maria

actually I put effort in making the food photos. I am trained in architecture. When I could travel, I was doing a lot of architecture photos. I stopped putting those on photo.net because I put them on FB. I agree that around 2006 or so when on PN only photos max. 1024 wide could be uploaded, I used to edit them in a programme before putting them and because of this they were less. I have a friend who is not on FB to whom I sent the FB albums to see through upload all pictures (on a certain architecture topic where I was travelling) and then download the album (the option is now not anymore available on FB) and he said me that I have many fotos from a similar angle. So it happens not only with food. Actually I've done fotos of food before in 2005 when I was waiting for my scholarship in Italy, but then there was the option to put fotos in comments to fotos, so I had one with the final result and for the steps I had in the comments. Now this is not possible, this is why I made albums. The reason why I have many from similar angle is exacly because I try to find a photographic expression. It is work to do also food photos, in spring I was putting the table with dishes and table dress and everything as I was suggested on cooking groups on FB, but also the porcelain actually is present in books and exhibitions and I've combined that with the food. This was not there in 2005 when I did the photos with the cell phone as my film camera that time did not photograph indoors. Actually also when my mother is taking photos of me two taken one after the other are not the same because my eyes are different. I really put effort in making new recipes only when there is sun and look for reflections. Going back to architecture photos I have some hidden albums because I am thinking of a project on interwar architecture across Europe. I photographed a lot and need to organise the material with geopositioning, name of the architect etc. Last year I applied for funding but although I had 87,3 from 100 I was not funded :( Now with the pandemics I could not renounce doing photography but it is mainly in my home. I the first galleries which appear me there are some topics I tried to play with, which are sunflower and lavendel compositions, and also the mirror installations (which include also drawings of me). Not having a car I was not even able to go in a field. And BTW the food in question is not pizza. I ate in Canada once something similar called pizza, but it is not pizza, it is Flammkuchen, a French food from Alsace :) And, yes, I exhibited sometimes in photo exhibition. If I had a bigger house, I would like to put these photos as well as my drawings on the wall, but the walls are unfortunately full. Withe the pandemics I even bought some sunflower painings :) and would like to paint lavendel as well when I will have time (as said, now project evaluations coming and I am also writing an article). Maybe I should have a second home as I stay with my mother. But mainly my photos are interesting for archive reasons, for example in Bucurestiul meu drag, as archive of the city, or as archive of student life in Karlsruhe. Now with the pandemics I have the feeling that my mother is doing more interesting photos as she is taking photos of me. We did the Getty challenge of redoing works of Romanian painters and I wonder of an account on Flickrl to put these outside FB. Like with the Getty challenge when it take time to dress and everything, or with the architecture photos where it takes time and effort to get to the buildings, also the food takes time to prepare and to put in the right setting.

I plan to do a blog of cooking but unfortunately had no time in the past years because all the time something professional occurs when I want to do that (now some project evaluations, last time I wanted to do that an exhibition). BTW I am member since 1999.

Hi,

 

galleries are not loading anymore.

I still can create a new gallery, but also the galleries order is not saved anymore, although I can change it.

Any hints what I can do?

 

thanks a lot

Maria

<p>Thank you, Gerry, for pointing me to this photo.<br>

In fact, these days I am writing an article about another Cologne photographer, August Sander. Glad to see another one.<br>

As the others said, I like the frontality and symmetry. The building itself is interesting as well, in its play of glass and full parts, having glass parts only in the upper part and as lights. As such, it is quite closed and different from what we see today as an office building (all glass).<br>

I also find the sky striking, it seems that the photo was taken early evening when the sky must have been still blue.<br>

kind regards<br>

Maria</p>

<p>Thanks a lot!<br>

Well, having the RAW separate saved me when my hard disk crashed last year because I had the RAWs burned on CDs. And then I made NEFtoJPG. But that could have be done of course also with having another JPG.<br>

Yes, my professional colleague does his JPGs that large size for himself as well. But not sure I want that, because sometimes one needs to also EMail images, and those do not resize automatically, or to insert them into publlications (that's what I mostly need them for), so I'd have to always resize manually before. But newly I also send to photo salons.<br>

