Recent content by DG Phototraining

Now those I understand and like :) Dave

I love a good quote :) Which for me at least means one I can understand, and unfortunately I don't understand this one as I've no idea what 'mandarin proportions' are, nor how photography could suffer 'artificial scarcity' Oh, and if it has to be explained was it good? Maybe I'm just a bit...

I like to create shots wherever I am :) That said, where I live is a bit s*** for my tastes, so I travel bit to improve my subject - so I like Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and especially the Lake District What I'm NOT prepared to do is travel to 'amazing' places just to get better photos, so...

Sigma's 50mm ART is the sharpest I know of - but also fast and huge and heavy By f5.6 I'd be happy with the Nikon 50mm f1.8, which is small, fast enough and light (and cheap!) Dave

NOPE - not at all true, ok so perhaps if you wanted a print over 5ft wide it may be true, but only then to pixel-peepers :D A similar 'quality' argument arises with editing a jpeg and re-saving it. The story goes that the new saved file degrades quickly and can become unusable after a while...

I guess this just means your camera's jpeg resizing is a bit keener than from whatever software you're using, it is the same data to start with after all This is a bit like saving from Photoshop at jpeg 12 or 11, 11 can be as much as 1/2 the size but there is no difference in even the biggest...