Following on from my initial entry this year into the Cotswold Monochrome Salon, I’ve also entered the Beyond Group Salon. This salon is only for projected images, so I didn’t have to make a decision whether I should enter prints or not. It does however offer the option for entering both colour and monochrome images so I entered some of each. (It also offers a ‘nature’ class, which I didn’t enter.) Once again acceptances count towards BPE awards.
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I have a Canon EOS 1000D plus a 70-300 zoom lens … realistically will I need a tripod for telephoto shots?
I was asked this question recently by an artist friend of mine, and the automatic response to this sort of question is usually, yes, you should use a tripod. That’s not a terribly helpful answer however, as you then have to consider what sort of tripod, and what compromises using a tripod would entail. A cheap tripod may give little if any benefit, and the better tripods may be specialised to particular uses. (and note the difference between ‘need’ and ‘should’!)
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The WordPress core is very flexible and has a massive collection of free and premium themes, widgets and plugins that allow it to be used in many different ways, but with this flexibility comes the problem that blogs implemented on WordPress tend not be as fast as other sites implemented on simpler or more focussed frameworks. Some of this is inevitable in its wide scope, but there are ways to improve the performance.
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