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Just discovered that in Live View you get an extra AF option of Face Priority AF which if combined with Spot exposure ensures the face in a portrait shot is always in focus and correctly exposed. Anyone used this option, I completely missed this till I saw a YouTube review.

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State Coach 1875 Some Childrens buggies from around the same time

Nikon have just released their new software ViewNX-i its for transferring files from camera and viewing them. It replaces ViewNX-2. WARNING - I just tried it on my MAC and it hangs, have reported it back to Nikon. Don't know about the Windows version, but if you are on a MAC be warned. It...

Practising my PS skills. Already done this weeks challenge round so posted a couple of alternatives here. No marbles were hurt in the making of these pics. Sparkle Fluffy

Got this from ShutterEvolve. Thought it was worth sharing. If you have a photo that has shadows that you just can't recover with Lightrooms shadows slider here is a kind of hidden way to get amazing shadow recovery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlnuKmOiDJQ

If you are looking for an alternative to Photoshop and are using a Mac then this new entrant to the market has just released their Beta and its free to try. https://affinity.serif.com/blog/ It seems to have some very cool features so I am going to give it a spin.

Is there any way you can bookmark a thread so you can return to it easily using the sites menus ? I am about to start the 52 in 2015 challenge and my thread is buried quite a way down the thread structure which is constantly changing.

I'm going with the standard supplied Nikonites list. But to make it easier I will use different lenses as needed. Won't shoot in any order and not always 1 a week. I will allow myself 5 substitutions So here is my list: "Nikonites" Theme List Theme Post # Submissions Abandoned #9 1...

Just messing this afternoon.

Just saw this on the Adobe Lightroom forum Lightroom 5.7 now available

Straight through our front window.

My neighbour is a UK Kennel Club member and dog show judge. She lives and loves dogs. She has asked me to take some pictures of her dogs for her to use on Christmas cards this year. The dogs are Pugs so quite small. Any suggestions on best compositions ?

The site has been really slow for the last hour. Is it just me?

Still not fully up to speed on colour space settings. Does the colour space setting in your camera make any difference if you are shooting in RAW ? I normally have my camera set to Adobe RGB (aRGB) colour space and the same for Lightroom. As a test I changed Lightroom to sRGB and exported the...

Photographic Life just published this great article. Top Photography Sins and Mistakes to Avoid I have to admit I am guilty of quite a few. How about you?

Topaz Labs have recently announced this new software called Impressions that allows you to make your photos look like works of art. Anyone tried it ?

I find myself using a mixture of different software to do my sharpening depending on the type of shot and the camera. Lightroom works great sometimes then on some shots it is no good. I have also tried using Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpening and High Pass sharpening in Photoshop again with mixed...

I came across this today it gives a few tips on how to improve your wildlife shots. I am not very good at this type of photography and I found it very useful. Hope others might like it as well. Wildlife Photography Tips Part 3 - Mistakes and Success

In July I signed up for the new Creative Cloud package for Lightroom and Photoshop and everything was brilliant. A couple of weeks ago an update for Photoshop was made available to take it from version CC 2014.0.0 to version 2014.1.0 Since then I have discovered that the Layer Blending feature...