Rick was right, the BW could be better so here is cut two.
More drama, more contrast a little higher contrast, some semi-creative
layer work and a different color faux BW filter in this case Red.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20beforethestormb%26w%28r%29-pt-2.html
I've
On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:12 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Rick was right, the BW could be better so here is cut two.
More drama, more contrast a little higher contrast, some semi-creative layer
work and a different color faux BW filter in this case Red.
I posted a picture here a few weeks ago and a friend of me with a Canon EOS 7D
took a similar picture.
You can download it here (it is 16MB!!) :
http://download.heime.org/sfk/IMG_7553%20bruntone%207.jpg Please note that this
is not a picture taken by me.
My picture is here:
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote:
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
LOL ... I have never heard Pentax referred to as the Japanese Leica.
That was commonly reported from Japan around 1976, soon after the
introduction of the MX. Some Japanese folks perceived the MX as the new
Good decision.
On 4/12/2011 8:17 PM, Steve Sharpe wrote:
A hand-me-down Brownie from my parents. I still have it. It still works.
My second was a hand-me-down Instamatic from my parents. I think I
still have it, too.
After that I bought a Miranda dx-3 SLR. It was either that, or wait
until
I'm not sure it's curiosity, looks more like sizing up for a strafing run...
On 4/13/2011 4:37 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Like the curious tilt of the head. Fun at the lake.
The sun was in and out and I may have out exposed the shutter a wee bit. heck!
Comments encourages.
Jack
Aaaargh - trust Bob to turn it around!
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
somebody has to do it...
B
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Some cormorants are more obvious than others.
was this email meant for your shrink?
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On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:27 PM, SV Hovland wrote:
I posted a picture here a few weeks ago and a friend of me with a Canon EOS
7D took a similar picture.
You can download it here (it is 16MB!!) :
http://download.heime.org/sfk/IMG_7553%20bruntone%207.jpg Please note that
this is not a
On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Bob W wrote:
Larry Colen
Some cormorants are more obvious than others.
was this email meant for your shrink?
Nope, sometimes a shag is just a shag.
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And if you wanna use Bill's idea and really push it (the idea, not
Bill), you'd use a 1° spot meter because, really, our Pentax cameras
spot meter isn't that spot. It is around 5° or more AFAIR.
If you're really too rich, get a Sekonic L758 which you can profile
with your DSLR sensor specs (DR
David, if I could take digital picture with my MX, KX, SuperA beleive
me I would.
The thing is, this is the last thing manufacturers want us to get. If
something like this hits the street, a lot less people will buy DSLRs.
As for sensor performance, just get the next version of this RE35 or
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Emne: Re: Canon EOS 7D
Does bruntone have something to do with the sepia hue?
Yes
I honestly can't
My wife disagrees with you, your picture is better. The Canon shot is
too over exposed in the foreground and looks like it has been over
sharpened for a misty scene.The sepia tone doesn't help the Canon
image, neither does the large expanses top and bottom of sepia toned
featureless cloud and
Larry Colen
Some cormorants are more obvious than others.
was this email meant for your shrink?
Nope, sometimes a shag is just a shag.
you're obviously making excellent progress. Have a cigar, and tell me about
your mother.
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Nicely framed here. Perhaps a bit overexposed on his head and the edge of the
wing, but a highlight doesn't always detract, and here I find it quite
acceptable.
Paul
On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:10 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I'm not sure it's curiosity, looks more like sizing up for a strafing run...
Facebook is acting weird, so I couldn't post on you wall. I'll
therefore have to out you on this list.
Happy birthday, Steve Desjardins!
;-)
cheers,
frank (going back into lurking mode now)
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The MX was a great camera. Alas, I could only really get one many
years later from KEH.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Christine Aguila
cagu...@earthlink.net wrote:
My 1st camera was Kodak instamatic at the age of 10. I took lots of
pictures with it, but I was always so disappointed with
I suspect his attention was caught by the compelling action. Nice shot.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Christine Aguila
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On your main point, I don't see what you refer to as noise in his image.
I don't much care for either image. I like yours better, but neither is all
that wonderful.
It took me a long time carefully looking at a magnified section of the images
to make out what is in the jumble of boulders in the
Thanks for feedback and it was interesting to read. I cannot see any blown-out
highlights on my screen. But I agree with you on the other comments you made.
Regarding my picture, I think it's too dark. This is already pointed out by a
few members here.
Stig Vidar Hovland
Thanks, Christine! I agree with you about the crop being tight. I didn't catch
it in the frame center and cropped to even the proximity of the wings to the
frame edge.
Will hang on to it as is for now.
