Cool one mate... ok here goes my attempt to answer that cause I dont know much about film ;0

• yes, Pentax K1000
• Rollei Retro 400
• about to seeing this is all for class...
• not yet and probably wont unless I find a decent scanner
• unsure about it all...

Buddy I guess you've got that thing where you've expecting something and just not getting what you envision? I think this is a great shot and really love the way Olivier has done the B&W so we'll have to ask him just how he does it now

Awesome mate! I'm glad I could help ya and look forward to the results... also for the long exposures it might be worth getting a netural density filter to help cut light out and increase exposure times HINT: I find 6/10th of a second to be a pretty good time for moving water shots, it gives good movement but also mantains a fair amount of detail... but best try differnet things till you find what you like Cheers, kai.

Ah yes DOH just forgot... It's best to set the camera to aperture priority (AV) and set the aperture to something like F22 and then let the shutter speed change accordingly... what happens with shutter priority is even though you can tell it to take a 30 second exposure there's still to much light for it's minimum aperture so no matter how hard it tries it ends up overexposing the scene. Often when the aperture number flashes it is shouting at you saying that you've exceded the max and you then know you need to change things accordingly... hope I'm not confusing you... Cheers, Kai

Hi there Steve, sounds like you've got the exposure compensation set to automaticaly overexpose the scene.... make sure in the exposure bar (thingy) that the 'needel' sits in the center (0) to change exposure compensation press down the AV button and scroll the wheel to change it... Hope this helps...

Some good points there Geert and yeah I also noticed that tilt (forgot to mention it but did change it in my edit )

Hey there Tanchelyn, I hear what you have to say and yes in many ways I agree with you that filters seem a bit restrictive compared to taking a shot into photoshop... I just wanna get a set to see what I can do and well at times it's nice to know you can do most of it with camera... my fav filters are the ND ones so it's kinda hard to do that with photoshop cause I'm out for long exposures... dont feel put down mate it's nice to know what others think and we're all here to share knowledge and opinions... So cheers for participating in this thread your input IS valued! nod

Thanks for all this advice guys... Yeah at the moment I've got the FE-S 17-85mm IS lense but well I'd really like to get the sigma 10-20mm one day and pretty much wanna base it on something wide angle cause that's what I'm really enjoying at the moment AND I can always use it with a longer focal lenght without any troubles but not the other way... So is the A series the one to get? cause then I can go buy me a more apropriate filter holder and some filters....  Cheers,
Kai.

Thanks guys that helps a lot so I guess with the Grads I get the soft ones? Oh and before I go wasting all my money is the P series gonna be the wrong one for me? shold I have the A series or something? :unsure:

I'm pretty late to this one but oh well the one thing I noticed with the bit of night photography I've done is that try shoot with overcast nights cause if you're in a city or anything it lights up the sky and helps add interest to it all so it wont be just this ugly black void... good advice from the others there...

Mate, trust me it happens to us all recently there was a post where they talked about this kind of thing... I'm sure someone like Kort could give us a link cause I think I remember him posting it or atleast being part of it So please dont feel bad some of these things have an atomosphere to them that sometimes seems impossible to capture... often I end up going to such places over and over and over to try get something and often without much luck... care to show what you got though?

:b_stunned: then :b_confused: a while after :b_unbelievable: a few seconds after it all hit home :b_blush: now :b_grin:

OK that kinda sums it up, but missing the one part where I thank all of you SO much for this... I'm both honored and humbled by being selected as AOM... HUGZ for all those that want them LOL...  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU and THANK YOU