#2 for me as well, superb !!

Have you tried contacting the picture editor and asking the question ? alternatively I'd think for an image that's not either half or full page a 4mb closed size Jpeg would be about right. Newspapers due to the usually recycled paper they use aren't known for the photo printing quality.

+1

#2 is superb John, shows the light off very well, the dappled light is excellent and I like the presentation and the toning, plus you've no distractions etc.

With #1, did you use a polarizing filter ? there's lots of reflections of the location inc a white door !!

#2 & #4 Are superb John, well shot

Personally I'd go for flash either your Pentax 540's with a second unit, or Studio flash, I take on board your space limitations, but my experience with LED's is whilst they are good, the output is low which means you'll need higher ISO's to get the shutter speed to anything semi reasonable and or a tripod and a very still subject.

I've some examples of a shoot where the lass was right next to the 400w LED lights, ISO was 1600 / 3200 just to get a shutter speed of 1/60th.

Worth seeing if you have another room you can use, maybe not for full length or perhaps look to hire a room somewhere, studios obviously come to mind, many are very reasonable at £10 to £20 per hour depending on what they offer, I've also used local community centres before at similar rates.

The Cenarth falls and the kites are superb Mike, excellent shooting

I've for a long time now, kept my images and all other files on separate hard drives to my programs, so all programs are on C: so if the OS crashes and I have to re-install which has happened all I need to worry about is reloading the programs as I don't store any data on C:

I'm presuming this is what's being suggested above.

That's superb Derek, kit wise, what did you use please ?

Hi Seb

This image was shot for a local band for a CD cover a few years ago, using the Defender LED 6000, K5iis 800 ISO and 1/13th sec F3.5 direct light, i.e no softening material.