Re: PESO - Flamingo

2007-10-16 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/16/2007 11:52:22 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's one I caught in the last week of Sept. at the World Famous San Diego Zoo: http://www.primelensphoto.com/flamingo/index.html K10D, SMC M*67 400mm F4 ED

Re: PESO - Flamingo

2007-10-16 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beautiful! Nice detail, lovely color on that :o) rg2 Thanks, Rebekah ;-] -Brendan Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today!

GESO - Trailing curtain flash pix

2007-10-16 Thread Brendan MacRae
Just some fun stuff experimenting with trailing curtain flash. Enjoy! http://www.primelensphoto.com/trailing_curtain/index.html K10D, AF-540FGZ, DA*16-50 zoom. -Brendan Shape Yahoo! in your own image.

Re: PESO - Moonrise

2007-10-18 Thread Brendan MacRae
Nice one, Bruce. -Brendan --- Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taken this past Saturday in Pt Reyes near San Francisco. We actually went to see some of the wildlife and at the end of the day on the way back, we were confronted with the scene. I have rendered it just as we saw it.

Re: GESO - Trailing curtain flash pix

2007-10-18 Thread Brendan MacRae
Thanks, Frank. It's fun to mess around and experiment with the 540. -Brendan --- frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/07, Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just some fun stuff experimenting with trailing curtain flash. Enjoy! http://www.primelensphoto.com

Re: Halloween and the Curse of Cheap Glass

2007-10-26 Thread Brendan MacRae
Pretty good, Paul. Not bad for the A400 5.6 (your tele converter is better than mine, damn you...). And now I'm off to the garage to get a hammer. I'm going to beat myself in the head repeatedly in order that I never conjure up images of you naked. -Brendan --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
I just don't get it. What's so tough about hooking a camera to the computer via a cable? -Brendan --- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's now a 2GB SD card that also does WiFi transfers. http://wifinetnews.com/archives/008022.html So your lowly K110D can now have a capability once

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
Why would I do that? I would just pop in another card. -Brendan --- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try doing that across a dance floor. -Adam Brendan MacRae wrote: I just don't get it. What's so tough about hooking a camera to the computer via a cable? -Brendan --- Adam

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
MacRae wrote: Why would I do that? I would just pop in another card. -Brendan --- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try doing that across a dance floor. -Adam Brendan MacRae wrote: I just don't get it. What's so tough about hooking a camera to the computer via a cable

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
Message - From: Brendan MacRae Subject: Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities I just don't get it. What's so tough about hooking a camera to the computer via a cable? I haven't looked at the article yet, but if it can transfer on the fly, it would be quite handy

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
). -Brendan Brendan MacRae wrote: Ok, so I pop in another card and hand the full one to my assistant selling dye-sub prints to guests. Then go shoot some more. -Brendan --- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if you've got an assistant at the dye-sub printer selling 8x10

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
usually find a few seconds to pop in a new card without missing anything of significance. -Brendan --- Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And during the interim you just missed the best shot of the day, but don't worry, you won't know it anyway. ;-) Tom C. From: Brendan MacRae [EMAIL

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being able to transfer your images directly to the laptop your assistant is using to print and sell the images without having to stop shooting is a money making benefit for event photographers. True enough. But whether or not there is a real time

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan, You're right: you just don't get it. I didn't either until I saw what people were doing with it and how it could be used. Now I get it ... This is quite common for technologies that incite a paradigm shift in the *way* you

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Paul Crovella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Congratulations on your incredible foresight. But keep in mind that just because you can't figure out out to utilize a tool doesn't mean the tool isn't useful. Cheers, Paul I just want to know whether WiFi images transfer really saves time.

