Re: PAW - Coffeehouse Flowers

2007-04-18 Thread frank theriault
On 4/18/07, Norm Baugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank - you spend way too much time in Coffeehouses... ...And not enough time in bars? ;-) -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listi

Re: PAW - Coffeehouse Flowers

2007-04-18 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 4/18/2007 10:32:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still don't really know how to do this stuff, but I was experimenting a bit with the on-board flash of the *istD. Work or not? http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5865680 Comments are alwa

Re: PAW - Coffeehouse Flowers

2007-04-18 Thread Norm Baugher
Frank - you spend way too much time in Coffeehouses... Norm frank theriault wrote: > I still don't really know how to do this stuff, but I was > experimenting a bit with the on-board flash of the *istD. > > Work or not? > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5865680 > -- PDML Pentax

Re: PAW - Coffeehouse Flowers

2007-04-18 Thread frank theriault
On 4/18/07, David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks to artifical to me.:-) > > Maybe a tad to bright Frank. Not washed out but over bearing abit. > > Not sure how to say it. It certainly does look artificial. That's kind of what intrigued me about it. In any event, I'm glad that I took

Re: PAW - Coffeehouse Flowers

2007-04-18 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Regardless of the rationale Frank, you've shot and posted a flower pic. I've done it as well since I started shooting digital. I'm not making a critical judgement, just an observation - and people are doing it because it's so easy to do, and because flowers may be nice to pho

Re: PAW - Coffeehouse Flowers

2007-04-18 Thread frank theriault
showing flower and macro pics. It's not that I've started shooting flowers, but I was in a coffeeshop, and where I wouldn't have wasted film on those flowers, it cost me nothing to point and shoot at something that I could see from my seat. The "real" subject of that par

Re: PAW - Coffeehouse Flowers

2007-04-18 Thread David J Brooks
Looks to artifical to me.:-) Maybe a tad to bright Frank. Not washed out but over bearing abit. Not sure how to say it. Dave On 4/18/07, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still don't really know how to do this stuff, but I was > experimenting a bit with the on-board flash of the *i

RE: PAW - Coffeehouse Flowers

2007-04-18 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Frank, no, it doesn't "work," but getting the hang of flash is sometimes difficult with new gear. Why am I laughing? Well, it's not at you or the pic, but for the longest time I've contended that since the advent of the popularity of digital many photogs who were shooting documentary or stre

PAW - Coffeehouse Flowers

2007-04-18 Thread frank theriault
I still don't really know how to do this stuff, but I was experimenting a bit with the on-board flash of the *istD. Work or not? http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5865680 Comments are always appreciated. thanks, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -

Re: PESO - Field of Flowers - Take 2

2007-04-09 Thread Bruce Dayton
Good feedback, thanks. -- Bruce Monday, April 9, 2007, 7:28:21 AM, you wrote: C> Bruce Dayton wrote: >> Another attempt at the field of flowers type of thing. Different >> location, different lens, same photographer. I'm curios whether you >> think this one work

Re: PESO - Field of Flowers - Take 2

2007-04-09 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 4/8/2007 11:44:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another attempt at the field of flowers type of thing. Different location, different lens, same photographer. I'm curios whether you think this one works better or worse than the previous one. P

Re: PESO - Field of Flowers - Take 2

2007-04-09 Thread Christian
Bruce Dayton wrote: > Another attempt at the field of flowers type of thing. Different > location, different lens, same photographer. I'm curios whether you > think this one works better or worse than the previous one. > > Pentax K10D, Tokina AT-X SD 400/5.6, Handheld >

Re: PESO - Field of Flowers - Take 2

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Stenquist
Better. But still needs more DOF. This is one of those shots where you have to bite the bullet and pull out the tripod. Paul On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: > Another attempt at the field of flowers type of thing. Different > location, different lens, same photographer

