Re: OT - My Blog
2010/2/11 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: No problems from work or home. Frank, recently Google introduced Buzz which might have put certain load on their servers. But generally, I don't find your blog to be any slower than other sites I frequent. I think the Blogspot servers are not fully integrated in the Google infrastructure yet, but rather reside on an infrastructure that was transferred as-is when Google bought Blogspot. BobW, I suspect your antivirus software. If you have all the preemptive scanning functionality enabled for your web browser, it means that all linked-in content is scrutinised. In cases of ad servers gathering statistics without really giving content back I think you will end up waiting for connection timeouts, which are fairly short as such, but quite annoying nonetheless. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned
From John Sessoms Complete and utter nonsense to pay thousands of dollars extra to have fake wear applied to the body. Sadly lots of people do. I hasten to add that my '73 Tele Deluxe is in near pristine condition and I intend for it to stay that way as it is likely to be a serious contributor to my pension in a few years time... Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: PESO - Evening in Rome
Another escape from blowing, drifting snow: A warm May evening on a back street in Rome: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10666407 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/350) That's a stunning photo. It's Rome as I've always imagined it might look. Bruce Chatwin coined the perfect phrase for that feeling, when he wrote about 'the real Patagonia of my imagination'. This is a strange sort of Rome (or perhaps it is the true Rome) - the woman's a redhead and the only writing we can see is in French and German, not Italian! The light's perfect, as is the composition. And the lovely backlit lady doesn't hurt, either. I agree. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: k100 viewfinder -- photos
Looks like the VF is shattered. Have you taken any impacting photos lately? His pictures always carry a punch. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT : How To Report The News
On 10/2/10, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: I think I sent this here yesterday but haven't see it show up. I think it's a kick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 I Godders, great video. I posted it to the list about a week ago, which might explain lack of reax. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Evening in Rome
On 10/2/10, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: Another escape from blowing, drifting snow: A warm May evening on a back street in Rome: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10666407 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/350) Excellent. The kind of picture you die for. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:17 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: Boy that red really shows up - looks kind of cool! I'm working at selling off some gear to buy a K-x. I'm debating between red and white. I wish I could see a red one in person. I'm also wondering when the next big price drop will be. I was hoping that Bruce buying one would cause an immediate drop in price this week. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 10:27:18 PM, you wrote: BE http://photoeverysooften.blogspot.com/2010/02/stalking-wild-pentaxian.html BE -- BE Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is BE essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy BE condition.- Robert Heinlein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:17 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: Boy that red really shows up - looks kind of cool! I'm working at selling off some gear to buy a K-x. I'm debating between red and white. I wish I could see a red one in person. I'm also wondering when the next big price drop will be. I was hoping that Bruce buying one would cause an immediate drop in price this week. If you're willing to take my word for it, go for the white. The red feels too 'plasticky' --if you're looking to something like a fire engine high gloss red, the red K-x is a bit of a let down. It feels like a scale model red plastic before you applied any airbrushing or paint. Bong -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
GESO: Surf Turf (Race 4)
Hi all, Another batch of photos from this week's race. Similar stuff to last week but I think the photos are better this time around. Not that I'm blowing my trumpet or anything. I was better prepared for the lighting conditions so I paid a bit more attention to the backgrounds. None of the photos presented challenges in Photoshop which was a pleasant surprise. The K10D light meter really couldn't have done much better. Unfortunately the weather was overcast again - probably not a bad thing as I'd otherwise be shooting towards the sun. But it was quite dim and I was really fighting to get acceptable focus / dof with the 200mm lens. A few of the pics I chose were still a bit soft but at this small size it doesn't show too badly. My editing was made much easier by the amount of badly focussed photos :( http://www.multisport.net.nz/photos/700-2010-02-11-frontrunner-surf-n-turf-photos.html Please note that I've upgraded the slideshow software since last week and browsers tend to cache javascript files a little too aggressively. If the main image doesn't appear, hold down shift and click the reload button in your browser. This should tell the browser that you really do want to reload everything, not just the things it thinks should be reloaded. I've added slideshow controls now so it's a bit less fiddly to browse through. My next plan is to add numbers to the images, then to revamp the template to allow a much larger main image. On Saturday I'm going to try and be at the finish line of the Coast to Coast. The weather forecast is quite bad so I'll see what I can do. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
Bong Manayon wrote: If you're willing to take my word for it, go for the white. The red feels too 'plasticky' --if you're looking to something like a fire engine high gloss red, the red K-x is a bit of a let down. It feels like a scale model red plastic before you applied any airbrushing or paint. Agree. In real life, the red of the K-x does not truly look like a racing red as depicted by photos. It's more like an oversaturated pink. The white and the navy blue are as expected. Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Evening in Rome
On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Another escape from blowing, drifting snow: A warm May evening on a back street in Rome: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10666407 This has to be hung on a wall. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
OT I didn't realise dark-slides were so useful!
http://vimeo.com/8892601 ;-) -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 25
Wonderful gallery, Doug. It makes me feel almost as if you and I are sitting on the veranda of one of these houses and having our favorite drink together having relaxed yet intense discussion of all things wordly. Boris On 2/8/2010 9:45 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: 2009 in 25 Photographs http://www.alphoto.com/images/25/ enjoy warning: flash html version to come -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Evening in Rome
Rick, That's a lovely photo. My eye keeps going over the details above, then settling on the woman below. Excellent! Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:07 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: Another escape from blowing, drifting snow: A warm May evening on a back street in Rome: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10666407 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/350) That's a stunning photo. It's Rome as I've always imagined it might look. The light's perfect, as is the composition. And the lovely backlit lady doesn't hurt, either. ;-) Terrific photo, Rick! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 25
Doug, Wow, that's a nice set of photos! I've been thru the flash series several times but like the html version better. Like Christine, I keep coming back to #8. Isn't that an early Matise or Picasso painting above? It is memorable for the subject's odd atire. The whole scene is a sort of echo with the lad in formal dress on the antique sofa. Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Doug Brewer wrote: frank theriault wrote: Can't wait until the HTML version comes out... and here it is: http://www.alphoto.com/images/25html/ Oh yes, a much more effective presentation than the Flash version. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Kudos to Paul C Buff
- Original Message - From: Rob Studdert Subject: Re: Kudos to Paul C Buff Paul Buff has been very successful by having a very customer oriented business model. I'm surprised that they weren't able to replace the capacitor (presuming that is all that was wrong). I recall when he first put his lights on the market that they were pretty much from parts available at Radio Shack. He obviously discarded his 10% PITA customers long ago! If you are truly customer oriented, you don't need to discard customers. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Book advice please (Nude photography)
This message never showed up on the list. I have only myself to blame. So I'm giving it another go: I have a woman friend who plans to do a collective nude project and has invited me in. I'm game, but my knowledge about nude photography could be written at a needlepoint. So now i need to read up on the subject before starting to train up my non existent skills. I am prepared to buy more than one book, because I think I need input with different approaches to the subject. It is not a glam project, or not a erotic project. It is simply about normal woman who takes of their clothes to make a statement to raise some money for a worthy case. (Not a very political case). MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: PESO - Not snow!
Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: It is snowing hard, again, with 12-18 inches forecast for Philly. Escape was necessary. So, here is the door of the village church in Stow-on-the-Wold, England: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10660976 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/4 @ 1/10) Rick They put those studs into old church doors to stop elephants leaning against them - bet you didn't know that. I did NOT know that ... never realized there was that much trouble with elephants in England. The bastards are everywhere Must have some really stringent pooper-scooper laws there. We do, but just try getting an elephant to clean up after itself. It's not easy. Tell them to put a cork in it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKPJuSXcXIfeature=related -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - My Blog
Bob W p...@web-options.com 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. I've been watching how it loads up and it sometimes gets stuck waiting for one or other of the ad servers. Sometimes it's before the picture loads, in which case I notice it. Other times it's after your picture/s load. It must be something in the middle - maybe just GCHQ enjoying the adverts. Firefox and adblocker plus can be your friends in this situation. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
Posing nude for a cause has become almost a cliche. Numerous groups have done books and calendars since a group of Yorkshire women who did a calendar were immortalized in a movie about seven years ago. See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_Girls In terms of shooting the nudes, I'd just look into some good books on figure photography. There are thousands of them out there. Go to a book store and thumb through a few until you find something that answers your questions. They take a variety of approaches. In the end, it's just about good subtle light. Avoid hot spots and hard light. Retouch those zits! You're probably fine just using your instincts. Paul On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: This message never showed up on the list. I have only myself to blame. So I'm giving it another go: I have a woman friend who plans to do a collective nude project and has invited me in. I'm game, but my knowledge about nude photography could be written at a needlepoint. So now i need to read up on the subject before starting to train up my non existent skills. I am prepared to buy more than one book, because I think I need input with different approaches to the subject. It is not a glam project, or not a erotic project. It is simply about normal woman who takes of their clothes to make a statement to raise some money for a worthy case. (Not a very political case). MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Boris, PESOs 8 through 11
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: That day that I spent in NYC proved to be fruitful on images that I will remember: http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/02/peso-2010-08.html http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/02/peso-2010-09.html http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/02/peso-2010-10.html http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/02/peso-2010-11.html Be brutal and honest, as usual. I really like the last two the best, but all are good. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - My Blog
On 12/02/2010, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: Firefox and adblocker plus can be your friends in this situation. I didn't realise that the Gmail page contained a column of ads until I opened it in IE ;-) -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: Surf Turf (Race 4)
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:43 AM, David Mann dm...@bluemoon.net.nz wrote: Hi all, Another batch of photos from this week's race. Similar stuff to last week but I think the photos are better this time around. Not that I'm blowing my trumpet or anything. I was better prepared for the lighting conditions so I paid a bit more attention to the backgrounds. None of the photos presented challenges in Photoshop which was a pleasant surprise. The K10D light meter really couldn't have done much better. Unfortunately the weather was overcast again - probably not a bad thing as I'd otherwise be shooting towards the sun. But it was quite dim and I was really fighting to get acceptable focus / dof with the 200mm lens. A few of the pics I chose were still a bit soft but at this small size it doesn't show too badly. My editing was made much easier by the amount of badly focussed photos :( http://www.multisport.net.nz/photos/700-2010-02-11-frontrunner-surf-n-turf-photos.html Please note that I've upgraded the slideshow software since last week and browsers tend to cache javascript files a little too aggressively. If the main image doesn't appear, hold down shift and click the reload button in your browser. This should tell the browser that you really do want to reload everything, not just the things it thinks should be reloaded. I've added slideshow controls now so it's a bit less fiddly to browse through. My next plan is to add numbers to the images, then to revamp the template to allow a much larger main image. On Saturday I'm going to try and be at the finish line of the Coast to Coast. The weather forecast is quite bad so I'll see what I can do. Very nice set! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: This message never showed up on the list. I have only myself to blame. So I'm giving it another go: I have a woman friend who plans to do a collective nude project and has invited me in. I'm game, but my knowledge about nude photography could be written at a needlepoint. So now i need to read up on the subject before starting to train up my non existent skills. I am prepared to buy more than one book, because I think I need input with different approaches to the subject. It is not a glam project, or not a erotic project. It is simply about normal woman who takes of their clothes to make a statement to raise some money for a worthy case. (Not a very political case). I'm sure Taschen had a book called 1000 nudes, which would keep you, er, busy for a while. But I can't find it. http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/index.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT : How To Report The News
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi I think I sent this here yesterday but haven't see it show up. I think it's a kick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 FWIW, you're the third person to post it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: I'll stick with Adobe RGB as its worked well for me over the last 13 years or so of printing on an inkjet. Have you seen a difference with your workflow between sRGB Adobe RGB ? Ken, a few times i forgot to save a print as sRGB and had the local Shoppers Drug Mart do the prints, and they seem to come out a bit darker. After redoing them in sRGB they came out like the monitor' Dave Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com Subject: Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Thanks Godfrey - well explained. Would you expect to see a difference on an inkjet print using sRGB and Adobe RGB 1988? Literature I'm familiar with (Photoshop for Nature Photographers by Ellen Anon Tim Grey) reccommends using Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB if you're going to print the image. Whether there's a difference or not depends on your printing workflow, and on the quality of the specific printer/printer driver/profiles, etc being used. This gets complex. For instance, most of my photos are printed from Lightroom nowadays. In Lightroom, the working environment promotes *all* imported photos to 16bits per channel and the working colorspace is Melissa ... ProPhoto RGB with a 2.2 gamma curve. When I elect to print something, I can either let the color be managed by the print driver and its embedded routines (by default, it knows what profile to use for each of the papers you choose in the media selection), I can print managed by printer but override its profile choices by telling it to use ColorSync and specifying a particular printing profile. In both of these cases, Lightroom is doing a relatively minimal job of calling up the driver and sending it the print datastream as 8bit per component in sRGB colorspace. Third option is to color manage the print stream completely ... you tell the driver to do NO color management, and let Lightroom handle the translation into the printing profile for that printer/ink/paper combination explicitly, with you specifying the specific printing profile for the job. . The only way to know how to print best for your printer and work is to experiment with your printing application, printer, and papers. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints
From: Ken Waller I'll stick with Adobe RGB as its worked well for me over the last 13 years or so of printing on an inkjet. Have you seen a difference with your workflow between sRGB Adobe RGB ? If I understand color space, you want to match the working color gamut to the available colors for the output device. Adobe RGB has colors available that are outside the sRGB color space. If you use those Adobe RGB colors in your image and the output device uses sRGB, the image may not come out looking like you envisioned it. Printing to mini-labs, converting to sRGB works to make my prints come out like I expect them to. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Evening in Rome
