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Rob C

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #440 on: November 28, 2013, 02:46:53 pm »

Rob, the other weird thing is when I first looked at post #433 it was so blurred that it looked like a crude scan. There was even fall off in sharpness from left to right. Now when I revisit that image it looks vastly improved.

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I think it's something to do with the EEC and Spain's economic troubles, probably why I'm already two months late (and waiting) for my regular hospìtal appointments.

Somebody in Madrid is stealing electricity from the national grid and selling it abroad... obviously, so that my computer won't get enough. It's a plot to send us expats home.

;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #441 on: November 28, 2013, 02:48:21 pm »

Chris! What are you waiting for?

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #442 on: November 28, 2013, 02:56:46 pm »

Rob, the other weird thing is when I first looked at post #433 it was so blurred that it looked like a crude scan. There was even fall off in sharpness from left to right. Now when I revisit that image it looks vastly improved.

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Airwaves?

;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #443 on: November 28, 2013, 04:37:18 pm »

I just had one thought:

Maybe the images are sharp.
But if they are stored to load progressivley and you have a bad connection,
you see only the initial part of the jpeg which has bad quality and you don't
wait long enough to see the whole true resolution.

So Rob, what you could try is, to check if the images are stored to load progressively and change that.
If that is that case and you store them to load at once and you are on a bad line you will see the
image constructing itself line by line instead of a blurred image getting sharper slowly.

And especially on Mallorca many people have terribly slow lines.

Cheers
~Chris

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #444 on: November 28, 2013, 04:51:52 pm »

I just had one thought:

Maybe the images are sharp.
But if they are stored to load progressivley and you have a bad connection,
you see only the initial part of the jpeg which has bad quality and you don't
wait long enough to see the whole true resolution.

So Rob, what you could try is, to check if the images are stored to load progressively and change that.
If that is that case and you store them to load at once and you are on a bad line you will see the
image constructing itself line by line instead of a blurred image getting sharper slowly.

And especially on Mallorca many people have terribly slow lines.

Cheers
~Chris


You have a PM

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #445 on: November 29, 2013, 09:05:57 am »


...
....Hey, I feel too old a dog for these new tricks!

Woof!

Here are some more old pooches:

http://youtu.be/dm6qw_yeo6o

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OK it's been a pretty long time since I smiled like that while listening to a song,
great choice, great band...
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #446 on: November 30, 2013, 11:42:33 am »

OK it's been a pretty long time since I smiled like that while listening to a song,
great choice, great band...


Yeah, this is the best version of this other number that I've found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuGECUNZDIE

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #447 on: November 30, 2013, 05:10:47 pm »

Two days ago on an old fashioned German Weihnachtsmarkt. A lot of Glühwein, later on changed to Feuerzangenbowle. Accompanied by some Matjesbrötchen. Yesterday I've found this precious picture on my memory card:-)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #448 on: December 01, 2013, 04:21:14 am »

Two days ago on an old fashioned German Weihnachtsmarkt. A lot of Glühwein, later on changed to Feuerzangenbowle. Accompanied by some Matjesbrötchen. Yesterday I've found this precious picture on my memory card:-)

Harald



You see, now, the value of lubrication?

To balance that, you must also appreciate the penance of enforced abstention.

Sometimes, equilibrium sucks.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #449 on: December 01, 2013, 04:45:12 am »



You see, now, the value of lubrication?

To balance that, you must also appreciate the penance of enforced abstention.

Sometimes, equilibrium sucks.

Rob C

Oh yes, I do as poverty and humility lead to heaven. But I don't have to accept that a dirty rat or something else creature had must been slept in my mouth.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #450 on: December 01, 2013, 10:41:07 am »

Oh yes, I do as poverty and humility lead to heaven. But I don't have to accept that a dirty rat or something else creature had must been slept in my mouth.

Harald


That's easy Harald, don't eat hamburgers not made at home. Buy the meat, make the mince and hey, way to fry fly!

;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #451 on: December 01, 2013, 12:23:26 pm »

My first Tintype



Cheers Daniel

Wet or dry?
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #452 on: December 01, 2013, 01:26:06 pm »

Don't much like Sundays... everything here is pretty much dead. Maybe that's what resting does for one.

Anyway, in the wan hope that the photo-gods will choose to smile a little more crisply this time, here's another bottle.

;-)

Rob C

P.S. I guess they are still unhappy.
..image..


LOL - Rob you are cheating me !
Putting all these photographers books behind the bottle - thats not what I requested from you.
:D

Nice one again! - Love it !

Cheers
~Chris

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #453 on: December 01, 2013, 03:12:10 pm »

Hey, Chris, the spirit's still there:  spirits of schnapps snaps!

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #454 on: December 03, 2013, 05:43:32 am »

Thought a quick vacation was in order after all that hard work around Mallorca.

;-)

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I think I'll attribute the 'softness' this time to tequila. Grrrr...
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #455 on: December 03, 2013, 09:18:21 am »

Rob, muy buena.

When viewing your images on LuLa you obviously click on the thumbnail to see the enlargement but are you then hovering over the enlargement to see if there's a + symbol that allows further enlargement?

On clicking the thumb I see a fairly soft enlargement but by clicking on the enlargement again I'm seeing a much sharper image.


This sure is my day at school!

Keith, I had never hovered and second-clicked; does anybody else know of this trick? I shall return to the images still remaining here and try it out - worked on this hatted shot!

((The sombrero was a silver wedding memento from one of our neighbours, half of which couple is long gone; he, the late hubby, was a delightful Canadian, a real and very generous gentleman (who used to bring doggy-bags back from various restaurants for our Alsabrador, who would wait for him every day on the edge of the terrace for her treat), and his wife is a Scot.))

;-)

Rob C

P.S. Yes, it works with all the remaining shots too, provided they start as thumbnails.
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #456 on: December 03, 2013, 09:31:29 am »

Rob, I just assumed that everyone clicked for the full size image.

Well yes, I do too, and the difference in size between the two blowups (one click or two) is minimal - it's just that the second click makes it far crisper for me!

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #457 on: December 03, 2013, 05:21:33 pm »

Nice Keith.

I have been trying to think of what to do with a baked enamel bed pan I have here for about 15 years.  Motivated by Duchamp in a sense but not wanting to replicate has been the hurdle to jump.  I have other still life objets d'art to shoot but just need some wet weather to keep me indoors.

If you google Bedpan Art there are some reasonably moribund examples.

Cheers,

W
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #458 on: December 03, 2013, 07:03:40 pm »

I have been trying to think of what to do with a baked enamel bed pan I have here for about 15 years.
Hang on to it, Walter, we'll all need one someday! ;)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #459 on: December 04, 2013, 04:22:36 am »

Rob, as far as I'm aware if you host your own images on your own site and refer them to here rather than download and have them hosted here then they will appear exactly as they appear on your own site, i.e. no thumbnails and no two stage enlargements.

I'll give it a try.


Keith, I did that on post #448 and it still came over with blurred captions...

That's why I reverted to the thumbnail route for the Mexican Coke because your two-clicks advice/method makes them more crisp to the viewer. I also don't want to touch my website again until Weebly tell me what's going on with my lost Home Page! I haven't even dropped the Mexican into it for that reason.

I like your leper colony image - in fact I approve most highly of the fact that the unimportant aspects of background go soft! I usually feel that infinite DOF makes concentration of the mind almost impossible - the actual 'subject' can get lost in the confusion. Unless, of course, the entire scene is the subject, but that can be too global a concept for me!

Did you hand-hold or tripod the Leica? Can you frame exactly at that sort of distance?

Rob C
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