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Please note I used Photoshop as a verb, not a noun. 🙂 I consider any alteration via software synonymous with Photoshop. I’ve been a Fark Photoshopper longer than a Farktographer.

Oh, I see what you wrote there; I hadn’t updated and posted w/o reading. There’s like 20 new features I can use with Canon’s software (including if I want HDR and image merging/layering/masking) that I didn’t have in the 32 bit system (unsharp masking too! Yay!) I plan on having a lot of fun with them over in my G+ posts, esp. playing w/HDR.

I just was happy that I didn’t have to break out the big, complicated guns to do my images (and this makes me happy–Elements can still be something of a mess to deal with). Didn’t see/mean to look like I responded to a blame.

So are we okay with non-landscape formated panoramas? Like I said, I don’t think I’ll get a lot of votes since it seems against the grain of other’s posts, but if it’s not kosher, delete it and on my first work break I’ll pop in one of my B’s.

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I didn’t use photoshop for any of these–canon’s native software (with new 64-bit features I didn’t have available) and additionally the new lappytop fixered all my irfanview edit problems (spec. ‘save for web). Still, I was thinking outside of the box to upend my cloud/nuke image and mirror it; I thought there’d be more shots like it (i.e., not traditional wide-scope panos); if there’s a problem please say so; I’ll sub in the ‘tree’ image, which may play better with the voters since mine seems to be the only non-wide view image there. :o(

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Uh, weird, cause I changed that a couple weeks ago when you guys flagged me on it. Not sure why it didn’t save–can you clear your cache and make sure it’s not just an old copy of the page?

I’m posting the Boobies tonight, but I’m only just now getting to play with images for the contest, so I’ll be entering late. Lots of fun, though–wish I’d had time to play with it before tonight!

I’m on a new laptop that has never been to the page before and I’m seeing 640×1100.

b’s:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/sep/26/dammirror.jpg

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/sep/26/mirrorimage2.jpg

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/sep/26/rammirror.jpg

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/sep/26/treemirrorsml.jpg

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I only wish I could go to 16Gb. I have a feeling when I get Lightroom (and it’s imminent) I’m going to be jonesing for more. My MB maxes me to 8.

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Where’s the fence? No wonder they sneak in so easily… 😀

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Just a note for everyone tonight – If you don’t usually visit the Themes forum, I’d encourage you to go check out the many theme suggestions currently in there. We actually need to get some more original ideas into the hopper over the next two months, so if you have an idea for a theme we’d love to hear it!

I’ve noticed we finally drained the hopper. Shouldn’t we use some clorox in there to clean it up a bit before we go refilling the pool? 😯

//I keed. I’ll take a look and see if I have any idears.

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Got the RAM upgrade and installed. To quote George Takai: “Oh my!” Damn this thing zings…

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The star trails and tonemapped car are especially nice; I like Kat’s shoes, too. Love the portrait of 4 shot; Kat’s expression nailed it!

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She keeps grabbing this issue of “TIME” and staring at Obama’s and Romney’s faces like, “I don’t trust those guys..”

Can’t say I blame her.

Me neither. Cute photo, though. Love her expression; I’ll look something like that when I fill out the early ballot.

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I use white foam core board from the dollar store for a little fill-light. Don’t know how well that would work with a large group though. And you’d need an assistant.

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I think I should get some points for “playing” the old part in the pic with my granddaughter and the house of cards in U-Man’s photo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**golf claps** 😀

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So is anyone else having way too much fun with this one? Narrowing it down to 3 is going to be really tough.

I’m having a blast! I’ve been previewing shots over on G+ and people seem to like them. I’m contemplating starting a theme (if one hasn’t already been started; haven’t checked yet.) Anyone (ahem Orionid Kestrana U-Man care to co-curate if one hasn’t been? MirrorMonday?

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Planning on it, chupa; will be back at it tonight. Should be much easier than spotting/verifying just a single image!!

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Here’s another, of a different kind. I knew _where_ they were, mostly; it was just a matter of settings and exposure etc. to catch a good shot of them. Canon 50mm~f1.8, but set to f/4 and equiv to 85mm, 3.2 sec. exposure (can’t have star trails you know), 15 stacked lights against 24 darks, and after more than 2 hours sleuthing and verifying, I bring you minor planets Ceres and Vesta, conveniently labeled, from last night on a break from work. I think the inner-city pollution worked for me on this one; they’re 2.25-2.5x the distance of the sun, about 7.8-8.5 magnitude, and if I had all the stars available in the darkest skies, I’d probably never be able to identify them. As it is, I’ll take shots tonight; they should have moved enough to know I picked correctly (but I have 98% confidence I did).

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I presume the hand held ‘details’ provided mean ‘camera may not be rested upon something stable’, correct?

So something like laying on the ground on my belly, elbows on the ground, camera held to my eye would be okay? Or what about a camera hand held, but dangling by (and pulled against) a string of some type? Strings aren’t solid.

There’s actually a product out there similar to this for places where tripods and such aren’t allowed, a string with two loops on either end to hold down with your feet, and threaded through a mount on the bottom of the camera, which affords at least one, if not two axial planes of stability, yet is not in itself a solid object.

//These questions are gonna get asked, figured to get them out of the way early to determine if they’re against the spirit of the theme, or creative use within it.

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