raybrizzi

<p>there's already a confirm screen. check it then!</p>

<p>I meant the main workspace page. having the latest five or so entries of your posts and people's comments come up right away gives you a single screen status without having to go to a link with hundreds of entries. Probably a lot less server overhead that way too.</p>

<p>straw flower and peony are wonderful. that little darker spot in the bottom right should go, it takes away from the abstraction of the flower against a pure white</p>

<p>Tamron has a 10-24 that is also a bit faster (F3.5-4.5) than the sigma 10-20 (f4-5.6). haven't tried it yet since I already had the sigma 10-20 when it came out. As far as the sigma 10-20 quality, this album of mine was shot entirely with a K-10D, sigma 10-20, with HDR.<br>

<a href="../photodb/folder?folder_id=989584">http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=989584</a></p>

<p>I was disappointed to see the recent comments on your work not show up in the workspace. that was one of the first things I would look at, and now I have to get out of the menu and do another click to find it, then go back again. very inconvenient. Same with forum posts. Sometimes more is more!</p>

<p>I guess I've been watching too many Austin Powers movies :)</p>

<p>I always picture this type of camera at fashion shoots. But it takes so long to download the picture to the card that it would be impractical for that. Unless I'm mistaken, it was taking in the neighborhood of 15-20 seconds a picture. It's an 80 meg image, the rep said, but is that really practical? Unless there is a really huge cache in there.</p>

<p>Photographers are hassled in NYC. I see it all the time.</p>

<p>Ah, a tripod... rather difficult in NYC. first of all, they're illegal without a permit. Secondly, I was behind the metal police barriers, in the crowd, trying to shoot past people waving, clapping, shaking all sorts of inflatable rubber toys, and waving big flags. It was a good experience. 750 was getting too high, and it was shutting the speed lower anyway so I stuck with 640. Lots of light challenges too. some in shadow, some in bright sunlight that was creeping up over the building</p>

<p>Yes, color noise is definitely an issue and I will address that hopefully in one shot with lightroom, and cutting a lot out would help. This is just to get opinions on the different kinds of shots. Thanks</p>

<p>I never had much success taking pictures of the marathon runners until this year, when I discovered shooting at 1600 ISO for regular shots, now that noise reduction is getting a lot better in software.<br>

I took 514 shots, whittled them down to 130 interesting ones, and down to 46 that I posted here. <br /><br />The first ones were mostly for practice, though they came out well. Then is the front runners, with the timer trucks blocking the way of course.<br>

The rest are the field that follows, which were the most interesting shots, showing the mix of emotions these athletes are running through.<br>

All shots taken with my trusty K-10D at 1600 ISO, at 1/400 at the beginning and moving to 1/640 later, most apertures in the 5.6 to 11 range. Spot metering and focusing, using AF-C.Overall, AF-C worked pretty well about 40 percent of the time, which is pretty impressive since I took most of these at 300mm (450 on 35mm) hand held, and they were moving fast and at many depths in the picture. Sigma 70-300mm f4/5.6.<br>

I have not put these out for ratings or critiques in the regular forum and won't for a week.<br /> Any pentax or general comments welcome.<br>

Slideshow.... http://www.photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=987496<br>

Album.... http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=987496</p>

<p>probably long exposure, not very wide aperture, followed by a single flash to light up the subject and freeze him. It looks like it was handheld based on the background, so the flash had to be the key since he is frozen so well. The narrow aperture would keep the guy from showing up in the picture till the flash went off.</p>

<p>Well, I can't imagine the cat not having anything to do with it, because they had been completely loose in the box, building up for weeks as i scanned them in, and nothing was stuck together until they were on the floor.<br>

Luckily, all the pics had been scanned in with good resolution (here they are on facebook) http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=150176&id=695296250<br>

Thanks for the tip on the soaking issues, Lex. I'll probably have to visit adorama in a day or two :(</p>

<p>I recently got all the old family albums and took out the pictures, scanning them in and putting them on the computer and facebook. I put them in a small cardboard box when I finished them, since the albums lost their stickum properties, planning to re-album them later. I had the box sitting on a low table, and I noticed my cat was curious about the box. So I put a folder on top so he couldn't see the pictures and he ignored it after that. I moved it to a higher spot and went out. When I got back, he had climbed up, knocked the pictures to the floor, and a lot of them were stuck together. I couldn't smell anything, so I don't know what he did, maybe licking them?.He's never done anything like this before, so he must have been attracted to the musty smell.<br>

At this point, I have six or seven stacks of pictures stuck together 4 to 8 at a time. they are mostly ferrotyped glossies from the 40s-60s, irreplaceable of course.<br>

Any suggestions on how to separate them with minimum damage? I know I could put them in water and separate them, but that would kill the gloss.<br>

Thanks, Ray</p>

<p>OK, this mapimailer plug in works nicely. In the export to email preset, after the plugin is installed, there will be another option at the top where Hard Drive is now. click the dropdown and try mapimailer instead. it will export the pictures and attach them to an email, assuming that you've set up outlook express or one of its successors up as your default email engine. Can't test outlook on this machine right now, but I expect it will work the same way. This worked on Live Mail, the latest version and LR 3.0.<br>

Sorry about the short messages, but you piqued my curiosity!</p>

<p>oops, won't let me edit the old message. It seems like all the email export does is to shrink the size of the picture during export into a folder. I did find this link for an outlook enabled email export plug in though...<br>

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1900028</p>

<p>what email method are you using? I haven't tried it myself, but wonder if you don't have the email default program set up right. using outlook/outlook express/live mail/windows mail can be set up to automatically take the picture and set up an email. using msn/aol/etc may not have those options available.</p>

<p>Through a photo meetup group, someone from Utah is coming to NYC for the first time and wants to do a whole day shoot with the group, starting at 6 AM on the 25th. Will post photos when they come in. Always good to get the reactions of someone new to what we just get used to, and see in a different way.</p>

<p>I got this message three times in the last hour while going through the "Rate Photos" feature. Always when skipping a photo and hitting the right arrow. Trying again didn't fix it.</p>

<h2>Problem with Your Input</h2>

<p>We had a problem processing your entry:</p>

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missing operand at _@_ in expression "(+_@_)/2.0"

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<p>Please back up using your browser, correct it, and resubmit your entry.</p>

<p>URL was http://www.photo.net/gallery/photocritique/?rating_type=photocritique&topic_id=1481&recent=4</p>

 

<p>thx, lex!</p>

<p>OK, Thanks, Jim. I had a -1 and wanted to know how low I could drop ;-)</p>

<p>I never used one. I had a LOT of trouble with spots in the early days of my camera and was hesitantly considering buying a kit. Instead I bought a giant air bulb blower and the camera had the good sense not to get a single visible spot since. I never used the bulb once. You have to let that camera know who's boss!</p>

<p>Didn't see in the FAQ what the number ranges are from -x to +x. Thanks, Ray</p>

<p>I was just going to edit my last post, which was probably THE last post in the change on ratings and critiques.<br>

In the past, after you submitted a photo for critique, the only option was to go to the review forum. Now it gives you the option to go to your home page or a gallery.<br>

What would be simpler for me and I'm sure many others, would be an option to go back to the folder that you just submitted from, since I am most likely to submit another one from a new project folder.<br>

It's about ease of use and the time lost in clicking through five times to get back to where I was (as well as more load on your servers and internet traffic usage.) I know you can do right click and do the critique in a new tab keeping the folder open, but again, it's just more complicated.<br>

Ray</p>

<p>I don't see why the old option to submit to both ratings and critiques isn't available as well if I choose to use it as I have done for years. To me, it's now twice as much work.</p>