Recent content by gaffer

I need to be out of the country on the day that I agreed to be a club competition judge - 6th March. Is there anyone in the North Ayrshire/Glasgow area that might take my place? I've tried my own club and drawn a blank :-( Andrew

My reasoning was that perspex is prone to scratching and that I have read stories of "couldn't break the patio window in a fire". But I'm listening.

I am having a studio built and I am thinking about the floor... My plan is to buy a sheet of tempered, hardened, toughened and/or laminated glass, 2.7m wide and as long as I can buy to lay on top of background paper, to give a nice, seamless reflective surface for subjects to walk on. I...

We'd like less wind and more sun please. Usually, you rip a kite when it is on the ground, against a tree or something. We burst it in the air. The pressure on the skin is immense. Sunshine would be nice. The air inside warms up and actually provides some assistance in lifting a quarter of...

Thanks for trying. And yes, this particular image would be better off as a GIF. Andrew

Problem solved. It was a CMYK jopg instead of an RGB one. Andrew

Aside from photography, i use PS5 to manipulate graphics for my day job. I have ended up with a .jpg that displays fine in Firefox and Chrome but which shows as a little red cross in IE8: This is the offending image: http://www.mobius.co.uk/images/thumbnails/N-NetApp.jpg (It is the...

The problem is that i want to do fairly large prints and my A3/A3+ printer and put them in a generous mount. So we have a choice of 20x16 or 30x20 Lets convert that into metric. Frame sizes of: 20 x 16 is 506 x 408mm 30 x 20 is 762 x 508mm If we put A3+ landscape into 20x16, and...

I have a sequence of bracketed pictures that I want to import into HDR in Photoshop. I took the pictures lying on my back: The problem is that the camera switched from "landscape" to "portrait" half-way through the sequence! When I try to import them into the HDR tool in CS5, it...

This problem is *exactly* why you should gird up your loins and brave the RAW experience. Beg, borrow or steam a copy of lightroom and give it a go. Andrew

I have the 405. It can be useful for macro work. Each knob has two twist actions. One that turns the thread for fine adjustment. The other disengages the thread, so that you can mov rapidly to the rough position. The downside is that there is no lock-off. So, when you get the position...

Crumpler Zoomiverse. (and smaller variations on the theme) Instead of a zip round the outer side, the zip is on the side nearest your back. You can't get in to it without taking it off. Andrew

No. There are some crackers in there and a good variety. Like me, you seem to be in to everything. There are loads of people doing 52s and 365s. The concept puts me off from reading. The idea of committing to post something every day/week regardless of whether it is worth looking at...

And going back a little further, Noel Edmonds And Mr Blobby Andrew