Thanks, Bob.
I have started to come around to digital. Plus the
older I get the more I look for what's easiest.
-b
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Welcome back Brendan.
I still love my film cameras, but digital is so
easy.
Watch some of the photos that appear on the list,
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I have started to come around to digital. Plus the
older I get the more I look for what's easiest.
Mark!
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I believe that I have just been called
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William Robb wrote:
They use the stuff for more than shooting folk singers.
Joseph Tainter wrote:
I'm less afraid of being blown to smithereens over the
North Atlantic than I am frustrated to exasperation with ineffective
and disruptive counter-measures.
Me too. I suspect that much of the overreaction is CYA. No official
wants to be the one who did too little. No
Hi,
my older brother, his younger son and I cycled across England the
length of Hadrian's Wall this week. We did a total of about 140 miles
(225 km) in 3 days. Here are 3 landscapes from the trip:
This is a view from the western end across the Solway Firth to
Scotlandshire:
On 11/8/06, Aaron Reynolds, discombobulated, unleashed:
I believe that I have just been called bro by an Englishman.
Actually I meant to write 'brother' but couldn't be arsed - that's the
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Bob,
I like the last one, but the first two are kind of empty.
Regards, Bob S.
On 8/12/06, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
my older brother, his younger son and I cycled across England the
length of Hadrian's Wall this week. We did a total of about 140 miles
(225 km) in 3 days. Here are
Hi Bob,
thanks. I think the world is divided into people who like bleak, empty
landscapes and those who like busy, full landscapes! I like them
bleak. I particularly like the photo of South Shields. Although in
truth South Shields is nothing like that.
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Nice shot. I saw this car somewhere before. I think GM borrowed it for a
display a few years back. Great piece of automotive history.
Paul
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Hi kids,
Been galumphing around Colorado, and wandered through the Gateway
http://roman.blakout.net/?blog=20060812152304
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Am pleased to say that a Panalure print of this scene won first place
in the BW Nature category in an '04 photo exhibit and contest
sponsored by the Sacramento Fine Arts Center.
Lizard Head Pass is between Ouray and the Dallas Divide area in CO.
IOW, hey, look at me!
Comments always welcome.
On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Ryan Brooks wrote:
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
The Fuji F30 I ordered just arrived. ...
Make sure to post some high-ISO samples!
Haven't any time yet for more than just casual snapping about as I
learn the controls and features, but I got a shot of my foot at ISO
http://roman.blakout.net/?blog=20060805182744
Sometimes interesting faces seen.
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Don't get me wrong. I'm happy that they've stopped these buggers.
But are you really so ready to surrender liberty in the name of
safety? That's a scary thought.
Godfrey
On Aug 11, 2006, at 8:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In any case, it worked. I will be among the first to complain
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On 12/08/06, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Noritsu people that I talked to about it insisted that photo
paper
fell within the sRGB gamut, and so there was no reason to go to a
bigger
I suspect that much of the overreaction is CYA. No official
wants to be the one who did too little. No politician wants to be
vulnerable to a charge of soft on terrorism.
Joe
That's one way to look at it.
Another is the terror promoted by politicians and the media make us sheep
easier to
Really like the first one - there is such a 'mood' portrayed. Second
one does little for me. Third is very nice, but could use a crop of
some of the sky - just too much of it - the countryside is more
interesting - just take the sky down to the main cloud layer.
Thanks for sharing.
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Nice! Again, would love to see this one just a bit bigger, if
possible.
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Saturday, August 12, 2006, 6:58:02 AM, you wrote:
JD Am pleased to say that a Panalure print of this scene won first place
JD in the BW Nature category in an '04 photo exhibit and contest
JD
Hello Roman,
I like the first two most. The second is my favorite. You captured a
great expression on her face like she was really communicating with
the audience.
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This is a shot that I would like to see bigger. I'm suspecting that
it is quite striking when viewed like that. It also seems to be a bit
blown out in the flower - don't know if this is the result of the scan
or as shot. Anyways, I like it with those two caveats.
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Friday, August 11,
For some reason, these shots did not really come across for me. Maybe
I don't appreciate BW enough or maybe something is missing in the
rendering here vs. the original.
