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are you gay James?...

No i'm not gay, but I have a few gay friends, and it is something that irritates a lot of gay people out there when people use the word "gay" in that context, I personally think it is inappropriate and offensive when used like that.

running about 10 minutes late dude hope thats cool, see you there!

see you then mate!

I can be down for about 2:15?

Not bad, but what is it with people using the word gay as a derogatory term for people/objects etc, I don't agree with it and i'm certain that gay people would find it pretty offensive also.

cheers for the credit philjay, me likey the spoke card.

nooooooo I don't mean to transport it on my bike lol, I was just following on from what bellezza said about a luggage range, I mean a board bag to take your bag on holiday in, you know to put on the plane?

To carry the snowboard :)

Crabtree (Chris) 17:53 Arnold Circus roundabout, Shoreditch, E2

if you start knocking up custom snowboard bags.....I will be your first customer!

To think I actually briefly defended the guy, I thought he was alright when I met him, on the other hand he has provided thread after thread of entertainment, I think we should start a poll to bring back ononelangster!

This whole thread reminds me of this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnCZOw3igY

haha my god that pic is funny! what a great advert for the strength and build quality of your bags tho!

do not, I repeat, do not by welgo MG-1's.
They are some of the most fragile pedals out there, I missed a wallride on my old bmx once clipped a pedal, and the whole thing shattered into several pieces, my odyssey jc's took loads of punishment from pedal grinds crank stalls etc and kept coming back for more, gusset slimjims are also really good, but welgo MG-1's would probably break if you breathed on them..

I think you are suffering from a very common condition known as
"wankers whiplash" it usually affects your wrists chronically, and occasionally your neck, when you look up mid wank only to realise you are mum is less than 3ft away from your bedroom door.......at least thats what the doctor told "my friend" anyways.

By the way I am not by any means suggesting that I don't use photoshop.....alot!
But the end result is only ever as good as the quality of the data you put in, (rubbish in rubbish out etc)
White balance made easy:
Use your pre-set white balance function and use one of these to set it against, hold, point aim, shoot, white balance set, job done!

http://www.warehouseexpress.com/product/default.aspx?sku=1012689

Thats cool, studio work is good fun, not a bad shot you got there, I think the shadows on her right arm are a bit harsh though personally and would have either moved the right hand softbox further away or used a ring flash for on axis fill to help eliminate the harsh shadows or at least soften them to a degree. Also little bits of retouching such as removing the dust spot in the background, and I would have removed the mole on her body, but that is subjective of course, stray hairs can often do with cloning out as well whilst still maintaining the natural look, as I personally think too much stray hair gives a messy look to the image, but it is of course important to leave some in the shot to maintain some semblance of a natural look.

i'm not a fan of film for day to day use personally, it still has its uses don't get me wrong, but even on the very rare occasions I have used a film camera, I meter and get my settings spot on with my digital SLR and then just use the same settings on the film camera, it saves so much time. I think the problem as you said is that its too easy to get lazy with digital and tasks such as metering correctly, and setting the white balance with a white/grey/black card initially to make sure everything is pin point accurate before you even take the final shot are often skipped in favour of messing around in photoshop to correct discrepancies which shouldn't be present in the first place, and often degrade from the overall image quality when they have to be corrected post capture. Thats why I think its always important to get the shot as perfect as you can "in-camera" rather than relying on post production skills to compensate for inadequate technique.

Sweet! I look forward to it :)

p.s. Ed, if you're shooting in a studio, always try and shoot tethered where possible, mostly because a studio is either costing you or your client, (or both) a decent amount of money, so the last thing you want to do is end up finding out the focus is off in a crucial shot. It's software dependent obviously, but if you're running lightroom aperture etc on a laptop or computer they normally support tethered shooting for most nikon and canon models, and long cables aren't usually more than £20.

Yes the majority of screens are shit in terms of colour accuracy/rendition etc, but at least 60-70% of the screens out there on decent slrs zoom in far enough to tell you if a shot is out of focus or not, hell I can tell 99% of the time when looking through a view finder if a shot is out of focus!
Let this be a lesson kids, just cos your camera has a shit hot autofocus system, doesn't mean it will focus every shot perfectly for you, every time, like any tool, you have to use it properly!
By the way this is not a personal dig at you Jordan, but as someone who usually produces top notch stuff, i'm surprised you put that bike pic up.

That bike only shot is so badly out of focus I would take it again, rather than worrying about cloning some stickers out of the shot when you have a poor base from which to clone from anyway. The first, second, and fourth photo of Steve I really like however, and are technically really good shots also, which makes me wonder why you didn't realise the bike shot was so badly out of focus when you took it?

Gutted I couldn't make it tonight, ended up working until late, boohoo :( see you next week hopefully!

I go by the name of James or some of my mates call me JD, i'll be on a silver bike with blue colour matched bits and black bits, i'm six ft two and pushin 17 stone, so i'm not easy to miss lol, if anyone wants to say hello.

I'll be about tonight.