It might also be worth checking your monitor - in my experience most monitors are overly bright and on the (admittedly just two) occasions I've used a calibrator it's dialled the brightness down significantly. Given that the Powershot is very much a consumer product it may be optimised for 'out-of-the-box' monitors?

No knowledge - just speculation.

Depending on how far south you feel the East Midlands extends, there's a studio club in Croxton (between Cambridge and Bedford): http://www.faceworks.the-works-studio.co.uk/

PS. Good luck - here's wishing you 364* fantastic images!

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* You're allowed a drunken blur on your birthday.

My advice from a previous attempt is to define at the outset what you hope to get out of the process. I started one last year in the hope that it would encourage me to look more deeply at things and find a new angle to them that I hadn't seen before.

The problem, as bettyswolloks says above, is there end up being days where you end up taking a snapshot of something at 23:58 just to get get within the day's boundaries. What this meant for me was that rather than my camerawork getting better I was becoming satisfied with less when uploading a photo as either the image had been taken in haste or there hadn't been an opportunity to do any postprocessing on it; far from improving my photography, the process set me back a bit.

If you're aware of this as a potential problem at the outset you can probably put some coping mechanisms in place before they're needed. I wasn't and I didn't.

You might be able to get some inspiration by looking at BlipFoto; the site is geared toward a photo-per-day approach so provides relevant navigation tools such as 'taken on this day' calendars.

Cheers,
Paul

I had one for a while and can confirm that it was noticably better at 120mm than 400mm. That said, I'm told the 150-500mm is a derivation of the same design yet is better at the long end.

Paul

My local camera club has a two year waiting list so I've not joined. The positive comments in this thread leave me feeling that it might be worth commuting to one in another town instead...

Oddly enough, I've just come across this in a different context. The difference seems to revolve around whether you're employed or contracted. Here are the relevant two pages on the IPO site: employees & contractors

The important lesson I learned was not about copyright but that legal guff can rot your brain...

Lower volumes so fewer economies of scale?

Congratualations! A fine (if vertiginous) photo too!

The white looks white to me - is your monitor colour-balanced? It might be your screen that's making things a little pink...

It sounds from your comment as if you're using Lightroom - if you have version 4 the colour fringing is easily removed in the Develop module by going to the Lens Corrections settings, picking the Color tab and checking the Remove Chromatic Aberration box. In my experience Lightroom makes a pretty good job of it.