Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Walters
Thanks for the story. It remined me that my great grandparents came from Ireland looking for gold during the rush in cental Victoria in the mid 1800's. The old house they lived in is still there but slowly decaying. I'll have to do (another) road trip and get some decent photos before it's gone

K2000

2009-10-12 Thread Dennis Gibson
After a small tumble my beloved *ist DL won't power up any more. I can get a refurb for $300.00, or a new K100D Super for a bit more but I think possibly an upgrade to a K2000 is in order. It's all I can afford. I've read the reviews, mostly positive. It's strange how most loved the image

RE: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread John Coyle
I like that a lot Marnie: if it were mine, I'd crop the very white right-hand edge, and possible a little off the top and bottom too. John in Brisbane -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of eactiv...@aol.com Sent: Monday, 12 October

RE: An experimental time lapse video

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Mitchell
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Brian Walters Sent: 11 October 2009 22:30 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: An experimental time lapse vidio Great fun But who's Fat Freddy and where's his cat? Thanks Brian. Fat Freddy's Cat was a cult

RE: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Malcolm Smith
Marnie wrote: http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/store.htm Tell me if you agree. (I've thought about taking the foliage out from under the tree, but think that might not be an improvement. I've also thought about adding vignetting, ditto, might not improve it.) I'd really

RE: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Mitchell
Marnie, if you hadn't told us otherwise, I'd have assumed that it was a scan of an old, faded photo. Your accident has created something really good. Only thing I'd do maybe is crop out the white area on the right. Chris -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net

RE: An experimental time lapse vidio

2009-10-12 Thread Bob W
My band, Fat Freddy's Cat on another rooftop; this time at the Open University in Milton Keynes. Taken with a K7 - interval shooting, 1 shot every 3 seconds. Looped and mixed with sound using MS Movie Maker. The song is from a live Buddy Holly 50th anniversary gig we did earlier in

RE: Cycles for Frank

2009-10-12 Thread Bob W
I don't think Frank saw this as I posted it in reply to his bike polo pic, which was very good. One for you Frankie-boy, filmed one week ago: http://www.seeingeye.tv/pages/brompton.html What is it about bicycles that attracts all the nutters? I was up in Derbyshire this weekend

RE: GESO: inside out

2009-10-12 Thread Bob W
a slideshow i've made using photos some of which you may have already seen. i'm very interested in opinions, especially of those who haven't seen many of these yet http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamoneki/sets/72157610320673025/show/ what do you think, does it work, is the tempo ok,

RE: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Bob W
Certainly good enough for the cover of a PDF I am doing on my family history (for family members). http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/store.htm Tell me if you agree. (I've thought about taking the foliage out from under the tree, but think that might not be an

Re: Sigma 18-50mm f/3.5-5.6 DC

2009-10-12 Thread Peter McIntosh
2009/10/11 Dennis Gibson wb6...@cox.net Has anyone used both the Sigma and the Pentax 18-55mm? I shot a bunch of interiors with the Pentax awhile back and didn't look at them until now. I shouldn't be surprised at the barrel distortion at 18mm but it's worse than I expected. Previously

Re: OT: Carl Zeiss Dista gone to the dark side

2009-10-12 Thread Cotty
On 11/10/09, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: http://www.zeiss.com/C125679B0029303C/EmbedTitelIntern/PI_0154-2009/ $File/PI_0154-2009.jpg Excellent. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com

Re: PESO - Comfort zone

2009-10-12 Thread Bruce Walker
Joseph McAllister wrote: Yes, it certainly did. On Oct 10, 2009, at 17:01 , Bruce Walker wrote: I thought the old DA 50-200 kit glass acquitted itself rather well here ... http://is.gd/4cwDe Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com Thanks for looking, Joseph! -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: PESO - Comfort zone

2009-10-12 Thread Bruce Walker
Jack Davis wrote: Very decent image! Jack --- On Sat, 10/10/09, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com Subject: PESO - Comfort zone To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 5:01 PM I thought the old DA 50-200

