Unlikely wrote:

East coast is pish.

Most of Perthshire is stunning.  Up near us there's the Bullers of Buchan, Slains Castle, fuck, we live in castle country on this coast.  Some of the scenery around Insch is cracking.  There's plenty of beautiful scenery in Aberdeenshire if you're looking for it.

I was working on the assumption that we were taking in the usual way that people divide east coast and west coast Scotland, allowing for things that aren't right on the coast.  You'll also notice that at no point did I suggest that the east side of the country has scenery that is better or as dramatic as the west side, I'm just tired of people lazily saying that the east coast is pish when it demonstrably isn't.

It's almost as tiring as your persistent, worthless baiting and negativity but hey, it's just you and that's what you've always done so it's ok.

Official review of Scotland: It's rather nice.

Well certainly not Dundee.

Unlikely wrote:

Me disagreeing with you doesn't equal "worthless baiting and negativity", it's just me disagreeing with you, because you talk a lot of pish.  It's nothing personal, although apparently you think it is.

"You talk pish," can't be anything other than personal.  Also, it wasn't disagreeing, it was deliberately ignoring most of what I'd written in order to have a dig.  But hey, let's make a joke about ham and pretend that makes up for the rest of your behaviour.

Hey adkm!  Go shit in your face!

Jeez, get a room.

Hey Cuckoo what 6x6 did you have?  lovely hut shot there by the way.

Billy_Hologram wrote:

Hey Cuckoo what 6x6 did you have?  lovely hut shot there by the way.

cheers! pretty modest though really

i had a bronica sq-ai, which is hiiiighly recommended, lovely camera, very affordable for a 6x6 slr too, although if you can live without some features you can get an sq-a for super cheap

if i get another i think i might go for a rolleiflex or yashica tlr, they just look super fun and since photography feels finally to me like the act of doing it that's important, not what it produces,they should be fun things to sport around town like a true modern day hipster-in-denial

I appove of this (old) thred (that I have only just come across). Good pics, people.

I've been trying to get into photography on and off for years. Currently rocking a Nikon D200 and have a few lenses (50mm prime, 18-70, 70-300, and a 105mm prime macro).

Hope to post some pics. At some point. Mostly take pics of family now, though.

Did you actually want to say something, TNT?

IanEv, I've added you to flickr contacts.

Also, have you looked into posting your pics on 500px.com? Much better level of photography on there than on flickr.

To do macros with a normal lens, you screw it onto the mount the wrong way round using a ring adaptor, it's all quite cheap, but it has a few idiosyncracies

i took this using a reversed 50mm wayyy back in '05 or something



Not sure posting pics of gfs is a good idea but this is one using an unreversed 50mm 1.4, just to give an example of the importance of having aperture control on a lens (and why mobile phones suck in this regard) for dof control

I think he meant, what was your set-up? As in what were you wearing...

Moto70 wrote:

I think he meant, what was your set-up? As in what were you wearing...

Oh! Right! Levi's 527s, black Tresspass jacket, endearingly geeky T-shirt, socks, walking boots, lace thong.

For macros you can also reverse-mount a lens on to the end of another one, and the resulting frankenlens is capable of fearsome magnification. So much so, it becomes very hard to focus accurately. I tried it with an old manual 50mm reversed on to a 200mm, and filled the frame with a woodlouse's arse.

And talking of depth of field control, I took this at f2, but kind of wish I'd clicked round to f2.8. 


Bald eagle 1 by IanEv, on Flickr

Ian wrote:

Moto70 wrote:

I think he meant, what was your set-up? As in what were you wearing...

Oh! Right! Levi's 527s, black Tresspass jacket, endearingly geeky T-shirt, socks, walking boots, lace thong.

haha!