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11/01/2007 01:27:24 AM · #1451 |
Originally posted by basssman7:
Who here takes their camera everywhere? I don't because I am too afraid of it getting stolen on me if I forget it is with me. |
I take mine EVERYWHERE!!!! Always have, always will. That's why a "Perfect" walkaround lens is so critical to me.
I have that Halloween entry because of it.
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11/01/2007 01:32:49 AM · #1452 |
I too take my camera with me almost everyday. The only exceptions are when I am with work related customers for the day. Though I have had several days where I forgot the charge my battery or put back in the memory card. I usually use my lunch break, coffee break, or shortly after work to take pictures. Sometimes I'll hope off the bus if something catches my fancy on the way home.
Even though my camera is a bit on the heavy side, it does fit in my laptop bag just fine, though I usually just mount one prime lens for the day so the size isn't too big. |
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11/01/2007 03:58:22 AM · #1453 |
Thanks  melethiafor your comment on photojournalism, you saw what I did great minds think alike.
Message edited by author 2007-11-01 03:59:35. |
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11/01/2007 04:56:47 AM · #1454 |
Thanks for the help with October hooha decision making, Karen & Don. I think I probably ruined it with some extra PP, but hey . . .
I've done a mini-Jeb with my old thing shot - from 5.8 at 15 votes down to 4.8 at 49. I omitted to write 'this is old, by the way' in the title.
Jayson, D200 lithium ion batteries last longer (in terms of working life) if they're charged often. You can make a routine and do it every day . . . Thanks for all your perceptive comments, by the way - they are regularly and eagerly anticipated.
I think maybe it's sometimes a good idea to leave the camera at home. It may add to the experience but it may also detract (hanging like a millstone round your neck and monopolising your attention). If you drive a car every day and thereby have some sort of excuse to have the camera half with you, then you should say fifteen hail marys per photograph and apologise regularly to unsuspecting passers-by for fouling up their planet. |
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11/01/2007 05:09:08 AM · #1455 |
I keep ruining my shots. Here's what I mean. I had a shot from Washington I really liked; it had what I thought was great potential. I worked on it in PS, cropped, levels, sharpening, wanted to bring the subject closer, blah and stuff. Somewhere I lost my vision of it, and when I opened it this morning on the page (it's in "free study"), the first thing I thought was, "Everything I liked about it is gone; it's now just a snapshot." And guess what? Someone has commented exactly that. And she's right (not a TSer, but still right). I'm not sure there's much redeeming left about it, actually.
I need to rethink how I look at my shots; I keep getting a kind of tunnel vision, where I try to accomplish one thing (here it was trying to isolate the subject a bit), and lose sight of the bigger picture (no pun intended). I'm a little frustrated with myself; it's one thing to do something intended to push the theme of the challenge (like my "rainbow" shot), it's quite another to get working so closely on one aspect of an image that you ruin it in the process.
Geez, a snapshot in a free study. Not good :/
Hope you are all doing better at this point.
Best,
Rob
P.S. My camera goes pretty much everywhere with me, much to my wife's chagrin. Maybe I ought to think about leaving it home more often.
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11/01/2007 05:23:42 AM · #1456 |
| Rob - here's a thought - do the basic stuff that makes it a picture from RAW - levels, curves, sharpen, crop. Save that. Then open the RAW again and play with it as you see fit. Wait a day (if possible, given the confines of challenges) then look at both again. Sometimes I'll edit the crap out of something, go back to it the next day and hate it. Most times I'm happy with the basic edit, but I do realize that the basic edit of things generally isn't what works well here, but that's beside the point. |
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11/01/2007 05:30:04 AM · #1457 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Rob - here's a thought - do the basic stuff that makes it a picture from RAW - levels, curves, sharpen, crop. Save that. Then open the RAW again and play with it as you see fit. Wait a day (if possible, given the confines of challenges) then look at both again. Sometimes I'll edit the crap out of something, go back to it the next day and hate it. Most times I'm happy with the basic edit, but I do realize that the basic edit of things generally isn't what works well here, but that's beside the point. |
I do the same thing! Since I don't know too much about what the heck I'm doing in photoshop, I can really mess up a good thing but it's fun to play. |
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11/01/2007 06:40:52 AM · #1458 |
Originally posted by raish:
I've done a mini-Jeb with my old thing shot - from 5.8 at 15 votes down to 4.8 at 49. I omitted to write 'this is old, by the way' in the title. |
Oh, now that's a thing????? LOL!!!
Wait! You have to whine and pitch a fit, too!.....8>)
Originally posted by raish:
Jayson, D200 lithium ion batteries last longer (in terms of working life) if they're charged often. You can make a routine and do it every day . |
Really???? I'm still in the mindset that you should run a battery down for as long as you can and as hard as possible. I've been doing that with mine since I got in in July '06 and it's still going strong after 12-15K images and I download through the camera instead of using a card reader. That uses the camera battery to download. I get probably 500 images and a couple of downloads before I have to charge.
