Craftysnapper

Thank you BP not expected as there have been a lot of robins images lately.

And thank you everyone for all the kind comments.

Necessity  is the mother of invention Bill and as long as it works.

 Elena Shumilova is one of my favourite photographers on Flickr, seeing has she only has her own children as subjects and the odd friend I'm amazed at what she produces, though her location on a  farm in Russia and the weather does help,

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/75571860@N06/

Well done Paul.

Good for a chuckle. http://newcameranews.com/2014/02/17/royal-society-of-pixel-peepers-mulling-1000-crop/

Great news Dee and as someone who knows first hand a positive attitude is a great weapon in the fight.

Congrats on the sale Cathy.

For prints I usually charge treble the cost of printing, but as it is mainly portraits this includes the sitting fee. But for a print that size I would be charging at least £50.

If it were for advertising/commercial use that is a different matter,some I have given away for good causes others I have charged for.

For example this one was seen on my website by a New Zealand University five years ago looking for a spring lamb image (it's a Welsh lamb) for a advert in a Japanese Magazine for the university,the director of the university told me none of the New Zealand lamb stock photos came near this(,go figure) so I sold it for a once only use for £100.

Congrats Paul and well deserved.

Congrats Paul.

Well deserved Cathy.

Fuji it would probably be better with a before and after image so we can see how it makes a difference.

Nice one JH.

Hi Cathy that is a beautiful image and the warmth of the house lights really works in this instance.

Getting your subject further away from the background can some times be a problem in tight spaces so here is a tip.

In this case with side lighting use a board or anything make shift (like a clothes horse with a blanket over it) and place it to block the light spilling onto your background.

This is a overhead view of what I mean.

Congrats Kev,well deserved.

In all my years I only ever had one problem photographing graves.

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.