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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #260 on: January 11, 2011, 08:23:25 pm »


Toke - framed to suit the shape of your new love. Nik goes Hass.


Yes!  Thank you, sir.
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #261 on: January 12, 2011, 03:40:20 am »

I agree with Fred. One of your best, IMHO.

But did you get Russ's permission to crop it?  :D

Eric



Eric, it was trimmed to please the lady; Russ would be the first to understand and to forgive!


Edit:  not to hog space here, the rest (only six selected) of the jazz afternoon shots are now up on the website. I can't figure out how to link directly to the zone they're in - I seem to display the general web address but not subsections of it as per the heading of LuLa above here, for example, so if anyone is interested, click on the The Biscuit Tin title shown on the Home page of the site, and when it comes up, scroll down to the bottom and there they are - no need to churn through the older stuff. Nothing spectacular - not young Jaggers! - but just an experiment in fixing one set aperture and shutter speed and putting the camera into auto ISO to control exposure. Rocket science, in short. ;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #262 on: January 13, 2011, 11:46:26 pm »

At last, some normality has returned at the workplace, with the festive season being a thing of the past. No more working from five in the mornings till who knows what time at night. The ten hour working days now feel like a holiday.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #263 on: January 14, 2011, 10:27:30 am »

Rob,

Let me try for a direct link, at least to the Biscuit Tin set:

http://www.roma57.com/the-biscuit-tin.html

The Jazz series is from #91 through #95, starting on the next to bottom row of thumbnails. There's a lot of other good stuff there, too.

You haven't lost the touch, Rob! Keep on shootin'!

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #264 on: January 14, 2011, 01:46:33 pm »

Thanks Eric, I have Rob's site saved under my "favourites" allready though and visit at least every second day. Gallery 2 fascinates me but please don't tell him :) :)

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« Reply #265 on: January 14, 2011, 03:58:14 pm »

Eric - where did you find the code to add after the .com part of the website address or is it a standard way of doing this?

Thanks for the kind remarks - I hope to do just that! As I took delivery of the new wheels last evening, and discovered today that the tyre pressure were nothing close to where they shold have been, I'm rather glad that I didn't do what I'd intended today, which was to go for a spin and try some pretty pictures of the new addition to my fold of one... Rusty is sitting in the forecourt, a huge emotional slap in my face - and when I went back to pick up some stuff I'd forgotten to take from it last evening I felt like a grave robber!

Riaan - thanks for your interest too; it's strange, but the first gallery was put together from what I thought the better shots, and then the second one when I realise it was all a bit bare (no pun etc.) and needed more pics. Since then, I've used up all that I felt worthwhile from the salvaged past and that means I have to do something... but anyway, that Gallery 2 is the one that holds your interest shows that the author probably doesn't always make the best editor!

Ciao -

Rob C

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #266 on: January 14, 2011, 05:12:38 pm »

Eric - where did you find the code to add after the .com part of the website address or is it a standard way of doing this?
I went to your website, clicked on the "Biscuit Tin" link, and scrolled down to the jazz pix. I then copied the link from my browser's address bar and pasted it into the LuLa forum's "add-a-hyperlink" box. And Bob's yer uncle.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #267 on: January 14, 2011, 05:18:21 pm »

... that Gallery 2 is the one that holds your interest shows that the author probably doesn't always make the best editor!
Ain't it the truth, Rob.
Whenever I go on a big trip or a big shoot, I come back with a lot of images and right away I pick "the best" for processing.

Often I go back to the unsorted bunch from a shoot/trip two or three years later and go through them again. Then I usually end up spending much time muttering to myself either "Why the H didn't I choose that one; it's really good!" or else "Why the H did I choose that one; it's a real loser and the one right next to it is loads better."

That's why I never throw a negative or a raw file away.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #268 on: January 15, 2011, 03:35:02 am »

I went to your website, clicked on the "Biscuit Tin" link, and scrolled down to the jazz pix. I then copied the link from my browser's address bar and pasted it into the LuLa forum's "add-a-hyperlink" box. And Bob's yer uncle.

