Hi Vic
I had the pleasure to have a look at your paintings and some other of your
sides too.
You present some very good photos here, my compliments.
On the other side you have some really nice Pentax equipment which helps a
lot ;-)
greetings
Markus
-Original Message-
From: Vic
Shamelessly manipulated to accentuate nature's beauty.
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/peso/vacation/IMGP9536.html
Tell me when to stop.
Please go on. This one reminds of Fjord Scenic Ride back in good old 2004...
Shame on you, Bill Robb, you shameless manipulator ;-).
Well
On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:56 PM, Boris Liberman wrote:
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/38q.htm
Worth a big print. Probably worth re-shooting with film or even
with medium format for better yet definition of texture and wider
tonal range.
Thanks Boris.
I was going for a
On 25/9/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
I feel an ill wind blowing. I just hope this thread isn't included in
my promise not to respond to the idiotic threads regarding lens
compatibility any longer or I'll owe Cotty a pint.
VERDICT, oops I mean: Verdict - -
One pint and
On 25/9/05, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed:
I found it even more difficult than when normally photographing people
because some of the subjects were in a very vulnerable condition. One
or two others are maybe better but I feel that the subjects are too
traumatic for me to feel
On 26/9/05, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed:
And don't
even think about using IS for this type of photography it won't help.
Hi Rob, I'd be interested to read your further thoughts on this. Please
explain?
Cheers,
Cotty
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On 25/9/05, Charles Robinson, discombobulated, unleashed:
In any case, I'll just toss some of this junk out there. People will
think it's OK or think that it stinks. I've seen so many amazing
photos from this list in the past months that I'm almost afraid to
share, but that's what a list
I live in a rather odd neighborhood. It's fairly rural and quite eclectic.
Above Casa Belinkoff is almost 80,000 acres of park land and open space,
down the hill are homes worth more than 500,000. Deer and coyote and fox
abound. There's a small, old farm a short walk to the west, and some cute
On 25/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed:
I think Cotty said he used a IR remote for trying to capture his barn owl.
Hmm, or maybe it was a timed remote, but I don't think so.
My existing barn owl shots were done normally. I wanted to try and get a
shot of the owl diving onto
On 25/9/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
I just finished reading On Being A Photographer by David Hurn and
Bill Jay, published by Lenswork (http://www.lenswork.com). This is by
far and away one of the most useful reads on the subject of
Photography I've made in the past
On 25/9/05, Mark Erickson, discombobulated, unleashed:
OK, this is off-topic and probably counter-productive, but here goes. I was
skimming some of the list traffic over the last few digests and some of the
wording in some of the posts struck me as very interesting. Something
called me to pull
On 26 Sep 2005 at 8:09, Cotty wrote:
Hi Rob, I'd be interested to read your further thoughts on this. Please
explain?
IS simply can't beat a fast shutter speed for stage photography, particularly
the high energy stuff. Though it might help if shooting a seated french horn
player :-)
Rob
On 26/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed:
Fanyastic picture Frank
Gotta love Dave. Shall we club together and buy him a new keyboard?
Cheers,
Cotty
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||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com
_
I wish it was this simple, I've had it out and in 6 times to be sure.;-)
Everything looks fine, I've had this issue since new.
It's only off enough to cause problems with wide apertures, stop
down a bit and the DOF hides the problem.
I was convinced it was my eyes for a while but I just ran a roll
On 25/9/05, Juan Buhler, discombobulated, unleashed:
This guy actually looked scary, and wasn't intimidated by me not
showing fear and walking up to him:
http://photoblog.jbuhler.com/index.php?showimage=247
istD, FA16-45 at 16mm
Thanks for looking,
Marvellous shot!
Cheers,
Cotty
In neither one do the highlights look blown to me.
Interesting, to say the least :-)
Dave
On 9/26/05, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I live in a rather odd neighborhood. It's fairly rural and quite eclectic.