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a paradigm shift for event and news/sports photographers, especially those who use remote cameras. You can now have the shot on the editors desk within seconds of it happening (rather than minutes/hours with lost shooting time). And remote

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forget it, Brendan. It's obvious you just want to reiterate your opinion, not understand the uses or possible advantages of the technology. Not at all. In fact I found Adam's last post very informative. The post where you mentioned

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan MacRae wrote: --- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a paradigm shift for event and news/sports photographers, especially those who use remote cameras. You can now have the shot on the editors desk within seconds

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-11-01 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Stan Halpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Event photography is like making love - position is important but timing is everything. stan Well said! -Brendan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

PESO's - Snow White and Tigger

2007-11-01 Thread Brendan MacRae
http://www.primelensphoto.com/Halloween_2007/large-5.html http://www.primelensphoto.com/Halloween_2007/large-11.html and my fav: http://www.primelensphoto.com/Halloween_2007/large-8.html Just a couple family snaps from yesterday. Pretty much right out of the camera. -Brendan

Re: PESO's - Snow White and Tigger

2007-11-01 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: geekIf he's evil, shouldn't his lightsaber blade be red?/geek Now I don't feel so bad since I was thinking the same thing. -Brendan Christian wrote: Brendan MacRae wrote: http://www.primelensphoto.com/Halloween_2007/large-5.html

Re: PESO's - Snow White and Tigger

2007-11-01 Thread Brendan MacRae
Thanks, the 540 is great flash. That's an Epson Stylus 4800. It's a real beast. -Brendan --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/1/2007 10:30:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.primelensphoto.com/Halloween_2007/large-5.html

Re: PESO's - Snow White and Tigger

2007-11-01 Thread Brendan MacRae
Yeah, that's my sis in law, the Jedi. We went out and Snow White had the light sabre for most of the evening which was a pretty funny sight. -Brendan --- Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan MacRae wrote: http://www.primelensphoto.com/Halloween_2007/large-5.html http

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-01 Thread Brendan MacRae
ROTFLMAO!: Lastly it's probably worth pondering the point of this product, do people really have problems plugging their cameras into a USB cable / placing the card in a card reader / placing the camera on a dock? Is dpreview reading this list? (sorry, couldn't help it!);-] -Brendan ---

Re: No microfiber lens cloth for me!

2007-11-01 Thread Brendan MacRae
Good on ya, Mark. Congrats. I remember that one. Good job. -Brendan --- Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Roberts wrote: Cryptic subject line, eh? Can't say more right now but I'll reveal the meaning shortly. :-) Here's the deal: I was convinced I was going to end up with

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan MacRae wrote: --- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DPReview is primarily consumer oriented, and these cards are little more than cool toys for the consumer (My like thw WiFi mode on the Nikon Coolpix P3 I used to have). A pro

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thibouille wrote: Maybe let's imagine the following situation: You have lots of pics to take and you can't take the time to change cards otherwise you might lose a couple important shots. I can imagine a fast enough wifi sd card (eye-fi seems

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
of this device are exaggerated. Tom C. From: Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed. Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:42:39 -0700 (PDT) --- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-01 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DPReview is primarily consumer oriented, and these cards are little more than cool toys for the consumer (My like thw WiFi mode on the Nikon Coolpix P3 I used to have). A pro user might see some actual benefit. -Adam I think you'll need to

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Paul Crovella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geez, you're right. It's a wonder they ever even went digital at all. It's only a wonder if you agree that wired image transfer to WiFi transfer will bring about the same sea change as film to digital certainly has. I don't. But, perhaps I'm just

Re: For those who miss CaNikon's Wifi capabilities

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
Oh, P.J., we're wy past that at this point! Take a look at some prior posts. :-] -Brendan --- P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While everybody's arguing about the desirability of this capability maybe they should read the dpReview the product, that Thibouille posted not too long

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Life's little Irony, I'm primarily a film shooter. -Adam lol! ;-] -Brendan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Paul Crovella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Relax, Brendan, I'm just mocking you. Your arguments have been the same dismissive whining that's plagued every step of technological progress - but what was so hard about the way we *used* to do things? It's little more than a tantrum about

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
assistant. Have you never seen them handing over a fresh camera and reloading? Regards, Bob S. On 11/2/07, Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thibouille wrote: Maybe let's imagine the following situation: You have lots

