Summer?
Not much photography done recently! Agh. The weather is not brilliant with frequent showers preventing any real opportunities. It seems that I am a fair weather tog (and so is the camera!)
The Overclockers ‘Vanishing Point’ competition has closed and my entry was:
The results won’t be out until towards the end of July but the next competition has been announced: Abstract. Quite an open ended theme! I have a couple of ideas and had a go last night to see what they look like. A couple looked ok but I only looked at the back of the camera and from what I could see they could probably benefit from a fair bit of post processing to make them look good. I will post some pics when I have a moment.
I am looking at buying a macro bellows to further increase my experimentation with Macro work. I have seen a couple on Ebay, starting at 0.99 but bidding ended upto £50 which I am not prepared to pay for something that I may not use that much. You can get them from China on Ebay for around £18.99 plus postage but I will try and get a cheap one from the UK if I can. I was outbid last night on one in the last seconds; I placed a bid of £16.87 with 20 seconds to go but a couple of people got in before me and the final price was £22 ish! Popular items it seems.
I am also watching a manual lens; Tamron 80-210 f3.8-5.6 model 103A, using an Adaptall 2 mount which apparently is a very good one. The current price is £1.20 and ends around 5.45 tonight. I think there maybe a bit of a last minute bidding war but will have to wait and see. I don’t really want to pay any more than £10 if I can help it.
A wish list (in no particular order):
Macro Bellows
Macro Flash – either ring or the other type
Macro head for tripod – will allow me make minute adjustments without moving the tripod
Wide Angle lens – either Sigma 10-20, Tokina 12-24 or Canon 10-22
Long zoom or long MF fixed, 200, 300 or 400 range
A fantasy wish list
Canon 5D
Or 1DMKII
Or 1DMKIII
Any L series Lens!
Ah well, one can only dream!!