Above Casa Belinkoff is almost 80,000 acres of park land and open space,
Does fany mean the same thing where Dave is than it does here?
cheeky schoolboy grin
Dave
On 9/26/05, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed:
Fanyastic picture Frank
Gotta love Dave. Shall we club together and buy him a new keyboard?
On 26/9/05, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed:
IS simply can't beat a fast shutter speed for stage photography,
particularly
the high energy stuff. Though it might help if shooting a seated french horn
player :-)
In general I would agree. However, if one wanted a slower shutter speed
to
Sorry, I replied to the wrong post before. :-(
Back to bed now. yawn
I wish it was this simple, I've had it out and in 6 times to be sure.;-)
Everything looks fine, I've had this issue since new.
It's only off enough to cause problems with wide apertures, stop
down a bit and the DOF hides the
On 26 Sep 2005 at 8:35, Cotty wrote:
In general I would agree. However, if one wanted a slower shutter speed
to enable the activity on the stage to become motion-blurred, without the
actual (static) stage and scenery to become blurred, and no tripod.
But that's a red herring. Of course
Does anyone know the technical reason that the sun renders as an ellipse when
shot close to the horizon?
TIA.
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel +61-2-9554-4110
UTC(GMT) +10 Hours
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/
Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since
I would really like to have this as 120X90 on canvas ;-)
i just love BW minimalizm shots
Michael
On 9/26/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:56 PM, Boris Liberman wrote:
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/38q.htm
Worth a big print.
Grrr - wonderful shot Bill - no need to stop!
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
- Original Message -
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax Discuss pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 2:24 PM
Subject: Peso: Pictures from a vacation VI
Shamelessly
Good question. I Google'ed it and came up with this:
I did not mention refraction in the explanation I just gave.
Refraction lifts up the image of a celestial object near the horizon,
and the more the closer the object is to the horizon. Refraction can
only have a systematic effect in the
Has anyone used or owned a Manfrotto 555B Levelling Center Column for the new
055 series tripods? I'm looking at purchasing one for pano use and I'd like to
gather thoughts on its use good and bad.
It doesn't look like it slides right out of the tripod too easily and I'd
prefer to be able to
I do now:
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/sunflat.htm
Cheers,
David
Rob Studdert wrote:
Does anyone know the technical reason that the sun renders as an ellipse when
shot close to the horizon?
TIA.
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel +61-2-9554-4110
UTC(GMT) +10 Hours
[EMAIL
Refraction. You are looking at the sun throught the outskirts of a spherical
lens, and to complicate things further the lens has a graded index because of
gradients in pressure and humitity. Just before you see the sun set it is
actually already behind the horizon but the lens made by the
Rob Studdert wrote on 26.09.05 9:46:
Does anyone know the technical reason that the sun renders as an ellipse when
shot close to the horizon?
Maybe it is squished because it bounced from earth surface? ;-)
--
Balance is the ultimate good...
Best Regards
Sylwek
This one time, at band camp, Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need faster glass, not a 20d. The 20d's AF is problematic in light
that low (As is a D70's). But a stop or two of ectra speed would save
you (As would shooting at 3200). An 85 f/1.4 at 3200 would get you 3
stops more speed
http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/mantid2.jpg
Just grabbed one of these (Snake Mantid, Kongobatha diademata) from the
garden and did some close-up shooting indoors. QD conversion, could be
better but it does the job.
Let me know what you think. It's been the first bit of real shooting
I've
William Robb wrote:
My wife likes this one, I'm not as sure about it.
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/peso/vacation/IMGP9489.html
Shot with the FA50/1.4, at f/8, 1/13 second.
William Robb
I like it too, Bill!
1/13 sec? Those odd times are an artifact of the digital age, I
In a message dated 9/25/2005 9:48:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I love Painter and have used it for a few years. It's a spectacular
program in the hands of a true fine artist but it is also incredibly
good for us photographers who are looking to take their photographs
In a message dated 9/25/2005 11:26:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This guy actually looked scary, and wasn't intimidated by me not
showing fear and walking up to him:
http://photoblog.jbuhler.com/index.php?showimage=247
istD, FA16-45 at 16mm
Thanks for looking,
j
Very good stuff for the most part. A little soft here and there, but
some very nice comositions with good exposure control. The band should
be thrilled with these. My favorite is probaby 2700, although it was a
close call. Also like the overheads that show the band and the first
couple of rows
G'day Bruce John.