Jack
--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote:
From: Christine
LoL.. Could have been, Peter. One of them left a deposit on my windshield while
parked that day. Actually, he looks sorta guilty at that. ;)
Jack
--- On Thu, 4/14/11, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
From: P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PESO: Curious Gull
Thanks, Paul. I got a bit shutter speed over zealous for the changing light.
May have been conditions for TAV.(?)
Jack
--- On Thu, 4/14/11, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
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Subject: Re: PESO: Curious Gull
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:55, Steven Desjardins wrote:
The MX was a great camera. Alas, I could only really get one many
years later from KEH.
If I'd have had an MX instead of the K1000 in High School... man, that would
have been a dream setup. Small, light
I went to so many concerts in
On Apr 14, 2011, at 7:19, Stan Halpin wrote:
On your main point, I don't see what you refer to as noise in his image.
Same here...
And returning to your main point, again I don't see what you are referring to
as noise in his image. I didn't find anything in focus, and there seems to be
Stan Halpin wrote on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:24:47 -0700
Jim, I read this piece last night (after W. Robb kindly pointed out how I
needed to access the site. Duh.)
My recollection/interpretation of the key points the author was making is as
follows:
a. Close enough is good enough. Set the
- Mensaje original
De: David Parsons parsons.da...@gmail.com
1-3. Mark is the one doing all the hard work, and as the editor,
layout designer, and everything else, it's his call as to how things
are laid out. He volunteers a lot of his own limited time for the
group.
Sure,
Looking for instructions to build a Cormorant blind,
: )
I tripped across this blog:
http://diyphotocheapodepot.blogspot.com/
This guy has some great ideas and explains them well (including
multiple blinds) and usually includes examples of photographs made
with the equipment he built.
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Well, it can if we send you the money and you buy it for us.
On 4/12/2011 9:47 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
More bad news: David Parsons informs me that the GMA discount only
applies to books you've authored.
Looks like the PDML at large can't get this deal. :(
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Maybe you listen to much to the canonized brotherhood and to little to
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I'm kind of serious when saying this.
I don't see any distracting noise in your picture, and I don't see any
realistic details in the other one.
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No. I read it on my desktop and laptop with a free Firefox
LoL...out loud!!
Jack
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On 2011-04-13 13:33 , P. J. Alling wrote:
Just popping in to post a quick PESO, well two if you count different
renderings.
Not much of a stretch but I liked it.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20beforethestorm.html
i like the mood and prefer the color version; in fact except
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use of my
GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came to the
college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on the floor and
shot up at him as he spoke, walked, and gestured. He got
Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use
of my GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came
to the college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on
the floor and shot up at him as he spoke, walked,
On 11-04-14 2:30 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use of my
GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came to the
college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on the floor and
shot up at
during a photo class we used disposable cameras; i used my to shoot my
nephew during a short vacation, but i jumped into a pool with the camera
in my pocket (a few of the shots came out okay)
while changing lens beside a canal in Amsterdam, my Canon 20mm in its
neoprene soft case rolled off a
While in college, shooting for the annual with rangefinder, I managed
to shoot a whole roll with the lens cap on.
Bill
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11-04-14 2:30 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and
On Apr 14, 2011, at 13:30, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
Anyway, afterward I noticed that the film rewound too quickly. And we all
know what that means. (Or is that assuming too much these days? Have people
forgotten?)
Yeah.
Hey, cool, I've managed to squeeze 38 shots onto this roll.
In the gelatine days I had the habit of not winding the lip of a film
entirely into the cartrige.
In a friend's marriage once, I made sure I had exposed film in one
pocket and unexposed film in the other. Then I was asked to do a group
shot and had to change film with all the wedding guests lined
2011/4/14 Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com:
Maybe you listen to much to the canonized brotherhood and to little to
your real friends (read us, the good guys)
;-)
I'm kind of serious when saying this.
I don't see any distracting noise in your picture, and I don't see any
realistic details in
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote:
While in college, shooting for the annual with rangefinder, I managed
to shoot a whole roll with the lens cap on.
I was frequently grateful that my Canonet's auto-exposure mechanism
locked out the shutter button if there
I haven't posted in ages but I have been reading the forum and enjoying
all the posted photos.
I have been holed up in front of computer scanning and processing a
bunch of pictures from the last few months. I crawled out this week into
the 70 degree weather and am sharing 5 pix I took.
I
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove me
nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame by doing
one extra advance to see if it was still winding. Better that than
waste an entire roll.
I guess
On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:25 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove me
nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame by doing
one extra advance to see if it was still winding.
My first quarter of college I was out for a bike ride, looking for things to
photograph Northeast of Davis. I saw a plane that was going to fly nearly
overhead, but if I rushed, I might be able to get directly below the flight
path. Riding without hands, at top speed I focused and set the
The power of words
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On Apr 14, 2011, at 16:46, Larry Colen wrote:
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OT, but very nice. Thanks. I'm a sucker for this kind of thing.
