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<p>I'm sorry I can't help you. This is a photographic forum, but what you're talking about is not photography but a risky adventure. I'm old and have seen so many cases of death photojournalists in dangerous areas, so if you were my son, I can tell you I would never let you do that......<br>

Take it easy .....</p>

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<p>I think your best strategies should be:<br>

- learning from your mistakes (you will always make mistakes, but as times goes by, they decrese)<br>

- spending lots of time enjoing this hobby (wich includes watching other's work ), that is practice, practice,practice.....<br>

- thinking about what you really would like to achive, and try to get as close as you can....<br>

To dramatically improve your results, you should learn a lot about processing. I'm not exactly talking about "photoshop", but any good photo software .<br>

Anyway, enjoy what you do...<br>

Regards</p>

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<p>I feel ashamed, as I live close to these locations, but never made a time lapse or even a night shot there. Now I have to try this kind of beautiful time lapse video!</p>

<p>LR3 is quite impressive and does a good general job, but when it comes to "squeeze" a nikon nef, nothing can compare to NX2....</p>

<p><strong>Craig Sherman</strong>, I just printed those five to send to contests. And all five won or were selected, so I have no print of any of my works (well I really have them printed in the books edited on those contests).<br>

Anyway, I've decided to go the way <strong>Craig Jenkins</strong> has pointed out. I will buy a little quality printer, to get in touch with the feeling, and if I think it's worthy I will send the file to a professional printer.<br>

Thanks a lot to everyone. You have helped me a lot!</p>

<p>Great different point of views. I like to hear about "controlling my work from begining to end", and will have to think about the technical skills on printers, papers and inks I'll have to acquire. I'm still on the fence hearing your thoguhts. BTW I can get a new R2880 for about 500$ and I think it's a good deal (am I wrong?)</p>

<p>So I don´t really need to own a printer. In fact, in 3 years I have only printed 5 of my pics. But I was wondering if having a printer at home (thinking about an epson R2880 or canon PRO9500) can bring some extra photo pleasure. I know about the running costs, and the convenience of using a comercial printing system, but I'm not talking about money, just about some kind of weird pleasure printing and gifting copies to my friends and family. Do any of you print A3+ just for this....?</p>

<p>Same here, but on each of my gallery photos....</p>

<p>Hi Jon. I must disagree with your solution. Manual focusing is the best way to get frustrated in the field. I have finished yesterday a 5 days photo-bird trip. One of my mates carried a 500 f4 - P. I think he only could get a 20% of the situations (car-hide, moving birds,...), while I could get about 98% of them. My lens, with equal price as his ( a sigma 500 f4.5 hsm) gave me tack sharp images all the time. Maybe someone could argue that the 20% he made had better IQ than mine (I would strongly disagree), but still I had images of the best situations (action, bif,..).<br>

So, my advice is, get an AF lens and forget about manual focusing...</p>

<p>If it can help, this is a juvenile black-crowned night heron:<br>

<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4958343526_31b1a1c02f_z.jpg" alt="" width="403" height="600" /></p>

<p>Sanford, funny you ask this about sports media. This week here in Spain there is a discussion about the photo-manipulation a sports newspaper made, trying to argue about a football (not the american one) referee decision .... <a href="http://www.anti-marca.com/ahora-si-la-manipulacion-de-la-imagen-es-un-hecho/">link</a> (spanish)</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/understanding-mtf.shtml">link</a></p>

<p>You may take a look at the 14mm f2.8 from samyang: <a href="http://www.samyang.pl/product,76,category,5,samyang_14mm_f28_if_ed_mc_aspherical">(link)</a> . Manual focus (not a great deal), but they are very cheap. I have the 8mm DX from them with no regreats.</p>

<p>My 10-20 and 500 hsm are both superb and really cheaper than nikkor equivalents.</p>

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<p>Gregory Colbert is my favorite: <a href="http://www.ashesandsnow.org">www.ashesandsnow.org</a></p>

<p>Yes I also think this must be a hoax....but if it´s true, I want one.</p>

<p>31.6 MP FF sensor, using any of your lenses (canon, nikon, 4/3 micro, and leica M), with a wireless between the lens and the body, wich is a smartphone, is something more than what a phone user can expect.....</p>

 

<p>I´m just amazed. If it´s true, then I´ll have to rethink about gear.....<br>

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<a href="http://www.artefactgroup.com/wvil/">http://www.artefactgroup.com/wvil/</a></p>

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<p>I have a flickr account and a PN account, Both created about the same time. I have the same photos on both accounts, and the same social interaction (nearly none in both).<br>

For the last 24 months, I'd been contacted by some magazines and agencies to publish or promote my work, all them in PN. It´s not unusual to have more than 5000 views in my PN photos, but merely 60 in the same in my flickr account. So I would say PN is a better way to be seen.<br>

Regards</p>