ivar olsen

If I go to one of my own pictures it doesn't even allow me to rate, thus I believe

you are spot on Bob... "tricks or hacking" seems likely... what say you

Vincent?

...I forgot to mention: There are 39 pictures in his portfolio, and when checking

6 of them...they have all been rated by himself...thus it would be a shock if the

rest weren't. One of them are only rated by 1 person...himself...

Ivar

I will send this one to abuse@photo.net, but feel it would be beneficial for

others to know as well.

One member has rated 1992 photos on this site, with average ratings of 4.06

for Aesthetics and 3.93 for Originality. The ratings went to 1283 distinct

photographers.

The interesting part is when you have a look at the top rated pictures of this

member. Quite a few of this members "Top Rated" belomgs to himself! It's

been going on for quite some time. Even today he has rated one of his own

with 7/7, and a bit earlier when I had a look in this members "Top Rated

Photos" some were gone. But when you go in at some of his pictures you still

see he has rated his work.

The member has been a part of the community for almost 1/2 a year now...so

clearly this is not just something which happens by "accident"... so my

question is if members being caught doing this will be expelled, or just a slap

on the hand...and please behave from now on? I hope they will be

expelled...this is jusst too bad for the folks who try and be constructive in their

feedback as well as rating.

Cheers! Ivar

Thanks for getting back Brian! :-))

Ivar

From time to time we all have a discussion about the color/brigthness/contrast

in pictures. I've just discovered that I didn't utalize the full possibility in my

browser.

I use a MAC, (with Explorer 5.2 for MAC, Adobe CS) , the Adobe and screen

have been set up with Adobe RGB (1998) colour profile. Recently I

discovered a tick box in the Internet Expolorer preferences called "Use

ColorSync " and when doing so I can see a noticable difference in the

pictures brightness/contrast when viewing them in Explorer. Just a tip...and it

would be cool to hear if others have been plaing around with the same result.

Below is a picture I attached to show what I mean.

Cheers! Ivar :-)<div></div>

Brian, Bob and the rest...

Pretty please allow us to at least keep the possibility to change some layout

on the community member page. About a year ago I signed up for 4 years,

and I'm so grateful for the epossibility to change to look on the community

page to my liking. A while ago I asked for help to change some of the layout...I

got the help I needed... and honestly... I think it's kind of classy looking. :-)

I've kept the changes to a minimum...same font and layout...just changed the

font colors and back ground. Please let us keep the possibility for this! :-)

http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=862096

Happy New Year folks...and thanks for a job well done in 2004 keeping the

site running!

Cheers! ivar

WOW! Forgot to stop by again! :-)

Thank you for all your replies!

Now I will do my best to digest and come back !

Cheers!

Ivar :-)

Thanks Seven!

Think you got the wrong idea... I would never "copy/paste" a code. :-))

Just really like the idea that it looks cool, and would really like to have

somthing which seperates a bit from the crowd....

Thanks for quick and honest answer! :-))

See you around mate!

Ivar

How can I make a cool layout like e.g. Dave has...? :-)

<a href="http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=535382">

Daves cool layout</a>

-Can't seem to find a way/how to upload my change in colors, fonts..etc..etc..

Cheers!

Ivar :-)

For about 5 days have tried to access my list of interesting people,

or even add people to my list, but I only get the message "This

feature has been disabled temporarily due to heavy traffic on the

Web server. "

My question is: Has it been disabled all together now?

Regards,

Ivar Olsen

Here is the message:

Interesting People

Home | Your Workspace | Interesting PeopleThis feature has been

disabled temporarily due to heavy traffic on the Web server.

? 2000-2003 Luminal Path Corporation and contributors. Member

content used with permission.

Hi folks!

The last few months I've enjoyed PN immensly, and as much as I was

against the change of viewing who rated what... I have to admit it

seems to be working fab! Anyhow... I have a couple of small

questions/requests.

1) In "my workspace" I have marked quite a few people as

interesting. Would it be possible to get a way to sort them in a

matter which I would suitable for me?

Eg. when I know that Allon has some fab infra red pictures, it would

be cool to have him in the same folder as anyone else I discover

with infra red. Likewise when I know that Gunn is from Norway, Petri

from Finland and Chris from USA I would like to have them in

respectible folders. Possible...or not?

