay! Nice one! 😀

Will look forward to pictures, espically as I’m consediring that lens myself! 🙂

Don’t want to be nit-picky, other than to say that its the other way around on the aperture concept. The smaller the aperture number, the shorter the depth of field. The higher the aperture number, the higher the depth of field, and the more of the image you’ll get in focus.

😮 Oops! 🙂

As for the crispiness; all photos that a camera produces need to go through some sort of post-processing on your computer. Sharpening the photo using an editing program will give you the ‘crisp’ results that you are looking for. You may also have a sharpness control feature in-camera but Im not sure with the 350D; and whether that would yield results, Im dont know.

I hope that helps! 🙂

It does yeah. If you wanna do that, on the 350d go to MENU, then the 2nd list, bottom of the list Parameters, and theres options to turn up sharpness and other things there 🙂

But if you’re gonna post proccess it’s better to leave it on default IMO.

What can I say….I’m barmy 😀

Hi Jamie,

Sometimes its not best to use the Sports mode because of the aperture it sets too. I’m only a newbie myself, but basically, the smaller the aperture number, the higher depth of field and the limited focus you will get, (for example and this doesnt see apply to your pictures, the start of the fueslage might be in focus but the rest a bit soft).

Have you tried AV mode? Here, you set the aperture yourself and the camera decides everything else (except ISO). Typically, you should really use a miniumum of 8. So i’d set AV mode and aperture 8, and ISO 200, (the manual is quite good on the 350d and you might want to look at this).

Also, post proccessing is something that will greatly improve your pictures. Even simple things like setting horizons level and cropping so the aircraft can be in the centre of the frame. I reccomend you get a nice bit of software,(something like photoshop) and follow the many guides on the net (ill link to some later) and learn how to post proccess. You can also sharpen up images doing this.

Like I say, I’m only new myself but everything mentioned I’ve put into practice and it’s worked wonders.