Flash Primer

2005-11-23 Thread Cotty
This page recently came to my attention, nice little portrait flash primer: http://www.qtm.com/WebPhotoSchool/Sh ooting_Great_Portraits_with_Portable_Strobes/index.html HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com

Re: Opinions wanted - couple lenses

2005-11-23 Thread Thibouille
Auction being finished I can know sxay I got myself a nice SMCP-F 28mm 2.8 at 90euros shipping included. I'll love it ;) Have to wait for it now ... Gz I'm impatient ! -- Thibouille -- *ist-D,Z1,SFXn,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ...

Re: BURT: Losin' it???

2005-11-23 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Thibouille wrote: In Europe, I didn't see any DS2 yet. Unless things have changed, they are not planning to ship it. Kostas

Re: PESO - Norwegian skies

2005-11-23 Thread Derby Chang
Lovely. I don't think postcards are necessarily pejorative either. Like a perfect 3 minute pop song, a taunt Hollywood thriller, or a great pair of shoes, there is _definitely_ a creative process going on there, if it is done well. D Jens Bladt wrote: Beautiful shot, Boris. I love post

Re: Retardation colors

2005-11-23 Thread Jostein
Uh... After reading this simple tutorial, I realise that colours are less retarded than I am...:-) There's a lot of lingo in that tutorial that's beyond me, but the interference chart on page 12 and birefringence chart on page 15 were very interesting. Jostein Quoting Don Williams [EMAIL

Question about optics (re single element soft lens)

2005-11-23 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! As you know I have a Helios 44K4 (formerly 58mm f2) lens modified to be a single element soft lens. The process of making this kind of lens has many side effects ;-)... One of those effects is that focusing range is thrown out of whack. It is usually taken care of by attaching an extension

Re: PESO - weeds

2005-11-23 Thread Peter McIntosh
Boris Liberman wrote: Peter, it is usually a good idea to not forget the link ;-)... Funny you may say, but one of the first shots I made with my MZ-6 and Sigma 28-135 freshly brought to me from USA some years ago, was... dried thistle... Very competently and nice done. Boris Hi Boris,

Re: PESO: my favourite hell-hole

2005-11-23 Thread Peter McIntosh
Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: First results with the new toys: http://www.photosight.ru/photo.php?photoid=1145051 Arcelor's coking plant in Seraing, Belgium. Nothing extraordinary in this shot, BTW. Just normal routine operation with a few badly sealed oven doors and a bit of excess gas being

Re: PAW: Monument Valley at sunrise

2005-11-23 Thread Peter Lacus
Hi Tom, Beautiful shot Peter! Makes we want to go put some Velvia in the 67. It looks slightly tilted, with the right horizon being lower than the left. Maybe it's just the perspective, or maybe a slight rotation would help. thank you. Regarding the tilt - you're right, here is a bit more

Re: Question about optics (re single element soft lens)

2005-11-23 Thread Krisjanis Linkevics
You could take the lens to optician's, they have devices that tell the focal length (or rather diopter strength) of a lens. Use this formula to get focal length from diopters: fl=1/D fl you get is in meters and this is the closest this lens should come to the sensor/film (infinity focus) knowing

Re: PESO: my favourite hell-hole

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/22/05, Ralf R. Radermacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First results with the new toys: http://www.photosight.ru/photo.php?photoid=1145051 That's one mother of a shot!! There are steel mills about 50 miles from here, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. There's a large bridge that goes over the

Re: PESO -- Julie and Kate

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/23/05, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://twosixteen.com/gallery/index.php?id=258 K1000. M28/3.5 (I think). tri-x. scanned from the negative. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com Cool shot! I don't know why, but for me it has a '60's feel (whatever the hell

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/22/05, Carlos Royo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new amazing development in the robo-photography age? http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/ http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825255.000feedId=online-news_rss20 H... I'm not sure what to say. LOL -frank --

Re: PESO: Our local swamp

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/22/05, Jack Isidore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, is it that bad? I have a 1 meter wide print on my wall. My wife hates it :) Well, since you ask... It doesn't do much for me, either. It's the completely washed out sky that bothers me. As well, in the version I'm looking at, there

Re: Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread mike wilson
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/11/23 Wed PM 01:43:34 GMT To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Shoot now, focus later On 11/22/05, Carlos Royo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new amazing development in the robo-photography age?

