Matt Bye – Photography

Life has passed by rather a lot since my last post. I’ve been taking photographs around, but neglecting both my flickr and this. Life has been very busy! I have a free week now so I am hoping to spend this week catching up with organising and posting some pictures.

I’ve upgraded my equipment lately too. I purchased a Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC Macro firstly to replace my kit standard lens. I purchased having used the 2.8-4 version for a while and I knew this would be better. Im happy to have the wide range of the 18mm and also upto 50mm is perfect for the music show shooting that I do. All with going down to f2.8 is a bonus, especially for the low lighting of a lot of shows.

Secondly I purchased a Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 APO EX DG Macro HSM II. This was up for a very attractive price, and also being the ‘bigger brother’ to the 18-50mm f2.8, I knew this would be of good quality. I’ve brought this in the hope that I can start getting to more motorsport events and get shooting more. I’m really happy with the lens right now, though. It’s quite versatile, sharp, nice bokeh and very fast!

Since my last post, the Dales Highway, I’ve been to an abandoned power station.

I photographed a few live music shows.

And more power station stuff.

BIG post! Pretty much caught up. I plan on adding more to flickr and subsequently posting more, concise posts!