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OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:09:37 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote: He took those 'down by the lake' or pond, or creek, or something. They couldn't have been that photographer's pictures or Harry surely wouldn't have posted them pretending they were his. Would he? I think the pro stole them from Harry. It is actually illegal to steal someone's intellectual property so I hope Harry prosecuted him. Just in case it actually happened the other way around, we should be more discrete so the professional doesn't find out. Nice pictures by the way, always did like the horse. |
We had a good night at the photo competition
RG wrote:
Russ, I hope I can take photos half as nice as the ones you posted online. I am going out to the Sierra Nevada mountains to attend a photography workshop of Bodie/ Mono Lake /and the Eastern Sierra. http://www.pbase.com/davewyman/sierr...east_side_2006 After the seminar I am traveling west with the instructors towards Yosemite. While their Yosemite was booked, they planned on taking photos on the way to Yosemite, and they told me I could tag along. So hopefully after a week, I can take a decent photo or two. Can you post your link of your SW photobook? I took a 4,000 mile 16-day photography-based road trip through California and Southern Oregon this June that includes the areas you mention. Part of the trip included the run up highway 395 from Southern California to Lake Tahoe. I'd be interested in learning more about your driving route, and I could definitely offer some pointers. Some highlights in the area: 1. Just to the east of Bishop, CA are the ancient Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains. Although it means hiking at elevations from 10,000-11,000 feet, these trees are certainly worth the effort. Google Bristlecone pines and read about these fascinating ancient sentinels. 2. While in Bishop, be sure and stop at the Mountain Light Gallery. This is the gallery established by Galen and Barbara Rowell, and it is right on hwy 395 in the middle of town. It is a wonderful facility with many of Galen's outstanding photos as well as work by other terrific guest photographers. Lots of very high quality large prints on display (and all for sale). http://www.mountainlight.com/ 3. Mono Lake, although useless for just about any other purpose is a must-do photography stop. I shot two sunsets and one sunrise there. One of the more famous Mono Lake photos was included in the artwork for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album. Hipgnosis added a body diving into the lake with the tufa columns in the background, resulting in yet another classic with the Hipgnosis touch. If the Yosemite trip is anytime soon, it will be an entire bust as a photography shoot due to the wildfires in the area. On my way home in June, I was driving down highway 99 in the San Joaquin Valley and had some extra time on my hands. I didn't include Yosemite in my itinerary for this trip, because the crowds this time of year are unbearable. But I figured I would jog over for a quick drive-through. At this time, most the California wildfires were hundreds of miles to the north in the Trinity National Forest west of Redding. I had just come through them the day before. In fact, they had just re-opened hwy 36 from Fortuna to Red Bluff the day I was scheduled to drive it. But the haze had covered the entire San Joaquin Valley, and had drifted into the Yosemite Valley. Visibility was just awful. Standing at Glacier Point, you could barely see Half-Dome. I can only imagine how bad it must be now, since there is currently a major fire just outside the park near the hwy 140 entrance. The big question for you is whether the smoke has drifted over the Sierras and polluted the Eastern Slopes and Owens Valley (where Bishop and Mono Lake are). I would be making some phone calls to the area to find out. I'd start with a phone call to the Inyo National Forest ranger station in Bishop. If your trip is soon, and if the smoke has crossed over the Sierras, it might be best to abort. Let me know more about you itinerary, and I'll zip up some photos from my recent trip that coincide with your plans and get them posted. I shot just over 1,800 exposures on this trip, many of which were bracketed exposures, and have them all culled and edited to around 350 photos. I intend to do another eBook later this year, after hopefully another outing or two. Once I learn more about your trip and collect the appropriate photos and post them, I'll also re-post last year's eBook and send you links. I'll need your email address. Do you still have mine? The trip is not till Oct. 15th - 23 or so. Hopefully the fires will be over by then. I sent you email to your cox address so you should have it by now. |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:09:37 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: He took those 'down by the lake' or pond, or creek, or something. They couldn't have been that photographer's pictures or Harry surely wouldn't have posted them pretending they were his. Would he? I think the pro stole them from Harry. It is actually illegal to steal someone's intellectual property so I hope Harry prosecuted him. Just in case it actually happened the other way around, we should be more discrete so the professional doesn't find out. Nice pictures by the way, always did like the horse. Thanks. I guess you are correct about discretion, it would hate to get anyone in trouble. It really was a nice owl photo, sitting in the crook of tree, with Spanish moss draping down. Nice tight shot, PERFECT exposure, and sharp as a tack. |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:25:16 -0400, hk wrote:
