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10/23/2008 12:29:59 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by Jac:
OH and how does someone join this group. I was told by Melethia months ago I couldn't join b/c I was too good, ROFL. Now that I have proven I suck over many challenges, I think this place would fit me well. |
I dunno, dude......you have yet to hit a 4 at all much less the coveted high 3/low 4 that so many of us here have in our portfolio.
What about a bottom 10 spot????
Slacker! |
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10/23/2008 12:31:36 PM · #52 |
Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
lol im glad it made you tehe:) i guess if anyone of the Suck team sees me sucking all by myself they can ask me to join their ranks of suckiness (lol all the different variations of suck are fun to come up with) |
I've covered the realm of suckiness. The ultimate tho is to win the brown (which I have done!) - and I wasn't even trying.
So how do we allow  JDubsgirl into Team Suck? |
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10/23/2008 12:33:19 PM · #53 |
| ah, im almost close to perfection. i thought i was gonna get the brown my first challenge. what a way to start off |
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10/23/2008 12:34:08 PM · #54 |
Those wishing to cast themselves into the pit that is Suckdom must petition his Holiness, the Supreme Sucker, and he will assign a task...
Isn't that the way it works? Been awhile since we had fresh meat, errrr, new prospective members... |
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10/23/2008 12:35:10 PM · #55 |
Boy I don't remember how that goes...
but yeah, let the Supreme Ruler decide... lol that should work |
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10/23/2008 12:37:48 PM · #56 |
| oh dear, now i must ask a terrible question... who is your great ruler and may i please him/her with gifts of old film canisters? |
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10/23/2008 12:43:29 PM · #57 |
Great ruler is listed at the top of the thread where he always presides.
Message edited by author 2008-10-23 12:43:43. |
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10/23/2008 01:29:54 PM · #58 |
Uhmmmm...dunno if I've seen great ruler around recently...maybe he's resting on his laurels?
Hey, if  Jac and JDubsgirl join our noble ranks maybe I'll be nice and post my Brownie recipe! :-) Howzat for incentive? |
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10/23/2008 01:32:22 PM · #59 |
Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
oh dear, now i must ask a terrible question... who is your great ruler and may i please him/her with gifts of old film canisters? |
PM  posthumous for your secret assignment. |
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10/23/2008 01:33:27 PM · #60 |
| And if truly interested in the Suck way of life, for it is indeed a way of life, read up on a few of the past threads. |
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10/23/2008 03:35:18 PM · #61 |
sorry to pop into your thread....but can someone please point out to me the section in the dpc agreement where I am giving dpc rights to use my images forever?
Apparently the system does not allow you to delete entries previously used in a challenge. Since I own the rights to the photo I have a problem with that. |
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10/23/2008 04:01:21 PM · #62 |
Originally posted by basssman7:
sorry to pop into your thread....but can someone please point out to me the section in the dpc agreement where I am giving dpc rights to use my images forever?
Apparently the system does not allow you to delete entries previously used in a challenge. Since I own the rights to the photo I have a problem with that. |
You can't.
Go here if you have a problem: //www.dpchallenge.com/help_contact.php |
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10/23/2008 04:22:22 PM · #63 |
Originally posted by quiet_observation:
Originally posted by basssman7:
sorry to pop into your thread....but can someone please point out to me the section in the dpc agreement where I am giving dpc rights to use my images forever?
Apparently the system does not allow you to delete entries previously used in a challenge. Since I own the rights to the photo I have a problem with that. |
You can't.
Go here if you have a problem: //www.dpchallenge.com/help_contact.php |
I am waiting on a response already from there. Howver "you can't" does not exactly answer my question. lol |
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10/23/2008 04:25:19 PM · #64 |
Just in case you wish to upgrade to a more Palatial Palace.
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10/23/2008 04:27:28 PM · #65 |
You can have them delete your portfolio, but I think you have to cancel membership and specifically ask for it.
There isn't a way to delete previous entries. I think this is in the terms.php |
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10/23/2008 04:28:49 PM · #66 |
Originally posted by basssman7:
Originally posted by quiet_observation:
Originally posted by basssman7:
sorry to pop into your thread....but can someone please point out to me the section in the dpc agreement where I am giving dpc rights to use my images forever?
Apparently the system does not allow you to delete entries previously used in a challenge. Since I own the rights to the photo I have a problem with that. |
You can't.
Go here if you have a problem: //www.dpchallenge.com/help_contact.php |
I am waiting on a response already from there. Howver "you can't" does not exactly answer my question. lol |
I believe you own the rights to the photos, but DPC have the rights the as to the removal of challenge entries.
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10/23/2008 07:12:36 PM · #67 |
Originally posted by basssman7:
I am waiting on a response already from there. Howver "you can't" does not exactly answer my question. lol |
I believe this may cover it:
From the TOS
6.2 You hereby grant DPChallenge.com a nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any rights you have in the Member Information and Media, and otherwise to make use of the Member Information and Media (including publishing, disseminating, broadcasting, manipulating, reproducing, editing, translating, performing, modifying, or displaying any part of the Member Information) and/or Media alone or as part of other work in any form, media, or technology whether now new known or hereafter developed, to enable DPChallenge.com to continue the specific operation or marketing of the site. This includes, but is certainly not limited to email "newsletters."
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10/23/2008 09:05:07 PM · #68 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by snaffles:
I treated myself to a new lens today cause I got a fave during voting...AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D...now I can shoot macros!!! Better not get into the habit of buying a lens each time I get one, though, or I'll be even broker than I am already *grin*
*off to play with new glass* |
I hope you have better luck with yours than I did.....I *hated* that lens! LOL!!!
