Recent content by Rich_Derby

Agreed. Just a bit of nonsense for people to get worked up over.

Had a bit of a nightmare time: Claimed for a D610 and 70-300vr, then my wife broke her iPhone 6S about a day after getting it. Our premium went up about £80+added £100 voluntary excess. Not too bad considering going the cost.

I use the Spyder5 Elite. It's good, and they do lower priced versions too. If you're thinking of buying a Dell Ultrasharp with built in calibration in the future, then maybe think about the x rite device, as that's the only one that'll work with it.

Set it up yesterday evening, so I haven't been able to use it for photo editing yet. But here are some first impressions. I already had a Spyder5 calibration tool, so I can't use the built in calibration (which requires x-rite). It's calibrated nicely with my portrait monitor, which is an...

I received the UP2716D today. Will try to let you know how I get on.

Fair enough. I'm sure it'll be alright for the extremely limited gaming I'll do!

Don't forget the backdoor to Windows 10 upgrade too: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/accessibility/windows10upgrade

OK. Seems like a consensus on the scratch disk. I'll use it for something else or send it back (not used it yet). I used to game a fair bit, but haven't for some time. Going to try Fallout 4. Not a huge fan of shooters but 1 and 2 were brilliant games, so still enjoy the series. Any...

I have a fair few external hdds, but can be a faff backing up manually, and remembering where different things are. Maybe NAS at some point.

Cheers for the advice. I'm all for saving a few quid. I'd read somewhere that ps/lightroom put history states into scratch regardless of RAM. How much (if anything) do you reckon I should keep aside for scratch on the lr cat disk?

Good shout. I have a Samsung portable SSD. Been using it to house my LR catalogue for use between old PC and Laptop for a while. Been a decent way to get around the catalogue restriction in LR.

Hi, I've just bought a new PC. Mainly lightroom and photoshop, but possibly some gaming. Spec is: i7 6700k 32gb DDR4 Nvidia 1080 8gb (overkill I know, but PC was a bargain from Dell Outlet). 1tb 7200 HDD 256gb M.2 SSD (Toshiba NVMe) 1tb SATA SSD (Crucial MX300 - added by me) 256gb SATA...

Thank you for all the kind comments. I'll hopefully be posting more in the near future. Finding time to process photos and post is quite challenging with a 6 month old!

Thanks! Interesting use of language from Ryan then. On the site I linked to he says he developed it. Maybe he means it in the context of developing the existing technique. In any event, it's a technique I quite enjoy from time to time.

Thanks for all the positive comments. I've been out a few times recently and the conditions have been challenging, but the unusual mist on Sunday made it much easier! Simon, the Brenizer Method was developed by Ryan Brenizer to make images with a very shallow depth of field and increases the...