Be Excellent To Each Other

Indeed.

So

You do not need to say so in both threads, though are welcome to do so. So.

Where do people who aren't choosing to participate say so? Is it here? So?

No.

They do not need to trouble themselves with confusing me further

I so in your general direction due to possible awesomeness from the beardy beer meet-up.

Eventually. Me too please, Meemles.

Yes I'm hoping one of the approx 5 billion photos I took of the ("I say look over there" - ed) using every setting my camera has is usable.

Sent and sent to the so-and-sos

I have no photos as yet, but I am saying 'so' anyway.

Take some, Curiosity, take some!

The weekend approacheth...

So - me too please! I have a plan.

Is this a thread in which to ask for advice too? If not I'll move this post, if so...

I took these two pictures today, the only difference between the first and the second is I reduced my zoom for the second as it seemed to be causing the blurring. Is it something I need to adust to compentsate, or just something I need to learn to live with?

Oh, it's uploaded them the wrong way around - but they are labeled anyway, first one is at the bottom, second at the top.

What camera do you have?

There are a couple of reasons that a zoomed in photo can be blurrier:

• Zooming in can reduce the amount of light entering the lens. The camera will lower the shutter speed to compensate, making it more susceptible to a shaky hand.
• If it's a digital zoom rather than an optical one, you will get more noise. That does look like blurring rather than noise though, to be honest.
• Some cameras have a tougher time focussing when zoomed in.

Thanks Craster, I should look into the shutter speed idea. I have a Canon digital IXUS 750.

Plus of course if you're optically zoomed in and your hands shake by say 1mm, that's going to make a lot more difference when you're zoomed in

It does look like blurring rather then the noise from a digital zoom, but it is hard to tell at that size.

I have never had trouble with a camera focusing whilst in zoom mode, only whilst in zoom on super macro mode, but I do not know your camera at all. i have used several Canon cameras though and have never experienced that with any of those, and I think that their general great quality would make this big flaw in their series if it were a problem.

Do you remember if you had the camera on auto mode or if you had it manually set to a specific speed, etc?

Also I

That is true, of course. The zoom amount between those to pictures does not seem much, though, it shouldn't account for that much blurring (unless that picture is cropped)

Where'd you go to see the munkies, GJ?

It's all about the light. I've taken two identical photos, one in sunshine and one overcast later in the day, and the shutter speed I needed went from 1/250 to 1/10 - too low for (my old, palsied) handholding, and that's with a very good camera.

I'm pretty sure it's blurring, I have other examples too. I've only cut down the size for posting on here, I do have the original quality shots too.

I really can't remember if I had it on auto or manual Mimi, I've been doing some playing around with it lately, getting to know it a bit better. Today I was trying to get a decent picture without the flash, there were some babies, and I didn't want to startle their mothers as obviously they are protective at the moment.

We went here Mimi, I have to say I was very impressed with the place and the kids loved it too.

Oh my...


I CANNOT BELIEVE you did not take me with you!

The light there looks pretty much identical. Was it blurring every time you zoomed in and remaining clear every time you didn't, GJ?

Pretty much yeah.

Mimi if you aer ever around this way I will gladly take up to see the munkies!!!

Hurrah!

*packs bags*

I took my nephew to see the monkeys at London Zoo for the first time last week, and we had just the best possible time!






But, you know, they were only about six monkeys. Not a whole place dedicated to monkeyness!

I was most disappointed when I went to sainsburys for beer, that when asked for ID, they wouldn't accept a card with my name and a monkey next to it. (It was a card to tell me where to sit at my friend Jims monkey themed wedding, and the first thing I found in my wallet when asked. I did, at least, get a smile though)

Mimi, Port Lympne and Howletts wildlife parks in Kent both have many, many monkeys if you can get down that way.

Craig is gonna kill you...

Ooh, I can definitely get to Kent - I hope to head down that way later in the year

I have added your message into the things to fine out about notepad file on my computer. This is the basis of my life. I implode if I accidentally delete it as I have done twice before...

@ GJ

How ace - a Monkey themed wedding?!

Mimi. E-mail it to yourself. If you have G-mail or hotmail or something then you can store a backup copy on their servers for a fair while.

I always email things to myself and back up 'the list' every could of days or so

I print it out and take it with me if I go anywhere for a day or so, too. I have no memory.

It was awesome. Jim really likes monkeys. So we had Monkey invitiations, as drawn by Jim. Monkey order of services - as drawn by Jim. Monkey name plates. And I spent the previous weekend making a monkey music medley - Basically I ripped the Monkey island soundtrack, gave that to Jim as 4 cds. He chose his favorite bits, and I mixed them all onto a single cd. And it had parts where the music died down, and monkey noises started. It was played both before the wedding (Where every now and then we spotted someone looking confused about where the monkey noises were coming from) and later during the meal. It made me smile so much, not least because the wedding was most certainly theirs, rather than a fairly generic wedding, but also because everytime I heard the monkeys, I remembered that I'd been able to help him. I like helping people. It's one of my most favouritest things.

If you're really lucky I'll let you come and help me redo my bathroom.

Ace, most of us are going 'Hmmm... What now?'

I would like to get to understand focal length, aperture and speed settings more accurately. I currently go by the standard 'twiddle a few buttons, dials and switches and see what happens', but I will put aside some time in the future to actually work out or learn what each setting does.

Oh, and this contest ends tomorrow, at Midnight.

I try to be prompt with ending the contest and starting the poll, so anyone who has not uploaded their images please do so soon. If anyone wants the new sign-in info for the new Eggwan gallery, please let me know in this thread or PM me.

Cheers, big ears.

The secret of my entry is that there are 40 almost identical pictures produced by this fashion while ("The people present at the time" - ed) looked on in some disgust.

I don't see anything wrong with multiple entries per person -- I think the objective of this is to firstly, encourage people to get out there and take photos (and this is why, as tempted as I have been, I've not entered with a photo I took before the contest began -- I think that is an excellent rule) and secondly to encourage discussion of said photos on the forum. The contest bit (at least to me) is secondary. As such, I think more photos are a good thing, and it doesn't matter much if some people submit a couple of entries.

I can't imagine anyone is going to do anything stupid like upload loads of entries from themselves. Perhaps an agreement on no more than two or three each would be reasonable.

There's a poll on the first page of the thread if you do care to register your say, RG

Have already done so

Okie Blokie,

I hope you'll enter soon. if not this contest then one of the next. If you don't know what to photograph as your little monkey desk helper. Mine actually takes all my pictures for me (sshhhh...)

I voted 2, although only submitted 1 because my other one was an almost identical idea. I'll post it after the voting to see if people think I should have gone with it.

Thanks for voting Dudley

The outcome of the vote will not take effect until the next contest, either way.

At the moment the previously agreed guideline of up to two pictures is in place.

The votes are close between one and two pictures for the comp at the moment.

I'm looking forward to compiling the poll tomorrow evening..

Well, we're up to 12 entries so far, not quite as good as the Lines one (14 entries) but a very good haul. Some great pics in there too I reckon, the exotic bird one must have taken some careful timing to pull off.

I think, (not that I'm a twitcher or anything) that that's a Rose Ring parakeet. We have them wild in the park near me, big flocks of them. A decade or so ago it would have really localised the photo as they weren't in many parts of the country, but that have spread to other parts of the UK quite rapidly.

If this turns out to be a picture of a Spanish woman in a blue and yellow dress...