Re: Getting ready for the web.

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Sorenson
You could try exporting from Lightroom as full size jpegs. Jalbum may resize them faster than making Lightroom do a two step process. Just a suggestion. That's the way I do it, 'cause my SO wants the full size jpegs to share w/family and friends on Snapfish. I haven't compared the times to

Re: PESO -- Death takes a holiday

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Sorenson
I suppose it would have been to much to ask him to hold a scythe... ;} Like the pix - perfect title. -p Doug Brewer wrote: P. J. Alling wrote: I don't know what to do about that. It's a free file sharing and syncing site. Everybody using that service gets a public link that begins

Re: today's news

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Sorenson
Sorry to hear that news, Larry, but I'll second the suggestion to go freelance. It can be hit or miss at times, but at least you're in control of your own destiny. -p Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote: Go freelance!! Exactly. Even if things run a little

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Sorenson
Case in point - she was following her GPS...from the August 7th Los Angeles Times *http://tinyurl.com/kjpscl* quoteAn 11-year-old boy died in the intense heat of Death Valley National Park after he and his mother became stranded and survived for several days on bottled water, Pop-Tarts and

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Sorenson
John Sessoms wrote: There's tricks to figuring out where you are when you go astray. But first, use techniques to keep you from going astray - deliberately build in a slight bias to one side or the other in your course toward your objective. Had a flight student in the late 60's that used

Re: K7 remote activation time : PDML Digest, Vol 40, Issue 118

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Sorenson
If the DL is like the DS or DS2 the longest you can set the meter to remain on is 30 seconds. That might be long enough to help the IR remote use. I thin the default is only 10 sec. -p mike wilson wrote: Gaëtan Beauchamp wrote: Hello everyone! Is there a way to maintain the activation of

Re: Cropping Printing - What Do You Do?

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Sorenson
Have a look at FotoFusion by LumaPix. It does exactly this. It comes in three versions. The Enhanced (mid-range) version will let you export/print to 13x19 @ 300dpi or 16x24 @ 240dpi. It doesn't color manage through software like Photoshop or Lightroom, but does allow color management

Re: Cool cloud photo

2009-08-25 Thread Paul Sorenson
Reminds me of a sci-fi story I read years ago. The essence of it was this... Two elderly ladies are working in their garden spraying insecticide dust on their plants and discussing the arrival of 10 story tall aliens on Earth. One asks the other if she thinks they should be afraid of the

Re: My K-7 WB weirdness continues

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Sorenson
See below... -p Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: and the address for those files would be ... ? On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Boris Libermanbori...@gmail.com wrote: snip *Since both shots are of my little daughter, I won't put the links on public list. Please contact me off-list if you want

Re: Pentax - SPAMmers!

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Sorenson
Me, too. It's nice to read about the plans for a meet and then to see the resulting pix. With that in mind, if you're ever around Milwaukee... -p Christine Aguila wrote: I don't mind the PDML meeting posts either--I usually spend a minute or two wondering if I could swing a quick NorCal or

Indian Summer - was Re: Pentax - SPAMmers!

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Sorenson
Yes - Indian Summer - http://www.indiansummer.org/ I've heard of it but never attended. Might be fun - let me know when your plans gel and I'll see how it works w/my sked. -p Christine Aguila wrote: - Original Message - From: Paul Sorenson allarou...@earthlink.net To: Pentax

Re: Jalbum Photo Album Generator?

2009-09-10 Thread Paul Sorenson
I use jAlbum w/the Chameleon skin - mostly for family type pix when I want to get them available quickly for viewing. If you don't like Chameleon, there are a plethora of other skins to choose from. JAlbum will even give you a limited amount of web space free (30mb) or for a modest fee you

Re: Katz Eye K7 Focusing screen now available

2009-09-10 Thread Paul Sorenson
Actually it was the heart shaped vignette that included the bride and groom in the wine glass... ;] -p (from Milwaukee) paul stenquist wrote: On Sep 10, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: Henry Carter Benson? Yes. Henry was a wedding photographer from Milwaukee. He invented the

Re: photographing guitars

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Sorenson
Lots of choices, just pick one...and don't let anyone string you along Desjardins, Steve wrote: Just don't fret ;-) -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:28 PM To: pdml@pdml.net

Re: Peso Open window II, was: Peso Open window.

