Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/19/2009 2:05:05 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jdavi...@yahoo.com writes: Wife and I took a country drive this PM looking for photo targets of opportunity. This cabin is off of hwy 70 (for the area folks) just as one begins the climb up and through the Feather River

Re: East Side, Vancouver

2009-03-20 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: According to a PIVOT legal society poll, Vancouver's Downtown East Side has the poorest postal code in all of Canada. http://www.foto8.com/home/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=812Item id=136 I live nearby. Here are

Re: Paparazzi or street shooter?

2009-03-20 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/19/2009 5:57:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, maritim...@gmail.com writes: Found three fascinating video clips about a young man Carl Størmer who photographed young girls and celebrities with a hidden camera at the streets of Oslo in 1893-96. For some obscure reason he

Re: PESO: Belgian nights in b/w

2009-03-20 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/19/2009 3:46:50 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, fotor...@gmx.de writes: I'm scanning my way through loads of film from the last years. Just the right thing to do to kill the long evening hours while I'm sneezing and coughing my way through a nasty cold HE has brought home

Re: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento

2009-03-20 Thread Tim Bray
I like them... elegant and gritty all at once. Thanks. -T On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Mark Erickson m...@westerickson.net wrote: No nipple shots or gear goonery here Just some detail shots from the little rail yard in old Sacramento.  I'm attracted to heavy, grimy weathered cast

Re: PESO: a view from above

2009-03-20 Thread Luiz Felipe
Like the idea, would be tempted to return just before nightfall. LF Luka Knezevic-Strika escreveu: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3458/3369203594_e16d39223d_b.jpg pentax spotmatic spII zeiss 20 2.8 fuji reala 100 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO: Belgian nights in b/w

2009-03-20 Thread Luiz Felipe
Bless you... and a great pic - again. ;-) LF Ralf R. Radermacher escreveu: I'm scanning my way through loads of film from the last years. Just the right thing to do to kill the long evening hours while I'm sneezing and coughing my way through a nasty cold HE has brought home from the gym.

Re: PESO: Spring

2009-03-20 Thread Luiz Felipe
Like it Jack! Keep shooting. LF Jack Davis escreveu: A little further up Hwy 70 toward the Feather River Canyon. Seems a so-so definitive spring image..at least for these parts. Jack All comments welcomed. http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=392 K10, DA 16~45

So - where are my shots from the NorCal meet?

2009-03-20 Thread John Francis
Answer - still on the hard drive, awaiting my attention. Sunday we went over to Don Quixotes in Felton to catch a show by Shay Michael Black (2/3 of the Black Brothers). See http://www.black-brothers.com if you don't know them. That added a few more shots to the to do list. Then on Monday I

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Luiz Felipe
Like it too - but would possibly frame it a little higher, to include more of the top of the tree and less of the foreground. Don't know, since I don't know the place, but would try. LF Jack Davis escreveu: Wife and I took a country drive this PM looking for photo targets of opportunity.

Re: East Side, Vancouver

2009-03-20 Thread Luiz Felipe
Those are very strong images indeed. Thank you for sharing - the best dreams have no sense without the nightmares. Really hope there is a way to improve their situation. LF Bob W escreveu: According to a PIVOT legal society poll, Vancouver's Downtown East Side has the poorest postal code in

Re: PESO: Selling the green for the green

2009-03-20 Thread Tim Bray
Mmm nice, catch a compelling face and almost anything around it and you've got a good pic. -T On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: The St. Patrick's Day Parade just finished rolling past my work building here in St. Paul (a pretty Irish town!). This

Re: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento

2009-03-20 Thread Luiz Felipe
Very good work Mark - thanks for posting. LF Mark Erickson escreveu: No nipple shots or gear goonery here Just some detail shots from the little rail yard in old Sacramento. I'm attracted to heavy, grimy weathered cast iron and steel as subjects. Train tracks and rail car undercarriages

New gear, but now I have a decision to make...

2009-03-20 Thread Luiz Felipe
Well, just bought a *ist DS with the 18~55, and one of these days I'll get to receive it... the price we pay for that lovely and cheap address not too close to the sea ;-) But the new (for me, at least) camera means my 35mm gear repair schedule is on hold for some time, and maybe for good. I'm

Re: PESO - Modern Convenience?

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Womer
Well, leaving aside the ongoing evolution (or devolution) of the bookstore... I like the photo. Having the left side blown out nicely hides otherwise distracting detail, and the timing (as the man is touching the screen) is perfect. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 3/19/09,

Re: New gear, but now I have a decision to make...

