Hey, I needed to get your attention, right? 😛

To answer the question: “What sizes should I use for my wallpaper?”, here’s the Official Answer. Elsinore (or whoever else would do this), if you want to post this in the TF forum (for instance, if some of them won’t come here for whatever reason), please go ahead…Read more

I’m too lazy to go read, but does image shack have a similar policy as putfile?

Currently, no.

The legal page was last updated on Feb. 12 [EDIT: This was based on what I saw when I read the legal page a few hours ago, and saw it on the bottom of the page — that part has been taken down], so if anybody’s posted a good Farktography entry since then, they might as well enter it in the “Happy Farktography…Read more

*I hope additional methods of TotalFark payment are included in the changes*

I dont think i like it, im not going to be able to randomly highlight stuff while im reading anymore.

Could someone please clarify this? Does this only…Read more

What the fark is it with these asshats who drive everywhere in all weather with their farking fog lights on? There’s no fog. There isn’t even any rain. Not a farking cloud in the sky. And yet they all drive around with their farking fog lights on, blinding other drivers who then turn on their own fog lights.

Many of those cars probably have…Read more

I don’t feel too bad about not knowing the comma deli-meated thing though.

Especially since some people on here can’t even do 1st grade math.

Yeah, I know what you’re saying. I should have checked that one guy’s math before voting for his entry. Apparently he’s not smarter than a fifth grader.

Good point, Zeke. Another similar “whoa” picture in the running is Diggin‘s Halloween photo. It’ll be interesting to see how many votes can be attained for each one on this go-around. As they say in the stock market, “Past performance does not necessarily…Read more

* unless we’re all playing for third; maybe even fourth.

Ooo house?

Though that would be nice, it’s doubtful. See, if she’s shopping for a house, wouldn’t that be a hobby right now? If she’s on pregnancy bedrest for whatever reason, it would explain why she can’t go Farktographing, at least in any seemingly decent fashion. What hobbies could she make a compelling photograph out of from her bed?…Read more

believe me, i’d rather be shooting. 😛 but the end result will be worth it.

Baby bort?

Hehe, thanks but I think monkeybort should get it. She was winning when veruca called it last night. Besides, her picture’s way better and took way more skill and forethought. She deserves it!

I was thinking the same sort of thing but was too scared to say it — I didn’t want to offend you.

I’d say that the FSM is the main arbiter of who gets…Read more

As for millera9, it looks like you’ll edge out the victory this week. Congratulations!

veruca, re your 2007-02-21 09:38:40 PM: You upgraded to Vista already? +1 vote (unrelated to the Vista upgrade) and -1 geek point for you!*

Oh, and miller…Read more

/not that I’m in that position

Congrats, Otto’s_Jacket!

I (currently) got nuthin’.

😯

Now, now, don’t pull any of that on us. There have to be three good entries somewhere in your archive. All my three entries this week are from archive-raiding. Your mundane virtuosity in photography astounds me — I’m not sure how I could get as many votes trying to emulate you (I tried once and failed…Read more

After doing a little research, should I go ahead and spend the extra $100-$150 and get the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens?

Ummm: No.

The problems start with the optical quality of the lens. Compared to the 28-135 IS, it leaves plenty to be desired. From your statements of what you thought of the 18-55, be ready to say “meh” with the…Read more

Here’s the photo:

/obscure?

EDIT: Did a minute and a half or so pass that fast?

I second that. I certainly don’t feel “elite”. “Elite” sounds divisive where we certainly don’t need division. I mean, I like getting votes, but it’s hardly the only reason I show up every week.

I’ll third that. I thought it sounded cool as there was talk on TF of “elite TFers” and “elite “TFettes” and thought it sounded cool here.

If you…

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Thanks everybody. I don’t know what an “elite farktographer” is but it sounds cool.

So what did I win?

/kidding

I don’t know what an “elite farktographer” is either and I’ve been here forever. As far as I’m concerned, we are just a bunch of farkers sharing photos and having a lil’ fun. 😉

It’s someting I’ve made up to denote the best…Read more

whafuh? That’s the permalink…odd. Hm…can you go to http://www.flickr.com/groups/farktography/ ? If so, click on Elsinore’s Guide to Creating Fake Ghost Photos

No such link on that page for me. Clicking on the “Discuss”, “Pool”, and “38 Members” links gives a login page. “Map” goes nowhere worthwhile.