Re: PESO - Comfort zone

2009-10-12 Thread Bruce Walker
Bob Sullivan wrote: Bruce, Yes, the old DA 50-200 does well. I have an old DA 18-55 that I like too. These lenses are good price/values. Not as fast as the top-of-the-line, but very good. Thats a dramatic and pleasing picture. Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Bruce Walker

Re: An experimental time lapse vidio

2009-10-12 Thread mike wilson
Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: The 60s? I think I was elsewhere In that case: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/FatFreddiesCat.jpg You can see the resemblance. For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Freddy's_Cat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: PESO - Comfort zone

2009-10-12 Thread Bruce Walker
eactiv...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 10/10/2009 5:02:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bruce.wal...@gmail.com writes: I thought the old DA 50-200 kit glass acquitted itself rather well here ... http://is.gd/4cwDe K20D, DA 50-200mm @ 73mm, f/7.1, 1/200sec, ISO 400. Post in ACR. -bmw

Re: GESO: A walk around the garden

2009-10-12 Thread David Mann
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:17 PM, eactiv...@aol.com wrote: That's a VERY NICE gallery, I like it a LOT. Well done. Like them all, but especially like the second picture, the purple flower, and the eighth, the leaf with the brown edge. You've given me some ideas. It's easy... 1. get bored

Re: PESO: Bailey and Baxter

2009-10-12 Thread David Mann
On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:57 AM, John Sessoms wrote: I had a peso earlier of Bailey. Here's one of him with his buddy Baxter. Baxter's about to drive me crazy. She doesn't know how to act now that Bailey's gone. Demands 110% of my attention 120% of the time. Anyway ...

OT Who needs Photoshop?

2009-10-12 Thread Rob Studdert
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Re: An experimental time lapse vidio

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Walters
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:28 +0100, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: The 60s? I think I was elsewhere In that case: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/FatFreddiesCat.jpg You can see the resemblance. er,

Re: OT Who needs Photoshop?

2009-10-12 Thread eckinator
ABOMINATION! but you're second to post it i'm sure monsanto will buy the rights and plan to own the image chain 10 years from now they will probably find a way to run every image in the world through it and then push through a patent on pixels 2009/10/12 Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com:

Re: K2000

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Walters
I don't have the K2000 but I do have the K200 which (I believe) is pretty much the same thing except that the K2000 dropped the weather sealing, the top panel LCD and reduced the AF point from 11 to 5. I think it uses the same sensor but the image processing might be improved because the K2000

PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Walters
G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western Australia. I think this gives a better impression of the rock formations than the previous pano. http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/171757/More_Pinnacles.html As always, comments and criticisms appreciated. Cheers Brian

Re: K2000

2009-10-12 Thread Bong Manayon
I don't own a K2000 but I did get a chance to test/review one c/o the local dealer months ago when it was released. Think K10D and jpegs...it also gets bad rep when straight out of the cam. Since the K2000 is basically the K10D shrunk down in size it somehow suffers to a degree the same problem,

Re: Sigma 18-50mm f/3.5-5.6 DC

2009-10-12 Thread Bong Manayon
As far as kit lenses, go the Pentax 18-55 is as good as it gets, so between that and the Sigma, I'd stick with the Pentax. Yeah, I used to have an FA 28-90. It was not bad, but it was not something to rave about either. I later traded it for an FA 28-105 then an FA 24-90. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009

Re: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Peter McIntosh
2009/10/12 Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm: G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western Australia. I think this gives a better impression of the rock formations than the previous pano. http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/171757/More_Pinnacles.html As always, comments and

Re: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Bong Manayon
Nice! I love the colors and the light! On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western Australia. I think this gives a better impression of the rock formations than the previous pano.

Re: OT Who needs Photoshop?

