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In the course of getting a picture for this theme, I discovered that the glowstick chemicals don’t work when exposed to citrus.

#1 – Did you actually take the chemicals out of the stick?
#2 – Don’t forget about the no citrus difficulty.

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What is film? Sounds like you might damage your sensor if you put it inside your camera.

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I didn’t know you were in Peoria- I go thru there now and again. We’ll have to catch up and have coffee sometime.

That would be cool. I’ll email you some contact info.

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I only have two so far.

I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.
I will not let my toddler play with orange paint.

/might let her play with orange paint on Tuesday evening.:)

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People dressed in lion , tiger or bear costumes. Good or not?

My input – sure, why not? I’d say that only a few of us have easy access to real ferocious critters.

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Thanks for responding. I’ll check them out later. I hear the little one waking up from her nap.

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I didn’t read all of these posts carefully so excuse me if I’m redundant. While I can find my way around a computer fairly well, there is a lot that is beyond me. When, after thrashing around for a while, I admit defeat, I turn to my ‘computer guy’. He’s one of those self-taught old hackers. Anyway, he related that he once got 8 gigs of pics out of a 1 gig card with recovery software. It all hides in there somewhere – voodoo to me.

btw – good point xenpix. I’m going to start doing that as well.

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Yeah. It was set on AWB. I think that setting the WB properly will fix most of my pano issues.

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Is your camera possibly set on auto WB rather than manual?

That’s gotta be it, don’t you think? I’ll check.

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See, when I think HDR, I think of the details you can bring out of the darkness.

Yep. It’s slowly sinking in.

Off topic sidebar – I can’t stop playing with the panoramic stuff. Here’s one from tonight. I can’t figure out how to keep the seams out of the sky. Perhaps it is the lack of a true pano head?

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Peoria-Pano.jpg

To keep this thread clean, I’m also going to post this in another forum.

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I shoot with both the Canon 20D and 40D. The 20D is my travelling companion – always in the car, always in the boat.

I like your shots alot. I don’t know why, but when I think of HDR I picture big scenes. I’m going to have to try some smaller scale stuff like that.

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Duh. I was taking some pics today and the error I had typed earlier hit me. Yeah, for the few HDR pics I’ve done I shoot in aperture priority and use auto bracketing. I have only done HDR using three exposures, ususally normal and +2, -2 or +1, -1. Is there a significant benefit to including more of the in-between exposures?

soosh, about the auto ISO – to be honest, I don’t know if it changes or not. The way your question is stated leads me to believe that its locked. My hunch is that its locked if I use manual but I’m not sure if it is with aperture priority.

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How many images is that from?

You don’t need to use RAW for HDR, but it can help. I just lock everything down (white balance, aperture, focal length, ISO), and use jpegs.

(This discussion is very relevant to this contest)

Three photos. 1/100, 1/400, 1/1000 sec. f13, ISO 800.

If I shoot in shutter priority mode, focal length and aperture are fixed. Are white balance and ISO locked as well? Or would I need to shoot in manual mode?

After my initial reading about HDR, I thought that RAW was almost mandatory. I guess not. Perhaps I’ll play with jpeg’s in HDR.

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Corsec67 and schnee – Thank you very much for your input.

Call me a n00b, an un-purist or perhaps progressive – but I favor the crazy HDR that looks almost like a painting or cartoon. While I can see the value of realistic HDR, that stuff from http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/ really catches my eye.

After playing with the trial version of Photomatix (not photomatrix) a bit I just bought it. Here’s one I did last night.

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Cabin_3220_HDRc.jpg

I typically don’t shoot in RAW – partially because it chews up memory but primarily because I don’t understand it. However, I think I’ll be doing a lot more bracketed, RAW stuff just in case I want to try out the scene in HDR.

/ I think that this relates to this theme but if the discussion should continue in another forum just let me know.

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What swampa said. Even seeing a picture of that is like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Kids today wouldn’t understand that. That’s sort of a shame because everybody who has heard it has a visceral understanding.

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