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  1. Well I phoned up and spat my toys out and they knocked a fiver off my bill for the next 6months, worth a try. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  2. You should have an option in your camera to pick white balance, there is an option in there to select the lighting where you are shooting, usually you can select sodium lighting which might help you. As for ISO it's pretty easy, use the lowest you can without having a too slow a shutter speed. Main thing is to remember though. It's better to use a higher ISO and have it a bit grainy rather than have a blurred picture. Set to aperture priority, use the ISO to adjust the shutter speed to something quick enough. Make sure the meter through the lens is centred and you'll have perfect exposure every time. This doesn't work for everything, but it's what most wildlife photographers use. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  3. 1968 Landrover LWB Safari 1986 Opel Manta B GTE 1986 Opel Manta B 2.0 16v GSi engined Sprint car (same car as last Manta but rebuilt) 1987 Honda Prelude 2.0EX 1995 Ford Mondeo 1.8TD (Dark Days indeed) 2002 Mazda 323 2.0i Sport 2007 Honda Civic 2.2 CDTI EX 2010 Honda Civic Type S GT CDTi 2012 Honda Civic 2.2 CDTi EX 2014 Subaru XV 2.0 D SE I've had some decent cars, loved the Mazda, Honda Prelude, the Manta in its 2nd guise was just epic Then there was the Mondeo, we don't talk about the Mondeo, never speak of the Mondeo, the Mondeo never happened.
  4. I think I was slightly incapacitated on that day [emoji12] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  5. Forza 6 soon eh, maybe we could try a Forza Horizon 2 session instead one evening. Preferably on a crappy day so I'm not intoxicated [emoji41] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  6. I do a lot of photography, mainly wildlife and nature, but occasionally landscapes. Im no professional but I have had some images used by BBC and Welsh Tourist Board. What I would say is . . . . slippy slope :P I started with a bridge camera and got better at photography, then realised about a year later that the camera was limiting me, so bought a nikon D40 with a 200mm lens, after about another year or so I realised that again the camera was limiting me so bought a Canon 60D and a Canon 400mm zoom. after another year i upgraded my camera to a 70D but kept the same lens as it was a good lens. so in about 5 years I went from bridge like you have to some serious kit. I even bought a carbon fibre tripod because it was "carbon fibre" and as a bloke we love carbon fibre. Better have deep pockets if you plan on getting the bug. That said, you can, and indeed (from looking at your photos) will get some really nice photos from your bridge as its a decent one not a cheap version. you'll be your own worst enemy to be honest, trouble with photography is you always look for the best shot you can get, and whilst that doesn't mean you need the best kit every time, there are some things where the best kit is essential, wildlife is one of those because everything is so far away most of the time. Now photography as I'm sure Ven will agree is subjective, not only in what you photograph but how you do it. I pretty much only use aperture priority, because that's the most effective method to set the camera up for wildlife, as its quick to make adjustments to shutter speed and exposure compensation when you're on the hoof as you get limited time with wildlife, especially birds which is what I specialise in. however for portraits you have all the time in the world so a more detailed set up is possible and preferable. If you're photographing cars, I'd use aperture priority with the lowest ISO you can whilst maintaining a high enough shutter speed, but not too high as you want a motion blurred background. if you can adjust the aperture in priority mode then a fairly low aperture such as 7.1 or thereabouts will give you enough focal depth for the car but help blur the background. I have done some photographs of stars but sadly the never really come out as good as they look in real life. I did however mange to get the space station one day when it flew over, this was hand held with my lens on full zoom and then seriously cropped in on Lightroom. Ive put the link below to the photo https://flic.kr/p/k4a8vi Feel free to have a nose around my flickr site, hope you enjoy your photography, look forward to seeing some more of you pictures, you've certainly got an eye for a landscape.
  7. I must admit this caught my eye the other day. I'm a big Starwars fan I used to be a model maker and had all the Starwars kits built up in a man cave. Even a full size Boba Fett! I saw the original Starwars when it first came out at the cinema (I can hear some of you working that out now) in 1977. The iconic opening sequence of the battle cruiser coming into shot still one of the best opening sequences ever Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  8. Sorry, gambit. All best intentions but being a nice day and having gone on a long walk with a spaniel club, we all then went for a meal and a pint, that became a few pints. I guess it's just the time of year. I did get on at 9:20 and thought I'd join the last couple of races but noticed no one else was on Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  9. Might want to take that vid down in that case [emoji6] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  10. YouTube ruin the image quality, not matter how good it looks on your laptop. Always an issue sady Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  11. I'm going to have to go soon, I need a new Subaru Keyring as my free one from the dealers fell apart, hope that's no indication of the quality of the car[emoji38] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  12. !Removed! quick, even on gravel. But then 0-60 is 7.5 secs so it would feel pretty quick. But it was a refined quick though, it didn't try and tear your face if it just did it with out any drama. Had the boxer growl though so all good It's probably the same sort of difference between a Bentley and Ferrari. Was very capable off road too. They had an off road track and we pretended to be interested in buying one to get a go on the track. [emoji6] Western park do a game fair and subaru are there and you can get a free run on their course with a professional driver, mine was the competition safari team driver for Nissan! I'm not really keen on the styling of the new forester but I can imagine that performance in an XV. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  13. Actually Birmingham is easy, when you drive around Birmingham, you just think of the worst thing they could do and that's what they do. In Staffordshire you apply the same logic and they'll totally f**king astound you! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  14. It is yes, had a go in one and they only come in cvt and you can't get one in black Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  15. People that do THIS!!!!! https://youtu.be/4ztHFM55P40
  16. still waiting for an XV with a 2.0l turbo same as the forester XT. . . . . might be a long wait though. looks like subaru are heading towards all their cars being CVT.
  17. Yep, I'm with you. My hay fever is triggered by Oilseed Rape so mine's just getting going now. Got at least 4 months of this and only going to get worse in that time. Stroll on winter [emoji24] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  18. Paid a tenna at halfrawds fur mine. I'll get a photo tomorrow, I'll do the whole install on a vid actually Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  19. I use a combined socket that has 2 USB sockets in it, this sits nicely in the cubby hole at the front, my transcend is plugged in through the USB connection. My tomtom runs in the other USB socket and that leaves the cigarette sicker free Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  20. I've made a couple on Xbox one. If you want the SOC logo on your clothes you could join the club search for Subaru SOC. also the car most like a Subaru Impreza is a fully tuned karin sultan. There's a photo of mine on the club pages Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  21. Anyway back on GTA discussions now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  22. See to me there's waaaaay too much text and menus to be faffing about with, this is why PC gaming is seen as geeky. I pull right trigger to go forwards and left to go backwards. Easy [emoji6] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  23. MMOs are the sole reserve of PC gamers. But mainstream games like GTA will stay as console games primarily with a greater online presence because of that. I want games I can dip in and out of not another life in a digital world, I even found skyrim to immersive as I had another life in that game. Plus you can't play the games you're on about with a £300 investment Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  24. What is that? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  25. They don't take that long to be honest. I came from the age of the commadore 64 where you waited for 30mins for Apache gunship to load up only fit it to crash in the menu so you had to reload. Those are my recollections of PC gaming so I'm somewhat tarnished Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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