"Very interesting set up."

"Nice work... I'd have just binned the original photo."

"Neat! I'm a big motor sports fan, mostly sports cars, F1, and American open wheel. I was viewing old video of Clarke in his Cortina just the other day :). For the record...yes, I'm American, and I detest Nascar :)."

"Exactly, Disgusted! when I saw that :("

"yes interesting to say the least, little BUGgers are eating the plants in my garden, it took a real close look to see what they were?"

"and such a gorgeous sunset at that too :D"

"No, I never tried to go pro, I like to eat, drink and be Mary :P The one Photo in the back of my mind at present would cost ball park figure $600 min? If there is water in Lake Galilee? There is one vital prop missing from that shot as well. :(

Ya, the time and outlay between pay cheques has always stopped me from pursuing a career in free lance photography. :("

"Probably not, but a copyright in metadata would!

A genuine photographer would more than likely be willing to share the Metadata as other photographers are more than genuinely interested in gear/settings ETC. for continual improvement of their own work.

Also at times one can see a photographer that is trying to improve their technique, but may benefit from a few pointers? Asking each time becomes a pain? If the pic is from a compact, there are ways to adjust settings to achieve quite different results, or from a DSLR a myriad of ways around the dilemma of why are my pix not that good or from an Iphone good luck with that, I have no idea how to tweak anything with a phone, not that phones can not take excellent pix too, I just dont go near tech issues with phones.

I think if you are genuinely interested in photography and how to do it, you do get mixed up in tech part of it.

One shot I took many many years ago was in a canyon where the sun shone in for only 10 minutes a day, standing waist deep in water, tripod wedged up against the canyon wall, the slowest shutter to expose 100ASA Celluloid was never going to cut it, Bulb was the only option, but how much bulb? well it was 62 seconds calculated from a mathematical formulae that I once knew but now have forgotten how to do :(

That canyon was 12 hours by road from home, and no preview of image captured until developed. Yes now days there is instant development/preview but some things still wont work, why? It maybe as simple as put your camera away from 9am to 3pm the light is too HARSH, come back at 4pm? or try to improve that harsh midday sun if you are going A to B and can't return at a softer light hour.

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