Excellent shots, well done! I'm a fan of Dizee as well, a unique vocalist! Did you need to get Dizzee to sign the photos off, or did the magazine deal with that side of things?

He's certainly got a lot of character, must be fun to photgraph.

The red's days are numbered on the mainland - might as well give up trying to control greys. Not their fault stupid Victorians released them into the wild!

However I wouldn't be averse to eating a squirrel... there's plenty enough of them and surely more humane than farmed meat! Presume it's not the breeding season, wouldn't like to think of babies starving to death in the drey.

I can't wait to play with the lens, and see what it can do!

Tilting backscreens are even more useful than right angle finders though... it's really comfortable taking shots from ground level with one, and you can raise the camera above eye level and compose a shot over the top of an obstruction - or reduce converging verticals by raising the camera up.

Rare to see a colour shot from you Pauly! Like the layers and earth colours in this one.

Pm sent.

Excellent shots, just my cup of tea.

Great sky, and interest on the horizon. I'd crop away at least half of the foreground in front of the inlet.

For me, the tree IS the shot... the shiny buildings are its prison!

Lightroom, Silkypix and the Raw converter in Photoshop CS3 all have CA (chromatic abberation) removal. Its dead easy in photoshop tho. My method is a bit crude, but works for me.
You just need to use layers,
hue and saturation, and the eraser tool.

Make a duplicate layer, and turn the top layer off.

On the bottom later, in 'Hue/Saturation' select 'magenta' and turn the saturation right down. You will see the purple fade away.

Switch the top layer back on, and with a soft edged brush, erase the parts of the image affected by the purple fringing- ie high contrast edges. This will reveal the layer beneath which has had all the magenta colour removed, but leave non-affected parts of the shot intact, in case there are any purple bits which are MEANT to be purple!

Despite the fringing, the Tamron is obviously a very nice lens for this sort of thing. I'm kicking myself for not buying one off here a few weeks ago, think it ended up sold at just £65!