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Re: Hello from Dublin, Ireland

Maria — 2012-02-03T19:05:16-08:00

Hello, welcome to rhe forum!

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Re: Frozen Morning", by khamar

DamianDiccox — 2012-02-03T17:30:12-08:00

This looks like a pretty good picture from the camera on a phone (better than most of my HTC evo photos), based on the other picture uploaded being from the same angle I assume that its taken through a window. I think that you'd be better off moving the shooting position a little.
Damian

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The meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo

DuncanDavies — 2012-02-03T12:21:18-08:00

Some of you may have seen the above photo which caused controversy in 2006 when printed in a book. Any thoughts?

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Re: What do you think of Google+ for posting your images?

brianfitz1 — 2012-02-03T02:46:38-08:00

Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum so Hello All!

I have a Google+ account but haven't spent any time working on it. It seems to be very busy. I agree with Pixelated comments above that Flickr (although I am really sentimental about my account) is dying a slow death. I am also wondering how you guys are getting on with 500px? In my opinion its inspiring but I don't get a sense of community from the site.

Cheers
Brian

"http://www.brianfitzpatrickphotography.com" onclick="this.target='_blank';" rel="nofollow"

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Re: Jan 2012 MBP Assignment - Frozen Motion

Mr Nikon — 2012-02-02T23:20:16-08:00

DamianDiccox wrote:I have my sights on a trigger trap triggertrap.com when they finally get produced, and I wish that I'd had one for this assignment after seeing all of the great images.
I'm not sure that I have a real need for one of these things but it looks like it would have been a lot of fun to play with for this assignment. Maybe I'll use this assignment to justify it to myself.
Does anyone have experience with one of these things?
Damian

I've built a few lightning triggers, a few motion sensors and a sound trigger in the past. They can work very well. I had a fast look at that website but I didn't read the manual. It sounds like a good little unit. I wanted an all in one unit but didn't have the time to put it together so I ordered two off the net. It has a sound trigger, lightning trigger, laser trigger and a motion sensor. I got them a few months back but hadn't had the time to really test them out until a few days ago for the assignment....

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"Under the Crystal Wing" by Warren Keelan

Maria — 2012-02-02T18:09:58-08:00

Warren Keelan wrote:

One of those one in a million shots that display more than water and sand. Sometimes sculptures can appear from nowhere

Country: Australia
State: NSW
Town: Kiama
File Size: 343 KB
Date added: Feb 01, 2012
Dimensions: 700 x 467 pixels
Displayed: 22 times
Date Time: 2012:02:01 11:02:14
DateTime digitized: 2011:12:29 14:22:03
Exif Version: version 2.21
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Exposure Mode: 1
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Time: 1/1600 sec
FNumber: f 7.1
Flash: No Flash
Flash Pix Version: version 1
Focal length: 20 mm
ISO: 100
Make: Canon
Max Aperture: f 2.8
Metering Mode: Multi-Segment
Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Orientation: Normal (O deg)
Resolution Unit: Inch
Scene Capture Mode: 0
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows
White Balance: 0

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Re: How do you manage focus?

Martin — 2012-02-01T19:23:43-08:00

I'm a little late to the party here, but thought I'd chime in to the great thread with my own thoughts. Thanks for starting this Morton!

My approach to deciding Depth-of-Field, is to start with the assumption that I'll go as shallow as I can get away with to achieve a dreamy looking image, without loosing too much detail in the main subject. I decide on the main subject simply by looking for interesting objects or a color or luminance contrast from the surrounding objects. My "Lone White" shot is probably a good example ofthis.

I found a single white poppy in a sea of red, so I naturally want focus on the white poppy. I shot this at f3.5, with an f2.8 lens, so I'd stopped down by 2/3 of a stop to get slightly more of the white poppy in focus than wide open would have given me. I purposefully chose an angle that would give me lots of nice foreground...

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Re: Feb 2012 MBP Assignment - Intimate Landscape

brazilnuts — 2012-01-31T11:48:56-08:00

People have done that in the past.

I think I'd rather not see examples. I kind of like seeing what people come up with, with no preconceived ideas other than the assignement title and the few discussions here.

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Re: Assignment Ideas

brazilnuts — 2012-01-30T06:58:28-08:00

Oooo I like Nancy's suggestion, too. Much better than mine.

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Podcast 320 : Dec 2011

Martin — 2012-01-29T13:47:48-08:00

There's a new post on Martin's blog:

Podcast 320 : Dec 2011 "Organic" Assignment Winners

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Re: Where to print large format custom prints?

Martin — 2012-01-28T18:06:52-08:00

I just realized looking at this again, it was BlowUp3 that I tried, not 2.

