Susan Gilchrist's Page

Hi Susan,
Thankyou for your lovely comments. I do work full time, i do wish it was doing what i love with my photography, but maybe someday. I try to get out as much as possible to capture my images, it's a great joy.
I have just purchased a medium format camera and looking forward to getting out to play with it, hope to travel to rannoch moor soon to do just that.
Did you have a chance to look at my website, www.jamescarrickphotography.co.uk.
Hope you enjoy it.
Kind Regards
James

You have a beautiful eye for composition and some new ideas.
Nice to see there are some colourful days in Scotland again.
Best wishes and thanks for sending me the link
Keep it going
Jim

Hello my friend.

I'm in process of sending email, with some pics, don't laugh now.
It was lovely day today, was a beautiful morning, low mist at sunrise, lovely, but no camera in hand.

Hi Susan,
Thankyou for the comment,just looking at your images,they are pretty good,and some quite unusual ones in there.Keep up the good work.Thanks again,
Gary.

Hi Susan,
I have recently started using the D60,and there certainly was a big difference from the D50 which i still use,but not so often.My wife said I could sell the D50,but I think I will keep it,as it is handy to have two cameras with different lenses on.
Cheers,
Gary.
www.shabuimages.com

Hi Susan, Thanks for the kind comments. I had a look through your gallery - a fine collection! You have some great composition in there.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi Susan, aerial photography is very different to your normal land based stuff, I'm still pretty new to it myself and still find most of my photos don't turn out the way I want. If you're in an enclosed glass cockpit you have reelections to deal with, so you have to keep the camera at certain angles to the glass to avoid this too much. A circular polariser can help reduce that to a certain extent. You can also practice by sitting in your car and taking pictures through the windows :)

Blur is also a big problem, vibrations from the plane engine do tend to add quite a bit of camera shake, so you need to keep your shutter speed faster than normal. When flying I generally set the camera on P and then use the exposure compensation button to dial in -0.3 to 0.7 (although as a passenger you might have more time to experiment with settings of course). Similarly if you try and zoom in on a subject it will often turn out too blurry unless it's super bright.

It can also be difficult to get a shot without part of the aircraft in the frame, so it might be helpful to sit in the plane on the ground to begin with and look through your viewfinder and the various angles to see what your best view is.

There's probably other things too that I'll remember, but that's a bit to be considering at the moment. Oh - try not to spend the whole flight looking through the viewfinder - you'll get motion sickness very fast that way!

Most importantly - enjoy the flight - Scotland is very different although just as beautiful from the air.

Regards,

Mark

Hi Susan, Just noticed you said you have a 70-300 mm lense on your D60. Do you have anything with shorter focal range? I think even with it set to 70mm you'll struggle to eliminate all the blur. I use an 18-70mm lense and anything above about 45 or so really requires very bright subject matter.

hey susan if you are over with the car its great to get pics down in to harris, head out to tolsta as well.
the standing stones are fab to.