Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

Quotations list might be a good place to start. "The annual tradition: https://www.robertstech.com/quote.htm; On 3/13/2020 17:52:37, P. J. Alling wrote: Welcome to the list.  I was going to list a bunch of denizens, and warnings about them, but you can go back and read the archives, they're

Re: GESO: Maui Waterfalls

Nice, they look inviting. With those high shutter speeds you are the anti Mark when it comes to waterfalls On March 13, 2020 12:21:54 PM PDT, "Daniel J. Matyola" wrote: >A collection of some of the appealing waterfalls of East Maui. along >the >infamous Road to Hana. >

Re: GESO: Maui Waterfalls

Nice. Longer exposures (on the order of a second) would make them nicer still. On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:21:54 -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > A collection of some of the appealing waterfalls of East Maui. along the > infamous Road to Hana. > >

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

welcome, Olga! glad to have another gal on board. Both of those shots are nice.. showing to me, at least, a lot of personality of the subject. I'd guess, though, that the photo of Kate was taken without her knowledge at that moment and when you shot the photo of Larry, with that big grin on his

Re: New bicycle

Good stuff - you'll love it! > On 13 Mar 2020, at 19:25, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Rather than discuss the theft and the gone bike, I'd rather focus on the new > bike and the joy of riding, the wonderful folks I know from the bicycling > world. It's pretty amazing how great these folks are.

Re: Tres Pesos: Kitchen remodel update

11 minutes for white rice*, 30 minutes for brown, those are my timings. I'd say your white rice was probably overcooked. *Yoko Ono taught me to make rice, so this is in fact her timing. I heard her in a radio interview when i was a teenager, and I have cooked white rice her way ever since. >

Re: Mac questions, system setup

On 2020-03-13 15:21, Larry Colen wrote: I currently have two computer systems that I can use for photo processing. My “at home” system is an early 2009 mac pro and my laptop is a mid 2014 macbook pro. [...] I’m very tempted to try to set up the MBP as my main processing computer and the pro

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

Hey, I resemble that remark... On 3/13/2020 5:54 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mar 13, 2020, at 2:52 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Welcome to the list. I was going to list a bunch of denizens, and warnings about them, but you can go back and read the archives, they're funnier than I am, well most of

Re: display questions

At this point I think IPS is the best bang for the buck, however for photo processing, and I guess movies too, you have to be careful to check on how much of the color gamut it "supports" is actually supported. On 3/13/2020 3:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: I’m one of those people who never really

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

There, see. On 3/13/2020 3:57 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Steve Cottrell wrote: On 13/3/20, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: And I absolutely second what Cotty wrote you in his message - pictures tell stories. So, I am all ears :-). Mark Roberts is obviously incommunicado as

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 2:52 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > Welcome to the list. I was going to list a bunch of denizens, and warnings > about them, but you can go back and read the archives, they're funnier than I > am, well most of the time anyway. Maybe not funnier looking. Maybe. --

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

Welcome to the list.  I was going to list a bunch of denizens, and warnings about them, but you can go back and read the archives, they're funnier than I am, well most of the time anyway. On 3/13/2020 12:58 AM, Olga Iona Custer wrote: Hello! I am new to the list, new to Pentax, new to digital

Mac questions, system setup

I currently have two computer systems that I can use for photo processing. My “at home” system is an early 2009 mac pro and my laptop is a mid 2014 macbook pro. The mac pro has a couple of advantages, the big one is that I can stuff an incredible amount of storage into it. It also is

Re: New bicycle

Thank you! To my eye, it is a work of art for sure! The frame itself when it arrived impressed me as nothing less than a carbon fibre sculpture … absolutely beautiful, and so incredibly light (frame and forks combined is just 5 lbs!) you can't believe that it can take the pounding that

Re: New bicycle

glad you have something to ease the pain of the loss of the old bike. Enjoy! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:26 PM Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Rather than discuss the theft and the gone bike, I'd rather

