Peso - Ol' No. 2

[Paul Sorenson]

1932 Chevrolet firetruck from an antique show a couple summers ago.

http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm
*http://tinyurl.com/d3h965*

Tamron 28-...@100mm
ISO 400
1/1...@f8
Faded, rotated & cropped in LR2

Constructive criticism appreciated, flogging not necessary...

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Re: Peso - Ol' No. 2

[Paul Sorenson]

Thanks to all who commented.  I appreciate the suggestions and opinions. 
 The de-saturation was an attempt to make this look like an old, faded 
photograph - most didn't care for it.  And the rotation got mixed 
reviews...I thought it made it look more interesting than the original.


I posted the original image if anyone wants to see what I started out 
with.  Same URL, just scroll down...


http://tinyurl.com/d3h965

Thanks again.

-p

Paul Sorenson wrote:

1932 Chevrolet firetruck from an antique show a couple summers ago.

http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm
*http://tinyurl.com/d3h965*

Tamron 28-...@100mm
ISO 400
1/1...@f8
Faded, rotated & cropped in LR2

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Re: Peso - Ol' No. 2

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Thanks, Joe...

-p

27...@comcast.net wrote:

Paul, to me the faded rotated version jumps more out at you and so my thoughts 
are the same as before...Joe
P.S. I shot a lot cars and trucks for magazines and sometimes you just have to 
make it look better then it wasBut remember what I said before, Beauty is 
in the eye of the beholder..If you are not shooting for an editor, then all you 
have to do is please yourself.

- Original Message -
From: "Paul Sorenson" 
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Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:01:43 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Peso - Ol'  No. 2

Thanks to all who commented.  I appreciate the suggestions and opinions. 
  The de-saturation was an attempt to make this look like an old, faded 
photograph - most didn't care for it.  And the rotation got mixed 
reviews...I thought it made it look more interesting than the original.


I posted the original image if anyone wants to see what I started out 
with.  Same URL, just scroll down...


http://tinyurl.com/d3h965

Thanks again.

-p

Paul Sorenson wrote:

1932 Chevrolet firetruck from an antique show a couple summers ago.

http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm
*http://tinyurl.com/d3h965*

Tamron 28-...@100mm
ISO 400
1/1...@f8
Faded, rotated & cropped in LR2

Constructive criticism appreciated, flogging not necessary...

-p




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Re: Peso - Ol' No. 2

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Thanks, Adam - I'll give that a try...

-p

Adam Maas wrote:

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Paul Sorenson
 wrote:

Thanks to all who commented.  I appreciate the suggestions and opinions.
 The de-saturation was an attempt to make this look like an old, faded
photograph - most didn't care for it.  And the rotation got mixed
reviews...I thought it made it look more interesting than the original.

I posted the original image if anyone wants to see what I started out with.
 Same URL, just scroll down...

http://tinyurl.com/d3h965

Thanks again.

-p



Paul,

I definitely prefer the rotation and crop of the first version you
showed, but the colour of the original.

-Adam

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Re: Peso - Ol' No. 2

[Paul Sorenson]

Adam, Frank, Marnie, Charles - by popular request...;>}

Cropped, rotated, bright red.

Same URL, just scroll down...

http://tinyurl.com/d3h965

And thanks again to all who commented.

-p



Charles Robinson wrote:

On Apr 17, 2009, at 5:33, Adam Maas wrote:


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Paul Sorenson
 wrote:

Thanks to all who commented.  I appreciate the suggestions and opinions.
 The de-saturation was an attempt to make this look like an old, faded
photograph - most didn't care for it.  And the rotation got mixed
reviews...I thought it made it look more interesting than the original.

I posted the original image if anyone wants to see what I started out 
with.

 Same URL, just scroll down...

http://tinyurl.com/d3h965

Thanks again.

-p



Paul,

I definitely prefer the rotation and crop of the first version you
showed, but the colour of the original.



I'm going to go with Adam on this one.  I couldn't figure WHY the 
rotation/crop until I saw the original and compared.  The rotate/crop 
does make it more interesting (Just lose the fade).


 -Charles

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Re: OT Opinions needed

[Paul Sorenson]

Here's my shot at it...

"Rural Ontario Images"
"Images of Rural Ontario"
"Documenting Life in Rural Ontario"

-p

Bran Everseeking wrote:

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:52:17 -0400
David J Brooks  wrote:


"Focused on rural Ontario"
"Focusing on images of rural Ontario."
"Focusing on rural Ontario"

What say they. Any one of these appeal to you all.??



The "focus" seems really cliche to me.

though so does "Rural Ontario as Scene"






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Re: A Show!

[Paul Sorenson]

Congratulations!!  Now get out the electrical tape, cover up "Pentax" 
and prove you're a pro!!


-p

frank theriault wrote:

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Christian  wrote:


That's awesome frank!


I almost told them that I shot everything with a Pentax, but realized
it was best to hold my tongue...

;-)

Thanks, Christian, and Marnie, too.

cheers,
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Graphics Card (redux)

[Paul Sorenson]

Bill -

After fighting the past day with the installation of a Radeon graphics 
card I'm wondering if the solution to your problem is similar to mine.  
Are you running one monitor or two?  Does your graphics card have 
multiple monitor outputs?  I could only boot to VGA until I disabled the 
secondary video for the Radeon card in the Device Drivers.  Apparently 
with some motherboards w/onboard video AGP only supports one video 
output, even w/the onboard disabled.  If you're only running one monitor 
this might solve your problem.  Just be sure your monitor is connected 
to the primary output, then disable the secondary and re-boot.


This may or may not solve your problem, but it's a thought...

-p

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Film is not dead

[Paul Sorenson]

According to the web site of one local wedding shooter.  He says...

*"Film or Digital?  Don't be fooled - newer isn't always better.  
Digital is wonderful in the studio - under controlled lighting and from 
short distances - but definitely is not suitable for weddings.  Digital 
is finicky and requires precision exposure that is difficult to attain 
under the wide variety of conditions and involved in wedding coverage.  
Basically, digital wedding photographers are always adjusting their 
cameras and reviewing their work when they should be taking pictures.  
At this point, digital simply is too risky.  Many studios have switched 
to digital for one reason - to save money - whereas we don't mind paying 
a little extra for the quality and consistency of film.  We can provide 
you with all of the "special effects" and retouches being touted by 
digital wedding photographers."*


He does admit that MF is dead 'cause all his shooters use 35mm.

Food for thought...

-p

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Re: Film is not dead

[Paul Sorenson]

"Bologna"

Oh, I agree!!  I was more than a little surprised that a pro photog 
would put that on his web site - it's so blatantly uninformed.


-p

pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:

- "Paul Sorenson"  wrote:


According to the web site of one local wedding shooter.  He says...

*"Film or Digital?  Don't be fooled - newer isn't always better.  
Digital is wonderful in the studio - under controlled lighting and
from 
short distances - but definitely is not suitable for weddings. 
Digital 
is finicky and requires precision exposure that is difficult to attain


under the wide variety of conditions and involved in wedding coverage.
 
Basically, digital wedding photographers are always adjusting their 
cameras and reviewing their work when they should be taking pictures. 


At this point, digital simply is too risky.  Many studios have
switched 
to digital for one reason - to save money - whereas we don't mind
paying 
a little extra for the quality and consistency of film.  We can
provide 
you with all of the "special effects" and retouches being touted by 
digital wedding photographers."*


He does admit that MF is dead 'cause all his shooters use 35mm.

Food for thought...



Bologna



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Re: Always have a camera with you

[Paul Sorenson]

Still the same w/Firefox..

Look for these re-directs...
*
What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 10 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 9 
page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed 
without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 
2009-04-18, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site 
was on 2009-04-16.


Malicious software includes 12 trojan(s), 5 scripting exploit(s).

Malicious software is hosted on 12 domain(s), including cnld.ru/, 
okcd.ru/, jetp6.ru/.


This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS4323 (TWTC).
***



JC OConnell wrote:

thanks for the notice. I went in there and cleaned out
what looked like stray files to me. I think it should
be fine now to try again if you like.

JC O'Connell
hifis...@gate.net
 



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Your website causes Chrome to flag a malware warning.

Bob 

here's a crude mockup I made in photoshop
of what I could have got a real photo
of but didnt :

http://www.jchriso.com/temp/rollsatthriftshop.jpg

(just to give you a feel of the disbelief factor)

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Re: Tech-support: Wireless trailing curtain sync flash a no-go [Re: WTB and a macro flash question]

[Paul Sorenson]

You can substitute the ProMaster cord for all the Pentax do-dads.  I've 
used this with both the Sigma EF-500DG Super and the AF-540FGZ and it 
works well.  Typical cost around 60USD


http://tinyurl.com/d44d89

-p

Bruce Walker wrote:

Joseph McAllister wrote:
A pretty thorough reading of both the K20D and AF540FGZ manuals re: 
TCS reveals nothing. It is neither mentioned as doable or not doable. 
It does "imply" that it should work, but does not back that up in text 
or sync spec charts.


Let us know what tech support at Pentax has to say please...


And the envelope please ...

---
Dear Mr. Walker,

Thank you for contacting Pentax.

Trailing curtain sync will not work with the K20D and the AF-540FGZ 
off-camera in the wireless mode.  The K20D manual doesn't specifically 
explain this but under setting up the flash in wireless mode on page 47 
of the AF-540FGZ flash manual it says you have to have the flash set to 
leading curtain sync.  The off-camera flash is using the built-in flash, 
or another AF-540 on the hotshoe, as a trigger, but only for leading 
curtain sync.


---


However, I expect that I can use the hotshoe accessory and a cable to at 
least get off-camera TCS working.  Sigh.  Another multi-day special 
order from Pentax Canada.


Thanks to everyone who helped-out, especially Doug and Charles for 
taking lots of flash shots of interior walls. :-)


-bmw

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Re: Pentax K7

[Paul Sorenson]

And since we'll all be screwed, they'll name it the K-Y...

William Robb wrote:
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From: "Larry Colen"

Subject: Re: Pentax K7




Am I going to regret springing for the K20 last month?



We all are.
Pentax built a software bomb into the latest firmware upgrade that will 
cause all the k20s in the world to stop working as soon as the new cameras 
are on the shelves.


It's taking viral marketing to a whole new level.

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Re: Website revisions

[Paul Sorenson]

Do you have enough room on your other pages (weddings, fine art, etc) to 
make the thumbnails the same size as the ones on the Essay page?  It's 
kind of disconcerting to see the ones on your index page then bounce to 
the tiny thumbs on the subsequent pages.  (IMHO)


My preference is to eliminate the fade from one image to the next.  If 
I'm coming to your site to hire you as a photographer, I want to see 
images;  I don't want to sit through almost 20 seconds of transition to 
see them.


-p

Nick Wright wrote:

So I've made a few changes to my website. Some things I wanted to do,
some things you all suggested.

I'd love to hear what you all have to say about it. Thanks!

http://www.nickdavidwright.com/






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Re: Interesting DA 60-250mm test shots

[Paul Sorenson]

You'll have to get several new toys to be even with a kitchen 
renovation...start a list!


-p

Jack Davis wrote:

Guess I'll just have to charm her. If that doesn't still work, she's been 
talking about a further kitchen renovation...so I see some possibilities.

Jack


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Subject: Re: Interesting DA 60-250mm test shots
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Subject: Re: Interesting DA 60-250mm test shots



My wife closely scrutinizes our "JOINT" bank
account. I know, I have no 

idea at this point how that happened. ;(
While auditing, she wears a green plastic eye shade
and to hold her 

sleeves up, elastic arm bands.


You're doomed, you realize.
Rule one, is don't let them have a joint account.

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Re: geso - flora and fauna

[Paul Sorenson]

Looks like maybe a hyacinth??

-p

ann sanfedele wrote:
For all my PDML'ers  who like my flowers --  Prisoners, tulip leaves and 
the vertical of the almost gone tulips are my three faves...(too)
I started to show just prisoners and tulip leaves but  had to show my 
friends more and I really do need someone to
tell me the name of the pink flower that is kinda soft and fallen in the 
leaves...  for future ref... I keep guessing wrong
(looking up guesses on google) 
thanks all youse for the comments :-)


ann

Christine Aguila wrote:


Prisoners does it for me, Ann!  That's a great one!  Cheers, Christine


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Re: OT - I'm Safe Now

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I thought you stopped seeing that pig...  ;>]


Cotty wrote:

On 28/4/09, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed:





I'm doing my part by visiting my little friend Maisy down on the farm
only twice a week.

