location is irrelevant, you can find good subject matter wherever you go. you take a lot of photos of buildings and landscapes, why don't you you start photographing building details on some hi-definition film like Ektachrome64, or start taking ad-hoc pictures of people (unposed) using high-contrast monochrome with a polarising filter? I think you'll be pleased with the results. Don't use a digital if you want to really get into photography, they just aren't good enough.

a TA barracks in cumbria


seriously though i assume you mean landscapes ?
the scottish highlands, norfolk broads ,inner cities (b&w only for that one)
depends what you want

Edited by - [STEEL on 5/12/2004 4:56:15 AM

I agree with Taw about subject matter....its all about opening your eyes and framing everything you see. Takes a bit of practice but so does everything.

I disagree though about digital photography. Its not your tools...its what you do with them. Obviously the better the tools the easier it will be for you, but I've seen some superb photos from professional photographers taken with £5 disposable cameras.

Here's a couple of photos of my own that I took with a £300 digital camera...no photoshop touching up on these ones....but you'll get the idea, I took them at the dockyard where my office is, but I wanted shots that weren't as straightforward as "hey look, its a boat"....

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Piccie 6

a bit low res...but you get the idea
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Here Endeth the Post of Gromit. RIP.

Edited by - gromit on 5/12/2004 4:56:21 AM

black and white for inner city, colour for country side, sepia for ?....got a 256 mb memory card for my computer, can now take 1555 good quality photos or considerably less excellent quality ones

Edited by - freighter fighter on 5/12/2004 4:59:49 AM

and that's Chatham, ff, which is just up the road from you. Why don't you nip over to Headcorn to the airfield and take some details of aircraft, you like planes don't you? try not to take "record" shots, go for unusual angles like Etch-a-Sketch boy has. Also remember that the only thing that really needs to be in sharp focus is the primary subject, you can have everything else unfocused by controlling depth-of-field.

everybody's doing the Len Ganley stance..

thats *if* they let me anywhere near the planes.

Anything with flowers and landscaped areas make great pics.

lol. etch-a-sketch boy. lol.

@ff if you want good photos of headcorn airfield, take the "Public footpath" that runs straight through it!

I still think you could get a few choice shots by wandering around ashford....the mcarther glenn complex has got a fantastic roof, inside and out, try starting there! Also, like I said in my email, Wye is about 5 minutes drive/10 minutes bus ride from you, and its difficult to beat that kinda countryside even in kent. I believe I'm right in saying that there is one of those medieval stone formations on the hill near wye too....like those chalk white hillside images you always see with the outline of a guy with a big schlong, but this one's a fully detailed crown. They've also got a 400 year old college which has stunning architecture and a pub next to a river where swans wander about the beer garden. All these things have massive photography potential....in fact, I might head down there myself

im planning on wye, chiliam ( castle ) chartham ( for the horses ) canterbury ( for the buildings) but isnt it a bit gloomy at the moment for photos?

nip down to Romney Marsh and the Rother Levels, St Mary's in the March is goos for photo-ops. 'kin hell ff, we know more about Kent than you do!

everybody's doing the Len Ganley stance..

im only 21 for crying out loud, think im gonna know kent like the back of my hand?

Great photo's Grom. What's the square rigger you took the photo of there? Well judging from the tip of the bow it's a square rigger.

love the sub. applied for subs but got knocked back, failed the psychological aptitude Tests (I know, it's unbelievable isn't it)

everybody's doing the Len Ganley stance..

there used to be a russian sub down at folkestone, till the bailifs towed it away as the company who owned it didnt pay the harbour fees