Yes, I have a storage problem, I cannot run all software anymore because my computer, 5 years old, is getting filled with photos and the DVD drive is damaged, so I cannot burn anymore ... My photos from the last excursion I had not place to download them anymore ... </p>

<p>Hi,<br>

I used to save the photos in RAW+JPG basic (on Nikon) and few days ago a professional photographer changed my setting to JPG fine. Well JPG fine is 4 MB, JPG basic was 1 MB and RAW about 10 MB. With the RAW+JPG I used to put outside the computer the NEF images, and had thus a backup of them on DVD. With JPG fine I have only one image (which of course I could double, but in this case I would use approx the same amount of memory).<br>

What would you suggest is the best method of saving? Shall I switch back to my old settings? What does JPG fine bring? Higher resolution? I think I still have a camera of the same resolution, it is just a question of saving.<br>

thank you and kind regards<br>

Maria</p>

<p>Hi,<br>

reading the summary I note that the difference between technical and artistic quality was there at the begin.<br>

And yes, automatic resize would be great. Resizing with Fireworks makes my exif data vanish ...</p>

<p>thank you and kind regards<br>

Maria</p>

<p>I had only last year problems with the card reader and this is why since then I have downloaded with the USB cable.<br>

It is not so good, it downloads about 50 images then I have to stop and start again. <br>

But this 1 month old card got damaged with images downloaded only 3 times over the USB cable, not taken out from the camera.<br>

The new card reader I bought yesterday to try out PhotoRec to save the images, and nobody tells me another software to save them, just what to do in the future :(</p>

<p>Thank you.<br>

No, actually it was only now on the mountains that I had a second card with me. <br>

When it happened in Poland I had only one card, and I had to wait from 7am to 10am for the shop to open to buy a new one, which was bad, because I was only 2 days in Poland and consequently I had so much walk on the second day to do it again that on the airport I could not walk anymore, I left the rolling floor carry me ...<br>

Then in Hamburg I bought a second card as I had no space left on my computer to download photos. At the first trip after this I forgot the old one at home; luckily I had it in the mountains.<br>

But changing to the new card when the old doesn't cannot do anything about the photos on the old card, which I cannot access (in fact this is the question). I've lost all the photos at my relatives, and that in the capital city of the county, and actually I was happy not to walk to the monastery 1,7 km to take photos before the card failed; I did it on the way back with the other card. When I notice failure, it is too late. And the sellers have the tendency to sell bigger and bigger cards, like yesterday they wanted a 32 gb or such - when even the 8 GB was too big, as I haven't downloaded in the evening and the second day it failed.</p>

<p>@David<br>

thanks.<br>

Yes, I was afraid that the camera might damage more cards, but the Nikon reseller is saying it's my fault because the damaged cards are not listed in the users' manual as compatible, and that with SanDisk and Lexar it will not happen. Fingers crossed!<br>

Luckily it happened in a place which is just 2 h distance from my home, so I can go there again, but what would I do should it happen like overseas, where I never travel again?</p>

<p>Thank you, William.<br>

Our dean has a Mac, I will try to talk to him.</p>

<p>Yes, I bought a new card last month, brand name Formel 1, and used it to take photos with my Nikon camera. Since the story last year in September when I had the same thing: I had a card in my Nikon camera (bought February 2011) and I was taking photos at 7 am in Poland. At once, the camera told me that the card has to be formatted (it was the card delivered by the shop with the camera). Since then I used that camera a few times, and in recent times always took it out from the camera to download with a card reader, which has been cheap, I thought that the card reader damaged the card, maybe scratched it, and this might be the reason. I was lucky enough that a shop in Poland sold me a Lexar card, by coincidence, as I knew no brand names. But the light of early morning was gone.<br>

Now I was in Hamburg after Dublin, and had no space left, so I bought a card in a shop there, brand-name Formel 1, 5 years guarantee. I made it full 2 or 3 times, and last week I was in the mountains in Romania. Given the experience last year I did not take it out from the camera, not to damage it, as I thought this was the good thing with the Fuji, that I always downloaded with their software (which BTW puts the date in the file name). As I was saying, I was high on the mountain, took photos, and all at once, when pressing to take a second photo after one which was OK, it said that the card is not formatted. It was just pressing twice consecutevely, I even haven' switched off the camera.<br>

