Recent content by ConfusedChicca

Hello all. For a while now, I've been taking colour images & seeing the potential for an amazing black & white conversion. But when I edit them, 90% of the time I end up with grey tones. I've played with Curves, Selective Colour, and all sorts of other tools, filters, etc, but I can't get it...

Tip for afterwards, try the Dodge tool in PS.

As above really... I can bring shy adults out of their shell quite well, but with shy kids I'm never that sure what to do. I'm not a parent myself, and I'm a bit wary of being too jokey or even tickling someone else's children in case it's not how the parents usually are with the kids. Just...

I've noticed a big increase in the number of prints I've sold over the last few months. I upload watermarked, low res images to Facebook for friends and family of the people in them to see, and then they choose which they want printing. The odd person will try copy the images & print them, but...

... did you feel like you had/have an eye for photography? It took me a long time to feel comfortable calling myself a professional photographer, and it's taken another 6 months or so to feel like I have an eye for what makes a good photo. Although maybe I just take what I think is a good...

Doctors (by that I mean GPs) can't diagnose MS, and depending on how it presents it might not even cross their minds. Mine wasn't a typical presentation, only 10-15% of people's first symptom is leg weakness. It's apparently most common for eye symptoms to show first. Just keep on at people til...

I totally agree, fighting it just isn't worth it sometimes. It's too hard some days. I've actually felt better today, more positive anyway, but I'm sat here about ready to rip my foot off. it feels tense and twisted but it isn't.

Of course the media will change this story somewhat. Bird's "convictions" were very old and not violence-related, which makes a big difference IMO. If he was known for being aggressive then giving him a gun licence would have been idiotic, but as he had no such history no-one could've known he'd...

Well I'm awake, feeling all drowsy and full of cold but better than I felt yesterday morning I think. Started getting weird sensations in my spine near bedtime last night so spent 2 hours walking round the house, that was fun (not). Most of the time I am in control of the MS, not the other way...

I'm allowing myself one more day of wallowing then that's it.

I don't normally get this wound up, so I've no idea why I feel like this now. It's all part of the ride though I guess.

Invisible symptoms are so annoying, because how does someone know how utterly exhausted you are? I saw a GP that wasn't my regular one last week as I'm relapsing, all he said was "We all get tired sometimes". I know my own body, and he prescribed steroids so he must know I'm relapsing and not...

Just wondering if anyone else on here suffers from/has MS? I was officially diagnosed last year by my neurologist, but according to my GP I was diagnosed in 2006 (when my symptoms first started). That plus all the weird and wonderful symptoms, and the ways in which people react when I tell...

Flash In The Pan on here sells softboxes, stands, etc.