Re: New bicycle

Wow! Looks like a work of art... Happy riding : ) Bulent - http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

Steve Cottrell wrote: >On 13/3/20, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>And I absolutely second what Cotty wrote you in his message - pictures tell >>stories. So, I am all ears :-). > >Mark Roberts is obviously incommunicado as otherwise he would, at this point, >have told you not to

Re: Happiness is

On 3/13/2020 11:11 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 13/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: Finding a camera bag you had forgotten you owned, and finding half a dozen lenses in it you had also forgotten you owned. Yup, it's true. You can never have too many lenses. Amazing - guess what T

New bicycle

Rather than discuss the theft and the gone bike, I'd rather focus on the new bike and the joy of riding, the wonderful folks I know from the bicycling world. It's pretty amazing how great these folks are. As I mentioned in my last note on this topic, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, was build day

display questions

I’m one of those people who never really invested in a TV because I was never home to watch it. I suspect that a lot of folks are in a situation to justify getting a bigger monitor because we can’t really go out at night. Until fairly recently, the choice was IPS or TN, with IPS being the

GESO: Maui Waterfalls

A collection of some of the appealing waterfalls of East Maui. along the infamous Road to Hana. http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2020/3/13/maui-waterfalls K-5 IIs, smc DA 18-135 Comments and criticism are invited and appreciated. Dan Matyola

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 1:45 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 12/3/20, Olga Iona Custer, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> I am new to the list, new to Pentax, new to digital photography, and new >> to photography. > > Welcome Olga. There re some wise voices on this list - mine is not one of

Re: Happiness is

Tangentially, this came through my email at just about the same time: ran across this on a post about comments found in code long long ago; /* in a galaxy far far away */ On March 13, 2020 10:34:22 AM PDT, Steve Cottrell wrote: >On 13/3/20, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>The

Re: Happiness is

On 13/3/20, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: >The thought of T-shorts is disturbing enough oh fart T SHIRT :-) Yes, that one. Lenses. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) | -- _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Happiness is

May the Farce be with you. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 1:12 PM Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 13/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Finding a camera bag you had forgotten you owned, and finding

Re: Happiness is

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 10:11 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 13/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> Finding a camera bag you had forgotten you owned, and finding half a >> dozen lenses in it you had also forgotten you owned. >> Yup, it's true. You can never have too many lenses. > >

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 13/3/20, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> I've got something like 700k frames in my lightroom catalog, though many >> of them are bracketing, there are about fifty photos in the portfolio I >> use to show off photos.

Re: Happiness is

On 13/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: >Finding a camera bag you had forgotten you owned, and finding half a >dozen lenses in it you had also forgotten you owned. >Yup, it's true. You can never have too many lenses. Amazing - guess what T short I am wearing today for the first time in

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

On 13/3/20, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: >And I absolutely second what Cotty wrote you in his message - pictures tell >stories. So, I am all ears :-). Mark Roberts is obviously incommunicado as otherwise he would, at this point, have told you not to listen to a word I say :-) --

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

On 13/3/20, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: >I've got something like 700k frames in my lightroom catalog, though many >of them are bracketing, there are about fifty photos in the portfolio I >use to show off photos. That's about one percent of one percent, so it >sounds like Cotty is a

Happiness is

Finding a camera bag you had forgotten you owned, and finding half a dozen lenses in it you had also forgotten you owned. Yup, it's true. You can never have too many lenses. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

Welcome! Nice pics. You have a good eye. Paul > On Mar 13, 2020, at 12:57 PM, John wrote: > > Welcome. > > On 3/13/2020 00:58:28, Olga Iona Custer wrote: >> Hello! >> I am new to the list, new to Pentax, new to digital photography, and new to >> photography. >> I am still discovering the

