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got this in an email
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z20/CSMMH07/cat.jpg

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Had a few photography "firsts" over the weekend.
My first time playing around with some off-camera flash:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1071/...fc98ed0587.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1087/...c13626784b.jpg

Also, my first HS football game, this is a wide receiver scoring a touchdown:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1328/...03b1dbceb4.jpg

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Here's something you won't see every day:


http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...0/P1010645.jpg


This was from the 19th Ka Hula Pico Festival on the island of Moloka'i in Hawai'i.

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anyone care for a little crawfish
http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/...by-costume.jpg

or need a watch dog
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...Secondlife.jpg

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I am way out of my class here after looking at some of this pictures. I only have a point and shot but here are a few I took.

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...ghttent002.jpg

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...ghttent015.jpg

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...ghttent006.jpg

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Some more

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...Room101022.jpg

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...Room101012.jpg

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...Room101010.jpg

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...Room101027.jpg

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Pictures I took for a Xikar review

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...karVX001-1.jpg

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...karVX005-1.jpg

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...karVX004-1.jpg

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/u...karVX002-1.jpg

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Ohhhhh... XiKar V-Cut... nice!

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http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...c/P1020355.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...c/P1020366.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...c/P1020393.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...c/P1020345.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...c/P1020334.jpg

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National Harbor, MD
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/...e372b837_z.jpg

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http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._4214037_n.jpg


That's me. I haven't quite mastered that invisibility thing just yet. But you know, as John Lennon said in "Come Together": "Got to be good looking 'cuz he's so hard to see." :D

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Here's one I took last week.

http://boomerd35.smugmug.com/Photogr...25_qvv6U-M.jpg

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REALLY nice photo Jeremy....

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Thanks, here's one I got over the weekend at the Baltimore Help Portrait event. Check out help-portrait.com for more info, it's a really great cause.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/...ab413cc7_z.jpg

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uploading issues...

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334AM

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ac-d35bpmp.jpg

These could have been so much nicer. I have a Manfrotto tripod and an 80-200 2.8 sitting under the tree but I couldnt open them to use tonight.

Me "Can I please use them then they go right back in the box?"
Dad "no."
Me "But this wont happen again for another 500 years!!!"
Dad "Stop exaggerating"

:sad:sad:sad

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damn, nice... looks like I should have gone outside last night!!!!!

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Good pics guys. Love the Michigan (my assumption) pics Ron!

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We just got about 6" of snow last night. Pissed that I missed the eclipse.

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Here was my first experience with night time pics at a music festival. Taken at Bella Vida last Memorial day weekend:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_9947.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_9936.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_9989.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_9990.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_9996.jpg

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more:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_0085.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_0021.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_0094.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_0119.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_0054.jpg

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2 more. Tried to get some nice crowd shots to capture the mood:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_0135.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/IMG_0139.jpg

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Could be the retoucher in me but I think the heal tool leaves little to be desired even in CS5. I have played with it and it never seems to produce acceptable results. I played with an image one day and I was able to retouch powerlines out of a pretty busy image much faster and cleaner doing it the good old fashioned way with much better results. I found the heal tool made the corrections obvious where me using the clone tool was mostly undetectable. Like I said it could be the retoucher in me is too critical. I worked in a large commercial Photo Studio right out of college and had the pickiest of people approving my work so when I started I needed my work to be 100%. That was also long before the CS days before they created the heal tool.

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Your mileage may vary. My comment was directed at comparing CS4 to CS5. In CS4 when you were healing and crossed an area of high contrast it diddnt know what to do. Now in CS5 you can cross those high contrast areas and have a decent outcome.

Using a tool that takes seconds to complete what would otherwise take hours or days its a start nut as you have said leaves much to be desired.

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:tpd:

Prettymuch what BOTH of you said IMO :)

There's no way the new tool has half the magic fairy dust that folks were claiming, and I still usually go for the tried and true methods that I cut my teeth on.

HOWEVER, there are certain small fixes that I can do now without it automatically grabbing a terrible sample of a high contrast area nearby, which makes it a semi-usable tool for once. . So it sped up just a little some of my small retouching, saving me from having to go back and correct as much.

ALSO one of my steps for doing certain kinds of larger areas includes creating a second layer with a large area of cloned "fix", making no attempt to have the edges blend, and then blending it later with a layer mask. The new tool has proved to be very effective for this.

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As of Christmas Day I will have my very own Canon 60D. What software do you guys recomend for a Beginner? I have shot with film. But never played with Digital pictures and software.

