Recent content by will69

I would recommend a compact camera from any of the main brands. Fully automatic. Let her borrow yours from time to time if she is interested

What is the use of the bag?

Two years regular use is pretty good for these lights. You need to get a quote or call interfit and ask if you can send them the light and if they can confirm the repair cost for your approval before starting. With postage and labour I would guess you would be better investing in a new light.

There are books dedicated to this question, if I were restricted to two words I would say Story & Emotion.

99.99% raw. Recently I have been experimenting with RAW + jpeg.

The equipment you have identified will do the job, the most important thing will be to learn to use it reliably and creatively. Your personality and the way you interact with the punters is going to be most important.

Welcome to the forum. Good set of images on you flicker page. I enjoyed looking thru them.

I recently looked back critically at my work from many years ago. I recall that in my late teens / early twenties I was not pleased with any of my shots from my first film SLR. There were keepers for sure, for personal memories, but nothing I would consider showing publicly as is practiced...

Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), the scenes with the giant bugs.

I read your post wrong - Hamilton - duhhh. For SEPA read EA same principle..

Snapping away at a water spout in the Atlantic ocean, very rare phenominum - s..t - no film in camera - which is sadly less rare than a water spout.

Keep documenting, keep complaining in writing to SEPA and the company, your local councilors and MP. Persistence wins in our democracy. Write to SEPA with a freedom of info request for information on past complaints and actions, ask for licenses if they are not already public ally posted...

I recently bought this by George Barr, "From Camera to Computer: How to Make Fine Photographs Through Examples, Tips, and Techniques", it is not your traditional beginners technical manual. George leads the reader through his thought process preparing, taking and post processing photographs...

The clarity of the air, light and weather conditions are a huge factor. Once you get all the other technical stuff under your belt - and it is easy to take several shots at multiple apertures - you need to pay attention to the weather. Landscape photography involves lots of waiting, revisiting...

Are you limiting yourself to outside shots? For night shots would you shoot indoors in public or other places?