jennief
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Module 7 back. Very speedy work by my excellent tutor with very helpful comments. I have been advised I need to do some dodging and burning-I have read it up and used the tools in PS3 but it always looks very obvious/heavy handed/generally yucky. I must be doing something wrong with the settings. Is anyone able to point me in the direction of some good reading on dodging for beginners please? I have already passed my "flashing" for beginnners Paul!! And with flying colours too 
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Matt_Hunt
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Hi Jenni
Well done!
For tutorials etc, Chromsia do online tutorials in pdf format that can bought for £5 a pack or as a bulk lot.
I am also useless at that stuff! 
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jennief
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Thanks for that I will investigate.
Have just made a bloomer. Bought a wireless transmitter for my flashgun at a really competitive price-chuffed to nuts to have saved money and when it came the manual is all in Japanese!!!!! 
Found a site to get an English one though and it is still cheaper. 
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Matt_Hunt
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What did you buy (both times)?
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jennief
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Canon Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2 with Japanese manual 
Warehouse Express - brilliant people-have a site where I was able to get an English manual-it will be with me tomorrow. What a prannock I am but I am still "up" in money terms. Then I will be able to experiment with some more creative lighting-Ihope
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neilh
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Just taken a set of pics for this module myself. Before I edit them and write up the module, I just have a quick question for those of you who've done it. I presume it's okay to take four different pics of the same building if they are different views or aspects of this and are telling the viewer something about the building?
Thanks,
Neil.
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jennief
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May I suggest you do what I do because my tutor is very helpful? This is something you can ask your tutor via a personal message on the forum. Then you can point out what you are trying to do and why and clear it first.
I am naturally rather cautious. Good luck-it sounds an interesting idea.
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Garry McNamara
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Quote:
Just taken a set of pics for this module myself. Before I edit them and write up the module, I just have a quick question for those of you who've done it. I presume it's okay to take four different pics of the same building if they are different views or aspects of this and are telling the viewer something about the building?
Thanks,
Neil.
Hi, as always with a collection of pictures of the same subject you need to decide if there is a sufficiently different approach to each picture, different techniques used and different results. Producing several near identical pictures just means you get rather poor value from the feedback as there isn't enough variety in approach. Consider how do you deal with varied lighting, using different perspectives, a range of viewpoints and distances from your subject and perhaps a variety of media –working in colour and black and white for instance.
Remember a course is taking risks, sometime getting things wrong and asking why. It's not about winning a competition or producing a flawless folio of pictures – better to get a low mark taking risks than a high mark playing it safe. It’s tempting to work to your strengths and do what you already do best – that produces impressive pictures but of course you don’t learn anything!
Garry
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jennief
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Thanks for that advice Gary.
Please help with this query-is a photo of a raptor from a bird of prey centre (they cant escape) or a wolf from a Wildlife park an acceptable "wildlife" shot?
I ask because you don't need too much in the way of stalking skills for this and it feels like a "cheat" to me and I don't want to goof. 
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Garry McNamara
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Indeed it is - as is domestic wildlife. More important really is that the images reveal aspects of the subject's behaviour and perhaps bring in an element of environment and even narrative.
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neilh
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Many thanks for the guidance. I went with four different views of the same buildings in the end and my tutor (Scott) seemed pretty happy with this (91% overall). Just need to decide which module to attempt next-probably macro or still life given the time of year!
If anyone would like to see the pics they are at
www.flickr.com/photos/20696350@N00/sets/72157610505229608/
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