2009-10-12 Thread Rob Studdert
On 12/10/2009, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote: ABOMINATION! but you're second to post it i'm sure monsanto will buy the rights and plan to own the image chain 10 years from now they will probably find a way to run every image in the world through it and then push through a patent on

Re: PESO Portrait of a Robin

2009-10-12 Thread Toine
Thanks everyone for looking and commenting. The title was portrait of a robin. I think I need to do some more work in PS, maybe BW rendering and more cropping on these and other shots to add some drama to the portrait, should be fun :-) Toine 2009/10/11 Toine to...@repiuk.nl: the european

RE: PESO Alien

2009-10-12 Thread Desjardins, Steve
Well done. It's hard to get that level of sharpness with insect macros. (at least for me it is.) -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Toine Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 6:32 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO Alien

Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/11/2009 9:43:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, miser...@gmail.com writes: Doe, I love this shot! It has a fantastic old feel to it with that overblown sky. I suspect that if you'd taken the shot properly, it wouldn't have looked unique such as it does now. I wouldn't mess

RE: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Bob W
G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western Australia. I think this gives a better impression of the rock formations than the previous pano. http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/171757/More_Pinnacles.html As always, comments and criticisms appreciated. That's excellent

Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Jack Davis
Sepia high key that really works for me. Like it very much. What is the name of the town, Marnie? Near I-5? Jack --- On Sun, 10/11/09, eactiv...@aol.com eactiv...@aol.com wrote: From: eactiv...@aol.com eactiv...@aol.com Subject: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store To: pdml@pdml.net Date: Sunday,

RE: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Bob W
G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western Australia. I think this gives a better impression of the rock formations than the previous pano. http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/171757/More_Pinnacles.html As always, comments and criticisms appreciated.

Re: K2000

2009-10-12 Thread Jack Davis
Nov Shutterbug review..VERY positive! Jack --- On Sun, 10/11/09, Dennis Gibson wb6...@cox.net wrote: From: Dennis Gibson wb6...@cox.net Subject: K2000 To: pdml@pdml.net Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 11:07 PM After a small tumble my beloved *ist DL won't power up any more. I can get a

Re: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Jack Davis
Love this! I much prefer this perspective. Great sky. Jack --- On Mon, 10/12/09, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: From: Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm Subject: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 3:53 AM

RE: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread John Sessoms
From: Marnie Hmmm, long story, I'll try to shorten it. The two buildings on the end right are closed and abandoned and have been for some time. The store on the left end (with a bar) is still open. It is a lot newer that than the others (relatively speaking). This is a very, very small

Re: PESO: Bailey and Baxter

2009-10-12 Thread John Sessoms
From: David Mann On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:57 AM, John Sessoms wrote: I had a peso earlier of Bailey. Here's one of him with his buddy Baxter. Baxter's about to drive me crazy. She doesn't know how to act now that Bailey's gone. Demands 110% of my attention 120% of the time. Anyway

Re: OT Who needs Photoshop?

2009-10-12 Thread John Sessoms
From: eckinator ABOMINATION! but you're second to post it i'm sure monsanto will buy the rights and plan to own the image chain 10 years from now they will probably find a way to run every image in the world through it and then push through a patent on pixels 2009/10/12 Rob Studdert

GPS with your K7 [Scanned]

2009-10-12 Thread John Whittingham
Just came across this while I was drooling at the K7 body http://www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk/2421/Jobo-photoGPS-Geo-Imaging-Geo-Tagger.html Apologies if it's been posted before, but someone keeps mentioning it. John DISCLAIMER: This e-mail may contain confidential and privileged material for the

Re: OT Who needs Photoshop?

