You think politicians run the country? Bankers and civil servants more like. K.

Where's my commission? Nice looking shots. How do you manage to get everything so perfectly square, for example in the first shot. I never manage that so I'm assuming some PP technique? Thanks, K.

It may not be quite as popular as it was but I think dying is an exaggeration. They still seem to be getting several thousand images uploaded per minute and host over a billion. More importantly, many public organisations and archives use flickr. I also think that those of us who have a few thousand images on there, labelled, tagged and all that, are not going to lightly move to another service. I just cannot imagine trying to move that lot somewhere else.

K.

I could use up the left over paints from my model making and start selling limited edition camouflage ME Supers...

K.

Neither!

Funny old flickr redux.

Just hit 100,000 views, so time for an update (just for fun, of course!)

Most viewed image is the one which was "explored" and was taken with my K20D and my SMC Pentax-M 100mm f/2.8 lens.

8 of the top 20 images are from Venice.

15 of the top 20 images were taken on film.

9 of the top 20 images were taken with my Lubitel 2 TLR, the remaining 6 were taken with my LX or my KX.

4 out of 5 digital images are pictures of cameras and/or lenses. The only "pictorial" image taken using digital in the top 20 is the first one.

5 of the images are BW, the rest colour.

I'm thinking of selling all my digital gear, buying an Epson V750 scanner and a mound'o 120 roll film...

And don't take that seriously either.

K.

Lee Frost is a big fan of using multiple images taken from a single RAW file to add punch to monochrome images, especially portraits. You can create effects from a single RAW file processed this way that are difficult/impossible to create otherwise. HDR can be used for more things than simply reducing the dynamic range. Smeg, you're wrong that it is pointless.

K.

I had already signed it. As someone who occasionally shoots 5x4 I was a bit taken aback by the discontinuation of these films!

K.

PM replied. K.

Lovely images all. I really like the last one but is it possible to pull back the whites a tiny bit?

Looks like a great spectacular and some lovely shots of it.

K.