Well exposed for the highlites and shadows here. I like the casual walk of the women here. Dave On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: Another escape from blowing, drifting snow: A warm May evening on a back street in Rome: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10666407 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/350) Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
Does have that spy feel to it. Well done Dave On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Bran Everseeking bran.everseek...@sasktel.net wrote: http://photoeverysooften.blogspot.com/2010/02/stalking-wild-pentaxian.html -- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.- Robert Heinlein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: peso - pair
Agreed Dave On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Still dark coats on black glass, but a bit better to see. Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com wrote: Thanks to everyone. Here is another variant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/4347102059/in/set-72157623181092101/ is it any better? Thanks, --Sasha On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Bruce Dayton bkday...@daytonphoto.com wrote: Ditto Ken's remarks. Just what I was thinking. -- Bruce Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 8:53:50 AM, you wrote: KW Too bad there isn't more separation in the colors of the coats and the black KW background. KW Kenneth Waller KW http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f KW - Original Message - KW From: Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com KW Subject: peso - pair http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/4342024309/ Comments and critique are welcome! --Sasha KW . -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paris Match fakes win prize
From: P. J. Alling On 2/10/2010 6:29 PM, frank theriault wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Misereremiser...@gmail.com wrote: I have more practical reasons for hating contests: I never win, even though my entry is always clearly the best. Me too! Mind you, since I never enter, it's even harder for me to win... ;-) cheers, frank Sounds like the old man who dies and asks to see God. After being ushered before the allmighty, he says: God,.I was a good man, a pious man, all I needed to was more money, to do more good works. Though I prayed and prayed, why didn't you ever let me win the lottery, instead of all those sinners. God gently replied: Murry, did you ever buy a ticket? My favorite of all those stories is Mother Smith ... The weather is bad; hard rain's a comin'. Two men drive up to Mother Smith's place in a pickup truck to find her in her rocker on the front porch. Mother Smith! A hard rain's a fallin'. The weather-man says there's gonna be a flood. We come to take you to the higher ground. Mother Smith replies, No. The Lord will provide. And she keeps right on a rockin'. When the water gets up to the front porch, along comes a man in a rowboat. Mother Smith! The rain's still comin' down and the weather-man says the flood is gonna just get deeper. I come to take you to the higher ground. Mother Smith replies, I have faith in the Lord. He will provide. And she keeps right on a rockin'. As the flood worsens, Mother Smith is forced up onto the roof, when along comes a man in a helicopter. Mother Smith! That roof is soon going to be under water soon. Your house will be swept away. I've come to take you to the higher ground. Mother Smith replies, My faith in the Lord is unwavering. He will be my higher ground. Mother Smith drowns. When she reaches heaven and faces the throne, she says, God, I kept my faith in you. Why didn't you save me? God says, But Mother Smith, didn't I send two men in a pickup truck to take you to the higher ground? Didn't I send you a man in a row boat? I even sent you a man in a helicopter. Three times I sent for you. Why didn't you go with one of them? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
From: Bruce Dayton Boy that red really shows up - looks kind of cool! -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 10:27:18 PM, you wrote: BE http://photoeverysooften.blogspot.com/2010/02/stalking-wild-pentaxian.html Add a little snowflake border and somebody's got a nice Christmas card. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
OT: Rome PDML
I will be in Rome next week, from Sunday through Thursday. If any Pentaxians in that area would like to meet for a drink or whatever, please let me know. Dan Matyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned
From: Chris Mitchell From John Sessoms Complete and utter nonsense to pay thousands of dollars extra to have fake wear applied to the body. Sadly lots of people do. I hasten to add that my '73 Tele Deluxe is in near pristine condition and I intend for it to stay that way as it is likely to be a serious contributor to my pension in a few years time... Chris None of my guitars is near pristine, especially those I bought when I was significantly younger. They've all been played out in public with the normal wear and tear that entails. I was a callow teenager in those days, and not noticeably less clumsy than I am today. I've always used my equipment hard ... but that's what it's there for. I never wanted to be a collector. Never considered my guitars an investment to be protected from handling. Guitars NEED to be played. Somehow though, I ended up with a collection - seventeen guitars if I haven't lost count. Every one bought because I wanted to play it. It's to the point it's becoming difficult to get them all played as much as they deserve to be played. Well, no ... it's not difficult, it's impossible. It just ain't happening. The wear and tear though, the dings and scratches that have accumulated were all honestly earned. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: PESO - Evening in Rome
From: Bob W Another escape from blowing, drifting snow: ?A warm May evening on a back street in Rome: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10666407 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/350) That's a stunning photo. It's Rome as I've always imagined it might look. Bruce Chatwin coined the perfect phrase for that feeling, when he wrote about 'the real Patagonia of my imagination'. It's not enough to capture an image that looks like what I saw in the scene. Now the image has to recreate the feelings I had when I looked upon the scene as well. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Evening in Rome
Yes, indeed. On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: Another escape from blowing, drifting snow: A warm May evening on a back street in Rome: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10666407 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/350) Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints
On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:59 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Ken Waller I'll stick with Adobe RGB as its worked well for me over the last 13 years or so of printing on an inkjet. Have you seen a difference with your workflow between sRGB Adobe RGB ? If I understand color space, you want to match the working color gamut to the available colors for the output device. Adobe RGB has colors available that are outside the sRGB color space. If you use those Adobe RGB colors in your image and the output device uses sRGB, the image may not come out looking like you envisioned it. Printing to mini-labs, converting to sRGB works to make my prints come out like I expect them to. Ken is talking about printing to an Epson ink jet printer. When PhotoShop controls colors and an icc profile is used, the color space is specified in the printer setup panel. I use Adboe RGB for printing on an Epson R2400, always with the best profile I can find, and get excellent results. Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 25
From: Bob Sullivan Doug, Wow, that's a nice set of photos! I've been thru the flash series several times but like the html version better. Like Christine, I keep coming back to #8. Isn't that an early Matise or Picasso painting above? It is memorable for the subject's odd atire. The whole scene is a sort of echo with the lad in formal dress on the antique sofa. Regards, Bob S. Stylistically, it's Early American portraiture ... 18th century equivalent of getting Uncle George to take family photos because he has a real camera. The painting is a primitive, un-schooled style - typical of itinerant American artists in the late colonial and early post colonial period. If it's a known painter, it might be worth some money, but not anything near as much as its value as a family heirloom. That's somebody's great-great-great-great ... grandma. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: I'll stick with Adobe RGB as its worked well for me over the last 13 years or so of printing on an inkjet. Have you seen a difference with your workflow between sRGB Adobe RGB ? All of my printing is fully color managed with specific paper profiles, I can't answer that question. I'm not sure its even relevant. My *editing* in the early 2000s was on JPEG images which had sRGB and Adobe RGB in-camera settings. Then, when I went to the first raw-capable camera in 2003, I output from Camera Raw exclusively in Adobe RGB colorspace. In 2006, when ProPhoto RGB became available, I switched my Camera Raw+Photoshop processing workflow to ProPhoto RGB, and then Lightroom came available. There's definitely far more editability in ProPhoto RGB over Adobe RGB, and the same again for Adobe RGB over sRGB. Since the vast majority of printer/ink/papers out there do not encompass all of sRGB gamut, if you've done a good job with editing, the difference between sRGB and Adobe RGB is irrelevant. The choice of color space and gamut is far more important to the editability of an image,not the printability. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints
BTW, if you have Photoshop, you can use soft-proof to see the difference in what your printing will be pretty easily. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Aperture 3 now available
I don't intuit how an application works, I try to understand the logic or workflow the designer had in mind. Good application design expresses the workflow concept of the designer well ... it's the workflow concept that I either like or dislike, that I can learn quickly and remember, or not. Restating: What I mean by intuitive is that the way I want to work with my photos is in line with the workflow design. Personally, I've found the Lightroom workflow much much easier to learn and remember than the Aperture workflow. Aperture I find much more difficult to learn, a challenge, to me anyway. Just like iPhoto ... I've never found either of them intuitive. I find them both quite unintuitive, as a matter of fact. Whereas the Lightroom workflow, with only minor differences, works out to be nearly exactly what I came up with on my own using Bridge + Camera Raw + Photoshop, before either Aperture or Lightroom were available. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT : How To Report The News
Ah, thanks. I didn't see it before, and I didn't see my post yesterday show up. There's way more traffic on PDML than I have time to look at. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT : How To Report The News
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, thanks. I didn't see it before, and I didn't see my post yesterday show up. Oh ... I see now ... speaking of unintuitive ... I have a search filter that looks for threads I started on gmail. Well, I didn't realize that the threads would start with me rather than my name. Another example of the designer's concept being out of sync with mine. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT : How To Report The News
On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:32, Cotty wrote: On 10/2/10, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: I think I sent this here yesterday but haven't see it show up. I think it's a kick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 I Godders, great video. I posted it to the list about a week ago, which might explain lack of reax. I'm slow, I guess. I missed the 1st (and/or 2nd) posting of this. I'm sure they're lost somewhere in my 3000 as-yet-unread messages in my Pentax folder. (sigh). So, it's new to me and I loved it. Thanks! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
Tim -- Watch a British film called calendar girls with Helen Mirren about a real group of women who did this back in 2001. The film was made in 2003. http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/calendargirls.php Possibly where your friend got the idea? ann Tim Øsleby wrote: This message never showed up on the list. I have only myself to blame. So I'm giving it another go: I have a woman friend who plans to do a collective nude project and has invited me in. I'm game, but my knowledge about nude photography could be written at a needlepoint. So now i need to read up on the subject before starting to train up my non existent skills. I am prepared to buy more than one book, because I think I need input with different approaches to the subject. It is not a glam project, or not a erotic project. It is simply about normal woman who takes of their clothes to make a statement to raise some money for a worthy case. (Not a very political case). MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - My Blog
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:40:28 +1100 Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: Firefox and adblocker plus can be your friends in this situation. I didn't realise that the Gmail page contained a column of ads until I opened it in IE ;-) I am often surprised to see ads on other peoples' computers. flashblock is another good toy. gives you the choice of looking at flash instead of having a page that consists of 20 flash ads and a flash player bogging things down. -- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.- Robert Heinlein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Evening in Rome
Excellent. The kind of picture you die for. MARK ! Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Cotty cotty...@mac.com Subject: Re: PESO - Evening in Rome On 10/2/10, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: Another escape from blowing, drifting snow: A warm May evening on a back street in Rome: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10666407 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/350) Excellent. The kind of picture you die for. -- Cheers, Cotty -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
Hello Bong, Comforting, I went for the white without this information. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, February 11, 2010, 1:39:43 AM, you wrote: BM If you're willing to take my word for it, go for the white. The red BM feels too 'plasticky' --if you're looking to something like a fire BM engine high gloss red, the red K-x is a bit of a let down. It feels BM like a scale model red plastic before you applied any airbrushing or BM paint. BM Bong BM -- BM Bong Manayon BM http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Aperture 3 now available
On Feb 10, 2010, at 22:16, Brendan MacRae wrote: I completely agree about the interface. I put Lr on my Dad's machine but I found it to be not nearly as intuitve as Aperture. I still would like to play with it some more though. For now Aperture is more than enough. Funny thing is... I evaluated both of these at one time and found Aperture's UI to be just horrible. I guess it's largely just a matter of what you're accustomed to. I jumped from using iPhoto/Photoshop to just Lightroom and couldn't be happier now with the speed and efficiency. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Aperture 3 now available
That is the thing about UI. You have simple users, power users and users familiar with something. To each, what is intuitive is different. Half the battle to designing good UI is to know the target audience. To a Mac user, Windows is less intuitive - to a Windows user, Mac is less intuitive. If you took a tool like a photo editor or a raw converter and had two potential users - one a graphic artist and the other a photographer - what would be natural and intuitive to each could be different - especially given their previous experiences. -- Bruce Thursday, February 11, 2010, 10:21:12 AM, you wrote: CR On Feb 10, 2010, at 22:16, Brendan MacRae wrote: I completely agree about the interface. I put Lr on my Dad's machine but I found it to be not nearly as intuitve as Aperture. I still would like to play with it some more though. For now Aperture is more than enough. CR Funny thing is... I evaluated both of these at one time and found CR Aperture's UI to be just horrible. I guess it's largely just a CR matter of what you're accustomed to. I jumped from using CR iPhoto/Photoshop to just Lightroom and couldn't be happier now with the speed and efficiency. CR -Charles CR -- CR Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com CR Minneapolis, MN CR http://charles.robinsontwins.org CR http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - My Blog
From: Bran Everseeking On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:40:28 +1100 Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: Firefox and adblocker plus can be your friends in this situation. I didn't realise that the Gmail page contained a column of ads until I opened it in IE ;-) I am often surprised to see ads on other peoples' computers. flashblock is another good toy. gives you the choice of looking at flash instead of having a page that consists of 20 flash ads and a flash player bogging things down. My fundamental tool for ad blocking is the hosts file. Redirects unwanted domains to local host 127.0.0.1 Blocked ads leave a frame with a box that says Unable to connect. Firefox can't establish a connection with whatever domain, so you know what ad site has been blocked. You can edit the hosts file to unblock that site if you want to. The only time it has ever given me any trouble was some BBC videos that started out by redirecting to a commercial hosted on doubleclick. They'd give that endless arrow chasing around in a circle with a message waiting for so and so down in the lower left corner of the browser. I ended up giving those videos a pass. There are some sites essentially unreachable because they redirect to a pass through ad that's on one of the blocked hosts. But if the site is going to resort to that kind of deceptive action, I don't want to go there anyway. It won't block ads that are actually hosted on the site if the site itself is not on the list - like NYTimes has most of their web advertising actually on the NYTimes server. It's easy to update and add in new SPAM sites. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: PESO - Not snow!