2009-03-20 Thread Cotty
On 20/3/09, Luiz Felipe, discombobulated, unleashed: broken diaphragm lever You're talking about the *ist Ds, right? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PESO: a view from above

2009-03-20 Thread Cotty
On 20/3/09, Luka Knezevic-Strika, discombobulated, unleashed: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3458/3369203594_e16d39223d_b.jpg pentax spotmatic spII zeiss 20 2.8 fuji reala 100 Cars everywhere, but people take precedence. Nice. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places,

Re: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Womer
These are very nice. Could you tell us more about the digital lith workflow? Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Mark Erickson m...@westerickson.net wrote: From: Mark Erickson m...@westerickson.net Subject: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento To: PDML

Re: Peso Headstone

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Womer
Actually, it doesn't fall short; it's too tall to view on my 900-pixel-tall monitor without scrolling... I agree that it's a great concept that needs some playing with. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 3/19/09, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I'm afraid that

Re: PESO: a view from above

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Womer
Luka, I like it. What holds it together for me is the sprinkling of red cars and the red sign on the building on the left side. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Luka Knezevic-Strika lukastr...@gmail.com wrote: From: Luka Knezevic-Strika lukastr...@gmail.com

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Womer
What Luiz said; it might benefit from a polarizer, too. I really like the contrast between the lush spring green and the dry weathered wood. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Luiz Felipe luiz.fel...@techmit.com.br wrote: Like it too - but would possibly frame it a

RE: PESO: a view from above

2009-03-20 Thread Bob W
p...@web-options.com writes: that's a perfect example of equivocation. Abstraction in painting refers to the removal (ie abstraction) of representation subject matter from paintings, leaving only the formal properties of point, line, surface, volume, space, form, tone and colour.

Re: PESO: Spring

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Womer
I like it. One might try using a wider angle and getting down closer to the foreground flowers. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com Subject: PESO: Spring To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Paparazzi or street shooter?

2009-03-20 Thread Tim Øsleby
I've never seen a similar camera. According the voice in the clip it was called a detectives camera, whatever that means. He hid it under his west, with the lens sticking out of a button hole. The third clip shows three pictures of a person who caught him red handed. I think I can see a strong

Re: Wedding photography, starting price?

2009-03-20 Thread mike wilson
Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: This guy is a good photographer ... Sadly, he's a Canon shooter... Your story doesn't make any sense. Makes perfect sense. A good photographer can use any old beater to

Re: Wedding photography, starting price?

2009-03-20 Thread mike wilson
Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: This guy is a good photographer ... Sadly, he's a Canon shooter... Your story doesn't make any sense. Makes perfect sense. A good photographer can use any old beater to

Re: Spring

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
Thanks for commenting, Christine. Jack --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net Subject: Re: Spring To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 9:48 PM Hi Jack: Both your PESOs today

Re: Wedding photography, starting price?

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
One thing i have never had, is a customer come back to me, after buying a day CD, and saying Wally mart etc would not print the photos. Dave On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Paul Stenquist Subject: Re: Wedding

Re: New gear, but now I have a decision to make...

2009-03-20 Thread Toralf Lund
Luiz Felipe wrote: Well, just bought a *ist DS with the 18~55, and one of these days I'll get to receive it... the price we pay for that lovely and cheap address not too close to the sea ;-) [ ... ] I'm watching BR ebay-like sites, and right now is the wrong time to sell anything 35mm around

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
Good shot. Love the rusty roof and weather beated siding. Plus i like old buildings to.:-) Dave On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Wife and I took a country drive this PM looking for photo targets of opportunity. This cabin is off of hwy 70 (for the area

Re: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
How did you know I like train.s Good set there. Good rendering and nice and clean shots. Dave On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Mark Erickson m...@westerickson.net wrote: No nipple shots or gear goonery here Just some detail shots from the little rail yard in old Sacramento.  I'm

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
Thanks, Rick! Jack --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 1:36 AM What Luiz said; it might benefit from a polarizer, too.

Re: PESO: Spring

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
Yeah, that would probably made a better shot. I couldn't get any closer physically (off the edge of the roadway and across a ditch), but I could have gotten a little lower and sucked it up some. Thanks, Rick! Jack --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Rick

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
Appreciate it, David! Jack --- On Fri, 3/20/09, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: From: David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com Subject: Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 5:12 AM Good shot. Love the rusty roof and weather

Re: New gear, but now I have a decision to make...

