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Rav, knowing the process, I’d say you’re within bounds.

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Shoot went pretty well this morning. Took about 300 shots, of that sis and the future brother-in-law picked out about 80 they liked and they’re going to pick a half dozen or so of those for me to fully process for them to pick from to use on their save the date cards. Weather cooperated pretty well for spring in Texas. Mostly overcast so harsh shadow wasn’t nearly nearly as much of a problem as I’d feared. As side from being a bit too over zealous with the wide open aperture which yielded a bit too narrow of a depth of field in some cases (note to self, use the dof preview button more), I was fairly happy with the results of most shots. My only real disappointment was blowing out one shot that I really like the pose of that I only managed to get one of. Was able to massage it a bit into a high-key B&W.

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Road Trip! (once it warms up that is) 😆

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If it was one of you bone heads who thought of it, I’d probably throw ya some cash. Saw it on the TotalFark page, so it’s a farker at least.

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You can send some of that venison down this way, been too long since I’ve had any. Maybe I’ll try to send some warm weather back up that way in return…

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Great shots both of them, but I’m quite happy to have just finished a ride in 75 degree weather and not dealing with that type of snow.

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Yeah, time of day isn’t the best, but doubt I can get my sister up and going for a 9am shoot and evening is out as well. I’ve got the Speedlite EX 430 II, I’ve worked with it some but not a lot so that’s my project for tomorrow and Friday to familiarize myself with it. Of course, my sister’s favorite photo of her and her fiance was one I candidly took with a friend’s Nikon that I picked up for the first time 5 minutes prior (and of course I had it on Sepia tone and JPG only! :lol:)

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Welcome, prime lenses rock, but can eat a hole in your wallet real quick.

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B Side Fox News Facepalm

None of these reactions are entirely feigned as I was actually getting angry with the “news” I was hearing while shooting.

You didn’t have it on mute?!

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Jelly fish was totally a last minute idea, and I got no problems with you throwing yours into the ring too.

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2 B’s:

Awesome shaped crappy quality knife (wrapped in grip tape to hide craptastic handle!)

Wasp – need I say more?

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Totally awesome. Which reminds me, I was going to go out and see if I could get any shots this evening.

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As long as we all make a good faith effort and catch what we can I’m good. I like Picasa’s url format for photos uploaded as it keeps the original photo name and puts the size parameter as a separate piece of the URL. Makes keeping track of what photos I’ve used via bibiliostats a fair bit easier.

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Here’s my take, this contest was meant to allow for all the stuff the contests usually limit, to see what levels of creativity the participants could produce with post processing (if they so desired). I’m perfectly fine playing by the set farktography rules, it does provide a fairly level playing field for all participants while keeping the photos looking like photos. Everything beyond the eye and the mind of the photographer is a tool. Be it the camera, the lens, the filter (physical or software), HDR, image stacking, etc etc etc. All the fancy filters in the world doesn’t make up for poor composition, or poor execution of the idea, or flat out unimaginative subject matter. And sometimes through some persistence at the computer you can turn something that started out like this:

into this:

Which is more true to the original scene? Hard to say, it certainly wasn’t blown out like the original, but not quite as rich in color as the after. But I saw potential in the composition once I squared up the horizon and adjusted the exposure a bit, but took a while to get something that matched what I envisioned for the photo. I was fine knowing that I couldn’t use this shot for lakes, or sunsets, or silhouettes, or most any other contest, but liked it enough that for this contest I decided to enter it. At the end of the day it’s about sharing our work and seeing how our own work stacks up against each others in the eye of farkers (as odd as they tend to be).

// my .04 cents.

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Linguine, your Yosemite HDR is fantastic!

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