geodar

extortion

olives

tea

bicycle

refund

cornish

cheap

wishing

spot on, well done. geoff

(in) ALEX

bargin at half price or so + free postage. if you can make use of that size back drop, if not then an expensive do, if only getting a small use you can make your own using clothes props, a bar and a sheet for under the tenner mark. geoff

(in) BED

washing powder

DISH (ran away with)

railway

i would get there early, take a few practice shots and see how they turn out, adjust where needed. i would also shoot in raw (if poss), change the w/b to tungsten setting (but may be too blue, hence shooting raw so w/b can be adjusted if needed). use 'M' setting and practice shooting something/one moving to get the right shutter speed, may be too slow if you use other settings. can you use flash? but you may be too far away to make a difference and you don't want to distract the dogs or owners of get red eye from the dogs. increase the iso up to 400/500 to help with the shutter speed and light. maybe use a monopod (if poss) and keep low (dogs height, if poss) that way you are not getting the standard punters shot of looking down onto the animals. if all else fails revert to auto and do post production in software. geoff

golf

BHAAAAAA (humbug)

hear, hear geoff

only just found an A, the search continues geoff

turned it geoff

KISS (me)

roger

hair

thanks everyone, such an honour being the first to be picked on the new site, hope to have some more good photos that will be in contention in the coming months. as mentioned by colinb here is what i can remember about the shot- camera- canon 40d lens- sigma 17-70mm dc macro os + polarizer manual setting, f3.5, iso 100, shutter speed 1/320 sec as it was taken some time in august around 5.30am, i can't really remember except that i may have used a tripod, first time using the lens as i bought it for weddings to give me a wider range over the 18-50mm lens. i shoot in RAW and convert to jpeg using the canon digital photo professional software that came with the camera, before converting i normaly adjust the brightness and add a touch of contrast and sharpness to the image. when a jepg in photoshop i may adjust the levels before ending up with the final image. hope this is of some help to those that may need it, the adjustments are normal practice for me so they tend to come automaticaly when viewing my images out of camera. geoff