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Re: OT? Town planner calendar for 2010.

[Paul Sorenson]

Congratulations on that, Dave...I like the jay.  Hope to see the other 
two as well.


-p

David J Brooks wrote:

I sent in a bunch of photos to the free calendar that Stouffville and
area has. Some shots made it into the 2009 one if any one remembers.

Just had word that they will use three of my photos for the 2010 version.

This will be on the cover and as one of the month shots to.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djbrooks/2653056870/in/set-72157606071323461/

That's two years submitting, and two covers.:-)

I';m happy.

I don't seem to have links to the other two, may be i did not Peso or
Paw those. I'll dig em up.

Dave






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Re: Beer at the hopleaf tonight (?)

[Paul Sorenson]

Larry -

If you're in town long enough to try pizza again look for Lou Malnati's

http://www.loumalnatis.com/Locations/

-p

Larry Colen wrote:



I still haven't had Italian beef or a chicago hot dog yet, but did get
to try pizza from both Gino's East and Giardanos.  




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Re: tungsten gels for flashes

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Do you have a link to the page to order samples?  I searched the US site 
and was not able to find it.


TIA

-p

David Savage wrote:

2009/5/7 David Savage :

2009/5/7 William Robb :

- Original Message -
From: "David Savage"
Subject: Re: tungsten gels for flashes




I recently took delivery of a Lee filter "Designers Edition" sample
book which contains various CTO gels.

I requested it via their website & it arrived about 3-4 weeks later.



Good deal. How big are the samples?
The Rosco book that I got (also free) is a little small for my Matz 60 head.

I'll check when I get home but they're about 35-40mm x 70-75mm


I just measured them & the sample gels are 38x90mm.

Cheers,

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Re: I reskinned my MX

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Complete with fur...

-p

Bob W wrote:


http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/09/09_05/09_05_newskin/index.htm



I'd have done it in black squirrel.

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Re: Netbook doubles as an imagetank

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Me, too.  I use an Acer w/a 120GB HD.  The optical drive would be a nice 
addition, but I just picked up a 320GB portable HD for about 70USD which 
works well for additional storage.  The Acer has two SD slots and three 
USB ports so even flash drives for additional storage are viable options.


The last wedding I did I used FastStone to do some quick and dirty 
editing.  The bride and groom were thrilled to see a slideshow of their 
pix the next morning at breakfast.


-p

Paul Ewins wrote:


I did a similar thing years back with a Toshiba Libretto running PS6 on 
Windows 2000 in a whole 64mb of Ram. It was slow, but when you are only 
copying files and reviewing the day's shooting it was good enough. The 
only downside was no optical drive as I like to burn copies to DVD and 
mail them home. I like the size of the netbooks (10" screen seems a good 
compromise) but I'd prefer something with the DVD built in. That doesn't 
seem to exist at the moment even although it wouldn't add that much more 
size or weight.   We are doing a trip to Hawaii, NY and Quebec later 
this year so I might look into netbooks again before I go.



On 13/05/2009, at 4:21 AM, Toine wrote:


Enabled myself with a MSI Wind netbook, runs 5-6 hours on a
batterycharge, has an SDHC card slot, 160 Gb disc and enough power to
run Lightroom. Small enough to fit in a normal photobag (10"), about 1
kg and half the price of a 100 Gb imagetank (300 euros)!



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Re: how many mSec between frames without flipping the mirror?

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Like this?

Original scanned from film...not art, just an example.

http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/images/inside_out_1.jpg

With a little post processing...

http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/images/inside_out_2.jpg

Graydon wrote:

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 02:23:25PM -0700, Larry Colen scripsit:

I'm not looking for tonemapping. Last night I was trying to shoot the
sunset while overlooking the Santa Clara Valley. I could expose on the
sky, or on the valley, but not both. It is a perfect case of where two
shots, several stop apart, shot in the same fraction of a second would
be the perfect solution. I suppose that I could try bracketing and
post processing, but it would be very handy to have it in the camera,
and to have the two frames close enough in time, without camera
jiggle, to hand hold.


It's surprisingly effective to set the exposure between the sky and the
valley, take a single raw exposure, process it twice or thrice with
radically adjusted white balance (once for the sky and once for the
valley, and maybe also once for the setting you took it on), and mush
those two or three back together into a single image.

I haven't done this for sunsets, but it works quite well to get shadow
detail out of otherwise brightly lit scenes (leopard enclosures, train
station colonnades, etc.) so I don't see why it wouldn't work.

-- Graydon

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Re: Source for large prints

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Thanks for letting me know, Paul.  Glad it worked out for you.  I hate 
it when I recommend some place that has done good work for me and it 
turns out to be crap for someone else.  :-D


-p

paul stenquist wrote:
I ordered a 24 x 30 for a client from El-Co Color. i sized it at 254 
ppi as they suggest and left it in adobe 98 color space. The results 
were excellent. Thanks for the recommendation.
I also ordered a 24 x 36 from adorama. I sized it to their specs and 
looked at it with their icc profile in print preview. The result was 
okay, but not as good as the El-Co print.

Paul
On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Paul Sorenson wrote:


Paul -

I've had good luck with El-Co Color Labs in Manalapan, NJ.  Their 
quality has been good, as is their customer service.


This is a link to their poster specials.

http://www.elcocolor.com/poster_special.htm

-p

P N Stenquist wrote:
I have a customer who wants a 24 x 36 print. Can anyone recommend a 
good source in the U.S.?


Paul

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Re: GESO - Authumn reflections

[Paul Sorenson]

I couldn't tell either until I clicked on the pix in the blog for a 
larger view - looks like an unpaved road.


-p

Bob Sullivan wrote:

Tim,
I don't understand or comprehend what the diagonal thing is.
Can you explain?
Regards,  Bob S.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Tim Øsleby  wrote:
  

Another shameless blog plug.
These shots where hard to make and render. Nature tends to be rather
chaotic, and chaos seldom makes good pictures.

What do you think?
Roses or crap? Please have your say.


MaritimTim

http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/

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Re: OT: My Recent Travails

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Walt -

Sorry to hear about the health problems.  Good they caught the blockage 
in time to fix it.  The good news is, you're on the mend and still on 
the right side of the grass...


-p

Walter Hamler wrote:

The last three weeks have been maybe the most miserable of my 67
years, I had a suspected heart attack the 13th and after two days in
the hospital it was discovered that I had severe blockage in three
arteries at the heart. By-Pass was performed and the mending process
begun. I was sent home on the 23rd only to have to return two days
later with a bladder infection. Another two days stay and return home
only to return to the hospital with severe fluid retention. Finally
home and feeling much better two days ago. Still have to sort out the
bladder/prostrate problem with the urologist but I am feeling much
better.
Growing old is not for the faint of heart!!!  So far the good thing is
that I have lost 20 pounds and hope to lose another 30 before it is
over!

Cheers to all.

Walt

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Re: ISO 100 vs 400

[Paul Sorenson]

I get distracted by mushrooms, too, man.  They're maaa-gic.8-)

-p

Larry Colen wrote:
I got distracted from my todo list by the same mushrooms in my yard 
that have been distracting me for the past week or two:

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622936366544/

Since I'm running late, I didn't pull out the macro tripod, I just 
shot handheld. I tried both ISO 100 and 400 since experience has 
taught me that the K20 does "just fine" on ISO 400.


But, when I was looking at the pictures in lightroom, I kept noticing 
that some of them had a harsh, unpleasant, look to them. I then 
noticed that those were the ones that I shot at ISO 400.


Has anyone noticed that in some situations on the K20 ISO 400 is just 
fine, and in others there's a big difference between it and ISO 100? 
Do you have a rule of thumb of what those situations are?


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Re: Happy Hanukkah

[Paul Sorenson]

Had the family over last night to start the celebration - latkes, 
brisket & kugel.  Thought there would be leftovers, but...


-p

 P N Stenquist wrote:
I'm not Jewish, but I celebrate every holiday. I'm going to whip up 
some latkes for a hanukah celebration. Yum!

Paul
On Dec 12, 2009, at 4:23 PM, frank theriault wrote:


Happy Hanukkah to all those on this list that celebrate it - and to
those who don't celebrate it, too!!

cheers,
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Re: Not Even good enough to be a PESO -- Liquid Abstract

[Paul Sorenson]

Change the title to "Liquid, in Red", print about 10, 16x20's, framed 
and matted 20x24 and you could sell them at a price point to easily pay 
off the body and the lens...and have enough left over to get a K7.  
There's something quite pleasing about the accident...


-p

P. J. Alling wrote:

Pentax K20D: $639.00

smc Pentax 43mm Limited f1.9: $399.00

Wildly gesticulating with camera in hand and accidently hitting 
shutter:.  - 3 Cool Points.


Abstract Art: Priceless!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/liquidabstract.html

Technical Details:  (Do they really matter at this point?)


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Re: PESO - Snow Patterns (Traces) #2 - Version 2

[Paul Sorenson]

I agree with Christine...version 2 is a nice, pretty picture of frosty 
leaves, while version 1 is more subtle and reminiscent of an "old 
masters" look.


-p

Christine Aguila wrote:
Hi Marnie:  You know, I like the original best--I think it's lovely. 
Cheers, Christine



- Original Message - From: 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:24 PM
Subject: PESO - Snow Patterns (Traces) #2 - Version 2



Calling this series snow traces  now.

Adjusted white balance and punched up a  bit.
http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/snow3.htm

Original.  Looks colder to me, but the white balance adjusted one is
probably  better.
http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/snow2.htm

Comments  welcome.

Marnie  :-)
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when we

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Re: A Small GESO - Firefighting Helicopters

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Nice series...this one makes the Skycrane look like a huge, alien insect.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/album-firefighting/slides/_IGP5904j.html

-p

Brian Walters wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:22 -0600, "Christine  Aguila"
 wrote:
  
Sorry to hear about the fires.  Stay safe.  Excellent set though, Brian! 
Just out of interest, what lens were you using?  Cheers, Christine




Thanks, Christine.

It's been raining this morning and the temperature is expected to be in
the low 20s (compared to 43C yesterday).

The lens?  the 55-300 DA.


Cheers

Brian

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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/


  
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To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" 
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Subject: A Small GESO - Firefighting Helicopters




G'day all

We have a serious bushfire burning a few km to the east of us.  It's
downwind of us so that's good - but not good for those in that
direction.

As I write another Erikson Air Crane has just flown over the house - we
have a small lake a couple of hundred metres away and the choppers have
been using it to fill their water tanks for most of the day.

Of course I took a few photos.

:-)>


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/album-firefighting/index.html


  




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Re: PESO - PDML special

[Paul Sorenson]

John Sessoms wrote:

From: "Brian Walters"

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:02 -0500, "Christian" 
wrote:

> eactiv...@aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 12/9/2009 12:17:26 P.M.  Pacific Standard 
Time, > > alunf...@gmail.com writes:

>

> > Blog: http://turl.no/6tp
> > Image:  http://turl.no/6tq
> > > > Jostein
> > > > =
> > ??? But it's not a  cormorant. Nice shot, good DOF on the 
background.
> > > > Marnie  
> > Ummm, yes it is.  a "Shag" is the European name for what 
Americans call > a cormorant. 



Of course, it has other meanings as well.  The term "shag on a rock" is
quite capable of misinterpretation


Yep. Along the Carolina coast in the southern US, some Baptists might 
accuse you of dancing.

Only if you're doing it standing up...

-p






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Re: Wireless question

[Paul Sorenson]

Adding to all other replies, LinkSys has some good video tutorials on 
networking here...


http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/learningcenter

If your Mac already works wireless, you already have a wireless router 
built into the modem.  Unless your motherboard has on-board wireless, 
you will need a wireless card and its software to add to your PC.  BTW, 
if the install instructions tell you to run the CD software before you 
install the card, be sure to do it that way, otherwise you'll spend a 
bunch of time trying to figure out why things aren't working.   ;>)


-p

William Robb wrote:


- Original Message - From: "David J Brooks"
Subject: Re: Wireless question



On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:15 AM, William Robb  wrote:
So, i'll need to add a card to the PC, is that correct.??

