I’ve had a search around and can’t see any posts…
Recently got back in to photography and just back from a WW1 Battelfield tour where taking the camera along proved really interesting.
Anyone else in to photography as a hobby away from the RAFAC?
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Hobby and do some for work too
Don’t get enough time to do either
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Any suggestions on interesting places to have a walk about?
I used to be into photography as it was something my Dad enjoyed as well. We both got into our darkrooms though I could only afford black and white but he was into colour.
I used to have a Canon Manual Focus set up with a T90 and a selection of lenses that I eventually sold and upgraded to an autofocus digital system based on the EOS 5 again invested in a variety of lenses.
The problem was it was when the technological advances were so fast my EOS 5 got overtaken as did the speed of the lenses.
Initially I bought good quality compatible lenses like Sigma but they became out of date as I traded up.
Eventually my photography became grandchildren centred and the iPhone became so competent and portable compared to the big bag of tricks with the EOS 5 and its lenses. Also you can crop them on the spot and enhance in other ways and circulate to friends and family very quickly rather than having to process digitally or otherwise.
It very much depends on your interests. I used to enjoy photographing the garden birds catching them in full frame on the bird feeders trying to get them pin sharp. Autumn is fabulous if you have access to a traditional English woodland (Not conifers) to catch all the different colours. Other people like to photo architecture, flowers, people. The list is almost endless.
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I had a T90 with assorted lenses, great camera.
As you say, the ‘phone in your pocket is capable of amazing pictures - which of course you can edit very easily with such apps as Snapseed.
I have a Panasonic LUMIX DC-FZ82D - very swept up “bridge” camera - I get lost in the the modes / options!!
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Dad was in the RAF in the Middle East in WWII after leaving school in 1941 and became a ferry pilot. He bought a German camera in Cairo and took loads of photos of “his war” and presented an album of them all to his unit at a reunion at Duxford before he died. All black and white of course but he kept all the negatives and printed them all himself in the last years of his life.
After the war he converted to Meteors and was in “Tiger” a Fighter Squadron based at RAF Colerne near Bath. Tiger Squadron has since been disbanded
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