Re: PESO - Field of Flowers - Take 2

2007-04-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Apr 8, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote: > Another attempt at the field of flowers type of thing. Different > location, different lens, same photographer. I'm curios whether you > think this one works better or worse than the previous one. > > Pentax K10D, To

PESO - Field of Flowers - Take 2

2007-04-08 Thread Bruce Dayton
Another attempt at the field of flowers type of thing. Different location, different lens, same photographer. I'm curios whether you think this one works better or worse than the previous one. Pentax K10D, Tokina AT-X SD 400/5.6, Handheld ISO 400, 1/250 sec @ f/11 http://www.daytonphot

RE: PESO More flowers

2006-10-29 Thread Tim Øsleby
entax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: PESO More flowers Another photo from our local botanical garden http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5121066 Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDM

RE: PESO More flowers

2006-10-25 Thread Bill Owens
Thanks Ken It looks pretty much as I remember it Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:46 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO More flowers Nice capture Bill. Good

Re: PESO More flowers

2006-10-25 Thread kwaller
Nice capture Bill. Good exposure & composition. Colors appear a little muddy to me, but you were there so you would know. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PESO More flowers > Another photo from our local botani

Re: PESO More flowers

2006-10-25 Thread Jack Davis
Like it, Bill. The missing peddle on the top blossom detracts some. I'd, also, darken or clone the lighter background areas just to take a look. Jack --- Bill Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another photo from our local botanical garden > > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=512

PESO More flowers

2006-10-25 Thread Bill Owens
Another photo from our local botanical garden http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5121066 Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-04 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/2/2006 8:25:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Took this one this afternoon, in between the rain showers. Shot raw, converted with Adobe Camera Raw, all of the color/contrast corrections were done there. http://www.matoe.org/gallery2/v/tomatoe/testscans/IM

Re: Two GESOs: More flowers than you could shake a stick at

2006-09-04 Thread Bob Sullivan
f the photos on both sites. > > You seem to have lots of 'glow' in the flowers. > > I'm not sure that I like it, but it is interesting. > > What do you mean by glow? > > As I mentioned, they were all taken with my cheapass Sigma macro zoom, which > is very

Re: Two GESOs: More flowers than you could shake a stick at

2006-09-04 Thread Jack Davis
I just got around to taking a peek at the flowers, etc. and found that Ienjoy your work. Nice collection. Not necessarily a criticism, but they don't appear to be lacking in saturation. Some colors are almost iridescent, which might equate to a "glow" to some. The slightest softness

Re: Two GESOs: More flowers than you could shake a stick at

2006-09-04 Thread John Celio
> I looked at some of the photos on both sites. > You seem to have lots of 'glow' in the flowers. > I'm not sure that I like it, but it is interesting. What do you mean by glow? As I mentioned, they were all taken with my cheapass Sigma macro zoom, which is very sh

Re: Two GESOs: More flowers than you could shake a stick at

2006-09-04 Thread Bob Sullivan
John, I looked at some of the photos on both sites. You seem to have lots of 'glow' in the flowers. I'm not sure that I like it, but it is interesting. Regards, Bob S. On 9/4/06, John Celio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past spring and summer, I posted a coupl

Two GESOs: More flowers than you could shake a stick at

2006-09-04 Thread John Celio
Over the past spring and summer, I posted a couple photo-a-day sets on my blog. Today I put both sets into their own galleries: http://www.neovenator.com/photo/flowers1/index.html (16 photos) http://www.neovenator.com/photo/flowers2/index.html (52 photos) I've learned a lot from the comments I

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-03 Thread P. J. Alling
I like the color rendition of the second, it's more, I think that the background could be lightened a bit to good effect, maybe half as bright as that on the first, while keeping the white flowers roughly the same brightness level. I don't know if that's possible. Mat Maessen

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-03 Thread David Savage
gt; > This time, I white-balanced off of the flowers, and applied liberal > amounts of curves to bring down the background. For some reason the > JPEG always seems to have less contrast and be brighter in my web > browser than it looks in the Photoshop window. Maybe the lack of real > co