I have read some of the flyers and plan to get one w=that allows 
firewall

etc.


Check your motherboard specs. Some (like my old ASUS) had wireless 
built in,

others (like my new Gigabyte) don't.
Odds are you will be adding a card though.
I think all routers these days have built in firewalls. Doesn't help 
unless

you password protect the network though.
If you want to be really anal, you can close down your network to just 
the

MAC addresses of your individual computers.
Note, PC's have MAC addresses. It stands for Media Access Control 
address.
I've found WinXP pro to be very easy to make work on a wireless 
network, it wants to be networked.
Vista wasn't so easy, it wants to network but is afraid of the 
consequences so it won't actually do it unless you talk really nice 
and reassure it that it will be OK.


William Robb





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Re: Christmas morning

[Paul Sorenson]

M - looks good!  And in a cast iron pan, too.

-p

Stan Halpin wrote:

Nothing like a pannukakku to start the day!

http://www.zenfolio.com/smhPhotos/p155717848

Best wishes to all for a healthy happy holiday.

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Re: OT - strange artifact in image

[Paul Sorenson]

On 12/31/2009 12:15 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:

On 12/31/2009 12:02 PM, mike wilson wrote:

Bob W wrote:

Meantime have been doing a limited edition Smokey Bock the 


last few
weeks which is really, really nice. It's in that porter / stout 
spectrum of tastes with a delicious wintry smokiness like an old 
London smog. It's 6.5% ABV so a couple of them set you up


nicely on a snowy evening.



http://rarebeerclub.beveragebistro.com/rbc_v03n03.html


"The document contains no data".




Your machine's broken


All three browsers agree.  Can't access the home page, either.  
Most odd.



Firewall


No software one, only a router.  Now I'm getting "The connection to 
the server was reset while the page was loading."


I've been getting that alot with a Netgear DSL router.  Seems to be a 
firmwear problem.  Not likely to be the same as yours, but you never 
know.


Me, too, with whatever router AT&T uses.  Usually, if I just click 
"Retry" the page will load.


-p

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Re: FS: Flash, Grip, Converter, Remote & Zoom Lens

[Paul Sorenson]

Jerome -

What did you have to do to remove the locking pin on the AF-540?

-p

On 1/8/2010 3:58 PM, Jerome Reyes wrote:
I've added 4 items this week, but 2 of them are somewhat redundant as 
I also sold a different grip and flash last week. Anyway, here's 
what's posted now on eBay:


Pentax Rear Converter A 1.4X-L Teleconverter With Case
http://tinyurl.com/yj3r8ck

Pentax D-BG2 Battery Grip for K10D K20D Digital Cameras
http://tinyurl.com/ygxfcbf

Pentax AF-540 FGZ P-TTL Shoe Mount Flash 540FGZ
http://tinyurl.com/yefo943

Pentax Zoom Lens SMCP-DA* 50-135mm f2.8 ED SDM
http://tinyurl.com/y8e3cvy


Not on eBay but for sale:
Pentax Remote Control F that I've used all of about 4 times   $6
http://tinyurl.com/38ays4
B&H lists this as compatible with the K20 and K200... however I used 
it for the K10D.



Already sold: K10D, 1.7x converter, flash, and grip from last week.
Still to come: 2nd K10D body, 12-24mm, 20-35mm, and 16-50mm lenses. 
And for those keeping score at home... yes, I've changed my strategy. 
I thought I'd be keeping one of my K10D bodies, but plan B is 
officially in effect.


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Re: Fairygirl is in the house!

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Me, too...

-p

On 1/9/2010 7:37 PM, David J Brooks wrote:

I;m on Fb

Dave

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Tanya Love  wrote:
   

Really?  I link to FB all the time and my hubby isn't a member and he can
always view everything I send to him.  All of my albums on there are set for
public viewing, so it shouldn't be an issue.

H, wonder if this direct link to the hosted image will work?

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs063.snc3/13037_1250744223537_
1077428195_787954_7191903_n.jpg



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Subject: Re: Fairygirl is in the house!

Since "You must long in to see this page," I guess only Cotty will be seeing
it...

As an aside, I fine it extremely annoying that sites that

A.) Have pretty much no restrictions on content.

and

B.) Have free memberships, (and therefore no real control over who sees that
content).

still require me to log in to see that content.

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Re: GESO - Across Australia and back

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On 1/11/2010 11:08 AM, Larry Colen wrote:


The Pinnacles (don't let Larry see these - he'll want to roll a 
frenchy onto

them)



I've been trying to puzzle that comment out since last night.  What's 
a frenchy?





That would be...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_tickler

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Re: Semi OT: 64 bit Operating Systems and PhotoShop

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I just upgraded to a new box w/Win7/64 bit.  So far have had pretty much 
no problems running 32 bit software - PSE6, ProShow Gold, BreezeBrowser, 
FotoFusion, an older version of Acrobat and others.  They all seem to 
run more quickly, but I don't know if that's a function of a 64 bit OS 
or faster hardware or both.  Haven't installed LR2 yet, but that should 
install as a 64 bit unless I specifically run the 32 bit install.  I've 
been told that one glitch w/64 bit LR is not being able to publish an 
album to the web from w/in LR - a function which works from the 32 bit 
version - but I can't verify that from my own experience.


I *do* make it a point to check the vendors website to see if they have 
any notes on running their software on Win7/64 bit.  It seems a really 
critical thing is the drivers - printer drivers, etc - you need to make 
sure there is a 64 bit driver available to support your printer, 'cause 
a 32 bit driver won't work.


-p

On 1/20/2010 2:12 PM, John Sessoms wrote:

Took my laptop in this morning and had 4GB RAM installed (up from 2GB).

Turns out Windows Vista Ultimate is only 32bit and limits the amount 
of RAM it can use to supposedly 3.5GB - System Information is showing 
3,069.44MB which I make to be 2.99GB.


Don't know why it doesn't show the whole 3.5GB.

OTOH, I found out the laptop has two physical hard drives where I 
thought it had one drive partitioned into two logical drives, so I may 
have more upgrade options than I originally thought.


One thing I started thinking about this morning is installing Windows 
7 Professional 64 bit.


Has anyone had experience with 64 bit versions of Windows? Especially 
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Re: OT: Strange but True

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I get the same result - just a black box.  Firefox, Win7/64

-p

On 1/26/2010 10:16 PM, paul stenquist wrote:

On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:58 PM, John Sessoms wrote:

   

From: paul stenquist
 

I created a little website for my virtual tours using Apple's iWeb
about two years ago. It worked well with every browser, including
Safari. I have two Macs: the laptop runs system 10.6, the desktop
runs 10.5. The other day I noticed that my iWeb-rendered website
doesn't work with Safari on the computer running 10.6. Ironically, it
works fine with Firefox. Still works okay on the Mac with 10.5 on
both Firefox and Safari. I'm surprised that the iWeb rendered site
would work with someone else's browser under 10.6 but not with
Apple's own software. I guess a call to Apple tech is in order.
In case anyone is curious, the site is at
http://www.picturethisdetroit.net.
Nothing new. Seen here before.
   

Is it only supposed to be foyer, living room&  kitchen?

 

You can also go to the master bedroom by clicking on the stairs. Safari on a 
mac with system 10.6 yields only a black box when clicking a link. Some kind of 
bug there.
Paul

   

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Re: OT - computer hard drive question

[Paul Sorenson]

For Windows users, MicroSoft has a free, unsupported PowerToy called 
SyncToy that works well for backup and maintains the original file 
format.  It comes in both 32 and 64-bit flavors.  You can find it here...


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&displaylang=en

*http://tinyurl.com/2cu9fh*

-p

On 1/31/2010 10:01 AM, Adam Maas wrote:

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Doug Franklin
  wrote:
   

On 2010-01-31 6:42, Cotty wrote:

 

To wipe the main external drive and simply drag and drop the backup onto
it?

or

To wipe the main external drive and use the backup software to allow it
to do its thing and clone back onto it?
   

I don't know about MAC specifics, since I'm a Windows and Linux sort of guy.
  But I don't like using backup software, because it usually doesn't leave
the files in a directly accessible format on the backup target. So, I
generally just do regular file copies to the backup media.  I don't
typically use the GUI for tasks like this, because I've found that on most
systems the command line tools for copying files work faster, since they
don't spend any time dinking around keeping the screen up to date.  So, for
me, it'd be a small shell script or something that simply copies everything
I want backed up to the external drive.


--
Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)

 

Most good backup software leaves readable copies of files on the
destination drive when copying to a standard filesystem. I tend to use
rsync-based backup strategies myself, but there's a zillion good
options on Mac, Linux or PC that don't behave as you suggest.


   




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Re: Elements 2 ??

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He could also save it as a png, which also supports transparency, but 
retains a larger color range.


-p

On 2/1/2010 6:34 AM, Brian Walters wrote:

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:58 -0500, "David J Brooks"
wrote:
   

Just received an email from an old work friend at MMM group.He is trying
to change the back ground colour of a photo from white to transparant.

Any tips

 




This tutorial seems to be for a later version of Elements, but it might
work:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/300201/create-image-with-transparent-background


The jpg format doesn't support transparency so, if the image is needed
for the web, it will have to be saved in gif format and that will limit
the image to 256 colours.



Cheers

Brian

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Western Sydney Australia
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Re: Laptop computers with good displays?

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On 2/3/2010 10:00 PM, Doug Brewer wrote:

Mark Roberts wrote:

Anyone know of any laptop computers with good (IPS/MVA/PVA) displays?
Particularly any reasonably sized ones? Last I heard there weren't any
high quality displays under 17" and I'd prefer something smaller than
that if possible.

My current laptop just died. It's a total "nothing lights up" failure,
so I have a sneaking suspicion that it's something very basic and not
a prohibitively expensive fix. But if fate does bless me with an
expensive repair that justifies ditching it and buying a new computer,
I'd like to be prepared...




time for an iPad



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Re: i'm in luuuuuurv...

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Tanya -

Sent this earlier, but it got lost in cyberspace.  Hope it still helps.

The latest version of Lightroom is 2.6.  Open LightRoom, drop down the 
HELP menu and click on "Check for Updates".  That will lead you through 
the process of getting the latest version of LR2 and you should be able 
to work with K-7 PEF's.


Or you can go here...

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

to get the latest versions of LightRoom and Camera RAW.

If you're using LightRoom to import your images into your computer, I 
suggest converting them to DNG's at the same time.  Then all the post 
processing that you do in LightRoom is contained within the DNG file if 
you want to do additional work on it in CS4, which is not the case if 
you work on PEF's.


-p

On 2/7/2010 8:21 AM, Tanya Love wrote:

Hi there Rick!

I just posted a thread about this issue - so, can you point me in the direction 
of the update that I require?  Is it from Pentax or Adobe?  I have already 
completed a full shoot today of 350+ images in PEF, so I'd really like to be 
able to work with them immediately...

Thanks so much!

Tan. :)

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Womer
Sent: Monday, 8 February 2010 12:15 AM
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Subject: Re: i'm in luurv...

Just to deal with one small part of your post...

You will have to update Lightroom or ACR for your computer to interpret the 
K7's PEF files.

In the meantime, you can shoot RAW in the DNG format instead of the PEF format 
(the latter being camera model-specific).

Rick

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Re: OT - My Blog

[Paul Sorenson]

It's good here in Milwaukee.  Like the pix of Rodrigo.  He looks real 
mellow...


-p

On 2/10/2010 4:02 PM, frank theriault wrote:

Bob W has mentioned that lately my blog is ~very~ slow, to the point
that today he couldn't get on.

I certainly have no problems.

How is it for others?

http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/

I'm not sure what I can do about it, other than post somewhere else?

Thanks for your help.

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Re: OT/2: back from repair

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Holy Cow!!  That sounds like quite an ordeal.  Glad to hear you're on 
the mend.  Sometimes a life threatening experience such as this forces 
us to re-evaluate our priorities to get a feel for what's really important.


-p

On 2/13/2010 7:02 AM, eckinator wrote:

Hi again gang,

right now I feel like my life's a sorry pun...

