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UPDATE: Samsung have announced that the Boxee servers will go dark this time next week: Boxee Cloud DVR to shut down following Samsung deal, goes dark July 10th Looks like samsung were more interested in buying the software and the engineers, rather than the product.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23170757 Interesting to see what happens next... Samsung TVs with Boxee built in I wonder?

Cheers Chris, as you say its just going to be a case of suck it and see really. Going to try and have a trial run tomorrow afternoon, see how it goes.

Cheers Fragglerock, will 1/50s be ok shooting hand-held? Think I will need to be hand held as I will be moving about a lot to get the angles right. To late (and too skint) to add a 50mm prime, but that is the next thing I plan on adding to my kit bag :) Chris, I know it is difficult for...

Basically, work are having an "Official Opening" day on friday. During the course of the afternoon there are going to be performances by the children of the school choir (I work in a school) plus speeches from the Head Teacher, Chair of Governors and School Council members, as well as the...

Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, a quick reverse image search shows that he has most likely nicked the background image off google, therefore doesn't have the copyright...

Ha! maybe it is a photo of a cardboard cut out... :thinking:

Phil, I would be quite interested in reading your post too if you have the link :) Always looking to learn something new.

Haha! That is exactly what seems to be going on. Anyway, I give up...someone else care to try to explain that it can't be done. Or at least that most people aren't prepared to do a few hours worth of work for free...

Did you even read my reply? It is impossible to make it look like a studio shoot. I am happy to have a go, for a fee. What is your budget?

^^ There you go. But to be honest, i dont think anyone, no matter how good their photoshop skills, will be able to make that look like a studio photo. For a start, the cutting of the person is messy, and the lighting of the person is different to that of the background... These things can not...

Igor, thank you, just bought it as an ebook, will get stuck into it tonight i think :) Rab, cheers for the link, great site, I have used it before. As a say, i understand the effect the various settings have on the image, but I am really interested in how and why they have such effects.

I have really been getting into photography for a few months now, and I feel my skills are progressing nicely. I understand what things do, but dont really understand how it all works. For example, Aperture effects DoF, wide open gives a low DoF whereas a narrow aperture gives a high DoF, but...

Hmmm, sorry but I'm not really seeing your point... The reason people ask what your budget is, is to help you, not to judge you... Stating a budget, or at least a rough budget saves people advising on things which you can not afford. Without an idea of your budget, people could suggest all...

2 very different avenues you are wanting to go down there. For proper, detailed close ups of the moon your really going to need a supertele lens, which are mental amounts of money. Landscapes on the other hand you can achieve with your kit lens (if you got one with your camera, details of...