On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:09:49PM -0700, Rick Womer wrote: > > Larry, > > I really like these, especially 3455--nice juxtaposition of hard and soft, > grey steel and colorful flowers; and nice use of DOF.
Thanks a bunch. On my way back from lunch I went back there again, but this time with the K20 and the FA31 and tripod. Someone had suggested that a couple of the shots would have worked better with more DOF, and it seemed like a good opportunity to test the repairs of my camera. > > Have I ever mentioned that I hate Flickr? The stupid I'm not particularly fond of it myself. It beats hosting the photos on my home machine and trashing my own bandwidth. > two-photo-at-a-time thumbnails, the need to click to see a decently I tend to prefer the layout when you type flickriver rather than flickr in the url for the gallery. > large image (sometimes not available), the whole space-wasting > layout--it makes looking at photos like walking with a pebble in my > shoe. When I got my Pentax I had several friends on flickr. For about $25 a year being able to upload unlimited photos for "offsite backup" is rather handy. It's also handy for some of the social networking features. Other than that, I agree with you that it sucks. My longer term plan, was to start off with flicker for my mass uploads. Once I start getting decent pictures, the plan is to upload the few good ones to a completely separate site. That way, when I'm showing off my photographs, rather than my snapshots, people will only see my better work. I think that I'm finally starting to get pictures worth showing off, and need to start looking for a site for the good photos. Unfortunately, I've not found any photo hosting sites that I actually like. I suck at web programming, plus I don't even have time to look for a site, much less create one, otherwise I'd do my own. I'd love to set up a site for useful C&C of photographs. Something along the lines of a blogging site (live journal) where people can comment on photos, and where you can control who on your friendslist gets to see which posts. I'd also like to be able to have people rate photos, but not just a scalar, have them rate different aspects of the photo: technical: exposure sharpness focus artistic: composition subject It would also be nice to be able to rate people both as photographers and as critics. I've noticed, for example, that photographers will like different photos than non-photographers because we look for different things. But, I'll stop designing a website that I don't have time to build. > > Nice photos, though! Thanks a bunch. > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > --- On Sat, 4/11/09, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > From: Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> > > Subject: GESO A little tractor and a little lens > > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > > Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 2:53 PM > > These pictures were shot on the West side of Hellyer for a > > change. There's a little red International tractor > > parked in a field > > next to a company parking lot. I stopped by for a quick > > shoot when I > > left work yesterday: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157616541528855/ > > > > As usual the DA40 was on my camera, and pretty much all of > > my other > > lenses were in my camera bag. There were arguments in favor > > of > > grabbing the bag so that I'd have all of my lenses with > > me, but for > > some reason, I just wanted to shoot with the DA40. I > > can't explain why > > I enjoy shooting with that one lens so much. > > > > The DFA50 macro would have been handy on some of the shots, > > but I > > don't like the bokeh quite as much, and maybe the > > 18-250 isn't quite > > as razor sharp, but that's about all of the bad things > > I have to say > > about the lenses I might have used. There's something, > > and I can't > > define it, that just makes shooting with that lens fun. > > > > I do think that I'll need to go back soon with the > > macro for some of > > the detail shots. > > > > I also need to get better at winnowing out shots. There are > > things in > > Lightroom for help with that, I just need to get off my > > duff and learn > > those features. > > > > C&C, especially suggestions for improvement, welcome. > > > > > > -- > > The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is > > to post > > the wrong answer. > > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com > > http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. 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