I looked on the internet (after writing to some people who could say nothing) and found this<br>

<a href="http://forum.chip.de/cpu-board-speicher/sd-karte-speicherproblem-formatierungsproblem-1519311.html">http://forum.chip.de/cpu-board-speicher/sd-karte-speicherproblem-formatierungsproblem-1519311.html</a><br>

a guy who had the same problem with a Formel 1 card in a Canon compact camera, the camera was then showing "saving problem" and only the computer that it's not formatted. But he managed to save his photos with PhotoRec, which for me doesn't work. The guy sais he found on the internet more people having the same problem.</p>

<p>Thank you.<br>

The card was 1 month old (bought 18th of July 2012) and used to its full capacity 2 or 3 times, yes, with deleting images.<br>

But my problem is not getting a new card from the provider according to guarantee as I bought today morning a Sandisk. My problem is how to get the images back (about 180 images on it).<br>

The other card, in September, was bought in February same year.<br>

At the Fuji I used the same card 3 or 4 years long with just deleting images as well.</p>

<p>Dear all,</p>

<p>I've asked this question last year in September supposingly as well.<br>

Then my SD card, which had been previously in a card reader, which wasn't the best, couldn't be read anymore - it showed, in both camera and reader, that it needs to be formatted.<br>

Now I have the same problem with a card bought last month, 5 years guarantee, from Hamburg, Germany, the department store Karstadt. The name is Formel 1.<br>

I found on CHIP.de that PhotoRec would read the images, and was happy. I bought a new card reader (ACME) for this. However, 0 file recovery.<br>

Any ideas?<br>

The camera is a Nikon D3000, bought February 2011, and the Nikon seller sais that I should use compatible cards, like SanDisk and Lexar. And that then at least it will not happen again.<br>

But with the FujiFilm (XD cards) I never had problems, over many years.<br>

thank you and kind regards<br>

Maria</p>

<p>PS: for a photo salon no image I took with the Nikon was accepted, but FujiFilm ones yes (yes, FujiFilm is digital) - maybe I should get back to the old camera?</p>

 

<p>Dear all,</p>

<p>I would like to connect my photos of buildings from the first half of the 20th century in Europe to my website. Yes, I do not want to upload tons of photos on my website, but instead use a photo storage site and link them.<br>

Since I do not have equaly descriptive text for the buildings and in an age when everything digital is promoted, I think that a database on the web would be a great thing.<br>

Recently I've seen that Imaggeo (net) supports adding an address to your photo, and a small map appears. I think it is a great feature, as I would also like to see my photos of buildings located. However, Imaggeo is for geoimages, not for buildings.<br>

Do you know of a similar site for buildings?<br>

thank you<br>

Maria</p>

<p>Thank you for the responses. I now have some photos from the DDR system - it is called maliscop.</p><div></div>

<p>Dear all,<br>

I saw that from the printed stereo pairs of the 19th century (which I did archive research on and have articles - see my profile page) and the later glasses (I have some glasses from the DDR to look at stereo film slides - actually since I had strabism as a child I am more used to this kind of exercise than I wished) now it is worked with green and red photographed images which are superposed (digitally). <br>

I wanted to ask how this is done:<br>

- first: how the colouring in green/red of the photos taken with the two cameras is done<br>

- second: how they are superposed to one image. Maybe by setting transparency of one?<br>

Is there anywhere a manual for doing 3D? I've heard that also for taking the photos themselves you need a special equipment.<br>

I am thinking of doing one installation where one of the images should be printed on a screen and the other projected on it from a beamer. Do you think this would work?<br>

I also saw in an album about historic photography that those historic pairs were taken, probably scanned and converted and the today's green and red image resulted.<br>

I am also thinking of maybe superposing this way a photograph and a computer reconstruction.<br>

many thanks and kind regards<br>

Maria</p>

<p>well, if I reformate then the pictures surely get lost, not?<br>

I went today in the lunch break again to take them, but light at noon is worse than at 7 am :(</p>

