To be honest Jeanette, there is a lot of camera shake going on in your shot, and I suspect you have used a higher ISO... so if you set out to show the similarity between your lens and a faster Canon version, you haven't quite succeeded

In better light, or with better camera support, there might have been a clearer parallel

Excellent shot as usual. Love the catch-lights in his eyes, and the selective focus. The only possible suggestion I could have would perhaps be to tone down the right hand door just a tad, as it would be so easy to do.

He'll mean Post Processing I think

Sorry - OOF = out of focus. Silly abbreviation.

They’re decent ‘family pics’ and no. 4 has potential, but it’s no. 5 I really like – breaks a few rules but it tells a story (the girl looking out of frame oblivious to the OOF figure creeping up behind her). Presume they were playing hide and seek… sweet!

Congrats, I hope you enjoy it as much as I'm loving mine!

While I baulk at many of George’s posts (or chuckle at the curmudgeonliness of the guy), I think complaining about heavy handed censorship from the mods while trying to get a member expelled for expressing himself, is a bit rich.

You missed an apostrophe in that sentence too! [Edit: Actually I got that wrong; should be whose not who's! SHows what happens when you start being pedantic...]

But get you with your correct latin pluralisation:

Very impressed. But I think re text speak etc, this is just 'the norm' on forums (oops!) such as this. Not a sign of slipping standards. Language is an evolving thing... IMHO!

I think this forum caters for a lot of beginner photographers who I believe benefit more from constructive criticism put in a sensitive helpful way rather than a ‘short sharp shock’ of excoriating prose. It’s a question of balance I guess. But we are here for enjoyment as well as to learn.

But that’s just me. There’s room for all sorts, and I don’t have a problem with amusingly ‘grumpy’ forum members – they keep things interesting – but they should expect to encounter a bit of criticism when they go a bit too far.

Totally, Tony. I used to have an Oly 5060 and I really miss that flip screen sometimes. I used to make full use of it, for unusual angles and candids etc.

The Olympus 5060 was a camera for which the phrase 'tank-like' was invented, as well.