Dear Forum,
Thankyou for your company over the last few months. I'm headed back to work today. My time on Photography Review, will be much reduced in large blocks over the next 6 months.
I've enjoyed your company greatly. I certainly have enjoyed seeing shots of your stomping grounds.
I'm still finding many limitations with the HDR/Photomatix process which has been my all consuming winter project ... it is a very enjoyable way of searching out the tonalities in a digital image and would recommend the technique and process to all those who may not have tried digital High Dynamic Range imagery, to add to your kits of different techniques.
I'm going to shoot film for a while to reassess where the brightness range and the image tonalities are compressed digitally, over using film. I'm already learning bad habits with digital cameras, giving enough time, I could really lose the plot.
I've had a great time with photography over the last 4 months and thankyou for being fine image makers here on the Forum. I don't post on many threads but I've read a lot of posts.
I have a good job to return to, making sailboats go fast. If you watch the fattest looser guys get fit, that is all I'll be doing for months now, the life of a sportman. This coming Spring and Summer will result in much time being spent away from home. A huge amount of time goes into prepping the yachts and training and travelling away to race.
This is a very good Forum. Good luck with your images and all the best.
Warren Hudson.