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  1. Tilly
    Thank you BB - I got myself some bits yesterday from Ebay. I got filters, wireless trigger remote, cleaning kit, screen protectors and something else but cant think what. I'm looking at a tripod for cheap on there too. I've been looking at second hand lenses but they still sell for quite a hefty price and you just never know if they've been dropped or are all working ok. I'd like to think I'm quite good at shopping around and hunting for a good bargain. Im such a magpie though so get distracted easily with things like bags lol. Thanks Triple I've ordered a book with tips and tricks for the 600D which will come in handy. I've been watching tons of tutorials and taking notes aswell to help me out. 1 day to go and I can start practising hooray!! 4wd - Wow they are BEAUTIFUL shots. I'd be incredibly happy if I took pics like that
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    Thank you MS I've only ever tried the 50mm 1.8 too. I'm looking at the 1.4 mainly from the sample pictures I've seen. They look sharper than the 1.8 & the 1.4 seems to have nicer colours which really appealed to me. Money is an issue here though and could be better spent on something else like you say. I know what I'm like though, I'll buy the 1.8 and then I wish I'd got the other haha. I'm going to take my time in deciding though, there isn't any real rush...I guess haha. If only money was no object I'd have one of everything. After you mentioned your Sigma 10-20mm it had me searching on those...another to add to the ever growing list. Anyway, I'm even having trouble choosing what bag to put my kit in at the moment, can't find anything remotely girly, pink or sparkly for under £100 ( First World problems ) so I think its probably best I have a break and come back to the searching another day. Ooh I had a look at the Hama tripods though and I think I shall go for one of those too so that was really helpful thank you
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    arghhh just typed out a big long reply and closed the window by mistake!! Thank you guys, help is much appreciated. I really want a Prime Lens for pics of the kids. My step mum has a Nikon and mainly uses her prime lens over anything else she has. Ive taken pics with it and they are FAB. So this is high on my wish list. I like taking pics of landscapes, flowers, wildlife/birds, the weather. A bit of everything really. I really love close up Macro shots of flowers, insects and snowflakes. I think I will definately need a few lenses to cover all this. Also I really want to do some good night photography, stars, moon, lightning too. I have so many ideas in my head. I've gone for the IS lenses as I dont have the steadiest hands in the world so I think it will help. Also I've read about shooting in RAW mode which I willl definately do. I've got photoshop (very limited knowledge on how to use it) but I can get lightroom too so that should be no problem. My current camera which I've had for a few years now is a Lumix TZ10. It has manual mode which I've been playing around with for a while to get used to the different settings and what they do. I still find it very limiting in what it can do though so it made sense to step into DSLR. Apologies for choppy reply, I'm being assaulted by 2 children as I type lol
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    Thank you Coast! Bag! Good thinking I'll have a look for one in a sec and for all the other bits you suggested. I found a remote for cheap and I'll have a looksee for the lenses. I'm ridiculously excited to set it up and go out with it. Im not allowed it until Friday though *sobs* Your local Camera Shop looks fab, it is rather a bit of a trek for me though lol. I've just been looking at the 75-300mm lenses and now I'm confused as there seem to be different types? :/ and just to make things even more confuzzling there is a 55-250mm IS lens which upon reading people say its a way better lens than the 75-300? What do you think about that? sorry I feel like such a pain!
