11 July 2011

Decided to try and capture some photo's within 400 yards of my home whilst still testing out the Nikon 135/2.8 Ai-s manual focus lens. I like this lens as it's small and light and does a very good job with bokeh. It won't replace my wonderful 85mm 1.8 lens but I think I'll be trying it out on my Nikon F100 film SLR soon. Here are some of my favorites from today :)

09 July 2011

Finally bought an old Nikon 135mm F2.8 Ai-S lens from ebay. It's a fully manual lens. Unfortunately it won't meter on my Nikon D90 but there are ways around this by using a bit of guess-timation :) Here are the first three test shot's from this wonderful old prime lens. I think I'll be using this quite a lot for portraits in the future :)

Iso 200, F2.8, 1/1600sec

Iso 200, F2.8, 1/25000sec

Iso 1600, F2.8, 1/125sec

08 July 2011

Myself and Alwyn Jones decided to head off to the Llangollen Music and Dance Eisteddfod but when we got there the heavens opened and down come the rain. Seeing hardly anyone walking about we decided to take a few photo's of the local canal and go to Crucis Abbey which is about 4 miles from Llangollen. Here are a selection of photo's from our day trip to Llangollen, hope you enjoy :)

03 July - 2011 - Sunsets

The light on Friday and Saturday evenings were amazing but unfortunately I was unable to get to my local beach to try some sunset shots so I decided I'd try tonight. Unfortunately, the light wasn't as good as either Friday or Saturday but it wasn't bad either so I took a few shot's anyway. Here are a few of the best ones from the hour I spent down the beach.

03 July -2011

Decided to go to Tonfannau today to watch and take some photo's of the motorbike racing event. Alwyn Jones decided to come along with me and also my youngest daughter Maisy. Having never tried any sort of motorbike racing photography in the past, I thought I would at least give it a go and see what happened. I only own the cheap Tamron 70-300 DI Macro lens so I was interested to see what I could push out of this £89 lens I bought from ebay.  I also found some lovely bikes which I shot with the Sigma 10-20mm lens. Here are a selection of some of the best photo's I took today.

Nikon D90, Tamron 70-300 DI Macro

Nikon D90, Tamron 70-300 DI Macro

Nikon D90, Tamron 70-300 DI Macro

Nikon D90, Tamron 70-300 DI Macro

Nikon D90, Tamron 70-300 DI Macro

Nikon D90, Tamron 70-300 DI Macro

Nikon D90, Tamron 70-300 DI Macro

Nikon D90, Tamron 70-300 DI Macro

Nikon D90, Tamron 70-300 DI Macro

Nikon D90, Sigma 10-20 F4-5.6

Nikon D90, Sigma 10-20 F4-5.6

Nikon D90, Sigma 10-20 F4-5.6

Nikon D90, Sigma 10-20 F4-5.6