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    For those who doubted the success of the iPad

    I got myself an iPad and the new iPhone 4 but felt a bit guilty.......so I got the wife one of these....
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    Importing movies to iPad

    I have been using RealPlayer to convert youtube movies to my iPad, it has a codac for the iPad and when finished you can add it to your iTunes library with one click. RealPlayer is also great for saving youtube movies...its all good!
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    Shooting a sunset

    I set to manual and take lots of differant exposures then choose the ones I think will work for what Im after then manualy blend 3 or 4 exposures in layers in PS. I set the app to F8, I think my 10-20 sigma seems to be at its best at this setting. I have tried grad filters but I just cant get...
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    Dead Hard Drive - Western Digital...Help!!

    Sorry dude, cant see that having no disc redundancy is better than having some disc redundancy. As I said, I also back it up to a server with RAID on that, I would have be unlucky for all 21 drives and the RAID controlers to go down at the same time. The only thing I might add is a tape drive...
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    Dead Hard Drive - Western Digital...Help!!

    I agree.....but better than naff all!!!
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    Dead Hard Drive - Western Digital...Help!!

    Sorry to hear about your dilemma. I got an old server of ebay, its got 12 hard drives in, I set it up on RAID 5 and backed up all my stuff on to it, if any of the drives go down I can replace a drive (even with it switched on) and the other discs with rebuild the data so nothing gets lost...
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    Show me your 10mm pictures!!

    Stunning shot dude, love the blue in this.
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    Show me your 10mm pictures!!

    Thanks both for your comments:)
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    Show me your 10mm pictures!!

    Here are a few I took with my Sigma 10-20mm on my Canon EOS30D...fantastic bit of kit!!! Bigger pics can been seen on my flickr page.
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    PRIZE COMPETITION Theme "BRIDGE(S)" WINNER ANNOUNCED

    Well done Bob, stunning shot. Well done to the runners up also. There were some great shots.
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    PRIZE COMPETITION Theme "BRIDGE(S)" WINNER ANNOUNCED

    'After the show' A shot just after the Bumble Hole boat show, Netherton, West Midlands
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    Challenge..Lets see your 'Blurry Water' shots, MY WINNER IS...

    There are some fantastic shots in this thread. Here is one of my 'blurry water' shots.....
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    HDR: Stuck In Customs

    Thanks for the comment:) I use photomatix then just play with saturation and contrast in Photoshop till it looks how I want. I have also used the HDR in Photoshop then added a little lucisArt to give that HDR feel, if you see what I mean (see pic below) I have read many tutorials from...
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    HDR: Stuck In Customs

    These are some of my fav HDR showing the different ways I like to process... coments welcome, they help me grow.
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    Website development...any brave ones on here?

    I had a look at your code, do you have a folder in you directory "images" and inside that folder your gif images? Just uploading the page is no good on its own you have to upload your images too, (sorry if you have done this already, just going over the basics) Your web page is asking for images...
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