It is snowing hard, again, with 12-18 inches forecast for Philly. Escape was necessary. So, here is the door of the village church in Stow-on-the-Wold, England: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10660976 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/4 @ 1/10) Rick They put those studs into old church doors to stop elephants leaning against them - bet you didn't know that. I did NOT know that ... never realized there was that much trouble with elephants in England. The bastards are everywhere Must have some really stringent pooper-scooper laws there. We do, but just try getting an elephant to clean up after itself. It's not easy. Tell them to put a cork in it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKPJuSXcXIfeature=related That cannot possibly be real! B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - My Blog
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. I've been watching how it loads up and it sometimes gets stuck waiting for one or other of the ad servers. Sometimes it's before the picture loads, in which case I notice it. Other times it's after your picture/s load. It must be something in the middle - maybe just GCHQ enjoying the adverts. Firefox and adblocker plus can be your friends in this situation. I'm using Chrome. Mostly the ads don't bother me. If they do I don't visit the site again. I can't be bothered with endless arms races against these idiots. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: GESO - 25
From: Bob Sullivan Doug, Wow, that's a nice set of photos! I've been thru the flash series several times but like the html version better. Like Christine, I keep coming back to #8. Isn't that an early Matise or Picasso painting above? It is memorable for the subject's odd atire. The whole scene is a sort of echo with the lad in formal dress on the antique sofa. Regards, Bob S. Stylistically, it's Early American portraiture ... 18th century equivalent of getting Uncle George to take family photos because he has a real camera. The painting is a primitive, un-schooled style - typical of itinerant American artists in the late colonial and early post colonial period. If it's a known painter, it might be worth some money, but not anything near as much as its value as a family heirloom. That's somebody's great-great-great-great ... grandma. Not necessarily. The pose and the dress resemble the Infanta in Las Meninas by Velasquez. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas It's worth visiting Madrid just to see that one picture. But you get a whole load of Velasquez's in the same museum (the Prado), and all the Goyas too! Picasso was obsessed by Velasquez and made a lot of very interesting and extraordinary studies of Las Meninas, which are in the Picasso museum in Barcelona: http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70-459.html Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - My Blog
On 12/02/2010, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: I'm using Chrome. Mostly the ads don't bother me. If they do I don't visit the site again. I can't be bothered with endless arms races against these idiots. I use Chrome too but mainly FF, with as others have said Adblock plus and Flash block installed, it's really low maintenance. The ads block lists are updated by subscription automatically and flash block creates a little play icon over the blocked page element. If you want to white list a page to flash block I think it involves a right click and selection, I don't really remember as it's almost a thoughtless process. So many pages look so cluttered on browsers without any ad blocking tools active. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - My Blog
On 2010-02-11 10:20 , Bran Everseeking wrote: I am often surprised to see ads on other peoples' computers. flashblock is another good toy. gives you the choice of looking at flash instead of having a page that consists of 20 flash ads and a flash player bogging things down. i generally tune out static ads so well that i'm surprised when they catch the attention of someone looking at the same page; i use RSS a lot too, which avoids ads for the majority of blogs unless or until i load specific articles; it also avoids that interminable loading of the last 6 months of images that some photo blogs (not Frank's) do by default active ads i handle with ClickToFlash in Safari, a very simple and effective tool that makes viewing Flash an elective process and also facilitates access to H.264 rather than Flash versions of YouTube content http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ sometimes i turn off JavaScript temporarily too, because with 60 tabs open in my browser, i don't always want to have to hunt for the page that is soaking up CPU cycles (and draining my battery) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
ann sanfedele wrote: Tim -- Watch a British film called calendar girls with Helen Mirren about a real group of women who did this back in 2001. The film was made in 2003. http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/calendargirls.php Possibly where your friend got the idea? ann Tim Øsleby wrote: This message never showed up on the list. I have only myself to blame. So I'm giving it another go: I have a woman friend who plans to do a collective nude project and has invited me in. I'm game, but my knowledge about nude photography could be written at a needlepoint. So now i need to read up on the subject before starting to train up my non existent skills. I am prepared to buy more than one book, because I think I need input with different approaches to the subject. It is not a glam project, or not a erotic project. It is simply about normal woman who takes of their clothes to make a statement to raise some money for a worthy case. (Not a very political case). http://www.amazon.co.uk/1000-Nudes-Scheid-Collection-Klotz/dp/3822855693 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
mike wilson wrote: ann sanfedele wrote: Tim -- Watch a British film called calendar girls with Helen Mirren about a real group of women who did this back in 2001. The film was made in 2003. http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/calendargirls.php Possibly where your friend got the idea? ann Tim Øsleby wrote: This message never showed up on the list. I have only myself to blame. So I'm giving it another go: I have a woman friend who plans to do a collective nude project and has invited me in. I'm game, but my knowledge about nude photography could be written at a needlepoint. So now i need to read up on the subject before starting to train up my non existent skills. I am prepared to buy more than one book, because I think I need input with different approaches to the subject. It is not a glam project, or not a erotic project. It is simply about normal woman who takes of their clothes to make a statement to raise some money for a worthy case. (Not a very political case). http://www.amazon.co.uk/1000-Nudes-Scheid-Collection-Klotz/dp/3822855693 And a sample of the contents: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uwe-Scheid-Collection -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
Yep. Thats where she got the idea. She has just finished fighting cancer. The basic idea is the same. But we intend to do it with a little twist. Maybe play a little with different art icons. Place regular, but undressed, women in them. MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2010/2/11 ann sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com: Tim -- Watch a British film called calendar girls with Helen Mirren about a real group of women who did this back in 2001. The film was made in 2003. http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/calendargirls.php Possibly where your friend got the idea? ann Tim Øsleby wrote: This message never showed up on the list. I have only myself to blame. So I'm giving it another go: I have a woman friend who plans to do a collective nude project and has invited me in. I'm game, but my knowledge about nude photography could be written at a needlepoint. So now i need to read up on the subject before starting to train up my non existent skills. I am prepared to buy more than one book, because I think I need input with different approaches to the subject. It is not a glam project, or not a erotic project. It is simply about normal woman who takes of their clothes to make a statement to raise some money for a worthy case. (Not a very political case). MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Not snow!