I am finally back again, hopefully for good this time - spent another
full week in hospital after another, more serious breakdown (I was
fully conscious but left side paralyzed and aphasic, i.e. couldn't
communicate any more in any meaningful way, threw up all over the
place, finally became disoriented and extremely irritable) so luckily
they looked a little deeper, punctured my spine and inspected the
liquor which was full of proteines and dead cells that didn't belong
there and decided on meningitis which was later changed to
encephalitis; both have a letality rate in excess of 10% so this time
I do consider myself seriously fortunate as it seems it could have
gone undetected after all, took them over a week to identify and they
had already declared me fine and aborted therapy once when the lab
found it... no idea when they pulled out their heads and started
thinking...

Anyway, strangely becoming to a punster with my dirty mind, the virus
bears the fabulous name of Cocksackie so no wonder I am feeling a lil
bit fucked... there is no drug to fight it so I will have to deal with
it myself but luckily I have developed the antibody and they say I am
in an excellent state of repair so to say otherwise so if I take it
easy, I can make it and have reasonably little to worry about given my
immune situation. This is immensely good news to be thankful for. It
is not a this will be my 2nd birthday feeling but there is a deep
knowledge of this could have gone worse so I guess I will think twice
before and about a number of things as well as two times less before&
about some others.

Speaking of things I have to perhaps be quick about, is book
submission still open?

Cheers (from the heart)
Ecke

2010/2/7 Toine:
   

That sounds like a serious burnout. Take care of yourself and
photography is a perfect therapy to clear your head.

Toine

On 5 February 2010 01:10, eckinator  wrote:
 

glad to announce:

- was released from hospital saturday after a major cardio&  nervous
breakdown thursday morning following 38 hours of non stop pc work
- on a good way to a full functional recovery
- one more hospital exam to go, looking good so far
- will get weeks off from work for stress relief, me time and so on
- am not to come back until back at at least 110%

plus

- picked up my k10d and 16-50 from checkup, cleaning, minor repairs
and focal plane and back focus adjustment today

- seems ok, too except for lens barrel appear slightly loose, can
anyone comment if this is normal (never paid attention before) please?

essence

I was given a windfall of time and gear for finally some serious
shooting since a vewwy long time
so i wanna thank my maker and the fat lady

cheers
ecke - so glad to be still around (mind you my life was not in danger =)

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Re: PESO - Cornered

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The result of too many donuts, no doubt...

-p


Thanks for looking!

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Re: Flash sync volt of K7 and K20D

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*Disclaimer:  If you have any questions or concerns about the flash sync 
voltage, use a Wein SafeSync or other method of reducing the trigger 
voltage*


That said, I did a Google for this and these are two answers that came up:

Answer #1--*http://tinyurl.com/yjkav5v   (scroll down to an entry by 
wildlifephotog


*"Pentax is ISO 10330:2002 compliant. That sets a 25 volt standard on 
the flash voltage."


Answer #2--http://photo.net/pentax-camera-forum/00VZKf?start=20   
(scroll down to an entry by Peter Zack)


"I took a couple old flashes to my local authorized Pentax repair shop. 
He's independent and services all brands. He emphatically said that with 
Pentax DSLR's the flash trigger circuits in the body are electronic. 
This is basically a computer 
 after all. Old 
camera bodies from the film era used mechanical contact points.


Those old bodies could handle just about anything. On new bodies, the 
electrical circuits are designed for certain tolerances and may 
withstand moderate high trigger voltages for a time but will burn up 
after awhile. He said that the max trigger voltage should be 30 volts 
and you should *never * use a flash with more than 20 volt trigger 
voltage. Pentax flashes are all very low at around 4-6 volts."


BTW, for anyone thinking of studio lights, AlienBees reports the sync 
voltage for their flash units is 6V.


-p



On 2/22/2010 11:54 AM, 27...@comcast.net wrote:

Has anyone done any testing on the amount of voltage from a flash that either 
the K7 or the K20D can take.. I have some 120j Sunpak flashes that I would like 
to use. I did use them with a Nikon D1 before and had no trouble..Thanks Joe

   




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Re: PESO - Bike Parking at Night

[Paul Sorenson]

H...  The only icons that show on my screen are "add a comment" and 
"add to faves".


-p

On 2/24/2010 10:09 PM, Adam Maas wrote:

If you click on the magnifying glass icon on the lower right-hand
corner of the image, Flickrriver will show you a larger version.

-Adam

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:
   

Nicely composed, very atmospheric.  It would be nice to see it larger.

Rick

http://photo.net/photos/RickW


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From: Adam Maas
Subject: PESO - Bike Parking at Night
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9:51 PM
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/mawz/4384094299/

K-x, DA 18-55 II, ISO 6400, No NR whatsoever (RAW with NR
turned off
in CaptureOne).

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Re: Let's not bitch about Pentax... Let's bitch about Adobe.

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On 2/26/2010 9:43 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:

mike wilson wrote:

   

So it's not really suprising that Adobe's pdf reader (yes, that's _all_ it 
does) application takes up one quarter of a gigabyte.

Double damn.
 

Don't even think about using Acrobat Reder: Go with the free Foxit PDF
viewer instead: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/
   


Or try this one - http://www.nuance.com/imaging/products/pdf-reader.asp 
- only a 42mb footprint.


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Re: Let's not bitch about Pentax... Let's bitch about Adobe.

[Paul Sorenson]

Hmm.  I've used their software for quite some time and have not had 
any problems with it.  Can't speak to the quality of their tech support, 
since I've not had to use them.  As for spam and junk phone calls, 
they're no worse than most others and much better than some.


Obviously, YMMV

-p

On 2/26/2010 1:11 PM, William Robb wrote:


- Original Message - From: "Paul Sorenson"
Subject: Re: Let's not bitch about Pentax... Let's bitch about Adobe.



Or try this one - 
http://www.nuance.com/imaging/products/pdf-reader.asp - only a 42mb 
footprint.


NOO.
Friends don't let friends use Nuance products.
Seriously, just don't give them your correct email address or phone 
number during registration.
I bought their PDF converter a couple of years ago as a cheap 
alternative to Acrobat.

The difference in price was about $500.00.
After dealing with their buggie software, completely unhelpful help 
and two years of spam and junk phone calls, I'm starting to think that 
I should have just bought the Adobe product.

They are like the stray cat that you feel sorry for and feed once.
They never go away after that.

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Re: OT/2: back from repair

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On 3/2/2010 11:26 AM, John Sessoms wrote:

From: frank theriault
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:31 PM, eckinator  
wrote: 

> I am actually neurologically left handed. I've lived right handed for
> almost 40 years...


Remember, left-handed people are in their right minds.


> They call mine a concealed left handedness. Could
> also mean someone or in fact even I myself by manner of imitation
> trained me into adopted right handedness.


When I started school back in the dark ages, my parents told my grade
one teacher that I was left handed and they did not want her to
"train" me to become right-handed.  Apparently it wasn't uncommon for
teachers to do things like tie kids' left hands behind their backs so
they couldn't use them to write, or to actually punish children for
holding pens and pencils in their left hand.  My teacher told my
parents she believed in letting children write with their preferred
hand.

I can't imagine the torment that poor lefties went through being
forced to write with their right hand.  And later consequences?  Who
knows?



That's really old school. They abandoned that idea some time before 
the 1950s around here.


Weren't doing it in North Carolina in 1955 when I started ... not that 
it matters, since I am naturally right handed anyway. They even 
provided special left-hand desks for the kids who wrote that way.


Hard to imagine any school system more back-woods than Durham, NC in 
the  50s.
I don't recall anyone ever forcing us to switch to right-handedness when 
I started first grade in 1947, they just pretty much assumed we were all 
right-handed.  Our instructions were to turn the paper so the top edge 
was pointed toward the upper left corner of the desk - which is why you 
see so many left-handed people curling their hand over the top of their 
script and essentially writing upside-down.  Being the independent sort, 
I turned my paper toward the upper right corner so I don't do the 
upside-down thing.  My penmanship still isn't worth a damn, though...


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Re: Developing Chemical Disposal

[Paul Sorenson]

This is the best choice - to take all your old chemistry to a household 
hazardous waste pickup point so it can be dealt with properly.


Putting them into your septic system creates two issues.  The first 
being any potential damage to your septic/soil absorption system and the 
possibility of the chemicals killing the bacteria that are the "workmen" 
of the system.  The second issue has to do with the non-biodegradable 
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potentially contaminating the ground water.  Neither of these are 
beneficial occurrences.


Even prescription drugs are being found in our water supply, partly from 
unused pills being dumped down the toilet and partly from passing 
through our bodies when we're on medication.  No need to add other 
chemicals to the mix.


-p

On 3/2/2010 5:11 PM, John Sessoms wrote:

John Graves wrote:

> I am considering developing my own B&W film. My film cameras are > 
beckoning. Before I do this, I would like to understand how to 
dispose > of the required chemicals.  I would be using something 
like Ethol UFG > on TMax or equivalents.   It looks like fixer with 
a simple treatment > (desilvering) is dumpable, but what about the 
developer and stopbath? > I am on a septic system and don't want to 
spoil a good system.

>
> Any suggestions either in disposal or alternative products is 
welcome.


Mix your used developer and stop bath together so they balance out. 
They definitely should not go into the septic system. Most areas have 
a household hazardous waste disposal location or periodic collection 
and you should be able to take it there.


Here in Raleigh/Wake County NC it used to be first Saturday of the 
month, but they've recently expanded the service to six days a week 
year round. Specifically lists "photographic chemicals" among the 
itemss accepted.


No additional charge beyond what I already pay for 
water/sewer/trash/curbside recycling.


Try Googling "Your Town/County State household hazardous waste" - 
that's how I found out about the new facility in Wake County.


If they don't take fixer, I'd ask around local mini-labs. If you're 
not generating great quantities of waste, you can probably find one 
that will take the used fixer and add it to their own chemicals for 
de-silvering.


They might be willing to take on your used developer and stop as well.



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Re: Peso Yield

[Paul Sorenson]

When I first started teaching flying, one of the guys that hung out at 
the airport on the weekends was an ex-WWII pilot who had wanted to get 
into the conflict early.  Don't remember if he flew for the RAF or the 
RCAF, but he had experience in both the Mozzie and the Spit.  He liked 
the Spit but said the Mozzie was the most responsive, delightful 
airplane he ever flew.


-p

On 3/2/2010 11:30 PM, frank theriault wrote:

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:31 AM, David J Brooks  wrote:
   

One more before i do the Geso.

Hope you can read the poster, kinda neat

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10740302
 

Ah yes, the famous Mozzie, one of Canada's great contributions to
WWII.  I think about 1,100 of them were built at the Downsview plant.

Interesting shot, Dave!

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Re: A400/5.6 Shots a bird

[Paul Sorenson]

If you're running FireFox, there's an FTP plugin called FireFTP that 
runs in its own tab within FireFox.  It handles TLS and SSL as well as SFTP.


-p

On 3/3/2010 8:20 AM, AlunFoto wrote:

To those who insist on doing direct file uploads (there are situations
where that is still preferable), I would recommend a client that uses
SCP or SFTP, to amend the problems Mark mentions. WinSCP is one
freeware tool that fits the bill in Windows environments.
http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

It's also very important to have the ISP's webserver patched up with
the security fixes. ISPs who neglects this aren't worth anyone's
business.

Jostein

2010/3/3 Mark Roberts:
   

Joseph McAllister wrote:

 

On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:25 , J.C. O'Connell wrote:

   

these files are ftp uploaded and seem to work fine
on ebay for many many many times (1000's)all without incident
or failure to display on my system nor any reports
thru ebay or direct from any ebay buyers reporting either.
Not sure why a few don't like them, pretty basic
stuff. I use CA antivirus service on the pc at this time.
 

While ftp uploading is rather anachronistic (you haven't replaced that
2400 baud modem yet?) I found that most of the time I get a photo of a
cormorant on a goose. But I did get the grey screen of WARNING on two
occasions. It may not be your photo(s) JC, but obviously the site
trips Google's crawlers quite often.
   

No one should be using FTP in the year 2010. FTP in inherently
unsecure because it passes password data unencrypted(!) and therefore
visible to anyone snooping anywhere between the sender and receiver.
There are known vulnerabilities in some routers which, if unpatched,
allow third parties to "eavesdrop" and grab FTP passwords.

The problem(s) with JCO's site aren't in the images. They're in other
files that have been uploaded by whoever has snooped his password.


