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RE: Photography - 4/23/2008 5:18:18 PM
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car2ner
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I have started a yahoo group,...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/738069@N21/
it is by invite only... if you want to share photos. I made a disclaimer that this is for crosswalk posters but not an official crosswalk site.
Moderators, it you have a problem with this I will close it down.
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RE: Photography - 4/23/2008 6:06:50 PM
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Preserve - Thank you for the hint about the homemade reflector! I can't wait to try that. (Off topic alert lol Can I ask a quick question about your avatar? What kind of bird is that? It's so pretty! I have 11 bird feeders, 2 hummingbird feeders and 2 birdbaths up and running right now. We are visiting a bird sanctuary on our vacation next month, so I'm teaching my daughter how to identify our backyard birds before we go. So far, we've identified over 20 types of birds in our yard. )
Thanks! It's a song sparrow that came up to my japanese maple earlier this year. Congrats on all the feeders! I have two water dishes, 2 suet feeders, and 2 tube feeders for the birds in my yard. I've seen about 25 or so species. You ought to try to get some pictures of them. Sibley's is the best bird book.
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RE: Photography - 4/23/2008 7:57:40 PM
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Preserve - Thank you for the hint about the homemade reflector! I can't wait to try that. (Off topic alert lol Can I ask a quick question about your avatar? What kind of bird is that? It's so pretty! I have 11 bird feeders, 2 hummingbird feeders and 2 birdbaths up and running right now. We are visiting a bird sanctuary on our vacation next month, so I'm teaching my daughter how to identify our backyard birds before we go. So far, we've identified over 20 types of birds in our yard. )
Thanks! It's a song sparrow that came up to my japanese maple earlier this year. Congrats on all the feeders! I have two water dishes, 2 suet feeders, and 2 tube feeders for the birds in my yard. I've seen about 25 or so species. You ought to try to get some pictures of them. Sibley's is the best bird book.
I just love sparrows! That's a fantastic picture, too. My sparrows are really entertaining, along with a little chickadee, which is getting more bold each day. Do your birds seem to like the suet? I haven't fed any to mine yet, but I've thought about it. I have taken some pictures of my yard and some birds, but as they are a distance from the house, the pictures aren't the greatest. Here is the link to them if you want to see.
As for a bird book, I made my own and put it in a notebook. My 5-year-old daughter, Paislee, loves "her" little birdies, and the notebook gives her a good reference point for the birds she finds in our yard.  I will have to check out the Sibley's book and hide it if I decide to buy it, lol. Otherwise, it will be confiscated and claimed as "hers".
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RE: Photography - 4/24/2008 6:02:41 AM
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I love that photo of Trill's sweetie. Manly because of the silly "I'm trying not to smile" smile on his face.
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RE: Photography - 4/24/2008 10:53:53 AM
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ezri
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Okay - I scanned(I hate my scanner- but it was a gift so...) one of my Final Project photos. I do not like the way it scanned, but I wanted to share something I printed. the B&W film and all is almost like giving birth. You take the photo and develop the film and then carry the precious negative to the darkroom and give birth to that which you saw. it is hard to explain- and this one was like pulling teeth because I had a vision for her beyond what the lens saw. Our final project has to contain 2 diffusions, 2 shadows, and 2 reflections. I do not have them all scanned in yet. It will have to be AFTER the showing on the 30th.
Anyway- here she is.
Reaching[diffused]
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Reaching (Diffused)
Brookgreen Gardens
Myrtle Beach, SC
Silver Gelatin Print
I wanted her to look like she was IN the water she was trying to touch to no avail. Poor thing was stuck on a rock in the blazing sun.
I took this with my Pentax K-1000 with the 50mm prime lens and sky filter. 100 speed Agfa film. I developed the film and print myself. Even made the "seaweed" like diffusers outta plastic wrap and packing tape all by my lonesome. It was kinda funny cause in the dark room the kids kept asking "Mary, can I borrow that diffusy thingy you made?" hehehehe!
I don't really like the way she scanned- will have to play with trills scanner later to see if I can make it work better.
