Graham

Nice one Korky, great pic :-)

Well done Paul.

Welcome to TIPF, The Inumerable Pauls Forum, Paul :-)

In Photoshop for a print, I use the crop tool set on the settings bar to the size of the print and at 300dpi. This creates a huge file but is really what the printers need to get the best quality. Obviously, this has to be done before the original is re sized at all.

Great choice Colin and congratulations Cuilin :-)

Amazing pictures, very thought provoking. That last very slow fade from the closeup fade to the praying hands is so powerful.

Welcome Jeff. An LRPS Distinction puts you many, many streets beyond me. Hope you enjoy the forum :-)

I couldn't get my head around it as it is billed more as a designers tool rather than photo editing. I know that Photosop is used for the same design artwork but they don't exactly push Affinity as a photo editor do they.

Hi Martin, welcome to the friendliest madhouse, sorry, photography forum there is. Don't be afraid to ask questions, no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers. Sadly, I cannot guarantee that you won't get any of them but it will only be in fun. Pull up a stool, set your tripod up and join in.

I know this can be done in Photoshop but it involves the software creating multiple layer masks to 'extract' the unsharp areas leaving the sharp bits merged together, very clever. I know Photoshop is a huge layout to buy, I couldn't afford to buy Lightroom and Photoshop so I subscribed to the Adobe Creative Cloud. Costs just over £8 a month but you get both Lightroom and Photoshop to download both of which update automatically if they do any changes. Still not cheap if used over a long time, I think the contract is 12 months but it helps the cash flow no end. Well worth it in my opinion to have them both.

Never had a TTL flash so I don't really know. However, are the triggers compatible with TTL? Mine are just straight triggers, they do not carry any information between the flash and camera. I assume the commander mode has its own way of triggering but not having used one, I am not sure. I find manual flash so much easier to measure and control lol.

No worries Korky, it is so easy to misinterpret my ramblings lol

I didn't say that converting colour to mono was the worst way of doing it, I said putting your camera to shoot mono was. As BP says, this camera is a totally different ball game to mono conversion. As one who, in the 80's spent just over £6000 on a Leica with three lenses, I know I would never do it again as I am not good enough to justify having one. I still think there is a possible market for a mono mirror less system at a 1/12 of the price though. I do think that when you do shoot with a Leica it is a bit special, it is different as it handles so well and it makes you feel good, I speak from experienc lol. That may sound shallow but what other reason would anyone buy a top end sports car? There is no practical reason for doing so.

I was reading a review on the Leica Monochrom camera last night. This amazingly crude looking old style Leica is full digital but can only shoot in mono. It has a minimum ISO of around 360 which must be a pain in bright sunlight. Oddly, the review of the camera was mixed, if not that good. However, the praise of the stunning shadow detail images took with it are just amazing. Think of it as a Leica that you can only load with Tri X At £6000 I will not be rushing out to buy one this morning but I have to admit, I am intrigued. I know that shooting with a colour camera in mono is not the best way to go, in fact it is the worst way of getting mono pictures. However, I do like the idea that if I select mono on my Nikon D3300 but shoot in RAW then I get a colour RAW image but the preview JPEG which you see on the rear screen is in black and white so you get a very rough idea of what you are getting. I would certainly look at a reasonably priced compact that was fitted with a mono only sensor but have the ability to use filters. Let's face it, mono camera apps are well received on iPhones as well demonstrated by Black Pearl. OK, I could just pick up a film camera but I am past all that processing stuff now. Does anyone else think there would be a potential market for such a camera? Surely, it would be a delight for street photographers.

I think, in reality, if you post pictures online they are not secure. Facebook especially is about sharing and it is the nature of the beast that any picture you post on there is fair game for anyone to use, rightly or wrongly. The only way to dissuade people from passing it on is to render it virtually worthless by using large and complex watermarks which will stop most people from spending the time and effort to clone them out. Also, the small size and low dpi will stop anyone from getting anything larger than a 6x4 print worth looking at. However, most people using other people's pictures none commercially will not print them anyway and at 1000 pixels and 72 dpi they are fine on screen as can be seen by pictures posted on here. Your only real protection against commercial theft, if finding one of your pictures used by someone else, is the ability to be able to prove ownership and the willingness to take action against the thief. Thief isn't too strong as, in all cases of copyright theft, it is theft simple as that. However, if you post a picture unprotected on a sharing website, even though you own the copyright, by implication you are giving people permission to share it unless you specifically set your privacy setting to prevent others from seeing them. Obviously, this negates the point of putting them on social media. It may be against what a lot of people think but, if I post a picture online then I really don't care what happens to it unless it is used inappropriately to bring my reputation into dispute. This has to be considered in light of I do not do any commercial photography other than for my employer. In that case I pass all publication rights, but not copyright, to my employer. In doing that, I do not have the right to publish them myself for the five years they hold those rights. So if they do appear somewhere else, it is my employer who would contest the usage not me.