Show us your amateur photos - not dial up friendly

[Jarred]

wow benno great shots mate.

i'd love to get back out to the outback and take some real nice shots. i'd only need a decent camera.

and some skill..

[runamuk]

More in here...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/runamuk...7612549473670/

[zz2]

heres a few of mine (sorry about the crap quality they have been taken straight from my facebook)

[Cam]

Nice photos mark


Where was the second one taken from?

[schoona]

Looks like that yacht Jimmy Packer has for sale.....was pics in the paper on Sunday i think....?

[zz2]

cheers guys. those photos were actually taken aboard my mates boat at last years redbull air race. he moored next to my boat. it was a brand new 48 foot riviera offshore with twin 680hp Cummins turbo diesels...





^ those turbos develop over 40 PSI of boost at WOT @ 2700 rpm

[Blitzen]

Hahahaha...I have worked on those engines when I worked at Cummins in Darwin...Great engines too.

[zz2]

Hahahaha...I have worked on those engines when I worked at Cummins in Darwin...Great engines too.

lol really? my mate is a mechanic at Cummins in Perth... he reckoned getting the rocker covers off were a bitch on those engines.
still he was pretty excited to be in the engine room

[runamuk]

Nice pics Mark, you use a 40D?

Did you do any study in photography, or are you self taught?

J

[rayray086]

Thanks mate! I took the bike (MTB, not moto ) shot with the old 'slow shutter and zoom' method with the extra twist of two flashes bungeed to trees either side of the rider. The flashes help to freeze and really define the rider, while everything not lit by the flash gets blurred.

I've read about using flash to "freeze" the action when using a slow shutter - that's incredible work for an action shot! VERY creative!