I'm not that interested in competitions that value overphotoshopped "photography." If I wanted surrealism, I'd let the Seven Dwarfs out of the bozo bin here. Well, let's see some of your non-photoshopped stuff then. He's put his stuff out there for critique - I don't see anything coming from you. I hear you bitchin' - let's see whatyou do with a camera. |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
On Aug 2, 2:31*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:25:16 -0400, hk wrote: I'm not that interested in competitions that value overphotoshopped "photography." *If I wanted surrealism, I'd let the Seven Dwarfs out of the bozo bin here. Well, let's see some of your non-photoshopped stuff then. *He's put his stuff out there for critique - I don't see anything coming from you. I hear you bitchin' - let's see whatyou do with a camera. We have seen his stuff. Remember Stumpy, the log, or stumpy the thumb? This is obviously the best he can do.. he knows it. |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:25:16 -0400, hk wrote: I'm not that interested in competitions that value overphotoshopped "photography." If I wanted surrealism, I'd let the Seven Dwarfs out of the bozo bin here. Well, let's see some of your non-photoshopped stuff then. He's put his stuff out there for critique - I don't see anything coming from you. I hear you bitchin' - let's see whatyou do with a camera. I'll be glad to mail you a magazine article or or two with my photography in it, but I don't know what the hell I did with your snail mail address. |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:50:47 -0400, hk wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:25:16 -0400, hk wrote: I'm not that interested in competitions that value overphotoshopped "photography." If I wanted surrealism, I'd let the Seven Dwarfs out of the bozo bin here. Well, let's see some of your non-photoshopped stuff then. He's put his stuff out there for critique - I don't see anything coming from you. I hear you bitchin' - let's see whatyou do with a camera. I'll be glad to mail you a magazine article or or two with my photography in it, but I don't know what the hell I did with your snail mail address. Don't bother - I'm not interested in dime-a-dozen commercial photography. I much prefer to help apsiring amateurs. Thanks for playing. |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:50:47 -0400, hk wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:25:16 -0400, hk wrote: I'm not that interested in competitions that value overphotoshopped "photography." If I wanted surrealism, I'd let the Seven Dwarfs out of the bozo bin here. Well, let's see some of your non-photoshopped stuff then. He's put his stuff out there for critique - I don't see anything coming from you. I hear you bitchin' - let's see whatyou do with a camera. I'll be glad to mail you a magazine article or or two with my photography in it, but I don't know what the hell I did with your snail mail address. Don't bother - I'm not interested in dime-a-dozen commercial photography. I much prefer to help apsiring amateurs. Thanks for playing. Funniest reply of the day - thanks. I forgot - you prefer manipulated photos. I prefer photos taken in the viewfinder, what the eye sees, as it were, as opposed to what the mind on LSD sees. :) |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:43:53 -0400, hk wrote:
wrote: I'm not that interested in competitions that value overphotoshopped "photography." If I wanted surrealism, I'd let the Seven Dwarfs out of the bozo bin here.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You have nothing to say here, we have seen your work, it's worse than mine and I don't even try... What would possibly interest me in posting any of my profe$$ional writing or photograph$ in this snake pit, scotty? To earn the accolades of bottom feeders like you and loogy? :) I post the occasional snapshot here, that's all. Even that is more than this joint is worth. Told ya, I'm just here watching rec.boats go down the black hole. ....which is why he's made only 793 posts to rec.boats during the last month. WAFL! |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:31:51 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:25:16 -0400, hk wrote: I'm not that interested in competitions that value overphotoshopped "photography." If I wanted surrealism, I'd let the Seven Dwarfs out of the bozo bin here. Well, let's see some of your non-photoshopped stuff then. He's put his stuff out there for critique - I don't see anything coming from you. I hear you bitchin' - let's see whatyou do with a camera. You obviously didn't see the owls! |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
