michaeljlawson

<p>I've been avoiding these threads for a couple of years now, but I may as well give my opinion too. There are so many variables I can see why it's hard for the site developers to come up with a working system. My personal experience when I started here went something like this. Go out and shoot, post my maximum # of photos for Critique, and watch the ratings and comments come in. I didn't realize it then, but I didn't know the difference between a critique and an opinion. All I wanted then was to get as many "nice shots" and 6s/7s as I could. I didn't even think about my photo being critiqued on a technical or aesthetic standpoint. After spending more time shooting and participating in the forums here, I realized what I was doing was useless in improving my skills or helping others. Soon I really wanted true critiques, but the system just isn't geared toward that. I was at a point where I wanted more feedback, but was uncomfortable giving it. I mostly stopped asking for critiques, and have been participating in the forums as I can to help out while I study more about photography and try to mature to a point where I am comfortable commenting on others work. Now I'm waiting to see what the new system will bring to the table, and hopefully it will work out better for us all. Many of us say we want critiques, I'm sure many of us don't realize what we really want, just like I didn't 3 years ago. We chide people for leaving simple "Nice Capture" comments, and chide them again when they stop leaving comments all together. Hopefully the new system will be better suited for more (and more meaningful) comments. But no system will work until people like me realize what we really want, and get with the program and start participating.</p>

<p>I experience the same thing. You have to scroll past the vertical ad bar before you get to the thread content. Firefox 3.5.3 on XP SP3.</p>

<p>Try:<br>

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/<br>

and<br>

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials.html<br>

and<br>

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/</p>

 

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<p>At f2.8 the apparent in focus depth is very narrow. If the 3 people were not all on the same focal plane perfectly parallel to the camera, anyone closer than or further away than the actual focal plane will be out of focus. The smaller the aperture you choose, the more of the photo that will appear in focus. That's a pretty simplified explanation. I would start your research with the <a href="../learn/">learning tab</a> above. It's contains all sorts of great basic information to get you going.</p>

<p>Can you upload a sample shot? It could be out of focus if you were shooting at f/2.8, that's a very small DOF and your technique would need to be pretty good to be in focus consistently. Distance from your subject certainly plays a factor into your apparent in focus depth too. It could also be blur from you or your subjects moving, or even from poor flash technique. A sample with camera settings would help to narrow down the possibilities.</p>

<p>The one comment you did get on photo.net contained more words than all your comments together from shutterpace. If "Great Shot" and "Cool" are what you really want to hear, shutterspace or places like betterphoto.com are the places to post your shots. I would take the one photo.net comment over the empty praise any day.</p>

<p>Go to your workspace page and disable the Intellitext links in the top right hand box.</p>

<p>If you want the reach, the flexibility of a zoom, and a better quality lens your options are limited. Your probably looking at the Canon 70-300 (not the 75-300) or the Canon 100-400.</p>

<p>It won't fit into your current itinerary, but if you ever find yourself back in the northern portion of AZ, a trip just across the Utah border to Lake Powell is worth some time. I was just there all last week. It's about a 3 hour drive from Sedona (also requires the National Park Pass).</p><div></div>

<p>Without getting to technical, a regular windows boot can load files during startup in such a way that they can't be removed while they are running. Booting into safe mode typically does not run the programs\registry settings that execute during a normal boot, so the files can be successfully removed by most programs. I am still a big fan of Malwarebytes. My day job is that of an IT consultant specializing in desktop support and it's what I use on a regular basis to clean client PCs. I have yet to come across something it wouldn't remove and I've had dozens of infected PCs come my way (doesn't mean such an infection doesn't exist of course). Make sure Malwarebytes is updated, boot into safe mode, run it again (may run for over an hour depending on your amount of data) and see if that helps.</p>

<p>Hello again Mendal. I'm sure this is the same infection you've been fighting in all of you other "hijacked again" posts. Have you tried booting into safe mode (press f8 during boot up, before the windows splash screen) then running any of the utilities suggested in the other posts? Also, look in your "add\remove programs" under control panel. Sometimes ad-ware identifies itself (especially tool-bars) and uninstall them.</p>

<p>On the right side of a forum page if you expand "Show Archive" under the heading "Older Posts by Category" you can click on the links of a particular sub category. Not all forum pages have subcategories.</p>

<p>I put it in my "Personal URL" section. Go to your workspace and in the "Your Personal Information" section click on Update your personal information. It doesn't show up correctly when I'm logged in (it shows my photo.net URL), but it looks right for external visitors.</p>

<p>I'll be out of town and without internet access (Gasp!) for most of next week, but when I get back I will see what topics are still open and do some write ups for you.</p>

<p>Also known as a Great Kiskadee</p>

<p>Take a look at this thread: http://www.photo.net/nature-photography-forum/00U9IW Can be done with flash or with an artificial background.</p>

<p>Have you considered removing the code that is creating a photo gallery in your biography section? You can always copy it to a document and paste it back in if that's not the problem, but I would start by removing it. It's pretty unnecessary to have a gallery there anyway when your real gallery is only a click away.</p>

<p>Based on the photos you have posted I think you are making decent choices. The question is do you realize the choices you are making? In your photo "Basket and Shades" the basket is on the right, but because of the shadow flowing to the right moving it to the other side would not have made sense. In "Wired" the street we are led down is on the right. In "Red Ribbon Girl" the subject is on the left, but she is looking right, so again that makes sense. In "Nano-Cromatic" the subject is on the right, with the sidewalk leading into the photo on the left. Based on a limited portfolio I would say this is less of a tendency as it is a logical artistic choice based on your subject matter.</p>

<p>You say you are missing shots because of the lack of a lens. I would solve that problem before worrying about shots you are not sure you are missing. Consider the Tamron 28-75 also, depending on if you need the wider 17-50mm lens or the slightly longer 28-75 lens to get the shots you are missing. Similar price (just under 400.00) and good reviews. I do not own it, so I'm just letting you know what I've read about it.</p>

<p>I used to be a big AdAware\Spybot guy, but have found that Malwarebytes out preforms them more often than not.<br>

Assuming you are running windows, you may want to open the hosts file located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc with notepad and see if there are any entries that may be redirecting you to their server. This file is rarely used anymore and probably doesn't have many entries in it other than one or two for your own PC. Suspicious entries should jump out at you if they are there.</p>

 

<p>Mendel, This is a scam site trying to sell antivirus software. I still think the underlying problem is likely an infection on your PC, it's malware not a virus so AV programs don't pick it up. Instead of delivering the ad on photo.net, it delivers their own ad. You would probably see the same thing happen if you used another site with the same ad services. Have you downloaded and run Malwarebytes as I suggested in one of your other posts about this? It's free and certainly worth a try to stop your aggravation with this.</p>

<p>Jennifer, this is far from perfect, and If I were you I would go with your first instinct of not trying to do to much to save it. I cut the sconce from the right side, pasted it where it should belong on the left in a separate layer, then erased the original top layer to reveal it. Fill in the surrounding area with the clone tool to try and match the paper, gave it a crop to remove other annoying bits and this is what I came up with. I'm at not at home and doing this on my lunch, so forgive the sloppy cloning, but you get the idea.</p><div></div>

<p>Photo has been copied to original post here: http://www.photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00UJva</p>

<p>Copied from other post for you:</p><div></div>