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Sorenson
I like the original better than the first crop. You could maybe rotate it just a little to the right. -p David J Brooks wrote: Here is the original out of the camera, no crop. Same adjustments as the 1st one. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9778069 Dave On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at

Re: GESO Indian Fest in Milwaukee, WI

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Sorenson
Christine - Great gallery. Good job of showing both motion and detail. Did you get any shots of the women you work with? -p Christine Aguila wrote: Hi Everyone: Paul Sorenson wasn't able to meet Darrel me at the Native American Festival for a little PDML meet up. This was, of course

Re: GESO Indian Fest in Milwaukee, WI

2009-09-16 Thread Paul Sorenson
Is that at the Potawatomi Casino here in Milwaukee? -p Christine Aguila wrote: From: Paul Sorenson allarou...@earthlink.net Christine - Great gallery. Good job of showing both motion and detail. Did you get any shots of the women you work with? Thanks everyone. One of the women I

Re: Back in beantown! ...and a further NYC report (long)

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Sorenson
If they come in green gold, I get the Green Bay market... ;-) -p David Mann wrote: On Sep 18, 2009, at 2:12 PM, frank theriault wrote: I want the green one with yellow trim. Oh no, anything but green gold. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: GESO Indian Fest in Milwaukee, WI

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Sorenson
Sounds good!! -p Christine Aguila wrote: - Original Message - From: Paul Sorenson allarou...@earthlink.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:24 PM Subject: Re: GESO Indian Fest in Milwaukee, WI Is that at the Potawatomi Casino here

Re: GESO - Imogene Lake

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Sorenson
Wow!! What beautiful country. I'm afraid if I ever got to a place like that I'd be hard pressed to return to civilization. -p Tom Cakalic wrote: Hi gang, How have you been? Just a small selection of images from a backpacking trip over Labor Day weekend, to Imogene Lake in the Idaho

Re: GESO - Imogene Lake

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Sorenson
BTW - welcome back. It's been a while since I've seen a post from you. -p Tom Cakalic wrote: 4aba81e5.1000...@earthlink.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Pizza and ice-cold beer at the closest place after a 6 mile

Re: Dave Brooks' day

2009-09-27 Thread Paul Sorenson
Hapy Brithday, daVe...!! -p ann sanfedele wrote: ah ha! I should remember this one - it is also my father's birthday So to celebrate.. (in the spirit of talk like a pirate day) ... we could do type like a Brooks day - oh wiat, I arleady do ann AlunFoto wrote: Hope I've got the date

Re: Happy Birthday Marnie!

2009-09-28 Thread Paul Sorenson
I've come to the conclusion that getting older is better than the alternative... Another Libra... -p eactiv...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 9/28/2009 7:07:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, pnstenqu...@comcast.net writes: One of the lovely ladies of the list is having a birthday today.

Re: Anyone have a utility to recover Corrupted PEF files?

2009-10-06 Thread Paul Sorenson
Have you tried copying from the command line? Try using xcopy with the /c switch. That should copy the file(s) regardless of errors. -p P. J. Alling wrote: Been there done that. The file recovered has the same read problem. I don't know if it's got the CRC failure because I simply

Re: Coming to Chicago for PDML Exhibit

2009-10-08 Thread Paul Sorenson
Christine - I'm coming if my schedule doesn't change. Ann - I'll be coming down from Milwaukee, so if I decide not to stay in Chicago you're more than welcome to ride with me. I used to live in Winthrop Harbor so I'm somewhat familiar with Zion. Will know more as the date approaches. -p

