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by Rick Shutterman
Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:21 am
Forum: Post An Image Just For Fun
Topic: Squirrels
Replies: 5
Views: 861

Re: Squirrels

Interesting, It has been the eastern Greys Squirrels that have slowly been encroaching on the territory of the native Red Squirrels in the UK. But slowly the Reds are regaining ground. A few years ago there were only a few communities left but now these have increased significantly. The Greys were b...
by Rick Shutterman
Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:18 pm
Forum: Post An Image Just For Fun
Topic: My Suzuki Bandit.
Replies: 11
Views: 1647

Re: My Suzuki Bandit.

Yes it was a French car and in fact it was the 3rd Citroen I'd owned, so I was fairly confident that it would be fine. Turns out the gearbox had been a problem with deveral models and that part was Italian and actually made by Maserati!!!! I now have a car from a Japanese company made in the Czech R...
by Rick Shutterman
Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:13 pm
Forum: Post An Image Just For Fun
Topic: Photo shoot
Replies: 4
Views: 701

Re: Photo shoot

Two lights

One to the left with a large silver brolley and a second to the right with a softbox. A 40" silver reflector was also used to the right and the background was lightened in Paintshop Pro X1. 'Just hope the customer likes them ;)
by Rick Shutterman
Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:24 am
Forum: Post An Image Just For Fun
Topic: My Suzuki Bandit.
Replies: 11
Views: 1647

Re: My Suzuki Bandit.

I had awful firmware issues with the automatic transmission on the Citroen. It had the sensodrive sytem with the flappy paddles which when it worked was great, but last year it went wrong spectacularly. It would put itself into neutral for no reason and at it's very worst I just couldn't start the c...
by Rick Shutterman
Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:25 am
Forum: Post An Image Just For Fun
Topic: Photo shoot
Replies: 4
Views: 701

Photo shoot

Just an example of a shot taken on Sunday morning as part of a family shoot. this is the Rayment sisters from Sittingbourne.

Image
by Rick Shutterman
Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:20 am
Forum: Coffee Shop
Topic: Happy Birthday Rick
Replies: 9
Views: 797

Re: Happy Birthday Rick

Hey Sparkey, didn't realise that we shared the birthday date....Happy belated!!

Sarah has surprised me with tickets for 'We will Rock You' at London's Dominion Thatre on saturday night. Great as it's a show I've wanted to see for ages :)
by Rick Shutterman
Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:15 am
Forum: Other DSLR Cameras
Topic: Fujifilm DSLRs
Replies: 28
Views: 21299

Re: Fujifilm DSLRs

The S5 seems to be quite hard to find now which is a shame and fuji seem to have pulled out of the DSLR market at least for the time being. You may remember that I "cut my teeth" on a Fujifilm Finepix S2pro. I sold it to a colleague of mine in the North East and the camera is still doing sterling se...
by Rick Shutterman
Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:10 am
Forum: Nikon DSLR Bodies
Topic: Nikon D700 Banding!
Replies: 12
Views: 6444

Re: Nikon D700 Banding!

The D200 banding only affected something like a couple of thousand bodies from the early batch and these were recalled for modification to the sensor. I wonder if they were all returned thoug? The photographic press made more of the problem than it was and mine weren't affected by the problem. Funni...
by Rick Shutterman
Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:38 am
Forum: Coffee Shop
Topic: Happy Birthday Rick
Replies: 9
Views: 797

Re: Happy Birthday Rick

Thanks Guys

Yes it was the Big five oh!!! Had a great weekend, although I was working Sunday. We're having the big party next Sunday.
by Rick Shutterman
Mon Sep 27, 2010 4:02 am
Forum: The Tech Area
Topic: Flash photography.
Replies: 10
Views: 6155

Re: Flash photography.

Sparkey wrote:Better get a manual reader then.
Just take a manual spot reading and base everything on that. Usually works very well. :)