Matt Waddell » Nikon D90

Longleat 2010

Matt — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:21:51 +0000

Porthleven in the snow

Matt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:21:12 +0000

Well as I was unable to get into work today I thought I would get out and take a few photos. Here are a few taken from around the harbour area plus 3 quick snaps from outside the house showing the amount of snow still falling, not bad for Southerly Cornwall.

BMW 1-Series M-Sport

Matt — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:51:00 +0000

Well I have finally got my new car and it is fantastic! It has been spec’ed up to the M-Sport level and then had a number of BMW Performance parts fitted such as the additional bodykit and alloy wheels for starters. Anyway let us cut to the chase, here are the photos!

Wales Rally GB 2008

Matt — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:11:18 +0000

This is quite a quick post this year as I am a bit pressed for time currently, so Phil here you go , I have put my photos online finally! You can find most of them in my gallery section.

Zoom Burst

Matt — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:00:40 +0000

Zoom Burst

I managed to get this shot by taking a photo of my television whilst zooming mid exposure. I was really surprised how good this image was for my 3rd/4th attempt at it!

To recreate this all you need to do is zoom the lens of your SLR during the exposure, this will create a sense of movement, creating an ‘explosion’ effect with streaks of light bursting out of the centre of the frame.

This was taken with ISO 200, f/14.0 and 0.4sec shutter speed. So nothing fancy was required in the way of lens.

Castle Combe Circuit

Matt — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:34:58 +0000

On Friday, myself and Kris decided to take a day off work and go and visit Castle Combe Circuit to photograph some motorsport as there was an open track day going on. You never really know what to expect on these days as cars can range from a Rover 45 (standard spec!) to a Dodge Viper to a VW Golf MK I with a VR6 engine to superlight Lotus Exiges.

Seeing the Ariel Atom was really quite special as there are not many of them about and the supercharged Exiges sounded fantastic and they destroyed nearly every other car out there with it’s brutal cornering ability! Best moment of the day was probably watching the blue BMW M3 (pictured above) losing it big time right in front of us in The Esses, thankfully it appeared to only be his pride that was damaged. You can find all of my photos from the day out at Castle Combe Circuit on either my photos section of the site or on Flickr if you prefer.

Kennall Vale

Matt — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:01:42 +0000

Decided to go to the Kennall Vale nature reserve today with Nik and Georgia, never been there before but my mate Phil told me about it and I am so glad he did. It was raining quite heavily (typical Cornish weekend!) but that did not deter us, here are a few photos.

My Nikon D90

Matt — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:21:29 +0000

Nikon D90

Well I have finally decided to spend some of my hard earned cash and buy my own Digital SLR, for months now I have borrowed Nikki’s camera when I could. The choice was quite hard really as my mate Kris has a Canon EOS 400D and was doing his best to persuade me to go the Canon brand but ultimately I had to go Nikon as Nik already has a Nikon D40x with a number of lenses so it would mean less doubling up on certain lenses.

I went for the Nikon D90 body only and purchased a Nikon AF-S DX VR Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6G and a Nikon AF 50mm f/1.8D.

So far I am really impressed with the ease of use and dramatic images the D90 is producing and it will only get better as I improve.