Febuary 14th Email reply

And here is a pretty picture I took on Saturday

Shot with the Canon 550D with the Nikon 20mm ais f2.8 lens while filming my next video.  Shot is of the beach at North Berwick

Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR Review

The Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 vr lens (the first one not the new one ) first came out in 2003 and has been a staple of many if not all professional photographers. Sports, fashion, action, wild life, travel, portrait and wedding photography all benefit from this lens.

There are many reasons why this lens is so sought after, its build quality, its optical performance, its focus speed, its focus acuracy its vibration reduction, its weather proofing, its full frame and corp sensor capability, and its sexy.  (It makes you feel like the big man when you walk around with this strapped to yourself).

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Captured: The Ruins of Detroit | Plog — World news photography, Photos — The Denver Post

You all have to go and check this blog. the photos on this post are amazing. It is all about deralict buildings in Detroit

Captured: The Ruins of Detroit | Plog — World news photography, Photos — The Denver Post

Photo critique 4 (Kenny Urquhart)

Email goes like this

Hi Dom,

I will keep this short. I am a glasgow based photographer and I would value your opinion on my 5 pics. 5 is the limit isn't it? I have ten so I guess 5 now 5 some other time.

Anyway enjoy and I look forward to your assessment


Kenny Urquhart


http://www.kennyurquhart.com/




written critique and score after the break

Legion Airsoft

New shoot this week with an airsoft company in edinburgh

http://www.darkocean.co.uk/

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Photo Critique 3 (Gary Lawrence)

Here is the email from Gary

hey mr Dom, i have been lovin the talks you have been giving on peoples work and 

i wanna jump in before you get bombarded with everyones work and decide you have 

no time for that.
anyway i narrowed down some of my recent pictures to hopefully get some true 
harsh critisism. hopefully i can learn from your words as i am blind to my own 
work.
oh the cool place with the books and the lady with the pink top in your last 
video, i think it is the jeckle and hyde pub. 

also i wanna shoot some more pics with models but the weather thing is 
frustrating. maybe you could do a video on what to do or where to go when it 
rains (especially the burgh)

cheers dude
keep up the videos as they are cool

gary

Photo Critique 2 (Andrew Potter)

Andrew Potter sent me in an email with his 5 photos to be professionally critiqued, Ie not the usual friend critique of "Oh they are nice"

This was his email.

Dear Dom,
 
I would like to put a selection of images forward for you to critique, like the last person critiqued on you blog I want you to be honest, say what you see and give constructive critisisum.
 
I have been shooting seriously for a little over two years now, I am self taught and so rely on feedback such as yours to imporve my photography. 
 
I now shoot mainly portraits, I have a small home studio and have shot five of six weddings and different events, this has helped me sustain my hobby.
 
I use all Nikon equipment and I am a avid follower of the strobist movement.  
 
Thanks for you time and I hope to hear from you soon.
 
Andrew
 http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Andrew-Potter-Photography/114113589226
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypotter/

 Shots and written critque after the break

Debbie Does Do's Hairdressing event in edinburgh

Point and Destroy clothing Store

Create personalized gifts at Zazzle.

OMG Nikon D700 Replacement!

Am I the only person who is searching almost daily to find if there has been an announcement from Nikon about the Nikon full frame D700 Replacement?
Every day I click into nikonrumors.com, or dpreview, or popphoto or dphotographer, and get excited when i see there is a new post and then swear at the computer when it is some new announcement of a crappy point and shoot with a million times zoom!

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