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<p>Set a speedlight to 2nd-curtain sync for some interesting effects.</p>

I know a few people here who develop there own film here, but they all live in southern Taiwan. All the Taipei-based photographers I know are 100% digital.

It looks really nice Alec. Really well done. I looked at about 15 pages (am having some problems with my net connection, will look at the rest after the technician comes to fix it) and the only suggestion I have is to change the color of the text on page 30 "Glimpses of Hoi An Heritage Site" - it gets a little lost in the background.

 

Other than that, great job. Congratulations.

This place is probably the place to ask in Taipei. The website is Chinese only but if you scroll down the page you'll see contact details. They have staff who are fluent in English - they can probably help you out.

 

http://www.kphoto.com.tw/front/bin/home.phtml

 

I live in Central Taiwan, but am in Taipei fairly regularly (my girlfriend lives there), so would be happy to meet you one day and take you to the store if you'd like.

Just saw this in the newsletter, as I don't have time these days to spend much time on p.net

 

It sounds cool. And 1500 UTC is 11pm here in Taiwan. And at 11pm (11:05pm officially)on April 5th, the Mazu (Goddess of the Sea) festival and pilgrimage starts here in Taiwan. It's the 3rd or 4th biggest religious festival in the world - over 1 million people get involved and great for shooting.

 

Count me in.

They have a few of mine, but interestingly, they have one of the shots I took of the Dalai Lama. AFAIK, the Chinese govt bans Dalai Lama photos and has pretty strict penalties, so does anyone have a contact in the Chinese govt?

I tested both a Sigma 500 Super and a 530 Super as master (not at the same time obviously) with a 420ex as slave and it fired the 420ex ok, which only has ETTL mode. So I'd guess it'd work with the 430ex as well.

I'm gathering together a few links to the various photos of the year features in

all the media to put on my blog. I have a small list so far which can be seen <a

href="http://www.blog.craigfergusonimages.com/2007/12/26/the-year-in-pictures-2007/">here</a>

but will be adding more to it over the coming days. If anyone finds any links

that you think I should add, can you let me know what they are?

 

<p>Thanks, and I hope it's ok to have posted this in this forum.

Another vote for Noiseware. I had been using NI but after I discovered Noiseware I immediately switched. Even the auto adjustments look great.

A friend of mine saved enough money in a year teaching in China to allow him to move to Beijing and live for a few months without needing to work. He got in touch with one of the AP guys there and spent a couple of weeks "working" with the AP guy. By "working" I mean he went out with him every day to shoot, but not for pay. End result was he got a couple of pics published by AP, they hired him as a stringer and put him in touch with some newspapers/magazines in Beijing.

 

He's now been shooting full time for 2-3 years and making a decent living. The money he's making and contacts he has means that he has to live in Beijing - he couldn't go back to the US and have the same lifestyle.

 

You might want to consider doing something similar. A couple of years in China getting regularly published should give you some good experience to add to a resume when you return to the US.

 

My friend is 10 years older than you and doesn't fancy starting from the bottom if he were to return to the US, but at your age, that may not be as much of an issue.

If you're interested in Chinese art/ceramics etc, then biggest and most complete collection is actually in Taiwan.

 

Taiwan also has the highest mountains in East Asia and (arguably) better preserved Chinese culture.

<i>First, we're not talking about gamma, but gamut (dammit)! </i>

 

<p>D'oh. That's what happens when I post before I've finished the first coffee of the morning.

You could try a Hue/Saturation adjustment, and adjust the hue slightly. Leave the gamma warning on while you do it so you know how much to adjust it. I've found that adjustments so slight that they are barely noticable to my eye are sometimes enough to bring things into gamma.

The 11-16mm looks nice. I've been thinking of adding something wider than my 17-40mm, so this new lens may be the one.

<i>Yeah, having a name that's common, one-vowel mis-spelling of a TV personality's name really doesn't work very well, I can tell you.</i><p>

 

You've got it easy. Try having the same name, with the same spelling, as a TV personality. :-)

I have 2 monitors, one a widescreen ACER at 1440x900 (my icons/palettes monitor), the other a Viewsonic at 1280x1024 (my image monitor).

It's around $2000-2100 here in Taiwan. Has been for months.

I noticed this too. What's stranger is that I put a CF card that had been used in my 40D into my 20D, formatted it in the 20D and it still created a misc folder.

Ooh I'm jealous. I love Nepal, but it's been 6 years since I was last there.

 

More batteries and CF cards would be a good idea.

 

In Ktm, Freak St is not really a must see. All the freaks left many years ago. That said, it's pretty much next to Durbar Square so taking a look won't take much time. You should check out Swayambunath (monkey temple) if you can. It's walking distance from Durbar Sq.

 

If you can fit it in, Nagorkot is a nice place to watch the sunrise with Everest in the distance. Good for photos and if you choose the right hotel/guesthouse, quite romantic. Fairly close to Bhaktapur - you could head up there in the late afternoon/evening, stay the night, watch the sunrise then return to Patan.

I can't answer your question, but I can say that's a really nice photo.

ACR 4.2, which handles 40D files.<p>

 

<a href=http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html>ACR</a>

If you've still got the 20D, why not use both cameras? Shoot RAW with the 20D and JPG with the 40D.

The 1.8 is so cheap that you could just buy one and see if it does the job for you. If yes, keep it, if no, sell it and get the 1.4.

If you've already got decent monitors, a Windows machine is a lot cheaper than Mac.

 

I bought a new PC in June. For $1100 I got

 

Dual Core Intel, 2GB RAM, 4x 250GB HDs in RAID, Win 64bit XP Pro, video card that does the job (I think it's nVidea 7300), Sony DVD burner and a bunch of other odds and ends.

 

A Mac with similar specs would have set me back almost twice as much, mainly because IMacs aren't sold without monitors. I already have 2 decent LCDs, so I've no need for a third.

It's around $2000, maybe $2100 here in Taiwan (depending on x-rate). Has been for months.