2) In the directory of members it's possible to search for last

name/e-mail. Would it be possible to add a search for eg. country?

Reason as above, but also that I find it interesting to see what

others in/from same country take picures of. Possible...or not? :-)

3) Last but not least... would it be possible to have an option to

view members pictures in decending order?

If I've been on holiday/haven't had access to PN for some days/weeks

and then check up on the new additions in the portfolio I might have

to go through the whole folder again... -And when some of the

patrons have a few hundred pictures it's quite some job to go

through the process. If I then could choose to "sort decending" and

barabing! There you have it!!! It would be just fab! Possible?

I truly hope so! :-))

Cheers, and thanks for an ever improving and growing site folks! :-

))

Ivar

Hiya folks!

Jupp... it's summer, and I'm off (to what at least I think is..) a couple of well

deserved weeks in the sun. Puerto Rico / Gran Canaria here I come! :-))

Never been to Gran Canaria... suggestions to where/what to photograph is

more than welcome. :-)))

See you later folks!

Ivar :-)

I have to admint that I didn't even think the ND suggested would be a gradual

one when I read the comment (Here's the link to where I saw it: http://

www.photo.net/photo/684805&size=lg) as far as my know

no) and yes...it's pretty obvious that a gradual will affect the overall contrast in

the shot.

Cheers folks...thanking you all! :-)) Ivar :-))

Jupp indeed it's useful in that way.

That is excact the way I've been using them. :-)

The other way is a ND covering all of the lens in order to get longer shutter

speed.

What I really don't understand is how it's supposed to give less contrast...

Thanks though! :-)) Ivar

Sorry to say Joly you might be in deep.......

Same happened to me...and I tried as suggested above...though with no luck.

Even Fuji tried when I went back to the shop.... it was a nogo.

Two lessons were learned by me:

1) Download on a regular basis.

2) If you are going on holiday.... do not trust your 1 Giga card...split up un a

couple of 512.

Cheers! ;-))

Ivar

Hi folks!

I'm used to using all kinds of filters on my cameras, thus I found the following

comment quite interesting when stumbeling upon it:

"....would like a ND filter to reduce the contrast...."

Will a ND filter really reduce the contrast...?

I mean... as far as I know light metering is set to 18% gray...thus when you use

a ND you only reduce the ammount of light reaching the focal plane...no

change of contrast.

Have I got it all wrong? :-))

Cheers! Ivar :-))

I agree...and disagree with some/much of above.

-Will be interesting to see in the next days how it pans out.

How about if this option was availble to each individual?

If I want the rest of Photo.net to see the different people's ratings I could

choose to do so...? I do believe that the majority of ratings are genuine... and

we have all had our fair/unfair share of ratings/comments. We should all be

able to take it. Myself ... I have been tempted several times to get back to the

one in questioning... and have done so only one... not with a rating, but with a

short explenation to stay clear unless there is a explenation from them as of

why the rating is "off" from the other ratings. It's always going to be a way

around.... if you check right after requesting you can see the hightest rating of

the different persons... if you're there... you know...or then again not...

anyway... I do think it would be nice to see who likes/dislikes your work. Most

people won't have a problem going back to someone telling them

constructively how they feel. I might enjoy a picture of i.e. Pradeep immensly

one time... 7/7... but then next time 4/4... so what... that's the beauty of it... to

have a discussion! It's no rocket sience we are doing...it's personal taste! :-))

Se you folks!

Ivar ;-))

Hiya!

I've used a variety of different mouse(s) and rollers, and have never been

picky about the speed of the mous. The problem has usually been accuracy.

I changed to Mac a couple of years ago... and even though I REALLY don't

consider myself a Mac geek... I do have to admit that the one which I so far

has been most comfertable with is the one I use now.

Here's the link to it: http://www.welovemacs.com/m8690ga.html

It's extreemly accurate and is not picky what so ever when it comes to

mousemat/which...or simply not. :-))

I do know that it's quite individually if we like/feel comfertable with the mouse...

but I have to say that "Mouse-arm" is a condition I left behind when I got this

new one.

Cheers!

Ivar :-))