Recent content by Winkyphoto

Me too. I figure that ISO is the setting that has the least effect on the image I am trying to capture. By putting it in Auto, I can concentrate on shutter-speed and aperture, which do make a difference to the image. Sure, in low light, to minimise grain, I'll be conscious of the ISO and not use...

14 degrees fahrenheit is 18 degrees fahrenheit below freezing. That's about 9-10 degrees Celsius below freezing. But not -36C, for sure.

That's excellent. I have sometimes provided unsolicited feedback on design and quality aspects of products I have purchased (not photography related), and it is interesting to experience the wide range of responses from the manufacturers.

Yep, also my thoughts. The clue is in the pavement focus. Looks sharpest just in front. But to my eye the image is acceptable in-focus for computer viewing or small prints.

Looks OK to me. The child's face is in shade and low contrast (as well as a bit underexposed), so doesn't jump out as super sharp, but the focus point looks about right (but possibly not perfect). At f4 the trees behind are blurred just as I would expect them to be. If you wanted then in focus...

I'm with you on this. I can't ever see that I'd hold onto that lever. I can't fault my Wimberly (which was, admittedly, "silly money" - but about the same price as the gitzo), so won't be looking at this.

I found my 400mm prime to be very useful indeed in the Galapagos. Essential? No. But useful. Pro tip. Beware of the tight luggage restrictions on the flight from the mainland to the islands. Plan to carry-on ALL your photography gear, even if it means you or your travelling partner(s) checking...

Oops! I nead to reed moore betterer!

For the cold, plan to be able to carry your batteries at least inside of your clothing and sleeping bag for the worst of it. Years ago I spent many a night cuddling the battery pack of my F5 in the Andes. Awoke one morning to find the F5 body covered in 1-2mm of frozen condensation from the...

"Rather rubbish D300"? Easy there. There's not much wrong with a D300.

100% This. Opening, editing and then saving a jpeg repeatedly will degrade the image with every iteration. Non-destructive editing, save only lossless file types until you're finished, or always start from the original file and have another go at it. (I find having a second or third go from...

Agree. Having said that, I crop pretty much all my images for one reason or another.

If it's really flat, there's not much you can do. If there is some colour, but if the sky's brightness is distracting, I will often take a graduated filter down from the top in Lightroom and reduce the exposure and boost saturation a little. It is more about increasing focus on the subject and...

We just got our new 27" iMac. 4.2Ghz processor, 32GB RAM, 8GB graphics and the 3TB fusion drive. What a great piece of kit. Took a few hours on the text-chat-line with Apple support to get the network figured out (turns out our router had installed its own DNS settings that were rubbish...

Wow, I've put zero effort into optimising the performance of Lightroom and it has none of the issues I'm reading about here. Only issue I'm approaching is that the 750GB SSD of my MBP is nearly full, and I will have to explore a remote storage option soon (or update my MBP).