Re: Lightroom question

2009-10-11 Thread Paul Sorenson
Larry - I think your question is how do I get files printable by a third party from the raw files I've manipulated. Yes?? Here's one way... With Lightroom in library mode - Create a Collection - give it a name that describes the content Find the images you want to get printed and add them

Re: Lightroom question

2009-10-11 Thread Paul Sorenson
Bob - See my answer to Larry - I think that answers your question, too. Adding those files to a Collection just tags them in a database so you're not keeping an additional actual image file. -p Bob Sullivan wrote: OK, Here's a question. In Photoshop Elements 5.0 I kept/keep a file of 2008

Re: OT - What I did this weekend

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Sorenson
Boris - A nice slice of life in Tel Aviv - P stands for Professional, right? -p Boris Liberman wrote: Hmmm, I am having fun too. Let's see: 1. K-7 in P-mode, A 50/1.2 - no AF, need to decide on the aperture for each shot - check. 2. No zoom - check. 3. Pretty noiseless and hard to notice -

Re: Geso Zoo photos from October 9, 2009

2009-10-15 Thread Paul Sorenson
Dave - Nice gallery - really like this one... http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2009-zoo-october/album/slides/_IGP3752.html It's really very simple - just take the square root of 3752 times pi divided by the cosine of 189 - and you have the answer. -p David J Brooks wrote: Had a charter to

Re: Semi-OT: GMail neatness

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Sorenson
One of the better ones is the ability to send SMS messages from g-mail. -p David Mann wrote: On Oct 15, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: GMail recently added Labs which in my understanding is plugins. These labs include ability to show a preview of an image from the link pointing to

Re: Photos from my second professional gig

2009-10-17 Thread Paul Sorenson
Cash is king... :-X -p Larry Colen wrote: I reported the $500 that I'll eventually get paid for my first gig. My unemployment check showed up today, $375 lighter than it would have been. So, basically, if I find a short term job, for every dollar that I earn, I get to keep about $.25,

Re: PESO: Chicago

2010-05-09 Thread Paul Sorenson
We're headed back to MKE in a couple hours. Should have a gallery up, too, by evening. -p -Original Message- From: Cory Waters cbwat...@bellsouth.net Sent: May 9, 2010 10:30 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Chicago

Re: I'm so excited- and I just can't hide it...

2010-05-17 Thread Paul Sorenson
Darren - I don't remember what the issue was, but if you go here: http://www.pentaximaging.com/support/manuals-and-literature/ you can download the latest firmware version to install. -p On 5/17/2010 11:41 AM, CheekyGeek wrote: Anybody remember the Pointer Sisters? That's my theme song

Re: Pentax 645D apparently introduced in Canada

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Sorenson
Let's see...where'd I put that 10 grand I've been saving for emergencies. This is an emergency, isn't it? -p On 5/18/2010 2:56 PM, AlunFoto wrote: Youtube flick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd1V58LsKtcfeature=player_embedded No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG

Re: OT: Spaghetti Sauce

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Sorenson
I've had that feeling after dinner in a restaurant in Prague, too. Whatever it was...it was tasty. :-\ -p On 5/19/2010 5:12 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: There's a lot about the EU that's a bit off. I've eaten in France and come away wondering was that Beef or Horse? I know what the menu

Re: PESO - What's Jostein doing?

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Sorenson
I'm just glad he's facing away from us... :-D -p On 5/19/2010 1:35 PM, Chris Mitchell wrote: (He's the one with his back to the camera) Another one taken by Karin on her Optio S50. http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/PDML/IMGP1260.jpg Chris No virus found in this incoming message.