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Friday, August 11, 2006, 1:13:45 PM, you wrote:
JD This is by way of reminiscing about Kodak Tech Pan. Shot at 25
Well, I got the same email. Glanced at his website, and marked the email
as junk. Just another get rich quick scammer.
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Maybe so, I don't know if the limit is relative to the paper or the
way that the machine images to the paper. But in any case other labs
printing to photo paper do on occasion provide colour profiles (which
could potentially describe a colour gamut more limited than sRGB) and
as you know
Glad to know you are an expert on US firearms laws.
BTW if you get caught with a pistol in Massachusetts (non resident) it
is an automatic 10 year prison term. Reciprocal CCW permits are fine in
the states agreeing to them, but you can find yourself in a world of
trouble passing through
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Subject: Re: AdobeRGB vs. sRGB
I would like to point out that even if the end result is
something that will fit within the sRGB gamut, there are circumstances
under which a wider gamut throughout the processing would be
beneficial.
I have yet to feel that I have sacrificed anything substantial, yet the
monitoring of international phone calls and the activities of some aliens
contiues. Most of us will never notice. I'm okay with that. I don't think there
is any other way to preven another 9/11.
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In a message dated 8/11/2006 7:51:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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I'm in Chicago. I was shooting on the street, and these two ladies asked me
to take their picture. That's never happened to me in Michigan. Fun stuff:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4795444
Paul
In a message dated 8/11/2006 6:07:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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Had a couple of these lily shots ready to put up recently, but this got
left back.
Jack
http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=165
Comments welcome.
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Very pretty. Striking leaves. I
In a message dated 8/12/2006 7:06:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am pleased to say that a Panalure print of this scene won first place
in the BW Nature category in an '04 photo exhibit and contest
sponsored by the Sacramento Fine Arts Center.
Lizard Head Pass is between
Roman,
VERY nice portrait.
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On Aug 11, 2006, at 11:22, Tom C wrote:
Until you do that, please don't presume to stagger around the
internet
spouting gibberish.
That's Tom C's job. (Just joking, Tom)
I've been forgetting to look in my mailbox for my check. Thanks
for the
reminder. :-)
Not that you'd
Nice shot!
Tom C.
Hi kids,
Been galumphing around Colorado, and wandered through the Gateway Auto
History Museum today.
This one is for Paul... it's a 1954 Olds F88 prototype, only one surviving,
designed by Harley Earl.
http://www.alphoto.com/images/gtwy021.jpg
rare tech info:
*istD,
Nice stuff, Bob. Makes me want to take the mountain
bike out of the garage and get back onto the road.
I wonder if the skies would've been helped with a grad
ND or polarizer.
I like the framing in the beach shot especially. The
composition is great the way you've just shown a tiny
slice of ocean
In recent years, before the 'no lock' requirement by TSA, if they wanted to
look into a locked bag, believe me they had a means to open it, un beknownst
to the traveler.
In 2004, I shipped, via checked luggage, a Gitzo 1548 tripod with my clothes
in a locked duffle bag after I had inserted the
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I have yet to feel that I have sacrificed anything
substantial, yet the
A good reason to get a .22 target pistol or
some such
Seems to me that would be a real good way to be delayed @ the airport.
Kenneth Waller
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On Saturday 12 August 2006 21:03, Bob W wrote:
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I have yet to feel that I
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:24:26 +0100, Frits Wüthrich
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On Saturday 12 August 2006 21:03, Bob W wrote:
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Thanks, Bruce.
I view this as your standard, ordinary, pretty shot the impact of
which increases with size.
A scene that neither offends nor excites almost no one.
Jack
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This is a shot that I would like to see bigger. I'm suspecting that
it is quite
Thanks, Marnie!
Glad you weren't one of the judges. ;-))
I shot it in color, but when saw it in bw, I liked it better.
I have what I consider a better shot which taken with a Mamiya 6 w/50mm
lens on Provia 100F. May put it up someday.
Actually the right side has always bothered me some in that the
They evoke a melancholy feeling that, for me, is enhanced by bw.
It's the blossoms at the base of the unused porch steps and other
ravages of time that do it for me.
The detail in the Tech Pan negs is something to behold.
Thanks for remarks.
