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For that ultra low level capture fit your monopod, set the camera on self timer press shutter button for focus and exposure, turn camera upside down onto the toe of your shoe, you might have to experiment for level and angle but it does work. I always say that there is nothing in nature that...

HDR = High Dynamic Range! Try this link:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging Here's one Click photo to see larger rendition!

Actually thats especially clever seeing as that is a canal viaduct! Lol

My opinion is, ‘there is nothing in nature that cannot be improved by Photoshop’! And I have been taking photos since the early 50’s.

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I have been having trouble with my 40D, the shutter has been playing up and nor working properly in any of the creative mode settings, I have to press the shutter button twice to get it to work! On investigating it turn’s out the custom function, C.Fn 111 -7 Mirror lockup had been enabled, now...

My nephew Dan asked me to take some photos of him and his bride Amy at a Wedding party for family and friends last weekend, they had previously got married on the spur of the moment on Whistler Mountain whilst on holiday in Canada. I must say it made a nice change to have the Bride and Groom...

Hi, can anyone help on my Lightroom in library mode I click on a thumbnail along the bottom and the picture shows in the Navigator pane but the main photo pane is greyed out and the following message appears in the bottom L/H corner upside down and back to front! Error – A2of Memory...

b****r, I believe you right! I have just tested again with the lens wide open ‘low DOF’ I must have been getting away with it because I usually shoot Landscapes at the smallest aperture so the DOF would not apply! Well thank you Lads for teaching this old dog new tricks!

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That is in fact exactly what the 40D does! Try it, enable the C.Fn 111 -6 set the live view, move the focus frame, press the AF button, the mirror drops then comes up again and you are focused on where the frame is!

May I draw you attention to Page 114 of the 40D manual under ‘using AF tofocus’ If the C.Fn 111 -6 (AF during live view shooting) setting is set to (Enable), you can focus with the <AF-ON> button! There you can learn something new every day! But thanks for taking the time to answer my...

I presume that you have the AV mapped to the* button rather than the shutter button to facilitate continuous focusing on a moving subject, I used to have this set up on my 20D but have forgotten how to do it, could you please give us a tutorial on it because I would really like to try it!

When shooting landscapes with a 40D in live view mode you can move the focusing frame to any area inside the screen, if you want to use auto focus ‘AF-ON’ button, you have to set this up with custom function settings, C-Fn 111 -6, to enable it. But if at any time you come out of live view you...

After taking photos since the early 50s and just as a hobby I quite like some of them, not for there technical merit, for I never even consider that, but if they are nice to look at that’s the only consideration for me. I try not to take my photography too seriously; after all I don’t have to...