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Got get gimp for any edition. It is free and nearly as good as photo shop. For viewing there are a lot of programs out there so I would suggest you start with infraviewer.

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Starting to itch for a new body....

Here are a few from the inter-squad game last night...

I am really digging this pic, disappointed that I clipped his skate...

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4052/jvovb74.jpg

Few others from the evening...

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1850/jvovb1.jpg

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/6992/jvovb18.jpg

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1762/jvovb81.jpg

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Its been snowing out here in Valencia, CA today. Started about 2:00PM. Took this shot this evening with the Canon PowerShot SD1200IS digital ELPH, set in BW mode w/ISO 1600...
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...ictures012.jpg

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New camera for Christmas, Canon 60D. So much to learn.

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pics or ban!

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:( you are not nice Mark.

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nice camera. I shot one of these for over the weekend. It was a rental for a sports portrait shoot. I really like the focusing and overall feel of the camera. I love the flip out LCD. The quality of the picture on the LCD is really, really nice. For the price that is a sweet camera.

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I am having a great time with it. I start my class next Wednesday. Then I may feel better about posting pictures.

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camera phone during a quasi-blizzard

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ng/iceroad.jpg

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Picked up a floor model Canon 50D from work for 499 It surely needed help. The sensor looked like a dalmatian but after an hour of rocket blower and ending in a dry swab Here is what Im left with. By the May I will be taking the 5dmkii jump and have the 50D as a backup.

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._4207007_n.jpg

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Got two weddings booked for late summer. Anyone have any tips? These will be my first two. Both family members so thats a little bit less pressure but any help is greatly appreciated.

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Nice looking Winter shot Bobby:tu

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I really need to be on here more often. How did I JUST find this thread?!

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Wow... nice job. Mind if I ask what your exposure and aperture were on both of those? I would guess the first one had to be a very long exposure at a very small aperture to show that much crud, unless it was really horrible.

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Both were shot in Aperture priority mode at F22 iso 100 set manual focus to infinity and take a picture of a plain white computer screen. You can make one by opening a new doccument in photoshop or even paint. This is the important part. Line your camera up at the left side of the plain white computer screen about 3"-5" away and when you press the shutter it should be a fairly long exposure move your camera to the far right side of your computer screen. At this point you have your file on your card. Open the image in photoshop preferably and all of those black dots are dust on the sensor (unless you have a dirty computer screen).

The camera I bought was a floor model that someone stole the lens off of. So for more than a year it was just sitting out on the floor display at Best Buy without a lens. Dust and crap accumulating the whole time. Getting a $1200 camera for $499 was worth the time it took to clean.

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I figured it must have been F22. I'm amazed you got it that clean. As dirty as it was, did you try using it under normal conditions (a more practical aperture and shutter speed)? I've found that generally, a dirty sensor doesn't affect pictures under normal conditions.

Of course, I would have definitely tried to clean a sensor as dirty as yours.

Congrats on getting a great deal. I may have to send you my 20D when it needs cleaned. :-)

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yes under normal conditions F5-F11 it showed minimal dust, however, shortly Ill be doing a shoot for a local Falconry club and most of that will deal with blue skies, small apertures, and I simply despise sensor dust.

If dust becomes and issue for you send me a PM. Ill take care of you.

~OR~

If you are steady handed and willing to do it yourself you can get a kit that is wonderful and fairly reasonable.

http://www.visibledust.com/products3.php?pid=611#

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I've been toying with white muslin drop, w remote strobe behind it (w warm filter), remote strobe and umbrella in front, and mounted strobe:

http://flic.kr/p/99CtMh

Also, 1/32 power fill strobe, using "fill light" in Adobe Raw to grab a gritty feel outdoors.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1187154...7624962228929/

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Looks great! I love the expression only bugger is the background on the left. But that can be fixed in post. Another thing to consider is the difference in lighting from her face down to the top of her dress. If you look at it as a head and shoulders portrait it looks a little more natural.

Very cool!

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It's actually not background, it's foreground...part of an umbrella. And yeah, the rest of the series pulls from an umbrella and low reflector. That particular shot I bounced the shoe-mounted flash off the ceiling...thus the high light.

I went through a dark phase for awhile where i wanted everything underexposed and "edgy," and now I'm going through a light phase where I love to bathe a subject in light. It's funny how we change our perspectives on what we want compositionally.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1187154...7625805216314/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1187154...7623827225068/

This second one is taken at night outside of the art museum in KC, which has 40' glowing walls, the ultimate soft box.

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Newest pickup. Paid 9.99 for the camera itself and 66.25 for the film EPIC.

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1052910_n.jpg

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7117323_n.jpg

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