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oh goody, another post in the AM 🙂

boobies fixed. nothing done re time request.

and sleeping and swampa it’s not a problem. nor is it the first time that’s happened.

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http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2972814

that’s the contest. i sent a farkbark to correct the boobies and make it the Boobies.

now to go post my entries.

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This is my chance to show off all my non-paper-binding staplers!

one can only hope.

and i mean that sincerely and seriously. i really like specialty tools.

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we have some equipment at work that is more a machine that a tool per se. how about it?

despite my claims to needing 30 i’ve only come up with two shots i like so far. and one will tank.

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The hard shadow you see on her leg isn’t coming from one of my flashes. There were five other guys there, and one of them was being kind of a jerk and shooting when it wasn’t his turn to shoot.

why am i not surprised?

i get 162 images per 1 gig CF at super fine jpeg with a 6MP camera so not at all surprised you filled two cards.

while i like what you are doing in general i think Analogy has a point about the soft boxes. perhaps there is a cheap way to diffuse the light a little.

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there are 5 more pictures here a couple showing how close the front of the lens is to the flower. the small flower is normal, the bigger two macro. that was with all three adapters.

there are scattered clouds with rain today so i didn’t get to do all i wanted. it’s going to take a while before i learn just what these will and won’t do.

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When it comes to the results, my rule of thumb is that if I do well, it was a Contest. If not, it was an Exhibition.

big lol

I generally post my photos in order from my favorite to my least favorite. My favorite is never my highest vote getter, this week was no exception.

i post mine in the opposite order, least to most.

and then i’m amazed at how the voters rank them. the black stairs against the white building i was just sure was a winner. it tanked. my grasshopper did better than i thought it would.

if i get more than ten votes on any single entry i’m happy.

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Wow…. lots of voters/votes this time. Personal high total for me, and I got no higher than 4th place!

good for you. i’m in a three way tie for 17th currently.

two of mine and one of sleeping‘s 🙂

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It seems like only the most pricey dslrs have miror lockup for picture taking (the D70 has it but only for sensor cleaning…) I didn’t realize the XD-11 had it though.

ooops – you’re right the XD-11 doesn’t have mirror lockup. it does have the built in eyepiece cover but that’s it. and the only other minolta i’ve owned was a SRT-102 and i don’t remember it very well. i do seem to remember using a mirror lockup on a few occasions but it was many years ago. or i could be nuts.

the 7D has the mirror lockup for sensor cleaning only. you do that through a sub menu in software.

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i was hoping the 7D would have a mirror lock up like the XD-11 does but if so i haven’t found it.

have you thought about one of those ring flashes? the ones that go around your lens. be a bit pricey unless you do a lot of close up work however.

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i shot some stuff yesterday morning that will work in the streetlight contest but that also are red.

but i had red shots and so far nothing else for streetlights.

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ok, first of all sleeping i’m not shooting any more film for now. my extension tubes came yesterday and today i shot some tests. here are some results on my flicker page.

the first two photos are for reference sake. if you look real closely at the truck photo in full size and scroll over near the that chrome tie down you will see the piece of bark and on it the bug that is featured in it’s own photo. that bug is roughly 3/4″ long including the legs and antenna. the body is about 1/2″. when i shot that with the bellows none of the photos was anywhere near as good in so far as detail or sharpness. the color for both film and digital seems a bit off but that may well be me. there has been no post processing.

the tripod that is sitting in the back of the truck isn’t any good for the weight of the camera/tubes/lens and my big tripod won’t get low enough to that flower without reversing the center post. found out just how unusable the tripod is doing the flower shots. the flower shot at F9 lacks detail but the others all had too much movement. yeah even using the remote shutter release.

one other interesting (to me at least) thing about these shots is the exif data reports the focal length the lens was set to. it’s a 18-70 zoom. the exif didn’t pick up (or wasn’t effected by) the extension tubes. all three were used for those shots. also the camera worked fine in full auto mode although i ended up doing manual focus. exposure was left to the camera except when i selected smaller apertures for more DOF. i was able to stop down to f32 on the bug at 1/25 but should have used the shutter release along with the big tripod.

i’ll probably do another set sunday morning using the big tripod and shutter release. so far i’m hyped about how these work.

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I really need to stop with the phoning-it-in.

thank heavens i’ve never done that 🙂 of course it meant skipping some contests. got to the point i realized that the archives wouldn’t cover every contest, had no new ideas and was just better off taking the week off. not sure if skipping screws ones stats up more than finishing in the bottom 5% but then again it’s not about the stats anyway.

those looked like bluebonnets except for the color. taken around austin? remember seeing off blue but never red ones.

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it is/was a good theme and a good contest. lots of great entries, 95% stayed on theme, some good originality and good overall photo skills.

Yet oddly enough, it took me far too long to figure out what to snap photos of.

that happens to me a lot in general. and sometimes what i decide tanks. my “advance auto” is a good case in point. that is a brand new store near me and i’d been trying to figure out how to shot it since this theme was announced. yesterday i had to go past it around 7:00 AM and the light just looked like what i’d wanted. so i turned around and went back and shot it using the point and shoot that stays in the car. i’m happy with it and don’t care that only two of the voters also liked it.

there are also weeks the muse takes a vacation. while it’s nice to be able to have something for each week don’t force it. there will be lots more contests. tools will be fun since it covers so many different things. i do plant maintenance for a living so “tools” to me is wrenches but to a graphic artist a mouse is a tool and to a chef a knife is.

go nuts 🙂

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IIRC the chemistry has changed over the years so a place that either specializes in old film or a local lab that will hand develop the film in the proper chemistry would be essential.

again IIRC some chrome from 30+ years ago had to be flashed to light as part of the development process. i remember having to do that for the 4 x 5 film i was using. it was kodak but i don’t remember just which flavor.

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