My 'thing' with landscapes at the moment is to shoot them in portrait (wacky I know) with about 2 thirds of the picture being sky. It's a look I find attractive even if it's breaking the rules.
Like this one I took waiting for the train back in the winter.
A old favourite of mine that is a more traditional landscape shot. Sorry about the quality of these as I'm just grabbing them from my facebook albums and I deliberately downsize them for facebook.
We have a little photoclub with some family/friends. Subject this time was "water", I was lucky to catch this couple when they walked away.
Looking for a point a shoot camera, anyone have any tips about them? Thinking of going for a Canon, they seem to be quite decent, but I'm not sure if any of them will be fast enough? I mainly want it to shoot some snaps when we're on a motorbike trip, I'm seeing quite a few interesting things and like to get them onto photo's. Just not sure if they will still be sharp enough when shot at 80km/h.
It worked with the Nikon, but that's a DSLR. Found it a bit too heavy, and a bit too complicated when you don't have the time to prepare a shot.
Plus I want it to photograph all the names of villages/city's we pass through. Maybe we won't get lost that much that way.
edit: looks like it still refuses to put enters in my post. Am I doing something wrong?
You lot are amazing. I picked up a Lumix LX3 that was going cheap. It's go rubbish zoom but it's really good at the close up stuff. I've tried using in manually but my god do I not have a clue what i'm doing.
Any basic tips for the master n00b or any good links to an online guide?
The next generation doesn't start until MAG comes out.
Nina, I've been using a Panasonic Lumix LX-5 on my cycling trip and it's been doing pretty good. It has a really good aperture span so you can get some nice shots when it's darker or just good depth of field. You can have a look at some of the photos I've taken on the cycling blog: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/ShaunClintonUSA2012
It has good shutter speed too so should be able to handle the motorbike speeds. The downhill shots I've taken I would have been going at 30mph or more I think. It also turns on and off quick which has been handy for speedy photo ops.
Thanks, went with a Lumix TZ 18 in the end, looks like it's the cheaper brother of the LX 5. Looking at the price of the LX 5, that was just a bit above what I wanted to spend, first wanted to see how much I'll actually use it, can always upgrade. Haven't given it a proper try out yet, very confusing to use after always using a DSLR.
Will give your site a look, always love to see travel photo's.
One more question, which mode do you usually use on the camera? I've played around a bit, but the A and S options seem a bit limited, and I think the Intelligent Auto mode is probably the best to use. Need to take it outside, it's always to dark inside to give it a proper go.
Is that one of the travel zoom ones? I'm guessing the TZ means yes. Those are pretty good because if anything is lacking in the LX5 it's zooming. My mum has one.
I normally use the P setting which gave me a bit more options with the camera settings, like shooting in RAW, but is still just point and shoot. Not sure if the TZ models are the same. Intelligent Auto is just the catchall setting that lets you snap away, it usually does the trick for most situations I think. I only go to A or S if I need to take a night shot of something where I want to lock in the settings or play around with stuff.
I took this and might play around with it in photoshop, any tips on compostition etc. Just taken with my phone. Not sure why it came out with borders, must be instagram.