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For songs, I was going for something representational of the song, so a picture based on title, lyrics, or theme would all be appropriate. My personal shots will probably be along the lines of ‘Fantasia in still’ if you will – interpreting the song through picture – but it certainly shouldn’t be limited to that. But as linguine suggested, something along the ‘literal’ interpretation of the song name would be cool too.

Album covers I was going for more of a recreation of the album cover (or jacket liner). So Led Zeppelin, for example: the ‘Houses of the Holy’ cover could be done as a SFF version, but something like ‘Led Zeppelin I’ think would be more difficult, unless you can come up with a creative way to recreated the Hindenburg disaster.

All-in-all I’m going for a pretty open contest. And, given how much music there is in the world that’s been recorded in the last 100 or so years, a caption would be appreciated, I think.

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bucky_bacon it’s a challenging theme, sure, but I think we all need this sort of theme to push ourselves. And, I don’t think the participation this week is bad, so far. And there’s certainly been quality to make up for any perceived lack of quantity.

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I’m actually curious about that too. I’ve got at least one I’m considering where someone’s working hard, but it’s technically a recreational activity (hockey, in this case).

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Brevity ftw.

That’s *NOT* what she said.

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To infinity…and beyond!

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I looked through my archives, and most of the shots I considered are of Caltrans workers. The ‘hard at work’ difficulty precludes them, I think =P

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mopsy I’m glad to hear that he’s going to be okay. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

They don’t have to be still lifes ennuipoet

/Right?

Well, one of mine (the only one I like) isn’t but I simply procrastinated searching out subjects and went with a couple of still lifes.

I don’t bake, and I’m really not much of a dessert person =P

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They don’t have to be still lifes ennuipoet

/Right?

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causeIsaidso I did both RAW and JPG for a while, but I found it redundant. I never used the jpegs once I got comfortable with the RAW files. I do my previewing in DPP any more (the thumbnails tend to give me an idea) but there’s also a windows plugin for XP, and if you have Vista or Seven you just need the codecs to view them in the preview panes if that’s your preference…

Is there a way to eliminate the JPG save when shooting in RAW? I haven’t found it, but I could eek out a couple more images, if so. It’s so easy to convert to JPG after processing (or not processing, when it’s right), I’d love to save the space on the CF…

I honestly can’t say for sure on the Rebels, but with the 20D and the 40D, the menu options are JPG, RAW+JPG, or RAW. I’d suspect the Rebels are the same way.

I know that doesn’t work on the ‘green square’ or any of the PP modes though. You have to go P or Tv or any of the other partial-to-full manual settings.

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I didn’t want to mention the second battery on top of everything else, but that’s never a bad idea. Kat and I each have one, so there are four between the two of us 😛

causeIsaidso I did both RAW and JPG for a while, but I found it redundant. I never used the jpegs once I got comfortable with the RAW files. I do my previewing in DPP any more (the thumbnails tend to give me an idea) but there’s also a windows plugin for XP, and if you have Vista or Seven you just need the codecs to view them in the preview panes if that’s your preference…

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Speaking of, I’d be surprised if Deveyn doesn’t take this one hook, line, and sinker. What with is scoring a sweet jorb bulding a network infrastructure in freaking Micronesia and all =P

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362 shots is around 4.5gigs on my camera in RAW. That was a friend’s wedding. If I’m really in the ‘zone’ and trying for the difficult shots I might take 150, normally.

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I’m not going to say what I’m thinking, because the difficulty factor is kinda high, and I don’t know if I can pull it off still. And I don’t want to ruin the surprise if I can 😛

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Mine tells me if there’s no CF card loaded. But it doesn’t help if you don’t check until you’ve driven 20+ minutes from home….

My P&S came in really handy a few years ago when I was in a pretty nasty car accident. I handed it to a bystander and asked him to take a few shots of the accident scene. My lawyer was EXTREMELY happy. The dump truck driver’s, not so much 😉

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The nearest to us is San Francisco – around 90 miles. Monterey is awesome, but that’s a day trip at a minimum away. And an expensive proposition if you’re going to take two adults and three kids 😛

We have a fish hatchery nearby, and got some okay stuff from there between the two of us, and I’m sure I can get some AWESOME shots there – in November, when the salmon are running…. So my shots are going to be pure win, or pure fail.

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