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I hate to spoil everyone's fun, but should we be photo-shopping images that were found via a google search? *cough* Copyright *cough* *cough*

I think Socrates was referring to the fact that the effects of graduated neutral density filters can be mimicked to some extent by combining a number of different digital exposures of the same scene (eg HDR). Granted, this isn't always the best way to do it however, and I certainly wouldn't want...

Read the book! Save yourself a lot of time and hassle photographing every page, plus you may be infringing the Author's or somebody else's copyright by reproducing the text.

ProShow Gold is quite nifty, but I don't think its available for Mac... You could try Pictures to Exe.

If you're in the UK, try: http://www.novadarkroom.com/ or http://www.jessops.com I'm not really sure of any sites from the US or outside of Uk though.

Yes, the gradient filters are usually rectangular rather than square, so you have extra room to move them up and down in the holder and position them as required to match the horizon in your composition. The holder works with a leaf-spring (or something similar...) that holds the filters in...

Simple answer? Yes :D The Cokin filter system works with a series of filter rings that attach to the threads of different sized lenses. You then attach the filter holder to the ring, and slot the filters into the filter holder. The beauty of the system is that you only need to buy a new filter...

Do a quick search for some of Man Ray's Photograms (he called them Rayographs....) - he did some great work without a camera ;)

I'm not sure about using the colour replacement tool, but you can change eye colour simply by making a selection of the area you want to change (zoom in and be careful about what you're actually selecting, or the result won't look natural), and then using the Hue/Saturation tool, with the...

I guess it depends on how big you class big as... ;) If you already have the kit, then I would stick with using the 120, as you'll be able to blow the shots up a lot bigger than 20x24. But then again, it depends what you're going to be photographing. 35mm cameras are generally more convienient...

My attempt... Healing brush, a little soft-focus and diffuse-glow effect, and tweaking the hue/saturation a little.

The Pentax Optio 555 is an auto-focus camera, so focusing shouldn't be a problem with still objects (I take it you know how to the focus the camera - most digitals etc require a half-press of the shutter release button to focus and take a light-reading, before fully pressing to take the shot)...

Also 120 roll film has backing paper, often with frame numbers printed on the rear (which are used with manual film-advance cameras). 220 roll film is un-backed, so you can get more frames on a roll of the same thickness. Seperate film backs or inserts are usually required for use of 120 / 220...

Is it sharpness your talking about, or the fact the image is somewhat dark? It's hard to tell from a pic of that size how sharp a higher resoloution image would be. Turning off unsharp mask would make your images less sharp - most scanned slides / negs need a certain amount of USM to improve...

This might be better moved to the Photoshop Challenges forum... Thats where people tend to post images they'd like others to touch up / enhance / generally fiddle around with. :thumbup:

Doesn't look like a lot of difference between the 2 grads - infact it looks like exactly the same photo... Grad #2 doesn't actually say what density it is (ie how many stops)... Bear in mind that the set of three are full ND filters, and not grads.

Try the link below for a useful guide to uploading photos to the forum: http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76568

Looks like a lot of fancy and meaningless words used to dress up a rather dull and indifferent photo of some birds on a feeder... Of course, if we believe that the overall theme of the image is to induce the viewer into a state of torpid stupor, then we quite suddenly gain a wonderful insight...

What did you mean by that exactly? Does it make a big difference to sharpness scanning as negative opposed to positive? Is this something particular to your scanner only, or to all? Curious to know, as I've just bought a new scanner which I'm still getting to grips with :)

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