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On Apr 14, 2011, at 16:46, Larry Colen wrote:
The power of words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU
Now, THAT one brought tears to my eyes...
Thanks
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Subject: Glasses [Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism]
On 11-04-13 8:39 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
Sigh. Make that made without
On 11-04-14 4:25 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove me
nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame by doing
one extra advance to see if it was still winding. Better that
Nice capture overall.
I agree with Paul on the overexposure.
I'd like a little more room between the wing tips the image edges.
Kenneth Waller
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Subject: Re: PESO: Curious
Dropping my SP500 in the pacific ocean near the Queen Charlotte
Islands in British Columbia.
Two days of drying and praying and all was well
Dave
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Collin Brendemuehl
coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote:
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made
People need to learn to merge.
Dave
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Cory Waters cbwat...@bellsouth.net wrote:
The family and I went to the IndyCar race at Barber Motorsports Park in
Birmingham, Alabama last weekend. I was more about hanging with my unit
than getting the shot but there are a
Mitch - thanks for looking commenting.
As for the black backgrounds with the leaves - they were taken at the crack
of dawn with my back to the rising sun - I spotmetered the brightest spots
on the leaves, letting the background go dark. Same for the ridgeline
('North Face of Denali'?) - in
I was able to track down the original movie, in Spanish
http://www.yesmagazine.org/multimedia/yes-video/3013
On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
The power of words
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On 4/12/11 3:32 PM, Bill Owens wrote:
In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs
Mine was a KODAK pocket B-1 camera. - This is exactly what it says on
its label - I have it right in front of me as I type this :-)
- Toralf
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I haven't seen either the 2011 eBook or the paper book - I've ordered the
paper book to join the previous years books. I've been very happy with the
presentations on both previous years books sincerely appreciate the work
Mark has put into them (along with the help of others as he has given
My first was a Kodak 110 camera. I was a kid, and I took happy snaps
of random things.
Funny thing is I have more prints from that camera than I do from my K100DS.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote:
In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used
Thanks, Ken! If you had read my original upload you would have seen my remarks
re the overexposure. Later, I included an additional reference defiling myself
for allowing the bloom, especially that on the Gull's head. I simply out
exposed the shutter.
As I responded to another critiquer, I
On 11-04-14 8:18 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
We're about 36 hours into availability of the 2011 PDML Photo Annual
and we've sold 41 copies. It would be nice if we could get to 48
copies before 48 hours.
:)
Are we showing up on the Bestsellers page yet?
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I succumbed to temptation and spent a few minutes wandering about my yard
photographing cliches rather than working on the project I should have been.
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/7215762650026/
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Great. All we have to do is teach creative writing to the homeless,
and the problem will be solved!
Dan
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
The power of words
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A fine set of cliches, Larry. The circular saw is a bit of a departure, but if
you can just stay focused;))
Jack
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Subject: Today's dose of cliches
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:14:51PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
The Praktica is built like a tank. Weighs like a tank; shakes like a
tank when you press the shutter; sounds like a tank, ... :-)
QC was dubious at best, though. My brother bought a Praktica at around
the same time I bought my
On Apr 14, 2011, at 19:34, David Parsons wrote:
My first was a Kodak 110 camera. I was a kid, and I took happy snaps
of random things.
Funny thing is I have more prints from that camera than I do from my K100DS.
Prints were your only option!
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On 15 April 2011 13:29, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote:
Prints were your only option!
I have Kodachrome slides shot using my Pentax 110 SLR ;-)
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:20 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote:
Dropping my SP500 in the pacific ocean near the Queen Charlotte
Islands in British Columbia.
Two days of drying and praying and all was well
Sneaky. My brain initially tried to interpret the circular saw as a
flower. I needed a glass of whiskey to recover. Thanks, BTW.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
I succumbed to temptation and spent a few minutes wandering about my yard
photographing
On Apr 14, 2011, at 22:36, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 15 April 2011 13:29, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote:
Prints were your only option!
I have Kodachrome slides shot using my Pentax 110 SLR ;-)
OK.. prints were one of your two only options!
Funny, I never shot slide film in the
From: Keith Whaley
Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
I was in college and had shot 35mm during HS and had also made good use
of my GIII just before getting the K1000. So when a popular speaker came
to the college I got there early and got a front-row set. Then I sat on
the floor and shot up at
From: Stan Halpin
On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:25 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove
me nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame
by doing one extra advance to see if it
Nice - but it seems to be a rip-off of this Cannes short film prize
winner which someone posted here a couple of years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyGEEamz7ZM
Chris
On 14 April 2011 22:46, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
The power of words
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