Re: 20th Anniversary PUG - Countdown

[Brian Walters]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017, at 01:34 PM, ann sanfedele wrote:
> Hmmm - how far back are the PUG's archived?  maybe those are there and 
> can be grabbed from the archived PUG page


They are archived all the way back to the start :-)  - but the
resolution of those early galleries might be too low for PJ's needs.


http://pug.komkon.org/general/pastgalleries.html



Cheers

Brian

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> 
> 
> On 3/23/2017 10:28 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> > I'm down to two images from past pugs that I'd like to post, however I 
> > cannot find the original negatives, and the original scanned files 
> > were lost in a hard drive crash, which I hadn't bothered to back up, 
> > since I had the original negatives...
> >
> >
> > On 3/21/2017 1:47 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
> >> G'day, all
> >>
> >> A good start to this special gallery - already 20 submissions, mainly
> >> from past list members.
> >>
> >> Don't leave it 'till the last minute. Please!!
> >>
> >> Theme: 20th Anniversary Gallery
> >>
> >> Full details here including suggested submission topics, link to
> >> submission form and Submission Guidelines:
> >>
> >> http://pug.komkon.org/general/20th-anniversary.html
> >>
> >> Nom. closing date 31 March.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
> >> ++
> >> Brian Walters
> >> Western Sydney Australia
> >> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> 
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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Larry Colen]

John Sessoms wrote:


But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.

Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?

... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.



Watching the advice stream by, most of it is discussing what someone 
needs to do to become the best possible photographer, without actually 
considering what his goals are, or how much effort (never mind money) he 
wants to devote to the pursuit, which is actually orthogonal to the OP 
question of their basic (*) kit.


Along that line, I'd suggest that he first go out and have fun playing 
with his camera, figure out what he enjoys doing, what his goals as a 
photographer are, and how much time, money and effort he wants to spend 
pursuing his goals.


In the 80s-90s my mom, who told us that she couldn't even see through a 
viewfinder when Dad and I had a darkroom before they divorced, got into 
photography. She covered the walls with prints of rather mediocre cliche 
photos, taken with minimal technical ability. However, she had a lot of 
fun, and was very happy with her work.


It is entirely possible that this fellow can have has much fun with the 
kit he has and not investing the effort to achieve professional levels 
of competence.


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Re: Another puppy picture

[Bill]

On 3/23/2017 9:36 PM, Ken Waller wrote:

Does the girl have a name ?


Rayna Terror.



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Re: Another puppy picture

[Ken Waller]

Does the girl have a name ?

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- Original Message - 
From: "Bill" 

Subject: Another puppy picture



At least this time she's awake.

http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/rayna2.html

I am joyously doing casual snapshots in bad light with a good camera.

The girl just settled down to sleep, and now I will do the same.

Expect frequent spamming of the list of puppy pictures. I'm quite 
enchanted by this one.


Enjoy.

bill

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them to purchase a Rottie puppy.



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Another puppy picture

[Bill]

At least this time she's awake.

http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/rayna2.html

I am joyously doing casual snapshots in bad light with a good camera.

The girl just settled down to sleep, and now I will do the same.

Expect frequent spamming of the list of puppy pictures. I'm quite 
enchanted by this one.


Enjoy.

bill

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Re: PESO - Doodle

[Bill]

On 3/23/2017 8:13 PM, Mark C wrote:

http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/doodle

or on flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcassino/33559996735/in/dateposted-public/

Comments welcome -

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Re: PESO - Annie

[Bill]

On 3/22/2017 8:20 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:

Artist, stylist, photographer and model Annie McDayter in lingerie,
taken in low ambient light in the studio. A smidge NSFW.

http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/158703220267

Taken with the 645z handheld at 1/125th sec shutter using the dfa645
90mm/2.8 macro at f/5.6. ISO 6400.

Enjoy! Or not. :)



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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Bill]

On 3/23/2017 7:03 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:

Go to a library and look at books of photography. Lots of them.

Then decide what kind of photography you'd like to try. Street
photography? Landscapes? Fashion? Wildlife? Look at as many genres as
you can and decide what you'll like to pursue. Always remember that
you can change your mind in a month or a year or ten years, but pick
one to start.

Ask around about what kind of kit suits your chosen interest and go
buy some secondhand stuff at B, Adorama or KEH.

Then start shooting lots of pictures.



And then.

Take the pictures you like, and put them in a file on your computer and 
don't look at them for six months to a year. The longer the better.

