I have never really been a fan of "fashion" photography, the models are always too thin and not representative of "real" women. However I have always found Bens work interesting and sometimes inspirational, and his interview in Pentax User made excelent reading.

I would be interested in Bens view on the drive to portray women in a more "natural" fashion....ie; size 12-14 models.

PS on the topic of fashion, what idiot decided that flashing your thong was a good idea?

I disagree with Stefan

This is actually a tricky one, assuming were talking UK law, as I understand this will vary from country to country:

If you take a picture of someone in the UK using their camera, either digital or film, then you are both joint copyright holders, they because they own the equipment and asked (commisioned) you to take the photograph, and you because you composed the picture and pressed the shutter.

The situation of webcams is very similar, they (the webcam owners) are allowing you to see through their equipment and save stills, I suppose the real issue will arise over the wording in the small print that accompanies the agreement to actually use the webcam software in the first place

What I want to know is why are you interested in this? surely you cant have got a money making pic from a webcam?

Scott, this may also be of interest to you, I was confused myself for a while then recently thought of this: link

So in effect what you were claiming was true, you should have been shooting as if you were using a 750mm lens though you were not

Confucious say, man with big equipment must really admit to it being smaller than he thinks

Dont you mean 500mm? Your Exif says 500 or were you using a teleconverter?

Tripod=SR off
Monopod=SR on

But heres food for thought:

Is the SR inteligent enough to realise your shutter speed is high enough for the focal length in use, and so not operate? of course it couldn't tell you were standing on a rocking boat so I guess not

Tut Tut! some nut has left a bolt lying around

They make a nice set except for the first, no forground interest. couldn't you have hung around for a barge or something, it looked warm enough

I also noticed the flowers, these things really annoy me. I can understand that someone would want to place flowers or other tributes where tragedys have taken place but what gets my back up is the fact that they just leave them there to wither and die and let some other mug go clean up their mess.

What do you want a Pylon for? most peope hate them in their back yards



Very dramatic/atmospheric shots Mike, I bet you really missed skies like these

Well thank you folks for reviving such and old post...

....unfortunately your all too late, I found somewhere on the net yesterday and booked three nights

Going up next Tuesday, and so far the weather looks as if it may be OK for a few snaps.

This is'nt our first visit though, but last time we were up there I was shooting slide film

Let me gaze into my crystal ball......I forsee a hernia coming on

Have you tried using the camera with them OFF and using the dioptre adjustment to correct the defect in you sight?
Of course you could be wearing jam jar bottoms for all I know and the dioptre adjustment just is'nt enough

There are various ways to set the dioptre adjustment, I use the method suggested in the manual, let the camera auto-focus on a bright distant object then adjust the dioptre till it look sharp through the viewfinder, of course this goes belly up if your camera suffers from front or back focusing but try it and see if it improves.

PS I think the beanbag is the best option in a hide.