Yeah, nice one :)

Maybe not, but you might be the only one that cares! ;)
Personally, my photography improved when I stopped worrying about the
technical aspects of images so much, and started to concentrate on the
artistic side a bit more.
Very few pictures are technically perfect, but it doesn't stop them from
being great images.
As for the highlights in the chicks eyes, could it be because the
angle/position is slightly different? or have they been added to chick 2 & 3
? then again does it really matter?  it's the final result and not the
process of getting there that matters to me.
ATB
Mick

On Jul 9, 6:34 am, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote:

hey that was a CHEEP shot.  I'm sure he meant to do that.
Or else his clone tool has a hiccup.

(snip)

Oops, I meant Good job, and still do.
(snip)

Draco <JPDFDA@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote in news:1183986002.395891.176340
@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

Hrmmmm
It's not Douglas, Draco. I'm Julian, despite what the drones keep going
on about. Believe it or not, it's your choice but if you ever get into
this thing you'll see Doug is probably the most misunderstood and
persecuted newsgroup contributor I have ever come across. He deserves
none of it.

He might be a cantankerous bloke but he has pioneered interpolation of
digital images and run a sucessful string of Photo labs for more years
than I have been on this planet. You simply don't get to do that in a
country with a population the size of New York city, by being dishonest.

Doug took the chick picture quite some time ago for a financial advisors
Advertisement. Something about nest eggs. I got it out of his library to
show a client and figured it would make an interesting pic for
discussion without the drones chiming in. I've posted another discussion
pic I took myself in a post earlier this evening.

The chicks were shot in Doug's old Mt Gravatt studio, (now a block of
rental units for students). He used no less than 4 studio flashes and a
simple slave flash with a white bag over it to break the glare.

I'm running the print centres while he's away.  He's got a female
running the new studio. I'm printing her wedding from last saturday now
and it looks pretty good too. Tt's all wedding stuff and not something I
can show you since the drones started stealing images of Doug's web
sites.

I might use some of my own pictures or I might use some from Doug when
the mail arrives with his backup discs, for his "Picture for the day"
which I'm struggling to keep alive.

I swear I don't know where the guy gets his energy from. He's over 60
and running rings around me at handling the workloads. I've been on the
job since 6:30 this morning and don't look like finishing before 9:00
tonight. He used to make it look so easy.

JA