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I recently took some shots at an equestrian event. One of them - a picture of my friend's daughter on her horse - was pretty decent, and the pair won their event, so my friend has asked for a print of the picture to commemorate the occasion. She has asked me to put a written caption on the mount...

In our area there’s a chap who is going around taking pictures of local scenes and turning the resulting images into large jigsaw puzzles which he is selling on line. He seems to be doing pretty good business: I understand the sale of jigsaws has increased hugely over lockdown. It gives people...

A Canon 50D. My better half was a keen photographer and was already kitted up with a good array of lenses so it seemed like a good idea to stick with what we already had. Since then I’ve become the snapper n the household and have “borrowed” all the gear (as well as adding a few new bits and...

I agree that would be the easy option, but was considering a free trial of Affinity maybe?

After many years of faithful service my old iMac is about to be retired. All my images are safely backed up. So. I’ve pushed the boat out til it’s pretty much disappeared over the horizon :) and the new (spec’d up to the eyeballs) iMac is due to arrive on Friday. I subscribe to CC for the...

My 5DIII is my work horse in every sense, but it is getting dated and I'm thinking of replacements. Not even looked at the Canon mirrorless series, but have a cupboard full of Canon lenses so would hate to have to start all over again from square one replacing them all. I'll watch with interest...

Coming in a bit late on this one, but an interesting and thought provoking thread. As a keen camera club member myself, and someone who both enters all their competitions and also (from time to time) attends workshops/courses aimed at broadening my skills, I agree with previous comments about...

@Rapscallion ... thank you for these. Definitely learned something myself too.

Ref this and your previous post, which explained the issue perfectly, thank you. .... the documents are all hand written ledgers, work records, staff records, letters and the like: some quiet faded and difficult to read.

Yes ... she is doing it so she can find them more easily - so she can go straight to an image called date_book1_page1 or whatever. She will take several images of one piece of work, then move on to the next. I have no idea if she has set up a folder system - which would be an obvious place to...

Another option I’d never heard of. Thanks again, will pass this on too.

Thanks all, that’s really useful info. I’ll pass it on to my friend. Might save her some time and effort and leave her free to use the time more productively. :):)

A friend does some voluntary archive and record research type work for a large national charity. The work involves (amongst other things) looking through old documents, many of which she photographs to review at leisure at a later date as she cannot remove them from the various libraries and...

I have a similar issue - as in taking too many pictures, although I have tried very hard to train myself out of the habit over the years. I totally get the temptation to shoot everything in sight, but you just end up with a lot of average images. The advice about shooting film is good. It really...

I think you may have misinterpreted what I was trying to say. To clarify, yes, I do voluntary work from the charity, which is to their benefit and I certainly don't begrudge them raising funds in any legitimate way to support their work. The issue about them selling the images on to third...