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darkskies wrote:
cabstar wrote:
paul Weller sued the Daily Mail for publishing photos of his children in public

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I also think it is going to be difficult to photograph a child within the context of a food bank story. Normally in a case like this in the corner there is usually text stating image posed by model etc...
Well then they shouldn't have used a child photograph. If they have a story, they have a story. No need to lie to put home the point....which was most likely more about politics than anything else, anyway.
So what image should they have used? The food bank story is very political but also the press needs to show sensitivity to the people who use them. I think it was a powerful image for the story, I think the mirror forgot to point out that it is was a stock image. As I said earlier to get a photo of a child crying at a food bank would have been difficult and possibly had complaints about exploiting children in a difficult emotive situation.

Comment by cabstar posted on The Guardian, interesting at 17/04/2014 - 18:34

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The Mirror and the mail both edited a sports image last week, erasing out a player from the image, something PA photographers have been sacked for doing recently....

Comment by cabstar posted on The Guardian, interesting at 17/04/2014 - 17:38

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paul Weller sued the Daily Mail for publishing photos of his children in public

link

I also think it is going to be difficult to photograph a child within the context of a food bank story. Normally in a case like this in the corner there is usually text stating image posed by model etc...

Comment by cabstar posted on The Guardian, interesting at 17/04/2014 - 17:37

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Looking at what happens with the mail this week and paul wellers children bing photographs and published who can blame the mirror for using a stock image.

Comment by cabstar posted on The Guardian, interesting at 17/04/2014 - 11:54

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Heres me in need of a diet chimping in the Pyramd Stage pit at last years Glastonbury Festival

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Comment by cabstar posted on Come Out From Behind Your Lens at 15/04/2014 - 11:51

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I've found the dual sd card slots very useful for a wifi card in one and normal card in slot 1.

Smeggypants wrote:
davidstorm wrote:
[quote:3496ace15f="MattyH"]Yes if I could I would of kept my k5iis as well but I am not quite as rich as david[/quote

It's on my conscience all the time! I may be persuaded to sell the K-5IIs soon, but it's very hard to do this!

Regards
David
.... as soon as the Pentax FF comes along everything will change
Yes this!

Comment by cabstar posted on Which new body? at 15/04/2014 - 01:05

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I stopped using PS a whilst ago but was excited about the iPad app until I found out I need to buy the subscription package at £8 a month which is disappointing but I will subscribe as I can see the benefit of using the iPad within a Lightroom environment.

Comment by cabstar posted on Lightroom 5.4 update Released at 10/04/2014 - 08:06

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davidstorm wrote:
cabstar wrote:
[Surprisingly the biggest difference for me is going back to an af system that hunts in low light the k-5 mkii is just so much better at focussing in low light
I'm not surprised by this Gary. I saw evidence of this at an event last year, where attendees shall remain nameless as I was accused of lying about it

The K-5II variants and the K-3 are awesome for low light focussing, without the need for the AF Assist light.

Regards
David
I think I'm surprised because the d600 has the same af system as the D4 so I maybe expected a vast improvement. Having heard for so long how poor Pentax af is my expectations of the nikon system where maybe inflated.

as I said though the 3d tracking system is excellent if Pentax can match that to they will be onto a winner.

Comment by cabstar posted on I've just bought a K-5IIs at 10/04/2014 - 07:41

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I think images of brick walls are in order myself

Comment by cabstar posted on I've just bought a K-5IIs at 09/04/2014 - 22:01

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Fletcher8 wrote:
cabstar wrote:
Currently on a Pentax hiatus until an FF Pentax is released .
Glad to hear that Gary, how are you getting on with the 600 compared to your K5ll? Am interested in some honest feedback and as you have shot Pentax and now Nikon, I think your opinions would be balanced.
Hope smoggy doesn't mind me replying on this thread as I guess he would be interested too.

IQ on the d600 is truly outstanding, shooting at ISO 6400 with a nice grain effect rather than noise is good too.

The nikon glass is on par with pentax although the 28-70mm 2.8 and the 85mm 1.8 are outstanding lenses.

Handling wise Pentax is just so much better.

Surprisingly the biggest difference for me is going back to an af system that hunts in low light the k-5 mkii is just so much better at focussing in low light. However the 3d tracking on the nikon is amazingly good. This for me is a clincher and is why I will be back to Pentax when they release an ff body. I just hope I can afford to go back I can just imagine the prices of Pentax ff* glass, it will be eye watering I feel...

Comment by cabstar posted on I've just bought a K-5IIs at 09/04/2014 - 21:48

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