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In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC: As a very amateur photographer trying to get away from the "auto" setting of my camera I thought this article was brilliant!! Easily understandable for the beginer so now I cant wait till 5 o'clock to leave my desk and go and play with my camera!!

Cheers!

In reply to harlequinarcher: Great thats really good news to hear as it was meant to be written in that 'manner'- which is so much easier said than done! Without stealing ukclimbing's readers, if you want to see the images in better detail so you can really see what i am talking about then the exact same article is on my website, but with higer res shots
good luck

In reply to jongriffith: Nice article, but i don't think the hyperlinks where it says "click to see....." are working?

In reply to Chris F: as in the images at the bottom?

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

Very helpful article, that's the weekend's reading material sorted.

Thank you, Jon.

In reply to jongriffith:

yes.

In reply to Chris F: they work for me...odd that. Might just be our server playing up, its had a bit of downtime recenty. Thanks for the heads up

In reply to jongriffith:

ah - the whole 'section' containing all the photographers is a link, rather than the 'bio' being a link, the 'pics' being a link for each person.

good article

In reply to harlequinarcher:

My thoughts exactly. Good article, cheers Jon.

In reply to DaveR: no worries. glad its of some help!

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

Brilliant stuff.

I've been wanting to improve for a while and this is the kind of 'idoits guide to...' that should do it for me.

easily understandable and i can't wait to puit it to the test.

Thanks very much.

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

That is a great article. Well done Jon!

In reply to jongriffith:

Well done, John, a good read.

Just one point, (I may have got this totally wrong but...) Clare's comment on the Apeture size, "little, big, little" has confused me. Is it not little big big , ie, little number, big aperture, lots of light?

(I'm not a photo buff so go easy)

In reply to galpinos:

the way I think of it is little number, big aperture to *get* lots of light in when there's *little* light - little number for little light. To be fair I hadn't quite intended for the comment to be directly pasted (!) but I hope it makes sense - it's just what works for me.

In reply to CJD:

Ah, gotcha! It does make sense.

Thanks for replying.

In reply to galpinos and CJD: It was actually removed from the article yesteryday (refresh your browser) as I did think it might confuse some people. (sorry Clare!)
Glad you are enjoying it and am very happy that it is proving to be an 'easy' read as it's so easy to get carried away at times! Thanks for the comments
jon

In reply to jongriffith:

ah - I read through a couple of times and couldn't work out why I couldn't see it any more! Bless me... no worries, though, as I did say that it was something that worked for me but which might not for others.

In reply to CJD: indeed you did and thanks for the rest of the help.
jon

In reply to jongriffith: I would like to email your article to my son. How can I do it?

In reply to francoisecall:

Print it out as a pdf...and email the pdf.

In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com:

or rather, select 'print to PDF' from your printing options. Printing out the pdf means it's a paper copy

(sorry for the pedantry, it's just that I've been flummoxed by this in the past!)

In reply to CJD:

Still having a bad day?

http://www.adobe.com/products/pdfprintengine/

PDF's can be read on any computer and usually printed out without hassle, they can also be emailed.

If you go to Print on your browser, it's under File, you usually get the option not only to print to paper but to print as a pdf file. Once saved, send this pdf file as an attachment in an email.

The recipient then can print out that pdf or read it on screen.

In reply to francoisecall:

Or just send the link

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=847

In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com:

yes, I know that - it was just that the way you originally phrased it wasn't particularly clear

my day's been quite good, thank you.

In reply to CJD:

Yours was crap too....even with the smiley faces.

In reply to francoisecall: As Mick says either the ukclimbing link or here has better quality photos http://www.alpineexposures.com/pages/mountain-landscape-climbing-photo-tips
And I have another couple that might be of interest here: http://www.alpineexposures.com/pages/articles

Enjoy!
Jon

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:
first rate article which is exactly what i needed to advance/ understand my photography and put in laymans terms was really easy to read.

thanks chaps

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

excellent, I now understand what all the different bits do on my camera!...

next thing is working out what all the different things on the dial mean (p,s,a,m.)?! Urgh Does the S one only let you alter the shutter speed etc?

In reply to Pauline:
A is aperature priority (ie you change the aperature with the dial and it will automatically alter the shutter speed)
S is shutter priority
M is fully manual so you can inout the shutter and aperature values that you want
P is for program which allows you to customise some features on your SLR. Basically you can pre-save ISO, RAW/JPEG settings etc so that you dont have to do it each time.

jon

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

Great piece that really helped me understand the fundementals !

Quick question though on the settings of my digi camera it has 'metering' what is that ???

In reply to Dan Goodwin: Thanks Dan
Metering is quite easy to understand thankfully and is well explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metering_mode
jon

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

Just read this Article, Awesome.

Jim

In reply to Apex Distribution: thanks, took a while!