i bought a shit tripod for a pound once,, in the pound shop lool

done the job for my shit camcorder at the time

Lol tit for tat.

Hey guys, here's a link for those who want to learn a bit more about Photoshop and a number of different programs. I've used it a fair bit and found it helps A LOT.

Pixel2Life

Sam.

The rules for photographing wildlife and animals aren't that different to photographing people. The mistake many amateur photographers make is to aim their camera's focal point directly at the animals body. Professional wildlife photographers however, set their focus on the animals eyes. If the eyes are not in focus then the whole image will lose its impact.

Never knew this. Was just poking around the web and found a good website for beginners

Always focus on the eyes, regardless of the animal or person your photographing.

Dibs, post up the link that you got that info from.

Yeah I will when I get home

My missus bought the complete digital slr handbook from waterstones for me

it has guides on settings for many different types of scenes etc

Awesome ! I dont read books lol, I prefer to just experiment with the settings, I was giving Dibbers this advice the other day.

The best way I learnt how to take photos was buy taking shots in the Full Auto Mode (Green Box), and then looking at the settings the camera used to take it and then use Manual (M) and put the same settings in to see what you can get.

http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/

Brill site, has helped me alot!