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Mark Roberts
frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/22/05, Carlos Royo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new amazing development in the robo-photography age? http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/ http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825255.000feedId=online-news_rss20 H... I'm not

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/23/05, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about why bother with that second step? Well, in all seriousness, I'm not much for post-processing. For me, the fun is getting the shot in the camera, with nothing more than printing it full frame. Of course, sometimes a bit of burning and

Re: PESO -- Julie and Kate

2005-11-23 Thread Scott Loveless
Thanks, Frank. Much appreciated. I tend to prefer a little more grain and contrast than most people. Maybe I should complete the 60's feel and give it a green tint. g Thanks, again. On 11/23/05, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/05, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: PESO -- Julie and Kate

2005-11-23 Thread Rick Womer
Nice, Scott. You might crop about 20% off the left side and top; I'm not sure whether that would improve it or not. Rick --- Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://twosixteen.com/gallery/index.php?id=258 K1000. M28/3.5 (I think). tri-x. scanned from the negative. -- Scott

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Fred
Well, in all seriousness, I'm not much for post-processing. For me, the fun is getting the shot in the camera, with nothing more than printing it full frame. Of course, sometimes a bit of burning and dodging and even cropping may be necessary. But fiddling in PS or whatever isn't what I

Re: PESO: Our local swamp

2005-11-23 Thread Jack Isidore
Maybe this time size does matter. The original is only 12000x3000 and has lots of detail. It's overexposed, unsharp/hazy, has no foreground, no background, washed outed and over saturated colors by design. My idea was to catch the atmosphere in print. If you want to waste some 10 Mb bandwidth you

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Nov 23, 2005, at 7:11 AM, Fred wrote: Well, in all seriousness, I'm not much for post-processing. For me, the fun is getting the shot in the camera, with nothing more than printing it full frame. Of course, sometimes a bit of burning and dodging and even cropping may be necessary.

Re: Wanted to Buy

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/21/05, Hal Sandra Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Teach the value of fast lenses early. F2.8 should be the slowest in the bag. Not that I want to start a controversy, but if lenses are being purchased or acquired for a tyro, perhaps they should be primes. -frank -- Sharpness is a

Re: PESO: Our local swamp

2005-11-23 Thread Scott Loveless
I actually like it. But it needs more on the right. Go back and take some more photos. Then stitch them together. Otherwise, cool photo. On 11/21/05, Jack Isidore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our local swamp: http://leende.dse.nl/peso.htm I hope you like it. Jack -- Scott Loveless

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread brooksdj
why do you have to import using PSE? open the card/camera and copy the files. Herb I think its a default. I get the same thing when i plug a card into my reader, it opens Elements Photo Browser and download. I was going to fiqure out how to

Re: Wanted to Buy

2005-11-23 Thread brooksdj
On 11/21/05, Hal Sandra Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Teach the value of fast lenses early. F2.8 should be the slowest in the bag. Not that I want to start a controversy, but if lenses are being purchased or acquired for a tyro, perhaps they should

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Is this on your Mac OS system or your Windows system? On Mac OS X, you set the preferences for what to do when a camera or card reader are connected using the Image Capture application. Most of the time, I use iView MediaPro to transfer image files from card to computer because it unwinds

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: This plenoptic stuff sounds like it might have some possibilities in the future for certain types of picture taking, it's too early to say whether it is truly useful or not. But if it does, the art of photography will grow to exploit it. You must

Re: PESO: Our local swamp

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/23/05, Jack Isidore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this time size does matter. The original is only 12000x3000 and has lots of detail. It's overexposed, unsharp/hazy, has no foreground, no background, washed outed and over saturated colors by design. My idea was to catch the atmosphere

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Fred
Fiddling in Photoshop is such a disparagement. Fun with a camera is a hobbyist point of view. I meant no disparagement in my reply, Godfrey. I said Lots of post-processing is not fun (for me) (note the for me). I spend enough time in front of a computer already, and photography (even

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/23/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fiddling in Photoshop is such a disparagement. Fun with a camera is a hobbyist point of view. I don't think it's disparaging at all. Some actually enjoy doing that stuff. I don't. Why is that disparaging? I was being slightly

Re: Wanted to Buy

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:34:46 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps that could be true. In my daughter and sisters case, for now anyway, they are using the istD as a manily PS camera. I ams trying to instill what little knowledge i have on them but so far its photos of friends, cottages,

Re: If you can't break the ice...