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Re: PESO - Cellist on Augusta

[Paul Sorenson]

I messed with this a little with the burn & dodge tools based on some of 
the suggestions and came up with this.  Scroll down for the original.  
Will remove in 24 hours unless you request sooner, Frank.  Bob W's right 
- it's the cigarette that really makes it.


http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm

-p

On 3/7/2010 8:40 AM, frank theriault wrote:

I'm struggling with this one.  Took about 1/2 dozen of this young man
(the cigarette rather interested me), but the background was horrible
- not just passing pedestrians, but all sorts of junk kept getting in
the way, not matter what angle I shot from.  Harsh light wasn't my
friend either.  Even this shot (the least cluttered of the bunch) was
cropped severely to "clean things up" - at least a bit.

Does it work?  I'd prefer more environment in the shot, but given
that's not possible what are your thoughts on this one:

http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/03/cellist-on-augusta.html

I fear it may be one for the trashcan - an "almost but not quite".

Hope you enjoy.  Comments encouraged.

cheers,
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Re: OT - UPS schizophrenia

[Paul Sorenson]

When an item is scanned the tracking gives you an estimated delivery 
date.  Obviously it got to Houston ahead of schedule so they had to do 
something to keep it moving around in order to meet that estimated 
date.  God help them if they delivered a day earlier. After all, you 
didn't pay for overnight delivery. ;-)


-p

On 3/12/2010 8:54 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote:

I thought some PDMLer may enjoy this clinical case.

I didn't know UPS gets frequent flier miles
I don't see any other reason why the package passed through Houston
twice within less than 24 hours.
I suspect they forgot to parachute it on the way from Houston to Dallas,
but the plane/track was making only right turns (as it was ordered some
2-3 year ago - to save the gas, when all routes were reprogrammed for
that), - so the only way it could get back was through
the neighboring state of Kentucky.

Enjoy:
http://www.komkon.org/~igor/UPS-schizophrenia.jpg


Igor

   




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Re: question for the brits American to English translation

[Paul Sorenson]

On 3/14/2010 2:08 PM, John Sessoms wrote:

From: "William Robb"

From: "John Sessoms"

>
> Blame it all on the Southern Baptist Convention. We have to 
constantly > fight them for the right to consume any alcohol at all.

>


Tell them that if it wasn't for the discovery of alcohol we would all 
still be cave dwelling hunter gatherers eating whatever we could find 
on the forest floor.


Right. Like they listen to anything I got to say.

They don't care about possible benefits of alcohol. The only thing 
they care about is consumption of alcohol might lead to dancing.


That's why they never have sex standing up...someone might think they're 
dancing.


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It's here...

[Paul Sorenson]

A black K-X from B&H.  Less than $550 including 2 day shipping.  Gonna 
give it a workout this weekend on a short holiday visiting friends.  It 
was a hard choice between the KX and the K7.  Finally decided on the KX 
hoping to go more "high end" if the successor to the K7 has the low 
light qualities of the KX.  Will have to spend the evening RTFM.


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Re: Peso: Spring Crocus

[Paul Sorenson]

Bob -

You should be able to brighten just the green leaves using this technique:

In Lightroom's Develop module open up the HSL section and click on 
"Luminance".  In the upper left corner of the HSL section you'll see a 
circle with a dot in the center.  Click on that and it will expand by 
adding an up and down arrowhead to the symbol.  When you move the mouse 
cursor over the image it will turn into that same symbol with an 
addition plus sign.  Put the plus sign on the color you want to brighten 
or darken.


Holding the left mouse button down and moving the cursor up will 
increase the luminence and brighten just that color.  Moving the cursor 
down will darken it.  When you think you have the adjustment to your 
liking, release the mouse button.  The cursor may disappear when you 
depress the mouse button but that's OK - it will reappear when you 
release it.  Just move the mouse forward or backward until the luminance 
of the selected color is right.  Go back to the symbol in the upper left 
of the HSL box and click on it to turn off that adjustment function.  At 
this point, if you decide you don't like what you did just do a Ctrl-Z 
to return to your previous settings.


HTH

-p

On 3/22/2010 8:43 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:

Rick,
Here is a shot with more vibrance added in Lightroom.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10834093

I am cautious about going too dark on the green parts and purple base
of the blossoms.
The original is just before on photo.net.
Regards,  Bob S.

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:
   

Bob,

I really like this shot--for better or worse, the snow is always gone here by 
the time the crocuses (croci?) appear.

One might brighten the flowers a bit and increase the saturation.

Rick

http://photo.net/photos/RickW


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From: Bob Sullivan
Subject: Peso: Spring Crocus
To: "PDML"
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 12:03 AM
Here's a shot inspired by the crocus
photos of others here.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10828899&size=lg

Yes, isn't this the first day of spring?

Regards.  Bob S.

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Re: Peso: Spring Crocus

[Paul Sorenson]

I will often make a virtual copy in Lightroom and work on that instead 
of the original.  Than I can easily compare the original to what I've done.


-p

On 3/22/2010 9:29 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:

Thanks for the feedback Rick.
I'm always pretty reluctant to do much with these sliders.
I'm afraid I'll lose my way in terms of what the real photo is.
If that makes any sense to you.
Regards,  Bob S.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Rick Womer  wrote:
   

I think that's an improvement.

http://photo.net/photos/RickW


--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Bob Sullivan  wrote:

 

From: Bob Sullivan
Subject: Re: Peso: Spring Crocus
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"
Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 9:43 AM
Rick,
Here is a shot with more vibrance added in Lightroom.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10834093

I am cautious about going too dark on the green parts and
purple base
of the blossoms.
The original is just before on photo.net.
Regards,  Bob S.

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Rick Womer
wrote:
   

Bob,

I really like this shot--for better or worse, the snow
 

is always gone here by the time the crocuses (croci?)
appear.
   

One might brighten the flowers a bit and increase the
 

saturation.
   

Rick

http://photo.net/photos/RickW


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wrote:
   
 

From: Bob Sullivan
Subject: Peso: Spring Crocus
To: "PDML"
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 12:03 AM
Here's a shot inspired by the crocus
photos of others here.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10828899&size=lg

Yes, isn't this the first day of spring?

Regards.  Bob S.

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Re: PESO: Rear View

[Paul Sorenson]

Cool - I had two like that on my '64 1/2 Mustang...

-p

Mark Roberts wrote:
> I did some shooting while wandering around the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand 
> Prix last weekend. Rather a thin turnout this year, I think, but I still 
> got a few good "Auto Parts" shots. Here's one I rather like:
> 
> http://www.robertstech.com/pages/fotoblog/7d804151.htm
> 
> K20d, 77mm Limited, ISO 400, 1/500 @ f/11
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Re: GESO: My little exhibit in NYC this month and some publishing news

[Paul Sorenson]

Really enjoyed the gallery of diners.  It's a shame so many of these are 
going by the wayside and being replaced by the sameness of the fast food 
  places.  It's always an adventure to eat at these one of a kind 
"joints" and rub elbows with the locals.  Betsy's in Falmouth, *is* 
still there - we had the pleasure of a meal there last August when we 
were on the Cape for a wedding.

-p



ann sanfedele wrote:
> Getting this ready kept me from hanging out with you guys on line...
> Here are all the shots and notes on them (27 in all)  
> 
> Important note:  the variation from thumbnail to thumbnail in the sepia 
> toning was a result of my haste in
> getting them backed up on smugmug - or something funky in the 
> transaltion from adobe to srgb on the site...
> eventually, i'll fix that - still can't get to it now.
> 
> anyway tada:
> http://annsan.smugmug.com/gallery/4966346_EXJZB
> 
> The show will be up at least through the end of the month... and I gotta 
> tell you the food at the Comfort
> Diner is YUMMY!  It is on 23rd street  just a few doors west of 5th ave 
> on the uptown side of the street.
> Of coruse if any of you get to NY I'm love to see you, but if you are 
> doing the whole tourist routine I'll
> understand if you don't want to hang out with an old broad who doesnt 
> want to traipse around with you :)
> but do try the diner - if not when my show is up, then another time.
> 
> In other news - 5 of my bw photos are in a new comic book/mad magazine 
> type thingy called DOSE.
> The important thing is I got paid for the shots... they are tiny in the 
> magazine and heavily surrounded by
> text I didn't write. I like the editor so much, I wish I were not 
> unhappy about it...  HIpper folk than
> I have told me they thought the mag was very funny.  
> 
> http://www.indeliblecomics.com/dose0101.html
> 
> The New York version is larger and easier to read than what you would 
> see in other parts of the country and
> has a different cover than that on the web site.
> 
> Last but not least, and I may have mentioned it ten times already,  is 
> the book about Scrabblers and Scrabble tourney
> players fights with Hasbro by Paul McCarthy - LETTERATI.  
> It is not the lively read that WORD FREAK is, but kets kudos from 
> serious players for his respect of them and
> the trademark and intellectual property stuff in the last few chapters 
> is fascinating... especially with the
> Hasbro versus Scrabulous stuff going on now.
> 
> 
> The publishers page on it is here:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/3c5cvx
> 
> It took a while, but they did get my name on that page.
> 
> The photos in it are here - but I think you guys already knew that:
> 
> http://annsan.smugmug.com/gallery/3999592_B5WUZ
> 
> 
> None of these things is getting enough moolah rolling in at present, but 
> I'm hoping Comfort Diner patrons
> might find their way to my web pages and the book credits will help me 
> for possible future publication stuff
> 
> Now I have to get back to putting things on ebay and getting calendars 
> ready for cafe press for fall.
> 
> ann
> 
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Re: Pentax istD

[Paul Sorenson]

Dan -

You can find the various iterations of Camera RAW and also DNG converter 
at one of these pages...

For Windows

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106&platform=Windows

For MAC

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106&platform=Macintosh

The later versions won't work with older versions of PhotoShop so you'll 
have to check the documentation on the various versions until you find 
one to fit with your PS version.

-p

Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> When I tried to get Camera RAW from Adobe, they send me to download
> CS3.  Is there an easier way to get the RAW plug-in alone?
> 
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Adobe Camera RAW delivers the best results with Pentax PEF files.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> What is the best RAW converter for use with photoshop?
>>> Due to a computer problem, I had to reinstall PS, and now I have to
>>> reinstall a RAW converter.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 Using RAW should make this issue non-existent, using a decent RAW 
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Re: OT: Nikon D700

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Your motherboard should be OK with PCI slots for the USB card.  The card 
should come with a disk for setup - it's a good idea to be sure your 
Windows has been upgraded to Service Pack 2.

-p

David J Brooks wrote:
> Thanks
> 
> Its an MDG computer, sort of Canada's answer to a Dell, i suppose is
> the best way to describe an MDG.
> It was built in 2002, January IIRC. Not sureif it supports PCI.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Maxime Thériault
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The card is internal, it is connected onto your computer's main board. Since
>> your computer runs XP, it is assumed that you have PCI ports available.
>> (It's still a fairly recent computer)
>>
>> The ports can be accessed externally, from outside of your computer. This is
>> to distinguish from the internal ports, onto which you can connect USB
>> device that stays in the computer (card reader that fits the floppy slots,
>> that sort of thing)
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>> David J Brooks
>> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:34 AM
>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
>> Subject: Re: OT: Nikon D700
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:27 AM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>> A new USB 2.0 interface card would be the least expensive upgrade you
>>> could probably do, and most with XP are plug and play that actually works.
>> Hummm. I was told by our IT guy when i was still working at MMM, that
>> to upgrade to usb 2 from usb 1 was costly and expensive, new board and
>> what not.
>>
>> Am i wrong, but this card looks like it goes inside the computer, but
>> it said external in the description./
>>
>> Dave
>>> David J Brooks wrote:
 Hi Maxime

 I should clarify what i mean by work.:-)

 I use to work for a large survey engineering company, 800-900
 employees, but they decided last year, i had to much experience and
 made to much money for said experience , so a number of us were bought
 out.

 What i call a work computer now, and i apologize for not being clear,
 but i do that a lot, is my PC at home i run my equine photo
 business from.XP home PC Clone etc.

 I would and should upgrade, but with me, if it ain't broke, don't fix
>> it.:-)
 It still gives me nice prints and colour results, its just slw.

