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Comment by Darkmunk posted on Inky black at 13/01/2014 - 16:03
Great eye on the day, step away from the 'sharpen button'
Comment by Darkmunk posted on Some Smeggy Slutwalk pics at 08/01/2014 - 11:42
Comment by Darkmunk posted on London parking and congestion charge at 01/01/2014 - 22:18
I'm a bit of a country bumpkin nowadays.
I'm off to London for 2 days and staying near Hyde Park outside the congestion zone.
I'm just wondering if you guys know if I will be able to park on the street somewhere within the travel day card zone (i.e. dump the car for the two days), or will I have to stump up for a car park or someone's drive?
The Hotel parking is too much.
Cheers M'dears and Happy New Year!
Comment by Darkmunk posted on London parking and congestion charge at 01/01/2014 - 21:49
It also needs an ugly cover to make it rainproof and wouldn't fit any long lenses, or two bodies, or sandwiches and raincoat, or laptop.
Comment by Darkmunk posted on Messenger bag at 21/12/2013 - 10:06
High contrast shots need more compression and flat tones, or gentle gradations are easy fodder for compression algorithms to simplify without loosing important detail....
Comment by Darkmunk posted on Any ideas what is happening here? at 18/12/2013 - 22:37
7 is lovely, but I'm desperate to see about half a frame more to the right.
5 is also lovely, but I would crop off half the sky, or (heresy) crop off some and squash the rest down a little, to keep the clouds and create a panorama.
Comment by Darkmunk posted on A few 'big sky' pictures over some Norfolk Marshes at 18/12/2013 - 17:31
I've always found Faststone to be excellent - looking after the integrity of JPEGs even after rotating etc. I used to use it even with Photoshop alongside, precisely because I could do things without re-compressing.
Always need to keep an eye on the settings of whatever you are using.
Don't forget that editing in 8 bit instead of 16 bit can cause gentle graduations to become posterised. Save copies as 8 bit for most outcomes.
Comment by Darkmunk posted on Any ideas what is happening here? at 18/12/2013 - 11:53
Anyone know how to marry-up a long lens with an iPhone?
Comment by Darkmunk posted on Pentax Q wildlife video at 18/12/2013 - 09:17
Might be worth clicking thru to the big version