You have a super model there, but she looks a bit fed up...perhaps it's the rain.

I do like the pose in the last shot. Not so sure about the black and white, but it could be argued that the expression and the monochrome look as she surveys the lousy weather could be a valid point. If that's what you had in mind, then fair enough, and keep thinking!

The head of the deer does get a bit lost in the house detail. A slightly higher viewpoint would cure that, or the deer being a bit closer and having the lawn as a backdrop. As it is, the deer is balancing a house on its shoulders and the two don't quite gel together.

It looks as though you have focused on the deer and the house is not quite within the DOF, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps a wider aperture still to make the house less dominant would also concentrate our eye more on the deer.

Technical quality is good. You have opted for a soft colour style, which is fine and fits the subject matter well.

Revisitng the scene and waiting for another deer might seem a long shot, but it's a nice image and worth a second shot.

Hope that helps!

Try "How to post pictures" in the Your Photos forum!

Please don't create more than one thread for the same item. This is very confusing.

If anyone wanted to help you they would need to consider very carefully what would happen if the lens went astray. There is good reason perhaps why eBay sellers often will not ship to Italy as there may be a higher than average number of missing parcels in the Italian postal system.

Before you do any sharpening I would read the submission guidelines carefully and follow them, otherwise you may well be wasting your time submitting images.

But you don't know. That's not a fact.

Don't forget that not all prices of Japanese sourced goods have gone up yet anyway. It takes time for price rises to filter through and those who want to sell will keep prices as low as possible for as long as possible.

As for our prices overseas, our exporters like a weak pound because they can sell more, or at least governments like to claim that it helps in that way.

Everybody does need to make a profit though, otherwise we won't have anybody left to buy our gear from, so prices here will have to go up.

The enemy of lenses is damp where there is no air circulation. Cupboards and drawers are generally fatal after a while.

My reserve stock lenses are in a nice centrally heated room, on open shelves, and hopefully they may survive there for a long time!

The commonly used lenses are of course in my Billingham bag, ready to go.

The "sunny sixteen" rule works well with film.

Set the shutter speed to the reciprocal of the film speed (e.g., 200 ISO would mean 1/200 sec, or 1/250 sec in practice) and set f16 on the lens and you have the exposure for a subject lit by full sunlight.

That's the simple version. There are a mass of additional instructions as to how this can be modified for open shade, cloudy, earlier or later in the day.....I just remember the simple version.

There are many more filters than red, orange, yellow or green, but they are the most common ones.

Current BW films are certainly panchromatic, but the problem is that their sensitivity is not the same as the human eye. We use filters to correct the reproduction of different colours so that we either produce something closer to what our eyes see, or we bring out the detail in a particular colour.

The latter is exemplified by the use of an orange filter to bring out the grain detail in wood.

My particular favourite is Tri-X with a red filter. Very dramatic skies.

Another interesting thing is the use of a blue filter. This mimics the sensitivity of "Ordinary" film, which predates orthochromatic film and is only sensitive to blue light. Ortho film is sensitive to green as well. So a blue filter helps in the production of pseudo antique images.

The blue filter is also useful for using with very old cameras if you put modern films in them. The lenses may well be only corrected for ordinary film so green and red light is rendered out of focus, blurring the image. Use a blue filter and you will see how sharp they can be.

I use Channel Mixer in Photoshop when I want black and white filter effects.