[Closed] How to take stunning pictures

sceptical but shall watch 🙂

Hmmm Tour of Britain on ITV4 at the same time.....tough call

Hmmm Tour of Britain on ITV4 at the same time.....tough call

Stuck a reminder on...it will be interesting to see what they have to say, although I would think the first episode will be just an intro.

You and your posh telly....

Ooh cheers, I've been meaning to watch that.

I'll record it for once the little one [s]is back in her cage[/s] has finally nodded off.

[b]simonfbarnes[/b] - Member
sceptical but shall watch

Why, don't you think it's possible to take stunning pictures? 😀

Reminds me of a book I used to sneak a look at whenever I was in WH Smiths as a young lad.

'How to take pictures of beautiful women'

Which really should have been titled 'How Sordid Middle Aged Men can take the kind of pictures that might be published in Razzle'.

I'll see if I can find a copy for your Birthday/Christmas, Simon...

Ah well that was more or less a waste of time really. About 5 minutes of useful advice, the rest just filler. Din't expect much more.

Your verdict, Barnes?

When they gave them a dslr and they were using it in live view like a compact I turned over to the simpsons.

Seemed the the pro had dispensed a lot more advice than was actually shown. Shame they decided to dumb it down.

When they gave them a dslr and they were using it in live view like a compact I turned over to the simpsons.

Panasonic GF1 or G10 presumably. It doesn't have an optical viewfinder.

And Panasonic were the sponsors so they weren't going to whip out a Canon/Nikon instead.

I was tempted to turn over when Suzi Perry said something along the lines of: "We'll show you it's not the size of your equipment, but what you do with it".............pfnarrr pfnarrrr 🙄

I persevered, but not sure I should have bothered...

The documentary about rats that followed was fascinating though, I thought. Far more BBC than Five. Really good programme that.

Panasonic GF1 or G10 presumably. It doesn't have an optical viewfinder.

no, both cameras had viewfinders! The most annoying thing to me was the fake film winding sound every time they took a shot:(

I thought the shots they took were very good, and the ballerina was cute:)

Just posted this on another site (ephotozine, where there is a four page thread on this subject).

A friend told me he'd seen the trailer for the wedding episode today. I've got a horrible feeling it'll encourage dozens of would-be uncle bobs* to think that it's now definitely OK to turn up at their niece's wedding with two D3s and top end lenses and spend eight hours shooting through the gap between my arm and my torso, because the lady on the telly told them to shoot at f2.8 to separate the subject from the background, and by extension, they are now experienced wedding photographers.

On the other hand, if I take off my grumpy old man's hat, it might be a great opportunity for a working pro to encourage uncle bob to respect the vicar's wishes that flash should not be used throughout the ceremony at a bazillion lumen, every four seconds. I truly hope that whoever the chosen expert is, that they will provide a little insight into the dos and don'ts of shooting a wedding.

Grump, grump. And I missed the prog.

* EDIT: an uncle bob is a well intentioned but clueless wedding guest who follows the hired pro around at a wedding and considers himself at least the equal, if not far better than the hired pro. He is quite often the victim of constant rebuttals from the happy couple, upon offers of his services as a photographer at their wedding.