jeffrey_sipress

<p>I discovered that Photo.net is the only site I'v used that has a problem properly displaying jpegs in the Colormatch RGB colorspace. Every other site I contribute to (or moderate, such as FredMiranda.com) displays my images just fine. Just the topper of a list of issues I have with the software that runs this place. </p>

<p>Thanks for your response, Walter.</p>

<p>I wish the issue was the background. It is not. I know these images very well. They're just darker here.</p>

<p>All my images look somewhat darker on this site than many others I frequent. I use the same computers. My images are Colormatch rgb or sRGB. I opened the same jpeg from my desktop folders next to Safari on my screen on a color managed system and the difference was very apparent. On some, it is not good and the images are not presentable that way. Please don't pick apart my gear, it's fine. Could this only be me?!?</p>

<p>So, after submitting an image to the critique forum, I waited a few hours and looked for it. Couldn't find it. I saw a real lot of others. Are they listed on the page in order of submission? I can't believe 50 (or so) images have been submitted since. Still, never found mine. So, I went to the ratings forum, and as I'm scrolling through, after a half dozen or so, I get this window asking me to type in a silly phrase to continue. What? I'm already signed in, and just looking at images, and I can't get any further without this little game. I don't get it. There wasn't even any annoying advertising. What's going on here? How do you find your images here?</p>

<p>What's the point of listing all the categories of images (people, landscape, etc) in the search feature if there is no way for a person to assign their gallery images to any particular category?</p>

Isn't there a main gallery page of recently submitted photos that one can browse? I submitted a photo,

and can't find it, except on my own page. How do others see it? When I see the list of 'Top Images' with

thousands of views, where are viewers finding these files to view? I simpy don't understand how this

place works. It is NOT intuitive.

Once you leave it on and accidentally bump it or pack it tight and break the little mount

casting, you'll wonder why anyone is dumb enough to leave it on just to save 5 seconds.

Except in cold weather, but the chance of breaking your thread mount is still the same.

Kelly, you have an original negative of Betty Page? Damn, I'd trade my scanner for just that!

If you made the same exposure with all of these lenses, you might not be able to tell the

difference. This may not help you decide, but sometimes factors such cost and availability

are the decision-makers. i have the Rodenstock.

It's hard to beat Velvia 100 for your application. But beware, that film does not reproduce all

colors too well in shady situations, and imparts a strong blue cast For low light or strong

shade, I use Astia 100F. If you don't want to cary around two different films, then use a

strong warming filter on the Velvia.

I don't see how anyone can determine your own personal preferences but you. These two

units are very different, and operating them is very different. They will both do what you

need just fine. You simply must try each one and determine how you like the controls, and

how each one lets you work creatively.

Since you're in Pasedena, try Samy's camera. They have four stores in the area, including the

one here in Santa Barbara, which always has a nice selection of used and new 4x5's.

During the imagemaking process, determine the right location and distance to subject,

place the camera there, then select the correct lens for the composition. The concept of a

'favorite lens' is absurd and defies the true process.

I don't use a loupe at all. I wear an Optivisor on my head with the #10 lens, equal to about

a 4x. I can use both eyes most of the time, and have both hands free to work the camera.

It's freedom!

As a relative newcomer to 4x5, I want to do some close up work. Typically with my 35mm

gear, I would use my macro lens. What equivalents techniques are there for 4x5 and can I

get similar results just by using my current 135 or 90mm lenses creatively?

I've tried too many times to navigate around this place. What a mess. I've

submitted a photo for critique, and it never appeared on the list or showed up

anywhere. I've tried to view my photos anywhere on this site other than my

portfolio, and they never appear. How are people seeing them? I no longer

care. Refreshing the random photo page never has shown my photos, yet

some others appear multiple times, and they are not rated either. I once

found my photo right after I posted it on the new submissions area, viewed it

a couple of times, and when checking my portrfolio the next day, it shows

zero views. This place has wasted enough of my hours. This is the worst

organized and most frustrating website I have ever used, next to the US

postal service. I am an extremely experienced computer user, with many of

my sites online, and I know what I am doing. One kind reply to this original

post said my images were good and should appear on the top photo list.

Thanks for the kind comment, but it never happened. In fact, they don't

appear anywhere, except my portfolio.

 

I can't even find how to delete my membership here! Good luck, and

goodbye to all.....

I guess not...

Yeah, Steve, I still know what you mean. I've been to the page of thumbnails

of recently posted and popular(?) images a few times this past week. I've

refreshed the page dozens of times and saw numerous images each show up

multiple times. I've never seen my most visited image once there. I only saw

my recent posts a few times just after I posted them, and never again. Where

are the views coming from? I checked out the portfolio of one of the

commenters of my photo, and saw some photos that had not gotten high

ratings, yet were viewed many thousands of times. So apparently, ratings are

not the criteria for being displayed on the 'random' page more often. I don't

really care how many views I get, but it's nice to get viewed. It's not a

popularity contest, and I have a healthy ego. I just have trouble using a site

that is difficult to navigate, and with a logic for it's image displays that is neither

intuitive or sensible. I still like this place, and it is immensly popular. Is there

anywhere on this site that explains some of these mysteries?

Thanks everyone. Up until now, I was only seeing the few photos shown at the

home page and randomly visiting others portfolios. I just haven't spent enough

time here to fully figure my way around. Now that I saw there were a thousand

views of one of my images, I really wondered how that can be. I had thought

that the 'critique photos' link was only to see images that people requested

critiques of, not the batch of whatever everyone was recently posting. Got it

figured out now, but feeling a bit silly, after a year.

I've posted a few images on my portfolio here, and am wondering how people

get to see them. One of them has gotten a lot of views in one week, but I don't

know how to view them as others do without going to my portfolio, and I doubt

folks are going there. They must be available to see somewhere, but the flow

of this site is not intuitive. Similarly, how do I see other's work? Isn't there

some page with lots of thumbnails or something like that?

Simply put, Apple makes the best LCD screens for laptops and desktops.

Operating a Mac is a pleasure. Fighting with PC's is not. You do the math....

Too bad. I just got my 2200 yesterday, and can use the profiles. Since they

were freeware, would anyone here who has them be so kind as to send them

to me. Thanks. Jeffrey

I bought a few hundred paper CD envelopes with the circular window to read

contents written on the CD with a Sharpie. I found them at an online CD supply

house, I think their name was Effectuality. I use a container or box the width of a CD

to line them up so I can flip through them. I get hundreds in a small space. No jewel

boxes of binders or albums. Very space saving. There are nice wire mesh storage

containers about 10" long at Staples or other office stores.

Ellis is right on. Perspective is only determined by subject to camera distance. Different lenses

only provide different angles of view, except tor the distortions created by extremely short focal

lengths. This actually makes it easier to control perspective with only one lens. Simply step

forward or back, if you can. This de-bunks the popular myth of phrases such as 'the

perspective of a lens'.

Thank you all for your kind and informed answers. It is clear that I must make many

decisions dependent on what my destinations are with my digital imaging, which are

nice large prints, at this time. I am not bad at it now, but seek the next levels of

accomplishment. That does, however, include hardware and software upgrades, and

the associated learning curves. I want to have as much control of the process as I

can afford and understand without becoming a control freak. To start, I've been using

my 6x7 format camera more, and about to try out my new Minolta Multi Scan Pro.

Whatever I do with monitors, scanners, and printers, I must start with the best

photograph I can make. It is too easy to forget that.

 

I will keep you updated on my progress, and hopefully be able to answer a few

questions on this great forum. Again, thanks for the helpful directions you have

provided.

 

Jeffrey Sipress, Santa Barbara, CA