Re: PESO's - Snow White and Tigger

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
photo is special. Were you at work for these? Regards, Bob S. On 11/1/07, Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.primelensphoto.com/Halloween_2007/large-5.html http://www.primelensphoto.com/Halloween_2007/large-11.html and my fav: http://www.primelensphoto.com

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan, Can you say photographer's assistant. Have you never seen them handing over a fresh camera and reloading? Regards, Bob S. Yeah, in fact that was my point, Bob. -Brendan __ Do You

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
because they had forgot to get the film. It was also the first time I delivered digital images, scanning the negatives. Digital would have made that so. much easier. But decent digital cameras were about $10,000 back then. Brendan MacRae wrote: --- Paul Crovella [EMAIL

Re: PESO: Grab Your Balls!

2007-11-03 Thread Brendan MacRae
There was something written on her shirt? How did I miss that? grin -Brendan --- Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jack. I shot this bowling alley for the owner's web site, and couldn't resist posting a pic of the young lady with the grab your balls t-shirt. It was a fun

Re: PESO portraits

2007-11-03 Thread Brendan MacRae
I love the shot of Siobhan. There's a line below her left eye however. You may want to remove that. I love her name, too. My daughter Teagan was going to be a Siobhan. But then, no one in America would spell nor pronouce it correctly. Teagan is bad enough it turns out. -Brendan --- Derby Chang

Tripod collar for Pentax FA 300mm 4.5

2007-11-03 Thread Brendan MacRae
Wasn't someone just looking for something like this? http://tinyurl.com/yqh65z I have no idea whether it rotates or not. -Brendan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML

Re: Eye-fi SDCard reviewed.

2007-11-04 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Bob Blakely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KICK HIM WHEN HE'S DOWN! KICK HIM WHEN HE'S DOWN! KICK HIM WHEN HE'S DOWN! I wouldn't normally do this, but since my accident, it's too hard to kick 'um when they're up! Sorry Brendan, but every large list must have it's monthly whipping boy

Re: Tripod collar for Pentax FA 300mm 4.5

2007-11-04 Thread Brendan MacRae
bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings. -- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) - Original Message - From: Stan Halpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] He says it is for an FA but that looks like an A lens pictured in the ad. On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote

Re: PESO: Dive

2007-11-04 Thread Brendan MacRae
I like to congratualte you on your choice of, uh hem, angle. ;-) -Brendan --- Derby Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/07_11/07_11_dive/01.htm With the marvellous Voigtländer 180/4. Sharp, sharp, sharp. D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wandering F Stop

2007-11-05 Thread Brendan MacRae
Were you shooting with the grip? The two e-dials can sometimes interfere with each other (see grip manual memo, pg. 14). Although, this sounds like something else. Occassionally when I shoot in Av mode with the grip on, the e-dials freeze up because one is in between click stops on either the

Re: PESO: Steam Power

2007-11-05 Thread Brendan MacRae
Good one, William. I even like the soft motion blur near the front of the engine. It works. -Brendan --- William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while back, the railroad company decided to ressurect a steam locomotive for some reason. Anyway, it did a cross country tour and passed through

Re: Lindsey

2007-11-05 Thread Brendan MacRae
I like 'em both. Pretty lady. In the first, did you have room to cheat her away from the wall a bit? That's the only thing I would've changed (except maybe adding more of the pattern from the blinds, if that was possible... just for something different). I like the natural hair light in the

Re: GESO: Red Bull Air Race, Perth, West Oz.

2007-11-05 Thread Brendan MacRae
Fun stuff, Dave. Good job with a challenging subject. BTW, I really like the shot you got with the fisheye zoom directly into the sun. Awesome! -Brendn --- David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day All, As the subject says, the RBAR was in town I met up with some local snappers headed

Re: Shooting film (Velvia)

2007-11-08 Thread Brendan MacRae
Yuriy, That's a good shot for Velvia. My take on Velvia is that for a lot of folks it produces overly saturated colors. For me, I think it works well for many different subjects but likely not the best choice for portraits. Having said that, I know that many fashion photogs have used it for

Re: fun with a macro setup

2007-11-08 Thread Brendan MacRae
That works! Good idea. -Brendan --- Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Experimenting with mixed lightbox and flash macro stuff... http://homepage.mac.com/godders/pentax-macro/content/index.html Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Good reflections needed, help please!