John H. wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 11:41:46 -0400, "Jim" wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message . .. Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote: Very nice, I like the depth of field work on your wife's bird picture! She shot this with a 70-200mm 2.8 with a 1.7 Converter. This was a hand held shot and even with the telephoto with converter, it was fairly sharp. That is the beauty of the VR feature. The fast lens does a great job on the DOF and really makes a nice bokeh. My wife and I see the world so completely different. When I took the horse photos, I was amazed at the strength and beauty of the animals. She is actually scared of horses, but what she saw was the sadness of them being in their stalls. Here is her photo submission of her horse photo. The photographer of each photo is not revealed till after the competition, so no one knows who took the photos. This was her digital submission, and when they flashed the image on the screen, it touched a number of woman behind us. Based upon those women's reaction, I thought this would have gotten a ribbon. http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ots/InJail.jpg It is amazing how different my wife's photos are. She is much more creative than I am, and when we come back from taking photos, it is amazing how different our photos look. Harry's keen eye picked up on your pedestrian work. Maybe he'll give you some tips some time so that you can take fine snapshots like he does. Harry likes bird photos. Remember his owls? Don't forget WAFA's stump! |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
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On Aug 2, 12:25 pm, hk wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:05:59 -0400, hk wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:16:56 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: My wife and I took home 4 ribbons last night's photo competition. There were about about 75 B&W, 100 color print and digital photos submitted for the 3 different categories. You are allowed to submit up to 2 photos for B&W and Color and one photo for the Digital Submission. I was blown away that we took home one Honorable Mention, one 4th place, one 3rd place and a 2nd Place. 2nd place http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... I touched this up some after the comments made in rec.boats. I do appreciate your help. I'd like to see what the First Place photo was - you did a nice job tweaking that image. The gray scaling is brilliant - you have a nice feel for graduation and impression. No offense, I still think you've done better work though - in particular with your initial portraits. 4th Place I almost didn't submit this one, I thought there would be a ton of similar photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... A photo, I really liked, but it did not ribbon. The pro thought it would be a much better photo if the girl was interacting with the penguin. I thought her shy look made the photo. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... You can see what he's talking about by comparing the two images. The gorilla is interacting with something on camera - the girl is interacting with something off camera. The second problem with the penguin image is that there are two subjects - the girl and the penguin. There is nothing to link the two together - zip, nada. He's dead on with that critique. For reference, look back at your initial efforts with the portraits at the Atlanta fountain and environs. Those, while initial, were simply outstanding because they showed some sort of "story" - there was interaction between the environment and the individuals. Even in the single framed portraits, the subjects were inteacting with you which was a very obvious impression when the images were tweaked. An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... Deservedly so I would say - there is nothing special about that image.. My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... This is something that annoys the heck out of me - the extreme framing right or left. It works somewhat with the bird because of the branch being in focus and at a slight angle to the rest of the frame - gives you some reference points. I've always gone with the thirds protocol in situations like this - you divide the framing up into thirds and if you are going to offset the image right or left, tend to keep the subject in focus towards the middle of the second third (right or left). Having said that, I think it would have been a much better image if the bird had been moved left more towards the center of the frame still keeping in within the 2nd third of the image (if divided into thirds) and the background branch cloned out as it's distracting from the subject - in my opinion. Same with the spider on the flower which I don't like at all - too much blank space to the left. I think it would have worked much better if Mrs. Reggie had used a macro lens and got right in there with the spider using the flower as background. To be honest, you've done better work - the marina pier lights would have been a winner even converted to B&W. And you might want to try that montage/collage deal with the horse next contest - graduated images are always interesting. And having said all that, I've got to hand it to you - you have a gift for this - congratulations. What "photo contest" was it? Have no idea - take him at his word. You want to know - ask him. I'm not that interested in competitions that value overphotoshopped "photography." If I wanted surrealism, I'd let the Seven Dwarfs out of the bozo bin here.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You have nothing to say here, we have seen your work, it's worse than mine and I don't even try... WAFA has no kill file. He is incapable of reading every post. |
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