Shooting Great Pictures at Home
July 14, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Beginners Tips, Featured Tips, Landscape Photography, Macro Photography, Photography Tips
By guest contributor Peter Langston (Lango)
The view from the Tamworth lookout is spectacular but like most scenic views, once you’ve seen it … unless it’s the start of the day and a dense fog is just clearing and you catch the morning flight from Sydney on its final approach. This was shot on my Canon 50D EOS in AV mode, mounted on a Slik Pro500DX tripod at f5.6, 1/1000sec and 100 ISO with the 18-200mm lens set to 135mm and picture style on landscape.
I’ve travelled a fair portion of Australia, with only Tasmania and the tropical north of Qld still escaping my lens and it would be a reasonable assumption that whilst all of those kilometres enveloped me in their protection from all things “back home”, they also gave me opportunities to take some spectacular photographs. Read more
Outdoor Photography Opportunities
June 5, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Beginners Tips, Featured Tips, Macro Photography, Photography Tips
From guest contributor Peter Langston (Lango)
This is Peter’s second contribution and you can read more about him here and on facebook. Peter is a customer of the Eastmon Tamworth store.
Sometimes, fortune takes over from planning and a shot just appears before you. At times like these, you hope all of the workshops and courses and advice from others has sunk in and the choices you make are good ones.
Photography is about moments held in your viewfinder so that others can wish they were there and a bit like fishing, we can all talk of the one that got away. Read more
