Quote Originally Posted by Joseph Kashi View Post
I was attempting, apparently unsuccessfully, to avoid dissing the author while suggesting that other materials might be more useful in troubleshooting the OP's problems.
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naah you were successful !
the problem with photography is it looks and sounds easy but it's not as easy as it seems ..
and there's a lot of salesman selling stuff to make it seem easy. takes a lot of practice, like everything else.