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I usually do some sort of post capture processing, Shoot in RAW format most of the time so have to do some processing. Always contrast plus a layer or 2 adjustments, bit of cropping to suit the image, but hopefully not so much that the shot is not 'believable'. Tend not to shoot RAW when taking pics of the grandkids as they move so fast, after 9 frames then memory buffer runs out....with jpeg the buffer is almost infinite

One of the reasons I'm not very good at computers is because I use to know people that would do it all for me....ahem...sorry about that one...as you can see..it didn't help to no tlearn to do things myself. But keep talking, I'm learning from what our saying....even my grandkids can work wonders around me these days.

What's been your favorite picture?...mine is an simple snapshot of my son holding his daughter to the side of him and both are bracing and smiling into the camera... for an field water sprinkler is about to come around and over them....and soak them down good... It makes you wan to say..".Ooooh...RUN for it!".....and start laughing.. 

I'm going to answer the last three questions at once if that's OK. I do everything JPEG because I'm most familiar with it. Some work that I do has to be in that format so I stick with it. I don't have Photo Shop, but I do use Microsoft photo programs and crop and edit some of the photos I take. I do it mostly because I just like to play around with it and see what happens. My favorite photo that I took is of my grandson when he was about 2 years old. We were in my garden and he's bending over sniffing a flower. It's so cute and I do have it framed.

Have you ever, like I did on my trip to England, taken a lot of photos and accidentally hit the delete button? It's a terrible feeling. 

Not yet, but i always take 2 or 3 cards out with me so i can change as they get full. then as soon as i get home i drop them all onto the PC if i'm at home or the laptop if on holiday. then back up all onto a separate hard drive.  Did once develop a batch of 5 x 36 exp 35mm black and white films in plain water ! ! ! That was a disaster, a load of car rally shots that i could noit go back to retake.....

What is your biggest photo related mistake..... as opposed to disaster

My biggest mistake was lending a friend my memory card so that she (it just had to be a she, didn't it?) could copy my pictures of Veteran Cars at a Brighton Rally.  After much chasing I got a card back by post.  I discovered that it was not the card I had loaned her and, in the belief that my card had been her card, she had wiped it.  A shame she should do that - she was a very nice, attractive lady, until then.

What do you think the best pixel size to be for the P of E picture-selling site? 

Good question Edward. I tend to save mine as close to the top 4.99mb as I can get but they take quite while to upload. Obviously they are shrunk to put on the site so I am toying with doing my next lot of submissions between 1-2 mb to see if there is any major difference, if only time in uploading. Maybe need Ron, Chris or Sarah to give us a clue as to what is the optimum size

Who, dead or alive, would like to do a photo session with?

Mine are usually between 500 and 1500 kb and they seem to upload fine and quickly!  But for selling them I'm not sure!

I would have liked to do a photo session with Elizabeth Taylor - I don't think any of the photos would have been wasted!

Twiggy, cos i just think she is so natural, fame never spoiled her or Janis Joplin probably the best white female blues singer, but unfortunately died far too young

Keep this going for another round

Who, dead or alive, would like to do a photo session with?

i wouldnt mind doing one with dean martin and jack benny i think that would be very funny--throw in phil silvers and mel blanc as well.

same question please

I would have loved a session with Peter Ustinov.                                       His was a fantastic sense of humour, and he had a wonderful control of facial expression.                                                                                 Actually, I would prefer locations in preference to people.  I want to be where there is plenty of sky - with an attractive view.  My preferences would be Norfolk, UK, or the west coast of the Irish Republic.

Where would your ideal location be?