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

Welcome. On 3/13/2020 00:58:28, Olga Iona Custer wrote: Hello! I am new to the list, new to Pentax, new to digital photography, and new to photography. I am still discovering the features of my newly acquired K-5 (thanks so much, Boris!) after playing with Larry’s K-3 (thanks, Larry, for

Re: Exposure techniques

We did something similar to that in school. Shooting film (medium format T-Max 100). Set up a plain white foam ball. Had to have shots with it black on one side, white on the other (without blowing the highlights); shots with it grey on one side; shots with a hard transition, shots with a

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 1:45 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 12/3/20, Olga Iona Custer, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> I am new to the list, new to Pentax, new to digital photography, and new >> to photography. > > Welcome Olga. There re some wise voices on this list - mine is not one of >

Re: Exposure techniques

On 3/12/2020 12:49:01, l...@red4est.com wrote: On March 12, 2020 9:12:31 AM PDT, John wrote: If you need an exact exposure, use a hand held meter. Most of the time it's not critical. I agree, most of the time it's not critical, but when it is, why carry around a single meter when I

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

On 3/13/2020 3:09 AM, Bulent Celasun wrote: Welcome Olga, Looking at your two portraits, I must say you certainly look far more experienced than you declared. That must be a good sign of talent. Or.. wait for it . . . . . . She must have a good camera. HAR!! Really good

Re: PESO x4: More butterflies

Beautiful images and excellent portrayals of the process. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:56 AM David Mann wrote: > We had two more monarch butterflies hatch today. > > The first two photos are of the

Re: Borya in Californya

Godfrey, I am reasonably glad (I couldn't be really glad, because I wish you did not have to through all this) that in terms of insurance the things with your bicycle are looking up. I also hope that this whole corona virus business, or actually total lack thereof, subsides and travel will return

Re: Exposure techniques

Well, here is my two centavos. To begin with, my camera, being mirrorless has live histogram feature. It is necessary to look up on the internet the specific settings for the JPEG engine, because as I gather, the histogram is based on what JPEG engine computes and not on what the sensor sees.

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

Welcome. Olga, given that we share the same language (not the one I am using to write this message), I would gladly share with you some of my digital library. Specifically, on subject of photographic composition. And I absolutely second what Cotty wrote you in his message - pictures tell

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

Welcome Olga, Looking at your two portraits, I must say you certainly look far more experienced than you declared. That must be a good sign of talent. Bulent - http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

On 12/3/20, Olga Iona Custer, discombobulated, unleashed: >I am new to the list, new to Pentax, new to digital photography, and new >to photography. Welcome Olga. There re some wise voices on this list - mine is not one of them. But that pic of Larry is really good - it's captured an

PESO x4: More butterflies

We had two more monarch butterflies hatch today. The first two photos are of the same chrysalis about to hatch, then there's one each of the two hatchlings. The first photo is the 10,000th frame from my K10D :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1072/#peso

Re: Exposure techniques

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 12:00 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > I haven’t wasted time doing this, but I know from a half century of > experience that by the time I had rendered all they would be identical. I’d say that most of the time the final result would be the same. I know that uncorrected

Re: PESOs (4) - Flowers, On My Way to Work

A nice taste of spring. Paul > On Mar 12, 2020, at 9:34 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > > Another installment in my series, taken this past week. > > https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/organize/PESOs-2017/On-My-Way-To-Work/First-Flowers-2020 > > (K-5, DA 40/2.8 Ltd.) > > Comments always appreciated! >

Re: Exposure techniques

I haven’t wasted time doing this, but I know from a half century of experience that by the time I had rendered all they would be identical. Paul > On Mar 12, 2020, at 11:24 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > I’m very curious if anyone has done any side by side tests. Set up a scene, > set the

Re: New member's intro - photographing photographers

> On Mar 12, 2020, at 9:58 PM, Olga Iona Custer wrote: > > Hello! > I am new to the list, new to Pentax, new to digital photography, and new to > photography. Welcome Olga, I should probably apologize in advance for subjecting you to this crew. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- PDML