Eric


Thanks Eric; the odd thing is that looking at my own address bar after having posted the previous message, I do indeed see the bits of address that followed the .com part. I can't understand that: I was aware that such showed up on other sites, but it didn't seem visible for my own when attempting to create links for my family. I tell you, electronics and Rob C are not a good mix. Ever. Makes me feel a total chump!

;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #269 on: January 15, 2011, 03:48:52 am »

Ain't it the truth, Rob.
Whenever I go on a big trip or a big shoot, I come back with a lot of images and right away I pick "the best" for processing.

Often I go back to the unsorted bunch from a shoot/trip two or three years later and go through them again. Then I usually end up spending much time muttering to myself either "Why the H didn't I choose that one; it's really good!" or else "Why the H did I choose that one; it's a real loser and the one right next to it is loads better."

That's why I never throw a negative or a raw file away. Eric


And that's why I regret having sold off to clients or otherwise destroyed all of my fashion/advertising images before leaving Britain for life here. Okay, a lot of bulk to manage, and there wasn't any understanding of the possibility of 'art' photography coming out from dead negs and trannies, but even so... brings to mind a religious quotation that impressed me once, from the lips of a Scottish minister living/working in India when preaching about conscience and regret: 'the again bite of inwit' was how he referred to it, in a Scottish phrase I'd never heard before. But he did come from the islands, I believe, so anything goes. On the other hand, such personally targeted vandalism does put me in the same exalted company as Brian Duffy.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #270 on: January 15, 2011, 12:32:25 pm »


Thanks Eric; the odd thing is that looking at my own address bar after having posted the previous message, I do indeed see the bits of address that followed the .com part. I can't understand that: I was aware that such showed up on other sites, but it didn't seem visible for my own when attempting to create links for my family. I tell you, electronics and Rob C are not a good mix. Ever. Makes me feel a total chump!

;-)

Rob C
No, Rob, it isn't your fault. You just have to remember that all electronic gadgets (especially computers) are actually run by little invisible gremlins that like to do little tricks like hiding part of your address. If they didn't play these little tricks on us, they'd get bored just making the gadgets run correctly.

Perhaps if you leave a little dish of Scotch out by the PC at night, you might pacify the little beasties so they won't bother you.

Good luck!

Eric
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #271 on: January 15, 2011, 03:14:25 pm »

Eric

Gremlins. Automotive ones.

I picked up the new car the other evening, and once on my way home in the dark I realised that though I could find the sidelights as well as dipped headlights, there was no way of hitting main beam (that I could find). I could use the flash function, but couldn't hold the bright lights.

Then, I spent another hour yesterday trying to work out how to do some other things, but had to do that whilst holding a conversation with an elderly lady - I think she's a bit younger than I - who insisted on telling me all about her late husband's Datsun. I learned nothing new about my own car. But, today, I discovered how to make both the radio and the CD player function.

I went back to the dealer to ask him where the mileage meter lived, and also where they had concealed the trip reader. Turns out they are both at the end of the light stalk. You have to press it repeatedly and run through friggin' menus! Worse, the numerals are so smnall that I need glasses to read them, but I can't drive with glasses. However, the rev counter and speedo are clearly visible. And they haven't hidden the gear stick.

All in all, I think that bath from which they threw out the baby contained a lot more than water and babies! What on Earth was wrong with rolling numerals to tell you how far your car had gone?

Rob C
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #272 on: January 15, 2011, 03:45:35 pm »

Rob C, Same car, same colour but different weather conditions. It's to give driving lessons to our daughters, but they weren't up to it in this weather. Can't blame them  ;D

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #273 on: January 15, 2011, 05:59:04 pm »

Eric

Gremlins. Automotive ones.

I picked up the new car the other evening, and once on my way home in the dark I realised that though I could find the sidelights as well as dipped headlights, there was no way of hitting main beam (that I could find). I could use the flash function, but couldn't hold the bright lights.

Then, I spent another hour yesterday trying to work out how to do some other things, but had to do that whilst holding a conversation with an elderly lady - I think she's a bit younger than I - who insisted on telling me all about her late husband's Datsun. I learned nothing new about my own car. But, today, I discovered how to make both the radio and the CD player function.

