wild nature

Can I change the order of the pictures inside my gallery at Photo.net?, in other words, can you move them

around?

Would appreciate any response if it is possible.

thanks in advance,

Cesar Fernandez

THANKS A LOT to both of you!

I kind of suspected that that was the way to go but I wondered if there was a direct place in

Photo.net without having to go to people's emails.

Many thanks again,

Cesar Fernandez.

Hi every one:

I am new here in Photo.ner. Love the site and still getting used to how things work. i am

wondering if there is a way if I could post a message or a note to the site of a particular

photographer?

I wanted to answer a question directly to a member that asked me a question regarding

one of my photographs in the critique forum and, rather than posting the answer right

there in the critique forum, I wanted to send him a message to his "site", kind of more

private, since it would involve a more long and detailed discussion with questions and

answers, etc.

Anyway, I would appreciate any help if anyone can tell me if this is possible here in

photo,net.

Thanks in advance.

Cesar fernandez.

Count me in too!

Regards,

Cesar Fernandez.

I had a 7600 and was printing very nice images. At one point, I had my first solo exhibition

at the local museum of art and I wanted to have larger prints. I had to print over 80 "large

format" prints for the exhibit and many of them were sold.

THere is no doubt that if you ever have the need to display your work in a gallery or

museum for an exhibit or have your images for sale, they have much more impact when

they are printed in large format.

Needless to say, I bought a 9600 and printed all my images myself! Since then, I sold the

7600 and still have my 9600!

Cesar

I have been shooting with 1Ds and 1Ds MII only but I consulted with the Canon repair consultants center in NJ after I sent one of my cameras for routine cleaning and he indeed mentioned to me that it is wise to turn your camera off and wait a few seconds before changing lenses since the sensor is actually electrically charged (although not necesarely "active")and it will atract more dust than usual.

I have myself been changing lenses in these cameras many many times during several days in shooting safaries, never without any problems, except for the excepted dusts in the sensor that gets inside regardless of how carefull you are. Cleaning the sensor every night with a simple gentle air blow several times have reduced this problem for me to the minimum. Also, I now have three bodies and I now keep dedicated lenses to each body I have not have to change lenses that often any more.

So, my advice would be to go ahead and change the lenses as needed, but turn the camera off first and wait a few seconds. Clean your sensor every night before your next shooting day.

Regards,

Cesar.

I recently went to Namibia on one of his photo tours for the first time. He was not the

leader in this tour. The trip was good overall; well organized and the lodgings were

excellent. The places we visited were magnificent!!, but my only complaint was that we

always seemed to be in a hurry trying to catch up with a pre-determined scheduled, and

many times we missed wonderful photo opportunities and the best light conditions just to

meet a time schedule. Many times during the trip I was rather dissapointed and "angry"

and even commented to the tour leader that the trip was supposed to be about

"photography" and not about getting back in time for lunch or dinner. He explained that

because there were some members in the tour that wanted to have dinner "on time", we

were all expected to be there...everyday regardless. Even the drivers were very unwilling to

stop at good photo opportunities while driving around. Many members that have been in

other African photo tours noticed that and were very dissapointed as well!!!

I have been in other tours in Africa in which the main goal is photography and we always

took our meals with us in the jeeps and only returned to base camp "after" sunset.

I can not say that all tours in JVO Photo Safaris would be the same, but certainly this first

experience for me was not the best "from the photographer standpoint". Now, if you are

not "that" serious about photography and you would be OK by getting the standard

shoots, compositions and light conditions, etc. then, these tours would possibly be very

good since they are very well organized and usually select some of the best lodgings

available, food, transport, etc.

Also, do not expect much couching at all during shooting in the field. Some tour leaders

may enjoy teaching some PS, photo critique, etc, or simply none of the above. These tours

are not designed as "teaching" workshops, but more like photo safaries.

Hope you have a great time.

Regards,

Cesar.

That comes to show how we all see things very differently even when

standing in front of the same subject.

I myself liked Version 2. My only objection is that the colors are slightly over-

saturated, which on one side makes the image looks very nice and sureal, but

on the other hand, a little less "realistic". I find Guy Tal's image colors more

realistic, but I have to admit that from the "artistic" standpoint your image has a

lot better and interesting/rich composition with a lot more "punch" due to the

color saturations. I am not sure what media was used (Velvia?, digital (PS)),

but one of the reasons why I never liked Velvia 50 very much was because of

the oversaturated colors, making many images look somewhat "unrealistic" or

what I used to called them: too "picturescas".

Thanks for this post, you bring a very interesting point.

Regards,

Cesar Fernandez