Hello and welcome

You'll get plenty of that here


Paul

I read that those caps are only used for shipping purposes, as Peter also says, and should be discarded and replaced asap.


Paul

Tony, personally speaking, your crop does nothing for Paul's portrait. You have taken out the surroundings and the guys clothing, to me that looks like a studio portrait and totally defeats the object.
Although in Paul's original shot you can't make out where the guy is, you can see that he isn't in a controlled environment like a studio...I hope that makes sense.

The sepia effect does not look right, it makes the guy look older.

These are my views though and others may disagree


Paul

I agree, the chances of buying a flash for that much isn't great. I am on ebay at the moment and there is a Pentax AF360FGZ listed. It finishes at 9.36 later this morning (Tuesday), here's the link anyway.

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Paul

Ok own up, who's looked longer than say, 3 minutes looking for the naked woman?

It's kinda like an adult version of "Where's Wally"

Paul

When I first looked at this image on page 1, I agreed with Lilly and thought it could use a bit of a crop. Now seeing the crop I agree with Paul. Lilly, I am not knocking you in any way of course

The eyes are perfect and Paul, I know I have said this about your images before but I will say it again, those eyes can tell a story. I feel dragged in and want to know more.

I really admire your photographs and would give anything to come and see your exhibition.

Keep up the good work mate!

Paul

I was flicking through the rubbish on tv this evening and came across a favourite channel, Dave. Batteries Not Included was on so decided to watch the last 5 minutes of it. Dom Joly was showing his favourite gadgets, and me knowing that he was a keen photographer was eager to know what camera he was going to show off.
Expecting to see either Nikon or Canon I was very surprised when he showed off his Pentax K20!
He gave it a great 10 second plug on the build quality and excellent results saying it was the best camera he ever used.
He then went onto the Optio and exhibited some of his photos which were very good. He was surprised about the quality from a small compact!

Mr Joly has gone up in my estimations.

Paul

I think you will be more than happy with Elements 7

For what you get for such a small price is amazing!


Paul

I chose Photoshop all those years ago as I was recommended it by a fellow photographer. I started with PS Elements 1 then went to Elements 5. After that I bought CS3 and loved the ease of use.
Then I got my sticky mits on CS4.

I use CS4 on my laptop and CS3 & CS4 on my PC although obviously not together.
My laptop came with Elements 6 pre-loaded but I personally didn't like it so stuck with the CS's.

I did try others but I suppose once you get used to how one program works then you don't want to go back.

I'm not sure if that answers yr question Oggy

Paul

Welcome to the forum Alteropa and Carly


Paul