You both raise good points.
Maybe I'm looking at Digital SLRs from the wrong angle.
What you both have said makes a lot of sense.
Thanks.
Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor.
Grafton,
Australia
-Original Message-
From: Bruce Dayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 26
Spend all the money you wish, but no camera I've seen can autofocus in
that kind of situation. My friend's D20 can't. Use manual focus and
fast primes.
On Sep 25, 2005, at 11:41 PM, McRae, Max MS wrote:
Charles wrote:
I tried to take some photos at a show with my kit lens and figured
out
Thanks Shel. I shot a series. This is the only one with tit, but I
prefer it to the others.
Paul
On Sep 25, 2005, at 11:42 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Bingo! Great pic ... even the tilt works ;-))
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Paul Stenquist
I like it. Fascinating subject, interesting light, well exposed. One
has to wonder how long ago that tree was cut. If it's hardwood, it
could be a very ancient stump.
Paul
On Sep 25, 2005, at 11:49 PM, William Robb wrote:
My wife likes this one, I'm not as sure about it.
AFAIK, at least for Canon, to remove the aperture ring, was one of the
steps toward a camera that can be commanded with just one hand (in
fact canon cameras have the most-used commands on the right-most part
of them).
Canon is aiming at nature photographers (among others), those who may
need a
Interesting. Does the blue on the mountains contradict the warm light
on the foreground hill? I'm not sure. I like the composition and
framing, and the layered clouds in the mountains are great. What would
it look like if you pushed it to the warm side???
Paul
On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:24 AM,
given the rising popularity of stitched panoramas, the ultrawide lenses are
more important than they used to be relative to film cameras. i could use a
10mm 180 degree full frame fisheye on my bodies, if it were sufficiently
high quality. it would save me a lot of time.
Herb
-
I like the detail shot. Nice pic. Highlights are excellent. They read
as just a somewhat brighter shade of gray.
Paul
:
On 9/26/05, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I live in a rather odd neighborhood. It's fairly rural and quite
eclectic.
Above Casa Belinkoff is almost 80,000 acres
Love it. Beautiful shot.
John
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 06:38:04 +0100, Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
http://www.wildcherry
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Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
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Charles, if that's junk, you've redefined the word.
Lovely stuff.
John
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:15:07 +0100, Charles Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I tried to take some photos at a show with my kit lens and figured out
after about 5 minutes that it was a hopeless disaster. Too dark,
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Antti-Pekka Virjonen wrote:
Hi Dario,
-Original Message-
From: Dario Bonazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:46 PM
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: PDML 10th anniversary
Yes, when you were called Antti-Pekka Virtanen, if I
It is (interesting that is). The similarity of the two names is only
visual
as you suggested.
Why did I change my name in the first place? Well, my previous name
is propably the 2nd most common surname in Finland. On a contrast to
that
there are only about 50 people alive who have the same
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:15:07 +0100, Charles Robinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In any case, I'll just toss some of this junk out there. People
will think it's OK or think that it stinks. I've seen so many
amazing photos from this list in the past months that I'm almost
afraid to share,
I must be looking at the wrong pic. Didn't see any tits at all.
heh
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Thanks Shel. I shot a series. This is the only one with tit, but I
prefer it to the others.
Paul
Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 Sep 2005 at 8:09, Cotty wrote:
Hi Rob, I'd be interested to read your further thoughts on this. Please
explain?
IS simply can't beat a fast shutter speed for stage photography, particularly
the high energy stuff.
In other words, IS will compensate
Being an old reprobate, I took another look at this pic, thinking, did I
miss something?.
