Recent content by dave.hallett

Thanks Trevor!

Also interested in this question if anyone has any advice. Mine's an X-T2 but same battery.

HDR processing in LR will often get an acceptable result, but for a more powerful approach in difficult cases, take a look at how Jimmy McIntyre blends exposures. He has lots of free lessons on his website, and although the panels he sells will speed things up, he always shows you how to do it...

For landscape, the X-T2 has the benefit of a screen that tilts both ways, which is invaluable. As well as the higher MP count, which is a more debatable benefit, depending on how large you print. I tend to think the X-T3 is only worth it over the X-T2 if video is important to you, or maybe AF if...

I tried Gamivo for just 3 months. Got the code immediately, and it was accepted by Adobe, no problem.

Yes, I've found I get better results using this approach with manual lenses too.

Cheers Steve, appreciated!

One more from the Wales trip, back in the good old days when we could wander around freely (aka February). This was a quick pano with the 35mm f/2, and for some reason the Explore algorithm has taken a liking to it. I never really know why, but I'm not complaining! Approaching (Explored) by...

I suspect you are right. I've used Macs at work every day for the last 3 years and Windows at home since Windows 95. MacOS is quite OK overall, but Apple Mail is poor, Finder drives me crazy, and Acrobat seems to be even more unstable on Mac than it is on Windows. Unsurprisingly all the MS...

This was the Monday after Storm Dennis, on a very windy west-facing Whitesands Bay. The exposure with the ND filter was 3 seconds, but I had to make another at about 1/250 without the filter to get the non-water bits sharp, as it simply wasn't possible to hold the tripod still in the wind! I...

Cheers! I think the fact that there is an element of reflection going on, albeit not in any great detail, may also help make the horizon position work.

Cheers all. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks it works! :-)

This composition probably would annoy the photo club judge. Horizon halfway up, subject almost central. Heresy! Only, looking around art galleries at 19th century paintings, I see an awful lot of centrally placed horizons. I wonder why it's different for photographs, and whether it really is...

If you click through to Flickr, it tells you in the data... :) Very nice too!

Another one from Pembrokeshire in the tail end of Storm Dennis. This little beach is quite fun - the steep steel staircase offers an elevated perspective and also keeps the dog walkers at bay. In fact, the nearest car park is a good 20 minutes clifftop walk away, so you're likely to have the...