On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Aaron Reynolds wrote:
Right. And PCs are powered by gerbils running in little wheels.
I know a person who opened his up, and there was the gerbil sitting
right inside it. Then he forgot to feed it and he lost all his
information! Really, I know a person who
It happened to a friend of mine. He had an older PowerPC, and it got full
of dust and it toasted the board. The repair person basically told him it
was trash, despite the fact drive still spun up and stuff. I never took a
look at but I don't have any reason to doubt him. He got a PC to
Yeah, but aren't Mac warrenties a measily 1 year while most big computer
companies (Dell, IBM, HP, Gateway) are 3 years? Anyway, I don't think this
applies to computers now anyway, I remember this from the days of the 486
and early pentiums, and before.
Todd
At 07:55 PM 2/6/01 -0500, you
Yeah, but warrenties are important because of the way many Macs are built.
I know people who lost everything they had on their disk when their Mac
motherboard went out, or something stupid like that - and their computer
was out of warrenty. On a PC, you'd just take the old drive out, pop it
I think they were pulling your leg or something, Todd. Whenever I've
upgraded to a new mac, I've pulled the hard drive out of the previous one
and stuck it into the new mac and copied the contents over onto the new
mac's harddrive. Just like you can with a pc. A hard drive is just a
harddrive,
Hair dryer will warm most stickers so they aren't torn or broken.
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From: "David A. Mann" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: Reducing excessive sharpness in portraits - 1st try
Todd Stanley wr
herbet brasileiro wrote:
Hi Bruce,
I pretty much followed Aaron's advice. Using Photoshop
LE I first got the image in, adjusted colors/levels
and used the Unsharp Mask to bring up more sharpness.
[etc]
...
Thanks a lot Herbet!
I tried it as well and I have to say the result is really
Herbet Brasileiro wrote, "I got a shot...taken with a FA100/2.8...the
subject didn't like the picture... So I followed Aaron tips and here's the
result www.itsmysite.com/herbet.
Herbet, that's a fantastic difference! You've gotta show it to your
friend! I gotta try this! I just purchased a
"Juan J. Buhler" wrote:
Looks great. Let us know what she says when you show her.
Yeah, also let us know what she says when you tell her that hundreds
of people saw and commented on both images :-)
Better not tell her!
ann
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It is my opinion that anyone wishing to enter the field
of professional portrait photography should be forced to
spend at least one Christmas season shooting Santa
photos in a mall setting.
The field would be much less crowded.
Doug "College Square Mall, Winter of '95" Brewer
Quoting Aaron
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From: "Doug Brewer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: February 6, 2001 9:54 AM
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portraits - 1st try
It is my opinion that anyone wishing to enter the field
of professional portrait p
Doug Brewer wrote:
It is my opinion that anyone
wishing to enter the field
of professional portrait photography
should be forced to spend at least
one Christmas season shooting Santa
photos in a mall setting.
The field would be much less crowded.
Your comment reminds me of a time
Most likely the latter G...
Norm
From: William Robb
snip
I personally can't see a reason to take a picture the subject
isn't going to like (unless I have been hired to do just that,
or unless I have a personal agenda to fullfill).
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annsann wrote, "All of you guys seem to think that what *that* woman
didn't like about the picture was (just) the
wrinkles. But what I would be more displeased with from a vanity point
of view is the heaviness in the neck. I think cropping a lot around her
very animated face with
I don't know if it is the same now, but used to be that there was a little
sticker on the computer, over the edge of the cover or over a screw that
said your warrenty is void if it was broken. So no upgrading unless you
let the service center do it, where they would replace the sticker. I
W Keith Mosier wrote:
You're right, Aaron. What he actually said was if I personally opened the
HP CPU and added the RAM (something I've done dozens of times at work and
once at home in the past) instead of a HP qualified technician that I would
void the warranty.
That's nuts. Is
I spent several years working for Uncle Olan. In many ways, I enjoyed it. In other
ways, it was soul-deadening. Pretty much like any job, I guess.
Doug
At 2:08 PM -05002/6/01, Collin Brendemuehl caused thus to appear:
Maybe even some time at Olan Mills.
NOBODY can sell bad shots as well as
Todd Stanley writes:
I don't know if it is the same now, but used to be that there was a little
sticker on the computer, over the edge of the cover or over a screw that
said your warrenty is void if it was broken.
That's like the little seal on MS software CDs that says by breaking it you
At 11:57 AM 2/5/01 -0800, you wrote:
Hi guys,
I got a shot from a friend here at work, taken with a
FA100/2.8. Needless to say, the subject didn't like
the picture and hid the print in her locked drawer. So
I followed Aaron tips and here's the result
www.itsmysite.com/herbet
See before and after
: Reducing excessive sharpness in portraits - 1st try
| Hi guys,
| I got a shot from a friend here at work, taken with a
| FA100/2.8. Needless to say, the subject didn't like
| the picture and hid the print in her locked drawer. So
| I followed Aaron tips and here's the result
| www.itsmysite.com/herb
Hi Herbet,
Looks great. Let us know what she says when you show her.
Dan Scott
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Hi guys,
I got a shot from a friend here at work, taken with a
FA100/2.8. Needless to say, the subject didn't like
the picture and hid the print in her locked drawer. So
I followed Aaron tips and
You must be right - my teenage daughter complains when I try to 'give her
character', too.
Maris
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From: "Dan Scott" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Reducing excessive sharpness in portraits
Done!
The third picture shows the hair sharper. I achieved
that in the same manner used for the eyes. I worked a
little on the eyebrows too. They were too soft.
Herbet.
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From: "Shel Belinkoff" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: Reducing excessive sharpness in portraits - 1st try
| I prefer the original. The subject has some charact
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:32:10 -, Frits J. Wthrich wrote:
I am not sure if you touched the hair. I read in a book about leaving the
hair out of the softening area, you might want to play with that.
See before and after and tell me what do you think.
I haven't showed to her, but my wife
I prefer the original. The subject has some character
and looks
alive and vibrant. The softened picture doesn't look
at all real
- it reminds me of how unreal dead people look after they've
been made up by the mortician.
--
Shel Belinkoff
Of course, you are correct. The original
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