Thanks again guys, and I do apologise for picking up this thread so late. *goes red-eared*
Terry, I'll give it a go.
Torch: Here? *points*
Anyway, I got a new camera (Nikon D3200) for my birthday this year, complete with a macro lens. (Nikkor Micro 40 mm)
I chose the macro lens because I tend to use close-up functions more than I use a zoom lens - there isn't that many airshows here in Denmark, unfortunately.
And I think I'm beginning to get the hang of the thing.
This saturday I visited friend Susanne together with the knitting/crocheting group of female friends, and since I didn't bring anything to work on, I got out the camera and started shooting flowers and insects in Susanne's garden.
I usually shoot the photos a little too dark, so that there's plenty of data in the photo that I can tweak and play with.
I use Picasa for straightening up and cropping, GIMP for resizing, tweaking the details and shadows, and CyberLink PhotoDirector 3 to tweak everything and boost the color a bit.
It
is a lot of fiddling, but I've got to admit that I'm pretty damned satisfied with the results.
There's only a couple of years' difference between my Olympus DLSR and my Nikon, but - damn, it shows!