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skida

I am biker and an amateur photographer living in the County of Northumberland, Northeast England.\ \ My favourite subject for photographs is Landscape and Buildings, although I will try anything at least once.\ \ Most of my gallery consists of pictures taken with cheap compacts acquired on ebay. My first Digital Camera was a Nikon Coolpix 3100 which cost nearly £300 when new. For the last two years I was convinced it was broken, but it turned out to be the battery charger and with new batteries and charger it worked perfectly. I also have used a Kodak DX3900 (£36), a Pentax Optio 50 (£29, now sold) and a Kodak CX7525 (£17, now sold). All of these cameras have given me results I am happy with. \ \ I recently bought a Kodak Z812IS superzoom bridge camera and I am still discovering its capabilities.\ \ My post-processing amounts to small adjustments in light, contrast and saturation. I have used the clone stamp for minor imperfections, but always feel guilty afterwards. I do not use HDR. I realise it can be a useful tool but I have seen so many bad examples that I have decided to live without it (for the moment).\ \ I have also recently acquired 3 35mm SLR cameras: An Olympus OM10, a Zenit E and a Praktica Super TL (now binned). I am enjoying re-learning the joys of manual focus and the self control necessary with film photography. Results so far are "getting there".\ I hope my new Canoscan 8800F will help improve the quality of my scans of negs and slides, old and new. \ My photographic aspiration is to produce landscape photos that present the subject in the most pleasing and natural way possible.

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