2005-11-23 Thread Jostein
Hey gang, Thanks to everyone who took a glance at my ice photo. I'll round up the comments in this one mail. Hope I remember all. To Graywolf, Frank, Cotty, Shel, Jack Davis, AnnSan and Tom C, humble thanks for the nice words. Glad you liked it. :-) There are some comments I feel I have to

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Mark Roberts
Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's nice to know that I can salvage some poor photos in a pinch, but a minimum of processing is my ideal. That's a good ideal to strive for even for people who *do* enjoy fiddling in PS or whatever. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com

Re: OT: How my LX Ruined my Weekend

2005-11-23 Thread Shel Belinkoff
It's probably a good idea to err on the side of caution, however, my own experience is that for almost 40 years I've been loading film in any kind of light, including bright sun, and have ~never~ suffered any problems with standard cassettes. The light trap on the cassette does an admirable bob,

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! Frank, I have just one more point to make in regard to what you've said here: That stuff really doesn't interest me. Never has, never will. I'm not a pro. I like using my camera as a means of expressing myself, but once the photo's taken, I take the roll to a lab, and say, here,

NYC photo stores photographed

2005-11-23 Thread Igor Roshchin
Hi All, I just found an interesting web-site that has pictures of all (most) photo store in Brooklyn and Manhattan (New York City), according to their listed addresses. It's interesting to see some of them... http://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/

Re: OT: How my LX Ruined my Weekend

2005-11-23 Thread Jack Davis
Nor have I, still, the inner voice is warning that this canister may not have been properly sealed/edge crimped and my would-be masterpiece was light streaked beyond PS. Sort of a belt suspenders mentality. Jack --- Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's probably a good idea to err on

Re: Wanted to Buy

2005-11-23 Thread brooksdj
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:34:46 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps that could be true. In my daughter and sisters case, for now anyway, they are using the istD as a manily PS camera. I ams trying to instill what little knowledge i have on

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread brooksdj
Is this on your Mac OS system or your Windows system? My windows system Godfrey. On Mac OS X, you set the preferences for what to do when a camera or card reader are connected using the Image Capture application. So far i have tried the mac with a

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread Dave Kennedy
Laziness, mostly. It's easy. Plus, it allows me to do the catalogueing immediately after the files are imported. I found that if I didn't do it immediately, it didn't get done. ('Course now, I'm finding that this may be causing me grief further on in the process. ) dk On 11/22/05, Herb Chong

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Pardon my ignorance. What's the difference between importing the files with PSE and just copying them from the card to a folder on the hard disk? Does importing imply or mean something more than that? Shel You meet the nicest people with a Pentax On 11/22/05, Herb Chong wrote: why do you

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:43:34AM -0500, frank theriault wrote: On 11/22/05, Carlos Royo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new amazing development in the robo-photography age? http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread Dave Kennedy
Not really. It just automates the process. Creates a new directory based on import date and time, and brings all the new images up in a new window for cataloguing (or deletion). If you move images around outside of PSE (i.e. in the windows environment) after they've been catalogued, you may screw

brief impressions of Pentax D FA Macro 100 F/2.8

2005-11-23 Thread Igor Roshchin
I just had a chance to hold Pentax SMCP-D FA Macro 100 F/2.8 (it is the new smaller version). My first impression: how small and lightweight it is. I never had a chance to hold the F or FA version of that lens, but this one is really light. Second impression: when I attached it to the body (DS)

Re: brief impressions of Pentax D FA Macro 100 F/2.8

2005-11-23 Thread Fred
I am still trying to choose between a D FA and a used FA. I wish I could try them side by side. From your comments so far, Igor, I would lean towards the used FA... Fred

Re: NYC photo stores photographed

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
It is interesting! The site seems to emphasise the out of business retailers, for somereason. I love the U Save Gelt Ltd store! Dan On 11/23/05, Igor Roshchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I just found an interesting web-site that has pictures of all (most) photo store in Brooklyn and

Re: brief impressions of Pentax D FA Macro 100 F/2.8

2005-11-23 Thread John Forbes
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:06:01 -, Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still trying to choose between a D FA and a used FA. I wish I could try them side by side. From your comments so far, Igor, I would lean towards the used FA... Fred I would agree, unless size and weight are an important

Re: PESO -- Julie and Kate

2005-11-23 Thread keith_w
Rick Womer wrote: Nice, Scott. You might crop about 20% off the left side and top; I'm not sure whether that would improve it or not. Rick Somehow I don't think so. The extra space on the left helps set the mood. Removing it would pretty much isolate the two women, and change the feel of