2009-03-20 Thread Luiz Felipe
Actually, the broken diaphragm lever is in my #2 Mx camera, and the *ist DS is the digital body recently purchased. LF Cotty escreveu: On 20/3/09, Luiz Felipe, discombobulated, unleashed: broken diaphragm lever You're talking about the *ist Ds, right? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ ||

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
LOL J --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com wrote: From: Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com Subject: Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 8:51 PM ann sanfedele wrote: A little paint, some curtains etc... :-)

Re: PESO: Spring

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
Thanks, Luiz! I'll do that. ;) Jack --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Luiz Felipe luiz.fel...@techmit.com.br wrote: From: Luiz Felipe luiz.fel...@techmit.com.br Subject: Re: PESO: Spring To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 11:36 PM Like it Jack! Keep shooting.

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
Thanks, Marnie. With some effort, I could go back ('prox 100 miles round trip) and either take an 8' orchard ladder I bought just for such things or get lower by sliding down a fairly shallow ditch bank. I'll probably just try to ignore it, now that its been mentioned. ;) Thanks for

Re: PESO: Belgian nights in b/w

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
The clarity and detail you get is amazing. Dave 2009/3/19 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: I'm scanning my way through loads of film from the last years. Just the right thing to do to kill the long evening hours while I'm sneezing and coughing my way through a nasty cold HE has brought

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
I took several shots doing just that. This version turned out to be most pleasing to me. I, also, cropped it a little tighter than I would if it were for a print, but I like the more apparent detail in this small web file. Thanks, Luiz! Jack --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Luiz Felipe

Re: Wedding photography, starting price?

2009-03-20 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: Re: Wedding photography, starting price? One thing i have never had, is a customer come back to me, after buying a day CD, and saying Wally mart etc would not print the photos. Dave, think about what you are saying. -- PDML

Re: PESO: Spring

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
Yup, thats spring. Dave On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: A little further up Hwy 70 toward the Feather River Canyon. Seems a so-so definitive spring image..at least for these parts. Jack All comments welcomed.

Re: Wedding photography, starting price?

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:20 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: Re: Wedding photography, starting price? One thing i  have never had, is a customer come back to me, after buying a day CD, and saying Wally mart etc would not

Setting a CWB for flash

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
What is the method one would use to set this up. Attach flash, set up grey card, or white card, set CWB on the K10D frame the card and then shoot it. Just curious as i have never done this, and on another forum, non pentax, they suggest this when the I'm doing a weeding soon, help me posts come

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Christian
Jack Davis wrote: Wife and I took a country drive this PM looking for photo targets of opportunity. This cabin is off of hwy 70 (for the area folks) just as one begins the climb up and through the Feather River Canyon. Beautiful, steep, winding, 'thrilling' drive..depending upon the

Re: Setting a CWB for flash

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Sorenson
Set WB to Daylight, shoot RAW, process in Lightroom... -p David J Brooks wrote: What is the method one would use to set this up. Attach flash, set up grey card, or white card, set CWB on the K10D frame the card and then shoot it. Just curious as i have never done this, and on another forum,

Re: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento

2009-03-20 Thread Christian
Mark Erickson wrote: No nipple shots or gear goonery here Just some detail shots from the little rail yard in old Sacramento. I'm attracted to heavy, grimy weathered cast iron and steel as subjects. Train tracks and rail car undercarriages have a lot of it to offer. I took these with my

FS: (price lowered!) Pentax *ist D kit w/18-55 lens, grip, 2GB card

2009-03-20 Thread Joe Wilensky
Original Pentax *ist D in EX condition, all original packaging/box/ strap/caps/manual. Firmware updated; no issues. Was sent to Pentax once for focus calibration/check. Includes Pentax SMC-DA f/3.5-5.6 18-55mm lens, also EX condition, and battery grip D-BG1, also EX condition. Includes a

OT: Mamiya DL33

2009-03-20 Thread Timbah!
Seems like the Pentax 645D has a strong competitor: http://www.photographyblog.com/news/mamiya_dl33/ If I remember right the 645D is priced around the same range (20K USD) and Mamiya already present at the MF DSLR market it might have a strong impact on P645D... Just my two cents, .t --

Re: Setting a CWB for flash

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Stenquist
If you shoot RAW, you can adjust the white balance during conversion. Just set the camera to auto white balance and fine tune to your taste during conversion. If color temp is critical for a particular job, include a white or gray card in frame for a test shot, then set color temp with the