I went back to the dealer to ask him where the mileage meter lived, and also where they had concealed the trip reader. Turns out they are both at the end of the light stalk. You have to press it repeatedly and run through friggin' menus! Worse, the numerals are so smnall that I need glasses to read them, but I can't drive with glasses. However, the rev counter and speedo are clearly visible. And they haven't hidden the gear stick.

All in all, I think that bath from which they threw out the baby contained a lot more than water and babies! What on Earth was wrong with rolling numerals to tell you how far your car had gone?

Rob C
Ah, Rob!
You have now learned that the gremlins have moved from simply buggering the electronics while the car is running to mucking up the design of the beast in the first place.

Perhaps the rdio and CD player can at least entertain you while you drive onwards, pressing the flasher lever continuously.

Much more than just babies with the water.

Eric
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« Reply #274 on: January 16, 2011, 03:32:19 am »

pegelli -

God help you with the daughters. I took mine out for a single attempt and she came home in tears and I in a high state of perspiration sweating blood. I was convinced I had actually lost a middle gear somewhere on the road, not to mention a door or two. In the event, my wife took over along with a driving school and the girl sailed through her test. Mum also taught son with help of the driving school and he, too, got through it first time! I think that the principal benefit of the schools is that they teach you how to appear as if you are using mirrors etc. - in other words, they coach you in your act for the tester.

Rob C

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #275 on: January 16, 2011, 11:53:46 am »

Thought maybe this thread could use some more automotive photos...

























That should tide us over for a little while...

Mike.

P.S.  Lightroom's Spot Removal Tool at work...

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« Reply #276 on: January 16, 2011, 01:21:43 pm »

Mike, wonderful set!

On a side note, looks like your sensor is in dire need of industrial-strength hosing down (Rambo in the police station, in the First Blood movie, comes to mind ;))

But back to cars… can I play?

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« Reply #277 on: January 16, 2011, 04:10:30 pm »

Aaaah, cars. I'll play (with some stuff I can't afford):



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« Reply #278 on: January 17, 2011, 04:11:03 am »

Hi Guys

Love those car shots - and it isn't just nostalgia at play: there was something exuberant and optimistic about that period of autocar design that's woefully lacking this past couple of decades, at least outwith the supercar zone. I think there are even political undertones to it now: some are afraid to look too successful via their choice of car because of the almost inevitable envy factor and mindless vandalism that unavailable beauty attracts.

I remember that on the second or third day of my ownership of Rusty - a humble Escort XRi - somebody thought it worthwhile stealing the blue oval from the hood, having first tried, without luck, to lever off the one on the trunk. You need a blue oval as a prize, a measure of your prowess? And we live in a 'peaceful' small town. Frankly, were Santa to give me a free Ferrari I'd have to lock it away in a rented garage. It wouldn't survive a single night in the car park and going anywhere would mean non-stop driving with no stops for lunch! What on Earth do people who actually own them do with them, other than look?

Reminds me of my bro-in-lo who was sitting in his S Merc one night outside somebody's house when he watched an oldish guy walking up from behind. To his amazement this old chap walked the length of the car with a coin... he had no idea anyone was sitting in it. Well, they ended up through a fence and on a lawn, the fuzz came and the old guy was let go because nothing could be proved... All of which just shows that envy crosses the age divides; in fact there are no dividing lines for that ugly emotion.

Take care - park in a field!

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« Reply #279 on: January 17, 2011, 04:36:11 am »

Fortunately, today has begun with sea fog, which means that the car won't get photographed without its makeup or, at least, the benefit of its first wash! I have been dreading that part of ownership: the old one had reached the comfortable stage where the rain did the washing and I no longer felt compelled to rush to the car park when holidaying brats started to kick friggin´balls everywhere. As I have wondered before, what is it with males that they fell obliged to kick these damn things all day long and almost anywhere? I have even seen them playing with them inside supermarkets, whilst fond parents smile on in deep love. Madness indeed.

Anyway, here's another family shot.

Rob C
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