2007-11-15 Thread Brendan MacRae
Does anyone do product shots on dark (black) reflective material that produces good, even reflections? I'm currently stumped working on a shoot for a local company. I have to shoot some video components on black (easy enough) but I'd like some good natural reflection from the surface they rest

Re: New Tmax400

2007-11-15 Thread Brendan MacRae
Ah, yes! But does Kodak still make the Tmax direct positive developing kit? Love those b/w slides. -Brendan --- Derby Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kodak taketh, and Kodak giveth. http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/films/bw/tMax400.jhtml?id=0.2.26.14.17.14lc=en --

pentax sighting? you be the judge...

2007-07-17 Thread Brendan MacRae
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19791376/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/13/ Is that a Pentax? I can't tell. -Brendan Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo!

Re: Quantum Turbo Z and Pentax AF 540 FGZ

2007-07-22 Thread Brendan MacRae
Max, This was the topic of a thread a few months ago. I believe Paul spoke to someone from Quantum and they had not as yet tested the two together. It may be time to check back in with Quantum. -Brendan --- max mcrae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know if it's okay to used the Quantum Turbo

Re: Pentax 540 flash external battery pack

2007-07-30 Thread Brendan MacRae
It's the TR Power Pack III. I agree. With fresh batts in the flash and power pack, there's a noticeable difference in cycle times (I like to use lithiums in the flash itself). I'm still jonesing for the Quantum Turbos, though. I sent off an email to them (again) the other day so we'll see if

Re: Pentax 540 flash external battery pack

2007-07-30 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well so far, I have been using the TR Power Pak III. I have shot 3 weddings with it so far. It works fairly well. I did find a setting on the flash to have it use both the Power Pak and internal batteries together to charge. Gives it just a

Re: Pentax 540 flash external battery pack

2007-07-30 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will the TR II work, too? The AF400T power pack. No. Only the power packs III will work with the 540's. -Brendan Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play

Yea for me!

2007-08-09 Thread Brendan MacRae
So, I had three prints entered in the photography competition at the Nevada County Fair. One of my landscapes got a second place in the Professional category and another got Best in Show for Pro Color Photos. This is the first time I've ever displayed my work outside of circles of friends, the

Re: Yea for me!

2007-08-09 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan MacRae wrote: So, I had three prints entered in the photography competition at the Nevada County Fair. One of my landscapes got a second place in the Professional category and another got Best in Show for Pro Color Photos

Re: Yea for me!

2007-08-09 Thread Brendan MacRae
Thanks, Godfrey. -Brendan --- Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Congratulations! Excellent to hear! G On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Brendan MacRae wrote: So, I had three prints entered in the photography competition at the Nevada County Fair. One of my landscapes got

Re: Yea for me!

2007-08-09 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. Congrats! Marnie aka Doe :-) Thanks! -Brendan Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.

Re: Yea for me! (here are the entries)

2007-08-10 Thread Brendan MacRae
, all over the place. http://www.primelensphoto.com/fair/index.html -Brendan --- syb vis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I have not seen it yet. Where can I find them? Sorry, I am always a bit more fanatic to see awardwinning pictures... Syb 2007/8/10, Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Yea for me! (here are the entries)

2007-08-10 Thread Brendan MacRae
Thanks for all the kind words everybody. -Brendan --- Toine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First time I see the photos. Wow! On 8/10/07, Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, here are the three I entered. The orchid got the Best in Show award. The bridge shot was a last minute

Re: Dream Cruise Tonight

2007-08-13 Thread Brendan MacRae
Love the shot of Lincoln. -Brendan --- Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two pics from tonight, one from last night. All with the K10D and the FA 50/1.4: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6305607size=lg http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6305604size=lg

Re: Dream Cruise Gallery Pics

2007-08-13 Thread Brendan MacRae
These really convey a sense being there. Thanks, Paul. -Brendan --- Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shots I printed for the Zoom Gallery show are now posted on photo.net. I had a tough time making a final choice. Almost put it to a vote on the PDML, but didn't have time.

