Nice one Doug, its a cracking lens, enjoy

Photoshop as a standalone will cost $19.99 a month compared to buying it outright at the moment for £631 I am pleased about this, I am currently running the student version which cost £206 and was getting to be rather worried about the next upgrade cost, this makes it easier for me and is actually cheaper over three years

I think the only people who are genuinely disappointed will be those who use pirated copies and have never paid for LR or PS as the subscription method will make pirating a PITA.

The subscription method makes PS available to everyone at a reasonable cost without the huge initial financial outlay.

To be honest I have only tried my F 50mm in daylight and that locks on instantly but haven't done a side by side comparison with the k-5.

Yes I couldn't edit it after I reread my post

Really good set, 2 & 3 are my favourite

I wondered what you meant by colour popping, if you had said Schindlering I would have got it.

I have had one potential client ask for this in the last two years and normally I am pretty flexible about what clients want but I say no to Schindlering and would rather lose a potential client. As MartinEA pointed out it is a little dated, but more importantly I wouldn't want the world to know I still offered this dated type of processing.

But its horses for courses some people like it some people don't. I am looking at it from a commercial angle and think seeing my work Schindlered would do more harm to my business than good.

A good tutorial again though Shaun

No 10 is my favourite of the day, I just couldn't have gotten that shot with the original k-5, the focussing on the mkii is lightning fast I very rarely miss a shot now. Same with number 1.

Someone mentioned in another post that the noise on the mkii looks different to the mki and I would agree with that, the last shot is at ISO 3200 in a really dark venue, yet the grain has a film like quality to it, which I really like and suits that shot really well making it look really gritty and grimy

First festival of the year and this year I was invited to be part of the official Live at Leeds photography team

Manages to shoot 15 acts scattered around the city centre of leeds, so travelling light was the order of the day, editing done on the IPad and photogene for live coverage of teh day and then later in Lightroom 4.4

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Lots more on my flickr stream link

70-200mm limits you to two lenses the Tamron and the sigma.

Both are heavy beasts.

Yes I have snapspeed but find ut a bit too basic. Photogene fits my needs when im on the road.

I'm shooting a festival tomorrow in Leeds and don't want to drag my laptop around so I will be using just the iPad. Should be interesting, editing and uploading to various sources from the iPad.

Ah Ken you saw what I did there

I use a cheapo eBay camera kit and plug SD card in, select images to import. Schroll through camera roll at full size deleting any rejects then open up photogene.

I only have a 16gb iPad 2 so space is a premium which makes me pretty ruthless on the rejects and carefully think about my shots. Its a pretty disciplined way of working.