Bob W wrote: It is snowing hard, again, with 12-18 inches forecast for Philly. Escape was necessary. So, here is the door of the village church in Stow-on-the-Wold, England: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10660976 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/4 @ 1/10) Rick They put those studs into old church doors to stop elephants leaning against them - bet you didn't know that. I did NOT know that ... never realized there was that much trouble with elephants in England. The bastards are everywhere Must have some really stringent pooper-scooper laws there. We do, but just try getting an elephant to clean up after itself. It's not easy. Tell them to put a cork in it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKPJuSXcXIfeature=related That cannot possibly be real! IIRC, I first saw it in about 1994/5. I don't think it could have been faked easily at that time. It would have looked far better than it does. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
Thanks Mike -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2010/2/11 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: ann sanfedele wrote: Tim -- Watch a British film called calendar girls with Helen Mirren about a real group of women who did this back in 2001. The film was made in 2003. http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/calendargirls.php Possibly where your friend got the idea? ann Tim Øsleby wrote: This message never showed up on the list. I have only myself to blame. So I'm giving it another go: I have a woman friend who plans to do a collective nude project and has invited me in. I'm game, but my knowledge about nude photography could be written at a needlepoint. So now i need to read up on the subject before starting to train up my non existent skills. I am prepared to buy more than one book, because I think I need input with different approaches to the subject. It is not a glam project, or not a erotic project. It is simply about normal woman who takes of their clothes to make a statement to raise some money for a worthy case. (Not a very political case). http://www.amazon.co.uk/1000-Nudes-Scheid-Collection-Klotz/dp/3822855693 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
I'm not sure I can trust my instinct photographing naked women. -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2010/2/11 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: Posing nude for a cause has become almost a cliche. Numerous groups have done books and calendars since a group of Yorkshire women who did a calendar were immortalized in a movie about seven years ago. See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_Girls In terms of shooting the nudes, I'd just look into some good books on figure photography. There are thousands of them out there. Go to a book store and thumb through a few until you find something that answers your questions. They take a variety of approaches. In the end, it's just about good subtle light. Avoid hot spots and hard light. Retouch those zits! You're probably fine just using your instincts. Paul On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: This message never showed up on the list. I have only myself to blame. So I'm giving it another go: I have a woman friend who plans to do a collective nude project and has invited me in. I'm game, but my knowledge about nude photography could be written at a needlepoint. So now i need to read up on the subject before starting to train up my non existent skills. I am prepared to buy more than one book, because I think I need input with different approaches to the subject. It is not a glam project, or not a erotic project. It is simply about normal woman who takes of their clothes to make a statement to raise some money for a worthy case. (Not a very political case). MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
OT: This one's for Bill Robb
A couple has a dog that snores. Annoyed because she can't sleep, the wife goes to the vet to see if he can help. The vet tells the woman to tie a ribbon around the dog's testicles, and he will stop snoring. 'Yeah right!' she says. A few minutes after going to bed, the dog begins snoring, as usual. The wife tosses and turns, unable to sleep. Muttering to herself, she goes to the closet and grabs a piece of red ribbon and ties it carefully around the dog's testicles.. Sure enough, the dog stops snoring. The woman is amazed... Later that night, her husband returns home drunk from being out drinking with his buddies. He climbs into bed, falls asleep and immediately begins snoring loudly. The woman decides maybe the ribbon might work on him. So, she goes to the closet again, grabs a piece of blue ribbon and ties it around her husband's testicles.. Amazingly, it also works on him! The woman sleeps soundly. The husband wakes from his drunken stupor and stumbles into the bathroom. As he stands in front of the toilet, he glances in the mirror and sees a blue ribbon attached to his privates. He is very confused, and as he walks back into the bedroom, he sees the red ribbon attached to his dog's testicles. He shakes his head and looks at the dog and whispers, 'I don't know where we were ... or what we did But, we took FIRST and SECOND place! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 25
Thanks Bob W, I thought I remembered some famous painting like that - a boy in fancy dress outfit. But John may be right, it could be easily an early american primitive painting and not a reproduction of a more famous work. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: From: Bob Sullivan Doug, Wow, that's a nice set of photos! I've been thru the flash series several times but like the html version better. Like Christine, I keep coming back to #8. Isn't that an early Matise or Picasso painting above? It is memorable for the subject's odd atire. The whole scene is a sort of echo with the lad in formal dress on the antique sofa. Regards, Bob S. Stylistically, it's Early American portraiture ... 18th century equivalent of getting Uncle George to take family photos because he has a real camera. The painting is a primitive, un-schooled style - typical of itinerant American artists in the late colonial and early post colonial period. If it's a known painter, it might be worth some money, but not anything near as much as its value as a family heirloom. That's somebody's great-great-great-great ... grandma. Not necessarily. The pose and the dress resemble the Infanta in Las Meninas by Velasquez. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas It's worth visiting Madrid just to see that one picture. But you get a whole load of Velasquez's in the same museum (the Prado), and all the Goyas too! Picasso was obsessed by Velasquez and made a lot of very interesting and extraordinary studies of Las Meninas, which are in the Picasso museum in Barcelona: http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70-459.html Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:39 AM, Bong Manayon wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:17 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: Boy that red really shows up - looks kind of cool! I'm working at selling off some gear to buy a K-x. I'm debating between red and white. I wish I could see a red one in person. I'm also wondering when the next big price drop will be. I was hoping that Bruce buying one would cause an immediate drop in price this week. If you're willing to take my word for it, go for the white. The red feels too 'plasticky' --if you're looking to something like a fire engine high gloss red, the red K-x is a bit of a let down. It feels like a scale model red plastic before you applied any airbrushing or paint. Thanks a bunch. My gut feeling was that the red didn't live up to its potential. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO - Crossing the Tracks
I wish I hadn't cut off her feet, but other than that I kind of like this one: http://knarf-underground.blogspot.com/2010/02/crossing-tracks.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
User Interface goals
It looks like I'm going to sell my K100 to a friend from the dojo. In the process, I'm teaching him how to use the camera. Going over the feature set it seems that the UI designers at Pentax tried to add a lot of features to make it easier to get a decent photo. I realized that what I want is a camera that doesn't get in the way of getting a great photo. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Bran Everseeking bran.everseek...@sasktel.net wrote: http://photoeverysooften.blogspot.com/2010/02/stalking-wild-pentaxian.html Fun! Not sure about that colour, though. I mean, if it sells, I don't begrudge or criticize anyone for choosing it. If I were, for instance, a teenage girl (and they were out of Hello Kitty models) it might work. I might, for instance, give it to my girlfriend (if I had one) for Valentine's Day. But for me, I prefer something a bit more stealthy - I'll take black, please... ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
On 11/2/10, Tim Øsleby, discombobulated, unleashed: I'm not sure I can trust my instinct photographing naked women. That's definitely a T-shirt. Mark! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: GESO - 25
