On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On 11-08-15 3:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> On Aug 15, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >>> On 11-08-15 1:10 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >>>> For the past two years there's been a weekly dance in SF called The Rent >>>> Party. Lindy hop in one room, Blues in another. For various reasons, they >>>> decided to close up shop and last night was their final night, with two >>>> live bands. >>>> >>>> The lindy room had a couple of lights in the middle of the room aimed at >>>> the floor, but the musicians were primarily illuminated by a couple of >>>> lights aimed at the wall behind them. The blues room was light by four >>>> clamp lights, with red bulbs bounced off the walls. Two of which were >>>> behind the musicians. >>>> >>>> I also didn't want to use flash, because it's rather obnoxious when you're >>>> dancing in a dark room to have a strobe go off in your face. So, all in >>>> all, the lighting was quite challenging. There were a few shots where I >>>> just took the bad lighting and tried to see what I could do with it, >>>> pushing it even further over the edge in post processing. >>>> >>>> Not everything is quite as sharp as I'd like, but I think I got some fun >>>> shots out of it: >>>> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627311775827/ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >>> TMP >> Too Many Photos? > > Got it in one. :)
That's an ongoing struggle of mine. > > Actually, it's only partly TMP: I am irked by the poor behaviour of the > Flickriver presentation when the number of shots is large. I try to scroll > and the Javascript starts its clumsy machinations -- scrolling drunkenly back > and forth while attempting to preload a bunch of large images. Yeah, I point to the page, scroll to the bottom, Lather, Rinse, Repeat a few times while doing other stuff, once the gallery is loaded, then I look. > > I find I'm happier with the trad grid thumbnail layout these days. I can > browse the thumbs and choose a couple to inspect. If I like what I see I will > walk through more of the gallery. Flickriver (and all the other > "infinite-list" brethren) doesn't give you that option. Either you wait for > all the fullsize images to load or you get nothing. If the flickr grid were the whole image scaled down to 120 pixels, that would be my preference, but they do some arbitrary 100 pixel square crop, which is inevitably bad. I will point out that if you prefer the flickr interface (and you may be the only person on the planet that does) and don't want to do something else while it preloads, you can always easily tweak the url > > Rant over -- sorry. If the PDML weren't filled with cranky curmudgeons always kvetching about something, I wouldn't feel nearly so much at home. > > I do like LRC24079, :-) That was a case of blown focus. EXIF doesn't say whether it was manual or auto focus, but either my eye, or the camera picked the tuning keys to adjust on, leaving the bass player out of focus. Just as I was about to get rid of that photo, I saw this crop in it, and decided I liked it. > LRC24113 and LRC24175. Thanks. > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
