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That's another nice one Mark. You'll need a dull day where there's no definition between the horizon. Misty days work really well, or just grey days.

Yeah you have to be careful when doubling up. I've wasted 10 minutes on a 20 stop and it turned out black still. Never recovered anything from it. Sunrise is pretty unpredictable so you just have to go out and take the gamble. I've been out loads and not got anything from it. Least if you have a...

Nice that. I'd try and get down again for sunrise one morning when it's high tide and calm, Would get good long exposures there and possibly the reflection like you have on a small patch of the water.

This is just Lightroom. I should probably nip into photoshop and lighten the base of the turbine. Might do that in the future though. Before and after by Aaron, on Flickr

Everything looks alright I think from the exif. You haven't got a filter on there have you @eugegall? That could throw things off. Did you buy new or second hand? Shoot using AV at 10mm f/4. Then TV at 1/125th. Make sure iso is on auto. Then try each of the scene modes and full auto. All on...

@Geddes I just go by what looks right for white balance if I don't have anything to go from. You should try to find Lightroom 4. It will run on your pc, maybe a bit slow but it should work. The good thing about lightroom is that it is a non destructive programme, so you can go back to the...

I never noticed the noise on mine until this week when we changed furniture. It was sat on a big open TV unit and it was fine. Now it's in a fairly enclosed unit and making a right noise, think I'll have to shift it and sit it behind the TV on top of the unit.

This was a very short star trail. I really should have kept it going but I wasn't keen from. The preview on the screen. 36 lots of 10 seconds at f2.8 iso 8000. Pen Yr Ole Wen short trail by Aaron, on Flickr

Definitely the editing. The only reason I moved from my 550 was I predominantly shoot night time and the iso handling on the 6d is superb compared to the 550, plus my 17-35 would actually be that rather than 28-50 or whatever it works out as on crop. Spend a bit longer on your editing. I...

Correct. The sky won't be as dark as the glow from the moon will wash a lot out. Shorter exposures should do the trick. 10-20 seconds should be OK if 30 is too bright.

Moon is near enough full tonight @Geddes so be careful with your exposures if you are getting it in the frame. I usually Tey to shoot with it behind me as it will illuminate the foreground (location dependant of course)

If you want to send me a memory stick with copies of the ones you want done the most then pm me and I'll try and get something sorted for you. I'm going to be sat in a hospital for the next week or so so I'll have time.

After a quick look, it seems that this lens doesn't suffer distortion as bad as the offerings from sigma. Might be a good, cheap lens to go for then.

They might do but external flashes can be had super cheap, like £30 which will be fine for that. With cheap wide angles, the barrel distortion isn't corrected, so vertical lines aren't really vertical, they go in towards the center at the top. The expensive Canon wide angle lenses are...

I haven't used it but if he's using a crop body then it should be OK. It'll be wide enough for interior shots but I'm not sure what the distortion will be like but it might not matter to him, and could always be corrected in Lightroom if need be. If you are using a flash, you will need an off...

Yeah apparently as it's a J series, it's not available just yet but will be soon via a system update, might be the same for the catch up apps. Are you using it to record? Do you just stick an external hard drive in the USB? Something I haven't looked at yet. Seems a decent TV for the price...

Tbh, this should be the first thing people see when they come into the photography section. @Geddes went on a course and had some luck with that. I learnt by using the camera and looking on Flickr at images I wanted to replicate so checking exif info etc and trial and error. YouTube is...

Cheers mate. Already have the 550 set aside for him if I don't sell it. He'll have a camera before most things though. More progress made today too. Looks like we might be going to stay at the hospital this week to get him feeding properly overnight before he can come home. I've managed a...

So I went and bought it. Only issue so far is I can't find Red Bull TV app. I have a small Samsung in the bedroom and it has it on there. The UI is different on both, maybe I need to try to update the system somehow. Google search just brings up "redbull TV is now on samsung tv's"

Cheers @Matt_90

This has been pretty much the only thing I have taken photo's of over the past week. Hopefully he won't be in too long now. ThirtyFour/FiftyTwo - Progress by Aaron, on Flickr

You still finding this TV alright? Ready to get one now the lounge has been decorated and don't want to spend a fortune. What are the smart features like? Is the UI ok?Not stupidly slow? They look alright compared to similar TV's in the same price range.

On a crop body the 55-250 is a superb cheap lens.

I haven't got the jpeg but I might export the original again without any changes and then apply the same edits to see how it comes out. I know the white balance will be all over the place but it will be interesting to see the result

I sent a few through via email (it's on their website) and they replied a week or so later asking for more images and info on each one. They sent me a form to fill out for each image, camera details, location etc. I had to send a disk of the images, the paperwork and print a contact sheet...

So this is a screenshot of my Lightroom showing the before and after of my Perseids shot from last week. I wouldn't have been able to do half as much to bring out the Milky way if I had shot in JPEG. Even my timelapse shots are taken in RAW, albeit medium size for space saving/faster editing...

Had some shots published in Amateur Photographer this week. I sent in 12 and they chose these which I'm fairly happy with. They all keep a similar theme being night time/north Wales Excuse the crap photo, the print isn't brilliant and neither was the light.

I only shoot RAW. I'll post a shot later comparing my before and after of a milky way shot last week. You wouldn't be able to get half as much detail if you edited a jpeg. Shooting jpeg is fine for a lot of people though, but if you really want to get the most out of the image then you should...

More from the other night The gate to the galaxy by Aaron, on Flickr On a rock by Aaron, on Flickr

Self2 by Aaron, on Flickr