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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #180 on: December 08, 2010, 04:32:44 pm »

I love this thread, good discussions and fine pics  8)

And to answer Tokengirl:

No chair for me, I prefer the couch  ;)


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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #181 on: December 08, 2010, 05:31:39 pm »

I love this thread, too. You never know what's going to show up next!

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #182 on: December 08, 2010, 06:15:59 pm »

You never know what's going to show up next!

Indeed.
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #183 on: December 08, 2010, 06:49:40 pm »

Exactly!
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #184 on: December 08, 2010, 07:01:21 pm »

Tis the season…



Santa Homer

Cheers,
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #185 on: December 09, 2010, 01:29:30 am »

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #186 on: December 09, 2010, 03:55:54 am »

disgusting, I love it  :D
Then you'll really like this (not mine, alas, so I'm probably breaking a rule).

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #187 on: December 09, 2010, 04:15:26 am »

Now I underdstand why Toke's watch doesn't function well.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #188 on: December 09, 2010, 01:00:59 pm »

Tis the season…

Santa Homer
Cheers,

Must say, I do not feel any festive cheer with this..thank heavens it is not in B&W, I'd probably start crying if it was.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #189 on: December 09, 2010, 01:12:02 pm »

Must say, I do not feel any festive cheer with this..thank heavens it is not in B&W, I'd probably start crying if it was.




I quite understand. You're getting feedback from the plants.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #190 on: December 09, 2010, 01:29:32 pm »

I quite understand. You're getting feedback from the plants.
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It's the effort of trying to brighten up a sad ( for me) environment with makeshift Christmas props and dangling wires that I think gets to me Rob. Strange ( or maybe not) how a picture can jolt a response from your insides, purely because of personal experience.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #191 on: December 09, 2010, 02:22:38 pm »

It's the effort of trying to brighten up a sad ( for me) environment with makeshift Christmas props and dangling wires that I think gets to me Rob. Strange ( or maybe not) how a picture can jolt a response from your insides, purely because of personal experience.


Yep, and just goes to prove that music and pictures have a lot in common, too. Both can wrench your guts with memory - think 'our song' when there's no longer any 'our'.

;-(

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #192 on: December 12, 2010, 07:30:52 pm »

Tis the season…



Santa Homer

Cheers,

A little Christmas spirit is better than none.  I suspect Homer has plenty when it's all said and done.  ;)
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #193 on: December 12, 2010, 07:31:26 pm »

Back to the sea, again.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #194 on: December 12, 2010, 08:44:40 pm »

Christmas in Australia is in the middle of summer. It's more likely to around 35°C/95°F than freezing cold. There is more likely to be bushfires than blizzards. Christmas 2001…



It's a little hard to take things Christmas too seriously when you're being bombarded with traditional white Christmas messages.

Anyway a grander Santa.



Cheers,





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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #195 on: December 14, 2010, 03:15:38 pm »

Not a drop of sea in sight, but it is an island...

During a recce for a shoot in Cyprus; happy snap of wife as assistant/stand-in. A patient lady.

Slobodan, don't tell me you shot the same little church....?

;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #196 on: December 14, 2010, 04:04:58 pm »

Not a drop of sea in sight, but it is an island...

During a recce for a shoot in Cyprus; happy snap of wife as assistant/stand-in. A patient lady.

Slobodan, don't tell me you shot the same little church....?

;-)

Rob C

Ha, ha… no, not this time… my "patient ladies" (wife and daughter) preferred to stay by the water:

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #197 on: December 15, 2010, 04:54:41 am »

Hi Slobodan

Nice shot of the family - I have very few along those lines, a case of the shoemakers children having to go barefoot! My wife really hated being photographed, and I found it very awkward too, standing on the wrong side of the camera. Our kids were much more used to it, as both were used as child models for local department stores, from time to time. However, I do have a lot of shots of both standing in front of a white roll holding up tickets saying 4, 4.5, 5.6, 6.3, 8 etc. etc. all the way to 32! The reason was that flash meters were not so common back then, and the metering unit I did have at the time, a huge aluminium Bowens box, was remarkable inaccurate and prone to directional holding errors. It didn't matter much with b/w which was the main studio medium for me then, and a stretched pair of arms a close enough measure for flash/subject distance (I actually used a long knotted string, and one knot was for FP3/4 and the other for TXP 120; the model held the knot to her chin, the other end of the string was attached to the flash stand - always accurate, standard setting for standard shots), but transparencies were another matter altogether with much testing required prior to shoots. That was also why I used the 'blad system indoors for colour: E6 and its earier manifestations could be processed and evaluated within hours, but my favourite, Kodachrome, took weeks! I never did use Kodachrome in 120, but someone who did has told me that it was very unreliable - probably why it went back off the market very quickly after being reintroduced.

Pools. It used to be that when I lived in Scotland, images of nice pools in foreign parts were very emotive, evocative things; having lived close to them for almost thirty years now, they seldom inspire... how familiarity can deaden perception, when the pools really remain the same, and it's us who change... and boy, how we change in thirty years. Where the hell do they go, those years? Can I have mine back, please?

Rob C

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #198 on: December 15, 2010, 07:15:26 am »

Christmas in Australia is in the middle of summer. It's more likely to around 35°C/95°F than freezing cold. There is more likely to be bushfires than blizzards. Christmas 2001…



Looks like a typical Christmas day in South Africa too.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #199 on: December 15, 2010, 10:15:06 am »

Observation or self-delusion?

On seeing the above posted shot of the little church in Cyprus, here in LuLa, I got the immediate impression that it was darker than the original same size psd. ultimately derived from the original scan, when it's seen on the same monitor, but via the other computer that only does pictures and isn't 'net connected. They share the monitor via a splitter and I have tried switching rapidly from the one to the other at the same size and I feel I can spot the differences each time.

Does this imply that the same, calibrated monitor, is also affected by the difference in graphic cards within different computers, and/or that jpegs made at 72 and at max. quality setting also fail in some important respects, even at such small sizes? Maybe the question should be: calibration, does it change the monitor screen itself or the graphic card, in which case, should I try to calibrate using both computers, or would that just eff the whole thing up for both computers?

If that's so, there seems grim hope for web photography presentation... I still feel it's my fault somewhere along the line, but don't know where.

Rob C
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