Re: PESO: Spring

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
Thanks, Dave. That was my only point. ;) Jack --- On Fri, 3/20/09, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: From: David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com Subject: Re: PESO: Spring To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 6:22 AM Yup, thats spring. Dave

Re: Setting a CWB for flash

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: If you're shooting jpegs, and color temp is critical, set the white balance manually before shooting. Paul That's what i do mostly, Jpeg's. Do i just set the camera to the CWB menu, then shoot something and have

Re: PESO: a view from above

2009-03-20 Thread Christian
ann sanfedele wrote: Luka Knezevic-Strika wrote: perhaps it is just that. i tought it had a good balance and that it was graphically compelling. So do I, Luka... and a nice piece of photo-journalism... might like to see a black and white conversion though. At first i found it a bit

Pentax sighting

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
Was watching a re run of the show, Just shoot me, and the staff photog was doing a swim suit shoot. Pentax 67. Dave -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Mark Erickson m...@westerickson.net wrote: No nipple shots or gear goonery here Just some detail shots from the little rail yard in old Sacramento.  I'm attracted to heavy, grimy weathered cast iron and steel as subjects.  Train tracks and rail car

Re: PESO: Whitlock Cabin

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Davis
Thanks, Christian. It faces the south and, as you can see, there is what appears to be the remnants of an olive grove to the west. A substantially lower sun angle would add particulate hewed light to the near side, but I'm not sure to what advantage. Probably due to my lack of vision. :-/

Re: Pentax sighting

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Was watching a re run of the show, Just shoot me, and the staff photog was doing a swim suit shoot. Pentax 67. I think I used to watch that show once in a while. It could be funny. They all worked for a magazine,

Re: Pentax sighting

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:01 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Was watching a re run of the show, Just shoot me, and the staff photog was doing a swim suit shoot. Pentax 67. I think I used to watch

Re: Pentax sighting

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Walker
Subject: Pentax sighting To: Pentax Discuss pdml@pdml.net Mark! :-) Kinda poignant really. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: New gear, but now I have a decision to make...

2009-03-20 Thread Luiz Felipe
Well, I'd probably do that - buy another 35mm Pentax - the moment I sell the Canon kit. Not before, since the $$ is not easy to come by lately. :-/ And there is always a bigger brother (digital) to the DS... Well, I'd better keep working, that's some cash to spend in gear, as soon as I earn

PESO - Looming

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
These guys had a sort of War of the Worlds look to them: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/looming.html Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO: a view from above

2009-03-20 Thread Luka Knezevic-Strika
ah, i've been honored with a PDML-esque discussion. this, if nothing, makes the posting of the photo in question, worthwhile :) i do agree that the fact a photograph is based on reality in a certain objective way is important. but, than again, i don't think it rules out abstract photography.

Re: PESO: a view from above

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
2009/3/19 Luka Knezevic-Strika lukastr...@gmail.com: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3458/3369203594_e16d39223d_b.jpg pentax spotmatic spII zeiss 20 2.8 fuji reala 100 I like it. At first the lines of parked cars look quite orderly, then you notice a few that are out of place. Then you

Re: PESO: a view from above

2009-03-20 Thread ann sanfedele
Luka - as you know from my original post I like the photo-journalistic aspect of it... the helter-skelterness (ugh, someone is going to get on me for that coinage) is intriguing - what I see in it from a documentary perspective (yeah yeah, here we go with puns) is the recording of what looks

Re: PESO - Looming

2009-03-20 Thread ann sanfedele
frank theriault wrote: These guys had a sort of War of the Worlds look to them: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/looming.html Comments always welcome. cheers, frank or... Frank pays homage to Ralf :-) ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO: Spring

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: A little further up Hwy 70 toward the Feather River Canyon. Seems a so-so definitive spring image..at least for these parts. Jack All comments welcomed. http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=392 K10, DA

Re: So - where are my shots from the NorCal meet?

2009-03-20 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Heh. Don't worry John. You're not alone. I've been dealing with a tooth going bad all week, have hardly had the mental space to look at photographs creatively. Should probably have just pulled the trigger on Monday and scheduled it for Tuesday, but we were trying to save the tooth, and

Re: PESO: Belgian nights in b/w

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
2009/3/19 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: I'm scanning my way through loads of film from the last years. Just the right thing to do to kill the long evening hours while I'm sneezing and coughing my way through a nasty cold HE has brought home from the gym. Sports, I tell you...  Churchill

Re: New gear, but now I have a decision to make...

