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Haven't heard of an A Level in Photography (probably just my ignorance) but if you wanted a career in Photography then a National Diploma is along the same lines. You can enrol on a National Diploma (ND) in Photography so long as you have at least a 'C' in Maths and English. Least thats how it...

Great to see a project come together. Would've have the guts to attempt something like this myself for fear of messing something up huge and losing money on it. Hell, I was peeved when my home-made lightbox didn't quite turn out right. But its nice to see somebody getting their hands dirty and...

I just create a folder for the shoot (eg: Yardley Church) and there's 3 folders in that folder. So inside the Yardley Church folder there is "RAW", "FINALS" and "WEB". "RAW" is obviously the RAW files with the XMPs. "FINALS" is the finished article saved as JPEG ready for print or whatever and...

So its been like, a year, that I've had my camera. Did a photography course so naturally took a lot of photos then. Was on the back burner for about 4 months because I was travelling with work and had little-to-no free time to shoot really. But the past month I've been really getting back into...

I paid for 200 cards about a month ago. Did the design myself, sent it in and had nothing but a headache ever since. Only just, TODAY, they've arrived. The actual cards are not that bad. I've seen some Vista Prints and these are better but I wouldn't use them again just for the fact they took so...

Never been refused a print but a mate at work wanted to get a picture scanned and printed (I think) at Asda. But it was a portrait shot done by a professional of her and the hubby and was told she couldn't get it done because it was the Professional's work and not hers. Odd behavior from Asda I...

Most recent one for me was in Birmingham City Centre. Protest going on about Scientology (you've probably seen it in the news) and the protestors had these awesome V For Vendetta masks on. Would've kept me entertained with my camera for awhile but didn't have it with me. Since then I take my...

Make sure to buy the .com (or whichever you want) address SEPERATE from the hosting space. Once you've got the address, you can take it anywhere - to whichever hosting site you feel like. So first order of business, pick a website address you want and register it somewhere. THEN go looking for...

Yeah, the main thing is that all the images are on the same page. Just a bit of a pain but there's ways around that. Either thumbnail them all on one page so people just click the thumbnail to open up the bigger picture or a click-to-go-to-next-pic gallery type thing. Not bad though, I remember...

Well I'm a noob so the list is quite long but I'll narrow it down to the things I've been looking at as top priority. - A Tripod. - Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D AF Lens - A second memory card. Been looking at getting a few filters aswell but they're not exactly essential at the moment and a PC...

My first lens really. Bought a D50 with the 18-55 lens and needed something with a bit more distance because I wanted to do some wildlife pictures for a college course. So.... Limited by lack of funds and such, I bought the Sigma 70-300mm but not without a LOT of review reading and stuff and...

It'll be a tour deal, probably with egypt-uncovered.com although I've still not totally decided on which tour to choose but Cairo, Sakkara, Luxor and Aswan are the ones that pop up most. Cairo and Luxor are the main objectives and anything else is a bonus really.

There was a stand at the Focus on Imaging Show (NEC, Birmingham) that had examples of this sort of stuff but their speciality was canvasses with like, rounded edges. No idea about the name but if you dig up some info on who was at the Focus show, you might get lucky. Quality was awesome, I...

Ok, so I'm planning a bit of a wonder round Egypt and Jordan next year so my camera is gonna get some serious use. Here is my list of equipment: - Nikon D50 - Sigma 70-300mm APO (UV Filter) - Nikkor 18-55mm (UV Filter) - A biiiig Lowepro bag (can't remember the exact details but it'll fit...