Re: brief impressions of Pentax D FA Macro 100 F/2.8

2005-11-23 Thread Toralf Lund
I am still trying to choose between a D FA and a used FA. I wish I could try them side by side. I bought the F variant used a few months ago, and like everyone here said I would, I really love it... I see the advantage of small and light lenses, of course, but one of the reasons why I like

Thanksgiving PESO

2005-11-23 Thread Shel Belinkoff
http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/tgiving.html Shel You meet the nicest people with a Pentax

Re: Thanksgiving PESO

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/23/05, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/tgiving.html Shel You meet the nicest people with a Pentax LOL!! -frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson

Re: LF lens

2005-11-23 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Paul Ewins Subject: RE: LF lens Krisjanis, I don't have one to sell, but can heartily recommend the Schneider Angulon 90mm f6.8. I'll second that. Mine isn't for sale either. It is quite a nice little lens. William Robb

Re: Thanksgiving PESO

2005-11-23 Thread keith_w
Shel Belinkoff wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/tgiving.html Shel It's been 5 minutes, and I'm still chuckling! Thanks! keith

Re: Thanksgiving PESO

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=382219626m=1652rr=ysou

Re: Thanksgiving PESO

2005-11-23 Thread Cotty
On 23/11/05, Shel Belinkoff, discombobulated, unleashed: http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/tgiving.html That raised a welcome smile, thanks. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

RE: OT: How my LX Ruined my Weekend

2005-11-23 Thread Bob W
The light trap on the cassette does an admirable bob, your camera styles your hair?! -- Cheers, Bob (not waving, but crimping) -Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 November 2005 16:38 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: How my LX

PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Gonz
Part of a series. An attempt to get some experience converting to BW using some of the techniques described by some here. I could not get the hang of the channel mixer technique, I'll have to revisit that one, I dont think I was doing it right. Anyhow, here is one of the pics that I liked.

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/23/05, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part of a series. An attempt to get some experience converting to BW using some of the techniques described by some here. I could not get the hang of the channel mixer technique, I'll have to revisit that one, I dont think I was doing it right.

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Gonz
frank theriault wrote: On 11/23/05, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part of a series. An attempt to get some experience converting to BW using some of the techniques described by some here. I could not get the hang of the channel mixer technique, I'll have to revisit that one, I dont think I

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Jack Davis
Auto focus? Hair up and back on the side has a 'sharper' look to me than does her near eye area. The skin has a flat, sort of washed out appearance. Since there appears to be little in the way of shadows, maybe a smidgen of contrast and darkening, as needed, to eliminate any resulting highlight

Re: brief impressions of Pentax D FA Macro 100 F/2.8

2005-11-23 Thread Leon Altoff
Hi Igor, I just bought the D FA 50 macro. The lens hood that comes with that fits very securely. It focuses faster than my FA100 macro and teh images are just as sharp. I love the FA100. It's built like a tank, is sharp and has better bokeh than the Sigma or Tamron macros. It is heavier

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Cotty
On 23/11/05, Gonz, discombobulated, unleashed: Part of a series. An attempt to get some experience converting to BW using some of the techniques described by some here. I could not get the hang of the channel mixer technique, I'll have to revisit that one, I dont think I was doing it right.

Re: Thanksgiving PESO

2005-11-23 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:24:20PM -0500, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=382219626m=1652rr=ysou Now that's what I call a jive turkey ...

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/23/05, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gonz, portraits are not about channel mixers or tones or this technique or that. Portraits are about emotions. How does the viewer *feel* when looking at a picture of another person. What emotion is there? To me, it doesn't matter one bit how you

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Cotty
On 23/11/05, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: I ~still~ say it doesn't hurt that she looks like Scarlett Johansen... g -frank, who agrees 100% with what Cotty said Nice to be in love again eh mate ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread frank theriault
On 11/23/05, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice to be in love again eh mate ;-) LOL! I think I told this story to the list already, but if I didn't, or if you didn't read it: Last year when my eldest was visiting, we were sitting around the dinner table, and Anne asked which actresses I

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Cotty
Nice to be in love again eh mate ;-) LOL! I think I told this story to the list already, but if I didn't, or if you didn't read it: Last year when my eldest was visiting, we were sitting around the dinner table, and Anne asked which actresses I thought were hot. Scarlett Johansen! I said,

