Excelent

Those changes have really made a difference.

Now all it needs is a dancing bear in a red anorak on those stairs, you should be able to clone one in easily enough

The only way to find out about ANY camera club is to go along to a meeting or two and see for yourself, as current president of LCPS, (until the AGM next wednesday at least) I can offer the following advice.

Introduce yourself to someone as soon as you walk in and show an interest by asking about the club and especially that evenings activities, you will get an idea of what the club is like by the response, IMHO if the club is worth joining then the members should be eager to talk and show an interest in you, if you dont feel welcome after a couple of visits then find another club as this one isn't worth joining.

Hello Tracey and welcome to the forum, I thought it was strange that Terry had asked us to delete all his posts about buying new gear

C'mon Mike, do you honestly want to know I certainly wouldn't

Welcome to the forum Steve

Some nice shots in those links,

I can just imagine the look on the lens salesmans face, "off shooting wildlife Sir?"
....."Yeah, I'm going on a Spider Safari"



I think this is one spider that should stay UP the tree.

Just had a play with that last one Mike, try adjusting the levels by darkening it slightly then increase the saturation by 10%, finally adjust the sharpness by 80%, radius 0.8, threshold 2

I always try adjusting the levels on an image before applying anything else, what version of photoshop are you using?

Those are much much better Mike except that last crop which you've gone overboard with again, if you want overprocessed images then your on the wrong forum, you should have bought a Canon instead

QUICK EDIT.....I can see where your problem lies with sharpening Mike, I just had a go with the first shot, the shear amount of detail on the wings means sharpening the image overall is impossible those fine hairs just exagerate any sharpening thats applied, I would normally sharpen a butterfly to about 100/125% at 1.5 radius and threshold 2, I tried yours at 75%, 0.5 radius, threshold 2, and even that seemed to much. Maybe someone on here can help you with selective sharpening techniques which are beyond my skills

Trust me guys, Ken cradles this thing like a baby, he loves it so much he even pointed it at me

Now I have to upset the apple cart by saying I loved my MZ5n but I think I loved my Olympus OM30 even more , but it was a rip off of the ME-F

Of course they are, everyone on this forum is a star, yourself included....we all chose PENTAX

PS: it'll be a laptop in the "van" next, trust me, been there done that