2009-03-20 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I'd find it very hard to justify putting any money at all into 35mm camera repairs. There's little or no point to it, at least for me. Better to put that money into a second digital body, new or used, and dump the lot of 35mm film gear for whatever can be gotten out of it. Godfrey --

Re: Paparazzi or street shooter?

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: Found three fascinating video clips about a young man Carl Størmer who photographed young girls and celebrities with a hidden camera at the streets of Oslo in 1893-96. For some obscure reason he ended his street

Re: PESO - Looming

2009-03-20 Thread Christian
frank theriault wrote: These guys had a sort of War of the Worlds look to them: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/looming.html Comments always welcome. cheers, frank Reminds me more of the flash-back battle scenes from the first Terminator movie. Dark, foreboding; I like. --

Annual - Blurb gets my vote.

2009-03-20 Thread mike wilson
...as long as they don't say gotten again Quote You were right to scream and shout about our Economy shipping method to the UK. Orders that should have taken no more than 4 to 15 business days to ship from our Netherlands printer to the UK have been taking up to four weeks to arrive.

Re: Annual - Blurb gets my vote.

2009-03-20 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:13 AM, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: ...as long as they don't say gotten again So they've taken care of the shipping issue with books you've boughtten from them? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - Lisa Wiltse

2009-03-20 Thread Bong Manayon
[testing...my messages doesn't seem to go through...] Looks familiar. Good photo journalistic/street shots...hope she has the 'license to shoot' (I suppose they would have been under some documentary project..but then again). Been doing similar work for non-government agencies and missions

Re: Wedding photography, starting price?

2009-03-20 Thread mike wilson
Mark Roberts msrobert...@ysu.edu wrote: David Savage wrote: Every time a hear a discussion about giving away photographs (and pricing in such a way as it's almost the same thing) this interview with Harlan Ellison comes to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE That

RE: Leica D-Lux 4 or Panasonic LX3

2009-03-20 Thread mike wilson
Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: It's been so long since we had a lynching I've forgotten where I left my pitchfork. Lynching... Pitchfork? For a lynching I think a rope is more useful You need a pitchfork when you're in a lynchmob outside the

digital lith (was: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento)

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Erickson
Rick Womer wrote: These are very nice. Could you tell us more about the digital lith workflow? Rick And give up my secrets? ;-) There are a lot of digital lith workflows out there of varying complexity. The workflow I use is derived from one written up a few years ago on the web by

Re: Wedding photography, starting price?

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Roberts
Christine Aguila wrote: snip Me: Then we would need to talk terms, right? consulting assistant: (He begrudgingly hands me his business card and doesn't look too happy.) Everybody wants something for nothing. A few years ago in Rochester I took a great shot of the start of the Lilac

Re: Annual - Blurb gets my vote.

2009-03-20 Thread mike wilson
Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:13 AM, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: ...as long as they don't say gotten again So they've taken care of the shipping issue with books you've boughtten from them? That's rightten. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: New gear, but now I have a decision to make...

2009-03-20 Thread Nick Wright
I find no problem in repairing older 35mm gear. His LX lasted nearly 30 years. I'd be surprised if any digital camera available today would be operational half that long (other than museum pieces that never got used). If the repair doesn't cost too much and he can get another couple decades of

Re: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento

2009-03-20 Thread mike wilson
Mark Erickson m...@westerickson.net wrote: No nipple shots or gear goonery here Just some detail shots from the little rail yard in old Sacramento. I'm attracted to heavy, grimy weathered cast iron and steel as subjects. Train tracks and rail car undercarriages have a lot of it

Re: Wedding photography, starting price?

2009-03-20 Thread ann sanfedele
Mark Roberts wrote: Christine wrote ...[ snip snip] Everybody wants something for nothing. A few years ago in Rochester I took a great shot of the start of the Lilac Festival 10k: Head on view through a 300mm lens of all the runners coming toward the camera, with former U.S. Olympic team

Re: small GESO from NorCal PDML in Sacramento

2009-03-20 Thread Bob Sullivan
Marnie, Nothing abstract about it. I saw the 110 pound letters on the rail, the truck springs, the rail bolts and spikes. It's like the smell of morning coffee to old rail buffs. :-) Very nice work and elegant as well. Thanks for posting Mark! Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:59 AM,

Re: New gear, but now I have a decision to make...