PESO: Cityscape at Night

2005-11-23 Thread Glen
Here's one of my latest images: http://webpages.charter.net/glenweb/ni/Pittsburgh_3296.jpg It was taken with my Pentax *istDS. Let me know what you think. thanks, Glen

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread Herb Chong
well, you can't have it both ways. i have tried to change everything i possibly can over to open the folder and nothing else. the only exceptions are DVDs and audio CDs. Herb - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, November 23,

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread Herb Chong
Windows makes it unnecessarily hard to change the global defaults. it tries to figure out what type of media you just inserted and find the appropriate player for it. any application capable of registering for such notification can insert themselves into the list, but it is very hard to bring

RE: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Tim Øsleby
Pure poetry. I fantastic image Gonz! I am a bit too old for it, but I might write her a poem when I'm back at Monday ;-) (Off to work tomorrow) Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Herb Chong
it's not a matter of fun, it's a matter of quality. if all you want are straight out of the camera JPG files for emailing, it's one thing. regularly putting them up for other people to view needs some work. i'd even go so far as to say if you aren't going to shoot RAW, there wasn't a need to go

RE: PESO: Cityscape at Night

2005-11-23 Thread Tim Øsleby
What I think? I think people should switch off the light before leaving ;-) Now I understand why we have an energy crisis at the planet. Nice picture BTW. Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C.

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Herb Chong
alternate scenario - to get Robert's services, Frank has to pay twice as much, plus pay more for BW film. Herb - Original Message - From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Shoot now, focus later

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread Herb Chong
that's another reason i abandoned RSE, no cataloging capability, specifically to attach keywords and so on. that's why i tried a lot of tools and had to settle on three, but nowadays, Adobe Bridge is pushing most of the others except Thumbs+ out of the picture. i still use Ulead Photo Explorer

Re: PESO: Cityscape at Night

2005-11-23 Thread Mark Roberts
Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's one of my latest images: http://webpages.charter.net/glenweb/ni/Pittsburgh_3296.jpg It was taken with my Pentax *istDS. Let me know what you think. Glen - you were in Pittsburgh recently? (5 days ago according to the EXIF data in your photo.) We should have

Re: brief impressions of Pentax D FA Macro 100 F/2.8

2005-11-23 Thread Herb Chong
i have both the D-FA and FA 100/2.8 macros. for the work that i like to do, the main factor in choosing the D-FA over the FA is whether i am going out in the field and have to walk far or not. the FA is so much heavier that i usually don't go outside with it. also, the manual focus override

Re: brief impressions of Pentax D FA Macro 100 F/2.8

2005-11-23 Thread Joseph Tainter
No focus ranger limiter on the D FA? Hmmm. The poor autofocus performance in low light is not because of the lens. It is because of the poor autofocus performance of Pentax DSLRs (those produced so far) in low light. Joe

RE: Flash Primer

2005-11-23 Thread Gautam Sarup
Thanks Cotty. Gautam -Original Message- From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 12:23 AM To: pentax list Subject: Flash Primer This page recently came to my attention, nice little portrait flash primer: http://www.qtm.com/WebPhotoSchool/Sh

scanning medium format

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Sharpe
So, I finally got my first roll of film developed that I had taken with my new used 645. I'm pleased with the results: the camera produces great images. But, I have some questions about the processing...or rather what the lab did after the processing. The lab provides prints and a cd. Now I

Re: PESO -- Julie and Kate

2005-11-23 Thread Scott Loveless
Thanks for the feedback, Rick and Keith. I played around with cropping it a bit as Rick suggested, but I think I prefer it as is. Cropping the left and top loses the asymmetry, which I like. Plus, I kinda like the door. To me it adds a sense of location and space. Regardless, thanks so much

Re: scanning medium format

2005-11-23 Thread Bob Shell
On Nov 23, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Steve Sharpe wrote: Ultimately I am trying to decide if it is worth spending the money (probably around $400) myself to buy a flatbed scanner with the ability to do a half decent scan of medium format...or should I continue to let the lab do it. Depends on

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Gonz
Cotty wrote: On 23/11/05, Gonz, discombobulated, unleashed: Part of a series. An attempt to get some experience converting to BW using some of the techniques described by some here. I could not get the hang of the channel mixer technique, I'll have to revisit that one, I dont think I