Look at the pictures you don't like and figure out why you don't like them.
When you have that figured out, stop doing whatever it is that you don't 
like.


In a year, go back and look at the pictures you filed away and compare the
earlier ones to what you are doing now that you like. It can be very 
entertaining.


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Re: 20th Anniversary PUG - Countdown

[ann sanfedele]

Hmmm - how far back are the PUG's archived?  maybe those are there and 
can be grabbed from the archived PUG page


ann


On 3/23/2017 10:28 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I'm down to two images from past pugs that I'd like to post, however I 
cannot find the original negatives, and the original scanned files 
were lost in a hard drive crash, which I hadn't bothered to back up, 
since I had the original negatives...



On 3/21/2017 1:47 AM, Brian Walters wrote:

G'day, all

A good start to this special gallery - already 20 submissions, mainly
from past list members.

Don't leave it 'till the last minute. Please!!

Theme: 20th Anniversary Gallery

Full details here including suggested submission topics, link to
submission form and Submission Guidelines:

http://pug.komkon.org/general/20th-anniversary.html

Nom. closing date 31 March.


Cheers

Brian

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Re: PESO - Doodle

[Bruce Walker]

That's great, Mark. Reminds me of an specific artist -- can't think of
his name. Darn.


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Mark C  wrote:
> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/doodle
>
> or on flickr:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcassino/33559996735/in/dateposted-public/
>
> Comments welcome -
>
> Mark
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Re: 20th Anniversary PUG - Countdown

[Mark C]

Keep on looking - I wanted to re-scan my image and went to the very well 
organized file cabinet of slides only to find my subject slide missing 
from the page. A few hours later after rummaging through various boxes I 
found a page will all my best older images in it - including the one 
that initially searched for. I remember throwing that page in the box a 
year or so ago, thinking that they were dups and not originals. Looking 
at the dates I realized that they were the originals. I'll probably 
never use them again (except maybe for a future PUG anniversary) but I 
was glad I hadn't tossed that page.


So - keep on looking.

Mark

On 3/23/2017 10:28 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I'm down to two images from past pugs that I'd like to post, however I 
cannot find the original negatives, and the original scanned files 
were lost in a hard drive crash, which I hadn't bothered to back up, 
since I had the original negatives...



On 3/21/2017 1:47 AM, Brian Walters wrote:

G'day, all

A good start to this special gallery - already 20 submissions, mainly
from past list members.

Don't leave it 'till the last minute. Please!!

Theme: 20th Anniversary Gallery

Full details here including suggested submission topics, link to
submission form and Submission Guidelines:

http://pug.komkon.org/general/20th-anniversary.html

Nom. closing date 31 March.


Cheers

Brian

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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Mark Roberts]

Go to a library and look at books of photography. Lots of them. 

Then decide what kind of photography you'd like to try. Street
photography? Landscapes? Fashion? Wildlife? Look at as many genres as
you can and decide what you'll like to pursue. Always remember that
you can change your mind in a month or a year or ten years, but pick
one to start.

Ask around about what kind of kit suits your chosen interest and go
buy some secondhand stuff at B, Adorama or KEH.

Then start shooting lots of pictures.
 
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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Mark C]

He wants to do landscapes?  My advice would be to go off to an art 
museum and look at every landscape he can find -all media, all times, 
all places; everything available.


On 3/23/2017 11:22 AM, John Sessoms wrote:

At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had
a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500
(I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape
photography.

He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for
an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local
community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people
sign up).

Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop,
and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my
advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the
biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in
the Windoze vs Apple debate).

I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance.

But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.

Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?

... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.




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Re: PESO - Annie

[Bob W-PDML]

On 23 Mar 2017, at 15:13, Bruce Walker 
> wrote:

Thank you, Dan.

Yeah, rather cringe-worthy to think about nipple piercings. And she is
symmetrical too, so whatever she endured for the first one she then
had to okay going through again.

In some ways the complaints levelled at millennials that they are all
snowflakes are quite unfair. She has a whole bunch of tattoos too ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QereR0CViMY






http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/158703220267

Taken with the 645z handheld at 1/125th sec shutter using the dfa645
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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[John Sessoms]

Open a savings account. Takes longer, but eventually you'll get there.

On 3/23/2017 2:21 PM, Alan C wrote:

$$$ if you have it. What if you don't?

