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The list is the first post in this very thread. It gets updated from time to time with new themes.

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During the Color Pop discussion, sleeping suggested using the ‘Channel Mixer’ in PS for different B&W effects.

Actually, I recommended the Black and White tool which does basically the same thing, but tends to be a bit easier to use and has presets. (layer > new adjustment layer > black and white)

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Large areas of blank space make for boring pictures. (Dark or light)

Not neccesarily?

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DX is how Nikon describes its small-sensor SLRs (including the d90) and lenses. It isn’t part of the model name, there’s only the one D90 model so far. You might be seeing price differences because of included lens kits or refurbs or something.

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KEH.com is another good used dealer (I find they usually have the most stuff and the best prices, but they do some annoying things like usually selling lenses without caps unless you buy them separately)

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But there is something: Custom menu D10: “Exposure Delay” This delays the shutter release for about a second after raising the mirror.

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Huhm. I’ll have to play around with that more. It always seems to me that when I go to shoot from live view, it drops the mirror, turns off the screen, flips the mirror, shoots, drops the mirror, turns on the screen, then reraises the mirror. Thus, adding even more vibration to the mix. I would definately agree to that in video mode, though.

No, it looks like you’re right. Damn, I thought that worked.

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no AF in live view.

Well, technnically, it does, it’s just god-awful.

Doesn’t have a mirror-lockup mode for shooting when vibrations are absolutely undesired (ie telescope mounting).

Live view does this quite effectively, however.

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So sepia is monochrome but brownish only?

Basically; sepia toning is a process (or maybe a range of processes) that can be done to a Black and White print, and it produces colors in the red-yellow-brown area, but there are also a ton of other toners that can be used for different effects (iron, selenium, copper, gold etc).

It’s pretty common in BW printing, but it is also quite often done quite subtly.

Examples: http://www.moersch-photochemie.de/content/galerie/lang:en

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Tinted monochrome is the same thing as sepia right?

Sepia is one way to tint an image. There are others

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I have one. I can only compare it with the D70, though, I never used a D60

– I didn’t see a huge improvement in AF performance vs my D70, but it does have a bunch more AF points.
– The finder is significantly better
– The LCD is so much better it’s not even funny.
– The metering is different than the D70. I don’t know that it’s worse, but it definitely behaves differently, and I haven’t internalized it properly yet
– Battery life seems quite a bit worse than the d70
– The High ISO performance is another huge improvement 3200 is quite usable: http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/3873446784/sizes/o/
– I didn’t think live view would be very useful, but for MF macro work on a tripod it is. AF with Live view is basically useless.

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I’m not sure I chose well this week, but in my defense I had a splitting headache earlier. Here’s some of the ones I was considering:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/2730899000/in/set-72157602305756347
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/3894020821/in/set-72157602305756347
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/3503001532/in/set-72157602305756347
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/2933193712/in/set-72157602305756347
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/2629463823/in/set-72157602305756347
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/2605907464/in/set-72157602305756347
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/2529185505/in/set-72157602299529510
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/2950917692/in/set-72157607784968086

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and some, but not necessarily all these elements.
/some of mine won’t have backgrounds this week

For sure. They’re not not the One True Path to minimalism, either, but I think they ought to work. But making that into a good photo on the other hand is not necessarily easy…

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Sleeping’s quick minimalism guidelines:

1) The subject should be either quite small, or very simple (geometric shapes, simple repeating patterns etc)
2) The background should be simple/plain (sky and water are often good, snow is just about perfect, but bokeh often doesn’t work as well as you might think)
3) The subject and background should be distinctly different
4) Fewer colors = more minimal (but they don’t have to be black and white)

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Thanks! btw

But no this is strange… I’ve never seen this in my history of farking. It’s just literally not letting me vote for them. And, not to sound conceited or whatever because I am pretty awesome, I would find it hard to believe that no one else voted once for them either. So for whatever reason Fark doesn’t want to record anyone’s votes for my pics. So I suppose they just won’t count. Oh well… just strange. 🙁

I can only see one entry from you, the other two don’t seem to be visible. That would probably explain the lack of votes, but I don’t know what’s going on.

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