Should I start to charge more regularly now or just don't disrupt anything? And how long should one of these batteries last?
Originally posted by raish:
I think maybe it's sometimes a good idea to leave the camera at home. It may add to the experience but it may also detract (hanging like a millstone round your neck and monopolising your attention). If you drive a car every day and thereby have some sort of excuse to have the camera half with you, then you should say fifteen hail marys per photograph and apologise regularly to unsuspecting passers-by for fouling up their planet. |
I'm not going to openly disagree, but......in my case, I am so used to having it with me that I hardly know it's there. I have a D70s, which is a pretty serious brick in terms of size and weight and the 28-300 Tamron lens is hefty, too, but I'm also a BIG fellow. I don't carry it around my neck, I generally have it in my hand as it fits so well. It's so much the right size that I can actually work the shutter and aperture wheels one-handed if I want and the shutter button is perfectly placed. I think these factors have a lot to do with my comfort of having it with me, but it's still always there to have to deal with, so I think it's a mental thing as much as anything.
The last thing I will mention about having the camera with me is that it's like an unused plane ticket.........sometimes, I'll just take off from wherever I am just 'cause I have it with me! Escape clause!
Oh, Peter and Don....my thoughts on your styles? You guys both conjure up images of Vasco de Gama, Columbus, Pizarro, Marco Polo, Stanley & Livingstone, Lewis & Clark, and the like for me, 'cause you guys just seem to me to be the adventurers of Team Suck to me.....you'll try anything, go anywhere, fearlessly, in your quest of expression, voters be damned! I'd never have the guts. That's admirable and exciting!
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11/01/2007 06:41:27 AM · #1459 |
Free Study 2007-10
Votes: 8
Views: 11
Avg Vote: 5.1250
Photojournalism III
Votes: 175
Views: 351
Avg Vote: 5.8171 (started 6.3)
Comments: 8
Favourites: 1
The Beginning of the End
Votes: 91
Views: 171
Avg Vote: 5.5604 (started 4.9)
Comments: 5
hmm, where will the free study go? i just saw it drop from 5.6 - 5.1. ah well, my genius is unrecognised.... ;~P
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11/01/2007 06:44:18 AM · #1460 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Rob - here's a thought - do the basic stuff that makes it a picture from RAW - levels, curves, sharpen, crop. Save that. Then open the RAW again and play with it as you see fit. Wait a day (if possible, given the confines of challenges) then look at both again. Sometimes I'll edit the crap out of something, go back to it the next day and hate it. Most times I'm happy with the basic edit, but I do realize that the basic edit of things generally isn't what works well here, but that's beside the point. |
Originally posted by hipychik:
I do the same thing! Since I don't know too much about what the heck I'm doing in photoshop, I can really mess up a good thing but it's fun to play. |
One thing I do if I'm at all unsure?
Once I get it to a certain rudimentary idea of what I'm doing, I'll stop and save it, then open another, and bang around on that one, then another.......then I'll dump all of 'em into a folder and watch 'em all cycle by in a slideshow and elimnate 'em as I watch. I've done that countless times and usually the only time I look at it later and figure that it doesn't suit......I probably shouldn't have entered that image at all!
Just my $0.02 US.......YMMV!
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11/01/2007 06:48:56 AM · #1461 |
I have 5 shots in voting right now! That's never happened before.
I take my camera in the car with me wherever I go. I don't take it in the grocery store or anything, but I know it's out there if I happen to need it in the produce department or something! |
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11/01/2007 06:53:53 AM · #1462 |
Originally posted by xianart:
ah well, my genius is unrecognised.... ;~P |
I beg to differ... :-) |
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11/01/2007 07:07:36 AM · #1463 |
All I've got in right now is my Free Study entry, and I'm very happy with the scoring so far. Mind you, at only 12 votes, the score now is not indicative of what is to come.
Free Study 2007-10
Votes: 12
Views: 16
Avg Vote: 5.8333
Comments: 1
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11/01/2007 07:46:21 AM · #1464 |
Originally posted by xianart:
ah well, my genius is unrecognised.... ;~P |
Originally posted by Melethia:
I beg to differ... :-) |
Yeah, me too!
I'll add a heartfelt, "HORSESH*T!!!" to that meself!.....8>)
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11/01/2007 07:50:14 AM · #1465 |
Peter, I nominated this for a Posthumous......
I loved it, it's underrated IMO, and I still want to know how you got it all in the frame and still managed to convey its size.
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11/01/2007 07:58:16 AM · #1466 |
Here's my Halloween entry......
Halloween II
Votes: 41
Views: 57
Avg Vote: 5.2683
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0
The best part?
I absolutely LOVE this image and I couldn't give a fig how it does!
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11/01/2007 08:01:41 AM · #1467 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I absolutely LOVE this image and I couldn't give a fig how it does! |
Now, Sir Jeb, that is the spirit we strive to achieve here on Team Suck.
