Recent content by JackSparrow

This page http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/data-protection/ has some interesting writing about current interpretation of the DPA and some common sense advice. In fact the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) has clearly published guidance that photographs taken for...

Remember to get Lei'd when you get there! Also, there is no clothing too casual to wear over there. I had the first week of my honeymoon there earlier in the year, on Oahu and also stayed at the Hilton Hawaiian Village hotel. Could not recommend Waikiki enough for a couples or family holiday...

Does pole dancing count?

I can't reply to all the comments here otherwise I'd be here all night. Munch seems the most genuinely concerned and has posted one of the more reasoned responses so I will talk about this. I was, in case you missed it, talking about Breach of the Peace in Scots Law (very important because it...

1. Because I too have rights to express my thought and opinion. 2. You obviously have little or no knowledge of the crime of Breach of the Peace in Scots Law. Any course of action which causes annoyance to others and has a public element (doesn't have to take place in a public place, just able...

I've been on the other side of your coin, Gus. Believe me if you get called to deal with some pishy complaint at 4am, or to help someone who has called you, the last thing you would want is some wideo sticking a camera in your face taking pictures of you when you're merely trying to do your...

The dinner in the sky idea was not originally from Big Brother. It's from http://www.dinnerinthesky.com/

Make sure your satire detector is switched on.... http://newsarse.com/2010/08/06/terrorists-sick-of-being-treated-like-photographers/

Jimi Hendrix wasn't crap and his live performances were rarely in tune, both vocals and instrumentals. He did what he wanted and produced results that he (and his fans) wanted. Most live acts are not 100% perfectly in tune all the time whether it's vocals or bum notes, but that doesn't make...

Surely in any artform, whether it is painting, recording music, photography, there is nothing that "should" or "must" be done - it is all down to the individual? I think you mean "That is what I do because I find it produces results that I wanted"...

What you are [correctly] saying is that a jpg cannot contain as much colour depth information per pixel as a 32 bit file such as RAW, TIF, etc and converting a 32bpp image down to 8bpp (jpg), you will have some calculation going on to work out what each pixel should look like. Saving a file...

A lot of people are confusing "TONE MAPPING" and "HDR". HDR, in it's most basic form, is combining images to give a greater dynamic range than a single image. Tonemapping takes more than one (usually 3, 5 or 9) differently exposed shots of the exact same scene and applies various effects to...

Use a nail file or something very small but sturdy to gently push it back into place. If it is really bent over it's probably going to break anyway but if you give it too much it might break it when it could be saved. The pins are really close together though and be careful not to damage any...

What coincidence!!! I have the same camera, the same 3 lenses in my kit as you, AND I have arranged to hire the 24-70 f2.8 from Calumet for a friend's wedding this Saturday.... unbelievable!!! The only downside of the day is that both have been married before but this time there is no...

Just to ease the pressure on Photo Plod here, as a fellow officer (albeit at the other end of this great Kingdom) I'd like to chip my tuppence worth in. I can't speak for Photo Plod but I have been filmed on duty on a few occasions before. I don't particularly like it but people do have the...