Alan C

-Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 8:09 PM
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1- Good Solid Tripod (plan on spending about $600-750 for a good one.
Don't buy a cheap one because you'll just buy a better one after that, a
better one after that, and then the same $650-700 tripod in the end …)

2- Remote Release

3- Whatever lens suits the kind of landscape photography you want to do.
Same kind of logic applies to "which one" here as applies to the tripod.

4- Lightroom (standalone or CC stuff, up to you which to spend your
money on)

5- If you need a new computer, pick your poison between macOS and
Windoze. Buy something with a minimum of 8G RAM, 500G startup drive, and
a fast 2T external drive (USB3 or Thunderbolt, depending on what ya
like) for storing your photography data on. Also buy a separate drive to
run whatever backup system you prefer to use (macOS: run Time Machine)
and make sure the backup drive is the size of the startup drive and the
external data drive combined, or larger. However, if you're computer
system is recent enough and has enough RAM and cpu to support it, just
buy the external drive for storing your new photography data and run it
with Lightroom until you feel you need more performance.


G



On Mar 23, 2017, at 8:22 AM, John Sessoms  wrote:

At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had
a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500
(I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape
photography.

He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for
an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local
community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people
sign up).

Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop,
and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my
advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the
biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in
the Windoze vs Apple debate).

I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance.

But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.

Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?

... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.

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Re: 20th Anniversary PUG - Countdown

[Jan van Wijk]

On 3/21/2017 1:47 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
>G'day, all
>
>A good start to this special gallery - already 20 submissions, mainly
>from past list members.
>
>Don't leave it 'till the last minute. Please!!

Done

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Fw: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Ken Waller]

My suggestions were for after he got his equipment in order - DUH !


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Shoot alot.

Use a polarizer when needed.

Review landscape images for ideas.

If he's got the time/money attend local 1 day photo seminars on outdoor 
photography.
Ideally, a week long workshop where you eat, sleep and dream photography 
would allow him to get totally immersed along side other like minded 
individuals and learn from a pro.


Kenneth Waller
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- Original Message - 
From: "John Sessoms" 

Subject: Advice for a newly minted photographer



At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had
a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500
(I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape
photography.

He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for
an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local
community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people
sign up).

Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop,
and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my
advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the
biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in
the Windoze vs Apple debate).

I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance.

But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.

Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?

... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.




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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Ken Waller]

Shoot alot.

Use a polarizer when needed.

Review landscape images for ideas.

If he's got the time/money attend local 1 day photo seminars on outdoor 
photography.
Ideally, a week long workshop where you eat, sleep and dream photography 
would allow him to get totally immersed along side other like minded 
individuals and learn from a pro.


Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller

- Original Message - 
From: "John Sessoms" 

Subject: Advice for a newly minted photographer



At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had
a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500
(I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape
photography.

He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for
an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local
community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people
sign up).

Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop,
and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my
advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the
biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in
the Windoze vs Apple debate).

I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance.

But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.

Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?

... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.



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Re: A peaceful scene

[Ken Waller]

Alan, do you intend to apply a little unsharp mask ?  This image is in need 
of some sharpening.

Color looks reasonable.

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- Original Message - 
From: "Alan C" 

Subject: PESO: A peaceful scene


Victoria Regia water lilies at the Pamplemousse Botanical Gardens, 
Mauritius.

From a 1991 Kodachrome. Pentax S1a, Super Tak 55/2.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/33564241536/

I am making progress with my bellows negative & slide copying project. 
From time to time I will post shots of interest.
I am using the K7 with the very same Super Tak 55/2, RAW, AV, f8, ISO 400, 
blue skylight for illumination.
After Inverting, the Enhance/Adjust lighting/Levels/Auto seems to do a 
good enough job.


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Re: PESO - Annie

[Bruce Walker]

Thank you very much, Paul.

They are removable, just in case. :)


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Paul in MKE  wrote:
> Lovely light, lovely image.
>
> The piercings would seem to dictate the need for a very careful lover. :-)
>
> -p
>
>
>
> On 3/23/2017 10:12 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
>>
>> Thank you, Dan.
>>
>> Yeah, rather cringe-worthy to think about nipple piercings. And she is
>> symmetrical too, so whatever she endured for the first one she then
>> had to okay going through again.
>>
>> In some ways the complaints levelled at millennials that they are all
>> snowflakes are quite unfair. She has a whole bunch of tattoos too ...
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Daniel J. Matyola
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Very nice portrait!
>>>
>>> Looks like a painful piercing she has there.
>>>
>>> Dan Matyola
>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Bruce Walker 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Artist, stylist, photographer and model Annie McDayter in lingerie,
 taken in low ambient light in the studio. A smidge NSFW.

 http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/158703220267

 Taken with the 645z handheld at 1/125th sec shutter using the dfa645
 90mm/2.8 macro at f/5.6. ISO 6400.