When you created the discussion, did…Read more

I think he meant a repeat win… not that I used the photo again.

Correct. Sorry for any confusion, folks. And don’t worry, schnee.

In any case, mikemikeb: No more calling the winner before the fat lady sings! You seem to be jinxing us! 😉

Now I know that that is tongue-in-cheek, but on a serious note, I was able to correctly predict the winner…Read more

For the next version of GIMP coming down the line, they still have “cubic” but they’ve added “lanczos” as the best option. No clue what that is, though.

“Lanczos” is apparently all the rage amongst the cool kids. It is supposed to be quite good. When it becomes available to me, I’ll use it in the FSM.

Is there anything Wikipedia can’t do?

Is it so hard to have a specific (reasonable) time frame to automagically greenlight to? Really?

Is 12:01 AM fair?

In other news, re: SaintDiluted‘s “Ken gets Forked!”: Ladies and gents, the anatomy of a repeat[?]

*I remember, chakalakasp, we’re not supposed to make assumptions — it’s just that this image is so good in so many ways (Barbie’s…Read more

Wh-wha?

You suck, schnee.

You really, really suck.

I found that schnee‘s was better, anyway, but at least you beat somebody to the punch on another one!

Anyway, this is the first time I can recall where all three of my entries were taken with the Canon 50mm prime I have. It’s nothing to sneeze at, as it’s the $80 f/1.8 version, but…Read more

Here’s one I’m not entering, but I couldn’t resist taking it. I’m such a dork…

Oh, crap, now everybody’s gonna think I ripped off the idea…

Pfft… I got nuttin!

Titled: Formation Flying

You’d be surprised at how many votes that…Read more

i did a funny fork shoot this weekend – mr. monkeybort has serious questions about my sanity. but then again, i’m not 100% sure of his, so i think it evens out.

What’s your hubby’s login? If he has one it wouldn’t hurt for him to enter.

Here is a drive-by shooting of the sign on the way to Forks. It’s pretty weak for a farktography thread, so…

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mikemikeb – i think you’re remiss in saying that voting for ‘make me a marg’ will skew the results but not posting any other option for not having sunday contests at all. it’s going to make people think they’re screwing something up if they vote for margarita; but then if they don’t want sunday contests there is no other option other than not to…

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if you don’t have a handheld meter, change the metering system on your camera to ‘spot’

I also have a Rebel XT and there is no spot metering on the camera. The closest thing to that is “partial metered”, which works fine enough.

To access this:

1. In standby mode, press the left key on the circle-shaped button array on the back of the camera
2.…Read more

Except she also mentioned she’s going to give Photomatix a try, as well as GIMP which she already has experience with.

Right, and she’s only wanting to try Photomatix because CS2 doesn’t work right. If she can get it to, it would be a waste of $100 to get the standalone Photomatix program (if she doesn’t want the watermarks).

It also doesn’t…

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Because chakalakasp‘s tutorial (see above link) talks about how one’s supposed to downsample all the way to 8 bit in CS2 and save a JPEG from there (and to save 16-bit and up files before downsampling to 8-bit, as well). I trust what he says there.

That’s great if you’re using a single program and it makes total sense in that context. It won’t…

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As for going from 12bit RAW to 8bit png and dynamic range loss, isn’t that what I said and you quoted? GIMP only works in 8bit, so there’s dynamic range loss anyway.

I wasn’t quite sure if lowering bits always means lowering DR. I’m not as much of a techie as you are.

In addition, I talked about how you don’t need to open up GIMP until you have…Read more

I typically use png over tiff because tiff isn’t truly standardized. I discoverd this when I tried out Bibble and found that GIMP didn’t like Bibble’s tiffs and Bibble didn’t like GIMP’s tiffs.

If we’re going from unprocessed RAW to final full-sized HDR JPEG in a single program (like CS2), then this shouldn’t be much of a problem. Besides, chakal…Read more