Recent content by IanClark

For me personally, photographing a waterfall to freeze the movement of the water is not representative of a water...fall. Anything that shows a touch, or lots of motion in the shot is my preference. I like shots that are still very quick but show movement right up to the really long 10 stop type...

Can't go wrong with a Giottos either. Like the photos you took too... although I'd have stopped down a touch or focus stacked the 2nd one to get the text beyond the lens in focus heheh ;)

Manfrotto Befree - 1.4Kg...

Fair enough :). Agreed the flash plugins are just outright irritating. Machine is fully protected and NO I'm not getting into an AV/FW/Anti-malware debate :D hehe.

Neil, getting too bored of it now.. I used to get into debate about browsers about 10 years ago... moved way beyond that now ;) Like I said, it is up to the OP to decide. I merely suggested an alternative based on my own personal experience. Your personal experience is different so by all means...

It is somewhat more bloated than it used to be but I find stability to be fine and a far better browser than IE. Chrome I can't stand. each to their own. I'd recommend the OP tries FF and makes their own judgement.

Must have IE Tab installed ;)

Ditch IE and go with Firefox. You might spend all day diagnosing the fault in IE... spend 2 mins installing FF.

This was discussed a little while back and some are expecting the price of the MK I to increase as demand for it increases when they release the MK II at well over £2K. Be interesting to see how it pans out. I'm glad I got my MK I when I did and it's a superb lens.

It's a push/pull zoom system on it which I quite like once you get the preferred amount of resistance from the "tight/loose" ring. It's a nice sharp lens and has two IS modes on it. One for general hand held usage and mode 2 which is for panning shots.

Eneloop for me also. Best batteries I've ever had for my flashes.

Things that irk me. People whom keep on telling me that I should be a professional photographer (it's normally the same people to be honest) and that I should quit my normal job. I'm a hobbyist and mediocre at that. I try and I often fail, sometimes I produce a nice picture that I am happy...

Imagenomic Noiseware. You can get a free trial from their site. Then perhaps apply some sharpening in LR. http://www.imagenomic.com/nw.aspx

At the risk of another ATI vs NVIDIA debate starting up (there was one a short while back), I use a Radeon card via Display Port and output to a 27" in screen at 2560x1440 with no problems at all. Admittedly, I have an R9 290X because I play games also but you wouldn't need even a 5th of the...

haha, I guess I've been lucky re. the Hardware then as I've never had a Radeon fail. I do have an NVIDIA Geforce 7950GX2 with a half melted PCB and lots of scorch marks though sat in a box. I was considering some macro photography on it :D. As for the drivers, not experienced anything that has...