 Enjoy! Or not. :)

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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[P. J. Alling]

Probably the best investment he could make for his first purchase given 
he already has the Nikon, and that the D5500 has one of the best imaging 
systems in it's class, a good lens, to replace the kit lens as the first 
order of business.


I don't think he could go wrong with the unstabilized version of the 
Tamron 17-50mm f2.8.  I've done a lot of research on them, and at the 
current price of about $300 it's probably the best bang for the buck in 
a "normal" zoom.   That lens compares pretty favorably for IQ to every 
other manufactures "pro" APS-C zoom in that range.


For example IIRC it's not quit as sharp in the center as the Pentax 
16-50 but sharper in the corners at all focal lengths and f stops, with 
less CA, which is pretty true when compared to the Sigma.


Build quality isn't quite up to the OEM lenses.  But I actually tied out 
the image stabilized version on a Nikon body, as my local camera store 
doesn't stock Pentax and it handles very nicely and easily matches the 
build quality of the Nikon body.


I don't know for sure if those lenses are still available new, the 
stabilized version isn't supposed to be nearly as good optically, though 
it should still blow the kit lens away.  At that point I'd probably go 
for the Sigma, but it's selling for maybe $100-$150 more than the 
Tamron, still a lot less expensive than the Nikon version though.



On 3/23/2017 11:22 AM, John Sessoms wrote:

At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had
a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500
(I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape
photography.

He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for
an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local
community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people
sign up).

Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop,
and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my
advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the
biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in
the Windoze vs Apple debate).

I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance.

But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.

Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?

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Re: PESO: A peaceful scene

[Gonz]

Very cool Alan!


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Alan C  wrote:
> Victoria Regia water lilies at the Pamplemousse Botanical Gardens,
> Mauritius.
> From a 1991 Kodachrome. Pentax S1a, Super Tak 55/2.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/33564241536/
>
> I am making progress with my bellows negative & slide copying project. From
> time to time I will post shots of interest.
> I am using the K7 with the very same Super Tak 55/2, RAW, AV, f8, ISO 400,
> blue skylight for illumination.
> After Inverting, the Enhance/Adjust lighting/Levels/Auto seems to do a good
> enough job.
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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

Take whatever you already and go take pictures. 

G

> On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Alan C  wrote:
> 
> $$$ if you have it. What if you don't?

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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Larry Colen]

John Sessoms wrote:


But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.

Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?

... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.


Spend as little as they can on gear for the first year with the 
understanding that almost everything they get in that first year will 
become their "emergency backup kit". Most people won't still be doing 
photography regularly after three or four months, and most people won't 
do it seriously enough that the going from budget to high end kit will 
make any difference in the technical quality of their photos. I tell 
people to just start off with a used camera off of craigslist.


For tripods, start off with benro/induro gear, but go straight to 
arca-swiss rather than manfrotto mounts. The top end induro ball head is 
less expensive than bottom end of the name brands and has a 3" ball 
rather than a 1".


While you're at it, get a monopod. I like my five section benro carbon 
fiber because I can carry it in my camera bag.  When you are hiking 
around, you can carry a monopod with ball head in a maglight holster on 
your belt. It's much easier than carrying a tripod, and can get you a 
lot of the performance.


It'll take him a year to find out what lenses he really needs.  He 
should go with what he has until he finds shots that he regularly cannot 
get without a wider, or faster, or autofocus lens. In the mean time, 
rent or borrow lenses.


Buy a copy of light, science and magic, and read it twice. On the second 
time through it, do at least some of the exercises.


Shoot raw, if he wants he can start with raw+jpeg and not process the 
raw files, but doing your own post processing of raw files probably 
makes several stops of performance difference (in challenging light), 
which is the equivalent to a much more expensive computer.




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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Alan C]

$$$ if you have it. What if you don't?

Alan C

-Original Message- 
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi

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1- Good Solid Tripod (plan on spending about $600-750 for a good one. Don't 
buy a cheap one because you'll just buy a better one after that, a better 
one after that, and then the same $650-700 tripod in the end …)


2- Remote Release

3- Whatever lens suits the kind of landscape photography you want to do. 
Same kind of logic applies to "which one" here as applies to the tripod.


