steve foster

If she new anything about photography, which she should do given her background. She would know that every photographer has his or her individual style. This style and interpretation is what people pay for. That is why some photographers can ask more money than others. (skill in marketing also helps!) You should be saying look at my pictures. If you like them I'll do it, if not I won't.

 

It's like asking Joe Scarborough to do a commission for you in the style of Salvador Dali.

If you don't live to far away then why don't you ask if you could collect it yourself, and give cash on collection. If there is anything sinister they will say no. Or just ask the question and see what happens.

It is very similar to the whibal card which I sometimes use in difficult (coloured) lighting situations. It is also very good in portrait photography to get the right skin tone. you can but these from the rawworkflow website, run by Michael Tapes.

Thanks for the answers guys.

 

I'll give it some time. And Jim maybe we can share info in the future. I'll check out the software you use.

 

Regards

 

Steve

This is what the flash import dialogue looks like after I have chosen gallery.swf as the target file to import.

Does anyone here use Webplus 10 and lightroom. I am having great difficulty in

incorporating either the html gallery or a flash gallery produced in Lightroom

into Webplus.

 

I have tried just importing the gallery.swf file, but nothing happens. And in

the flash import window there are empty spaces for parameters and additional

images. Which parameters do I use and which additional images. I am new to this.

When I designed my site I had no intention of using flash but as I use Lightroom

and will be getting a free copy of it on release I thought I might as well use

the functions available. I have also saved a html gallery with similar

unproductive results. Oh on looking through the files that lightroom creates for

the flash gallery there are several .xml files do I need these. As I have said I

am complete newbie at flash and ANY help will be of great assistance to me.

 

Many thanks

 

Steve

As far as business in the UK goes, you are required to keep paperwork pertaining to accounts for seven years. I don't think this is relevant in your case though.

Hi guys,

 

I've been asked to do some work for a charity ball (invites, tickets, etc.) I

normally use PSCS just for photo work. So I have question regarding DTP;

 

Is it possible to view all the fonts available to print out, without having to

go through hundreds of fonts and try each one individually.

 

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Many thanks.

 

Steve

How about a reversed 50mm F1.4. Never reversed a lens myself but I am told the results are good.

Do you use the Advanced B&W feature in the printer driver. If you try this and it still throws a cast then there is something wrong.

How did you come across this wedding. Please make sure that it isn't a scam. I received a scam email for a wedding in Barbados about 6 weeks ago. Please make sure you check things very carefully.

I'm an RSP (Rawshooter pro) user and as such will recieve a free copy of version one when it ships. So I am on no lose situation, apart from the fact that when I upgrade my camera I will not be able to use RSP.

 

So far Lightroom has ticked most boxes but not all. The good points are that there is alot of black and white functionality. and plenty of tools to play with. Results are pretty good too. Unfortunately the workflow is still not very good, all that scrolling up and down starts to wear a bit after a while. The sharpening is very crude, and the detail extraction is abysmal (especially if you compare it to RSP). The fill is better than RSP however. I like a previous poster am not too keen on the curves dialogue, you should be able to drag your white and black points from this. And the crop tool is just plain shit. However as Adobe has to compete in a difficult market I have no doubt that by the time it reaches release it will be a much more streamlined, less hungry programme. I still find myself going back to RSP though.

Doesn't Adobe Lightroom allow you to set up a RAW slideshow?

I've just had an idea. I've never tried this so I don't know if it will work, but, if you select the colour range of the fringing with an eye dropper and then use change colour and change it to the nearest dominaant colour. This would probably get some results on the most obvious cases of fringing such as mountains in shadow against a vivid blue background. Just change the colour of the fringing to match the blue. I would do this on a seperate layer so that you can play with it a bit to get something looking right. I will try this myself tonight to see if it works.

I use the Intuos 3 A6, Fine for photographic use, dust, cloning etc. And still very useable for artistic work. (still better thabn any mouse). I love mine that much I hardly use my mouse for anything anymore.

"Just makes more contrast around the finer detail. Is this just me and some inadequacy I have with the software".

 

This is how sharpening works. By increasing local contrast. It's just that some software works better than others. try Qimage.

I use three types of fliter. The polarizer. ND filters. And graduated ND Filters. This last one is important for not blowing highlights in the sky on landscapes, you will never get details out of highlights that are blown. You could do a HDR image on the computer instead using multiple images but unless you know what you are doing they can look very fake.

Channel mixer, or calculations (not as difficult as it sounds). But in reality there are many ways of achieving a B&W print. I would start getting used to shooting in RAW to start with. And if you have Lightroom (on beta for free at the moment) then there is quite alot of B&W goodies in the develop module to get the look your after. Failing that make a colour picture that is slightly over saturated and use the channel mixer to adjust. (over saturating makes the channel mixer more agressive. If you do not like this then just make sure you start out with a correctly exposed colour picture).

Or just to throw another onen at you. Try Picture Window Pro Software. you can download a free trial at:

 

http://www.dl-c.com/

Also note that the histogram is based on the in camera Jpeg. So is not too accurate if you shoot raw. Normally you have a nextra stop or so of latitude compared with the jpeg histogram.

Click the text tool. Hover the text tool over the path you have created and click again. At least thats how it works for me. Your text cursor should change slightly when it hovers over the path. This is the time to click.

Thanks William

 

Good advice.

Wow 13 stops. That is one dark bit of plastic. For your needs you really need something more like 4 stops. This would make a scene that is normally 1/30th second at f22 would make it 1/2second@f22.

Hi lucy. It is fairly simple. Draw or create your path then choose the text function and drop the text cursor over the path. When you start typing it will follow the path whether it be a squiggly line a circle, ellipse, whatever.

Thanks Don,

 

I have been searching the net for answers and have found the SSC service utility which says that it will allow you to clean individual cartridges (nozzles, heads etc.) I am going to download it tonight and see if it works. After all it is freeware, no harm in trying.