 I'll check that card idea out

 Dave

 On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Maxime Thériault
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'll go ahead and give you an uncalled for suggestion. Feel free to
>> ignore
> me, obviously.
>
> You said work PC and so I go assuming a largish company, not a home PC.
>> You
> might be able to issue a request to the IT department for an upgrade..
> Mainly, the addition of a USB 2.0 PCI card (Those things are 20$). That
> alone would boost your productivity etc.
>
> Now if it's a PC at home, adding a PCI card is well within anyone's
>> reach
> and would be very beneficial to you.
>
> Here, technical gizmo's done, but here's an example of a card you'd be
> looking for if you're adding it yourself;
>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815108012&nm_mc=OTC-C1
> 73T&cm_mmc=OTC-C173T-_-Add-On+Cards-_-Belkin-_-15108012
>
> Back to your regular schedule.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> David J Brooks
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:24 AM
> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
> Subject: Re: OT: Nikon D700
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Maxime Thériault
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Is that with usb 2.0? Seems awfully slow to me somehow, as if you were
>>
> using
>
>> 1.0.
>>
> That is what i have on my work PC, USB 1.
>
> File sizes are a problem with it.
>
> I have USB 2 and fire wire on my ibook, so no problem there.
>
> Dave
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>> David J Brooks
>> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 8:46 AM
>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
>> Subject: Re: OT: Nikon D700
>>
>> Humm. i'll check that out.
>>
>> To download a days card of 2.74meg pixel shots, about 1.4kb each,
>> takes about 15-20 minutes on my PC.
>> If i DO give up the horse shows, i don't need 6 Dslr's, thats for sure.
>> I could see keeping my K1oD, and 1-2 Nikons, maybe keep the D1H or D2H
>> and add a D300 or D700, and call that onemy last buy.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
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>> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/
>> Ontario Canada
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Re: GESO: Melissa

[Paul Sorenson]

I tend to jump back and forth between J-Album and Porta (also free).

http://stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/

Porta doesn't look as classy as J-Album and doesn't have as much 
customization, but it's fast and you can co-generate both flash, using 
SimpleViewer, and html.  If someone doesn't have flash enabled, they 
have the option of viewing your pix in html.

-p

William Robb wrote:
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi"
> Subject: Re: GESO: Melissa
> 
> 
>> On Aug 12, 2008, at 7:06 AM, William Robb wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not a big fan of flash, but I am quite likely going to be doing
>>> more
>>> work like this over the next while, and I want a display platform
>>> that is
>>> less easy to rip off. Flash gallerys seem more secure than plain HTML
>>> galleries, are there any other options out there?
>> Not that I'm aware of.
> 
> Dang.
> OK, next question I guess, whats out there for generators that have more 
> control options than PS3's website generator?
> Easy to operate is a must, inexpensive to purchase would be nice. I don't 
> really want to buy the entire Macromedia suite from Adobe.
> Thanks for the help.
> Did you get your payment yet?
> 
> bill 
> 
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Re: OT: Got my book from Blurb.com

[Paul Sorenson]

You can also zoom and pan to crop if you want so you don't have to 
re-size precisely.

-p

Mark Roberts wrote:
> David J Brooks wrote:
>> Just curious, what size photos are you sending in for an 8x10 book. I
>> assume a bit small to fit the page and add some text.??
> 
> Blurb software tells you the exact pixel dimensions with each one of 
> their templates, so you can size size your images precisely yourself 
> before importing them.
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Re: OT - help regarding a speaker cord

[Paul Sorenson]

Ann -

This looks like it's exactly what you need - Harmon-Kardon, 15VAC, 
1100ma (1.1A)

http://tinyurl.com/6gpuy8

http://cgi.ebay.com/Harman%2FKardon-A481511OT-15V-1100mA-Black-AC-Adapter_W0QQitemZ200243357158QQcmdZViewItem?IMSfp=TL0808011133r18350

-p

ann sanfedele wrote:
> Since you guys know everything ... :)
> 
> 
> I need the cord that I'm mentioning in this craigs list ad I put up...
> Can't find one locally...  (so far)
> 
> http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wan/795568113.html
> 
> Ive made the wonderful discovery that if I plug in old fashion little 
> speakers into the earphone jack on the TV ,
> I can keep the volume from going up when commercials come on.  
> 
> all the other info you need to help is in that craigslist thingy...
> 
> If you have one of those cords lying around and could spare it or you 
> know where I can find one cheap Id love it.
> I have a few odds and ends I could trade - write me off list
> 
> alternatively, I wouldn't mind buying a little speaker that is mono and 
> that I could just plug into the
> TV - The earphone jack that I have fits both my Dell computer and my 
> Sharp tv... if I had that on
> a little speaker it would work, too.
> 
> I'm a audio tech idiot...
> 
> But TADA!  I finally got the sound back on my computer and managed to 
> set it up so I don't have any wave sounds
> and I only hear stuff if I plug in my earphones...  Had to admit there 
> were a few things I wanted to actually hear on
> the web... like a friend's radio show...
> 
> sorry I'm not commenting much on pics -- I've gotten buried with chores 
> here...including a house guest coming for
> the high rollers Scrabble tourney the end of next week.
> 
> T I A
> ann
> 
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PESO - The Smithy

[Paul Sorenson]

About 30 miles southwest of Milwaukee the State Historical society has a 
living history museum where they have reassembled examples of the 
various ethnic groups who settled the state in the 1800's.  This 
gentleman was demonstrating iron work to the visitors.

http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm

DS2, Tamron 28-200, post-processing w/ PSE6

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Re: PESO - The Smithy

[Paul Sorenson]

 > How does one go about reassembling an ethnic group?

In Wisconsin, we do the impossible...;>}

Should have read "reassembled examples of the homes and farmsteads of 
the various ethnic groups..."

-p

Doug Brewer wrote:
> Paul Sorenson wrote:
>> About 30 miles southwest of Milwaukee the State Historical society has a 
>> living history museum where they have reassembled examples of the 
>> various ethnic groups who settled the state in the 1800's.  This 
>> gentleman was demonstrating iron work to the visitors.
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm
>>
>> DS2, Tamron 28-200, post-processing w/ PSE6
>>
>> -p
>>
>>
> 

> 


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Re: PESO - The Smithy

[Paul Sorenson]

Well, it is a "living museum" and rumor has it they have Boris Karloff 
on staff...  ;>]



Doug Brewer wrote:
> Paul Sorenson wrote:
>>  > How does one go about reassembling an ethnic group?
>>
>> In Wisconsin, we do the impossible...;>}
>>
>> Should have read "reassembled examples of the homes and farmsteads of 
>> the various ethnic groups..."
>>
>> -p
> 
> Ah. Thought you had stumbled on something we could do here at the museum.
> 
> Carry on, then.
> 


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Re: PESO - The Smithy

[Paul Sorenson]

Thanks, Frank, for those kind comments.

-p

frank theriault wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Paul Sorenson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> About 30 miles southwest of Milwaukee the State Historical society has a
>> living history museum where they have reassembled examples of the
>> various ethnic groups who settled the state in the 1800's.  This
>> gentleman was demonstrating iron work to the visitors.
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm
>>
>> DS2, Tamron 28-200, post-processing w/ PSE6
>>
> 
> Beautiful conversion, well composed, interesting subject.
> 
> I like it a lot!
> 
> cheers,
> frank
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Re: PESO - The Smithy

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And that's not always a good thing...

AlunFoto wrote:

> Not glue. Religion. :-)
> 
> Jostein
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Re: PESO - The Smithy

[Paul Sorenson]

Thanks to all who commented.  The foreground was originally quite a bit 
lighter, so this was an experiment in using a gradient layer to focus 
the attention on the forge and the smithy.  I never know if the sepia 
toning that I like works for others, so thanks for confirming that I'm 
not too far off.

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Re: PESO: What??

[Paul Sorenson]

R - ivets...

ann sanfedele wrote:
> Perhaps not -- he didn't say so - but I wanted my answer to be just mine 
> and not
> influenece anyone... doesn't seem too difficult - your answer and mine 
> were very close...
> The 140 refered, I guess, to the little things that held the metal 
> paneling together... that
> I cant remember the name of
> 
> ann
> 
> 
> Doug wrote:
> 
>> were we supposed to answer off-list?
>>
>>
>> On Aug 18, 2008, at 11:57 PM, ann sanfedele wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I wrote to him off list with my answer :)
>>> ann
>>>
>>> Doug wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
 On Aug 18, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:



  

> What are we looking at here? There are approximately 140 clues.
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7697192&size=lg
>
>
>
>
 guy cooking in front of a mural?
  

>>  
>>
> 
> 
> 


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Re: gatherings

[Paul Sorenson]

Let me know the next time you're in Milwaukee...

-p

Scott Loveless wrote:
> It seems this year has been rather short on PDML gatherings.  What's up 
> with that?  And who wants to invite me over for dinner?
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Re: Next year's PUG

[Paul Sorenson]

Mine's been going on for about 20 years now...

-p

Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

>>
>>> (sorry, having my mid-life crisis)
>> Me, too.  :(
> 
> I had mine ages ago...
> 
> Godfrey
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Re: FS Friday: GPS receiver(s)

[Paul Sorenson]

Depends a lot upon what GPS unit he's relying upon.  I certainly 
wouldn't try it with my Garmin Etrex.  ;>}

OTOH, a friend, to whom I give instrument dual instruction occasionally, 
has an auto-pilot coupled Garmin, certified for vertical guidance, 
installed in his Comanche.  You can let the electronics shoot an 
approach down to 200 ft and it's right on the money.

-p

Walter Hamler wrote:
> Well, actually there are lots of folks who use gps units to make
> precision approaches to airfields now.
> My brother is the FBO manager at a small airport in the north GA
> mountains. One day he heard a plane call in to ask about the weather.
> It was raining cats and dogs. A short time later he heard a plane fly
> over at about 500 feet. A few minutes later the plane taxied up to the
> ramp and a good friend he recognized as a local pilot got out. He
> asked him if he was crazy and he said his gps was all he needed along
> with being familiar with the airfield and surrounding area.
> Some of the newer planes with the Garmin 1000 instruments are
> absolutely incredible with the detailed 3D display they can give you.
> It is much more precise than an ILS setup.
> 
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Re: FS Friday: GPS receiver(s)

[Paul Sorenson]

Right - since flying a specific indicated altitude is nothing more than 
flying a line of constant pressure, I'd much rather fly into a warm High 
than a cold Low.

-p

Cory Papenfuss wrote:

>>
>   As a pilot, I've heard lots of other pilots questioning the 
> discrepancy between the altimeter and GPS.  It's two main factors... the 
> difference between the mathematical model of the earth the GPS uses (not 
> spherical) being one, but the non-standard pressure lapse rate with 
> altitude.  That's primarily due to non-standard temperature, but can be 
> affected by other things such as windshear with winds aloft.  Of course 
> the GPS must also support manually entering the current barometric 
> altimeter setting or else the resulting barometric reading is crap. (e.g. 
> standard day is 29.92 inHg, but good-weather high might be 30.30 inHg)
> 
>   Pilots deal with this more often then most hikers since they 
> often fly higher than most hikers, and also fly through weather systems 
> (rather than hikers waiting for weather systems to pass them).
> 
>   One interesting tidbit that's taught to pilots in Alaska and 
> Canada but not in the rest of the US deals with cold-weather compass 
> errors.  Consider a pilot beginning a long descent to an airport at low 
> elevation, but there's high terrain along the way.  The colder the weather 
> is from standard (e.g. arctic conditions) and the higher the terrain is 
> above the airport, the more inaccurate the pressure altimeter is relative 
> to *true* (i.e. "not hitting the rocks") altitude shown on aeronautical 
> charts.  Most of the times it's not an issue, but it can be under the 
> right circumstances.
> 
> -Cory
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Re: OT: Toronto cyclists rejoice!

[Paul Sorenson]

Maybe they could just rent from Igor...

-p

frank theriault wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:05 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I guess it's different in Canada, in most places in the US if the
>> property remains unclaimed after a period, (either common law or
>> statutory), of time has elapsed they sell the stuff at auction with
>> either city or department getting the proceeds.  It's a win, win, as far
>> as the police department is concerned.  It seems entirely too venal for
>> the Canadian authorities to not have the same law.
> 
> We do have such a law, and the cops have one or two auctions a year.
> But normally they have like a couple hundred bikes in these auctions,
> with appropriate storage facilities for that many bikes.
> 
> However, as you said, they have to keep them available for reclamation
> for a period of time until they can be auctioned, and they don't have
> the facilites for over three thousand bikes to be stored.  They're
> having to rent storage areas for that purpose, and I doubt that
> they'll make as much from these auctions as they pay out for
> warehousing...
> 
> It's all quite cumbersome.
> 
> cheers,
> frank
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Re: out of commission for a couple days

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All the best, Scott.  Hope it's not serious and recovery is fast.

