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Iceland is great, I was only out there for 3 days and got lucky with the Northern Lights. Tripod and then standard night shot exposure, although I'd normally use a low ISO in this case I went higher as the wind wasn't working for me so be prepared to switch settings as required. And wrap up warm, we went in April so the summer had just started but it was freezing still during the night. Also, don't do what I did and think you're taking a 50mm and a wide angle, then forget the wide angle. I had to stitch images together for the Northern Lights photo.

Nice, wish the person top left was in fully in frame or maybe the person on the right was half way out but can't win them all.

Everything already mentioned basically. I'm no video expert but from what I've seen I think a snappier edit work work better and keep the viewer more interested. And use some different lens if you can, get closer, further away, mix up the compositions, shoot from inside a cafe as they ride past, frame in windows, bus shelters, bushes, anything you think will be different but work in terms of composition. With photos, other than the subject being relaxed etc I'm trying to look at Light and composition. I'd be approaching video the same, Light, composition and then the edit/music.

Amazing light at the weekend to shoot at. Little previews until the couple have seen them.

Got to love evening light.

So, some Nikon action. Other than having to tweak colours a lot more, Canon was so much nicer straight out of camera. It feels pretty good.

List of things for sale. Okay, so I have a lot of camera gear for sale. Apart from the flashes, everything has a box and bag if it came with a bag. Manuals, chargers etc all present. Usual camera marks, everything photographed and working perfectly. 35mm has a minor mark which I've photographed but has no effect on the camera. Canon 5d mk3 - 132,000 on the shutter count. - £900 Canon 5d mk2 - only 10,00 shutter count - £500 Canon 135mm L f2 - £550 Canon 100mm f2.8 macro - £300 Canon 35mm L f1.4 mk1 - £500 Canon 16-35 f2.8 L mk2 - £600 Sigma 50mm 1.4 Art - £350 2 x Canon 600ex-rt Flashes with gels etc - £200 each 1 x Canon st-e3-rt trigger - £70 1 x Yonguo trigger - £30 Pm if interested please, I can provide photos of anything people might be interested in.

This is going to sound crazy but any canon users out there I'll be selling all my kit very soon. Just need to finalise a couple of things first. Canon 5d mkiii. - Canon 5d mkii. - 16-35mm L f2.8. - 35mm L f1.4 - 50mm Sigma Art 1.4 - 135mm L f2 - 100mm f2.8 Macro - A few canon Flashes - Couple of triggers that fire the Canon Flashes. I'll link to prices and images when I get everything sorted but if anyone is interested just let me know.

Pretty please with this to say my camera was broken.

Logo is too distracting dude. I'd personally get rid of it for a nicer image all round. After 4 years, well over 100,000 clicks my mliii decided to play up for the first time today. The only way I could shoot was to manually focus, press the image review button and then as I left this screen, the shutter would fire. I couldn't get it to fire using the shutter button, live view etc. Been to CPS after shooting a full pre-wed like this and they think it's the circuit boards playing up. Luckily there are two of us and I managed to work out how to at least get a few shots. Back to the mkii this week, should be back before our next wedding.

Until it snaps.

Cheers, much appreciated. I love my 135mm. Sharp ain't it

Had a bit of a tweak to our site, fresh look and all that jazz. LINK

This is worth a watch. I remember someone on this thread saying how good some photos were when Obama got voted in, of the celebrations and him speaking etc. A discussion was had about how if you had the opportunity to be there it's not that hard to get those photos. This is a great video showing the different perspective people can get, great inspiration to take to your next shoot. Although I bet this guy can get closer than other photographers, he most likely got there by being good.

New stead. Only managed a snow ride so far but feels great.

Haven't read what anyone else said as I'm lazy but as clean as it is, I think it lacks personality. There is no impact when you arrive and throughout it, you don't get a feel about you. I'd also get some prices up but this is personal. Having prices up weeds out the chaff, stops enquiries that are price fishing etc. So get more personality in, more impact on arrival and prices (optional.) Just my opinion of course.

It's all personal but I find when using a 24-70 you get lazy. If I'm using a fixed lens and need to get more view in frame, I move backwards and often find something I might not have seen if I'd stayed in one place. Plus, shooting the same fixed focal lengths allows you to picture that shots you're framing before hand easier rather than framing randomly at 32mm, just because you're used to seeing the same thing repeatedly. I shoot a lot of speeches at 35mm so I'm forced to get close like below. With a 24-70 I might have zoomed past the lady and just focused on the guy loosing this frame from her arms.

Search "UK Photography Equipment For Sale" on Facebook and other selling groups. There was a 15mm fisheye sell not long ago for £330. You tend to see these lens sell as people want to try them and sometimes prefer a zoom, don't like fisheye etc.

Keeping the thread alive

I would go with 135mm and fish every day. The 17-40mm f4 is really sharp but you'd only use it around the 17-24 area due to having the 50mm. The 135mm is truly amazing. Go for those two and then pick up a 24mm 1.8 at some point, they are fairly cheap and will fill the gap between 50 and fisheye. It's all personal preference though.

Yeah, I've said it before but wish I'd bought my first camera and just bought awesome primes lens to go with it. Then ignored all the other bodies and gone full frame. I think everyone gets a basic body and a cheap 50mm. Then a zoom or wide. Then a new camera that's a little faster maybe etc. Then a fancier lens...then another body, and another lens. I've sold all my zooms bar the 16-35mm and use primes right through to 135mm.

Yeah, and I use Paul's Nikon D750 at weddings when we're chilling, that is a new ball game all together. ISO4000 without even thinking about it. Hoping the 5d mk4 is going to kick ass. All I want is a better focus system in low light and greater ISO handling. All the other bells and whistles don't really matter. I'll be leaving it a year though as I can imagine the price will be scary.

FULL FRAME = WIN

Best of 2015 Just put together our best of 2015. Learnt so much this year and had a lot of fun.

Love winter light, freezing today but the light in our local woods is great. (Unless click to view, it looks soft but it isn't.)