*cues applause*
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11/01/2007 08:03:22 AM · #1468 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by raish:
Jayson, D200 lithium ion batteries last longer (in terms of working life) if they're charged often. You can make a routine and do it every day . |
Really???? I'm still in the mindset that you should run a battery down for as long as you can and as hard as possible. |
That's right for nickel cadmium batteries. It's pretty much the opposite for lithium ion batteries, or at least, they like being charged.
The lithium ion batteries for the Nikon D200/D2x are grey. They superseded black ones that were standard for D100/D70 etc. I'm not sure if the black ones are lithium ion or not. Check it out. |
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11/01/2007 08:11:53 AM · #1469 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
...I absolutely LOVE this image and I couldn't give a fig how it does! |
that's how i'm feeling about my free study -
Free Study 2007-10
Votes: 12
Views: 15
Avg Vote: 4.7500 down from 5.1 an hour ago.
hah - i've hit the jackpot here. maybe i'll get my reverse bell curve on this one! no comments yet though, so i don't know if everyone hates it, or just some...
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11/01/2007 08:34:02 AM · #1470 |
Originally posted by xianart:
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
...I absolutely LOVE this image and I couldn't give a fig how it does! |
that's how i'm feeling about my free study -
Free Study 2007-10
Votes: 12
Views: 15
Avg Vote: 4.7500 down from 5.1 an hour ago.
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Yeah, Free Study challenges make me want to weep openly; I've had some pretty good pictures that have done horribly there.
I'm personally surprised that my last second Halloween pictures is doing better than my carefully planned Something Old entry. The Halloween one is about a full point higher than I thought it'd be. |
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11/01/2007 08:51:32 AM · #1471 |
I got 2 in that are sucking about like i thought they would
Free Study 2007-10
Votes: 16
Views: 22
Avg Vote: 5.2500
Comments: 0
Favorites: 0
Halloween II
Votes: 43
Views: 62
Avg Vote: 5.2326
Comments: 0
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11/01/2007 09:21:46 AM · #1472 |
Originally posted by raish:
It's pretty much the opposite for lithium ion batteries, or at least, they like being charged.
The lithium ion batteries for the Nikon D200/D2x are grey. They superseded black ones that were standard for D100/D70 etc. I'm not sure if the black ones are lithium ion or not. Check it out. |
Mine's black and says Li-ion, 7.4V, 1500mAh.
It says made in China, so I guess I shouldn't eat it, huh?
Are these things prone to "Memory" like the old cellphones that if you change your charging habits, it wacks 'em?
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11/01/2007 09:24:49 AM · #1473 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
...I absolutely LOVE this image and I couldn't give a fig how it does! |
Originally posted by xianart:
that's how i'm feeling about my free study -
Free Study 2007-10
Votes: 12
Views: 15
Avg Vote: 4.7500 down from 5.1 an hour ago.
hah - i've hit the jackpot here. maybe i'll get my reverse bell curve on this one! no comments yet though, so i don't know if everyone hates it, or just some... |
I've gotten two "Nice picture, but......" comments, and both "buts" are about something that I specifically did and wouldn't change at gunpoint! LOL!!!
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11/01/2007 10:05:07 AM · #1474 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
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Kelli - how are you doing these days? :-)
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Hi Deb! I'm doing OK, thanks for asking. I'm still tired and can't walk very far without getting the shakes and sweating, but I go a little further each day. I'm "allowed" two city blocks and no prolonged standing (over 30 minutes), so I walk, then sit, than walk, then sit. 18 more days until I have the tests done to find out the damage, though I won't get the results until the 30th. I did talk to a lawyer who says it's an open and shut case for medical negligence, the trouble is, I still haven't figured out who the doctor was and I'm not sure I want to deal with it. I won't make a decision until after I get my test results. |
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11/01/2007 10:34:15 AM · #1475 |
Okay.....my two issues of the day, one, a thought, and the other a question.
My thought: I score a speed challenge a little more leniently because I look at a couple of things differently than in other challenges. Good preparation gets extra consideration because the timeframe is so limited. Composition is a plus, and the fun factor is a good one too. By that I mean, if it's obvious that the entrant/entry looked at the speed challenge with a devil may care, and just pulled something cool out of the hat and it works, I reward that.
I've just been voting the Halloween challenge and I'm amazed and pleased at the offings to vote.
My question: Starting with a statement or two......I have finished commenting on the Ground Up entries, was glad to see that I'd commented on about half of them during the challenge, and I commented on some things that didn't work for me. I feel badly about that, but I'm trying to put myself in the place of the recipients and I'd rather get a comment that I didn't like that was honest in a constructive way that have someone blow smoke at me.
I find that I'll sometimes chicken out in a challenge 'cause I don't want to offend anyone and just point out what I can find that's good. Sometimes that's a real chore and I wonder if I'm doing the entrant a disservice that way. By the same token, some comments are so brutal they make me cringe.
So please sound off, and if anyone got a comment from me that seems off base, PLEASE explain what I didn't see, and that will help me as well.
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