You're just a day to late Dave, someone already shared it in the your photo section link
Fascinating photos aren't they.

Welcome to the forum Christopher.
You are surely lucky, there are some that have a collection of MXs so you're in the right spot to ask everything.

PS. if you trade your Canon for a Pentax you will only need one set of lenses

Everyone has their way, I use Lightroom for the basic stuff and archiving.
Everything I make public or get printed does go through Photoshop though, just to make it perfect or be creative.

I'm also thinking of trying Phaseone for a change, just to see how it works.

I don't think we will see much change in the DSLR as we know now and also the pixels will settle down at the current amount.
The only thing I think that will improve alot is the dynamic range and the iso noise of the sensor.

I also believe that Pentax will come with a new image processor to improve the current continuous shooting rate and maybe also to at new features. Samsung is getting very good with there DDR3 production so I wouldn't be surprised we will see that one to when a new processor will come. A new AF would be welcome to and if they can make the camera lighter it would be nice

To be honest that's all I really want though.
I'm happy with the concept and it doesn't need to change for me.

Lovely shots, certainly number one.

you can reverse mount the 35mm also anto another lens and use extension tubes on that lens aswell to get more magnification

I've used the Da 40 infront of the 100mm macro, so I got 1:2.5 in the end

I couldn't get my head around slikypix though because I use photoshop a lot.
Lightroom and photoshop works very well together and that's what i use now.

Excellent shot, The lighting is also very nice.

Thank you all for your comments.

To make talking a bit easier this the original of the first one, straight out of the camera.
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP9662-3.jpg[/IMG]
If you simply brigthen it to get the white background and at a bit of saturation you already get the result as above, most work is in the removing the dark glass and the other blue. You can still see a hint of it in the left lower corner. It may look overprocessed but I didn't do much, propable the saturation killed it.

I've being croping with the third shot, first the purple was just over the third line. The black line almost vertical in the base on the glass is on the third line now.
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP9695-Edit-2.jpg[/IMG]
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They make the perfect titles Gwyn and I believe that everyone knew what I mean, certainly when they saw the photos.

Was it really banned in the UK, sweet
It always make me laugh when they are saying that the musics these days only goes over sexs and that teens are doing it earlier because of it.
Somehow I always think, that those people missed some songs when they were younger

BTW do you know the meaning of the song, because she sings "I love you, I love you, Oh yes I love you" He then answers "Nor do I".
That makes you think right

Yes the second one also, the flowers are more meaning full there.

SRS of course, where else
You already know how to get the free postage, you also get 2 year warenty from them because they are a Pentax Pro Dealer.
What more do you want right

If you live nearby it's worth a visit so that you can try out all the lenses and get some good avice.