Then I realised that all that had been missed was an L. :-)
John
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:52:12 +0100, Paul Stenquist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Shel. I shot a series. This is the only one with
On 9/22/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another PAW up for viewing:
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/38.htm
Comments, critique, flames always appreciated. Flames are ignored. ;-)
enjoy
Godfrey
A lovely, spontaneous moment! I don't mind the fact that she's a
William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My wife likes this one, I'm not as sure about it.
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/peso/vacation/IMGP9489.html
Shot with the FA50/1.4, at f/8, 1/13 second.
The subject is a little too centered for my taste, but if you crop it to
an 8 x 10 you
On 9/25/05, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No its NOT this is NONESENSE.
No, if you don't like my posts for personal
reasons then just delete them please.
I am not going to stop posting or post only
whats pleasurable for you to hear just for your reading
pleasure.
Secondly, my posts are
84 hits on the web page and 17 submissions so far.
Let's keep it going and spread the word!
http://www.donsauction.com/Pentax
for the survey.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for comments/suggestions.
Thanks!
Don
On 9/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I figured I should try to get some
Pentax content in my PAWs:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3755687size=lg
Comments are always welcome. Thanks!
cheers,
frank
--
Tom Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill Robb wrote something that I snipped until this was left:
The Canon rep told me (sorry, not compelling evidence, just anecdotal)
that they felt accuracy and reliability would be improved by eliminating
moving parts, as much as possible, and that in the
On 9/25/05, Pat Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Frank,
Nice show the Snowbirds put on, isn't it? I've seen the group fly here in San
Francisco as part of Fleet Week in recent years. They are a nice contrast to
the US Navy's Blue Angels. Flying at slower speeds than the Angels, they give
On 9/24/05, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The first Saturday I had the F17-28 lens, I took it
with me on my weekly trip to the farmers' market in a
nearby park. This shot lost a good deal of its zip
in scanning, but I like the fisheye perspective.
Pentax (and Nikon) would undoubtedly like to eliminate the stop-down
lever and mechanism from their camera bodies but I don't see how they
could do it without a wholesale lens mount change like what Canon
Minolta did. If that happens we'll have some *real* lens mount issues!
Wow! Indeed!
Thanks, Frank! It =is= really fun to use. Shot many
frames with it yesterday too at a run/walk fundraiser.
I'm getting those shots on CD, so maybe there will be
some quick posts.
Rick
--- frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/24/05, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The first
Creepy, Shel!
How would this shot work with a polarizer and a BW
conversion?
Rick
--- Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I live in a rather odd neighborhood. It's fairly
rural and quite eclectic.
Above Casa Belinkoff is almost 80,000 acres of park
land and open space,
down the hill
On 9/23/05, Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot of stuff. I've started taking my mountain bike (Rocky
MountainTrailhead) off road, and that's been a lot of fun... trying not
tofall into rivers and that sort of thing. Learning how to ride downconcrete
stairs was the trickiest. I
I shot two rolls of slide film the other day using my LX and underused
35-105 lens. i had a wonderful time and am looking forward to seeing
the results. I had the ist D along for the ride but only shot three
shots with it...
Vic
On 26-Sep-05, at 3:01 AM, Cotty wrote:
On 25/9/05, Godfrey
On 9/26/05, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I live in a rather odd neighborhood. It's fairly rural and quite eclectic.
Above Casa Belinkoff is almost 80,000 acres of park land and open space,
down the hill are homes worth more than 500,000. Deer and coyote and fox
abound. There's a
From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/09/26 Mon AM 02:02:51 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: RE: anybody still shoot film?
Theoretically yes, practically no. Unless like others have said you can
afford
to buy a 12000 dpi drum scanner or alternately afford to pay
On 9/25/05, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stopped by the farmer's market in Birmingham, Michigan this morning.
Snapped a few pics of this country gospel singer and his young partner.
*istD, DA 50-200 at 80mm, f8 at 1/250th, RAW.
I think he needs new fingers.
Cotty wrote:
On 26/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed:
Fanyastic picture Frank
Gotta love Dave. Shall we club together and buy him a new keyboard?