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    Soo, lucky girl here has just got her first DSLR for my Birthday on Friday!! After testing them out in the shop I went for the Canon 600D with the basic kit lens (18-55mm IS) I've drawn up a little wish list of lenses which I would like... 50mm 1.4 and 75-300mm for a start. I'd love a Macro too but I think that one might have to wait until next year as they're super expensive so I'll wait, save and by then I should be confident with my baby. I need a little help on what else I'll need. Has anyone got any good suggestions of things I could get? I've been looking at tripods but I have no idea what to get. I'm only a shorty 5"1. Will this make a difference when looking for them? Do I need lens hoods? Filters? I don't want to buy a ton of stuff that I wont really need. Any help/answers greatly appreciated x
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    I saw something similar. Rubbish pic but the best I could do as the lightning lit up the sky
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    brilliant storm last night! I was going to bed around 12 and as soon as I shut my eyes the room lit up from distant lightning. So there was no chance I was going back to bed. It was mostly distant lightning, pretty and calm and then came the squall sometime between 2 and 3am. It was pretty intense! I was sitting in my window and it went from lovely calm to hell unleashed in an instant. I actually crapped it for a second as the wind was so strong it was difficult to shut the window and I was trying not to get blown out or fall out. The squall was fab, sideways monsoon rain, very windy, 1cm hail, thunder and lightning. It lasted a good few mins too. My 2year old sat watching from the bed and she was most concerned about my camera getting wet, never mind Mummy blowing away LOL! Next door lost some washing as I expect many people did last night. Im absolutely shattered today after a couple of hours sleep but it was well worth it.
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    Morning all! So far we've had a couple of rumbles and a 60 second downpour of ginormous raindrops but thats it. The clouds in the sky are absolutely beautiful today though. I think I will be spending the morning gazing out of the window.
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    Here are some pics I got of the lightning on 23rd July. My first pics of lightning ever. While they're not amazing I love them I'd gone to bed early on Monday around 9pm to fit some sleep in just incase I would be sitting up storm watching later. I was woken up around 2am by Rain Alarm which I'd set to full volume just incase. Good Ol' Rain Alarm!! There was frequent lightning to my left which was mostly obscured by houses but then we had lighning coming from the left, right and directly infront so I managed to get a couple of shots. There were some lovely loud cracks and deep booms of thunder and torrential rain but no wind or hail. It went on for 2 hours and I sat watching on my own, in my window with a packet of Rich Teas bliss!! Took these with my iphone. I took loads but these are the best of the bunch and these were a few screenshots of the vid I did. It was through a very rainy window so I'm suprised you could see much at all. I'm ordering a tripod so my camera can look through the gap in the window for next time!! and maybe a new camera shhh It took me 30 years to get a picture of lightning. Hopefully now I can look back in 5 years time and I'll have improved massively, moved to a house with a better window & better view, have a brilliant kit and I'll have some beautiful shots worthy of framing.
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    I got some pics last night which I'll put on tomorrow my first lightning pics ever!
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    I'd like to be roasting, sod the breeze lol
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    I keep seeing words like heatwave, hot, bbqs.. Temp forecast for here is 17c! why? this year this corner has been crap for very type of weather other than grey, cold, cloudy and misrerable. What's going on?
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    Is it looking like game on for kent? It's lovely right now, sitting in the garden having cocktails. Obviously I'm not going to have too many otherwise I shall be comatosed by the time the storms fire up and il miss it all
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    nooo for the Catatumbo Lightning
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    Its going to be amazing. If not Im moving somewhere else, maybe Lake Maracaibo...less letdowns
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    morning all! I hope everyone is good Im here for the storms looking like its going to be a nice warm day today I've managed to actually put something summery on. Just need that cloud to bugger off now and it will be lovely. I hope our litle spot in Kent gets some nice beefy storms over the next 48hrs, we've done so crap with everything else (snow, warm days) its about time we got something to talk about
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    its starting to lay here on the paths/roads...better than the last 5 snow events already lol. We really missed out here this winter.
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    snowing here in sunny ol Fav... some huge flakes in there
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    morning all, its been snowing lightly here this morning on and off. Im so over Winter now
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    morning all! Very surprised to see snow falling out there, I didnt think it wwould come this far.
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    that wind is so strong, the lights are flickering. Worse than yesterday I think
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    Morning peeps, total bust here Good to see people getting loads though. Stay safe and enjoy x
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    It's been snowing nicely here for ages but its all blowing away lol! Somewhere close by there must be a ginormous mountain of snow piling up!
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    no laying snow here just evil evil wind!
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    morning all There are a few big flakes blowing about in the wind but nothing settled anywhere at all. Ive been out there though and boy is that windy and cold! I hope everyone has a great day, snow or no snow
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