Recent content by Tom Farrow

eh, why the nsfw tag?

Pingdom tests as 7 seconds from Netherlands (nearest test, 8.4 from NY) As someone who builds massive infra powering big sites, anything over a second is too slow for something I personally am building, BUT, 2 seconds would be a good goal. Your homepage weighs in at 9.1MB which is much too big...

I, a mozilla volunteer, am currently using Chrome. As much as I love Mozilla, it's mission and open source, Chrome seems to just work no matter what I throw at it. The best browser for you is the browser that works best for you. Don't exhaust Opera as an option, too :) Firefox and Chrome have...

I don't think there's a way you could crop it really. I'd try it once more, at a more cornered angle. It's a really nice shot other than the angle. I especially love the really soft balls of light where the lights are in the background. It adds more focus on the building, but still adds interest...

I like 1&3 (though I do have some changes that I'd suggest) especially. No 2 just seems empty and plain with nothing much to look at. No 1 is quite nice, other than it's at a bit of a funny angle. The clock is slightly distracting, as is the building farther right than the tudor style building...

I like this advice, and I will certainly take it on board. It takes a lot to make me even attend a wedding, never mind take photos of one! Similar advice to Paul's, but different. I guess having a budget DSLR (1100D) and lenses is great for this. I can experiment without forcing all of my...

Hmm... So I guess in a slightly crowded place it would probably be fine? Just not on a street with one other person on. My phone's camera is pretty bad. The phone was £100, I'm impressed with everything but the camera (though, they didn't even do too badly with that!). Which is impressive...

I've found myself watching a lot of portrait videos on youtube. Especially B&H videos; the theoretical rather than the technical aspect interests me much more. I know how to work my camera, I don't know how to compose a good photo (or didn't) So maybe I should try some more people shots. It's...

I had absolutely no practice taking people photos. I'm naturally not very good with people (or at least I think I'm not!) but I somehow seem to get much better quality images of people than anything else. I do think I enjoy doing it, though. Capturing moments in human life feels a lot more...

Wow - this is so strong and portrays the crocodile so well. 'I spy with my little eye' matches the image amazingly well too. It shocked me that you got this in a zoo, it has a certain feel of a crocodile in the wild.

I've been looking through my photos and have notices one common point across all of my images - My people shots look better than my other shots. All of them. I'm also finding myself enjoying editing them much more than any other shot. When I started, I thought landscapes and wildlife would be...

Thanks, Indeed, the image could be much sharper. I might try sharpening in post a little later on today, but I doubt it'll work very well since this is a focus problem. My own fault for not R(ing)TFM. I was manually focusing, not realising how to enable continuous AF, nor how to set a point...

great. Thanks for clearing that up :)

All very good points :) Not sure, if it's common practice on this forum, it is on some forums, but I've flagged my post to request that the category is changed. I suspect this was taken with AF set to auto point selection, a mistake I made on numerous occasions. It was actually 1/800 Single...

Just before summer, I photographed my school's sports day with the 700D. I had no idea what I was doing, first time I'd used a Canon DSLR I was fumbling in my flickr stream today and found this. Not a bad shot for a first attempt, I think. I remember taking it now, and exactly how much running...