"http://www.alienskin.com/blowup/" onclick="this.target='_blank';" rel="nofollow"

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Re: Printing out-of-gamut images

Martin — 2012-01-28T18:01:12-08:00

Hi Rich,

I agree with you on ignoring the gamut. In the video that I released last week on the new features in Lightroom 4, I touched on my general advice of using soft-proofing to adjust an image to make it look like the original, while the target profile is being applied to the print copy. This can make the gamut warning go crazy, but in general, it works. Conversely, if you bow down to the gamut warning and try to "fix" the image, getting rid of all the warnings, you can end up with an image very different to your intended look, and of not very pleasing at all.

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Re: "Fake" White Balance

Maria — 2012-01-28T17:15:35-08:00

I did this once (applied a "fake WB" to one of my shots) using ACR (http://bit.ly/zdpxB5). I applied it to a landscape and changed the WB to "shot as" and then changed to "tungsten". This action changed the whole image's colors instantly. See here: http://bit.ly/w0m4k6. There is a bluish cast in the color of the bark of the tree, and the pink flowers changed colors too, to be used in a "creative" way. The brush action of Lightroom should make this process perhaps more selective (to be used creatively or corrective). In this case I wasn't correcting anything, I was just trying to be creative with the color using the WB tab in ACR.

Statistics : Posted by Maria • on 2012-January-28(Sat) 4:22AM • Replies 5 • Views 358

Re: Lytro camera the future of photography?

michaelluthi — 2012-01-27T08:43:18-08:00

the 50mio sound like a lot but considering how much R&D costs these days it is really not that much. Also it is not easy to make the money back. Apple seems to make about 20-30% profit on their hot iPads and iPhones but i am sure other will have much lower profits. Now for how much can you flog off a Lytro? 200$ 500$ or a 1000$? The photos this thing takes are only 1 or 2 MB, keep in mind you need a sensor that delivers about 10x more MB to have enough pixels for the magic. So even if you get the rumored 36MB sensor of the upcoming D800 you produce only 3.6MB photos... worth 1000$? i think not even 500$. So if they are lucky they can make 100$ per camera, which means they need to sell half a million of them to make the 50mio back. selling half a million is a tall order, not many of the current photography companies do it...
so i agree with Landon, for the time being it is a gimmick

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Re: Canon's Bulb mode

brazilnuts — 2012-01-26T12:57:31-08:00

Be sure to place your order through Martin's links at the top.

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Re: Similar, but not copied, image found to breach copyright

brazilnuts — 2012-01-26T06:10:03-08:00

Seems similar to the case that the singer Rihanna has faced with her music videos, where she's recreated the look and feel of some photograhpers' work. A bit more blatant than the case here, but still - different images, even different media.

http://fashionista.com/2011/12/adventures-in-copyright-rihannas-you-da-one-video-is-remarkably-similar-to-photographer-s%c3%b 8lve-sundsb%c3%b8s-work/

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Re: Dec 2011 MBP Assignment - Organic

Martin — 2012-01-25T17:17:15-08:00

Great back-stories everyone!

Having noticed the kind comments against my image just now, I ended up writing a very quick back-story, so I'm going to paste it here too. I'll provide more information when I record the Podcast on this one in a few days.

Here's my back-story:
The lighting here was just the ceiling light in my studio. I placed the mushrooms as far away from it as possible to get a good angled shadow, but that's about it. The white balance was adjusted slightly, and I ran it through Color Efex Pro 4 to give the detail/texture a subtle punch too.

I took the most time looking for the best composition to give the mushrooms a bit of character. Oh, and I taped a bit of black velvet to the wall behind them to stop light from bouncing back and filling in the slight shadows.

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Re: "Remembering Last Summer" by petrovisch

Lantern — 2012-01-25T16:21:41-08:00

Hi,

When looking at this image it seems very busy. I am continually drawn to the lower right to see 'behind' the bush to see the orange thing. I'm not sure that having the main flower in focus in the centre works on this image. Maybe moving yourself to your right a bit to cut the orange thing out would work a bit better. I love the colour of the pink flower and the detail in the petals.

Daniel

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Re: Question about Profile Optimization with ColorMunki Phot

m_goldberg — 2012-01-25T08:43:56-08:00

Thanks for your advice, Martin. I've made an LR export preset that incorporates what you recommend and will using it to do printer profile optimization.

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Podcast 319 : Lightroom 4 Public Beta New Feature Overview

Martin — 2012-01-23T16:26:01-08:00

There's a new post on Martin's blog:

Podcast 319 : Lightroom 4 Public Beta New Feature Overview (Video)

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Re: Podcast 318 : Martin's Top Ten Images from 2011

m_goldberg — 2012-01-21T16:59:12-08:00

Wythe and Eric. Thanks for taking a look. I'm always happy when someone takes a look at my stuff.