Jack
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I can do that.
http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=168
Thanks for comments.
Jack
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Nice! Again, would love to see this one just a bit bigger, if
possible.
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Saturday, August 12, 2006, 6:58:02 AM, you
Charles,
If you or anyone else is interested, I have a brand new, never taken out of
the box - Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1 5mp, image stabilized P+S which I recently
won in a local photo contest.
Includes camera, battery pack charger, AV USB cables, software
CD-Rom,lens cap,strap operating
Thanks, Brendan. That's also what I like about the beach shot. It is a
very abstract, minimalist style.
As for getting the bike out - yes, I recommend it. We all had a great
time, although I think my nephew (15) was a little bored at times by
the company.
Of course, using the bike means you can
It is the result of the scan. Done on my cheapy flat bed.
When I put it up I fiddled a bit with the burn tool, but it wasn't
happening, so gave it up.
Thanks, again for comments.
Jack
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This is a shot that I would like to see bigger. I'm suspecting
Marnie, both you and Bruce are right that the blossom is somewhat blown
out.
When I put it up I touched it slightly with the burn tool, but didn't
like the total of what was happening, so backed off.
Being a MF positive, the scan was done on my cheapy flat bed.
I just checked the film and find the
Doug,
Your shot rekindles old desires.
The family sedan I learned to drive on was a 1954 Olds 98.
I remember seeing pictures of the your car in the paper,
probably for the 1954 autoshow in the Chicago Tribune.
The grill and tail-lights showed up on the 1956 Oldsmobiles,
but never the two seat
Wife and I took a Sierra foot hill drive earlier this AM and found a
road (Frenchtown) we hadn't taken before.
Came across this barn framed by a beautiful Oak and set off by a patch
of California Gold dry grass.
Had a 1-hour processing and CD done at Walgreen's.
Scan only able as web upload.
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Don't get me wrong. I'm happy that they've stopped these buggers.
But are you really so ready to surrender liberty in the name of
safety? That's a scary thought.
Godfrey
Not really ~ it's a personal decision, decided on a case-by-case,
geographically limited
Bob,
I don't know what they did in Northern Ireland, but I can't let what
you said go unchallenged.
Do you believe that the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists are just
kidding when they propose turning society's clock back to the middle
ages and the rule of the clergy? Did you only look at the
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Removing the conditions that lead to terrorism is another way. That
is
the lesson learned from Northern Ireland and it will likely apply in
this situation too.
I think that is the only way Bob.
Jack,
Film! Wow!
Nice setting, but I want to get the oak's branch out of the barn's
roof peak and I have some trouble visually separating the right side
of the tree trunk from the background. Obviously, you have more
framings of this setting?
Regards, Bob S.
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When you can tell me with a straight face that you will be willing to
live under the rule of the fundamentalist clergy of Osama's choice (or
even Episcopalian for that matter), I'll believe you.
When you can tell me with a straight face that you will be willing
to
live under the rule of the fundamentalist clergy of Osama's choice
(or
even Episcopalian for that matter), I'll believe you.
?
I never said or implied anything of the sort.
The conditions
that lead to this terrorism
William Robb wrote:
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Subject: Re: Another Blow Against Photography
When you can tell me with a straight face that you will be willing to
live under the rule of the fundamentalist clergy of Osama's choice (or
even Episcopalian for that
They regularly complain about the Reconquista, the results of
the Battle
of Lepanto and the lifting of the Siege of Vienna by Jan
Sobieski (the
latter two occurances broke the power of the Ottoman Empire).
They're
major beef with the west is the idea that any land that has ever
been
Utter nonsense. Blaming radical behavior on poverty and bad conditions is the
old liberal excuse for everyone who can't behave. It no longer holds water.
Never has. Is that why Hitler wanted to kill the jews? Radical Islam has a
fundamental problem with everyone else in the world. That makes
At 4:50 PM -0500 8/12/06, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Bob,
I don't know what they did in Northern Ireland, but I can't let what
you said go unchallenged.
As I understand it the common people themselves have grown tired of
the terrorism - both from the IRA and the UDF and their ilk - and
have stopped
Another pic from my weekend in Chicago. Great place to shoot. New buildings
going up everywhere. This one is about three blocks north of the river and two
blocks east of Michigan Avenue. I processed this on my laptop, so I'm not sure
about overall brightness. May have to reprocess a bit when I
No, I don't, surprisingly!