2009-10-12 Thread eckinator
+pc off+ they're chinese, what do you expect... howver, being chinese, they only use bad copies of the images so it shouldn't be a problem ]=) +pc on+ 2009/10/12 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: From: eckinator ABOMINATION! but you're second to post it i'm sure monsanto will buy the rights

Re: PESO - Down in the Mouth

2009-10-12 Thread Christian
frank theriault wrote: Some days one should just stay in bed: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/10/down-in-mouth.html Comments always welcome. cheers, frank Beautiful shot, knarf. -- Christian http://404mohawknotfound.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
That is a very strong image. I like it much better than the pano, which was also quite good. Dan On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western Australia. I think this gives a better impression of the

Re: Lightroom question

2009-10-12 Thread Bob Sullivan
Marnie, The problem is not getting them into a lightroom collection. The problem is what happens when I roll the calandar quarter's worth of pictures off of the laptop. I will lose access to all my favorites for that time period. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM,

Re: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Bob Sullivan
Great shot, very surreal! Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western Australia. I think this gives a better impression of the rock formations than the previous pano.

Re: PESO Alien

2009-10-12 Thread Christian
Toine wrote: Actually a cicada which looks like an alien http://tinyurl.com/yzhjd66 Stack of a K20D, F100macro, AF160C and Raynox250. Toine Great colors and detail and a really cool subject. -- Christian http://404mohawknotfound.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PESO Portrait of a Robin

2009-10-12 Thread Christian
Toine wrote: the european version: http://tinyurl.com/yh8lf5d K20D FA*200 and flash Toine Nice colors and detail but that background is horrible. :-) -- Christian http://404mohawknotfound.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: GPS with your K7 [Scanned]

2009-10-12 Thread AlunFoto
Had a look at the Jobo unit a while ago, and concluded that the only extra benefit it brought was to synchronise GPS readings to the moment of _a_ exposure. You'd still need to synch the clocks in the units, and still need to merge the GPS and image data in a computer to find out _which_ exposure.

Re: OT Who needs Photoshop?

2009-10-12 Thread ann sanfedele
Oy. I couldnt bring myself to watch the whole thing... so I don't know how many of Dave Brooks' horse photso might be on there. thanks(?) for sharing ann Rob Studdert wrote: http://www.vimeo.com/6496886 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

RE: GPS with your K7 [Scanned]

2009-10-12 Thread John Whittingham
Hi Jostein, Just a thought, havig the data embedded in the EXIF would be the ideal. John From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of AlunFoto [alunf...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 October 2009 15:54 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re:

k-7 ac adaptor

2009-10-12 Thread George Sinos
I was thinking about using the AC unit to play with the interval shooting mode. Kind of suprised to see the K-7 takes the same ac adaptor as the k20/k10. For some unknown reason I was expecting a change. GS -- George Sinos gsi...@att.net www.georgesphotos.net -- PDML

Re: PESO: Street shooting in and around Boston

2009-10-12 Thread Christian
Miserere wrote: Have not been in a photographic mood lately, but yesterday I went whale watching with some visiting friends, after which we spent a few hours walking around Boston. I hope you enjoy my pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/Miserere/StreetPhotography# No, no whales. I wish I could

Re: GPS with your K7 [Scanned]

2009-10-12 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/12 John Whittingham jo...@carmel.ac.uk: Hi Jostein, Just a thought, havig the data embedded in the EXIF would be the ideal. Absolutely. That's one accessory I envy the Nikonians, a GPS unit that writes directly to the recorded files. Some GPS synching software will write out XMP

PESO - Piano practice

2009-10-12 Thread Pasvorn Boonmark
This was the last shot from October 10th. Using a ME super to celebrate 30th anniversary of the release of the camera. :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbhome/4000457458 Fuji Neopan SS Pentax ME Super SMC P-A 50mm f/1.4 It is the closing of my roll for the World Pentax Day. -- PDML

Re: Photo.net

2009-10-12 Thread Pasvorn Boonmark
Tom, On the same day- Oct 8th- I might get a virus from photo.net. Not 100% sure however. It was the last web site that I clicked before my PC went crazy. It was a java virus. Very nasty too. I think may have been downloaded via one of the ad that was hacked. I'll keep a watch on the site.

Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Ken Waller
I agree, and I would tighten it up a bit to lessen/remove the blank space, expecially along the top, bottom RH side. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Miserere miser...@gmail.com Subject: Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store Doe, I love this

Re: Cycles for Frank

2009-10-12 Thread Ken Waller
Yeah but what kind of camera does he shoot? ;+} Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Bob W p...@web-options.com Subject: RE: Cycles for Frank I don't think Frank saw this as I posted it in reply to his bike polo pic, which was very good. One

Re: PESO Alien

2009-10-12 Thread Ken Waller
Are you using a flash ? Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Desjardins, Steve desjard...@wlu.edu Subject: RE: PESO Alien Well done. It's hard to get that level of sharpness with insect macros. (at least for me it is.) -Original

Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread William Robb
Jacqueline was a lot of fun to work with. I'm having a bugger of a time with my monitor calibration, so I'm not certain if the colour is off or not. A bit of feedback regarding that would be appreciated. The images are very heavily processed

RE: PESO - Piano practice

2009-10-12 Thread John Sessoms
From: Pasvorn Boonmark This was the last shot from October 10th. Using a ME super to celebrate 30th anniversary of the release of the camera. :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbhome/4000457458 Fuji Neopan SS Pentax ME Super SMC P-A 50mm f/1.4 It is the closing of my roll for the World

Semi-OT: the Mazda

2009-10-12 Thread John Sessoms
It's not a PESO or a GESO, but I did shoot it with my Pentax K10D, so it's only semi-OT. Took the advice regarding 3/4 views, brightness what-not - went back re-shot it this morning to get the soft light. I shot the front and side view from down low - no extension on my tripod, and shot

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread Graydon
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:32:38AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: Jacqueline was a lot of fun to work with. I'm having a bugger of a time with my monitor calibration, so I'm not certain if the colour is off or not. A bit of feedback regarding that would be appreciated. I can't tell if it's

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Graydon Subject: Re: Geso: Jacqueline On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:32:38AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: Jacqueline was a lot of fun to work with. I'm having a bugger of a time with my monitor calibration, so I'm not certain if the colour is off or not. A

Re: Mac version of ScanTags now available (with any luck)

2009-10-12 Thread John Francis
Thanks - I'll take you up on that packaging offer. I'm not an expert in AppleScript, so I can't be sure, but it looks to me as though your script will create multiple windows if you drag-and-drop more than one file. You don't need to do that - ScanTags will accept multiple file name parameters,

Re: PESO Alien

2009-10-12 Thread Toine
Yes, AF160C ringflash Toine 2009/10/12 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: Are you using a flash ? Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Desjardins, Steve desjard...@wlu.edu Subject: RE: PESO Alien Well done.  It's hard to get that level of

Re: PESO Alien

2009-10-12 Thread Toine
Thanks, Didn't know this. It looked like a cicade and some googling showed similar bugs... Toine 2009/10/11 Alastair Robertson kiwibiolog...@gmail.com: this is beautiful - colours background everything but it's not a cicada - its a leafhopper - family Cicadellidae; confusing name I know -

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread paul stenquist
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William Robb wrote: Jacqueline was a lot of fun to work with. I'm having a bugger of a time with my monitor calibration, so I'm not certain if the colour is off or not. A bit of feedback regarding that would be appreciated. The images are very heavily

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: paul stenquist Subject: Re: Geso: Jacqueline On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William Robb wrote: Jacqueline was a lot of fun to work with. I'm having a bugger of a time with my monitor calibration, so I'm not certain if the colour is off or not. A bit

Re: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Toine
Great image! and fascinating structures (searched a little with google) Toine 2009/10/12 Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm: G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western Australia. I think this gives a better impression of the rock formations than the previous pano.