It is almost certainly (a reproduction of?) an American primitive painting - I didn't mean to suggest otherwise, just pointing out the resemblance to Las Meninas (and Picasso's versions) which it might have triggered in your picture memory. You might also be thinking about Picasso's Boy With A Dove. http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/art-print/Child-with-a-Dove,-1901-25639.html Thanks Bob W, I thought I remembered some famous painting like that - a boy in fancy dress outfit. But John may be right, it could be easily an early american primitive painting and not a reproduction of a more famous work. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: From: Bob Sullivan Doug, Wow, that's a nice set of photos! I've been thru the flash series several times but like the html version better. Like Christine, I keep coming back to #8. Isn't that an early Matise or Picasso painting above? It is memorable for the subject's odd atire. The whole scene is a sort of echo with the lad in formal dress on the antique sofa. Regards, Bob S. Stylistically, it's Early American portraiture ... 18th century equivalent of getting Uncle George to take family photos because he has a real camera. The painting is a primitive, un-schooled style - typical of itinerant American artists in the late colonial and early post colonial period. If it's a known painter, it might be worth some money, but not anything near as much as its value as a family heirloom. That's somebody's great-great-great-great ... grandma. Not necessarily. The pose and the dress resemble the Infanta in Las Meninas by Velasquez. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas It's worth visiting Madrid just to see that one picture. But you get a whole load of Velasquez's in the same museum (the Prado), and all the Goyas too! Picasso was obsessed by Velasquez and made a lot of very interesting and extraordinary studies of Las Meninas, which are in the Picasso museum in Barcelona: http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70-459.html Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:03 PM, frank theriault wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Bran Everseeking bran.everseek...@sasktel.net wrote: http://photoeverysooften.blogspot.com/2010/02/stalking-wild-pentaxian.html Fun! Not sure about that colour, though. I mean, if it sells, I don't begrudge or criticize anyone for choosing it. If I were, for instance, a teenage girl (and they were out of Hello Kitty models) it might work. I might, for instance, give it to my girlfriend (if I had one) for Valentine's Day. But for me, I prefer something a bit more stealthy - I'll take black, please... ;-) There are two ways that you could go with red, a vivid, in your face, put it on a Ferrari, or a set of high heels, ruby red, or a deep, tasteful red that would complement a black tuxedo. Anything less than that is just a pimply faced fourteen year old trying to taunt you from across the room with jibes that were old when his grandfather was that age. Rather than a half assed red, I'd rather have hello kitty pink, or dayglo chartreuse. I'll probably end up with the stormtrooper white. If nothing else, it'll be a great prop for science fiction conventions. It does have a nice Stanley Kubrick 21st century feel to it. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Aperture 3 now available
On 2010-02-11 09:45 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Whereas the Lightroom workflow, with only minor differences, works out to be nearly exactly what I came up with on my own using Bridge + Camera Raw + Photoshop, before either Aperture or Lightroom were available. that makes total sense (and is why i stated my preference as a personal one); i was a Photoshop jock in the early 90s, and am still very facile with Adobe apps, except i don't use Bridge; i also used iView Media Pro quite a bit and built media management tools in FileMaker; as Adobe has drifted into its own, OS-independent, interface paradigm, i've found the UI of Adobe apps to be less intuitively discoverable for me intuitive doesn't necessarily contradict logical, it is based on the experience one already has; i suspect that if/when my usage becomes intensive, Lightroom might be the more effective UI; but i hope Apple remains competitive because Adobe needs that -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: GESO - 25
From: Bob W From: Bob Sullivan Doug, Wow, that's a nice set of photos! I've been thru the flash series several times but like the html version better. Like Christine, I keep coming back to #8. Isn't that an early Matise or Picasso painting above? It is memorable for the subject's odd atire. The whole scene is a sort of echo with the lad in formal dress on the antique sofa. Regards, Bob S. Stylistically, it's Early American portraiture ... 18th century equivalent of getting Uncle George to take family photos because he has a real camera. The painting is a primitive, un-schooled style - typical of itinerant American artists in the late colonial and early post colonial period. If it's a known painter, it might be worth some money, but not anything near as much as its value as a family heirloom. That's somebody's great-great-great-great ... grandma. Not necessarily. The pose and the dress resemble the Infanta in Las Meninas by Velasquez. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas It's worth visiting Madrid just to see that one picture. But you get a whole load of Velasquez's in the same museum (the Prado), and all the Goyas too! Picasso was obsessed by Velasquez and made a lot of very interesting and extraordinary studies of Las Meninas, which are in the Picasso museum in Barcelona: http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70-459.html Uh ... right. When was the last time you visited an ophthalmologist? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: This one's for Bill Robb
- Original Message - From: Walter Hamler Subject: OT: This one's for Bill Robb HAR!!! That ones going to make the rounds. Funny but true story: I had a Rottie named Leica for almost 11 years. She slept nestled against me with her head on my left shoulder pretty much every night for her entire life. Apparently she snored. I wouldn't know, I never heard a thing. My wife, on the other hand, just has to breath a little louder than normal and it wakes me up. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: User Interface goals
- Original Message - From: Larry Colen Subject: User Interface goals It looks like I'm going to sell my K100 to a friend from the dojo. In the process, I'm teaching him how to use the camera. Going over the feature set it seems that the UI designers at Pentax tried to add a lot of features to make it easier to get a decent photo. I realized that what I want is a camera that doesn't get in the way of getting a great photo. Buy a Linhof. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: User Interface goals
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:19 PM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: Buy a Linhof. LOL! -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:03 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Bran Everseeking bran.everseek...@sasktel.net wrote: http://photoeverysooften.blogspot.com/2010/02/stalking-wild-pentaxian.html Fun! Not sure about that colour, though. I mean, if it sells, I don't begrudge or criticize anyone for choosing it. If I were, for instance, a teenage girl (and they were out of Hello Kitty models) it might work. I might, for instance, give it to my girlfriend (if I had one) for Valentine's Day. But for me, I prefer something a bit more stealthy - I'll take black, please... ;-) I'm not too particular about color too but I like the idea of walking into my class with a white one and saying to my students how it goes well with their Macs... Bong -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
lens bit the dust
A few days ago I was walking to my car and slipped on ice. The camera bag broke my fall. The DA 16-50 took most of the force. It'll never be the same. It was attached to a K7 that seems none the worse for the wear. It looks like it's working fine, although I'm going to send it in to have it checked out. Here's a closeup of the damage. Don't look if you're squeamish. http://georgesweblog.blogspot.com/ See you later, gs George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lens bit the dust
- Original Message - From: George Sinos Subject: lens bit the dust A few days ago I was walking to my car and slipped on ice. The camera bag broke my fall. The DA 16-50 took most of the force. It'll never be the same. It was attached to a K7 that seems none the worse for the wear. It looks like it's working fine, although I'm going to send it in to have it checked out. Here's a closeup of the damage. Don't look if you're squeamish. http://georgesweblog.blogspot.com/ It faired better than my Bronica did. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/Oops2.jpg William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: User Interface goals
