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Anybody knows if this thing is pre-1992? It had no badges and I barely had time to take its picture as I walked past by it rather quickly:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliogt/7631541982/

It has that 80’s look and feel but I could be wrong.

I expect the classics to be more than covered this week, so maybe I’ll show some love for the mundane, knowing the voters won’t. =)

[emiliogtz]

I could use one, never have tried TF. =)

and there you go too.

/one left to give

Thank you very much! =)

[emiliogtz]

if any farker wants a gift month of TF, to enter your photos earlier than usual, let me know, I have one to give. Or, if you know someone who could use a gift month, let me know that too.

I could use one, never have tried TF. =)

[emiliogtz]

RL keeps getting in my way too, had to skip last week’s contest. Still, for this I have a couple of archives, but really want to do something specific for this week.

[emiliogtz]

A girl in a Playboy bunny costume, while attractive and potentially vote getting, is probably outside the rules.

There goes my idea…

[emiliogtz]

Wait. You can leave the house without so much as a cheap point n shoot? How do you do that? every time I leave home without one I see something that reinforces my need to carry a camera even if I will only be gone 10 minutes. I haven’t even taken the garbage to the dumpster without my little Canon PnS in my pocket in 2 years.

Going out without a camera is like going out naked…

[emiliogtz]

Weird, I opened Fark using Safari and the buttons appeared there.

Great collections of pics btw, and they keep on coming.

[emiliogtz]

Now it’s me not seeing the Vote buttons…

It’s a conspiracy, everything’s against me this week… =p

[emiliogtz]

I need some advice from you guys.

I feel that I am decent in the department of TAKING the pictures.

In the area of post processing however, I am as lost as a Farker at a health food convention.

I tried to do some modifications on this picture: http://i987.photobucket.com/albums/ae353/jpw173/Farktography/P6232624.jpg (Yes, that bird IS alive)

Here is the result of the processing. I worked only on the saturation, color, hue, and brightness/contrast:http://i987.photobucket.com/albums/ae353/jpw173/Farktography/BetterFalcom.jpg

Am I doing this right, or should I see if I can find a class on image processing?

Thanks!!

FWIW, unless you intend to use an image straight-out-of-camera, turn off all kinds of image adjustments and/or optimizations in your camera, shoot raw, not rare or medium.

That’ll give you something better to start with in post, IMHO.

[emiliogtz]

I still like to shoot film a lot. To be honest, I enjoy it more than shooting digital. Never had a problem with the whole ‘instant gratification’ thing, or the lack of it (I have auto-preview turned-off on all of my bodies and anyway LCDs are next to useless under this’ city merciless sun). I do, however have a problem with the film costs nowadays.

I live in a city where the weather it’s hot most of the year, 100-110-degrees days are the norm over here, with plenty of humidity (actually, this is the reason we are moving soon). That does not mix well with the negatives, the chemicals’ shelf life, and getting the solutions up to temp is a nightmare. So for the sake of cost I’ve decided to process my film only in the winter (can’t justify the cost to have temperature control equipment or having chemicals go bad because of the heat), so I just shoot the rolls, put them back in the fridge, and wait. The good thing is, by the time I get to develop them, I don’t even remember what’s on them, so I get a few good surprises.

People with darkrooms are kind of like people who rebuild classic cars, but much, much, much cheaper.

Which is why I say that people with darkrooms are like people with turntables and vinyls.

[emiliogtz]

I got a 7, and it was damn hard…

[emiliogtz]

people I would like to have limited contact with

Well, that makes sense, like some kind of proxy/firewall, keeping them at a safe distance… =)

I do have a facebook account, kind of neglected though.

[emiliogtz]

+1

[emiliogtz]

I wish I could, but it is the one way I can keep in touch with a whole slew of people I would never speak to otherwise.

It’s almost like a phone was pre-2000.

I don’t know ennuipoet, if I knew people who would stay in touch with me via Facebook exclusively, probably I would not want/need to say in touch with them at all. But that’s just me. =)

[emiliogtz]

I would think that pushes the limits of Farks gore guidelines.

Yeah, I’m afraid so. First time ever I go out looking for birds, I run into these. It was kind of interesting though. Maybe I should go looking for hummingbirds instead.

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