Yes I think I know who that member is

Yes please do Paul, we will greatly appreciate it.

From my limited experience in this I think I also need two softboxes and and couple of these also, provided they are not very expensive of course. At the moment I have been using cardboard boxes and stuff like that with tapes and stuff but they are not exactly perfect as the flashes keep wobbling and dont sit properly etc

Would love to have such a trigger to give it a try on various ideas that I have been cooking up, but I don't know anything how these triggers work or where to get them.
Anyone care to please just give a brief breakdown of the concept and idea of workings of these triggers?
Thank you very much.

Stefan this really seem very interesting. Lots of things could be achieved this way.
Loved the water droplets video, absolutely fantastic images

Very nice PentaxBabe
Told you, its pretty nice.
Now give us your ephotozine name so we can all trace your pictures there also.
Good work on this little beauty,

[quote:3496ace15f="PentaxBabe"]Hi,

Spent this morning at Potteric Carr Nature Reserve in Doncaster with John trying to master my technique with the K20D I got on Friday and improve my macro skills! I have posted one of my shots on the gallery which I like when it is zoomed in but am not sure about as it looks on screen. The one below is another of today's shots for comment please. I seem to be struggling a bit moving away from wildlife on safari to wildlife in the UK

Looks fantastic to me PentaxBabe. Would really love to see it in a slightly larger format, may be 800 by 600? The details seem pretty sharp and lovely looking image. You seem to be mastering the macros pretty quick, well done, now let's see some more images from that lovely new K20D and macro lens of yours

Mike, are you after a K20D? I thought you would be going for the K-7

Danny
goshhh I am so groggy still, Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
I absolultely misread it.

Sorry Isdky for that, I am looking at a 50-500 not that one

Would this sigma work with a TC and how is the IQ for this lens at the 500mm range? Does anyone know please?
Thank you

Hi Brian
PM sent

Thanks Peter, I will have a look at those links. Thank you very much

Noticed that lots of goldies and great tits babies are out flying. One of them was really perched on my front door struggling to hold on to the knockers .
Weather has been awful so can't really take a lot of pictures but the weather proofing body and lens is really fantastic. I open the patio door and stick out the lens supporting the camera sideways on the door edges and been trying to capture these little beauties.

I found that I cant go below ISO 560 without compromising SS, so this is one example I managed to capture. Not the very best ones I confess but the images are great for me to practise editing and improving my skills on CS4. It has been my nemesis, and I have always struggled big time with PP. I hardly attempt many tools, sticking with just curves, Adjustments shadow/highlight, and lately I have dared to use a bit of Brightness/Contrast. And finally Unsharp Mask. I might probably been using them wrongly and not in the correct sequence. I feel that if I could manipulate a bit more of those settings I could get some more benefit out of it. So any suggestions and advice would be greatly appreciated. I do explore a few tools but they are so many and with such various tweaks and I do experiment them to get familiarised with. Its a question of knowing now whether I am on the right path or not and whether I should alter the sequences etc.