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-03 Thread Mat Maessen
On 9/2/06, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks a little flat to me (considering the lighting thats not > surprising) & seems to have a yellow colour cast > A curves adjustment to darken the foliage helps to make the flowers stand out. Take 2: http://www.matoe.org

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-03 Thread Jack Davis
Increasing DOF will sharpen all of the background foliage. The soft look certainly works here. Jack --- Mat Maessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/2/06, Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very nice, Mat > > Thank you. :-) > > > Perhaps the

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-03 Thread Jack Davis
Mat, A fresh pleasing shot. While there may not be recoverable detail in the blossoms, they are so blown out as to glow. If that's your mood choice, I get it. I looked at it with the bottom cropped and it feels better to me as a pano. I think the large leaves on the right work as an offset to the b

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-02 Thread Mat Maessen
On 9/2/06, Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very nice, Mat Thank you. :-) > Perhaps the flowers could be a bit sharper but I like the composition with > the water drops on the close foliage and the out of focus foliage in the > background. If it weren't the m

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-02 Thread Mat Maessen
On 9/2/06, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks a little flat to me (considering the lighting thats not > surprising) & seems to have a yellow colour cast > > A curves adjustment to darken the foliage helps to make the flowers stand out. You know, I did a versi

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-02 Thread David Savage
Looks a little flat to me (considering the lighting thats not surprising) & seems to have a yellow colour cast A curves adjustment to darken the foliage helps to make the flowers stand out. Cheers, Dave On 9/3/06, Mat Maessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Took this one this

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-02 Thread gibikote
nice composition, but the petals do seem overexposed... regards Sridhar -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: PESO - white flowers

2006-09-02 Thread Brian Walters
Very nice, Mat Perhaps the flowers could be a bit sharper but I like the composition with the water drops on the close foliage and the out of focus foliage in the background. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia Quoting Mat Maessen <[EM

PESO - white flowers

2006-09-02 Thread Mat Maessen
Took this one this afternoon, in between the rain showers. Shot raw, converted with Adobe Camera Raw, all of the color/contrast corrections were done there. http://www.matoe.org/gallery2/v/tomatoe/testscans/IMGP0046.jpg.html -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/ma

Flowers for mother's day

2006-05-14 Thread Mark Roberts
My S.O. asked me to take a photo of one of her orchids to send to her mother. Since it's mother's day (here in the states) I thought I'd post it for everyone's mother: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/flowers.jpg Just an ordinary flower shot, but what the heck - mothers like that stuff :)

RE: GESOs: sculptures and flowers

2006-01-04 Thread Tim Øsleby
) > -Original Message- > From: Derby Chang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 3. januar 2006 11:37 > To: Pentax Discuss > Subject: GESOs: sculptures and flowers > > > Happy new year, everyone, > > Here's to more enablement in 2006. Two GESOs from me for the new y

Re: GESOs: sculptures and flowers

2006-01-03 Thread frank theriault
On 1/3/06, Derby Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Happy new year, everyone, > > Here's to more enablement in 2006. Two GESOs from me for the new year, > all taken with the wonderful FA100 macro > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/index5/06_01_sculpture/index.htm > > http://members.iinet.net

GESOs: sculptures and flowers

2006-01-03 Thread Derby Chang
Happy new year, everyone, Here's to more enablement in 2006. Two GESOs from me for the new year, all taken with the wonderful FA100 macro http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/index5/06_01_sculpture/index.htm http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/index6/06_01_bloom/index.htm Stay frosty, D --

Re: Peso or 2: Flowers

2005-09-29 Thread frank theriault
On 9/22/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "John Graves" > Subject: Peso or 2: Flowers > > > >I think I like my ist-DS. Here are the first of my new pictures > > > > http://www.photo.net/pho

