Recent content by Huss

Hi Neil, Yup I am looking at the I7 930 with 6 gig of ram for now. I will whack an extra terrabyte of storage too. I have a Radeon 5770 card atm which will be fine for now. SO it is just Mobo, Ram, CPU and hard drive for now. I had considered AMD's Phenom X6 1090 but the benchmarks did not...

build it myself as works out cheaper imo

Thanks alot for all the advice, I think I am actually going to go the route of PC as the difference in price is quite substantial and I can get a top notch PC with 8 gig of Ram, plus a shiny new macro lens for the same price. I will most likely go the Mac route in the long run but until my...

thanks for the answers so far. Realistically If I want a powerful editing machine then the PC is the way to go right? I am guessing that a mac doesn't offer anything extra by having an optimised OS, that I can't get by throwing raw processing power at on a higher specced PC? cheers

Hi All, I am after some advice from real world users if possible. I have recently started a photography business and as part of this I am looking to upgrade my computer, for image editing. I am a windows user historically, but have used a mac so know the benefits of the OSX etc I am torn...

thanks for the feedback all, very much appreciated. @ Sarah, yup crowbar is an understatement, I used the hydraulic cutting tools that the fire service used for this weeks effort :-) Week 3 is gonna be on the mark I promise :-)

a brilliant shot, great creativity I genuinely am looking forward to your forthcoming photos

very nice shot, well composed and as already mentioned some excellent lighting control

Here is my week 2 effort I decided to do a portrait and get someone to dress up a little. The idea comes from Cowboy peoms which have a tradition of being told around the camp fires by drovers. A tenious link I know and no silly fonts this week :) I also post processed it a little differently to...

Hi Dave, I like the compositional idea on this one, however there does not seem to be an specific point in focus that I can tell. That being said others may like the effect but it doesn't work for me sorry. Still a good effort.

I like it, only thing i would say may improve it would be to clone out the green leaf in the background as it breaks up what is otherwise a lovely profile of the flower