This is a substantial crop, but the perspective is the same on all six
frames. A tendency with a tripod.
Soon as I saw the big center limb squarely in front of the roof peak, I
defiled myself for not being more aware of the total composition.
You don't win anything, but
IMHO, it's certainly not too light. Beautiful upload.
Reminds me of the quip that California's state bird is the crane.
Appears to apply to Chicago as well.
Enjoyed the look.
Jack
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Another pic from my weekend in Chicago. Great place to shoot. New
buildings going up
Very photogenic structure and nicely captured.
Unlike Bob, I quite like the framing including the branch intruding on the view
of the roof - it gives a feeling of the shed being isolated in the middle of
the forest (of course, it may not be)
Perhaps a repeat in late afternoon light would
In a message dated 8/11/2006 1:20:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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This is by way of reminiscing about Kodak Tech Pan. Shot at 25 ISO.
Lx w/M-50mm f/1.4.
Abandoned house about 10 miles our of town on the hard road.
Larger file affords amazing detail. Miss the film.
Jack
Lovely barn, lovely tree. Sort of agree with Bob about branch right at peak
of roof. But what bothers me more is the lighting, bright, bright. Might tone
down contrast in PS or redo in later afternoon light. Definitely worth a
revisit, good subject matter, and older barns in California are
In a message dated 8/12/2006 4:14:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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Another pic from my weekend in Chicago. Great place to shoot. New buildings
going up everywhere. This one is about three blocks north of the river and two
blocks east of Michigan Avenue. I processed this on
Adam wrote:
They regularly complain about the Reconquista, the results of the Battle
of Lepanto and the lifting of the Siege of Vienna by Jan Sobieski (the
latter two occurrences broke the power of the Ottoman Empire). They're
major beef with the west is the idea that any land that has ever been
Thanks, Brian,
The sun hitting the front of the barn, if not too mottled, might be
worth trying.
Is a very wooded area, but with meadows and cleared areas throughout.
Am grateful for your comments.
Jack
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Very photogenic structure and nicely captured.
In addition to the grad ND used on the sky, I severely darkened the
foreground dead grass and cropped it by about half. I didn't like it's
'in your face' glare at the time.
Dodged the barn front a bit.
As I look at the image, a fix eludes me. Very often when this happens,
I ask myself why I didn't
On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Utter nonsense. Blaming radical behavior on poverty and bad
conditions is the old liberal excuse for everyone who can't behave.
It no longer holds water. Never has. Is that why Hitler wanted to
kill the jews? Radical Islam has a
Bob Shell wrote:
On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Utter nonsense. Blaming radical behavior on poverty and bad
conditions is the old liberal excuse for everyone who can't behave.
It no longer holds water. Never has. Is that why Hitler wanted to
kill the jews? Radical
At 9:11 PM -0400 8/12/06, Bob Shell wrote:
On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Utter nonsense. Blaming radical behavior on poverty and bad
conditions is the old liberal excuse for everyone who can't behave.
It no longer holds water. Never has. Is that why Hitler wanted
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Utter nonsense. Blaming radical behavior on poverty and bad conditions
is the old liberal excuse for everyone who can't behave. It no longer
holds water. Never has. Is that why Hitler
Thanks Jack. Glad to hear it looks okay on your monitor. With my laptop,
brightness varies in respect to the screen angle. I'm getting used to working
with it, but I'm still a bit uncertain.
Paul
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IMHO,
Another bit of liberal nonsense :-)
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Isn't there some sort of rule that when Hitler gets mentioned, the
arguement is over, the battle lost?
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On Aug 13, 2006, at 2:43 PM, William Robb wrote:
Isn't there some sort of rule that when Hitler gets mentioned, the
arguement is over, the battle lost?
Godwin's Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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Because of the greater DOF from the APS-C sized sensor, and the sometimes
slower lenses available for digital cameras, this filter may come in handy.
Tina Manley sent me the link after I showed her some of what the filter
could do, and I'm very pleasantly surprised at how much more it can do than
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