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  1. <p>I have posted a mini review of the Pixel TR-331 flash triggers at www.insidetheviewfinder.com</p>

    <p>These just became available recently and a lot of the information about them is preliminary. I have an actual set that I have been testing but it appears that the mine have some sort of problem that prevents the flash from firing in sync. More details with pros and cons at the website.</p><div>00V882-195843584.jpg.21ea86da7d85e79c0202576614583bbb.jpg</div>

  2. I recently moved from a D70 to the D300 and I am very happy with the larger LCD and

    improved viewfinder for starters. I also like the fact that I can check the viewfinder info on

    the rear monitor when the camera is sitting on a tripod. There are lots of things to like

    about the camera, though it would be nice if it cost about half as much.

     

    On the D70 that picture mode dial was always getting spun around (and always at night in

    the dark). The larger files on the D300 are not really much of a blessing for casual

    shooters taking snapshots and do require bigger CF cards, more hard drive space and

    software upgrades.

  3. It seems to me that what we need is more people taking photographs of children in parks. That way the perverts would be reluctant to be there because they might also be photographed.

     

    Also on the matter of Adults not entering a playground without a child in tow, who says people with kids can't be perverts as well and use their kids to get close to other peoples kids?

     

    It seems to me that most if not all of these restrictions are put in place by people who really do not think very clearly. In the end it's not worth the hassel to take photographs of other peoples children (probably not even your own).

  4. Your kids have an inheritance? Wow!

     

    Do these monolights connect to a power pack? The powerpack should have a flash sync cord socket. That seems like the logical place to plug in the PocketWizard. I just finished using a Profoto Acute 1200 2R setup the other day. The R means it has a reciever built in to the power pack (pretty slick).

     

    When I asked the people at my friendly local camera store/equipment rental place about basic setup they gave me the following advice which I will now pass on to everyone else. "Oh, it's pretty straightforward."<div>00GyF4-30635184.jpg.c698d525b217bc47b6c7858ac71891ed.jpg</div>

  5. Fine art photography

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

     

    Fine art photography, sometimes simply called art photography, refers to high-quality archival photographic prints of pictures that are created to fulfill the creative vision of an individual professional. Such prints are reproduced, usually in limited editions, in order to be sold to dealers, collectors or curators, rather than mass reproduced in advertising or magazines. Prints will sometimes, but not always, be exhibited in an art gallery.

  6. This sounds like a very interesting project to say the least.

     

    Sometimes I think you can get a very good idea of what street photography is not, simply by browsing the submissions to the photo.net critique forum for street photography. I guess like anything else there are as many varieties as there are photographers.

     

    I like to think of my Farmers Market photos as street photography, though you could make the argument that they are not.

     

    My definition of street photography (off the top of my head) would be spontainious, unposed candid photographs of people taken in public places documenting their activies and emotions in the context of their environment.

     

    My strong preference would be for black & white images using natural and artificial (available) light sources found on location.

  7. Not that it matters much but I can not get to any of my folders (or others) due to the Nokia redirect ads. I have logged on and off, and messed around with the options in MS Internet Explorer. I just keep being returned to the same screen-hogging ad. I finally just gave up trying to logon from home at all (insert collective WHOOPEE from the crowd). I can still logon from my work PC which appears to do an inferior job of blocking popup ads. It seems counterproductive to make the site unusable for a lot of people and totally pointless from an advertising perspective.

     

    I am generally sick of camera phone ads at this point in time. So sad. Too bad.

  8. In addition to using the save for web option in photoshop CS (if you have that application) make the image somewhere around 600 pixels for the long dimension with the resolution (pixels per inch) set at 72.
  9. This is of course a question no one can really answer for someone else. It is very helpful to get everyones input before making a decision to put what seems like a lot of money (for me anyway) into a camera for playing around with for my own amusement. I guess my hesitation to spend money is a conditioned response from having things around the house break shortly after making some other major purchase. Oh how I envy those people who are able to consistantly place their own wants at the top of the priority list. Well, at least the ones who are not bankrupt already.
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