Ah John, we are of like mind.......

.......so you wont mind nipping over the Pennines and explaining that to my wife

As mentioned in another post I recently had a hands on play with a GX20, I was impressed with the live view (though the menu system seemed a little odd) and so the purchase of a K20D may not be too distant for myself, of course I have to buy it with a 17-70 in order to save a bit of cash and get a good deal, so what I really need is a lot of support on the "Is my husband trying it on forum"

I always thought that Italian for Scrapyard was.....


....Lancia Beta HPE

The Italians were clever enough to built a terrific car but were stupid enough to use cheap Russian Steel, Mine fell apart

Same goes for me, I have a Pentax Strap just like that one

As Current President of my own club (LCPS) I must add that a club is only as good as its members and the amount of work each individual is prerpared to do to support the club, anyone joining a club should offer to help, even if this is just organising the room, tables/chairs setting up equipment etc, even offering to make the tea occasionally. Of course theres always "that" sort of club where someone will think your out to steal their job that theyv'e been doing since the club formed, typically found in the "Clicky" clubs, in which case find another

IMHO theres nothing like getting it right in camera for ANY image

As for the image been saleable....I WISH!!!! this is my Niece's wedding and I was roped into the photography under sufferance fortunately my family are easily pleased, and as John has rightfully pointed out they like most people are unable to see the faults in this or any of the other pics I took, my Niece would be quite happy with the pic the way it is, but me being me I just wanted to improve it for my own satisfaction.

I definately must have cocked up somewhere with my initial attempts with Gausian Blur, Garys image is very much similar to what I have achieved using Kens suggestion, but I also like Steves attempt with leaving the guests in, I think it balances the image somehow.

I'll probably end up doing one of each and letting her decide which she likes best, unfortunately I took three different snaps of this and she wants all three , looks like I might be busy with photoshop for a while longer

Thanks to all who have responded, I'll post the finished result/s when done.

Its me again

I just tried applying GB to the whole image and its way different to what I had before:::

Maybe the way I applied the mask affected the way GB worked, going to try it Kens way and see what the finished result is like.

Watch this space

Ken;

I already tried Gausian Blur and it didnt give me the effect you have, what version of photoshop did you use?

I'm using photoshop 7 and all GB does for me is "fog" the background

That would be ideal Ken, thanks.

I've already had a go at cloning out the unwanted figures but the results are a bit rough, your technique should just about finish it off and hide the dodgy cloning......what do I do?

I had this "problem" too, until I was correctly informed PMs stay in your "outbox" until they have been read by the recipient, I suppose its a clever way of telling you your PM has been delivered and read

Sorry John, nice try but I dont want to lose the dress