Re: Stupid Windows Question

2010-05-23 Thread Paul Sorenson
Not true...I'm running five boxes on my network. A Win 7/64 Home, a Vista home, two XP Home and one Server 2003 as only a file server. All of them do what I want them to do. The only problem I've had was when my daughter-in-law go sucked into going to the Antivirus Soft web page on one of

Re: Stupid Windows Question

2010-05-23 Thread Paul Sorenson
I'm a belt and suspenders person when it comes to firewalls. Why not use both the NAT on the router and the Windows firewall and set up a firewall exception on the boxes if they don't see each other? -p On 5/23/2010 10:59 AM, Bob W wrote: Well, I always switch the Windows firewall off on my

Re: Stupid Windows Question

2010-05-23 Thread Paul Sorenson
On 5/23/2010 12:24 PM, Bob W wrote: I don't believe in over-complicating things. Firewalls give me nothing but grief at work, I don't need them doing it at home too. Although I suppose I'd have even more grief at work if we switched them off... I'm really pissed off that Dell included a

Re: PESO: Rice Duster

2010-05-23 Thread Paul Sorenson
Nice shot of a turbine powered Ag Cat. -p On 5/23/2010 12:51 PM, Jack Davis wrote: Another shot without much consequence. Boys like airplanes is the only reason that makes any sense. I see no spray plumbing, so am guessing it's filled with rice for planting or in some way engaged in that

Re: PESO: Rice Duster

2010-05-23 Thread Paul Sorenson
It'll cost you a fin...unless you'd rudder not. -p On 5/23/2010 5:45 PM, Jack Davis wrote: Ok, I'll take a stabilizer pill. Jack --- On Sun, 5/23/10, Cottycotty...@mac.com wrote: From: Cottycotty...@mac.com Subject: Re: PESO: Rice Duster To: pentax listPDML@pdml.net Date: Sunday, May

Re: Artist Bios CVs from Exhibit

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Sorenson
No objection from me. Just be sure to take my Artist Statement with a grain of salt...I was trying to be pretentious. :-) Unless someone else wants to do it, I could host them either as downloadable Word docs, simple web pages or both. -p On 5/24/2010 10:45 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: Hi

Re: K7 first thoughts

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Sorenson
Unless you need all the K-7 has to offer, consider the K-X, as well. It's a great little camera and does well with the AF540. -p On 5/24/2010 10:55 AM, Gonz wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Charles Robinsoncharl...@visi.com wrote: On May 24, 2010, at 10:37, Gonz wrote:

Re: PESO Even more bokeh

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Sorenson
Yes..please return it before we all try to buy one. ;-) The best description I can think of for that image is ethereal. -p On 5/24/2010 1:27 PM, Toine wrote: Maybe I should return this lens, it's highly addictive. http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/blog-mainmenu-97/136-even-more-bokeh K20D

Re: GESO - more weirdness, this time in DC

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Sorenson
Bob, have you been to the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie? It's, of course, not on the scale as in Washington, but more regional since so many survivors emigrated to Skokie. It's extremely well done. We spent 4 hours there and didn't see everything. It also includes a train car. -p

Re: What to charge to photograph a party?

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Sorenson
e) Larry IS out of work right now... -p On 5/27/2010 3:25 AM, eckinator wrote: 2010/5/27 paul stenquistpnstenqu...@comcast.net: If the clients are friends and you ask for that kind of money, they will cease to be friends. If they're really good friends, I shoot their party for grins.

Re: Completely OT Drivel

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Sorenson
On 5/27/2010 2:49 PM, William Robb wrote: Damned Microsoft put put Lookout Express out to pasture. That's good. Thunderbird looks a bit like Lookouy But it just isn't the same. I think it's broken. Much better than Outlook. You'll grow to love it... I made terrific Cannelloni for supper.

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-29 Thread Paul Sorenson
Excellent and timely article. It doesn't take a very warm outside temperature to turn a vehicle into an oven. The suggestion to put a reminder item in the back seat is a good low tech solution, but it's also a pretty sad commentary on our society that it's easier to remember to take your

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-29 Thread Paul Sorenson
their children? On 5/29/2010 10:56 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Paul Sorenson wrote: Excellent and timely article. It doesn't take a very warm outside temperature to turn a vehicle into an oven. The suggestion to put a reminder item in the back seat is a good low tech solution, but it's also