Re: PESO: Thursday Night Dream Crise

2007-08-17 Thread Brendan MacRae
Really like the roadster pic. Good one. -Brendan --- Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to go for a crisper look tonight. Switched to the FA 35/2 so I could get closer and used the 540 Pentax flash in trailing curtain synch mode. Exposures were 1.4 second. Paul

The wet Dream Cruise

2007-08-17 Thread Brendan MacRae
Here's a DC of another type...on water. The Tahoe Yacht Club puts this on every year. This was my first. Overall, it was a bit of a bust. I'm not happy with the digital pics. Nothing against the K10D...it was user error. I filled an SD card at ISO 800...DOH! Also, it was really crowded, the

Re: The wet Dream Cruise

2007-08-17 Thread Brendan MacRae
Thanks all for the nice comments. Yes, for web viewing or small prints these would be fine. I edited these in Aperture. I tweaked most of them to properly set the highlights in the histogram and adjusted the brightness. -Brendan --- Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David J Brooks

Re: PESO -- Forested Trail

2007-08-18 Thread Brendan MacRae
Ahhh...nice. I haven't been to Vancouver Is. since I was a kid. Your pic also reminds me of camping in the Santa Cruz mountains. Good work. -Brendan --- Mike Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.michaelhamilton.ca/2007/08/17/forested-trail-pacific-rim- national-park/ Once again,

Re: My Flickr portfolio

2007-08-18 Thread Brendan MacRae
Really nice work, Bob. Some of your lighting is really striking. Very flattering and yet dramatic. Your product shots and still lifes are quite good, too. -Brendan --- Bob Shell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been a member of Flickr for a while but only recently was motivated to put up a

Re: GESO - Five Lined Skink

2007-08-19 Thread Brendan MacRae
Nice work, Mark. I went fishing with my Dad today and nearly caught a young gopher snake who would've made a nice picture with the W10. He decided to go under an old tree stump instead. -Brendan --- Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally managed to get a few shots of a five lined

Re: PESO - DA* 16-50 shots

2007-08-20 Thread Brendan MacRae
Good stuff, Bruce. Looks like I'll order one after all. -Brendan --- Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Three shots to give you some feeling about the lens. K10D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 50mm, Handheld ISO 400, 1/350 sec @ f/3.5 http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_4882.htm K10D, DA*

Re: GESO: In the mountains with the DA*16-50/2.8

2007-08-22 Thread Brendan MacRae
Mark, The shots with the mice...soft focus in front of the subject at minimum focus distance? I take it that shot was wide open? Curious. -Brendan --- Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the weekend's hikes on Grandfather Mountain. Mostly in horrible mid-day light but they'll still

Re: Portraits with Pentax Lenses

2007-08-28 Thread Brendan MacRae
Good stuff, George. Now if I could only find the 16-50 in stock anywhere. -Brendan --- George Sinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are a few portraits selected from work I did for a recent class. They were all shot with the K10D and various Pentax lenses. The earlier photos were shot with

What I did the other night

2007-08-30 Thread Brendan MacRae
http://www.primelensphoto.com/malts.jpg Let's just say it was a very nice evening, neat, if you will. An old high school chum was passing through so we decided to celebrate. And for those who care: K10D, Av, ISO 100, 540 bounced off the ceiling. 31mm LTD, 1/50, f8. Tweaked in Aperture.