Re: Peso or 2: Flowers

2005-09-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I think I like my ist-DS. Here are the first of my new pictures http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=529887 Nice work, John. So are you going to join us in the Pentax Pixel Party on the 8th of October? Godfrey

Re: Peso or 2: Flowers

2005-09-22 Thread Eactivist
, I like #1. #2 has a little too much shadow. If it were me and I was still interested, I'd go back and shoot it agaub when it had more indirect light. Nice butterfly shot on #1! But, also, if it were me, I'd crop it tighter. The butterfly is of interest, some of the other flow

Re: Peso or 2: Flowers

2005-09-22 Thread Jack Davis
John, Nice! Butterfly shot is worthy of trying as a small pano crop to include the blossom to its right. A loss of a bit of the left side might, then, improve the balance. Obviously, a greater DOF would have helped. http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=89 Would appreciate your reac

Re: Peso or 2: Flowers

2005-09-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
Pretty. I'm sure they're the first of many to come. I look forward to seeing more. Paul On Sep 22, 2005, at 12:27 AM, John Graves wrote: I think I like my ist-DS. Here are the first of my new pictures http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=529887 Comments please. John G.

Re: Peso or 2: Flowers

2005-09-21 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "John Graves" Subject: Peso or 2: Flowers I think I like my ist-DS. Here are the first of my new pictures http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=529887 Comments please. I like the one with the butterfly, but you should try to

Peso or 2: Flowers

2005-09-21 Thread John Graves
I think I like my ist-DS. Here are the first of my new pictures http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=529887 Comments please. John G.

Re: Friday Flowers

2005-07-01 Thread SonC
hat frame over others _because_ of the flower's intrusion. I think if you'll look back at my comments on the ferns that I felt they could benefit from other colors or shades in the bkgd. When I first started the Friday flowers, I was careful to isolate the blooms, either by bu

Re: Friday Flowers

2005-07-01 Thread Kenneth Waller
Touchy, touchy - So I suppose you didn't want any comments? Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 1, 2005 1:09 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Friday Flowers In a message dated 7/1/2005 11:12:56 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROT

Re: Friday Flowers

2005-07-01 Thread SonC
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 1, 2005 8:44 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Friday Flowers http://www.sonc.com/jul1-05.htm *Ist Ds28mm 2.8 smc f Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane égalité, liberté

Re: Friday Flowers

2005-07-01 Thread Kenneth Waller
Nicely done, although the orange blur in the URH corner is distracting, why include it? Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 1, 2005 8:44 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Friday Flowers http://www.sonc.com/jul1-05.htm *Ist Ds 28mm 2.8 smc f

Re: Friday Flowers

2005-07-01 Thread Cotty
On 1/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed: >http://www.sonc.com/jul1-05.htm > >*Ist Ds 28mm 2.8 smc f Superb shot Sonny. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

Friday Flowers

2005-07-01 Thread SonC
http://www.sonc.com/jul1-05.htm *Ist Ds 28mm 2.8 smc f Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane égalité, liberté, crawfish

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Herb Chong
AIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:57 PM Subject: Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended Bob, for me the numbers (as in $) were against continued usage of the Photo CD. when I stopped, I had already spent the cost of a decent scanner on the Photo CDs. I popped for a Ni

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Bob Sullivan" Subject: Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended Ken & Shel, I have 3 or 400 scanned slides on Kodak CD's. This is the first batch to turn out so poorly. I'm looking for somewhere else to take my business.

