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03/03/2008 01:07:58 PM · #501

Originally posted by Melethia:

Heroin, isn't it? Or have I mixed drugs with my metaphors?

If you're going to mix drugs and metaphors, wait two hours before swimming!

On a more earthly level, I particularly wanna thank all of you here at TS for just being so nice and all 'round decent with your support.

On many fronts.....weight loss, challenge entries, my burgeoning photography business......you have offered much when I have needed it, and I am truly grateful.

I have learned to accept the vagaries of the voters without going into a blue funk, and know to put an entry in because *I* like it.....if it clicks with the voters, great, but just because I get a sub-5 score doesn't mean it's bad.

On the congrats front.....Peter, you get to get revenge on your kids!!!!

Spoil the grandbabies, and send 'em home for the kids to deal with! LOL!!!

Catherine......as you saw on my comment, I was *MOST* impressed with your Pet Portrait.....congrats on a terrific score!

Congrats to a bunch of us here at TS that cranked in 6+ scores.......I think it speaks volumes that we are able to communicate well the special bond that we have with our extended family members.

I like the old saying......pets are like children, only with fur! LOL!!!

Anyway......enough maudlin ramblings......later....

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

03/03/2008 01:25:07 PM · #502

Oh......since you guys are the ones that got me tangled up with JPG Magazine....here's one to vote on: Human Impact

I think it's a little bit of a shoehorn, but hey......that won't be a first! LOL!!!

xianart

Canon EOS-7D

03/03/2008 03:33:19 PM · #503

Led Zeppelin
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cool.

03/03/2008 03:34:26 PM · #504

Go Christian!!!!!!

03/03/2008 03:35:01 PM · #505

Oh, and you know how you can buy a vowel on that game show in the US? I think we should be able to buy a comment... :-)

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

03/03/2008 04:49:47 PM · #506

Woo Hoo!!!!

Go Christian, go Christian!

noraneko

Canon EOS R5

03/03/2008 04:58:49 PM · #507

Jeb, that Lake House photo is FANTASTIC! It looks smooth as silk.

kashi

Nikon D60

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G

03/03/2008 05:13:04 PM · #508

Go Christian !!

basssman7

Nikon D500

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

03/03/2008 05:41:15 PM · #509

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

I love that shot Jeb! The big old tree just makes it. :)

raish

Olympus C-2500L

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

03/03/2008 05:59:11 PM · #510

Originally posted by Melethia:

Oh, and you know how you can buy a vowel on that game show in the US? I think we should be able to buy a comment... :-)

Demand's outstripping supply on my fs:

Free Study 2008-02
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see

Canon PowerShot S95

03/03/2008 08:20:19 PM · #511

Karen, Never-never-never second guess the amount of help you have given me over the last year. I am always in your debt, and someday hope to be able to extend my line of credit : ).
Don, damn thatâ��s 2 good scores in a row from you, hell at this rate I might get me a hand to put on my home page some dayâ�¦ : )
Deb, there is a saying â�� Thank you from the cockles of my heartâ�� I donâ��t know what a cockle is, but if itâ��s a good thing, I want to thank you from itâ�¦
Vanilla, forgave me for my attempt at showing his image, Ok, really, he rolled on his back and said touch meeeee. LOL.
I didnâ��t get anything in for Led Zeppelin, I knew most shots would be based on titles, so I started looking at the words of the songs. Subtract the Babies, Mommaâ��s and the ohh yeaâ��s, and they have some pretty good lines. My roadblock came off one of their later albums when they sung about a younger than 16 year old girl in a unflattering way, as a father of a 14 year old I could not get past it.

krnodil

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

03/03/2008 08:58:03 PM · #512

a public service announcement to TEAM HOOVERS - because of my falling off the OOBIE wagon in the last few weeks, I have sent out ballots for the last two weeks of nominations (two sets of ballots) - Team Hoover has been slated for voting on both week's ballots, so don't think you're just seeing double in your inbox. If you are seeing double anywhere else, that is of course your own problem. :)

just reposting the above in case it got a wee bit buried under subsequent posts, to catch the eyes of any latecomers...

