hi,
just returned from vacations!!

One of the days i went into a park "Badoka park" they have Lemurs there! nice litle animals !!
I was able to feed them. The park is here in Portugal, and i did a small safari in a truck, quite cool


a nice Macro i did with my Nikon D70:


and some more pictures from the park: (lemurs included)
Pictures from the park:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1025638...BadocaPark2011
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Welcome back, Tiago! Good to hear that you've had a nice vacation. Cool pictures by the way! I liked the one where the girl has an owl on her head.
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Great pics. The macro one doesn't show though, but was it the same as the dragon fly one? If so that was really nicely taken.

Although the Nikon D70 is getting quite old now you definitely managed to get some very nice photographs with it. What lenses are you using? Have you read the reviews of the latest Nikons? The D7000 is a very nice camera, and your existing lenses would work with it.
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You always teasing people to buy new stuff
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The macro doenst show? just try now and i was able to see it, yes it's the same dragn fly in a diferent angle. No photoshop on it.
the dragon fly was shot as almost 2.5 meters away with no tripod, so i could say it's a nice photo... :-)


Lens:
50 f1.4 fi 052 (Nikon)
18-70 f3.5 4.5 067(Nikon)
28-105 f2.8 4.0 072 (Sigma)
70-300 f3.5 5.6 058 (Sigma)
50 macro f2.8 fix 055 (Sigma)

Yap D7000 is cool... My D70 it was from my father. He passed away 2 years ago, we really liked photos, he had a F70 and D70 that i am now using, i am still learnig about photografy.
I dont know much about it, but i am staring the get some nice photos, so far, the D70 is more enough for me :-)
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I didn't know your father had passed away. Sorry to hear this. I remember you were building the model railway together.

He left you a very nice range of lenses. Good investment of glass there that will allow you to take a very wide range of photography.

The f2.8 macro is perfect for being able to take shots and not worry too much about light or the need for a flash. And the f1.4 you have will be brilliant for very low light and long exposure night photography. Do you also have an external flash gun? If not that is definitely a great investment as it will make the biggest difference for images needing a flash, compared to using an in built flash.

With a DSLR, the investment is always with the lenses more than the camera body itself though as that is where most of the expense lies. This makes it much cheaper as and when you ever wish to upgrade to a newer model as all your existing lenses can still be used and take advantage of a new cameras features, which is great.
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Yes my father passe away in December 2009, cant remember if i post here i guerss not. difficult times then.
Yes i have a flash,
Nikon speedflash sb600
it is a great flash, but with to many options for me.... omg, that is 10 more complicated then the camera itself.
So far, i am learnig by myself to basic stuff with daylight or artificial light. Flash will coem later... i allready have to much to learn.... :-)
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