ha kiddin , not married !!

stopping smoking in cars pfft where will it end next thing we know you’ll have to get out and smoke 30ft away from the car before you know it i’ll not even be allowed to hit my wife anymore !!

i voted in the last elections !!

just recently where i work i have been given a 20 yr old team mate to work with
he is in a very responsible job and yes he does go clubing

but he is very mature very responsible and an excellent worker that can be trusted to get on with the job

thiey’re not all the same

nothing but sheer greed has put us where we are now selling off and squandering what previous generations had worked bloody hard for

personaly i feel the poorer countries that we are still too blind to realise are the new world leaders are going to be there and we are still too blind to stop buying ( not that you can buy british anymore anyway )

i reccon we should take payment in olives off greece , parmesan off italy ( wine prefrably ) and pay ours off in real ale ..

everyone would be happier

houses £125,000 for a 2 bed terraced house , i think i have worked out the problem on that they’re £90,000 overpriced

not often i’ll say this but peedee is correct to some degree he is correct about the grey card and grass being great to meter from tarmac also falls in there and some concrete surfaces

he’s correct about the sun at mid day if you absolutely have to shoot at that time an overcast day is better as cloud cover difuses the harsh sunlight hence difrent white balance settings for cloud and sunlight

mornings or prefrebly evenings are far better for light though

it isn’t realy a case of knowing how to use the camera ( that will give fine results as good as dslrs given it’s correct working field )

it isn’t even realy a case of knowing how to use photoshop ( a bad picture is still a bad picture even after photoshop manipulation )

it comes down to the basic knowledge that was as true on film as it is on digital

knowing what is good light to shoot in

” there’s only one good thing to do with a camera around mid day , and that’s leave it in your bag !!”

it’s very little to do with the camera and is something hard to remedy even if shot in raw

it is more how some red paint pigments behave to cameras in bright sunlight

the best solution is to shoot on a more overcast day in less harsh light

i tried every trick in the book once on a fuji s8000 bridge camera the heli i was shooting was fire engine red

but the camera registered it as pink no matter what settings were used all the colour would turn out as was pink or magenta

also of note is that i struggled just as much with a dslr on a very simmilarly coloured heli in simmilar strong harsh light

by the time i had stepped the camera down enough to get the red the quality was awful

the red was too harsh with no depth and altering the white balance will only make other colours wrong

The problem with Mugabe is that there are 10 other guys waiting to step into his shoes.

in a country where most can’t afford them it is no suprise realy , perhaps if he has a nice warm cardi too for those cold evenings !!:D