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A double congrats, with leftovers in bucketfuls to CISS!

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A ruling, clarification, whatever you call it.

Let’s say a theme allowed panoramics. Are each and all pictures in said panoramic thus barred (or barred for any length of time) from being used, alone as an entry.

And the converse. If a picture has been a previous entry, but a theme allowing pano’s came about in which the picture could be composed withof, is that barred?

//not that it’s germane to the contest or anything. But it came to mind while contemplating it.

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LOL—all my days are all-nighters; even my days off because it’s too damned difficult to switch to normal hours then switch back. I can’t talk you out of your lens, though; I’d love to have one myself!

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I’d just like to ask if anyone would mind ‘thumbs-upping’ the link on the main page link; we are some-odd 15th on the list of most active; yet the most active only has 12 ‘thumbs ups’ and we have 4. Maybe bumping that wouldn’t hurt?

I’d seen it in the past threads, but not lately; my psa for the day.

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ravnostic: (she’s a nice girl, wouldn’t go flipping off the camera or anything raunchy and disreputable) 😉

My daughter has a message for you. 🙂

LOL, U-man; is that an older one who’s corrupted the younger, or the same one, just a little older but with the same snippy attitude? 😆

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Chatting with Deaconblues gets my vote, too. I like your dad’s pic, but hate the cigarette being in it, a reminder of his undoing (even if historically and characteristically accurate.)

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SilverStagMother & Daughter
Plama, I like C myself.

I’m waiting on permission to use my brother’s kids. I have remarkably few images to choose from but will give the contest a go if I can.

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Well, this one, for one, if it hasn’t been used before. I love the emotion, the wrenching pain, and the unconditional love. Yep–that’s life!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjern/2436512965/in/set-72157602169188026

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My what?

Oops–E^0s. My bad.

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Can I see a shot of what the bridge looks like when it’s not HDR’d? Like the two (three?) shots used to compose one of them? I’d like to try HDR, there’s gotta be freeware somewhere out there (can you just layer them and do masking in photoshop?). I tried to take some shots today with HDR in mind. Hopefully I’m on the right track.

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You probably could have just kept silent, and nobody would have noticed.

Yeah, but *I* would know, and if I have enough of a question as to whether something’s in keeping with the rules, I tend to err on the side of avoiding the issue altogether.

I echo E^0‘s applause [edited]; I believe that’s a quality called ‘personal integrity’ and it’s not often seen in day to day life. There’s a fantastic shot of one of my brother’s kids that I’d love to use, and I’m not in it, and there’s nothing to say I didn’t take it (it’s on my computer, right?)

But I’ll be damned if I can remember taking it, so I decided against it.

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I took about 20 shots until I finally got a decent one 😯 It could also be because I’m forcing myself to shoot in all-manual, so I tend to get slightly over- or under-exposed shots that I then have to take twice or thrice to get right…. It is fun learning, though.

I agree limiting myself to shots should force me to get better at composing them the way I want in the first place. I’ll try to relax the trigger-happiness a bit, hah.

I think you’re using a DSLR, right? Are you aware of the metering guide when you look through the viewfinder and how to use it? If not–ask–we’ll tell you!

//it’s something I picked up through PopPho’s ‘Ultimate Photoguide’ ‘freebie’ disk they sent me, unasked for. (They gave the option of returning the card to order the series, returning the card with the cdrom to decline or–and I read to fine print to find this–doing nothing, which counts as a decline as I didn’t ask for it. It’s the only thing of value I got from it–because the folks around here taught me everything else I needed to know [up till now])

And there are moments when trigger-happy is the way to go; some of the shots I took today are (hopefully) good examples; turkey vultures in flight. So don’t rein yourself in completely or you could miss something, too. 🙂

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When I took up the hobby for serious, I was shooting about the same–10K every 6 months or so. As I’ve learned techniques (amongst the most important thing was metering), that number has gone down; on a recent 8 hour jaunt I took about 600, most of which I like (some I love). Typically in a two hour shoot, about 200. The real number varies as to how much time I have to photograph.

//That number will be high today; I’m shooting indian cliff dwellings from inside today, a special photography tour. 🙂

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Holy fark! The color’s impressive, too. Red blooded much?

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Cool!

SilverStag, I’ve been thinking about making one too, or at least a ‘home-brew’ version of it. If we dropped the fancy box and got several people together that wanted one, we could save a few bucks. I have all the resources to do it, but it’s not worth-while to build less than three – below that the kit is is going to be cheaper (I haven’t run the actual numbers in a while, but that’s about the magic number for the circuit boards)

Count me in on that if it can work with my Canon. Where do I paypal the funds?

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