Ok I TOOK THE PLUNGE ...

[Crispy]

always gorgeous photography Brookfish!! I can't wait to experiment with my new cam.

[mac]

OMG... OMG.. OMG

I can't believe it! I am speechless! I can't think of any words! OMG!

LOL, its a terrific photo! Really great!

Hey Mac, I got an awsome idea! I too, have limited funding, so eh! So lets buy a raft for a couple bucks and a toy tonka-truck my brother has, send it to Brookfish, get him too travel over to our countries LOL

I agree again. They are some great pics. I must read my hand book which cam with my Camera. Talking of which I will while on holiday tomorrow.

As for your plan. Yes. Just a first class craft!!!

mac

[Lady Hobbs]

Very nice photo. Should have saved that one for the POTM. You really should wear your clothes when you shoot pictures of your fish. They might be embarrassed!

[Sharon]

Stunning photo!!! You have inspired me to practise more...what camera do you use?

[Brookfish]

Very nice photo. Should have saved that one for the POTM.

I didn't save it because it was processed in RAW and not straight from the camera, i'd rather enter a pic in jpg like everyone else. mind you with the quality of the pics in the comps on this forum, a fella could do with a
little bit of help.

[Brookfish]

Hey Mac, I got an awsome idea! I too, have limited funding, so eh! So lets buy a raft for a couple bucks and a toy tonka-truck my brother has, send it to Brookfish, get him too travel over to our countries LOL

So you guys want me to cross the Atlantic on a raft.
let the adventure begin ... not to funny

[Brookfish]

Stunning photo!!! You have inspired me to practise more...what camera do you use?

Sharon I used a Nikon D70s and a Nikor 105mm micro lens.


Thanks for all the comments folks.

[Mith]

Hey Brookfish, I have the "Raw" option on my camera too, though I haven't used it yet. When you say you "processed" the picture....what exactly do you mean?

[Brookfish]

Mith when you shoot in RAW the pics come out like a negative in a
film pic, and basically you process it into the finished article.
First you'll need a programme to process the pics, I used a cheapy
programme called adobe photoshop elements 5.0, This programme
will only procees the pics in 8bit and not 16bit like most of the
more expensive photoshop programmes but it does my job.
To process a pic you add light, contrast, colour, saturation levels etc,
untill you get something you like the look of, then save the pic as a jpg
and post or print as desired.
If you want to try it out bud, give me a pm and i'll help you out if I can.
Or if you have a question just post it up here and i'll try to answer it.

[Mith]

I have corel Draw 8 and it just seems it would be easier to edit a regular jpg photo...lol. I guess I was thinking RAW was like a more detailed file, say like BMP files.

Oh well, for now I'll just stay focused on being able to take crisp pictires....heh. (when I get lucky)