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Kenneth Waller
more selective in what I'm scanning and while its scanning, I'm doing something else. Plus with bigger files I can print bigger sizes. -Original Message- From: Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended Ken & Shel, I h

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Bob Sullivan
(like anything else), you're just supporting > poor quality. > > -Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended > > A friend showed me several discs of Photo CD scans and I was not

RE: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Kenneth Waller
; Subject: RE: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended A friend showed me several discs of Photo CD scans and I was not impressed at all. If you've got a lot of slides or film to scan, you'd be ahead of the game economically to get a good film scanner, and with a little practice and

RE: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Shel Belinkoff
A friend showed me several discs of Photo CD scans and I was not impressed at all. If you've got a lot of slides or film to scan, you'd be ahead of the game economically to get a good film scanner, and with a little practice and reading of some on-line tutorials, you'll be getting better results i

RE: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Kenneth Waller
arkus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended Hi Bob I did not know that you can still order Kodak CD's. That are the ones with the different high resolution scans on it, right? Here in Switzerland you can only order a low resolution JPG Picture

RE: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Bob I did not know that you can still order Kodak CD's. That are the ones with the different high resolution scans on it, right? Here in Switzerland you can only order a low resolution JPG Picture CD which is unusable for my needs. I would love to have the Kodak CD instead of scanning. It would

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Bob Sullivan
Markus, The sad part of these scans being too dark is that I sent them out for a professional scan to a Kodak CD. I paid about $1.75 each to have 50 slides put to a CD. I was underwhelmed by what Helix did for me here in Chicago. Next time I'm going elsewhere. Perhaps somebody on the pdml can

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Bob Sullivan
Frank and Boris, Thanks for looking and the comments. Regards, Bob S. On 5/31/05, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > Well Frank inspired me. > > I've had a number of slides scanned and thought to share a few. > > > > http://members.aol.com/rfsindg/Ranuncula1.jpg > > an

RE: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Bob I like the second one :-) What scanner are you using for the slides and do you like it? I just read some reviews and most of the cheaper film scanners seem to scan too dark. I'm just wondering because my scanner starts to add nasty yellow/brown lines along the edges of the scans and I won

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-31 Thread David Mann
On May 31, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Thanks for the comments. You are on target with soft & etherial. My wife tells me the flower is a ranuncula (ra-nun-cu-la?) and you've got the colors right. Quite unusual colors on a 3-4 inch globe shaped flower bud from the Illinois Botanic Ga

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-30 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! Well Frank inspired me. I've had a number of slides scanned and thought to share a few. http://members.aol.com/rfsindg/Ranuncula1.jpg and http://members.aol.com/rfsindg/Tulip3.jpg Both with the MZ-S, A200/4 Macro, and scanned from Kodachrome 64. (Generally, the slides are coming ba

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-30 Thread frank theriault
On 5/30/05, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well Frank inspired me. > I've had a number of slides scanned and thought to share a few. > > http://members.aol.com/rfsindg/Ranuncula1.jpg > and > http://members.aol.com/rfsindg/Tulip3.jpg Like 'em both, especially the second one. Th

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-30 Thread Bob Sullivan
Jack, Thanks for the comments. You are on target with soft & etherial. My wife tells me the flower is a ranuncula (ra-nun-cu-la?) and you've got the colors right. Quite unusual colors on a 3-4 inch globe shaped flower bud from the Illinois Botanic Gardens in Highland Park. Regards, Bob S. On

Re: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-30 Thread Jack Davis
Bob, My monitor renders the rose (?) a subtle but very different and odd blend of red/orange/tan/rusty/etc... Shallow DOF is OK with me. Other flower seems to made up of the same general color group with a bit of dark something added. If you were going for soft artificial ethereal hews, you succeed

PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended

2005-05-30 Thread Bob Sullivan
Well Frank inspired me. I've had a number of slides scanned and thought to share a few. http://members.aol.com/rfsindg/Ranuncula1.jpg and http://members.aol.com/rfsindg/Tulip3.jpg Both with the MZ-S, A200/4 Macro, and scanned from Kodachrome 64. (Generally, the slides are coming back too

Re: PESO - First Flowers

2005-05-05 Thread frank theriault
On 5/5/05, Marco Alpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With spring and all the gorgeous flower shots posted on the list, I > thought I'd give it a try. I came upon these in a yard in downtown San > Jose. I don't know what species they are, but I imagine someone on the > list will know: > > http://ww