Cheers,
Cotty
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||=|
From: Mark Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/09/26 Mon AM 03:11:20 GMT
To: 'pentax-discuss' pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: OT: found-object art on the list
OK, this is off-topic and probably counter-productive, but here goes. I was
skimming some of the list traffic over the last
On Sep 25, 2005, at 22:32, Markus Maurer wrote:
Hi Charles
I liked your concert shots. The quality is fine for me and you got
some good
moments too.
Did you use a denoiser program on the pc to clean them up?
The only processing for any of these is a bit of cropping, the
occasional white
On Sep 25, 2005, at 22:43, Rob Studdert wrote:
Junk, you are kidding, that's a great set of concert pics, equal to
anything
I've seen presented here before. It seems like there was plenty of
light and it
looks like you were moving about far more than the band members
too, many
From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/09/26 Mon AM 03:30:35 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive
Since (at least as I read it) Herb is bitchin' and moaning about the
failure of his gear to deliver the goods, I'd suggest he get faster and
From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/09/26 Mon AM 04:54:58 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: PESO -- The oldest house in town
Have you used some type of PS filter on this shot? I can't see any detail
at all in the walls and there is an overall look like one
Nice illustration quality. Mantids are scary, if you think about it.
This one looks it.
David Nelson wrote:
http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/mantid2.jpg
Just grabbed one of these (Snake Mantid, Kongobatha diademata) from
the garden and did some close-up shooting indoors. QD conversion,
On Sep 26, 2005, at 6:21 AM, mike wilson wrote:
Theoretically yes, practically no. Unless like others have said
you can afford
to buy a 12000 dpi drum scanner or alternately afford to pay ~US
$50 per scan
for the privilege. And then it wouldn't be usable unless all
colour/level/gamma
On Sep 26, 2005, at 2:18, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
In front of the club house is one of the most
interesting and creative mailboxes I've ever seen.
http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/angel_box.jpg
Looks good, levels are right on. Nice metal skeleton!
Here's one version of a detail. I'm
Hi John ... yes, the color change was deliberate. I'll post the details in
response to another message in this thread. Thanks!
Shel
[Original Message]
From: John Coyle
Shel - the highlights are far from fried on my monitor - what I do find
interesting is that the skull has changed
From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/09/26 Mon AM 07:18:12 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: PAW PESO - Hells Angels' Mailbox Detail
I live in a rather odd neighborhood. It's fairly rural and quite eclectic.
Above Casa Belinkoff is almost 80,000 acres of park land
Rick ...
I've worked with this mailbox before. A few years ago I shot it using BW
film and a deep red filter. That gave me nice, white bones This time,
using the digi, I had to find another way to achieve a similar effect.
A polarizer wouldn't do anything along the lines I wanted, although
What's AWB? Auto White Balance? If so, no ...
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Charles Robinson
http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/w-face.html
...and suddenly the steel skeleton looks like it is made out of grey
clay. Were you using AWB?
On 26/9/05, Don Sanderson, discombobulated, unleashed:
84 hits on the web page and 17 submissions so far.
Let's keep it going and spread the word!
http://www.donsauction.com/Pentax
for the survey.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for comments/suggestions.
Don, I can't take part as I don't own / use a
On 26/9/05, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed:
Thanks Shel. I shot a series. This is the only one with tit, but I
prefer it to the others.
As well as being clothed, it's hidden behind a guitar, and it's a bloke.
C'mon Paul, you can do better than that ;-)
Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
That makes perfect sense. Rent or borrow some gear and see if it does the
trick.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: mike wilson
From: Shel Belinkoff
Since (at least as I read it) Herb is bitchin' and moaning about the
failure of his gear to deliver the goods, I'd suggest he get faster
From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/09/26 Mon PM 02:21:22 GMT
To: pentax list pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Daily Update-Petition Petition Survey
On 26/9/05, Don Sanderson, discombobulated, unleashed:
84 hits on the web page and 17 submissions so far.
