Terrance Vacha

Thanks for the above last paragraph. Well, I guess we all have been burned one way or the other and it clouds our thinking. (like mine) I sell some photos on the side, but not enough to pay for the...

I love the painting. You have a gift. Skip the photography and paint -- you have a great style. I wish I could do that.

Well, a cumbersome way is to hard wire the camera to a laptop. Then use OnOne's app on the iPad to wireless see what your camera sees and take the photo. The app is $20 and the software for the...

I appreciate reading the info in the post. Also thanks for raising the intellectual level of the posts.  :-)

absolutely, positively buy the NIK software. It is the only software that enhances photos in the way that it does and it is best to have more than one way to do things in your "arsenal" of photo...

I personally use Dfine on half of my shots, Viveza quite a bit, HDR Efex very little, Color Efex and lot and Sharpener Pro very little. For really bad noise, I use Topaz DeNoise -- it gives me a...

JerryVery nice macros

My gut feeling is that you will get the lens/camera back and have the same results. The best sharp photos are taken a stop or two down from wide open and by avoiding the extreme ends of the zoom....

Well, this is an important and interesting thread -- right at the heart of our photo processing.I use Aperture and then branch off into external editors and plug-ins. As I spend more time...

Yes, an Aperture plug-in for less money would be preferred. I don't like aperture's limitation of only one external editor, even though multiple plug-ins are allowed. I like to keep PS as my...

thanks for the great explanation -- that was very helpful!Terry

NajinskyI read your post with interest and downloaded Photo Ninja. It definitely processes, just on opening, a raw file better all the work than I did with Aperture raw, Aperture edits, and some...

Well, normally I take such a post as a bit condescending, get turned off and move on. :-)However, in this case I have to thank rayman2 for the post. I have reset the camera off of dynamic area...

I am considering being a snowbird and spending some time in Feb in Rockport-Fulton Texas. Is there a Texan that can shed some light on nature photo opportunities in Feb?

I have wondered this myself at each upgrade. I use CS5 mainly for the plug-ins and layers. I also use Aperture. I tend to prefer to use CS5 as an external editor even when I don't need to,...

I am late to this thread. Generally when I find that one slider just doesn't do enough, I add an additional duplicate adjustment -- in this case adding another "highlights/shadows" adjustment...

I had the grandkids over for about a week. During that time I took a lot of short movies and to my surprise, they totaled up to 87 flicks. How do you quickly preview these right on the memory card?...

AdrianHelp me understand this. I went to the website mentioned below and am still confused. I will state this in my own words and you tell me if I am correct. RawHide-Aperture will be run from...

OPWhere did you find a retailer willing to take back 5 cameras? Please share that name, I'd like to give them some business in the future.