Count me as another who went TF for Farktography. And Lord Ezekiel. And SaintDiluted, at least for a month 😉

And me.

It’s easy to create an HDR image from a single JPG if you change the levels in the original. It’s probably simpler to show what I did…

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This is the original unedited JPG straight out of the camera.

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This is that image with…Read more

I use PS CS2 9 and don’t have a problem with it. Why is it not an option?

Because it costs too much and I don’t like their security measures.

Encyclopedia Galactica: That’s super. Is that *the* American Gothic house?

Yes, that’s *the* house. It’s not terribly far from me. I have several other parody ideas that are in the works… 😉

I sometimes go out of my way for a phunny photo.

i take it to mean it should scream: Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ansel Adams …

Please, oh please don’t anybody imitate Mapplethorpe!

But seriously, I would love to see a lot of long exposure shots, surrealism, minimalism, etc. Not necessarily some individual artist’s style, but a strong representation of an artistic philosophy or technique.

This cute kids one is killing me. … How the heck are the the rest of you childless doing it?

By hoping I find some juvenile goats to photograph. Kids are kids, right?

There are a lot of possibilites out there for those who don’t wnat to think too hard (eg. Guns & Roses, Prince, Madonna, AC/DC, Chicago, Kansas, Poison, etc.)

There are quite a few that should be avoided, like Anthrax and Def Leppard (poor kitty)…

…for example, you might want the car body to be crisp but the wheels still moving, so back off that 1/1000 to 1/640 maybe.

1/640 may be a little quick for relatively slow targets like a car. I set my shutter to 1/400, ISO80 for airshow pics and it works really well. It’s fast enough to freeze the planes but slow enough that propellers have…Read more

Plus, a lot of people may get quite skittish when there’s a red dot pointed at or near them.

Don’t ask how I know, but a gunsight laser (like you’re thinking of) works like crap in daylight. That’s all Hollywood drama anyway, they’re only good for a few yards before they either fade out too much or shake like crazy from your slightest…Read more

The red-dot sight:

this means (and i’ve done it) that you can unscrew a lampshade, put
your camera in it’s place, set the auto timer, and get in the pic..

That’s hilarious. I have a couple of lamps that are replicas of surveyor’s tripods, so that would work perfectly…

weds contest should be give it your best shot -1 entry, sat night could be 3 because people have more time too look.

That’s an idea I like. “Best Shot” contests and a second contest with the usual 3 entries per submitter.

Same topic, just a couple days apart. And maybe disallow the reuse of the “Best Shot” pic in the other contest…

It would become a hunt for votes instead of a forum for sharing cool photo ideas. Think “Top 40 radio.”

Maybe a “photos of square things” theme instead?

wow, that’s just simply brilliant! Well done *golf clap*

Danke schoen. Just the other night I added an on/off switch and a smaller internal battery. Now to improve the mounting solution…

I was thinking the same thing, but if we have a pets theme, we can’t really include kids. Can we? 😕

That depends. Some people treat their pets like children and vice versa…

Seriously, those who don’t have kids may be really out of luck with this theme. I am not about to run around taking photos of other peoples’ children. People might get…Read more

As for reducing the number of entries, I think 3 is best because it forces some people (myself included) to go out and look for new photos to shoot. Reducing it to one would really undermine the motivation we get today.

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So, has everyone been out this week trying to throw springs with one hand and photograph them with the other?

Nope, I just told mine to sit still while I took the pic. But arguably, it is immersed in the atmosphere which would put it “in the air.”

For this sample set, the hypothesis (“Early posting garners more votes”) is likely to be false. The “p” value is a measure of the confidence in the correlation. Lower p’s mean that there is less likely to be an error. Statisticians think that a p < 0.05 is a good value (if I recall my stats classes correctly).

Could it be as simple as “early…Read more

$129 at srelectronics or bhphotovideo

HTH

Some people have really good photos… Wow…

Here’s the same kit I have… http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=88779&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

The lens adapter is very very useful. I use it with a standard polarizer a lot.

You might want to consider a tabletop tripod if you plan to do a lot…Read more

Examples at http://www.pbase.com/nikonsean

HTH

I don’t really bracket exposures, but I do try to get a couple of slightly different angles on most nature shots.

I took 1100 photos during a 1 week trip and 80% of them were…Read more

I’ve also tried Cumulus (IIRC) and found that to be clumsy and slow.