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07/16/2008 10:42:18 AM · #76 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Am I just a score slut, and just sucking up, or am I learning a different style
and technique than I expected? |
These images all are very evocative; they communicate at a very emotional level, and yes it's largely due to the PP. There was a time a couple years ago when I was doing most of my images with "glow", mostly landscapes, and it was working well for me also. The voters do love it... Now, lately, I've been playing around with a lot of tone mapping, and that (in general) has worked well also, though less so lately.
But the thing of it is, at no time was i doing this solely for the purpose of scores. I did it because I wanted to explore those avenues of processing. The scores kind of came along for the ride.
Only you can decide what your motivations are, of course; but don't be too quick to dismiss a skill you have come close to perfecting that allows you to communicate with the "average viewer"; surely your work is about communication, right?
R.
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07/16/2008 12:53:26 PM · #77 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Only you can decide what your motivations are, of course; but don't be too quick to dismiss a skill you have come close to perfecting that allows you to communicate with the "average viewer"; surely your work is about communication, right? |
Well, it was a purposeful effect I tried to see how it would do, but because I liked it, not because I was searching for a formula for good scores.
I do like the mystical effect.......I used this the first time in my highest scoring challenge entry and had trouble for almost a year trying to refine it.
Now it seems almost too easy to revert to it. The technique does hide a plethora of sins!.....8>)
Thanks for your views!
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07/16/2008 12:59:39 PM · #78 |
hoowhee! i'm so excited. i'm having lunch with a friend tomorrow who i haven't seen in over 20 years. last time i saw her she was a boy and we were doing that shy teenage maybe crush thang. who she is now makes so much more sense.
facebook rules, man.
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07/16/2008 01:27:00 PM · #79 |
Originally posted by xianart:
hoowhee! i'm so excited. i'm having lunch with a friend tomorrow who i haven't seen in over 20 years. last time i saw her she was a boy and we were doing that shy teenage maybe crush thang. who she is now makes so much more sense.
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Okay.....I'll bite. What does that mean?
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07/16/2008 02:00:39 PM · #80 |
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07/16/2008 02:08:39 PM · #81 |
Originally posted by xianart:
which bit? |
"Who she is now makes so much more sense"
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07/16/2008 04:24:50 PM · #82 |
i remember her being not a happy boy, nor particularly at home in her body.
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07/16/2008 04:37:36 PM · #83 |
| I FINALLY made it to the hotel in Brussels. Took hailing a cab driver and following him. I don't think I made a very big hit with my boss' wife. Directions from the web were iffy at best, and my stupid GPS system quit at the German border. Bah. But I did have dinner with a lovely cat named Snoopy. He was a delightful dinner companion, even if he did spend a good part of the evening begging for chicken. :-) |
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07/16/2008 06:17:35 PM · #84 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
I FINALLY made it to the hotel in Brussels. Took hailing a cab driver and following him. I don't think I made a very big hit with my boss' wife. Directions from the web were iffy at best, and my stupid GPS system quit at the German border. Bah. But I did have dinner with a lovely cat named Snoopy. He was a delightful dinner companion, even if he did spend a good part of the evening begging for chicken. :-) |
Glad you made it. Dinner with your companion sounded lovely. Hope you gave him some chicken :) |
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07/16/2008 07:28:43 PM · #85 |
sounds like an adventure, deb! was snoopy's begging successful?
cross your fingers for me - i may have a $2000 wedding in september!
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07/16/2008 10:26:16 PM · #86 |
Originally posted by xianart:
cross your fingers for me - i may have a $2000 wedding in september! |
Christian, you have to stop getting married. It's just too expensive! ;)
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07/17/2008 01:07:38 AM · #87 |
| Snoopy did indeed get chicken. He seems to be a well fed cat. :-) I'll post a picture of my esteemed dining companion when I get home. And Jeffrey, good point! |
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07/17/2008 01:44:29 AM · #88 |
Hello everybody! Looks like we have a nice place here - I've been so busy over the last week or so and have just been sitting quietly on the chair in the corner watching and listening to you all....
Christian, hope your lunch goes well today - it sounds to me as though you are going to be able to just pick up your friendship were you left off. Oh, and good luck with the wedding!
Deb, sounds like you found my sort of place to have dinner.
Jeb, I think some of your 'ethereal' images are lovely. The time to take a change of course will be when you i)no longer enjoy producing them or ii) the point at which they become to you like those cheap tourist paintings - quick to rattle off, but with nothing of the soul of the artist in them, and which the artist has no emotional connection with. In the mean-time I shall enjoy them! |
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07/17/2008 02:28:05 AM · #89 |
Steady on now chaps - Christian has found an old boyfriend who will pay her $2000 to marry him in order that he can get Canadian ID which is new ID anyway because now he's a girl. Things get a bit complicated in this modern world, but do try to keep up...
(Fingers crossed) |
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07/17/2008 02:49:08 AM · #90 |
| LOL! Gotta love the Reader's Digest versions... :-) |
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07/17/2008 04:43:29 AM · #91 |
ooo, dr. bowdler, you're my hero...
Message edited by author 2008-07-17 06:25:51.
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07/17/2008 07:41:01 AM · #92 |
Originally posted by SaraR:
Jeb, I think some of your 'ethereal' images are lovely. The time to take a change of course will be when you i)no longer enjoy producing them or ii) the point at which they become to you like those cheap tourist paintings - quick to rattle off, but with nothing of the soul of the artist in them, and which the artist has no emotional connection with. In the mean-time I shall enjoy them! |
Thanks ever so much!
I must do what I do in post-processing for my own expression.
Otherwise, what's the point?
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07/17/2008 12:38:12 PM · #93 |
Do you - any of you - know if I can use the same lenses on a Nikon D50 and a Nikon D60 ?
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07/17/2008 01:43:07 PM · #94 |
Originally posted by kashi:
Do you - any of you - know if I can use the same lenses on a Nikon D50 and a Nikon D60 ? |
You better be able to!!! LOL!!!
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07/17/2008 01:55:55 PM · #95 |
No, I'm afraid those'll only go on a D200. As it happens, I have a D200 so I can look after the lenses for you.
They definitely fit and every feature of them that works on the D50 will work on the D60. Gonna treat yerself? |
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07/17/2008 03:17:06 PM · #96 |
Originally posted by raish:
No, I'm afraid those'll only go on a D200. As it happens, I have a D200 so I can look after the lenses for you.
They definitely fit and every feature of them that works on the D50 will work on the D60. Gonna treat yerself? |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the D60 doesn't have an inbuilt autofocus motor, so not all lenses that autofocus on the D50 are going to do so on the D60, though manual focus will be fine. |
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07/17/2008 04:06:40 PM · #97 |
Originally posted by kashi:
Do you - any of you - know if I can use the same lenses on a Nikon D50 and a Nikon D60 ? |
As said, the D60 doesn't have the built in autofocus motor so the only lenses that will autofocus are the ones that have the built in motor in them. The D50 HAS the motor so it can autofocus lenses that don't have the motor.
The D60 has the same issues that the D40 and D40x has. That's why I won't get a D60 because I would loose a very important feature.
I'm hoping someday to get the D300. |
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07/17/2008 05:12:39 PM · #98 |
| Oy - I didn't know all that. There you go, Kashi - sorry about my misinformation. |
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07/18/2008 04:59:46 AM · #99 |
| Ooh, just noticed I sold a picture on DPCprints :D Like, the second one ever. I think it's most exciting :) |
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07/18/2008 05:19:57 AM · #100 |
| Oh, and just noticed Piclens has been enabled for gliding through challenge results. It looks awesome, download it and try it :D |
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