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RE: Photography - 4/24/2008 11:21:32 AM
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anyone work in hdr? i'm trying to learn it.
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RE: Photography - 4/24/2008 1:20:47 PM
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ezri
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Well she was done the old fashioned way. i am taking the Photo classes at the Community college one per semester to learn the stuff behind HOW the camera works. Photo 1 and 2 are done on a manual type camera- She suggests the Pentax K1000 (think late 70's early 80's) or if you want a newer type the Canon K2. She is a Canon gal. She likes the K1000 because it is 100% manual and you HAVE to work the camera. No "program" mode to fall back on. She knows if you use the K1000 that you are really the one making the choices about exposure and all.
I like my K1000 too- it was the first REAL SLR I ever had. Mine was stolen back in High School but my sister found one at a yard sale for like 5 or 10 bucks. NICE! The camera bag it was in was worth more than that.
If you wanna see what others have done with the sculpture in my photo check here if the link doesn't work you can search Reaching Brookgreen gardens on flickr and she will come up.
the diffusers were used on the enlarger in the darkroom. They were uber easy to make. I mean a bit of saran wrap and clear packing tape. They saw a lot of use yesterday.
Overheard in the darkroom-
Person A:"So what'd you do this weekend?"
Person B:"I hung out with pal's at the movies... not interesting... anyone do anything interesting?"
Person C: "I spent Saturday shooting an event-"
Person A: "An event?"
Person C: "Yeah- it wasn't a concert or anything like that. A Fiber festival."
Person B: "You shoot digital?"
Person C: "Some but the lady requested film so I shot 5 rolls of color film for her."
Person D" "FIVE ROLLS! HOLY....."
Person C" "Yeah, well I was concerned about a few of the shots so I took 3 of each of those... 1 at the 'proper' meter reading, 1 under and 1 over..."
Persons A, B, & D: a conglomeration of Huh? What? Like I totally understood what you just said...
So I explained "exposure bracketing" to about 10 kids in the darkroom who had ALREADY gotten the lesson out in the classroom but slept through it. *sigh* some of the responses were "So if I had over exposed that one shot I wanted that was so dark I would have been able to see..." A lot of head slapping and DUH moments after that. I did NOT tell them that their Canon K2's all had a exposure bracketing feature. hehehe it is too late in the class as our projects are due Tomorrow!!!
THEN Person D introduces himself- hey, it is dark in the room and no one was really chatting and about HALF the kids were from the Tues/Thurs class so I had no idea who I was chatting with. I introduced myself as the Class mother and over achieving, perfectionist, that blows the curve for everyone. Then laughed and added that prof K doesn't grade on a curve. Person D said that if he was in my class he'd of made double certain to have sat next to me. It was funny. Anyway- Mr A and Mr. Z quietly refer to me as Hermione Granger of Harry Potter fame. My ability to score 100% on the tests is not gonna save them from failing though. They failed to turn in the mid term and do not have their projects done.
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RE: Photography - 4/24/2008 5:15:50 PM
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ezri
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Pro- me- HA! no way. LOL I would classify myself as a student of photography. I am learning myself. There are some REALLY good folks that visit this thread from time to time and give advice though.
One of those bits of advice I took was the purchase of a book called "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson. If nothing else it saved one photo I love. I read a bit about metering off of Green near the object in it when shooting back lit landscapes. I shot the broken heart tree in my avatar on Program mode with my XTi and got THIS- but then I set the camera to manual and metered off of the green bush under/just behind the tree and got THIS it is a bit over exposed but that is the way I like it so NAH!
anyway- the book is a really cheap lesson in exposure. he tries to keep it down on the bottom shelf, but does assume you know something about your camera. I really enjoy it and go back to it as a reference when i have something that is just not coming out the way I want it to.
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RE: Photography - 4/24/2008 7:26:47 PM
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Elements is a nice program... has enough bells and whistles to be useful. It is fun to play with the filters and it is good for making a slide show. I used it with Middle schoolers last summer when I taught a class.
Ezri, I feel the pain of bad exposure. I learned that one quickly when I shot film and got the pics back a week later. By then it was too late to redo the photo. Digital does make on the spot redos pretty easy.