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Fred
Even just the term workflow, as discussed here a lot hints at the problem (for me) - it uses the word work, rather than fun - g. However, for those that really love doing lotsa Photoshop processing, then I can see that digital photography opens up a whole new avenue for fun for them (even

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Gonz
Jack Davis wrote: Auto focus? Hair up and back on the side has a 'sharper' look to me than does her near eye area. It does. Thats because I manually focussed, and I discovered later that my *D has a problem with the position of the focus screen and auto focus is actually better than

RE: scanning medium format

2005-11-23 Thread J. C. O'Connell
On Nov 23, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Steve Sharpe wrote: Ultimately I am trying to decide if it is worth spending the money (probably around $400) myself to buy a flatbed scanner with the ability to do a half decent scan of medium format...or should I continue to let the lab do it. If they are

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Stenquist
I agree. It's an excellent photo, a superb portrait. And it's a very good conversion as well. The skin is suitably light in tone but not at all blown out. It shows plenty of detail. The blacks are rich, yet they show detail. Well done. On Nov 23, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Gonz wrote: Cotty wrote:

Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Herb Chong
fun means doing something i like to the degree i like. i think that producing images that don't show much effort once the shutter is released also means that the photographer don't value them much. the QD GESOs take me about 20 minutes per image to get them to the point there it then takes me

Managing extreme dynamic range with multiple exposures?

2005-11-23 Thread Glen
I know there is a technique for shooting stationary subjects with huge dynamic range, by taking a few bracketed exposures and combining those bracketed exposures into a single image. Can anyone point me to an on-line tutorial that explains the best way to do this? I want to try this on some

Re: Managing extreme dynamic range with multiple exposures?

2005-11-23 Thread Rob Studdert
On 23 Nov 2005 at 23:02, Glen wrote: I know there is a technique for shooting stationary subjects with huge dynamic range, by taking a few bracketed exposures and combining those bracketed exposures into a single image. Can anyone point me to an on-line tutorial that explains the best way

Re: Managing extreme dynamic range with multiple exposures?

2005-11-23 Thread Herb Chong
you take images one stop apart from about -3 to +3 from your correct exposure. the old way of merging was to load the images into separate layers in Photoshop and create channel masks for each layer to show only the parts of the image layer that contains the exposure you want. this takes many

Re: Re: Shoot now, focus later

2005-11-23 Thread Rob Studdert
On 23 Nov 2005 at 14:00, mike wilson wrote: How about: £2000 on high tech photogear £2000 on top end computing and software £1000 worth of time Results worthy of the Barbicam? Priceless. I guess you have to start somewhere. The following invention looked a little impractical at the time

Re: PESO: Cityscape at Night

2005-11-23 Thread Jack Davis
Glen, I'm sure I'd often not be able to answer this sort of question myself, but would you care to tell me what about this image 'does it for you.' IOW, do you 'like' it and if so, can you define why. Is it the camera's performance, light patterns orare you looking, for example, for direction

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 11/23/2005 4:24:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:28 AM Subject: Re: Which RAW converter? I think its a default. I get the same thing when i plug a card into my

Re: scanning medium format

2005-11-23 Thread Mat Maessen
I am saving my pennies for an Epson 4870. I have access to one at the moment (limited access), and I've gotten some very good results with it. I scanned a bunch of my father's old MF negatives earlier in the week, and hopefully I'll get a chance this weekend to scan some more, and get a gallery

Re: PESO: Cityscape at Night

2005-11-23 Thread E.R.N. Reed
Tim Øsleby wrote: What I think? I think people should switch off the light before leaving ;-) so, he took the picture while all the cleaning crews were at work ... maybe?

Re: PESO: Left

2005-11-23 Thread Mat Maessen
On 11/23/05, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I certaintly enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed taking it, since I don't know anything about taking portraits and we must have taken 200 pics that day and very few of them were keepers, and even fewer felt as right as this one. Sometimes you

Re: Which RAW converter?

2005-11-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Nov 23, 2005, at 9:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far i have tried the mac with a 512 mg jump drive(i just drag and dropped into a test folder)and a CF card reader. I think i did the same thing.However i did this before installing PS on the Mac so that might change a bit.

Re: PESO: Cityscape at Night

2005-11-23 Thread Cotty
On 23/11/05, E.R.N. Reed, discombobulated, unleashed: so, he took the picture while all the cleaning crews were at work ... maybe? Bulb inspectors. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

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