Let's keep it going
Resolution is not the only thing. Check out the link I posted
previously. The Imacon scan was done at 3600ppi and the drum scan at
2400ppi. The drum scan was indubitably better even on the monitor at
reduced size.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~diax/pages/mamiya_boot_scan_compare.html#
so folks won't
On 26/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
discombobulated, unleashed:
Fanyastic picture Frank
Gotta love Dave. Shall we club together and buy him a new keyboard?
Cheers,
Cotty
Getting used to laptop keyboards now.LOL
Dave
- Original Message -
From: DagT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are wrong. Before that we were discussing content, and although the
technicalities of the eagle pictures are brilliant the content as such is
not very impressive.
What Capturing animal behavior is one of the most
Oh No! How could ~that~ have happened ... thanks Mike LOL I think I've
figured out a way to get it closer to the bleached bones effect that I
want.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: mike wilson
http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/w-face.html
No blowout here but dramatically different
Great shots Charles, I like them.
And I AGREE with you that manual
focus and fast primes was probably
if not the only way to go with these
shots.
BUT- I want too make it clear here,
that these great photos and techniques just
prove what I have been saying for
the last week. AF is not always
- Original Message -
From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive
IMO,
equipment is not a replacement for skill and ability, for dedication and
knowledge.
Here Here! To improve
From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/09/26 Mon PM 02:51:27 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: PAW PESO - Hells Angels' Mailbox Detail
Oh No! How could ~that~ have happened ... thanks Mike LOL I think I've
figured out a way to get it closer to the bleached bones
Hello Shel,
The highlights look ok on my monitor. That is truly a unique mailbox.
One that I'd be apt to visit more than once. Seems like there must be
some perfect lighting to really make it jump out from it's
surroundings.
--
Best regards,
Bruce
Monday, September 26, 2005, 12:18:12 AM,
In a message dated 9/26/2005 5:22:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
84 hits on the web page and 17 submissions so far.
Let's keep it going and spread the word!
http://www.donsauction.com/Pentax
for the survey.
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for comments/suggestions.
Thanks!
Don
In a message dated 9/26/2005 6:47:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/mantid2.jpg
Just grabbed one of these (Snake Mantid, Kongobatha diademata) from
the garden and did some close-up shooting indoors. QD conversion,
could be better but it
Interesting that Oly has abandoned the weird look of the other 4/3 cameras
with a real pentaprism on this new one:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0509/05092604olympuse500.asp
Interesting price point too.
Christian
How is this an argument against an electronic aperture simlator as opposed
to a mecahnical one? It is in fact possible to make an aperture ring that
electronically controls the F-stop used during exposure. I guess this can
even be done without an aperture simulator. A thumb wheel on the lens, so
Hi Bruce ...
When the ivy is fuller, and the light a little softer, the full sculpture
does jump out from the background. Then, using a red filter and BW film
nets some pretty nice results. The shot I posted was just a quick snap to
show the piece in its entirety and in its surroundings, not as
You could just learn how to hold the camera such that you didn't hit
the thumbwheel control accidentally. It's pretty simple, really. I've
moved aperture rings on lenses by accident too, until I trained
myself not to grab the wrong ring. ;-)
Godfrey
On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:42 AM, Jens
Marni AKA Doe said:
Well, I am interested in wildlife photography and I have tried some. And it
ain't easy. In fact, it's very difficult. So that affects my opinion. In
those
situations, it's better to get several shots rather than just one. And I am
not even talking about making money on it,
The only one that looked a little odd was the E300. The E1 is
normal looking.
But who cares how a camera look as long as it fits in your hands
correctly and works well?
Yes, the price point is very aggressive.
Godfrey
On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:38 AM, Christian wrote:
Interesting that Oly has
OMG - what a picture!
Gasha
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi Bruce ...
When the ivy is fuller, and the light a little softer, the full sculpture
does jump out from the background. Then, using a red filter and BW film
nets some pretty nice results. The shot I posted was just a quick snap to
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