if you are going to call somebodies photos boring then I would make sure my own gallery was exciting first!

I like the arch but not sure about the tin of paint

Love the bottom one though, very dramatic

I like the idea of split contrasts with the first few images, must have taken a long time to get the birds in view.

Flight under the city is my favourite though, has a cinematic scale & grandeur even though the underground should be compressing the image it opens the image up, a very clever & thoughtful image. Thanks for sharing.

Ergonomics, everything just seems to be in the right place.

I have tried many bodies & they just don't have that same feel & grip as the Pentax

I do the sharpening first then the noise reduction.

Lightroom is the way to go.

£75 if you are a student from Adobe

This was one of the harder shoots I have done, literally had to wait for him to look at me, being on the corner of teh stage is not the best place to be. Seems he has photographers there as he does not like photographers in the pit.

He looked towards me just three times & I had a total shoot time of just two songs so approx 8 minutes!!!!

I often shoot at ISO 1600 on the GX20 so 1250 was a little luxury

As for noise, really easy, all done in lightroom 3.3 along with some sharpening, lens correction, highlights recovery & some other minor tweeks here & there

The first photo was actually the last of the set, as he raised his hand fired of 5 shots in rapid burst.

thanks, the flag you mentioned was the video screen on the left side,of tje stage. unfortunately i only had a 6 feet square area of stage to move in so getting uncluttered backgrounds proved dificult.

post was done using lightroom 3.3 with its great sharpening & noise reduction images are getting better & better. unfortunately due to editorial restrictions & speed of delivery to the agency its not possible to clone out much from the image.

Got to shoot Simply Red last night. had to shoot from the front corner of the stage, in the open, which was a strange position for me.

Lots of light so f/4 1/125 iso 1250

Samsung GX20 DA*50-135mm 2.8

Lightroom 3.3 always add a boost to recovery & sharpen, also metatag, on import myself, then work my way down the develop module on all photos.

If you want to get Lightroom for £70ish become a student by joining a free computer course at your local college. This will then give you a student number & ID which will make you eligible for student rate.

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