ChrisLumix

Hi Tomasz - Welcome to the forums   Looking forward to seeing your work.

We have one of the clearest and most convincing winners ever - well done Brian! Your turn to set a new theme.

13 entries, a good baker's dozen. Over to you now...

Less than 2 hours left.

Remember - this closes for entries midnight tomorrow (Friday).

Great shot.

"Trick or treat? MWAHAHAHA"

If you gather around a decent size computer screen and use some slideshow software (or just Preview on a Mac), the backlit nature of the screen reproduces the effect of transparencies quite well.

Spooky story time. Last time I set "Fire" as a theme and halfway through the week I thought it was boring, and I had an idea for something better that no-one else would ever think of in a million years. If there was a "next time", I'd have something up my sleeve.

Then along came Simon with Negative Space. "Wha-?" I thought. "The b*gger's read my mind!" Well actually he hadn't, not really, and now I have something of a quandary. My idea was 

NEGATIVE

which was simply that. In other words, invert one of your images and let's see which one makes the best (photographic) negative, looking for shape, tone, humour, novelty, stuff like that.

So after reflecting on it, I think it is radically different to Simon's theme and even though it sounds the same, it actually isn't. Not at all. So do go with this idea if it floats your boat. Remember - most image editors enable you to make a negative from your image: in Photoshop it's the "Invert" command. 

The competition closes midnight next Friday April 7th. (If this proves to be unpopular, I'll try to come up with something else).

Thank you all. 

On the day Theresa May 'Roy Rogers' Article 50, console yourself with a defiant Scots lass in Luxembourg...

See you Jimmy. Er, I mean "hi Alan". Welcome to the forums . 

"Here's looking at ewe..."

If it's Dropbox, then yes you will lose the photos from your device (not the other way round though - you can choose to "move" things to Dropbox and not have them sync back to your device).

Dropbox are not the best option these days. You get 5GB free with the Microsoft OneDrive (create a hotmail address to get it)  and Google Drive gives you 15GB free (just create a Gmail address to get it). You can use both.

I understand there is an option to keep small JPEG versions of your pictures on the iPhone without affecting the stored pictures  in the iCloud? It's an option you tick but I'm not sure exactly where you find it.

 TWO victories Meister - this is too much... 

Congratulations Meister. 

On 25 March 2017 at 14:41, kev7d said:

I have to say I tend not too think about noise too much these days.  I used to think I had to keep my camera on the lowest ISO setting.  How liberating it was when I started to use higher ISO.  It brought me a load of new opportunities and freedom.  

It was no different in film days. Newbies and manufacturers went for the "least grain" option at all times. However, the best photographers used film grain to great creative effect when the situation called for it. Especially in B&W photography.

Welcome to the forums  Roger from  a neighbour from the county you don't mention!

2 hours ago, David995031 said:

I remember it but was never that keen on either version, pretty miserable stuff. At least the PMJ is fun!

That's rather the point! What else do you expect from a song whose lyric goes "The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"?!

Very surprising! From that, one would expect camera software writers to program for the maximum signal at all times, especially in P mode. Perhaps some do understand this, and that would certainly deliver less noisy pictures on the face of it. The only flaw in the logic is that more the signal increases (via wider apertures or slower shutter speeds) then the ISO should REDUCE to compensate.