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RE: Photography - 4/24/2008 7:30:53 PM
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I have started a yahoo group,...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/738069@N21/
it is by invite only... if you want to share photos. I made a disclaimer that this is for crosswalk posters but not an official crosswalk site.
Moderators, it you have a problem with this I will close it down.
Good going! I sent you a request...
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RE: Photography - 4/24/2008 8:28:16 PM
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hey, I am new and saw this thread..I am getting a new digital camera and was wondering if anyone knew of a program that can help me to make my photo's look professional.
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RE: Photography - 4/24/2008 8:34:00 PM
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join flickr and learn a lot, get photoshop or photoshop elements if possible.
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RE: Photography - 4/25/2008 6:17:22 AM
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car2ner
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And play around alot. Don't be afraid of making mistakes so take lots of photos. Watch for composition and exposure. Most everything else can be tweeked on the computer. But if you don't have composition and a good exposure there isn't much you can do to make it right.
Adobe Elements is a nice well rounded program that orgainzes, edits and makes some cool presentations like slide shows. I did have trouble getting music added to slide shows on Vista machines. XP worked fine.
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RE: Photography - 4/25/2008 12:58:33 PM
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hey, I am new and saw this thread..I am getting a new digital camera and was wondering if anyone knew of a program that can help me to make my photo's look professional.
well the best prgram out there is photoshop cs3, but it costs about $650. so, you could go the less expensive route and buy photoshop elements - its basically a "light" version, but still with many tools to edit your photos the way you want. elements costs less than $100 i think.
car2ner - i requested to join the flickr group.
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RE: Photography - 4/25/2008 3:33:00 PM
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hey, I am new and saw this thread..I am getting a new digital camera and was wondering if anyone knew of a program that can help me to make my photo's look professional.
The only thing that's goint to make your photos "look professional" is lots of practice. Photoshop Elements is a good tool to enhance the photos you've taken. It can fix exposure mistakes and color balance, but 95% of how a picture looks is composition. And that comes with experience. If you're really new, pick up a copy of the Amateur Photographer's Handbook. Amazon usually has it in stock.
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RE: Photography - 4/25/2008 4:55:34 PM
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WOW! what a day!
I am here unwinding before I upload the few photos I took at the History Conference. I mean ONLy a few. probably less than 20.
I got there just before the awards part of the thing so no neat shots from the classes the kids got to sit in. The exam went fine. Again, I knew all the answers- I KNEW I knew them. it was only a matter of not freezing up at the thought of a 5 page exam + having the 6 photos done sans fingerpints and dust on the glass/matt.
it took longer than I had hoped. But I did get to help another girl- she had a exam before ours and missed the review and all the "helps" the prof had us write in on the paper. The proff sat her down and gave her the exam and said do what you can then let me know what you have problems with and wandered off to do something but she is the type that gets stopped by 15 people walking 50 foot down the hallway to the ladies room.
The prof had started helping another gal that was in a similar situation so I knew how she was doing the helping. So when the girl got frustrated I looked over the answers she had, all but ONE was right and she had finished more than 2/3 of the exam. I told her that she knew the stuff to just breathe and take her time then realized she did not have the written helps that the proff. had given at the beginning and had her write those things down.
It was kinda funny because there were 3 other folks in the classroom and the gal would fuss and say WHAT?!?! and read the question out loud and one of the gals would say something quite arbitrary like "Wow that table is really LOW" then the two of us that would not ever actually GIVE her an answer outright would bust out laughing like stop it! Another one that she was stumped on I messed up cause one of the other girls said "Oh I Guessed on that one. I dunno- I can't help ya." I stupidly asked her what her answer was- she said "density" and I realized what I'd done and turned away quickly and went back to my frames. The gal that said density jumped up and down and said "I got it right!"
in the end the only ones she had left were the word problems and I helped out by having her underline what they wanted her to change the camera setting to achieve- like Depth of Field or to show motion.
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RE: Photography - 4/26/2008 8:41:27 AM
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Techno, you are all set to go. Look forward to seeing you drop in a few photos.
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