Anyone going to upgrade to CS5?
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not me. CS4 wasnt worth the upgrade from CS3. Sure there may be more 3D capability but im just doing plain old photo editing.

what are your thoughts? Sway me.
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Still working your tutorial Francis. There's alot of experience in that lesson.
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From this weekend...

I had an Intro to "Cowboy Action Shooting" this weekend. It was fun as heck. It's a whole different kind of match than I'm used to, but I think I did pretty well.

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-Mark.
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-Mark.
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pretty epic Mark! Love the cartrage ejection pictures. Were you shooting full out (w/ camera) to get those or are you just that good? :-)
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Nice shots Mark! Although frankly, I'd rather shoot something other than a camera if I were there :-)
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ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

CS4 was worth the upgrade solely for the newer Adobe Camera Raw in Bridge. When I Was doing weddings, 95% of my work was done in bridge, and the ACR upgrades were epic!

Now that I'm back to editing individual photos in Photoshop, CS5 intelligent fill feature will be epic, and I could care less about any ACR upgrades.
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CS3 has Camera raw editing. It was updated recently.

I guess I see your point.
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From a quick trip to the water this afternoon.

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For a quick shot, I am kinda pleased by it.
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I'm just that good. These are easy to catch, the AR's and AK's are tough.

I did shoot the class. I used some .45 long Colt Rugers and a .45 Uburti rifle and a pump shotty like in the pics. It was a blast!

Here's a pic of my fat ass wearing iron.

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-Mark.
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how cute :-)
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not the kind of ACR that lets you retouch photos on the fly and skip Photoshop. For processing 2000+ wedding photos, that was a game changer!
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Im working on a leather SD and CF card wallet.

One CF one SD

just a fun project. Would anyone like to testdrive the CF version for me?

they are about the size of a credit card holds 2 cards just slip it in your poscket when you go out instead of having them loose in your pocket or in the bulky plastic versions.

Pm me.
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That sounds pretty cool - I recently downsized from a big case (relative term) with a larger plastic holder, and now have just a slim soft case. The leather holder concept sounds like it would work well for a lot of backpacks that have started putting the little camera pockets on the waist straps.
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Some new toys just came in for me. I got a tripod and a remote shutter release. Waiting on an off-camera flash cord as well.

I also just built myself a little lightbox to play around with. If I find something interesting to photograph, I'll post some pics.
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Please do!
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I meant to respond to this, but never got around to it. I wouldn't plug it into my camera, but it would be perfect for Off-Camera flash. The Sunpack 555's are pretty powerful and all you would need is a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. Granted, those aren't extremely cheap, and definitely not free, but it's well worth it, imo.
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7 mile beach negril
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GAHHHHH!!! I got my used/inherited Sony a100 and somewhere along the road one of the pins in the compact flash slot got broken off and now it will not read a memory card :-):-) now it is a big paperweight. however it did come with a lens that retails for about $2k so that will be going on ebay to finance a Nikon D3000
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