or art made from found objects

or (your turn)

what annoyed me about this is they told me on the phone…Read more

Chase the features that you want, not the MP.

that’s basically what i did. and all things being equal the D7000 has more features than i’ll use. given how i use a camera this looks like it’s going to be good. i’m a bit concerned about critical sharpness but the tests i’ve run so far point to hand shake, inexpensive optics, small DOF and other…Read more

I had a Minolta Freedom. Got 5 bucks for it on eBay. I may be interested in an XD-11.

sorry they are on their way to the appraiser. i won’t know until maybe week after next what the offer is. if it’s crap i’ll get back to you.

i will be voting in the morning and from when i enter to when i vote i don’t usually look at the contest.

Curious [TotalFark]
2013-05-08 08:24:34 PM

but i put them up. great fun looking through the contest this time. great shots of fun things. many fun memories. thanks one and all.

Oh, man. I have so much old crap and no time to shoot it. :/

you have some of my old crap 🙂 guess using the pictures i have of it would be wrong.

just got done shooting three of my old crap. we’ll see how the pictures turned out in a while. i’m sure some of you have 5.25 floppies and 100mb zip floppies and would do better photos. so don’t.

if we start submitting the contest threads a week or two in advance, maybe we should set the link to the Farktography theme discussion thread instead of the regular theme description page….

that would work much better. you and i know what a problem it is getting folks on board with a theme, especially one with an ambivalent…Read more

thanks

that’s from tonight’s final theme description and IMO way way off what the theme started as. now it may just be me but reading through the 5 pages…Read more

as for listing it -meh. i doubt many more would see it beyond the serious photoshoppers and they seldom join in.

there is also the potential problem of defining the “rules”. listing…Read more

nothing marks a (triumphant)(ha) return better than not doing it right.

lol you did it right though 😉 Welcome back!

thanks for checking and thanks for the welcome. i’m going to try to be a bit more motivated however there was no way i was passing on “pets”.

http://www.fark.com/comments/7591461/Theme-of-Farktography-Contest-No-406-Pets-Details-rules-in-first-post-LGT-next-weeks-theme?startid=82501426#c82502038

Who says concrete blocks can’t be beautiful.

are those from the orphanage/ school?

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

5 pacific is 9 eastern add four…Read more

If my 3rd is unacceptable for any reason please let me know. I have other, less funny choices. 🙂

i thought we decided you were going to be busy with birthday party and not enter tonight.

and if we end up with kids in halloween costumes i’m going to piss amd moan and generally make an ass of myself.

found some i liked from leftover “autumn” from a few years back. had a couple others but when i couldn’t find them just used three of these.

Making my choices caused me chest pain. “Oooooo, I could use THAT one too!”

Can we increase the limit for this theme to, say, about 50 entries?

what you said without the chest pain. if anybody checked my entries are “bird-4” and 5 and 6. and that’s from just the ones that made it to save for web.

all that said there are as usual some really…Read more

I had a brain storm and figured it out. It was too obvious.

we knew you could do it. that’s why no one else posted 🙂

with just 25 entries there are lots good stuff tonight.

looks like 4 related images combined into one to me…

which is what it is and was supposed to be. the others don’t look as photoshopped which was my concern.

we shall see. glad for your input, thanks.

But I can’t figure out how to get it to the web. Save for web doesn’t seem to work. I usually use Flickr or Photobucket.

the “save for web” feature optimises your photo for web posting and viewing. once you have saved it at 640 pixels wide and below 200 kb then upload it to your host of choice. i would choose photobucket for this tonight since…Read more

Just my opinion, but I think this theme should have been changed to photo collage, formerly mosaic for just the reasons being given. There was too much confusion between mosaic and collage. I thought the 4 to 20 photos was just a guide line to distinguished between mosaic and collage NOT an exact number. Again, just how I saw it.

i have no…Read more

Interesting, I went through the same “value analysis” and concluded to shoot (mostly) each series specifically for this theme.

i used to shoot for each theme if at all possible but RL has intruded in the last year or so and i archive dive far too much now.

Ok seriously, we can’t keep it to an actual objective, stated number range? And for comparison on “Sleeve-Faced”, it said clearly the images used had to come from album/cd covers, so the 12″ regular images I originally used wouldn’t cut it (and rightfully so). Just sayin’….

what she^ said.

this message brought to you by mr. damnit play by…Read more

Is there an echo in here?

/In here?

no

no

no

///Oh. And I pulled a rookie mistake. I brought my camera and was happily taking pics of a baby swan sitting on his mama’s back. Decent pics, not great. I tried to preview a shot and saw…”No Card”. Damn.

That is the first thing I turn off on a camera. I used to have a horrible time remembering whether or not I had film in a camera until I’d…

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So, both are about vehicles but vehicles are not necessarily the focal point of the shot.

so they are artsy fartsy stuff. cool.

i still wouldn’t vote for them. i want all entries to look like mine with the theme subject centered in the frame or if not then arranged by the rule of thirds. imagination or thinking out of the box will not be…Read more

9. 200GB worth of card space was barely enough for an event that lasted 12 hours.

10. It’s probably not necessary to take 10 frames of each posed portrait. 5 would have been fine.

i think i’m seeing a solution here.

on the time involved how much was misplanning and how much just being there with your friends and taking pictures. since you were…Read more

I need two quick clarifications. 1) Does the vehicle need to be clearly in the photo, or can it’s passage via a streak of light imply it’s presence and 2)Must the vehicle be the focus of the photo or must a vehicle just be present in the photo?

speaking just for myself i don’t vote for things that look like they were incidental originally. now…Read more

Damn did someone fart in the thread this week, where are the voters?

I was wondering the same thing. Wasn’t me, I swear. Though it seems two of my entries are real stinkers, at least according to what voting there has been.

there seem to be lots of ties this week. just clumps of votes, like 6th has ten folks in it. my best has 6, number two…Read more

Mmm frozen film!

i had a bunch of it but finding developer was getting really hard. then the freezer lost power and it all thawed. wasn’t worth refreezing by that point.

this film needed E3 developer. the one you had to flash. even free it was difficult to get excited about shooting.

until you held those big beautiful 4 x 5 slides in your hands.

I’ll allow it.

you should, you have one of the more obsolete cameras around 🙂

It would be nice to see if there is a correlation between order of appearance in the thread, i.e. speed of posting, and vote getting. Might be hard to isolate that variable, since the people who put more effort into making good pics probably put more effort into posting them rapidly. Is there a statistician in the house?

this has been debated…Read more

I really didn’t think the difference between monitors would be that much, something to keep in mind I guess.

i have dual monitors that aren’t calibrated to each other. i often wonder what folks see at their end.

Wow… this one snuck up on me. I’m too beat to even think about corralling the proper HTML to participate this week. I’ve got Rust never sleeps ready, but not this one… looking forward to voting tomorrow.

at the top of the fark comment box there is a series of button. do you know that the mountain range looking thingy second from the right…Read more

my old triple boot won’t run anything after 9.10 which is really weird for ubuntu.

It’s also really helpful at dusty places. Whenever I was shooting at the racetrack in NY, if it hadn’t rained in a few days, I would get too scared to change lenses due to dust.

when i had the minolta 7D i had problems with dust on occasion. but the D3000 either repels it or the cleaner thingy works better. also haven’t had any dust problems…Read more

i really don’t usually shoot in places where really rapid lens changes are needed. otoh having a body that will accept all my lenses if needed is a plus. as far as battery life i have extra batteries for both the D5100 and the D3000. and 4 or 5…Read more