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Hi All,

Just a Note to those using Photoshop CS6.

I have found that lately all my images look washed out and have poor contrast and colour when I upload them to any website, but look great on my computer (locally), I contacted DA but they said they were not sure but were confident it wasn't them.
I accepted that and moved on to figure out what it was, it turns out, even if you tell Photoshop not to use AdobeRGB colour Profile when you are saving your image as a JPEG and even in the Settings of Photoshop tell it to inherit the Colour profile in Camera (Mine is set to sRGB) it doesn't care and will save your JPEGs as AbodeRGB.

To overcome this, you will need to Use the Save for Web Function (CTRL+SHITF+ALT+S) where you can tell it to convert to sRGB.
It will add Hyphens to your save file unless you go into Settings and Custom all the fields to 'none', and make sure you max the quality settings.

You photos will now look nice again on DA and everywhere else, and if your like me and have produced a few hundred photos under the AdobeRGB profile you will have to open each one and re save the images....

Fun times =\

You can see A Comparison I made Below;

Hi all.

I'm back from my holiday and finally settled back in. Had an amazing time in Singapore, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Taipei. Each city had its collection of hidden gems like waterfalls and beautiful beaches to explore in addition to some raw down to earth urban scenery to quite easy to miss without a bit of exploration.
Now for the fun part, producing my photos, I was able to fill up 32GB card alone on Zoo photos and I filled up the 64GB last day of Taiwan so I had to buy a other one just in case, which was lucky considering Taipei is the home to most of the flash memory brands so a 32GB only set me back $35.

Also guess what happens when you go on a photo trip without your micro kit and your a lover of jumping spider macros.. You guessed it I saw 3 very unique jumping spiders including an ant mimic that I missed out on, next time I'm definitely taking my macro kit just in case.

Anyway time to get back to it, I still have 3000+ photos to go through lol.

Hi all!

OK here first off I'd love to tank everyone for the favs!! I'd love to go to each one of your pages and thank you but I had about 6000+ messages sitting there for favs.. That would probably take me a year to respond to all of them haha.
So thanks! The Support is greatly appreciated.

In other news, I'm finally happy with my Camera Gear after 2 years of non stop saving just for equipment, it feels nice to not be eyeing off a lens or Body and saving every dollar I could just so I could get it.

Now it's time for me to start my global adventures for Photography, I already kinda started Jan 2011 but that was with my old camera kit and  was still learning photography.

Although my travel plans aren't extreme I have plans on going to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Taipei in March and Mainland china later on this year, I'm pretty much just going for food and photography so I'll be going with 2 64GB SDXC cards so I don't run out of space LOL.

Anyway this is all exciting for me and I can't wait to get out of here and start my exploration of 3 of Asia's biggest cities

Cheers!

James.

Hi All!

Thanks for all the support and thanks to everyone for the favs and views on my latest DD! I' couldn't be happier to get another one and a third time lucky
> widowm4k3r.deviantart.com/art/…

I'm giving it all a break for a bit though, working on some music production projects at the moment which is taking all my spare time. Plus I want to work on some new photography projects soon that require some handy work and time, it will be light painting at it's coolest!

Thanks everyone for all the support here, it's greatly appreciated.

James.

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Hi All!

First off thanks for all the support from everyone on my new work, my macro's worked out alright so I am happy with that and my new style Panoramas are coming out just the way I hoped.
Sorry for Slackness in thanking for favs, I've got 4k of notifications to get though =S

First things first, I decided to spend a bit of cash and get the Sigma 8-16mm, I already assumed it was going to be awesome based on reviews I've read, but in practice, It's absolutely amazing! The way it  renders colour is great, I find skies get that beautiful blue and clouds pop out as if I were using a CPL filter but without the loss of light, in fact, I compared the 18-55 with CPL with the 8-16mm and the colours render much in the same, I am a big fan of the way CPL makes colours look so this is a major plus in my opinion.
The extra 2mm from your typical 10mm is quite nice, It's dead quiet and super quick to AF and have had 0% out of focus shots on the K-5 out of about 400 shots so it's performs very well, I highly recommend it to anyone who is willing to give up using filters at wide angle.

Reading around bits and pieces online I found some AutoFocus test info about the Pentax K-5 (To keep my groups info up to date) that made me smile; pentaxk-5.deviantart.com/blog/…
I was very surprised to see it out perform the Nikon D7000, a big surprise in my opinion, I would assume by default the D7000 would out perform the K-5 because of Nikon's history in top of the line AF systems.

Pentax has it's sights at No#1, Best APS-C Sensor to date, Best Phase AF now in it's class, Best build quality in it's price range.. I'm quite impressed, now all they need is a bucket of new DA* lenses with equivalent optical quality as Canon L lenses for half the price and they will be a No brainer in the DSLR world.

All my new Panorama's I took with my Sigma 8-16mm, it's not appearing in the EXIF data on DA. I've been taking 3 layered Horizontal Panoramas as the Sigma's horizontal distortion profile at 8mm is amazing, I'm getting very few wobbly horizons.
The Macro's I took I used a full manual 50mm f/1.4 Pentax lens and some extension tubes, the aperture ring is a must, otherwise your stuck with the lenses highest aperture, I used a Ray Flash Ring (for the e canon 580) along with the Metz58AF2 to get balanced exposures, anyone shooting macro's using a flash and soft box, give a flash ring a shot some time, you may just like it, my soft box gave me some mixed results but the ring was great shot after shot.

Anyway that's me.. Peace out people