Re: World's worst photo tutorial
On 10/31/2015 4:49 PM, John wrote: On 10/31/2015 4:01 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 10/30/2015 9:41 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: On 10/30/2015 7:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 10/30/2015 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Jack Davis wrote: From: "Mark Roberts"If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I said IF!) then this page... won't help much: http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r Painfully inept work! Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a joke at first. It looks like some kind of millennial vanity press. If you don't know how to make a Blurb book of your own, you can pay these guys to do it for you. Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". Indeed. I hadn't bothered looking at the rest of the site but you appear to have got the gist of it. Well crap, I can make my own press credentials, I was forced to for a paper I worked for at one time. No one ever questioned them. But consider... would someone SO CLUELESS they can't even figure out how to make a Blurb book for themselves be able to make them? Ah, I see now! It's a Dunning-Kruger-based marketing strategy! Could be. But is marketing the result of Dunning-Kruger or are Dunning-Kruger individuals the target market segment? I get the feeling that Dunning-Kruger couldn't be being used as a marketing strategy, because someone here seems to realize that they don't have any skills. However it does seem to be a particularly "small con" Diploma mill. Press credentials not issued by the venue you're attempting to photograph in are particularly useless even if issued by a legitimate news organization. -- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
On 11/1/2015 12:02 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: On 10/31/2015 4:49 PM, John wrote: On 10/31/2015 4:01 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 10/30/2015 9:41 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: On 10/30/2015 7:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 10/30/2015 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Jack Davis wrote: From: "Mark Roberts"If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I said IF!) then this page... won't help much: http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r Painfully inept work! Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a joke at first. It looks like some kind of millennial vanity press. If you don't know how to make a Blurb book of your own, you can pay these guys to do it for you. Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". Indeed. I hadn't bothered looking at the rest of the site but you appear to have got the gist of it. Well crap, I can make my own press credentials, I was forced to for a paper I worked for at one time. No one ever questioned them. But consider... would someone SO CLUELESS they can't even figure out how to make a Blurb book for themselves be able to make them? Ah, I see now! It's a Dunning-Kruger-based marketing strategy! Could be. But is marketing the result of Dunning-Kruger or are Dunning-Kruger individuals the target market segment? I get the feeling that Dunning-Kruger couldn't be being used as a marketing strategy, because someone here seems to realize that they don't have any skills. However it does seem to be a particularly "small con" Diploma mill. Press credentials not issued by the venue you're attempting to photograph in are particularly useless even if issued by a legitimate news organization. Not everyone who wants to be a "photojournalist" can actually find a J-O-B with a real newspaper. These pseudo-press organization "credentials" are for the purchaser to use to try to finagle credentials from a venue. Dunning-Kruger comes into play because they're aimed at those on the margins whose skills are too lame to DIY them. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
Larry Colen wrote: >Mark Roberts wrote: >> Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> >>> I LOVE that cartoon! >> >>> http://tinyurl.com/phae39r >> >> It's a classic, eh? It's a favorite among scientists, too. >> >> BTW, that "tutorial" bugged me so much I blogged about it: >> http://www.robertstech.com/blog/?p=1789 > >You didn't even comment that everything he says to do in photoshop can >be done in lightroom. Good point. I'll add that. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
On 31 Oct 2015, at 01:46, P.J. Allingwrote: > >> On 10/30/2015 7:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> John wrote: >> [...] >>> >>> Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". >> Indeed. I hadn't bothered looking at the rest of the site but you >> appear to have got the gist of it. > > Well crap, I can make my own press credentials, I was forced to for a paper I > worked for at one time. No one ever questioned them. > Why stick at a press card? Go the whole hog and be an officer of the law. When I was in Bucharest a few years ago someone tried to arrest me and confiscate my cameras, using a plastic Sheriff badge as credentials. B -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
That whole badge thing is a bit hard to swing in any civilized place. I have been mistaken for a Cop once or twice, but only once to my distinct advantage. On 10/31/2015 4:36 AM, Bob W-PDML wrote: On 31 Oct 2015, at 01:46, P.J. Allingwrote: On 10/30/2015 7:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: [...] Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". Indeed. I hadn't bothered looking at the rest of the site but you appear to have got the gist of it. Well crap, I can make my own press credentials, I was forced to for a paper I worked for at one time. No one ever questioned them. Why stick at a press card? Go the whole hog and be an officer of the law. When I was in Bucharest a few years ago someone tried to arrest me and confiscate my cameras, using a plastic Sheriff badge as credentials. B -- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
