Opinions sought, if you please.

[Trevsgtr]

 

Will do, beauty of digital is it's cheap to shoot and then bin off the duff ones!

The days of Bonus print and a free film are well gone !

[O.C.]

so true, we used to develop our own film and reload our own cartridges, digital is just sooooo much better 

[snowy]

Better? More convenient certainly, but I miss the challenge of having a number of chances to get a good pic framed and taken, the skill effort and thought that went into each shot, the craft in the darkroom compensating or dodging up a print to get "the one". Loved b&w work, Ilford hp5 film and Patterson Chemicals! Yes if you put the effort in like Wolf it certainly shows, but for most of us it's click, look and delete!
Sorry - off on a jumpers for goalposts moment!
Heard somewhere a factoid of how many digital pics were taken each day, can't recall the number but staggering!

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[O.C.]

Better? More convenient certainly, but I miss the challenge of having a number of chances to get a good pic framed and taken, the skill effort and thought that went into each shot, the craft in the darkroom compensating or dodging up a print to get "the one". Loved b&w work, Ilford hp5 film and Patterson Chemicals! Yes if you put the effort in like Wolf it certainly shows, but for most of us it's click, look and delete!
Sorry - off on a jumpers for goalposts moment!
Heard somewhere a factoid of how many digital pics were taken each day, can't recall the number but staggering!

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  "jumpers for goalposts"    those were the days, the trick was to make sure your jumper wasn't in the mud otherwise there would trouble when you got home 

I do take your point though, but I think that for this old duffer digital is the way to go, if I started adapting a bedroom into a dark room then there would be REAL BIG trouble here   

Its many years since my film and dark room days and even then I wasn't very competent, it was my mate Bob who was more proficient of the two of us, the dark room was at his grandma's house     

[virginiajim]

You know, my father took some wonderful pictures with that Voigtlander.  Here's a link to his Flickr pics (35mm)..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/12675355@N04/albums/72157622554528524

An additional bonus for Charlie747..there's aircraft involved of course.

[SirToU]

Hi

I haven't read through all the comments and its taken me this long to comment...  I hate criticism and it is so easy to do, harder to be constructive.

My main comment would be framing and composition....  although the pictures are in focus with a nice depth of field, my advise would be too concentrate on the framing and composition, perhaps go a little more extreme.  Some of the photos could have more impact by creating a dynamic story within the photo, if the dogs are looking across the photo, include more space in the direction they are looking.  basically your trying to get the viewers eye to track across the photo and not just in the centre.  I accept, you are achieving this to a certain extent, but you could either a) think about it before you press the shutter release or b) present and cut the picture in a certain way before posting, but sometimes less is more and more is less - depending on the picture.

for example.  if your photograph is of a racing car, your either looking to where the car is going, or if its a very fast car, you may wish to convey the speed where the car is almost off the page - or the car or back ground is out of focus.  I'm sure your aware and know this.  another trick is thirds, which you are more or less achieving with the Spaniel, but IMO, its not quite there.  Your camera will have a setting where you can place a grid within the view finder to align everything perfectly.

Anyway - I know nothing, please feel free to disregard as you see fit.  nice photos.

Neil

[Lonewolf]

Neil, I would have preferred the Springer to have been looking into the photo rather than out of it as you suggested but he just struck the pose and I snapped. 




You wouldn't believe how lucky I was to get what I got. 

[O.C.]

Our Lab KIte,  (that we lost in February) simply would not co-operate when it came to having her picture taken, it was a constant battle to get her to look in the direction of the camera 

[Lonewolf]

A couple more photos which I took this evening down at Rodley canal near Leeds.


The first one I've tried to make it look a bit like an oil painting....handheld at 1/13th of a second at f4






The second one I was just experimenting with very low light. A tripod would have been useful. Handheld at 1/5th of a second at f1.8 hence it isn't as sharp as it could be but I still like the outcome.

[O.C.]

Very very good photos ....I likey   

[virginiajim]

Most excellent, indeed!

[UncleBigBad]

flippin eck chaps/chap-esses - these photo's are stunning. Never mind worrying about this that and the other - be VERY proud of what you're achieving. I long to be able to master this sort of shot, but simply don't have the time to learn to art of clicking a button.

Mr Wolf - I salute you sir - stunning pics 

[pross]

flippin eck chaps/chap-esses - these photo's are stunning. Never mind worrying about this that and the other - be VERY proud of what you're achieving. I long to be able to master this sort of shot, but simply don't have the time to learn to art of clicking a button.

Mr Wolf - I salute you sir - stunning pics 

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