2009-03-20 Thread Cotty
On 20/3/09, Luiz Felipe, discombobulated, unleashed: On 20/3/09, Luiz Felipe, discombobulated, unleashed: broken diaphragm lever You're talking about the *ist Ds, right? Actually, the broken diaphragm lever is in my #2 Mx camera, and the *ist DS is the digital body recently purchased. LF

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:45 PM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: LBA God I hate that term. Lima Bean Agglutinin? Local Bus Adapter? Laser Balloon Angioplasty? Seriously, what does it mean? I'm so out of it when it comes to initialisms... cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois

Re: PESO - Looming

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
Good shot. Moody for sure. Dave On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: These guys had a sort of War of the Worlds look to them: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/looming.html Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a

Re: OT - Lisa Wiltse

2009-03-20 Thread Scott Loveless
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Derby Chang wrote: Feeding the CBA on ebay the other night (a Voigt R2A), I checked out the website of the seller, and was pleasantly surprised. She was a staff photog for the Sydney Morning Herald, but now

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread David J Brooks
Something along the lines of: Lens Buying Addict or Addiction. Dave On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:27 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:45 PM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: LBA God I hate that term. Lima Bean Agglutinin? Local Bus Adapter?

OT - Trend Pc-illin question - the help menu doesn't help

2009-03-20 Thread ann sanfedele
For the life of me I can figure out how to set the time the daily internet virus search thingy runs -- Yes, I looked at the help menu... It has been running at noon every day and that is NOT convenient... I'd like it to run at like 7 am.. .. when I am most likely to be asleep. there

Re: New gear, but now I have a decision to make...

2009-03-20 Thread Bob Sullivan
Luiz, In sympathy... I still have rolls of film in the PZ-1 and MZ-S from when I purchased my first digital. It was a *ist DS and 3+ years ago. I didn't expect to, but I never looked back. I still have film in the freezer, but digital is cheaper and most satisfying! I wouldn't fix anything but the

Re: OT - over-photoshopped kids

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com wrote: WHY??? Because there's a demand in the marketplace.  Go figure. Funny thing about beauty contests, especially those for youths or very young children: rather than celebrate diversity it seems that the aim for most

Re: PESO - Three Plugs and No Sparks

2009-03-20 Thread Tim Bray
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: G'day all I came across an old tractor late one afternoon at Lightning Ridge in outback New South Wales.  The low angle of the sun highlighted the rust and old red paint on the engine block and produced a very vivid

Re: OT - over-photoshopped kids

2009-03-20 Thread Cotty
On 20/3/09, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: Full, red, pouty lips and great big velvet-painting-like eyes seem to be a goal. And your problem with this is exactly what? ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com

Another day, another lens

2009-03-20 Thread William Robb
In my ongoing search for the perfect portrait lens, I picked up one of the new DA*55/1.4 lenses yesterday. My initial impression is that it is about as sharp and contrasty a lens as is possible to buy on this planet. Of course, for what they wanted for it, it had bloody well better be good. The

Re: Leica D-Lux 4 or Panasonic LX3

2009-03-20 Thread Christian
mike wilson wrote: Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: It's been so long since we had a lynching I've forgotten where I left my pitchfork. Lynching... Pitchfork? For a lynching I think a rope is more useful You need a pitchfork when you're in a lynchmob outside the sherrif's

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:34 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Something along the lines of: Lens Buying Addict or Addiction. I didn't think it would be Lima Bean Agglutinin... Thanks, Dave. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML

Re: OT - over-photoshopped kids

2009-03-20 Thread frank theriault
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote: On 20/3/09, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: Full, red, pouty lips and great big velvet-painting-like eyes seem to be a goal. And your problem with this is exactly what? ;-) Did I say I had a problem with that?

Re: OT - over-photoshopped kids

2009-03-20 Thread Christian
Cotty wrote: On 20/3/09, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: Full, red, pouty lips and great big velvet-painting-like eyes seem to be a goal. And your problem with this is exactly what? ;-) Dude! On a six-year-old? You've sunk to a new low, Cotty... :-) -- Christian

Re: OT - over-photoshopped kids

2009-03-20 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: OT - over-photoshopped kids Funny thing about beauty contests, especially those for youths or very young children: rather than celebrate diversity it seems that the aim for most contestants (presumably fuelled by the choices

Re: Potential LBA, FA43

2009-03-20 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: Re: Potential LBA, FA43 Something along the lines of: Lens Buying Addict or Addiction. And the guy who coined it is no where near as well endowed with lenses as I am. Bastards. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

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