He does explain it Amin, well at least a bit.

The problem is that most studio shots all look the same so it's get boring.
The image looks flat because a soft box and umbrella are a form of floodlight, it fills the wrinkles and eliminates contrast so that's why it looks flat.

I'm no expert with this so please correct me if wrong.

Another reason to only buy Pentax products

Thanks for letting us know Mike

What kind of lens is it, 100-300mm doesn't say a lot but I can already say that you will most likely are getting troubles since the AF needs a minimum aperture of 5.6 to work proper.
So that means that your lens needs to be at least f/2.8 for a 2x TC to let it work good with AF.

The best thing is to get a 1.4X, your lens will only lose one stop instead of two and the image quality would be better. With 2X you will really pushing the lens.

There are enough 1.4X available simply ask in your shop or look on SRS.
If you need SDM or HSM to focus then things get problematic but since you use a *ist dl that wouldn't be a problem since the camera doesn't support SDM.

Thank you for that Gwyn very funny to read and it showed that it works

Cliff you should see the inside of the car, the gearshift is just so nice.



Would still like an Aston Martin though

no but you can use Adobe DNG converter to convert the PEF to DNG with the computer and those have even smaller file-size then PEF

okay it's one step extra but it size disk space and you can shoot more photos

Probable not since CS3 supports up to camera raw 4 and the new software work with 5.

You can get Adobe DNG converter, CS3 should open DNG without a problem.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4520

That's a Dutch car, you did that on purpose right
It's a Spyker C8 link

Very good, certainly 1+4.
With #2 you have more room at the back of the car then the front, since the car is moving forward it just look strange. Don't ask my why but it's better to leave more room before the car.
#3 the angle is strange, not really working for me.

That looks interesting, quite nice

1/128 doesn't need to mean the flash is faster then 1/64 with another flash I believe.

Why don't you look for a studio set, the price is almost the same as a a new flashgun.