Originally posted by Redneck:

Karen, Never-never-never second guess the amount of help you have given me over the last year. I am always in your debt, and someday hope to be able to extend my line of credit : ).

thanks, Alan - I wonder if there can be such a thing as "Suck equity"? ;)

griz210

Nikon D300s

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

03/03/2008 09:19:26 PM · #513

Thanks to all you guys for your comments on my Pet portrait. That was a fun challenge

meyers

Canon EOS-6D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

03/03/2008 10:37:09 PM · #514

Originally posted by griz210:

Thanks to all you guys for your comments on my Pet portrait. That was a fun challenge

I thought so too, even if I had to improvise a pet for it.

03/03/2008 10:38:36 PM · #515

Originally posted by noraneko:

Jeb, that Lake House photo is FANTASTIC! It looks smooth as silk.

Thanks!

There's a funny story with that processing. I utilized Les's tutorial on tone mapping emulation using the HDR converter, which gives you a tone curve grid that is just awesome in its range.

That thing I do that amuses everyone that I call doinking, which is Jeb-ese for playing with something until I either get it to do what I want.....or not, took me down the path of playing with the HDR conversion AFTER I hit the image with the monochrome checkbox in the channel mixer.

That gives a whole new tonal range to play with and once you get the hang of not haloing the image too much, you get some really cool effects.

Soooooo.....I doinked this one, and really liked the way it turned out, so much so that I entered it in a B&W contest that my camera club had about a week and a half ago. I got first place with it, and by a fairly substantial margin. We use a one to ten scale and add up the scores. The judges were all over the map on most images, yet they all gave mine the same exact score, and I beat the second place by two full points.

Afterwards, there was a Q&A by the judges, and one of them, nice guy, talented and knowledgeable, but just a tad pretentious, made a comment about how difficult B&W conversions are. I sort of made a crack about how I didn't think that having eleventeen different variations of conversion made it all that rough and that you could even do neat things with the HDR converter once you flip it in the channel mixer. This guy then proceeds to expound on how that technique is pretty convoluted and doesn't really work that well.

I said at that point, "Well, you guys seemed to like it pretty much on mine tonite.".

Nicest thing was that after all was over and we were gathering up to go, one of the other judges who is an awesome talent came up to me and asked me about the technique and complimented me on my image. I was pretty happy!

Maybe I shoulda run that'un for the January Free Study?????? LOL!!!

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

03/03/2008 10:43:41 PM · #516

Originally posted by krnodil:

thanks, Alan - I wonder if there can be such a thing as "Suck equity"? ;)

SUQUITY?????

meyers

Canon EOS-6D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

03/03/2008 11:01:10 PM · #517

I thought I'd share a few pictures of my recent trip to Iowa. These aren't challenge worthy, and suffer from my limited post processing abilities, but it's a decent glimpse into a very rural part of the US.

levyj413

Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max

03/03/2008 11:02:37 PM · #518

Congrats, Christian! Go get that personal best! :)

griz210

Nikon D300s

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

03/03/2008 11:26:43 PM · #519

congrats Christan go girl

03/04/2008 12:53:55 AM · #520

On Sundays I like to go to Wiesbaden and get my mocha at Starbucks. This past Sunday I opted to go to Frankfurt instead. It's not all that far - only a half hour by train if you catch the one heading that direction. If you miss that one, though, you can catch the one 20 minutes later that goes to Wiesbaden first, then to Frankfurt, passing the stop you got on along the way. I missed the first train, so went to Wiesbaden, got off long enough to get my schokocreme croissant, then went to Frankfurt. Had a lovely day!

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03/04/2008 01:56:52 AM · #521

Oh, and I posted this in the Pet Portrait outtakes thread, but thought I'd share it with you guys as well. :-)

I had hopes of beating Timfy in this challenge (it's one of my unstated 2008 goals - to beat Timfy in a (one) challenge.) But alas, poor Miss Emma fell a bit short of Hairball. Can you imagine her shame? Losing to a cat named Hairball? She's been depressed ever since I showed her the results....

So perhaps I'd have been better off with this version??

BrianR

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

03/04/2008 05:03:23 AM · #522

I'll be back one day, just received the camera back from CANON only to find that they repaired the shutter mirror, but no one thought to look through the view finder, what a blur, it has not been calibrated to the focus. Anybody got a spare NIKON, HA!HA!.

kawesttex

Apple iPhone 11 Pro

03/04/2008 06:07:07 AM · #523

Originally posted by BrianR:

Did you double check your diopter adjustment?