Re: What I did the other night

2007-08-30 Thread Brendan MacRae
41 believe it or not! Only that bottle of Balvanie never made it into my living room. Maybe when I go visit his place in So. Cal. -Brendan --- David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the next number i that sequence, 15-18-17---:-) Dave On 8/30/07, Brendan MacRae [EMAIL

Re: What I did the other night

2007-08-30 Thread Brendan MacRae
-- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] What, no Glen Rothes? G On Aug 30, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Brendan MacRae wrote: http://www.primelensphoto.com/malts.jpg Let's just say it was a very nice evening, neat, if you will. An old high school chum was passing

Re: What I did the other night

2007-08-30 Thread Brendan MacRae
Never had it. Ah, but there be time, my man! Now if only I could have money for malts and lenses I'd be set. -Brendan --- Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, no Glen Rothes? G On Aug 30, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Brendan MacRae wrote: http://www.primelensphoto.com/malts.jpg

Re: 67 lens question

2007-08-30 Thread Brendan MacRae
- Original Message - From: Mark Roberts Subject: 67 lens question The 67 I've bought is coming without a lens and I'l looking for recommendations about a choice of normal lens. I seem to recall that the 105/2.4 is better regarded than the 90/2.8, but I think I'd still

Re: GESO: Wedding Pics

2007-08-30 Thread Brendan MacRae
Great stuff. Wonderful gallery. I'm sure they were happy with those. No really cliche shots in the bunch. -Brendan --- Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A large gallery of my favorites from the last wedding I shot: http://photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=760032 Paul -- PDML

Re: PESO: Harlech Castle 2

2007-09-02 Thread Brendan MacRae
Beautiful, John. Dramatic sky. -Brendan --- John Whittingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just sorting through some of the images I took in Wales, this is one of the ones I like the most, Pentax K10D Sigma 10-20 @ 10mm, f/8 @ 1/640 sec, ISO200, RAW (DNG), SR=on, ACR, CS3.

Sometimes it's hard to shoot Pentax

2007-09-04 Thread Brendan MacRae
So, after my fruitless search for the 16-50mm f2.8 over the last coupe of days (except for the 5 available from the guy in Tokyo on eBay, for $1,185.00US), I decided to take a deep breath and not worry about it for now. I took a drive down to a local camera shop in Sacramento to pick up a couple

Re: Sometimes it's hard to shoot Pentax

2007-09-05 Thread Brendan MacRae
Actually, it was Pardees. I had called Camera Arts but they were out of the white backgrounds. I like Action Camera. I've given them a quite a bit of business over the last year. I bought my supports, a nice used 165mm f2.8 for the 67 and even ordered a new center column for my Bogen through

Re: PESO 2007 - 37c - GDG

2007-09-06 Thread Brendan MacRae
Godfrey, You really nailed it on this one. Stunning photograph. It's reminicent of a shot from an antique fixed focus lens camera. I suppose it must be hot exhaust fumes that are blurring out the area just behind the engine and toward the back and right, but it appears to produce a shallow DOF

Enablement - Not just for breakfast anymore!

2007-09-11 Thread Brendan MacRae
http://www.primelensphoto.com/DA1650.jpg Came today, just after breakfast. I will post some pix very soon, but I can tell you that the autofocus with the K10D is MUCH, MUCH quieter than that of my FA 24-90mm or the 31 LTD, in fact, there's literally no comparison. The DA* focuses quietly enough

Re: Enablement - Not just for breakfast anymore!

2007-09-12 Thread Brendan MacRae
Thanks, Godfrey, I'm sure I will. I have two events coming up near the end of the month that I will be shooting with this lens. It's funny, though. I've been so busy shooting other (paid) stuff lately, I don't know when I'll get a chance to get out and shoot with it just for fun. So, no

Re: Back From Paradise...

2007-09-12 Thread Brendan MacRae
A couple of those are very nice, Mark. They have a plein air quality, especially the first one of the trees and beach scene. Sorry you got so much rain. -Brendan --- Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paradise, Michigan that is... Just got resubscribed after a week in a little cabin on

Re: PESO - Mustard Field #2

2007-05-03 Thread Brendan MacRae
This is my fav out of all of this series. Good composition and good sky. -Brendan --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And another mustard field. Look hard, it's there. ;-) If I knew how to do panoramas, today would have been a good day for one.