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread paul stenquist
On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:46 PM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: paul stenquist Subject: Re: Geso: Jacqueline On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William Robb wrote: Jacqueline was a lot of fun to work with. I'm having a bugger of a time with my monitor calibration, so I'm

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread Jack Davis
If Jacqueline is a bit olive skinned, I'd say it looks just right..on my monitor, that is. :) Like many of the posed. Jack --- On Mon, 10/12/09, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: From: William Robb war...@gmail.com Subject: Geso: Jacqueline To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net

Re: OT: Carl Zeiss Dista gone to the dark side

2009-10-12 Thread Adam Montoya
On 10/11/09, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: For those who follow Photoshop Disasters, don't bother, you've already seen it. http://www.zeiss.com/C125679B0029303C/EmbedTitelIntern/PI_0154-2009/$File/PI_0154-2009.jpg So it's a brilliant advertisement for Carl Zeiss? (Brilliant in that

Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/12/2009 9:21:27 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, kwal...@peoplepc.com writes: I agree, and I would tighten it up a bit to lessen/remove the blank space, expecially along the top, bottom RH side. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f = Thanks, Ken. I

Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/12/2009 6:11:27 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jsessoms...@nc.rr.com writes: I think the image as is might be good enough for a family publication. It's still kind of washed out, like it was printed from a badly underexposed negative. For me, the problem is the lack of

Re: OT Who needs Photoshop?

2009-10-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/12/2009 6:55:05 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jsessoms...@nc.rr.com writes: One thing I noticed in the video - it says it uses photos retrieved from the internet. There's no explanation of how they determine if the image is copyrighted. Do they just steal the images and

RE: GPS with your K7 [Scanned]

2009-10-12 Thread John Whittingham
Writing into the GNG sounds great, I always shoot DNG as RAW files. John From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of AlunFoto [alunf...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 October 2009 16:14 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: GPS with your K7

Re: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Ken Waller
Very nice, great light. I do see a reason to carry a stepladder tho ;+] Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm Subject: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western

Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Jack Davis
Marnie, I've read a couple cropping suggestions for this image. With all due respect, I can't see cropping any from the top or right. You couldn't remove much from the top without threatening the upper right cornice of the far right building and I feel that removing even a portion of the right

Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Miserere
2009/10/12 eactiv...@aol.com: === Thanks! Yes, it  turned out to be a happy accident, at least regarding this location. Good thing  because I blew most of the rest of the shots. Heh. My other Great Grandpa  had a store too, in another small town in the area (but much bigger

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:46 , William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: paul stenquist Subject: Re: Geso: Jacqueline On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William Robb wrote: Jacqueline was a lot of fun to work with. I'm having a bugger of a time with my monitor calibration, so I'm

Re: PESO Portrait of a Robin

2009-10-12 Thread Miserere
2009/10/12 Toine to...@repiuk.nl: The title was portrait of a robin. I think I need to do some more work in PS. I think you need to work on your titles :-p But seriously, don't kill the Robin's beautiful red breast by going BW, Toine. And this comes from a BW junkie :-) --M. --

Re: Semi-OT: the Mazda

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Robinson
On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:54, John Sessoms wrote: It's not a PESO or a GESO, but I did shoot it with my Pentax K10D, so it's only semi-OT. Took the advice regarding 3/4 views, brightness what-not - went back re-shot it this morning to get the soft light. I shot the front and side view from

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Robinson
On Oct 12, 2009, at 14:56, Joseph McAllister wrote: The pics with the dark dress seated full length were lit for her boobs and hands, not her face. If that was your intent. fine, works for me ('cept I'm a B-cup kinda guy). If not, move those lamps, er... strobes up! I was going to

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread paul stenquist
On Oct 12, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:46 , William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: paul stenquist Subject: Re: Geso: Jacqueline On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William Robb wrote: Jacqueline was a lot of fun to work with. I'm having a

Re: PESO - Queen at Shaw

2009-10-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/19/2009 6:45:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, knarftheria...@gmail.com writes: Scroll down and click on the photo to enlarge. Seems to be enjoying his streetcar (what we in Toronto call trolleys or trams) with dad:

Re: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store

2009-10-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/12/2009 12:37:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jdavi...@yahoo.com writes: Marnie, I've read a couple cropping suggestions for this image. With all due respect, I can't see cropping any from the top or right. You couldn't remove much from the top without threatening the

Re: OT - Old School

2009-10-12 Thread David J Brooks
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:23 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Sitting next to me as I type is my Leica CL with 40mm Summicron C and a fresh roll of TriX (all of which I recently rescued from my ex's place). I'm going to go shoot a roll of film!! Later, guys... Were does

Re: Lightroom question

2009-10-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/12/2009 7:24:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, rf.sulli...@gmail.com writes: Marnie, The problem is not getting them into a lightroom collection. The problem is what happens when I roll the calandar quarter's worth of pictures off of the laptop. I will lose access to all my

Re: Geso: Jacqueline

2009-10-12 Thread Graydon
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:13:22AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: - Original Message - From: Graydon On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:32:38AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: [snip] The images are very heavily processed http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/gesos/jacqueline/index.html

Re: OT - Old School

2009-10-12 Thread Graydon
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:07:32PM -0400, David J Brooks scripsit: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:23 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Sitting next to me as I type is my Leica CL with 40mm Summicron C and a fresh roll of TriX (all of which I recently rescued from my ex's

Re: GPS with your K7 [Scanned]

2009-10-12 Thread Doug Franklin
AlunFoto wrote: Absolutely. That's one accessory I envy the Nikonians, a GPS unit that writes directly to the recorded files. Some GPS synching software will write out XMP sidecar files to go with PEF, or write directly into the DNGs. That's not too bad either. :-) Actually, I would generally

Re: PESO - Pinnacles Non-Pano

2009-10-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/12/2009 3:53:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, supera1...@fastmail.fm writes: G'day all Another shot from Nambung National Park, Western Australia. I think this gives a better impression of the rock formations than the previous pano.

Re: Semi-OT: the Mazda

2009-10-12 Thread Doug Franklin
John Sessoms wrote: The ad's up on craigslist if anyone wants to see the final result. http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/1417855445.html (cars trucks - by owner) That's much better, John. Other shots that are nice to see on a used car for sale are interior through open door and

RE: Lightroom question

2009-10-12 Thread Bob W
The question is, how do I copy the photos from different libraries, or catalogues, or whatever they're called into a single set? Preferably doing so in such a way that I'm I don't mean to sound rude, but if you don't even know whether you're dealing with libraries or catalogues are you

Re: OT - Old School

2009-10-12 Thread Pasvorn Boonmark
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 5:23 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to go shoot a roll of film!! Excellent Frank! On the same day (Oct 10th), I shot a roll of Neopan SS on my 30 years old ME Super. -Pasvorn -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Lightroom question

2009-10-12 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I wish I could help, but I don't have time to write out what seems to comprise about 70% of the nine-hour Lightroom workshop I teach. This material ... image files in the file system and their relationship to the Lightroom catalog ... seems to be the 95th percentile problem for most people using

Re: OT - Old School

2009-10-12 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: Yesterday, I finished a roll of 400 TX to clear the way for a new roll of Velvia 100 I recently purchased.  I haven't decided what subject I'll shoot using this film, but I've been thinking about it.  Something

Re: PESO - Queen at Shaw

2009-10-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Oct 12, 2009, at 13:55 , eactiv...@aol.com wrote: knarftheria...@gmail.com writes: Scroll down and click on the photo to enlarge. Seems to be enjoying his streetcar (what we in Toronto call trolleys or trams) with dad: http://knarf-underground.blogspot.com/2009/09/queen-at-shaw.html

Re: Lightroom question

2009-10-12 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/12/2009 2:32:23 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, p...@web-options.com writes: I don't mean to sound rude, but if you don't even know whether you're dealing with libraries or catalogues are you likely to understand any answers you're given? You really need to learn more about

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