PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread Bruce Dayton
This chain was hanging from a fence post. I was fascinated by the extreme amount of rusting that had occurred. It almost looked like carved wood - in fact, I had to touch it just to be sure. Pentax *istD, A 70-210/4, macro mode ISO 800, 1/180 sec @ f/6.7

Re: PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:07:30 -0700, Bruce Dayton wrote: This chain was hanging from a fence post. I was fascinated by the extreme amount of rusting that had occurred. It almost looked like carved wood - in fact, I had to touch it just to be sure. :-) Beautiful texture indeed ... Regards, JvW

Re: PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread David J Brooks
Great shot with fantastic detail. What was your sharpen details on this one. Dave Quoting Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This chain was hanging from a fence post. I was fascinated by the extreme amount of rusting that had occurred. It almost looked like carved wood - in fact, I had to

Re: PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread Jack Davis
Nice find, Bruce. Most interesting rusty chain shot I've seen. Jack --- Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This chain was hanging from a fence post. I was fascinated by the extreme amount of rusting that had occurred. It almost looked like carved wood - in fact, I had to touch it just

Re: PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread frank theriault
On 9/26/06, Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This chain was hanging from a fence post. I was fascinated by the extreme amount of rusting that had occurred. It almost looked like carved wood - in fact, I had to touch it just to be sure. Pentax *istD, A 70-210/4, macro mode ISO 800,

Re: PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Bruce Dayton Subject: PESO - The Weakest Link This chain was hanging from a fence post. I was fascinated by the extreme amount of rusting that had occurred. It almost looked like carved wood - in fact, I had to touch it just to be sure. http

Re: PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread Bruce Dayton
I may get back there sometime and I'll take a tripod this time. Certainly an interesting subject. Thanks for commenting. -- Bruce Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 4:08:14 PM, you wrote: WR - Original Message - WR From: Bruce Dayton WR Subject: PESO - The Weakest Link This chain

Re: PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread P. J. Alling
I read the other comments first so I can say, I actually like it the way it is. Bruce Dayton wrote: This chain was hanging from a fence post. I was fascinated by the extreme amount of rusting that had occurred. It almost looked like carved wood - in fact, I had to touch it just to be sure.

Re: PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread P. J. Alling
I read the other comments first so I can say, I actualy like it the way it is. Bruce Dayton wrote: This chain was hanging from a fence post. I was fascinated by the extreme amount of rusting that had occurred. It almost looked like carved wood - in fact, I had to touch it just to be sure.

Re: PESO - The Weakest Link

2006-09-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Bruce Dayton Subject: Re: PESO - The Weakest Link I may get back there sometime and I'll take a tripod this time. Certainly an interesting subject. Thanks for commenting. Tripods are good. This last trip, I carfully packed both my Zone VI and the 028

Re: The weakest link?

2001-11-30 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
I believe the PNG graphics format does that. I'm not sure because I don't use that format (pretty much no one does) and, like GIF, it's supposedly not very well suited to photographic images. Not true. JS The PNG format does support up to 48-bit truecolor or 16-bit grayscale, JS with lossless

Re: The weakest link?

2001-11-29 Thread Johan Schoone
Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: [Image file formats with color management data included.] I believe the PNG graphics format does that. I'm not sure because I don't use that format (pretty much no one does) and, like GIF, it's supposedly not very well suited to photographic images.

The weakest link?

2001-11-28 Thread Dan Scott
My faithful monitor, a 6+ year old NEC XV17+, excited its last electron a week or so a go. I've been making do with my wife's mid-level pc since then (sometimes shifting her monitor to my Mac), but it isn't the same. Text and graphics on her 17 are crisp and clear, but some photos in various web

RE: The weakest link?

2001-11-28 Thread Paris, Leonard
: Dan Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The weakest link? My faithful monitor, a 6+ year old NEC XV17+, excited its last electron a week or so a go. I've been making do with my wife's mid-level pc since then (sometimes shifting

RE: The weakest link?

2001-11-28 Thread Mark Roberts
Patrick White wrote: Dan Scott wrote: (sometimes shifting her monitor to my Mac), but it isn't the same. Text and graphics on her 17 are crisp and clear, but some photos in various web galleries are now very blah-- but were quite nice viewed on my old monitor. snip One of these days, some

Re: The weakest link?

2001-11-28 Thread Doug Franklin
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:35:27 -0800, Patrick White wrote: One of these days, some bright person will get around to designing a popular image encoding format that stores the image data and the gamma that that data was encoded with. TIFF can do that, but very few TIFF writers put gamma

Re: Calibration project was:The weakest link?

2001-11-28 Thread Cory or Brenda Waters
: The weakest link? Now, if we could get together and buy a good monitor calibration package, we could send it around and all get our monitors calibrated. Probably wouldn't work for all of us, though. The kind I mean isn't just software but includes a colorimeter, too. Len --- - This message is from

Re: The weakest link?

2001-11-28 Thread John Fieber
On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 02:35 PM, Patrick White wrote: This makes the images produced on a Mac appear too light (or is it too dark?) on PCs. Basically, there are three apropaches to dealing with this: 1) make it look goon on a Mac and forget about the PC users, 2) make