But I'm a zoomie kind of guy! |
I love my Canon 50mm f/1.4 prime lens. I miss the zoom, but the images are sooooooooo clear and the bokeh is yummy. |
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10/23/2008 09:07:47 PM · #69 |
| Hey All...my mom's surgery went well. She's doing great! We won't know for another week if she has to have chemo or not. I have to share a funny story. When they were taking her to her room just after she was getting out of recovery and still very drugged up, they let us ride up in the elevator with her and some doctors and nurses. She mumbled something about being "so tired" and one of the nurses asked her if my dad kept her up all night. Well..in her half-conscious, drugged out voice, she said, "Yeah, we had sex" and then promptly fell back asleep! Needless to say, we all had a good laugh! |
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10/23/2008 09:16:29 PM · #70 |
| What a great story, Terry. Hoping your mom has a speedy recovery. |
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10/23/2008 09:19:47 PM · #71 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
I treated myself to a new lens today cause I got a fave during voting...AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D...now I can shoot macros!!! Better not get into the habit of buying a lens each time I get one, though, or I'll be even broker than I am already *grin*
*off to play with new glass* |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I hope you have better luck with yours than I did.....I *hated* that lens! LOL!!!
But I'm a zoomie kind of guy! |
Originally posted by JuliBoc:
I love my Canon 50mm f/1.4 prime lens. I miss the zoom, but the images are sooooooooo clear and the bokeh is yummy. |
Oh, I have *ZERO* doubt that it's a fine lens in skilled hands.....I did get a couple of really nice images with mine, but I thought it was much too much like work, and I really didn't have the patience for it.
Most of mine had focus issues and I think it was where and how I had my focusing set up on my camera.
I am so happy with my 18-200 I'll probably never have another lens unless I hit the lottery or have some other kind of windfall.
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10/23/2008 10:40:45 PM · #72 |
Ah Jeb, I love my 18-200 too, but I just can't get a really good macro with it - witness my Inside Out entry. I spent some time shooting this evening with the 1.8 and am just amazed at what I am getting, though you have to be soooo precise when focusing. It's what I need right now, a tricky lens that needs to be manually focused if you want macros that look like IreneM's!
Terry, what a wonderful story, good for your mom!
I'm afraid I have a similar story, though. There's a bit of a story involved that I don't feel like recounting right now - tired and it's along story.
But the gist of it is, 2 1/2 years ago a guy I met while out biking suddenly and mysteriously just vanished from the face of the earth...only to resurface approx 1 yr ago. We became fast friends, he's very happy-go-lucky, he had me acting like a 5-yr-old (not that he was any better, lol!, though I could never get him to agree to let me shoot him!
Anyway, the reason he vanished 2 years ago was because he had a bout with cancer. He had chemo for a year, recuperated...then just today, only two weeks after his biannual scans, learned that the hospital wants him back cause they've found something new. He even told me Monday evening that he's always been waiting for the other shoe to drop, but he felt better and less anxious about his scans this time round than he has in the past. That's all I know as of right now.
This guy is just amazing. He's only 50, unmarried, no biological kids, lives with a brother who's also a bachelor. Doesn't smoke, drink, do drugs, doesn't even drink tea or coffee. But both his parents died of cancer, he looked after them in their final years. He basically has a father role in the life of a 10-yr-old boy with spina bifida, who was rejected at birth by his parents; at the age of 3 he asked my friend to be his Dad, he has been ever since. Even drives his Son's handicapped bus to school, braving Ottawa rushhour traffic 2x/day 5 days a week.
And even though we had a HUGE blowout this past summer and sniped at each other via email, he forgave me (it was mostly my fault) and still finds time to work with me in the evenings a couple times a week to build me a mobile island as my place has no counter space at all.
*sigh* this is truly one of the nicest guys I've ever met, and the fact that his cancer has in all likelihood returned, just truly sickens me.
ETA: sorry for the rant, just had to get it off my chest. Wish I could cure him.
Message edited by author 2008-10-23 22:41:23. |
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10/23/2008 10:44:33 PM · #73 |
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10/23/2008 10:58:19 PM · #74 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
Ah Jeb, I love my 18-200 too, but I just can't get a really good macro with it - witness my Inside Out entry. I spent some time shooting this evening with the 1.8 and am just amazed at what I am getting, though you have to be soooo precise when focusing. It's what I need right now, a tricky lens that needs to be manually focused if you want macros that look like IreneM's! |
Hmm....
I probably don't know what macro truly is...
Are these????
[thumb]727426[/thumb] [thumb]728469[/thumb]
I always thought that macro was a crisp, clean closeup and the background had that super shallow DOF thing.
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10/23/2008 11:11:32 PM · #75 |
Originally posted by Doyle:
Hey All...my mom's surgery went well. She's doing great! We won't know for another week if she has to have chemo or not. I have to share a funny story. When they were taking her to her room just after she was getting out of recovery and still very drugged up, they let us ride up in the elevator with her and some doctors and nurses. She mumbled something about being "so tired" and one of the nurses asked her if my dad kept her up all night. Well..in her half-conscious, drugged out voice, she said, "Yeah, we had sex" and then promptly fell back asleep! Needless to say, we all had a good laugh! |
Terry - good to hear the surgery went well and that your mom's sense of humor is strong lol. Great story! Don't forget to get some sleep too! |
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