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yeah i was thinking of doing something for this, just waiting for my camera to come back,

I see you've entered, John - nice entry too (assuming it is you)! :D

Stickied.

Thanks Steve-O!

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Damnit, preparing my egg for this Canon competition is doing my head in. I know what I want to achieve and how I want it to look, but getting it right is a whole other thing...

:):P

Hmm, have you had a look at what the other entries are like, Owen?

I wanted something completely different to what others have done - mine's not quite exactly how I wanted it, but it's pretty close and it wasn't easy to execute in the way I'd envisioned it. Oh well, it's done and it's been entered. The Canon site says it may take one or two days to appear because it has to go through their mods to be checked.

Oh, I think the closing date is a bit ambiguous too, IIRC one section says it closes on the 26th, and another says the 28th. :D:):blink:

ok, im fast running out of ideas on stuff to shoot in the city (believe it or not) lol. i seem to have my comfort zone of shooting shapes, repetition etc. but anyone got any ideas on something new I could give a try? i guess people is one thing ive never been real confident at shooting, specially unsolicited shots of unsuspecting people, lol. but yeah, im open to suggestions.

Just scored a perfect condition EOS 300 Film SLR with a 28-90mm lens. can play some old film now !!

Jay, start shooting people doing interesting things, or opposite people. like business man and garbo doing something similar.

So i was reading some comments on the powerex batteries and everyone loves it and it lasts a long time etc etc etc.. But the interesting fact i read from a few people is that recycle time is not as quick as the eneeloops.. Which is what i need for wedding work.. So gonna stick with eneloops for now. hmmm

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I see you've entered, John - nice entry too (assuming it is you)! :D

bit delayed in responding to your post Nick but yeah that was my entry, i think i took about 100 different shots from all different angles till i got that one. i was pretty happy with it but there were some pretty good entries in there too.

I'm going down to the caravan park my parents run in Bremer Bay, bottom of WA. Got f**k all to do down there, so I'll be walking around with my camera for 5 days I reckon. Hopefully I can get a few decent shots!

Whats everyone else got planned?

Over the break (xmas to nye) I'll mainly be at home, might spend some time down the beach. I'll try and take my camera everywhere with me, and I'm starting to save to get a new lens and get rid of all these other random ones. In the end I'd like to end up with a 50mm 1.4, and either the 24-70 2.8 or 24-105 f4. I know I'm 1.6x crop though so 70 might be enough... hmmmm.

Oh how I love B&H Photo - ordered some stuff off them Thursday night our time (which is Thursday morning NY time), and got it in yesterday's mail!!!

:D:banana::D:banana::D:banana::D:banana:

Oh, and I love that the Aussie dollar is still strong against the US dollar.

i shall be heading home to cooma. will be good to be in the country for a few days, i'll get to do some long exposures of the night sky, so many stars should look great. and heaps of stuff to take photos of, plus a little birdy told me that im getting some new camera gear from the misses for christmas too, so that will be fun.

I wanted to try long exposure shots of the starts, but didnt have my tripod and I need to hold down the shutter button in the BULB feature to keep the shutter open. Not sure how to keep it open permanently, any ideas?

I used PS, but didnt like it. Would also be interested to see what other programs I can use.

I wanted to try long exposure shots of the starts, but didnt have my tripod and I need to hold down the shutter button in the BULB feature to keep the shutter open. Not sure how to keep it open permanently, any ideas?

You'll need to get yourself a cable remote, Rhys. There are a few different ones depending on which camera you've got. I bought a Canon RS-60E3 for the 450D, and luckily for me it also works with my 60D. I also bought the RC-6 wireless one, but you can't use that with the BULB effect as far as I know...

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