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  1. <p>You can get a good idea about how a woman views herself by the way she dresses. If she dresses like a younger woman that is how she views herself. Just like a guy with a bad comb-over sees himself as Favio with flowing locks. My strategy is to show the wrinkles but make them less defined. Create a layer in photoshop where you have removed the wrinkles almost entirely and then dial back the transparency until they reappear and she looks younger but still natural. </p>

    <p>Then deny you used Photoshop at all and just say it is good technique, makeup and lighting. >G> <br>

    Always let her maintain her illusions.</p>

  2. You are using a Mac so just go to your home pictures folder and create folders to your hearts content. Make one for

    each year of photos you have and drag and drop your photos into them. When you are in Bridge just click on

    whatever folder you wish to view and preview them.

     

    You don't need any program to store your pictures in, just store them in logically named folders on your hard drive and

    navigate to them in Bridge.

  3. Bridge will display the Raw file as it comes from your camera. Double click on the preview and it will open in the

    excellent ACR. Do all your Raw manipulation and then ACR will open the file in CS5. Do the rest of your post

    processing in CS5 and save it wherever you like as any type of file you like. I favor uncompressed TIFF. Bridge is

    very flexible for sorting through your images and shuffelling your images around.

  4. <p>Documents and iTunes files are not in the system folder, they are in the documents folder. I would not worry about spreadsheet and word processing files, leave them be in the documents folder. Store your iTunes library on a separate disc and yes that is just a drag and drop. You will have to tell iTunes where the library is next time you open it. I would also store all of your picture files on an alternate disc. I also suggest having another drive to use as your time machine back-up disc. Have it sized large enough to cover both your start-up disc and your files disc.</p>
  5. <p>You can't go wrong with Alien Bees, great product, great company, great service. With furry creatures you might want to use a silver umbrella to bring out the detail in the fur. The Alien Bees modifiers are very reasonable so you will be able to afford to experiment. Try a shoot through umbrella also as it is almost like a poor mans soft box that is easy to transport and store. I agree the 800s are a good choice.</p>
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    <p>The D30 may be a great idea... or maybe I should upgrade my D60 to something along the lines of a 40D and donate the D60 to the school.</p>

     

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    <p>There you go,...everybody wins! Stick a "Nifty Fifty" on it and they have a great DSLR to learn photography with.</p>

  7. <p>Try to find a clean old Canon D30 (not the later 30D). The D30 was the first "affordable" DSLR and they are dirt cheap these days. They only have 3 mega pixels but I have had 2 Calendar shots published (S-2000 Club Of America Calendar 2009 & 2010) with one of these and it will be great for your students to learn on. Kids want instant gratification and film will not do that, digital does. The D30 is a high quality DSLR that can be had for next to nothing and will be great to learn on. If I still had mine I would have donated it to the cause but I sold it to a good friend who wanted to get into digital SLRs inexpensively.<br>

    Good luck!</p>

    <p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/2823326-md.jpg" alt="" width="1173" height="846" /><br>

    <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/2825781-md.jpg" alt="" width="1173" height="846" /></p>

  8. <p>I don't believe the 2X extender works well enough on any of the zooms. It works fairly well on the supper telephotos such as the 300 and 400 2.8. <br>

    That being said 300 f4L IS works excellent with the 1.4 extender giving you a 420 also and that is what I would recommend for the original poster. The 300 also has a nice Macro mode which is quite handy. <br>

    300 f4L IS and the 1.4 extender. I use this combination on my 5D MkII and I find it to be a versatile combination with excellent quality. </p>

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