I think helping your son create some cool Rock Album Cover photos might be an easier way to lure your son into the photo addiction thing....who knows where it might lead...good luck.
And the great thing about these Britts is they're polite.
They've been too polite to tell tell me to shut up and go away for months...so I'll forgive them for speaking English so funny.
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cannot recommend as I've not used it, but may try in future...one of my competitors uses it:
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I agree that there's nothing wrong with posting your gear...now if it was canon or nikon gear...well anyways thank you for thinking of us and good luck with the sale.
btw as one guy who posts way too often, maybe I'll psot less and save some room for u to post more. lol

Cool. thanx. I think the idea holds promise, time will tell. I'll hold off on the impulse spending until generation 2 arrives and all the reviews are in.

Mattmattic the usb device I mentioned isn't just for initial calibration, u set it up and leave it on and it dynamically alters it's settings as the light levels and quality of light in the area changes...Ie it adapts!

My one mac in my den gets artificial light in the am and indirect sun from north facing windows, most of the day, and later on, alot of direct sunlight from patio doors reflecting off green walls in the evening. I don't work at that computer for critical work even though it was initially clibrated in my studio before being moved to the den.

I use it when web surfing, for bussiness paperwork, quick perusal of my photo library, but usually go into my studio to touch up and print any customer work. remember my main job is Dad for little Mikey and little Mikey is about as helpful around my studio as an untamed monkey.

I'll bet wyswig is great, but what I got works, and that huey is more of a wish for, item, as I personally have no pressing need for it.
but it looks like I'll one day be too lazy to run down stairs to print...he...he..he...

there's a new and much lees expensive device than the spider...called a huey, usb contsant adjustment..I have not tried but based on what i read, I may give it a whirl for my mac thet sits in my den. the ambient light is always changing there.

mixed halogen and flourecsant lighting at a play Is a predicament to be sure. You may have to mask your subject and various background elements and create seperate layers and adjust each later seperately.
A tremendously time consuming endeaver.

Best to focus on the skin tones or most important subject, use your color cast eye dropper tool and find black/white/grey elements in the scene to get a general color balance.

Then follow the good advice already posted.

Ya know Mattmatic, Pentax is going to have to capture30-40% on the market, before they can even think about paying you what you're worth.

In Photosop (incl elements):
open an image file, duplicate layer.
click Under filter>other>high pass. set radius between 5 - 9 for start.
go to layer blending mode and set it to Soft Light.
increase/decrease effect by adjusting opacity.
lots o sharpening with practically no noise!
Non destructive and easy to undo.
Much easier than using Unsharp Mask for newbies that can't tell thier threshholds from thier radiuses.

Two of my favorite quotes both I got from my old maritials arts teacher:
a) Teaching is Learning.
B) (while holding a cocky student (me) in an arm bar/chokehold..) There's two things you can know for sure...I know everything that I ever taught you...and you''ll never know if I've taught you everything I know....