RE: PESO - First Flowers

2005-05-05 Thread Don Sanderson
Somebodies son-flowers? D > -Original Message- > From: Marco Alpert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:11 PM > To: Pentax List > Subject: PESO - First Flowers > > > With spring and all the gorgeous flower shots posted on the list, I >

Re: PESO - First Flowers

2005-05-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/5/05, Marco Alpert, discombobulated, unleashed: >With spring and all the gorgeous flower shots posted on the list, I >thought I'd give it a try. I came upon these in a yard in downtown San >Jose. I don't know what species they are, but I imagine someone on the >list will know: > >http://ww

PESO - First Flowers

2005-05-05 Thread Marco Alpert
With spring and all the gorgeous flower shots posted on the list, I thought I'd give it a try. I came upon these in a yard in downtown San Jose. I don't know what species they are, but I imagine someone on the list will know: http://www.alpert.com/marco/pdml/peso14.html - Marco

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread pnstenquist
Yes, it's hand held. But the flash duration is 1/1000 or less, depending on the TTL exposure, so it's sort of a gimme :-). > Hi! > > > In the spirit of Marxist software, I offer a couple of far left flowers: > > bleeding hearts . Seriously, these just bloomed tod

RE: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread Tom C
I can imagine shot #1 as making a nice greeting card for romantic gardeners in the February time frame... Tom C. From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Far Left Flowers Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:25:39 -0400

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! In the spirit of Marxist software, I offer a couple of far left flowers: bleeding hearts . Seriously, these just bloomed today (after the weekend's foot of snow melted), so I used them to try out the ring light flash I bought from Christian. I used the ring light with my Vivitar Ser

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread P. J. Alling
Use a publicity still of John Wayne from the Conquerer, (so he was really playing Genghis Khan, but who'll know??) Doug Franklin wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:32:03 -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: I think that for future political discussions on the PDML, everyone should have to provide metapho

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread Doug Franklin
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:32:03 -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: > I think that for future > political discussions on the PDML, everyone should have to provide > metaphorical photographic evidence :-). But there aren't any photos of Atilla the Hun! :-) TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Stenquist
lens to show Collin. John On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:32:03 +0100, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Frank. Actually, I already had names for the flowers. The one in focus that's a bit more toward the center is "Knarf." The one that's more to the left is &qu

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread John Forbes
And presumably you'd need a panoramic lens to show Collin. John On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:32:03 +0100, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Frank. Actually, I already had names for the flowers. The one in focus that's a bit more toward the center is "Knarf."

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Stenquist
my Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5 macro. I like the device. It might be too harsh for some macro uses [...] case, here are the pinko flowers shot at approximately 1:2: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3310077 http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3310084

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks Frank. Actually, I already had names for the flowers. The one in focus that's a bit more toward the center is "Knarf." The one that's more to the left is "Frantisek." . I think that for future political discussions on the PDML, everyone should have to prov

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread David Mann
On Apr 26, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3310077 http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3310084 I like the first one better. To be honest I'm not that fond of ring flash but you've done well despite that. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digista

RE: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
ice? Shel > [Original Message] > From: Paul Stenquist > [...] I used the ring light > with my Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5 macro. I like the device. It might be > too harsh for some macro uses [...] > case, here are the pinko flowers shot at approximately 1:2: > http://www.p

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-25 Thread Bruce Dayton
flat, as one would expect with a ringlight, but for this image it seems to work pretty well. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, April 25, 2005, 6:25:39 PM, you wrote: PS> In the spirit of Marxist software, I offer a couple of far left PS> flowers: bleeding hearts . Seriously, these just b

Re: PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-25 Thread frank theriault
On 4/25/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the spirit of Marxist software, I offer a couple of far left > flowers: bleeding hearts . Seriously, these just bloomed today > (after the weekend's foot of snow melted), so I used them to try out > the ring li