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-29 Thread Paul Sorenson
makes a lot of sense, but so does having seat belts in all buses something which may still not be implemented everywhere. On 5/29/2010 1:17 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote: Unfortunately it's not just parents that do this. We're had several cases in MKE, in both summer and in the dead of winter, where

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Sorenson
See my off list reply about creating a bootable disk - maybe it will help... -p On 5/30/2010 12:00 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced Netscape update... but forget that. I figured out a way to get into the mail I want to see by copying

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
On 6/1/2010 9:34 AM, William Robb wrote: And, as I just discovered, if I walk away from the computer with an email in mid composition, it will leave it open, but also drop it into the drafts folder. It doesn't give me the option of sending when I want to. OE would allow me to hit send on the

Re: OT: Tulsa

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
If you're interested in history you could visit the Will Rogers Museum in Claremore. It's about a 30+ minute drive from Tulsa International via I-44 or you could follow the old Route 66 which pretty much parallels I-44 -p On 6/1/2010 8:45 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: Howdy, folks, This is

GESO - Probably the last of the Chicago galleries

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
A few from the gallery opening and Millennium Park... http://www.studio1941.com/pdml_chicago/index.html Pentax K-X w/ either FA 50/1.4 or Tamron 28-200 -p -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: GESO - Probably the last of the Chicago galleries

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Sorenson
Thanks, Rob -p On 6/2/2010 6:38 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 02/06/2010, Paul Sorensonallarou...@earthlink.net wrote: A few from the gallery opening and Millennium Park... http://www.studio1941.com/pdml_chicago/index.html Pentax K-X w/ either FA 50/1.4 or Tamron 28-200 Another

Re: GESO - Probably the last of the Chicago galleries

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Sorenson
You'll notice I made it a point not to show your legs. ;-) -p On 6/2/2010 8:07 AM, Doug Brewer wrote: Paul Sorenson wrote: A few from the gallery opening and Millennium Park... http://www.studio1941.com/pdml_chicago/index.html Pentax K-X w/ either FA 50/1.4 or Tamron 28-200 -p best

Re: GESO - Probably the last of the Chicago galleries

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Sorenson
2, 2010, at 6:04 AM, Paul Sorenson wrote: Thanks, Rob -p On 6/2/2010 6:38 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 02/06/2010, Paul Sorensonallarou...@earthlink.net wrote: A few from the gallery opening and Millennium Park... http://www.studio1941.com/pdml_chicago/index.html Pentax K

Re: GESO - Probably the last of the Chicago galleries

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Sorenson
I thought you were... ;-) -p On 6/2/2010 2:57 PM, William Robb wrote: On 01/06/2010 11:35 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote: A few from the gallery opening and Millennium Park... http://www.studio1941.com/pdml_chicago/index.html Pentax K-X w/ either FA 50/1.4 or Tamron 28-200 -p Good God, you've

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Sorenson
H - I can do that now on my el cheapo Windows notebook - and it doesn't require a $30 adapter... -p On 6/2/2010 5:47 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: Hooked to your Pentax, you can view important shots in hi-res right after you take them (but not live view) and make corrections before you

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Sorenson
wrote: On 2010-06-02 17:03 , Paul Sorenson wrote: H - I can do that now on my el cheapo Windows notebook - and it doesn't require a $30 adapter... they are different critters; among other things, unlike your cheapito, the iPad has a very nice IPS display and it can play movies for 12 hours

Re: GESO - Probably the last of the Chicago galleries

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Sorenson
Glad to be of service... :-) -p On 6/3/2010 12:02 AM, Ira H. Bryant IV wrote: Paul, You are the first person in all of the galleries posted to take a decent picture of my photo. For this I deeply thank you. It took a week before I was certain that it even made it on a wall, and my best

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Sorenson
There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a religious belief does. - Will Rogers On 6/3/2010 7:18 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: So you admit that Mac worship is a religion? On 6/3/2010 12:35 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: On Jun 2, 2010, at 19:22 , P. J. Alling wrote: This

Re: More on LightRoom: sidecar files or no sidecar files

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Sorenson
I shoot PEFs and convert to DNG when I import into LightRoom. I like to keep everything contained within one file so if I need to copy it for some other use I'm only concerned with one file. It seems to me that it's also a better backup strategy to work with one file per image rather than

Re: PESO - A Teachable Moment

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Sorenson
Brakes are OK, but you don't want to use brakes when the tail is still up on a wheel landing (as compared to a 3-point landing) - expecially so close to touchdown. If you look closely at this video of the landing you'll see smoke coming from the left wheel almost immediately on contact with

Re: Lightroom3 and noise reduction - wow!

