Craftysnapper

Just right click your image and choose google search, you will be surprised by what comes up. These are just a few of my images I checked on my pbase site.

It seems that if you have only a 32 bit operating system there will be no upgrade path from LR5. http://petapixel.com/2015/01/22/adobe-lightroom-6-will-compatible-64-bit-operating-systems/#more-156386

Well deserved Martyn.

Welcome Nick and i look forward to seeing your images.

Yea I have always looked at it that way since my film days, or as Ansel Adams said "the negative is comparable to the composers score and the print to it's performance. or in the digital world the raw is the score and the final output it's performance. Settling for the in camera jpeg processing decided by some Japanese technician seems to me a little like settling for the prints you used to get from Boots with film because you did not have a darkroom, but everyone now has access to software so it's a level playing field.

Most of my presents to myself were early in the summer this year..just in case.

Watched it all the way though..hilarious and oh so true.

That's amazing!

Thank you guys.

Congratulations Paul.

Looks fine to me and my monitor is a spyder calibrated one.

Thanks for the kind comments guys and thank you Kate for the honour once again,I promise we are not related nor were there any bribes..honest.

Welcome GG.

I wish you good luck with it and ignore my last post.

Indeed they do JH and I also stated that fact in my replies twice, but bear in mind those reviews are comparing like to like, small sensor camera against against small sensor cameras. I do not have a agenda here JH and indeed tried to go the compact /bridge route myself but was disappointed. Also a recent post of yours was still in my mind and hence my attempt to advise caution. If you saw the difference in image quality then between ASP-C and MFT, I'm pretty sure you will the difference between ASP-C and a one inch sensor including the difference in DOF. But it is your choice and money so i will bow out with good grace and wish you well with your decision.

I've even been known to occasionally use selective sharpening.

That would not be Queens Park Camera Club would it Cathy?

Well don't be put off give it a try and allow time for settling in Kev, I don't regret the time I spent at them although it's been seven years since I went to one. After my first two weeks at my first one in 1992, one of the members helped me to set up a B&W darkroom and taught me to develop and print, they are not all stuck up and some can be very helpful. As one of the early Photoshop adopters I even taught it at my Photographic society when it started to catch on, it is now the norm at most clubs these days to have PS lessons. Or perhaps my experience at the two clubs I have belonged to is not the norm.

In my younger days when I did the occasional lecture at camera clubs I always used to start of with... If you like it then you have succeeded If someone else likes it then that's a bonus And if a judge likes it that's a bloody miracle.

Well if that means the basics like composition, exposure and lighting then I'd agree. But if every thing in camera should be right without editing then you would be changing setting for nearly every exposure and you may as well shoot raw like I do and apply the setting at the conversion stage rather than let the camera do it. For example changing the sharpening setting to one that's suitable for the subject ( more for landscapes less for portraits), changing the contrast setting depending on the contrast of scene, a very low contrast scene will require the contrast setting to be increased or a flat image will result and vice versa. White balance needs to be manual and changed every time the lighting changes after all auto white balance is not fool proof. Of course most people will use the standard settings and let/hope the camera's computer will get it right, but then that's not really you getting it right in camera is it.

I sharpen all the while but then I do shoot only raw where no in camera sharpening as been applied.

Strange indeed, the usual procedure in a case like this would be to put you in the intermediate section. Usually the top two in a section go up and the bottom two go down, the only way you can get to this situation of no one in the beginners section is if the club has not had many new members for a few years and existing members in that section have left or are no longer entering. Either way competing against yourself seem pointless and I'm pretty sure the Judge would have something to say about it...I know I would.

Congrats and well deserved, a very strong and powerful image.

Jeff that is correct to a extent it does not, but as soon as a image is imported to a imaging software like LR4/5 it has to be converted to a working colour profile/space to be displayed correctly and LR uses the PhotoPro colour profile the largest there is at the moment. Funnily enough that colour space is what used to be a little known colour profile called Kodak Photo Pro and was little known about, a friend of mine that was a top Lab technician in the States sent me it to try but even PhotoShop 5.5 that I was working with at the time could not handle that profile correctly at the time (or I could not).

Very nice even with the lighting conditions.