Recent content by Jayst84

The point of having spare flash tubes is if one goes pop on a job. As good as Lencarta may be, I doubt they'll be on-site with a new bulb in two minutes if you need one. ;) As Steven says, you can buy the tubes from various places, and pop them in yourself.

I think drug (other than alcohol) driving already is isn't it? People committing those offences are very often those who aren't going to be reached by driver education, or the risk of a fine though. i.e they're addicted drug users who need help. You do get the party drug idiots as well of...

The first is the embedded preview. If you don't like the rendering of the file as a starting point for your processing, take a look at the profile section at the bottom of the develop panel. It'll likely be set to Adobe Standard by default. You may prefer one of the camera manufacturer presets...

I doubt that you do. I don't think there's any lynching going on. People are just suggesting you may be better off considering a different approach to your learning. Getting hung up on camera settings is a sure fire way to taking boring photos (that ironically, are likely to also be...

Lightroom does what you tell it to do with EXIF and IPTC. That information is not essential to anything.

Learn what though? How to expose the exact photo you're looking at? You don't need EXIF data to learn how to expose an image. Your photography will progress much further, much faster, if you set your mind to other things. :thumbs:

Each to their own of course, but if you're here to learn, surely this is just depriving you of many opportunities to do just that, and for no logical reason. Not sure why you would go to the trouble of looking for exposure information on every image you see. Easy solution - spend five or ten...

Well, you found a thread where that same question's been asked three times already, and with a few hundred links to the site. Should be as good a place as any to get across the basics of it.