4- Lightroom (standalone or CC stuff, up to you which to spend your money 
on)


5- If you need a new computer, pick your poison between macOS and Windoze. 
Buy something with a minimum of 8G RAM, 500G startup drive, and a fast 2T 
external drive (USB3 or Thunderbolt, depending on what ya like) for storing 
your photography data on. Also buy a separate drive to run whatever backup 
system you prefer to use (macOS: run Time Machine) and make sure the backup 
drive is the size of the startup drive and the external data drive combined, 
or larger. However, if you're computer system is recent enough and has 
enough RAM and cpu to support it, just buy the external drive for storing 
your new photography data and run it with Lightroom until you feel you need 
more performance.



G



On Mar 23, 2017, at 8:22 AM, John Sessoms  wrote:

At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had
a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500
(I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape
photography.

He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for
an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local
community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people
sign up).

Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop,
and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my
advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the
biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in
the Windoze vs Apple debate).

I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance.

But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.

Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?

... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.

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Re: Advice for a newly minted photographer

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

1- Good Solid Tripod (plan on spending about $600-750 for a good one. Don't buy 
a cheap one because you'll just buy a better one after that, a better one after 
that, and then the same $650-700 tripod in the end …)

2- Remote Release

3- Whatever lens suits the kind of landscape photography you want to do. Same 
kind of logic applies to "which one" here as applies to the tripod. 

4- Lightroom (standalone or CC stuff, up to you which to spend your money on)

5- If you need a new computer, pick your poison between macOS and Windoze. Buy 
something with a minimum of 8G RAM, 500G startup drive, and a fast 2T external 
drive (USB3 or Thunderbolt, depending on what ya like) for storing your 
photography data on. Also buy a separate drive to run whatever backup system 
you prefer to use (macOS: run Time Machine) and make sure the backup drive is 
the size of the startup drive and the external data drive combined, or larger. 
However, if you're computer system is recent enough and has enough RAM and cpu 
to support it, just buy the external drive for storing your new photography 
data and run it with Lightroom until you feel you need more performance. 


G


> On Mar 23, 2017, at 8:22 AM, John Sessoms  wrote:
> 
> At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had
> a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500
> (I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape
> photography.
> 
> He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for
> an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local
> community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people
> sign up).
> 
> Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop,
> and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my
> advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the
> biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in
> the Windoze vs Apple debate).
> 
> I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance.
> 
> But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
> question to the group wisdom.
> 
> Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
> would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?
> 
> ... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.
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Re: PESO - Annie

[Paul in MKE]

Lovely light, lovely image.

The piercings would seem to dictate the need for a very careful lover. :-)

-p


On 3/23/2017 10:12 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:

Thank you, Dan.

Yeah, rather cringe-worthy to think about nipple piercings. And she is
symmetrical too, so whatever she endured for the first one she then
had to okay going through again.

In some ways the complaints levelled at millennials that they are all
snowflakes are quite unfair. She has a whole bunch of tattoos too ...


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Daniel J. Matyola
 wrote:

Very nice portrait!

Looks like a painful piercing she has there.

Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Bruce Walker 
wrote:


Artist, stylist, photographer and model Annie McDayter in lingerie,
taken in low ambient light in the studio. A smidge NSFW.

http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/158703220267

Taken with the 645z handheld at 1/125th sec shutter using the dfa645
90mm/2.8 macro at f/5.6. ISO 6400.

Enjoy! Or not. :)

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Re: 20th Anniversary PUG - Countdown

[John Sessoms]

I don't have any useful advice for you, but your dilemma reminded me of
a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkqAEjZfVv8

I'm sort of down to looking through negatives now myself. Did I do
anything in 1997 that was good enough I want to allow others to see it?

I have a back-up plan in case I didn't. I've set myself a deadline this
weekend.

On 3/23/2017 10:28 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:

I'm down to two images from past pugs that I'd like to post, however I
cannot find the original negatives, and the original scanned files were
lost in a hard drive crash, which I hadn't bothered to back up, since I
had the original negatives...


On 3/21/2017 1:47 AM, Brian Walters wrote:

G'day, all

A good start to this special gallery - already 20 submissions, mainly
from past list members.

Don't leave it 'till the last minute. Please!!

Theme: 20th Anniversary Gallery

Full details here including suggested submission topics, link to
submission form and Submission Guidelines:

http://pug.komkon.org/general/20th-anniversary.html

Nom. closing date 31 March.


Cheers

Brian

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Advice for a newly minted photographer

[John Sessoms]

At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had
a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500
(I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape
photography.

