Recent content by Mark_T

Yep, definitely a mayfly.

Some careful but heavy sharpening using masks and layers (so you don't sharpen the sky and can reduce sharpening in areas that show artefacts) might be in order. Keep a copy of the original though - sharpening is one of those things you always improve at (I've not tried it using this technique...

Gosh, really? The juxtaposition of the mean look and the flowers was kinda obvious to me..

I prefer the black and white version as the colour one is a bit "divided" down the centre (a line from the people, end of the harbour wall and end of the spray).

For those without specific resolution requirements I suspect the allure of medium format photographs is the more sudden transition from in-focus to out-of-focus areas of the picture that comes from the bigger sensor & longer focal length lenses* one would use with them. *Note for internet...

Hired a holiday cottage just down the road from there, not realising it was directly under the mach loop. Was *awesome*. Spent a whole day on Bwlch but nothing flew past.... oh how the wife laughed when she listed the different types that flew over the cottage but turned off the loop before...

Thanks for the advice and photos. 550D broke today (no idea how it died - no LCD screen and won't take photos, but still have the in-viewfinder info) so looks like it'll be the 5D (mark I) and 100-300 f4.... not the sharpest combo. I guess I'll whack on some teleconverters to get the reach back...

I'm going, but will be prioritising beer etc over photography. I'm aiming to get at no more than a handful of photos. After a bit of thinking will take the 550D and 55-250 over the 5D and 100-300 f4 and go for slow shutter speed panning shots. Not too worried about locations - we're there for...

Even as a beginner I found the articles, particularly tutorials, to lack depth and gave up buying photography magazines in favour of forums and internet articles. It's not that forums are free, it's that the magazine articles were too basic to be of any use.

Crop is better but Wayland is bang on the money with his suggestion of a crop for the second picture.

Lovely photos. Would you be able to talk me through the post processing you do?

I quite liked that. Interesting angle which kept my interest and the relatively low shutter speed has kept the sense of movement in the water. The wave being across the middle of the picture 'splits' it. Perhaps getting the wave after it's broken and is spread out flat on the shore would have...

I too have this 'problem' and solved it by having a preset calibrated by eye to a printed image; I just flick it to that preset before processing something to be printed. My rather elderly monitor is probably not capable of being properly calibrated, but I still get usable results.

Love the first one but blimey, that last one! Great angle and really sharp for something heading towards you at a (presumably) great speed. How close was he?! A bit of info on the photos would be great, particularly focal length (and/or amount of cropping) and shutter speed.

In my experience, print heads blocking are often a result of turning the power off at the wall, rather than using the button on the printer (so it can clean the ink out of the print head before it powers down). I went through a series of (thankfully cheap) Epson printers before I discovered...