-p


> - Original Message - 
> From: "Scott Loveless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" 
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:19 PM
> Subject: out of commission for a couple days
> 
> 
>> Tomorrow I have an appointment for an outpatient procedure.  Depending
>> on the outcome I may need to convalesce for a couple days, so the PUG
>> will probably have to wait.  Worked on it a bit tonight, but didn't get
>> it finished.  Sorry about that.
>>
>> Anyway, I'll be online periodically throughout the weekend.  I'm off to
>> bed.  Later.
>>
>> -- 
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Re: PESO - Curvy Italian - Redux

[Paul Sorenson]

I prefer a little more contrast and like the second better.

Struggling against the tide...

-p

frank theriault wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:01 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Let me swim against the tide by saying I prefer the original...
> 
> Two commented and two like the original.  So far you and Jack seem to
> be setting the pace, no matter which way the tide it going...
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Thanks to both of you for commenting.
> 
> cheers,
> frank
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Re: PESO - The Standoff

[Paul Sorenson]

"Grumpy Old Men" - set in Wabasha, MN

-p

Christine Aguila wrote:
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
>> On 17/9/08, Christine Aguila, discombobulated, unleashed:
>>
>>> Frank:  I LOVE THIS PICTURE!  You know, what's that movie--something old 
>>> men
>>> with Walter Matthau et al?
>> Jack Lemmon. The Odd Couple. Got it on DVD. Brilliant.
> 
> Yes, I know of the Odd Couple, but there's another one--old men something, 
> more recent.  I was a huge fan of the original movie & the tv series--yes, 
> very brilliant, but I'm think of that recent one.  :-)  Cheers, Christine 
> 
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PESO - Spark plugs

[Paul Sorenson]

Product shot of sorts...all that's left of a Model-A Ford that I 
shouldn't have sold.  Four spark plugs, NIB.

http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm

MZ-S, Tamron 28-200, Alien Bees strobe w/shoot-through umbrella and a 
cheap reflector.  Film was probably Portra NC.

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Re: PESO - Spark plugs

[Paul Sorenson]

Thanks...it does look not quite right in the pix.  I should have rolled 
it one hex away from me to show the gap better.  The C-4s are gapped to 
the side of the center electrode instead of over the top.

-p

Paul Stenquist wrote:
> Nice shot. But the plug in front is damaged -- no gap. That old Ford  
> will never fire up:-).
> Paul
> On Sep 18, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:
> 
>> Product shot of sorts...all that's left of a Model-A Ford that I
>> shouldn't have sold.  Four spark plugs, NIB.
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm
>>
>> MZ-S, Tamron 28-200, Alien Bees strobe w/shoot-through umbrella and a
>> cheap reflector.  Film was probably Portra NC.
>>
>> -p
>>
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Re: Was someone asking about a Y-strap before?

[Paul Sorenson]

Gotta cover the overhead and still make a profit...   ;>}

-p



Scott Loveless wrote:
> Derby Chang wrote:
>> http://figitalrevolution.com/y-strap/
>>
> So he's selling a skinny web belt and a key ring for $30?  Sounds, um, 
> fair.  I guess.
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Re: PESO: Dancing for Dollars

[Paul Sorenson]

Just goes to show ya - We're a bunch of dirty old men less interested in 
mature women...   ;>]

-p

Paul Stenquist wrote:
> An illegal leg! :-)
> Paul
> On Sep 22, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Ken Waller wrote:
> 
>> Paul -
>> A much better leg !
>>
>> Kenneth Waller
>> http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "David Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: PESO: Dancing for Dollars
>>
>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> 2008/9/22 Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
 "Server error"..

 Jack


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> From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: PESO: Dancing for Dollars
> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" 
> Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 5:06 PM
> A bit of fun:
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7873885&size=lg73885
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Re: PESO - Spark plugs

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Just a quick thanks to all who commented on the original posting.  I 
appreciate the feedback.

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Re: way OT - school system shenanigans in Pittsburgh

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 From my own experience, an incomplete usually had a deadline by which 
the work needed to be done.  If you didn't meet the deadline, it 
reverted to an F (and therefore a zero) and was included in your GPA.

-p

Doug Franklin wrote:
> Joseph McAllister wrote:
> 
>> Anybody on this list ever get an F in anything? How about an  
>> Incomplete? An F was the same as a 50-59%. An Incomplete was the same  
>> as a 0%, and as far as I know, was never averaged in to a final grade  
>> unless it trumped all grades by being a requirement to graduate.
> 
> Not where I came from.  An F counted as 0 on your GPA and /was/ included 
> if you didn't drop the class, whether a required class or not.  An 
> Incomplete was not counted in your GPA but prevented graduation if 
> required.  Never ran into someone with a non-dropped Incomplete that 
> wasn't required, so I don't know what happened in that case.
> 
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Re: book maiking with BLURB - anyone try it?

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Ann -

I've also used Blurb, have been very happy with the results and won't 
hesitate to use them again.  Their free software is relatively easy to 
use and comes with a plethora of templates.


One very important step in creating your Blurb publication is to make 
sure all your images are tagged with sRGB colorspace.  I've read on 
other forums where persons have neglected that step and the results have 
been less than satisfactory.


-p

ann sanfedele wrote:



Walter Hamler wrote:


Ann, I have had three books published through Blurb with several
reprints/reorders. The quality is excellent. One is a picture book
that I have had a lot of positive feedback on. The other two are
novels but have pics on front and back and inside of dust cover.
Again, lots of positive feedback.

Ah, _ i had forgotten the name of the company you used...  glad to hear 
it  - did you find it easy to use?



I don't think they do calendars however.

Walt
 

Actually, the "daybook" kind of calendar would be done as a book but I 
had simply been looking for Smugmug's
prices on calendar making and their style to see if I wanted to switch 
away from cafepress for mine or add to

it...


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM, ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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I was browsing around smugmug stuff for their calendar prices (looks 
like

they stopped offering those) and came up
with a page on BLURB  for making books -  Anyone here try it?

ann


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Re: book maiking with BLURB - anyone try it?

[Paul Sorenson]

Ann -

I've not used any B/W images, so I don't know how they would reproduce 
if not tagged.  Maybe Walt or Mark Roberts have used them and can give 
some insight.


-p

ann sanfedele wrote:

Paul
Thanks -- all my shots that are loaded onto smugmug were converted to 
srgb on uploading if I had not
done that in photoshop - but I'll always check the color space... is 
that true even if you are doing black and white
photos do you know? 
anyway - good to know  - you are smugmugger too right?


ann

Paul Sorenson wrote:


Ann -

I've also used Blurb, have been very happy with the results and won't 
hesitate to use them again.  Their free software is relatively easy to 
use and comes with a plethora of templates.


One very important step in creating your Blurb publication is to make 
sure all your images are tagged with sRGB colorspace.  I've read on 
other forums where persons have neglected that step and the results 
have been less than satisfactory.


-p

ann sanfedele wrote:




Walter Hamler wrote:


Ann, I have had three books published through Blurb with several
reprints/reorders. The quality is excellent. One is a picture book
that I have had a lot of positive feedback on. The other two are
novels but have pics on front and back and inside of dust cover.
Again, lots of positive feedback.

Ah, _ i had forgotten the name of the company you used...  glad to 
hear it  - did you find it easy to use?



I don't think they do calendars however.

Walt
 

Actually, the "daybook" kind of calendar would be done as a book but 
I had simply been looking for Smugmug's
prices on calendar making and their style to see if I wanted to 
switch away from cafepress for mine or add to

it...


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I was browsing around smugmug stuff for their calendar prices 
(looks like

they stopped offering those) and came up
with a page on BLURB  for making books -  Anyone here try it?

ann


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Re: book maiking with BLURB - anyone try it? [Workflow note]

[Paul Sorenson]

Stan -

You may want to look at FotoFusion, by LumaPix.

http://lumapix.com/

Create your pages, including text and single or multiple images they way 
you want the layout to look, with the canvas sized for the full 
BookSmart page size.  Save the pages in native format if you think you 
may need future editing, then export the page to a jpg file.  Then pull 
that jpg into BookSmart using a full page template.  You can create 
unique layouts then that you can't get in BookSmart, with probably less 
work and anxiety than the workflow you outlined below.


There are three versions of FotoFusion (and three price points).  Unless 
you need output larger than about 13 x 19 (inches) the mid version 
(Enhanced) should work well.


-p

Stan Halpin wrote:

Some more info on working with Blurb...

 I imagine you'll get better quality if you size the photos in good 
photo-processing software rather than let Blurb do it for you. That is 
what Blurb says, and it makes  sense. So you have a bunch of 3000x2000 
images on your hard drive or maybe 1500x1000 images on SmugMug. But they 
need to be re-sized...


My work flow working with photos on my drive:
a. Decide on the general content of the next page or two as the 
story unfolds.
b. Go into Lightroom, find the 3-8 images I'll be using next. E.g, 
next I need one of the better hummingbird shots, one or two butterflys, 
maybe a shot of one of the group members in the butterfly farm. [Images 
previously appropriately sorted into order and rated 1-5 stars; thus, 
related images are together, and I don't need to revisit the question of 
which of several similar shots I should use.] Note whether vertical or 
horizontal, deserve full page/full bleed, a 1/9th of the page, or 
somewhere in between.
c. Go back to BookSmart. Spot a template that allows me to use my 
one good vertical and a couple of moderately good horizontals on the 
next page. Mutter about the fact that the template puts the vertical 
near the fold, the two horizontals on the outside, and I had wanted 
something the other way around. Mutter some more. Decide to live with 
it. Make a note to fire off a note later to Blub asking once again for 
increased flexibility in their templates, such as the ability to flip 
them horizontally or vertically. Recall their forum discussion on this 
issue where they basically said: "live with it." Move note about firing 
off a note to Blurb into the Don Quixote file.
d. Note that the Vertical is 1113x1630 pixels and the Horizontals 
are 1113x680. [You do this by mousing over the page template, a popup 
window appears for three seconds with the "ideal size" information.]
e. Go back to Lightroom. Crop, sharpen etc. as required. Export to 
file with a resize to 1113x1630 or 1113x680.
f. Go back to BookSmart. Import the pictures from file. [If using 
Smugmug, I expect this step will take longer than reading from your 
local disk.]
g. Drag-and-drop the photos into the template. Note that one 
dimension or another will be cropped (since my original aspect ratio 
does not equal 1113:1630). Zoom and or slide the image so that the 
1113x1630 window frames an appropriate part of the image.
h. Note that the aspect ratio of the 1113x1630 template just doesn't 
allow me to crop/compose the image the way I would like.
i. Find another template for the vertical shot. How about 1488x2475? 
Just use it on its own and save the horizontals for another page?

j. Go back to Lightroom, re-export with new resizing parameters
k. Repeat 1-3 times for each of the other pages.

It really is not as bad as it sounds, flipping back and forth between 
Lightroom and Booksmart. But if the images were on Smugmug, do you need 
to pull them back down to our system to work on them? Then export back 
to Smugmug after you've resized? Then import from Smugmug into 
Booksmart? Unless you have a very good strong fast connection, I can see 
lots of coffee break time.


On the other hand, what I am describing is a book where the pages vary 
quite a bit, partially on the theory that better shots deserve more 
space (but the less good shots may still be required to tell the story), 
partially on the theory that some variety in formatting from page to 
page makes it less like an old-time photo album with four or six 
same-size photos on each page, over and over... If you have one 
consistent size photo, then much of the processing/resizing can be done 
in batch.


stan


On Oct 1, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:

I did one (my Venice shots), helped my wife put one together (her 
step-mother's 70th Barnard College reunion), and have just finished 
editing a third (120 pages total, 375 images plus a bunch of text to 
document our church's trip to Costa Rica this past June. Images from 6 
different people with six different types of cameras - I decided not 
to get too fussy with exact color balance consistency or I would never 
finish the beast!)