PESO: Far Left Flowers

2005-04-25 Thread Paul Stenquist
In the spirit of Marxist software, I offer a couple of far left flowers: bleeding hearts . Seriously, these just bloomed today (after the weekend's foot of snow melted), so I used them to try out the ring light flash I bought from Christian. I used the ring light with my Vivitar Series

Re: PESO The flowers that bloom in the Spring

2005-04-21 Thread frank theriault
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:13:08 +0100, John Forbes wrote: > > > http://www.johnpforbes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/htm/IMGP1162.jpg > > > > Took this shot of the geraniums on my balcony, with the sun shining > > through them (though out of the picture). > That's quite beautiful, John! Love the backligh

Re: PESO The flowers that bloom in the Spring

2005-04-12 Thread John Forbes
Thanks, Bedo! John On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:50:00 +0200, Peter Lacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John, http://www.johnpforbes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/htm/IMGP1162.jpg perhaps little bit busy (I like simple compositions) but the black background calm things down. Very nice. Bedo. -- Using Opera's re

Re: PESO The flowers that bloom in the Spring

2005-04-12 Thread Peter Lacus
John, http://www.johnpforbes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/htm/IMGP1162.jpg perhaps little bit busy (I like simple compositions) but the black background calm things down. Very nice. Bedo.

Re: PESO The flowers that bloom in the Spring

2005-04-12 Thread John Forbes
Thanks for commenting, Doug, It's the full frame, uncropped, so there's no more space on the left. If I get similar light, I'll try some more. John On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:20:00 -0400, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:13:08 +0100, John Forbes wrote: http://www.j

Re: PESO The flowers that bloom in the Spring

2005-04-12 Thread Doug Franklin
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:13:08 +0100, John Forbes wrote: > http://www.johnpforbes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/htm/IMGP1162.jpg > > Took this shot of the geraniums on my balcony, with the sun shining > through them (though out of the picture). I like it John. The only suggestion I'd make is maybe a lit

PESO The flowers that bloom in the Spring

2005-04-12 Thread John Forbes
http://www.johnpforbes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/htm/IMGP1162.jpg Took this shot of the geraniums on my balcony, with the sun shining through them (though out of the picture). I wasn't sure of exposure, so left it to the camera, and this resulted. The strange thing is that it was broad daylight, a

RE: PAW: Stop And Smell The FLowers

2004-10-14 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Kenneth a truly beautiful and touching picture for me, maybe the eye of the bear could be a bit more visible. thanks for showing it Markus > > > Kenneth Waller wrote: > > >Check out > http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html for > >another shot from my shoot in Denali Nation

Re: PAW: Stop And Smell The FLowers

2004-10-12 Thread brooksdj
Great shot Kenneth I like how the soft colours of the flowers and bear seem to merge into one.The OOF ara is pleasing to. Great on for the wall. Dave (still catching up on paws and pesps) Brooks > Check out http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwal

RE: PAW: More Flowers...

2004-08-10 Thread Billy Abbott
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Alan Chan wrote: Would be nice if the lower right corner could be avoid, and a little colour adjustment in Photoshop. :-) I tried cropping out the yellow in the middle top and the white in the bottom corner, but i preferred this to the thinner image. I;ve had a bit more of

RE: PAW: More Flowers...

2004-08-10 Thread Alan Chan
Would be nice if the lower right corner could be avoid, and a little colour adjustment in Photoshop. :-) Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan I don't take many pictures of flowers (mainly as they never seem to turn out well, but am still playing with this whole nature photography

PAW: More Flowers...

2004-08-10 Thread Billy Abbott
I don't take many pictures of flowers (mainly as they never seem to turn out well, but am still playing with this whole nature photography thing), but these aren't real, so they don't count :) http://cowfish.org.uk/paw/flowers.html comments always welcome billy -- The gr

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