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Sorenson
Good to hear the good news on the noise reduction in v3. Any other comments on V3 vs V2? Is the interface pretty much the same? Is it faster? More info please -p On 6/10/2010 10:46 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: I've always thought of NR as something used to smear over grain and

Re: Lightroom3 and noise reduction - wow!

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Sorenson
Sounds like I need to think seriously about spending $99... :-) -p On 6/10/2010 11:50 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:26, Paul Sorenson wrote: Good to hear the good news on the noise reduction in v3. Any other comments on V3 vs V2? Is the interface pretty much

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Sorenson
Doug - What kind of operating costs are we looking at? There should be no reason that we can't all contribute either through a Donate button or directly to you in order to keep the costs off your back. At least until you get back on your feet and can foot the bill entirely by yourself

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Sorenson
So...how many of us can kick in 20USD and see how far it goes? -p On 6/12/2010 5:04 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: Paul Sorenson wrote: Doug - What kind of operating costs are we looking at? There should be no reason that we can't all contribute either through a Donate button or directly to you

Lightroom Mystery #2

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Sorenson
This first manifested itself in LR2 and I can't figure out what it is I've done and/or how to fix it. Some folders of images have ceased to show the readout on the temperature slider in °Kelvin, instead just showing a zero center with minus to the left and positive to the right, similar to

Re: Lightroom Mystery #2

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Sorenson
Godfrey Charles - Duh!! I guess I hadn't noticed this since I do mostly DNGs. Don't know why I didn't notice this before on JPGs. Thanks for clearing that up. Now I only feel stupid because I hadn't noticed it before...instead of because I couldn't figure out what I had done that I

Re: How to become a professional photographer

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Sorenson
I usually set mine on P (Professional) -p On 6/18/2010 1:32 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jun 18, 2010, at 11:29 AM, David Parsons wrote: Wow, never heard of any of those tips before. He writes good, he must have a great keyboard. Remember A is for Awesome. Av must be Awesome

Re: PESO -- Please find her.

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Sorenson
Very poignant -p On 6/22/2010 8:22 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: A mile stone of sorts, the 3000th shutter activation, well at least the image is _imgp3000. Close enough for for me at this point. I'd have posted this anyway. Small tragedies seem to hurt the worst, and childhood gives them a

Re: Peso - another stab at fireflies

2010-06-24 Thread Paul Sorenson
Like this one a lot better than the first. The guy in the UR corner is a little distracting because of the length of the trail and draws my eyes away from the rest of the image. I'd consider cloning him/her out. -p On 6/24/2010 11:15 AM, P N Stenquist wrote: Another great firefly show last

Re: Finally got a gallery of GFM photos on line

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
Have you looked into ProShow Gold? It's only 70USD and is pretty powerful. You can get a trial copy here... http://photodex.com/ On the download page there's a link to possible issues work arounds with Windows 7, but I've been running it with Win7/64 and have experienced no problems. -p

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
Like Bob, I try to look at most if not all of the images posted, although I comment only on a few. From the images I view I get two things that are important to me - a photographic learning experience based on what I like or what I think it would take to improve the image, and I can

Re: have pdml exhibitors heard from Sue?

2010-07-03 Thread Paul Sorenson
Nothing yet -Original Message- From: Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net Sent: Jul 2, 2010 12:54 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: have pdml exhibitors heard from Sue? If you haven't heard from Sue, could you let me know either on list or off list, doesn't matter. I'd like to know.