I find their templates too

Re: What's the best way to go about this shoot

[Paul Sorenson]

I don't have Lightroom, so I'd make adjustments in ACR, which can be 
batched if the originals are fairly similar to each other, then batch 
the conversion to jpegs in BBPro or FastStone.  Either BBPro or JAlbum 
would do a good job of generating a web album.


FWIW

-p

David J Brooks wrote:

I don't do farm shoots, even though it says i do on my site, but i
have agreed to do one
after our Thanksgiving long weekend. The one lady is a friend, and the
farm is right on the Vivian forest, so should
have lots of colour to work with, and thats what they want.

I'll be doing CD's for them, probably taking 20-30 shots minimum of
each. I was thinking of the D200 and K10D, but shoot in Raw. Maybe not
so much for the K10D, but raw for the D200, so i can get the best,
sharpest photo out to them.

What do you think would be the best way to convert to jpg, to make a
web page, and do the adjustments for the CD's.

Lightroom is what i'm thinking would be best, then if i only need to
do a small change i can apply it to the batch,, i think i remember how
to do that.
Any ideas from the raw shooters on how you do your batch conversions
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Re: PESO - It's Mommy!

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That one made me chuckle...she's literally excited from head to toe.

-p

frank theriault wrote:

Several weeks ago Judy (the GF) and I were asked to shoot something
called the Green Culture Festival.  Of course it was for free, but we
had fun anyway and shot lots of piccies.  Part of the festival was a
fashion show of environmentally friendly clothes - made of hemp,
non-irritating dyes, that sort of thing.  The shots (due to horrendous
backgrounds and the like) were nothing to write home about for the
most part.

There were kids' fashions being shown, and when this little girl got
on stage, she saw her mother and got quite excited:

http://tinyurl.com/4w8feg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/SOTW1evUBJI/DPI/pn4f16cEmCI/s1600-h/sept_19_08+004.jpg

Hope you enjoy!

cheers,
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Re: book maiking with BLURB - anyone try it? [Workflow note]

[Paul Sorenson]

Ann and Stan -

Yes, you can do pretty much the same thing in Elements.  FotoFusion 
does, however, make the process simpler and more flexible, as well as 
having a great rendering engine if you want large format output.


You might also look at this blog -

http://tinyurl.com/yq55ek

http://theartofengineering.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/want-to-make-a-blurb-book/

She has a good discussion on making your own templates for Blurb books 
and includes some that she has created as free downloads.


-p

ann sanfedele wrote:

Paul -
seems to me I can do what you do just using Elements...
Stan thanks for more detail

I'm being a hostess this weekend can't spend too much time here or on my 
projects


ann

Stan Halpin wrote:


Thanks Paul. However:

"FotoFusion photo layout software is currently not available for the  
Mac."


Oh well.

stan

On Oct 1, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:


Stan -

You may want to look at FotoFusion, by LumaPix.

http://lumapix.com/

Create your pages, including text and single or multiple images  they 
way you want the layout to look, with the canvas sized for the  full 
BookSmart page size.  Save the pages in native format if you  think 
you may need future editing, then export the page to a jpg  file.  
Then pull that jpg into BookSmart using a full page  template.  You 
can create unique layouts then that you can't get in  BookSmart, with 
probably less work and anxiety than the workflow  you outlined below.


There are three versions of FotoFusion (and three price points).   
Unless you need output larger than about 13 x 19 (inches) the mid  
version (Enhanced) should work well.


-p

Stan Halpin wrote:


Some more info on working with Blurb...
 I imagine you'll get better quality if you size the photos in  good 
photo-processing software rather than let Blurb do it for  you. That 
is what Blurb says, and it makes  sense. So you have a  bunch of 
3000x2000 images on your hard drive or maybe 1500x1000  images on 
SmugMug. But they need to be re-sized...

My work flow working with photos on my drive:
a. Decide on the general content of the next page or two as  the 
story unfolds.
b. Go into Lightroom, find the 3-8 images I'll be using next.  
E.g, next I need one of the better hummingbird shots, one or two  
butterflys, maybe a shot of one of the group members in the  
butterfly farm. [Images previously appropriately sorted into order  
and rated 1-5 stars; thus, related images are together, and I  don't 
need to revisit the question of which of several similar  shots I 
should use.] Note whether vertical or horizontal, deserve  full 
page/full bleed, a 1/9th of the page, or somewhere in between.
c. Go back to BookSmart. Spot a template that allows me to use  
my one good vertical and a couple of moderately good horizontals  on 
the next page. Mutter about the fact that the template puts the  
vertical near the fold, the two horizontals on the outside, and I  
had wanted something the other way around. Mutter some more.  Decide 
to live with it. Make a note to fire off a note later to  Blub 
asking once again for increased flexibility in their  templates, 
such as the ability to flip them horizontally or  vertically. Recall 
their forum discussion on this issue where they  basically said: 
"live with it." Move note about firing off a note  to Blurb into the 
Don Quixote file.
d. Note that the Vertical is 1113x1630 pixels and the  
Horizontals are 1113x680. [You do this by mousing over the page  
template, a popup window appears for three seconds with the "ideal  
size" information.]
e. Go back to Lightroom. Crop, sharpen etc. as required.  Export 
to file with a resize to 1113x1630 or 1113x680.
f. Go back to BookSmart. Import the pictures from file. [If  
using Smugmug, I expect this step will take longer than reading  
from your local disk.]
g. Drag-and-drop the photos into the template. Note that one  
dimension or another will be cropped (since my original aspect  
ratio does not equal 1113:1630). Zoom and or slide the image so  
that the 1113x1630 window frames an appropriate part of the image.
h. Note that the aspect ratio of the 1113x1630 template just  
doesn't allow me to crop/compose the image the way I would like.
i. Find another template for the vertical shot. How about  
1488x2475? Just use it on its own and save the horizontals for  
another page?
j. Go back to Lightroom, re-export with new resizing  
parameters

k. Repeat 1-3 times for each of the other pages.
It really is not as bad as it sounds, flipping back and forth  
between Lightroom and Booksmart. But if the images were on  Smugmug, 
do you need to pull them back down to our system to work  on them? 
Then export back to Smugmug after you've resized? Then  import from 
Smugmug into Booksmart? Unless you have a very good  strong fast 
connection, I can see lots of coffee break time.
On

Re: Stolen Equipment

[Paul Sorenson]

Sorry to hear that, Joe.  We have a good local store that handles a fair 
amount of used equipment so I'll keep an eye out there, too.


I understand your pain...I had a similar incident about 20 years ago. 
Fortunately my camera equipment was recovered, but I lost a bunch of 
tools, clothing and camping equipment.  They caught the perps, one of 
whom was the son of a local small town police chief...I never heard if 
they were ever prosecuted.


-p

Joseph McAllister wrote:
In the dark of early Thursday morning this week, my auto was broken into 
and some of my most treasured lenses were stolen, along with many 
difficult to remember pieces of support equipment. All snug in three 
medium sized (10x10x18) camera bags I had left in the passenger's side 
footwell, covered with a jacket. I know, my bad.


Here is a list with serial numbers where I have them. Others may pop up 
on many of the pieces of paper filed but not unpacked since I moved here 
in May.


Please let me know if you see any of this stuff on eBay, Craigslist, or 
your local pawn shops. According to the police, local pawn shops will 
UPS stuff they think is stolen to pawn shops elsewhere in the county (or 
out of it) for a percentage of the sale price. Anyhow, I'll be looking 
too, you can be sure.


Pentax 67 Camera Body4173093
S-M-C TAKUMAR / 6X7 105mm ƒ2.4 ser # not found yet
S-M-C TAKUMAR / 6X7 150mm ƒ2.8 5847298
S-M-C TAKUMAR / 6X7 75mm ƒ4.5   7589163
SMC-Pentax / 67 45mm ƒ4.08590551
Quick focusing ring 'A' for Pentax 67 lenses
Flip-up Magnifying eyepiece for 67
Wood Hand Grip
TTL AE Pentaprism for 67 with collar adaptor
right angle finder for 67 in case
-1 diopter for Pentax 67
AF400T Flash bracket for 67
67 Pentax camera strap
lens hood for 150 mm  67 mm bayonet
lens hood for 105 mm  67 mm bayonet
lens hood for 75 mm  82 mm bayonet
lens hood for 45 mm  82 mm bayonet
4 rear lens caps for 67
Skylight Filter (2)  67 mm bayonet Pentax SMC for 105 and 150mm  67 lenses
Skylight Filter (2)  82 mm bayonet for 45 and 75 mm lenses Pentax SMC
Battery for 67 body

Pentax SMCP-A 15mm ƒ3.5 5860687
Pentax SMCP-FA*24mm ƒ2.0 3810840
Pentax SMCP 28mm ƒ3.5 Shift ser # not found yet
Pentax SMCP-FA* 85mm ƒ1.4 3711851
Pentax SMCP-FA 100mm ƒ2.8 Macro 3001525
Pentax SMCP-A* 135mm ƒ1.8 ser # not found yet
58 mm Skylight filter on 100 mm Macro Hoya HMC
2 ea. 67 mm Skylight filters for 24 & 85 mm  B&W Multi-coated

Pentax AF-540FGZ Wireless Flash LE10918
Pentax Wireless remote for K100, K10, K20
Pentax wired release (1/2 meter) for K100, K10, K20
Pentax Ref-ConverteR - A  for PZ-1p, LX, MX
Sekonic Digital Meter L318 (I think) with spot attachment and spare 
battery in cases

Small tripod for low level shooting  don’t remember brand
Lumiquest flash redirector for AF-500FTZ
Camera Bag Black with red piping
Camera Bag Grey Tamrac
Camera Bag Black with black piping


Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian


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Re: GFM sold

[Paul Sorenson]

PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals

-p

P. J. Alling wrote:

Doug Franklin wrote:

AlunFoto wrote:

2008/10/2 Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Someone once said, "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a
vegetarian because I hate plants!"


Lol.

Another definition: A vegetarian refuse to eat animals he can see
without a microscope.


I saw an /awesome/ t-shirt this weekend:

Eating meat is murder.
 Yummy, Yummy murder.

If God didn't want us to ear animals, he wouldn't have made them out of 
meat.


or

There's room in this world for all of God's creatures,
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Re: Mac Noob Question

[Paul Sorenson]

Cory -

DISCLAIMER:  I'm not a Mac guy, but...are you seeing the folders on your 
PC as a network drive or have you mapped it to your Mac so the OS thinks 
that drive belongs to the Mac?  Or maybe this isn't an issue w/Macs. 
Anyway, under Windows there are some things you can't do w/a network 
drive unless it's mapped to the PC you're using - could that be the 
issue w/the Mac, too?


-p

Cory Waters wrote:

Excuse my mac noobness but I'm ever so slightly stumped here.
So I have put some pictures into my mac from my SD card.  They went into 
iPhoto and now they're an "event". I can look at them and everything 
(about all iPhoto is good for as far as I've seen).
I can see my home PC over the network from the mac and have some shared 
folders that I can see/open/play.
I'd like to copy those pictures from my macbook into the shared 
"pictures" folder on my PC so I can fool with them in Elements.  I can 
open a finder window and navigate to the correct shared folder.  I can 
open another finder window to find the photos.  As far as I can tell the 
only way to get to them is to open iphoto though and then I can't export 
the whole thing...
Must be a place I'm not looking that has the files just as files that I 
can copy and paste or whatever.

Help is appreciated.
Cory


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Re: The old Jewish quarter of Fez

[Paul Sorenson]

They look good om my monitor

-p

Bob W wrote:

Here are some photos I took wandering around the Mellah last week:
http://www.web-options.com/Mellah/

I'm particularly interested to hear your views about the colour
balance in these shots. The colour is what attracted me to the scene,
but in the unprocessed raw state it appears to have a very strong
colour cast - possibly I had the white balance wrong on the camera. I
have used LR to set them to a more neutral colour, but in doing so I'm
worried I may have lost some of the original impact. I can't trust my
own colour vision or memory.

Bob


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Re: PS CS4

[Paul Sorenson]

Maybe you should consider moving to a Windows box...we're still running 
Quicken 2000 on one of our XP machines.  > ;>} <


-p

Joseph McAllister wrote:

The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 
years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 
will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade 
path. 



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