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:02:40 -0800 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: It looks like I'm going to sell my K100 to a friend from the dojo. In the process, I'm teaching him how to use the camera. Going over the feature set it seems that the UI designers at Pentax tried to add a lot of features to make it easier to get a decent photo. I realized that what I want is a camera that doesn't get in the way of getting a great photo. How could an option like Swtch dst msr pt ever get in the way? Ira -- Ira Bryant irabry...@sbcglobal.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lens bit the dust
Holy Cow! How far did that one drop? Walt It faired better than my Bronica did. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/Oops2.jpg William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: User Interface goals
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Ira H. Bryant IV irabry...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:02:40 -0800 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: It looks like I'm going to sell my K100 to a friend from the dojo. In the process, I'm teaching him how to use the camera. Going over the feature set it seems that the UI designers at Pentax tried to add a lot of features to make it easier to get a decent photo. I realized that what I want is a camera that doesn't get in the way of getting a great photo. How could an option like Swtch dst msr pt ever get in the way? Ira Pentax hadn't yet discovered that putting a big LCD on the back allows intelligible CF descriptions. A pity, my Maxxum 7 (film camera, circa 2000) had this. Of course Minolta always was a little ahead of the time, their first camera with a big LCD on the back was the Maxxum 9000 in 1985 whose Program Back Super 90 had a large LCD on the back, although not a bitmapped one like modern versions. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Peso, on track
I finally stopped to shoot some pictures at Rincon crossing this afternoon. I think that this is my favorite of the bunch: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4350144172/sizes/o/ from: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623287719029/ -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso, on track
I like that. Nice composition. Excellent rendering. Paul On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Larry Colen wrote: I finally stopped to shoot some pictures at Rincon crossing this afternoon. I think that this is my favorite of the bunch: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4350144172/sizes/o/ from: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623287719029/ -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lens bit the dust
It looks like it's still falling. --M. On 11/02/2010, Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com wrote: Holy Cow! How far did that one drop? Walt It faired better than my Bronica did. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/Oops2.jpg William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Sent from my mobile device http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso, on track
Hello Larry, Rather different perspective - it increases the interest level. Nicely done. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, February 11, 2010, 5:22:27 PM, you wrote: LC I finally stopped to shoot some pictures at Rincon crossing this LC afternoon. I think that this is my favorite of the bunch: LC http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4350144172/sizes/o/ LC from: LC http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623287719029/ LC -- LC Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Evening in Rome
--- On Thu, 2/11/10, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote: On 10/2/10, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: Another escape from blowing, drifting snow: A warm May evening on a back street in Rome: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10666407 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/350) Excellent. The kind of picture you die for. Well, Cotty, maybe you would... but for me it's just a photo. I genuinely appreciate the accolades, however! Rick P.S. Want some snow? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lens bit the dust
Send the lens in too. The repair might be cheaper than a new one. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 2/11/10, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: A few days ago I was walking to my car and slipped on ice. The camera bag broke my fall. The DA 16-50 took most of the force. It'll never be the same. It was attached to a K7 that seems none the worse for the wear. It looks like it's working fine, although I'm going to send it in to have it checked out. Here's a closeup of the damage. Don't look if you're squeamish. http://georgesweblog.blogspot.com/ See you later, gs George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso, on track
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I finally stopped to shoot some pictures at Rincon crossing this afternoon. I think that this is my favorite of the bunch: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4350144172/sizes/o/ from: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623287719029/ -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est Very well composed and rendered. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: User Interface goals
Mark!! --- On Thu, 2/11/10, Ira H. Bryant IV irabry...@sbcglobal.net wrote: How could an option like Swtch dst msr pt ever get in the way? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lens bit the dust
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:14 PM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: snip Here's a closeup of the damage. Don't look if you're squeamish. http://georgesweblog.blogspot.com/ snip Oh the humanity! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso, on track
Obviously, not survivors. =( Jack --- On Thu, 2/11/10, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: From: Larry Colen l...@red4est.com Subject: Peso, on track To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 5:22 PM I finally stopped to shoot some pictures at Rincon crossing this afternoon. I think that this is my favorite of the bunch: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4350144172/sizes/o/ from: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623287719029/ -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est --PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lens bit the dust
Ouch :-( On 2/12/2010 2:14 AM, George Sinos wrote: A few days ago I was walking to my car and slipped on ice. The camera bag broke my fall. The DA 16-50 took most of the force. It'll never be the same. It was attached to a K7 that seems none the worse for the wear. It looks like it's working fine, although I'm going to send it in to have it checked out. Here's a closeup of the damage. Don't look if you're squeamish. http://georgesweblog.blogspot.com/ See you later, gs George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lens bit the dust
Major ouch... On 2/12/2010 2:19 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: George Sinos Subject: lens bit the dust A few days ago I was walking to my car and slipped on ice. The camera bag broke my fall. The DA 16-50 took most of the force. It'll never be the same. It was attached to a K7 that seems none the worse for the wear. It looks like it's working fine, although I'm going to send it in to have it checked out. Here's a closeup of the damage. Don't look if you're squeamish. http://georgesweblog.blogspot.com/ It faired better than my Bronica did. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/Oops2.jpg William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Salon des Refus?s for the PDML book
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:01:32 -0500 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: On 1/27/2010 12:37 PM, Derby Chang wrote: Just thinking, and I don't want to cause any controversy. After the PDML book comes out, since we will have a surplus of shots, would anyone be interested in seeing an internet gallery salon of the submitted photos that didn't make it into the book? I know I would. I'm sure that will still be a quality gallery. I may have already replied to this once, but I'd be OK with mine being in there. I'd be okay as long as the excess shots were sharpened... or at least we could submit sharpened shots to be displayed. I wouldn't want the unsharpened shots I submitted to be displayed as is. Ira -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:54:17 -0800 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Thanks a bunch. My gut feeling was that the red didn't live up to its potential. I would still buy the red if the kx itself would not get lost between my first and second fingers. darned tiny. -- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.- Robert Heinlein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:03:52 -0500 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: But for me, I prefer something a bit more stealthy - I'll take black, please... ;-) cheers, frank its oddly counter intuitive but out on the street no one paid attention to a friend with the blue but got shy when I lifted the K10D have not shot street with the new red one around. My theory if that people thinks the coloured ones are toys and do not take them seriously. -- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.- Robert Heinlein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
