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<p>Hi all,<br>

I have been asked to show up at a 25th wedding anniversary of a great family friends this weekend, as a surprise, and take a one to one-and-half-hour-photos. I have never covered anniversaries before, so any suggestion(s) on how and what <strong>should be</strong> covered would help a lot.<br>

N.B.: They don't want to hire any photographer and nor am I receiving any sort of payment. It is just a favore.<br>

Thanks for all your feedback,<br>

Alex </p>

<p>Great WedNEsDAy!<br>

Jose + MoniKa....great shots!<br>

Dennis.... Yum Yum indeed!<br>

Jf + Chris Court.....like those shots = Hawaiian looking sunset!<br>

Susan...very cool blue eyes!<br>

Bruce Margolis ....your shot won my heart this week!<br>

...my contribution this week follows<br>

*** Gradient applied in Photoshop *** other than that the pic is presented as is.</p>

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<p>Wonderful photos overall!<br>

Jose - very appealing photo.<br>

Kevin - loved the cactus, I had a chance to take the same one-actually one of my WedNEsDAy postings.<br>

Rene - Amazing! - your photo won my heart.<br>

James Blachly - Nice one! - I can't wait to have my baby this summer. Congratulations if s/he is yours!<br>

....my contribution today is going to be one of the series of photos from my <strong>"less-use-of-photoshop"</strong> project.<br>

*** Open to any kind of feedback.</p>

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<p>Hello all,<br>

Please forgive the "triplicate" listing of my name. It was only 'cause I was trying to deceive the this thread by posting a larger-sized photo and had to delete the first two postings.<br>

Lesson learned! I promise it won't happen again, Jose.<br>

see you next WedNEsDAy!</p>

<p>Good Job, all!<br />here is mine for this WedNEsDAy...</p><div></div>

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<p>Thanks a lot for the encouragement, Lil Judd! I feel Honored! You got a very beautiful photo yourself!</p>

<p>Another WedNEsDAy PiC - another inspiring photo works. Hi all, good to hear from you all, again.<br /> Rene, I am sorry to hear about your dog! May God rest his soul in peace!<br /> Here is my post for this week. It was another experiment photo time - a photo of my 18-month-old-daughter taken at our temporarily studio-converted living room.<br /> I am quite happy about the outcome.</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks you very much, Lil Judd! I am learning each day. - I love the petals!<br>

Dan South - Geometry, indeed! I have been trying to take a similar photo for about a month or so...but didn't get chance, yet!<br>

Mark Doyle - Magnificient photo you got!</p>

<p>Glad to see all your works again.<br />The following photo was taken by my wife's camera D40 (-I normally use my D80) in an effort to prove myself that it isn't the camera I have but my skills that make the photos outstanding and creative.<br />D40 ISO400 at f/5.6 55mm with a pop-up flash and sunset cutting thru a bedroom window<br />[Level -edited and sharpness-increased in PS]</p><div></div>

<p>Perfect, Matt!<br>

I am checking them out online.<br>

I appreciate all your help Matt and Ellis!<br>

Have a good weekend,</p>

 

<p>Ellis, good idea! I was thinking of the sheets idea but not the dying so, I will try that one out.<br>

Matt, I am looking for a muslin (or non-paper) full length.</p>

<p>Hi all,<br>

Don't call me crazy but would like to rent or buy a black backdrop for this Weekend. Penn Camera is out of stock.<br>

I am in the DC - area, by the way.<br>

Any suggestion?</p>

 

<p>Thanks God it's "WedNEsDAy"!<br>

What great shots all!</p><div></div>

<p>sorry i forgot... I had an SB800</p>

<p>What great photos, all!<br>

Gary, 'loved the sky!<br>

Waldemar - good to see my fav. Green with the dropplet.<br>

John - what an amazing purple.<br>

Gabe - nice moment.<br>

...and welcome "my friend" Hideyuki - my friend because i can identify with him for the smiple fact that I am attempting to learn how to shoot in a manual setting. I have posted one last week the same time and here is my second one.</p>

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<p>here you go guys...</p>

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<p>Thank you for the opportunity, again photo.net! I am learning a lot from all the great photos and posters. I have been a member for almost a year now and I am having fun.<br>

The following photo was taken last Saturday. It is one of the photos that I have been taking in an attempt to learning how to shoot on a manual mode.<br>

Taken by D80 with Nikkor 17-55 mm/f2.8 lens with SB800 with a bouncer- 1/100sec at 55mm f7.1 with ISO 1600 in a fairly lit apartment.<br>

Any criticism is welcome.<br>

Looking forward to WedNEsDAy PiC... </p><div></div>

<p>Hey John,<br>

I just wanted to let you know that I used Pechman Imaging and I liked them very much.<br>

Thank you very much for your recommendation.<br>

Good day,<br>

Alex</p>

<p>I shall check out the steps, David, and let you know what I learned. I hope you would allow me to ask you follow up questions, as well.<br>

Nadine, I will include that in my list that I set forth to checking out this weekend.<br>

Thank you very much all,<br>

Alex</p>

 

<p>I strongly appreciate all the suggestions, Ronald, William, Mark and Ellis!<br>

As William suggested, I shall go out and shoot as much as I can [of course in RAW]; and then, as Mark and Eillis suggested, edit them in Raw!<br>

I shall start tomorrow morning.<br>

I hope to get to tell you my improvements one day.</p>

 

<p>Ellis,<br>

I normally work with JPEG's.<br>

BTW I have also tried RAW but I found it to be time consuming during the post-photo process.<br>

FYI I use photoshop CS and CS3 for Post-photo processing.<br>

Thanks for your interest in helping me with this!</p>

<p>Pete,<br>

Thank you very much! I shall check it out.<br>

By the way, I just stopped-by Barnes and Nobel and check out a good book by Jeff Wignall - 'Exposure: Photo Workshop - Develop your digital photography talent.' 2008 edition.</p>

 

<p>Thanks a lot, Mike!<br>

And Yes, I have read [may have to read it again, probably] the manual.</p>

 

<p>Haha... life "more difficult"!<br>

Some times poorly exposed or over exposed.</p>