PESO - Al G at 92

2010-07-06 Thread Paul Sorenson
Had a family gathering a couple weeks ago to celebrate Marcia's father's 92nd birthday. http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage2.htm Cropped vertical from a horizontal image. Pentax K-X, 1/60, f/5.6, iso 800, Tamron 20-200 @ 100mm, AF-540FGZ bounced off the wall behind my

Re: PESO - Al G at 92

2010-07-06 Thread Paul Sorenson
Thanks Bob... -p On 7/6/2010 7:41 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Paul, Very nice portrait, warm and personal. I especially like the tilt to the head. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Paul Sorensonallarou...@earthlink.net wrote: Had a family gathering a couple weeks ago to

Re: Newbie

2010-07-06 Thread Paul Sorenson
Welcome...took a look at your gallery. You have some nice pix there! Good choice with the K-x. You'll really like the high iso performance. -p On 7/6/2010 11:17 PM, Walter G. wrote: Hi all, This is my third attempt at joining the discussions on this mailing list. Now that I know it

Re: PESO - Al G at 92

2010-07-07 Thread Paul Sorenson
Thanks to all who commented and/or looked. Ecke - Re: your misreading...For his 90th we did a slide show using images from various stages of his life and titled it The Al G Show -p On 7/7/2010 6:41 AM, eckinator wrote: That is a beautiful portrait, Paul, and a kind looking dad to boot.

Re: PESO: Segway Tour

2010-07-08 Thread Paul Sorenson
I wouldn't even bother. They're hard to clean and they cook up tough. -p On 7/8/2010 12:51 PM, Bob W wrote: you have to shoot their tyres out first so they can't make a quick getaway. Julia's telling me that there are segway tours in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. I think I might either take

Re: PESO: OOPS, Hot Tub Floaters

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Sorenson
Hmmm...luckily not the picture the title conjured up in my mind ;-) Unfortunately the background draws my eyes away from the collection of leaves. I think that wouldn't happen if the background were all the mottled tan without the line of blue tiles. I like the way you can see the

Re: OT - Bike Recovered

2010-07-10 Thread Paul Sorenson
Glad to hear that turned out well for you. It is too bad you couldn't have seen criminal charges brought. Guys like that should be strung up by their thumbs. -p -Original Message- From: John Celio n...@neovenator.com Sent: Jul 10, 2010 1:08 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Another butterfly - 7/11/10

2010-07-11 Thread Paul Sorenson
Very nice. Good DOF - The saturated colors and higher contrast work well for this subject. Probably less desirable for people pix, though. ;-) -p On 7/11/2010 12:43 PM, Walter G. wrote: At the risk of seeming like Johnny One-Note, I figured I'd share this image I captured this morning. The

Re: Peso Anno sensei bowing

2010-07-17 Thread Paul Sorenson
I like this, Larry. The two heads at the bottom are distracting, though. Cropping them out would focus the interest on the main figure and increase the sense of isolated preparation. -p On 7/17/2010 4:12 AM, Larry Colen wrote: Our dojo had the honor of having Anno Sensei (an 8th degree

Re: Photoshop assistance

2009-05-24 Thread Paul Sorenson
If you do need 2 or more rows I would give every image a white border and stack them randomly like a pile of pictures on a table (including some random rotation) Which would be much more easily done with FotoFusion instead of PhotoShop. I'm remembering you have that software - am I wrong?

Re: No GFM:-(

2009-05-28 Thread Paul Sorenson
Trying to go through some 400 PDML messages and just saw this. Please convey my well-wishes to your daughter - hope all works out for the best. -p paul stenquist wrote: My daughter's second chemo session is scheduled for Friday. I take her to the hospital and pick her up when she's finished,

PESO-Three Cals - PhotoShop fun

2009-05-29 Thread Paul Sorenson
I told my three year old grandson, Cal, that I would make a picture of three of him on my lawn tractor. I don't think he quite grasped the concept. When I asked him who was in the picture, he said Me. When I asked who else, he said my cousin, Tyler. He didn't know who the third kid was.