Re: GESO - Hot Rods in the sun

2007-05-04 Thread Brendan MacRae
Thanks, Marnie. I love events like that, and not just because I love cars. There's a picture every ten feet. -Brendan --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/29/2007 9:33:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: GESO: Jerusalem

2007-05-04 Thread Brendan MacRae
I like 2, 7 and 8 the most. 2 is really nice. It looks like you had some hard decisions on what to crop based on the very tall nature of the composition of a few. -Brendan --- Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My previous visit to Israel was in 1968. Being 18, rebellious, and newly

Re: PESO: Another dog picture

2007-05-04 Thread Brendan MacRae
Good lookin' rottie, Bill. I keep asking my wife if we can get one and she keeps saying, no. Telling her that their tails are bobbed like a Corgi's and that they're short hairs isn't working either. ;+[ -Brendan --- William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you who are not on my

PESO - It's a boy!

2007-05-07 Thread Brendan MacRae
Say hello to Finn Christopher MacRae. Born on Cinco de Mayo @ 15:57PST. http://www.primelensphoto.com/finn.jpg 7lbs 6.4 oz, 21 inches long. My wife really had no pain meds. This wasn't her choice, there just wasn't time. Her doctor almost didn't make it to the delivery room...made for an

Re: PESO - It's a boy!

2007-05-07 Thread Brendan MacRae
never easy to go without sleep for days on end, but I'll manage. ;-] -Brendan Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO - It's a boy! Say hello to Finn Christopher MacRae. Born on Cinco de Mayo @ 15:57PST. http

Re: PESO - It's a boy!

2007-05-07 Thread Brendan MacRae
me, and I'll sue you is all I had to say. End of story. May your Finn be a winner in every way. Paul On May 7, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: Say hello to Finn Christopher MacRae. Born on Cinco de Mayo @ 15:57PST. http://www.primelensphoto.com/finn.jpg 7lbs 6.4 oz, 21

Re: PESO - It's a boy!

2007-05-07 Thread Brendan MacRae
the heck! -Brendan On 5/7/07, Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a great story, thanks! To be honest, I wasn't worried that the doctor didn't make until the very end. We had two nurses and a respiratory therapist in the room. Plus, I helped out with the first one so I

Re: continuing the PUG

2007-05-07 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like I'll be taking over the PUG sometime in the near future. I've recently registered http://www.pdmlpug.org for hosting purposes and thought I would toss a few ideas to the list in hopes of getting a bit of feedback. Currently

Re: PESO - cardinal

2007-05-07 Thread Brendan MacRae
Really nice shot, Christian. You nailed it. Very interesting pose for him, too. -Brendan --- Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in South Texas for three days shooting birds on a ranch in the Rio Grande valley. Here's a quick snap from this morning's shoot: http://tinyurl.com/362cen

Re: GESO 2007 - San Francisco - GDG

2007-05-08 Thread Brendan MacRae
Quite a good gallery, Godfrey. Good conversions. -Brendan --- Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Working my way through the photos I made in SF on Friday, I put together a small set of 12 BW renderings. http://www.gdgphoto.com/sfstreet/ Comments, critique and thoughts

Re: PESO - Rail Bird

2007-05-08 Thread Brendan MacRae
Gotta get a big lens. -Brendan --- Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html K10D, 600mmFA f4.0, 1/160, f4.0, 400 ISO on Gitzo 1548 tripod with Kirk King Cobra Head. Comments appreciated. Kenneth Waller --

Re: PESO: I hope this isn't another flower picture

2007-05-09 Thread Brendan MacRae
Really solid photograph, Paul. I can't decide which is better, the creamy background or the crisp foreground. -Brendan --- Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn. The list is going to hell. First it's the homeless, then children, now flowers. Can't anyone post some solid landscapes?

Re: Pentax - Selling HQ and Apparently Drops 645D

2007-05-09 Thread Brendan MacRae
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pentax To Sell Tokyo HQ, Quit Low-Profit Ops To Lift Corp Value TOKYO (Nikkei)--Pentax Corp. plans to sell its Tokyo headquarters and withdraw from less profitable businesses under strategies the camera maker has crafted to block a takeover bid

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