<p>Hi,<br>

Thank you for your answers.<br>

I guess is the problem of the card, but not really of the card, of the card reader. I bought the card in Hungary because I forgot home my cable and in the shop they told me a card reader is better. Already there people noticed that it is not closing properly, and now I see that there are some scratches on those metal parts of the card. However, a cable wouldn't help either because the camera says that the card has a mistake ... The card reader is Marco Polo and it was bought in Pecs. On the card it is written "integral" and www.integralmemory.com . The card was bought in February and the card reader in August this year. Now I bought a Lexar. Really the XD card for the Fuji had no problems in 5 years.<br>

No, I am not on holiday, and this is the problem. I was supposed to be at a conference, the conference started at 10 and Saturn opened at 10 as well. I woke up today at 5 to get breakfast at 6 30 and take the pictures. I am leaving tomorrow (I am reimbursed 2 nights, tomorrow the plane is at 22 30 but it gets dark earlier) so no idea if I have time to take them again (although it took just 1 h and 30 min to see the buildings). Now I have to wait for the cofee break to enter the conference, but I will try to see the other buildings and leave these for tomorrow if I am lucky to get up similarly early.<br>

Unfortunately I had on the card also pictures from the social event yesterday.<br>

No, people really don't speak english, not at Saturn, not at the conference, not in the bus, I am constantly loosing 10-20 min asking for directions (even at the hotel).<br>

Maria</p>

<p>Hi,</p>

<p>my Nikon camera stopped reading the card after I did the photos. How can I recoved them?<br>

I mean, I did nothing special, did not take the card out or something, just after taking some photos it said that it is damaged and to use other. It is still saying that.<br>

My SD card reader is not recognised either.<br>

I am in Warsaw at Novotel, they told me that the next photo shop where they can help me is at the edge of the city, quite far.<br>

thank you and kind regards<br>

Maria</p>

<p>@Michael<br>

the photos are great!<br>

Yes, I think it is a nice thing to have photos rendered in old fashion - to use the advantages of digital and not being exposed to something like bad quality of scans ... I still haven't worked out how to get my slides into something usable on the computer (both shop and self scanning lead to bad results)</p>

<p>@Antonio</p>

<p>WOW, thank you, great!<br>

I will check it out :)</p>

<p>I've just checked, the 50mm is more than 200 euro, which indeed corresponds to what the Nikon seller in Romania said - unfortunately it is thus also more than one months salary for me :(</p>

<p>@John I think I even tried the 50mm lens today at a workshop in the park ... to be honest, I liked all other 3 lenses more (40, 85, and 18-105). Yes, I have D3000 with 18-55. Especially the 40 was nice for photographing flowers. However, I photograph more buildings and landscapes than flowers. And of course, it doesn't replace the wideangle.<br>

@JDM thank you.<br>

Thank you everybody.<br>

I actually did not find the zoom teleobjectiv (100-200) in my house - that would have been the most important. Unfortunately the Praktika doesn't work anymore since 2006, the shutter broke :( I looked on their webpage, they don't do digital SLR, just compact. For the analogue SRL they have a museum! (but my model is already in). I am wondering if they need pictures taken with it ;)<br>

Well, if I need a Canon body, I will buy it in 5 years when my Nikon will be old and I need higher resolution et co. Now the investment in the Nikon is too new (February 2011). The decisive factor for opting for a Nikon was that it has a working community in Romania with workshops, meetings, seminars, exhibitions, contests and so on. I'm going to submit to this month's contest on "old and new in architecture" :) fingers crossed</p>

<p>Hi,<br>

earlier this year when I was not sure which camera to buy I was told that there is an article on how to adapt old lenses to Canon by an active PN member. I am wondering if such adapters exist for Nikon as well. I want to use Praktika lenses. The Nikon seller did not want to tell me anything, he said to buy a Nikon lens instead ;) because this way I benefit from autofocus, which does not work in case of a Nikon camera with my old lenses, even if it has A/M options.<br>

I've put some photos of the lenses in a folder on my previous equipment (will add a photo of my Nikon camera soon as well)<br>

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2383192421788.2140990.1310055151&l=085535cd15&type=1<br>

thank you<br>

Maria</p>