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Re: How do you find Shutter Actuations?

bksecret — 2012-01-19T12:05:46-08:00

richparry wrote:in case you wanted to know, I clicked on your "W" (WordPress) icon and it yielded a broken link 404 Error, although a web page was displayed. Just thought you might wish to know.

Thanks! Fixed that. Not sure what the link was to now since that site is gone and I forgot to updated it here. But all good now.

-Landon

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Re: HELP! Using a tablet to edit?

KlaasVisser — 2012-01-19T02:06:41-08:00

I find the tablet most useful when trying to brush in whatever adjustment I'm using - with a pressure sensitive tip, it acts very much like a brush, and allows for more precision when brushing along edges, etc.

I use an ageing Wacom Graphire 3 8"x6" mapped to my external monitor only, as that's where Aperture displays the image in full screen, while the browser and tool panels etc live on the laptop screen.

Statistics : Posted by KlaasVisser • on 2012-January-07(Sat) 1:24AM • Replies 6 • Views 466

Re: "Remembering Last Spring" by petrovisch

petrovich — 2012-01-18T10:31:32-08:00

A few adjustments made along with the suggestions.

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Re: Adobe's Lightroom VS Apple's Aperture

OverNiven — 2012-01-16T21:58:04-08:00

Interesting discussion. I'm at a point where I need to do a lot of upgrades to my computer setup here, and I've never given Aperture a try, because mostly I'm fearful of my 6 year old iMac not being able to handle it.
I am still a Lightroom 2.7 user. I've been trying to get my picture library in order, and am trying to decide on a computer upgrade before I moved to Lightroom 3. Now I see Lightroom 4 is hitting Beta.

How does Adobe usually deal with upgrades across major version numbers? I see there is an upgrade to version 3 on Amazon.com at the moment. Will I have to purchase the version 3 upgrade to be able to buy a version 4 upgrade, or will I have to buy a new user license version of LR 4.

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Re: Critique of images

viktokyo — 2012-01-16T07:08:15-08:00

Thanks for your reply. I'm trying to learn a few things quickly, as I will need to use them very soon.

A bit about me - I had a Canon setup (40D with a couple of nice lenses) and I just traded it in for a Nikon D7000 with a 35mm 1.4 as my only lens. I'm finding the decision to be quite good so far and am enjoying the Nikon.

The situation I need to photograph: We are expecting a baby so baby's first photograph in the delivery room, mom holding baby, etc.

One question - will my 35mm be sufficient or should I have a longer lens, like a 24-70, or which one would you recommend? I'm not looking to spend much money on a second lens as I was wanting to learn with a prime but I suppose I will eventually need a longer lens so I am wondering if I should get it now.

bksecret wrote: There is such a place, but currently in private beta.
"http://eyeist.com/" onclick="this.target='_blank';" rel="nofollow"
It looks like a really cool live critique and portfolio review system with new technology,

...

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lightroom publish services and ipad

cooperman — 2012-01-15T00:52:26-08:00

Hi,
been using Lightroom successfully for a while, use the publish service to export images to a photoframe for display.
is there a way to do something similar with an Ipad, or do i have to export images to a folder and import the folder to ipad.
I have done it this way previously but looking to try to create a portfolio on my ipad and just thought this may be the way forward.
does any one have any experience

many thanks
Andrew

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Re: Overnight photography – Morning dew and condensation

khamar — 2012-01-13T23:51:03-08:00

Here is another idea for dew prevention - "http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~rasc/HEATER.pdf" onclick="this.target='_blank';" rel="nofollow"

Kyle

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Nikon D4

TomSchmitt — 2012-01-12T07:13:38-08:00

Very interesting 'dream', Martin !

But firstly, I don' t think the industry wants modular cams, because they are interested in selling a new body every three years, not only a part. Ricoh is the only one I know who does it. Also it had to be not only the sensor that is exchangable, but also the processor(s), because these two components will most likely represent the major improvements in the future. Technically I agree it's doable and would be great to have, but I doubt they'll offer it.

Correct me if I am worng, but keeping the sensor - back element distance in new mirrorless cams would let us use our old EF or F lenses, right ? So we could protect our investement, but it would NOT lead to much smaller bodies. That would be a great interim solution, but you would pass on the chance to make the lenses smaller, too. This will only be possible when sensor and lens come closer together, using the space of the antique mirror.

So - since we are dreaming here, I wanna have both:

- I w...

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Re: Lightroom 4

Curtis — 2012-01-12T04:08:23-08:00

Some of the new features look lame but apparently the brushes and localised editing features are greatly improved. I believe the beta creates a new catalog file so your LR3 edits will not be visible. Still, I'm going to give it a go.

New Features in Lightroom 4 Beta
* Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.
* Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates.
* Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.
* White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.
* Additional local editing controls let you adjust noise reduction and remove moiré in targeted areas of your images.
* Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.
* Easy video publishing lets you edit and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr®.
* Soft pro...

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