He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for
an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local
community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people
sign up).

Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop,
and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my
advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the
biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in
the Windoze vs Apple debate).

I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance.

But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general
question to the group wisdom.

Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice
would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit?

... after I suggest a good, solid tripod.

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Re: PESO - Annie

[Bruce Walker]

Appreciated, Ken!


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Ken Waller  wrote:
> Very nice Bruce - well captured female body.
>
> It needs a little more room from the top of her head to the top edge IMO.
>
> Kenneth Waller
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>
> - Original Message - From: "Bruce Walker" 
> Subject: PESO - Annie
>
>
>
>> Artist, stylist, photographer and model Annie McDayter in lingerie,
>> taken in low ambient light in the studio. A smidge NSFW.
>>
>> http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/158703220267
>>
>> Taken with the 645z handheld at 1/125th sec shutter using the dfa645
>> 90mm/2.8 macro at f/5.6. ISO 6400.
>>
>> Enjoy! Or not. :)
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Re: PESO - Annie

[Bruce Walker]

Thanks, John. :)


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:45 PM, John Sessoms  wrote:
> Nice "smidge" though.
>
> On 3/22/2017 10:20 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
>>
>> Artist, stylist, photographer and model Annie McDayter in lingerie,
>> taken in low ambient light in the studio. A smidge NSFW.
>>
>> http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/158703220267
>>
>> Taken with the 645z handheld at 1/125th sec shutter using the dfa645
>> 90mm/2.8 macro at f/5.6. ISO 6400.
>>
>> Enjoy! Or not. :)
>>
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Re: PESO - Annie

[Bruce Walker]

Thank you, Dan.

Yeah, rather cringe-worthy to think about nipple piercings. And she is
symmetrical too, so whatever she endured for the first one she then
had to okay going through again.

In some ways the complaints levelled at millennials that they are all
snowflakes are quite unfair. She has a whole bunch of tattoos too ...


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Daniel J. Matyola
 wrote:
> Very nice portrait!
>
> Looks like a painful piercing she has there.
>
> Dan Matyola
> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Bruce Walker 
> wrote:
>
>> Artist, stylist, photographer and model Annie McDayter in lingerie,
>> taken in low ambient light in the studio. A smidge NSFW.
>>
>> http://off-axis.brucemwalker.com/image/158703220267
>>
>> Taken with the 645z handheld at 1/125th sec shutter using the dfa645
>> 90mm/2.8 macro at f/5.6. ISO 6400.
>>
>> Enjoy! Or not. :)
>>
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Re: 20th Anniversary PUG - Countdown

[P. J. Alling]

I'm down to two images from past pugs that I'd like to post, however I 
cannot find the original negatives, and the original scanned files were 
lost in a hard drive crash, which I hadn't bothered to back up, since I 
had the original negatives...



On 3/21/2017 1:47 AM, Brian Walters wrote:

G'day, all

A good start to this special gallery - already 20 submissions, mainly
from past list members.

Don't leave it 'till the last minute. Please!!

Theme: 20th Anniversary Gallery

Full details here including suggested submission topics, link to
submission form and Submission Guidelines:

http://pug.komkon.org/general/20th-anniversary.html

Nom. closing date 31 March.


Cheers

Brian

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PESO: A peaceful scene

[Alan C]

Victoria Regia water lilies at the Pamplemousse Botanical Gardens, 
Mauritius.

From a 1991 Kodachrome. Pentax S1a, Super Tak 55/2.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/33564241536/

I am making progress with my bellows negative & slide copying project. From 
time to time I will post shots of interest.
I am using the K7 with the very same Super Tak 55/2, RAW, AV, f8, ISO 400, 
blue skylight for illumination.
After Inverting, the Enhance/Adjust lighting/Levels/Auto seems to do a good 
enough job.


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GESO: Fire Aftermath

[David Mann]

Last week I finally got out on the bike to check out some of the areas where 
the Port Hills fires burned.  I took a few phone pics while I was out there.  
I'm itching to get up onto the hills but access is still restricted.

http://gallery.multi.net.nz/gallery/61/#geso

The first couple of shots were taken at the end of Hoon Hay Valley Rd which is 
a rural area surrounded by suburbs, not far from my house.  The rest were on 
Early Valley Rd which is where one of the fires started.  I'd also gone up 
Kennedys Bush Rd but didn't stop to take photos.  The fire came within 100 
metres of the houses there, some of which are less than a year old!

Cheers,
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