On 10/30/2015 9:41 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: On 10/30/2015 7:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 10/30/2015 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Jack Davis wrote: From: "Mark Roberts"If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I said IF!) then this page... won't help much: http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r Painfully inept work! Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a joke at first. It looks like some kind of millennial vanity press. If you don't know how to make a Blurb book of your own, you can pay these guys to do it for you. Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". Indeed. I hadn't bothered looking at the rest of the site but you appear to have got the gist of it. Well crap, I can make my own press credentials, I was forced to for a paper I worked for at one time. No one ever questioned them. But consider... would someone SO CLUELESS they can't even figure out how to make a Blurb book for themselves be able to make them? -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
On 10/31/2015 4:01 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 10/30/2015 9:41 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: On 10/30/2015 7:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 10/30/2015 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Jack Davis wrote: From: "Mark Roberts"If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I said IF!) then this page... won't help much: http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r Painfully inept work! Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a joke at first. It looks like some kind of millennial vanity press. If you don't know how to make a Blurb book of your own, you can pay these guys to do it for you. Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". Indeed. I hadn't bothered looking at the rest of the site but you appear to have got the gist of it. Well crap, I can make my own press credentials, I was forced to for a paper I worked for at one time. No one ever questioned them. But consider... would someone SO CLUELESS they can't even figure out how to make a Blurb book for themselves be able to make them? Ah, I see now! It's a Dunning-Kruger-based marketing strategy! Could be. But is marketing the result of Dunning-Kruger or are Dunning-Kruger individuals the target market segment? -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
John wrote: >On 10/30/2015 9:41 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: >> On 10/30/2015 7:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>> John wrote: >>> On 10/30/2015 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Jack Davis wrote: > >> From: "Mark Roberts">> >> If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I >> said IF!) then this page... won't help much: >> http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique >> >> Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my >> favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker >> cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r >> >> Painfully inept work! > Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a > joke at first. It looks like some kind of millennial vanity press. If you don't know how to make a Blurb book of your own, you can pay these guys to do it for you. Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". >>> Indeed. I hadn't bothered looking at the rest of the site but you >>> appear to have got the gist of it. >> >> Well crap, I can make my own press credentials, I was forced to for a >> paper I worked for at one time. No one ever questioned them. > >But consider... would someone SO CLUELESS they can't even figure out how >to make a Blurb book for themselves be able to make them? Ah, I see now! It's a Dunning-Kruger-based marketing strategy! -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
On 10/30/2015 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Jack Davis wrote: From: "Mark Roberts"If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I said IF!) then this page... won't help much: http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r Painfully inept work! Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a joke at first. It looks like some kind of millennial vanity press. If you don't know how to make a Blurb book of your own, you can pay these guys to do it for you. Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
On 10/30/2015 1:55 PM, Jack Davis wrote: Painfully inept work! Proof positive that if mommy will pay for your internet connection, you can put fucked up crap on the internet. J - Original Message - From: "Mark Roberts"To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 11:55:43 AM Subject: World's worst photo tutorial If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I said IF!) then this page... won't help much: http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015, at 09:39 AM, John wrote: > On 10/30/2015 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Jack Davis wrote: > > > >> From: "Mark Roberts"> >> > >> If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I > >> said IF!) then this page... won't help much: > >> http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique > >> > >> Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my > >> favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker > >> cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r > >> > >> Painfully inept work! > > > > Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a > > joke at first. > > > > > > It looks like some kind of millennial vanity press. If you don't know > how to make a Blurb book of your own, you can pay these guys to do it > for you. > > Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". Bummer, it's $110 if you live in Australia. At first I thought that might be due to the exchange rate but the $110 is US dollars. Downunder discrimination lives!! Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
