brian halpin

Paul, that was an interesting but quite disturbing piece of information. I always think of Bush's ironic sense of freedom when I read such stories.

OP, nearly two years of roaming the streets in London and I haven't had anyone say as much as a 'boo' to me. Those cops had NO RIGHT to take your equipment.

Kai Griffin: I fully agree, great reply.

I always avoid negative comments towards pics but I still try and be contructive and at least try and say something good about the pic.

The image I see on the screen of my Nikon D50 just does not match the

image on the screen on my Mac. The colours seem to be stronger, richer

on the D50.

This is of course with no alterations in PS and I've also fiddled

around with the screen color settings on my Mac.

Can anyone please give me an explanation?

Cheers

Of course, you can't stereotype a person's style to where they store

their images. But browsing on flickr, I just tend to get annoyed with

all the positive comments.

Someone posts a photo, then you get a selection of comments amazed by

the colours; amazed of what photoshop can do when there is nothing

special with the image to begin with. Very rarely do I see

constructive criticism, the complete opposite to this site. All I see

tends to be idiotic ass licking and they're not even kids either.

I just don't get posting images and never getting real comments back.

Is it just me or am I a cynical bastard... Of course, there's also

plenty of talent and people use flickr to display personal and

experimental work. I just feel with blogs and flickr that I rarely see

good clever images; something that makes me think or feel an emotion.

A lot is eye candy.

Thoughts?

I've produced and downloaded some curves to imitate the cross-process

(E6 to C41) effect. I was wondering could anyone help produce a curve

to match this effect -

http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/55mm/CrossProcessing.htm

I know it's trial and error but I just can't seem to match the image.

I'd appreciate any help.

Cheers,

Brian

Stunning, simply amazing and very powerful.

Thanks for posting it.

Has anyone taken this course, Introduction to Photojournalism

(Saturday course) at the London college of communication?

http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/courses/photography/intro_photojournalism_sat.htm

I'd be interested to know what people gained, I would consider myself

a good amateur photographer and am wondering might it be a waste?

I appreciate any comments.

Cheers

Now, I did not know that. Thanks for the info mate. Do you have a link where I could read up on this.

Cheers

Thanks Martin for posting. I really liked the interview and found I got some helpful positive tips. I like the idea a lot!

Cheers!

Most of the time, I shoot in A mode, increasing or decreasing stops. I usually default the exposure to -0.3 stops but this can sometimes and even -0.7 result in OVER exposure.

Thanks for your tips anyway but I can't see how landscape would give better colours.

I'm aware that the D50 tends to over expose when in doubt, compared to

under exposing with the D70. Recently though, I've had to under expose

by 0.7 of a stop and even a stop out doors (Cloudy day) and sometimes

it's still over exposed. Do you reckon there's a fault, it's only four

months old. The White Balance is usually set to automatic, I've

noticed setting it to Cloudy improves on correcting the exposure.

Any tips? It's a perfect camera but I really would prefer it

under-exposing compared to the other way around.

Thanks

Richard,

Thanks a million for your comments. I would have to agree with everything you said. Faces definitely make a documentary story much better, I should have pointed the camera more towards the crowd. With regards to backstage, I never knew I was allowed back and kicking myself now! I would have loved to have gotten close and intimate with the fighters. I was in the 3rd section so that was a big limit on how near I could get.

I appreciate your comments, you too Jeff and I suppose you are right, I could have pushed myself a bit further. There's always my next visit to Bangkok though.

As Robert Cappa said, 'If your photos aren't good enough, you're not close enough'

Cheers guys

My latest documentary story features Thai boxing known as, Muay Thai.

Pleas let me know what you think.

http://www.bhalpin.com

A comment for Thomas Sullivan:

Please use this as constructive criticism. I'm amazed when I browse the net with the millions of photoblogs and photography sites, people just can't design sites. The design of a photography site is nearly as important as your photos. Firstly, frames went out with the last century, avoid at all costs! Don't have your images so big, I feel 450 pixels should be max whether it be width or length. I also notice your images are over 100K, compress the quality and try and make them about 40-60K. Take a look at http://www.quarlo.com , it's a simple design but it works! People want to take a quick glance at your pics, the quicker the better. Hope this helps.