J Peters

I live near the coast (UK). I use UV filters for lens protection if I go anywhere near the sea/beach. Otherwise generally no.

I'm assuming this is what your tree looks like: 1. Christmas morning 8am 2. 9am after 1 Prosecco 3. 11am 2 more Proseccos and a sherry 4. 12 noon half a bottle of wine gone. 5. Remainder of wine ...

Sorry but that was sort of the question really. Not having been there yet, I don't know whether the exhibits are small museum-like items in glass cases or huge displays, and that dictates what ...

Just wondered if anybody has been there and what lenses you took. I'll be travelling light, so only taking two lenses, and one of those will be a 32mm prime (50mm FF equiv). For the second lens I'm ...

I do regular backups to two hard drives. One is kept off-site. The issue I've had with that though is occasionally that the files on my main drove have become corrupted. So I was making perfect ...

A complete guess on my part as I'm not familiar with that make of flash..... .....but it appears to be in 'slave' mode. Surely if it's mounted on the camera you need slave mode off??

I couldn't see the link to your sample photo, so I'm guessing a bit. I can't see any advantage to having the background stay the same between shots, so I would move around to fill the frame and to ...

Sorry but you can't do this. If you've already taken a photo and the resolution is lower than 5MP, there is no way to increase the resolution later, only to decrease it. Before I get lots of ...

I also like the obvious colour difference between the landscape outside and the artificial yellow indoor strip lights.

The question you should ask yourself is this: What kind of photographs do I want to take, that my phone/tablet cannot already do? The standard of any modern camera, including a phone or tablet, is ...

This may not suit your needs but I thought I'd mention it anyway. In P mode the M5 senses movement of the camera - I'm guessing it uses the tilt sensor. When it senses movement it increases shutter ...

Thanks Mr Lemming, this is so good I'm going to print it and keep it if that's OK with you. Could I ask another question - sorry I could test this but I'm lazy :-D In modes 1, 3 and 4 above where ...

Yes my bad, I meant a large aperture to accentuate any anomalies in focal plane.

I feel angry with myself, but I can't turn the clock back. Managed to knock my small fixed-lens camera off a coffee table onto a wooden floor. It's a Canon SX720. It seems to have survived fine ...

Sorry if I've asked before but how are you doing these? I presume with flash (?) but how are you triggering the flash? They are very good.

Thank you for taking it in the spirit it was intended :-D

Thank you very much for all the replies. I don't use the tripod all that often, and that is part of the problem - just need to get used to it. I will persevere.

I found exactly the same thing with a book I have "101 Cake Recipes". I make the following substitutions: Flavour = Colour Icing = exposure Sugar/Flour = Aperture/Shutter speed Gas Mark = white balance

You did well to get bang-on centre. Lovely shot.

I think the reason the question stings is the implication that you've cheated. They are basically saying "You're not a good photographer, you're just someone whose handy with a computer. Anyone ...