Re: Peso: School Picture

2020-11-20 Thread mike wilson
> On 20 November 2020 at 22:56 "Daniel J. Matyola" wrote: > > > McDonald's coffee is certainly better than their food.It is > drinkable. McDonald's does food? > When traveling abroad, I always look for McDonald's. First, they always > have the best location in the city; second, one

Re: Peso: School Picture

2020-11-20 Thread Bruce Walker
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 4:46 PM Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 20.11.20 um 20:58 schrieb Bruce Walker: > > > I *relish* finding an involved project! Presently I am pursuing the > > perfect pour-over coffee (using spreadsheets, weigh scales, > > thermometers, and timers) > > And how do you

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2020-11-20 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
McDonald's coffee is certainly better than their food.It is drinkable. When traveling abroad, I always look for McDonald's. First, they always have the best location in the city; second, one can get a large cup of decent hot coffee at a reasonable price; third, they have clean, free

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2020-11-20 Thread John
On 11/20/2020 15:43:38, Bob Pdml wrote: On 20 Nov 2020, at 19:59, Bruce Walker wrote: Igor, you needn't let lacking a "suitable backdrop" stop you. Just use a wide aperture with a decent distance from behind your kid to the background and let blur create a nice randomly mottled background.

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2020-11-20 Thread John
My favorite coffee is McDonald's drive-thru coffee. You don't have to add anything to it to make it drinkable, but it is a good idea to let it cool some before taking the lid off ... ... which I frequently have to do because they put the opening in the lid right over the seam on the side of

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2020-11-20 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 20.11.20 um 22:38 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola: You should try espresso. Indeed. Much less cafeine and acid. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de --

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2020-11-20 Thread Bruce Walker
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 4:39 PM Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > You should try espresso. I love espresso, Dan. But while I can relatively easily conceal large camera and lighting purchases, there's no way I can hide an espresso machine on the kitchen counter. Certain death awaits from She Who Must

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2020-11-20 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 20.11.20 um 20:58 schrieb Bruce Walker: I *relish* finding an involved project! Presently I am pursuing the perfect pour-over coffee (using spreadsheets, weigh scales, thermometers, and timers) And how do you clean the keyboard afterwards or what do you pour it over? Ralf -- Ralf R.

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2020-11-20 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
You should try espresso. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 2:59 PM Bruce Walker wrote: > > And, I don't know about you, but in these stuck-at-home pandemic days > I *relish* finding an involved project!

Re: Peso: School Picture

2020-11-20 Thread Bruce Walker
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 3:44 PM Bob Pdml wrote: > > On 20 Nov 2020, at 19:59, Bruce Walker wrote: > > > > Igor, you needn't let lacking a "suitable backdrop" stop you. Just use > > a wide aperture with a decent distance from behind your kid to the > > background and let blur create a nice

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2020-11-20 Thread Bob Pdml
On 20 Nov 2020, at 19:59, Bruce Walker wrote: > > Igor, you needn't let lacking a "suitable backdrop" stop you. Just use > a wide aperture with a decent distance from behind your kid to the > background and let blur create a nice randomly mottled background. > > And, I don't know about you,

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2020-11-20 Thread lrc
My trick is to use fairly bright lights and the inverse square law for what is behind to leave it in the dark. On November 20, 2020 11:58:50 AM PST, Bruce Walker wrote: >Igor, you needn't let lacking a "suitable backdrop" stop you. Just use >a wide aperture with a decent distance from behind

Re: Peso: School Picture

2020-11-20 Thread Bruce Walker
Igor, you needn't let lacking a "suitable backdrop" stop you. Just use a wide aperture with a decent distance from behind your kid to the background and let blur create a nice randomly mottled background. And, I don't know about you, but in these stuck-at-home pandemic days I *relish* finding an

Re: Peso: School Picture

2020-11-20 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Cool photo, and a nice kid! Just on Tuesday, I took our daughter (who is in the "virtual mode") to the school, for the school photo. I was entertaining the thought of doing one myself, - but I lack any suitable backdrop. Besides, not doing this type of shots routinely would make it a rather

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2020-11-20 Thread ann sanfedele
ah! so same fashion across North America then  oy a On 11/20/2020 12:37 PM, Bill wrote: On 11/20/2020 11:35 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: Ok, so a sweet looking kid nicely photo-ed but what is with the silver hair?  If she were living down here it would have to be purple or green highlights to fit

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2020-11-20 Thread Bruce Walker
Real nice, Bill. On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:18 PM Bill wrote: > > The granddaughter was over last week for school pictures. > Technical: > K1, DFA* 85/1.4 @ f/5 > Some post processing, more gilding the lily than anything. > Enjoy > https://flic.kr/p/2k8A8rd > > bill > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss

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2020-11-20 Thread Bill
On 11/20/2020 11:35 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: Ok, so a sweet looking kid nicely photo-ed but what is with the silver hair?  If she were living down here it would have to be purple or green highlights to fit in :-) Or is that just the lighting? ann She had her hair dyed bright blue a couple

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2020-11-20 Thread ann sanfedele
Ok, so a sweet looking kid nicely photo-ed but what is with the silver hair?  If she were living down here it would have to be purple or green highlights to fit in :-) Or is that just the lighting? ann On 11/20/2020 12:28 PM, Bill wrote: Woops, try this instead: https://flic.kr/p/2k8A8rd

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2020-11-20 Thread lrc
Nice portrait. Remember when the school photo might have been the only photo taken of someone that year? On November 20, 2020 9:28:07 AM PST, Bill wrote: >Woops, try this instead: >https://flic.kr/p/2k8A8rd > >bill > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net

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2020-11-20 Thread Bill
Woops, try this instead: https://flic.kr/p/2k8A8rd bill -- 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.

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2020-11-20 Thread David J Brooks
well done Bill Dave On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:18 PM Bill wrote: > The granddaughter was over last week for school pictures. > Technical: > K1, DFA* 85/1.4 @ f/5 > Some post processing, more gilding the lily than anything. > Enjoy > https://flic.kr/p/2k8vX56 > > bill > > -- > PDML