Re: Logo 3 was OT New logo, try #2

2009-05-30 Thread Paul Sorenson
Try Komposer http://kompozer.net/ It's pretty easy to use and offers WYSIWYG as well as a source screen. -p Bob W wrote: [...] For Bob W, re the index page. I thought i found all the spelling mistakes, but i guess not.;-) The page it self is from a web tutorial offered by my ISP, which i

Re: My Son's Web Album

2009-06-07 Thread Paul Sorenson
He's got a really good eye - some excellent pix in his gallery. Keep on encouraging him! -p Walter Hamler wrote: http://www.nathanhamlerphotography.com/ Every dad wants his kids to exceed their own talents and I think my dream has come true. He has really developed a good eye I think, and

Re: OT Worst web-design ever?

2009-06-07 Thread Paul Sorenson
I don't like it, either - not easy to look at the pix... It's a jAlbum skin called TiltViewer. -p Tim Øsleby wrote: Warning. Non office friendly. http://www.glamourinc.com/ The float makes me sick, literally. And no. I was not surfing for glamour. Someone who disliked the design gave me the

Re: another completely useless off topic question - Roller Bat/RollerBall

2009-06-07 Thread Paul Sorenson
I grew up in a small town north of Madison, WI and 500 was the game to play if we couldn't get enough players for a game of real ball. We played with a softball or a baseball, which ever one of us could come up with. Most of us didn't have the money for a glove, so we played bare handed for

Re: good low angle tripod

2009-06-09 Thread Paul Sorenson
I have one of these... http://tinyurl.com/24dt6h The legs swing out quite a ways so with the optional short center column you can get pretty low. An added bonus is the standard center column can be removed and extended to use as a monopod. -p 27...@comcast.net wrote: Looking for a good

Re: FW: OT: How thick should your chickens' stockings be?

2009-06-14 Thread Paul Sorenson
Geeez - some things I hadn't thought about in years. Bob W wrote: The guy would chop their heads feet off and give us the legs to play with, pulling the tendons. Bob When I was little my Dad was a duck hunter, and when he was butchering them I would cut out the voice box, rinse it off and

Re: Very Orange

2009-06-25 Thread Paul Sorenson
Another entry in the race for orange... http://www.studio1941.com/geso/imgp0325.htm -p ann sanfedele wrote: Well Paul's looks like jsut the right hue and tone of orange here but as for Doug's shot, I'd call it one in vermillion (and, they're off!) ann paul stenquist wrote:

Re: is anyone up? or did I miss the aviation pug?

2009-06-26 Thread Paul Sorenson
Send an email directly to Scott. Depending where he is in the process, he may still be able to work your pix into the PUG. I was able to email mine to him mid-week after the form was down. Otherwise, as Rick said, it would make a fine PESO... -p Christine Aguila wrote: I've a photo for

Re: Lightroom strangeness

2009-06-29 Thread Paul Sorenson
Be brave...open up the box and install a second internal drive. Then use the Firewire for your backup drive(s). ;] -p Christine Aguila wrote: Tell me about it. I have 50 gigs left on my hard drive, and I have to come up with a solution fast that doesn't involve buying a new Vista

Re: Anybody know of a K20D DNG file on the web?

2009-07-14 Thread Paul Sorenson
Or this one... http://www.yousendit.com/ -p Bruce Walker wrote: J.C. O'Connell wrote: thanks, but I cant receive large email attachments nor can I do public upload access of my personal web space at this time.. -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net

Re: Recovering files from a formatted card?

2009-07-15 Thread Paul Sorenson
Tim - PC Inspector has two recovery programs - File Recovery and Smart Recovery http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1 File Recovery is freeware, don't know about the other. -p Tim Øsleby wrote: I've in big shit. Formatted a card by mistake. Only five shots at it,

Did we ever see

2009-07-15 Thread Paul Sorenson
the Aviation PUG? -p -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

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