Mark Roberts wrote: >my favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker >cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r Step 6 is a close second: "dogde" and burn I know spelling flames are a bit lame, but this isn't an email or usenet post, it's a "tutorial" (in the loosest sense of the word) that's posted on a web site and should have been proofread or at least spellchecked first. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
I LOVE that cartoon! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Mark Robertswrote: > If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I > said IF!) then this page... won't help much: > http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique > > Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my > favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker > cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
That was on my door when I was a graduate student. On 10/30/2015 10:39 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I LOVE that cartoon! http://tinyurl.com/phae39r It's a classic, eh? It's a favorite among scientists, too. BTW, that "tutorial" bugged me so much I blogged about it: http://www.robertstech.com/blog/?p=1789 -- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
On 10/30/2015 7:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 10/30/2015 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Jack Davis wrote: From: "Mark Roberts"If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I said IF!) then this page... won't help much: http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r Painfully inept work! Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a joke at first. It looks like some kind of millennial vanity press. If you don't know how to make a Blurb book of your own, you can pay these guys to do it for you. Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". Indeed. I hadn't bothered looking at the rest of the site but you appear to have got the gist of it. Well crap, I can make my own press credentials, I was forced to for a paper I worked for at one time. No one ever questioned them. -- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >I LOVE that cartoon! >http://tinyurl.com/phae39r It's a classic, eh? It's a favorite among scientists, too. BTW, that "tutorial" bugged me so much I blogged about it: http://www.robertstech.com/blog/?p=1789 -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
Mark Roberts wrote: Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I LOVE that cartoon! http://tinyurl.com/phae39r It's a classic, eh? It's a favorite among scientists, too. BTW, that "tutorial" bugged me so much I blogged about it: http://www.robertstech.com/blog/?p=1789 You didn't even comment that everything he says to do in photoshop can be done in lightroom. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
John wrote: >On 10/30/2015 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> Jack Davis wrote: >> >>> From: "Mark Roberts">>> >>> If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I >>> said IF!) then this page... won't help much: >>> http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique >>> >>> Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my >>> favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker >>> cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r >>> >>> Painfully inept work! >> >> Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a >> joke at first. > >It looks like some kind of millennial vanity press. If you don't know >how to make a Blurb book of your own, you can pay these guys to do it >for you. > >Also, send them $99 & they'll send you "Press Credentials". Indeed. I hadn't bothered looking at the rest of the site but you appear to have got the gist of it. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
Painfully inept work! J - Original Message - From: "Mark Roberts"To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 11:55:43 AM Subject: World's worst photo tutorial If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I said IF!) then this page... won't help much: http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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. -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
> On 30 October 2015 at 18:55 Mark Robertswrote: > > > If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I > said IF!) then this page... won't help much: > http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique > > Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my > favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker > cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r > You buy the double pro version of Photoshop - you know; the one where the colour slider goes up to 11. -- 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: World's worst photo tutorial
Jack Davis wrote: >From: "Mark Roberts"> >If you want to learn how to do over-the-top HDR nature photos (hey, I >said IF!) then this page... won't help much: >http://camerapixo.com/resources/10-step-processing-technique > >Every step is so vague and general that it tells you nothing, but my >favorite one is step 9, which reminds me of this old New Yorker >cartoon: http://tinyurl.com/phae39r > >Painfully inept work! Someone posted a link to it on Facebook. I literally thought it was a joke at first. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.