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OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
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...rent=2ndbw.jpg I touched this up some after the comments made in rec.boats. I do appreciate your help. 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...t=4thplace.jpg 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...twascute. jpg An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...=noribbon1.jpg My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...fe3rdplace.jpg http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...blemention.jpg |
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On Aug 2, 9:16*am, "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. 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.... An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. * No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur.... My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... Nice Job.. Maybe I should consider entering a couple of mine.. I have a gorilla too. http://trip-reports.com/coppermine/d...=35&fullsize=1 But here is my fav.. http://trip-reports.com/coppermine/d...?album=1&pos=5 and another... http://trip-reports.com/coppermine/d...=21&fullsize=1 This was an interesting shot from my point of view. There is actually a cage in front of the bird here. What I did was focus on the bird and slide the camera in an arc around it so it was moving when I took the shot which washed out the screen enough that it looks like it's not there... http://trip-reports.com/coppermine/d...?album=1&pos=3 Not thinking I am as good as you guys, but still, animals are cool to shoot...;) Nice job and don't worry about wafa and the other jelous idiots.. |
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On Aug 2, 9:16*am, "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. 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.... An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. * No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur.... My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... Congratulations to you and your wife. Nice pics! |
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On Aug 2, 9:16*am, "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. 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.... An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. * No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur.... My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... Very nice, I like the depth of field work on your wife's bird picture! |
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On Aug 2, 10:00*am, JimH wrote:
On Aug 2, 9:16*am, "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. 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.... An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. * No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur.... My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur....... Congratulations to you and your wife. Nice pics!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Gee Jim, why the sudden change? You used to be a Harry clone and anything and everything that wasn't from one of the stooges, you'd instantly shun..... |
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On Aug 2, 10:12*am, wrote:
On Aug 2, 9:16*am, "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. 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.... An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. * No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur.... My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur....... Very nice, I like the depth of field work on your wife's bird picture!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Ditto, love the shot of the Robin.. |
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wrote:
On Aug 2, 9:16 am, "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. 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... An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... 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. |
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JimH wrote:
On Aug 2, 9:16 am, "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. 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... An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... Congratulations to you and your wife. Nice pics! The bird on the twig photo was nice. The rest were pedestrian, at best. |
We had a good night at the photo competition
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message . .. 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. Congratulations to you and the Mrs., Reg. Very nice work indeed. Russ |
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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. |
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On Aug 2, 10:35*am, hk wrote:
JimH wrote: On Aug 2, 9:16 am, "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. 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.... An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. * No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur.... My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur....... Congratulations to you and your wife. Nice pics! The bird on the twig photo was nice. The rest were pedestrian, at best.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Let's see some of yours, you jealous gas bag. Oh, wait, I remember, the shot of the printer.....great stuff! |
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RG wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message . .. 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. Congratulations to you and the Mrs., Reg. Very nice work indeed. Russ 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? |
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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...rent=2ndbw.jpg I touched this up some after the comments made in rec.boats. I do appreciate your help. Yes. It's stunning. 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...t=4thplace.jpg Another nice photo. 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...twascute. jpg I think I'd have to agree with the pro. It looks like too much dead space in the middle of the photo. An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...=noribbon1.jpg My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...fe3rdplace.jpg http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...blemention.jpg She's obviously having a ball with her D50! Very nice photos. My wife hasn't used her D50 much, complaining that it's too big. Plus, she's always making me lug the D200. What lens was your wife using? |
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On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:27:45 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote: wrote: On Aug 2, 9:16 am, "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. 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... An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur... 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. Never mind, now I know what lens. |
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"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. |
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hk wrote:
Congratulations to you and your wife. Nice pics! The bird on the twig photo was nice. The rest were pedestrian, at best. Harry, I have to agree with you, my wife is very creative, and her photos reflect that. I am just struggling along trying to take a photo that someone will say if pedestrian at best. I am a rookie, without an artistic bone in my body. I have to take a lot of photos just to get some half ass snapshots, but I enjoy it, which really has surprised me. I purchased the D50 for my wife, and had no intention of using the camera at all. After 6 months, I had to get my own camera and purchased the D200. This has become a hobby that both of us can enjoy together. With my youngest going to Emory this year, it is nice for the two of us to be able to enjoy something together. Boating has always been something my kids and I enjoyed. My wife liked it because it gave her quiet time at home. |
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John H. 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...rent=2ndbw.jpg I touched this up some after the comments made in rec.boats. I do appreciate your help. Yes. It's stunning. 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...t=4thplace.jpg Another nice photo. 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...twascute. jpg I think I'd have to agree with the pro. It looks like too much dead space in the middle of the photo. An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...=noribbon1.jpg My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...fe3rdplace.jpg http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...blemention.jpg She's obviously having a ball with her D50! Very nice photos. My wife hasn't used her D50 much, complaining that it's too big. Plus, she's always making me lug the D200. What lens was your wife using? JohnH, The bird was the Nikon 70-200mm VR with a 1.7 converter. The horse was the 70-200mm VR. I think the flower/spider photo was a Nikon 105mm VR macro. I purchased another 18-200mm because we both wanted to use that lens. If you really need a fast lens, the 70-200 is great, but the 18-200 is much easier to lug around. |
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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? |
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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. The only photo Harry ever posted online that I really liked was an owl photo taken in a Florida State Park. I was really impressed by the sharpness, composition and exposure. It looked like it was taken with a 500-600 mm pro lens. I was surprised when I found the exact same photo in a professional wildlife photographer's blog. I am not sure, but either the photographer stole Harry's image or Harry stole his image. I know if I was Harry and a pro stole my image I would have raised hell. |
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On Aug 2, 11:43*am, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote: hk wrote: Congratulations to you and your wife. Nice pics! The bird on the twig photo was nice. The rest were pedestrian, at best. Harry, I have to agree with you, my wife is very creative, and her photos reflect that. *I am just struggling along trying to take a photo that someone will say if pedestrian at best. *I am a rookie, without an artistic bone in my body. * I have to take a lot of photos just to get some half ass snapshots, but I enjoy it, which really has surprised me. * I purchased the D50 for my wife, and had no intention of using the camera at all. *After 6 months, I had to get my own camera and purchased the D200. This has become a hobby that both of us can enjoy together. *With my youngest going to Emory this year, it is nice for the two of us to be able to enjoy something together. Boating has always been something my kids and I enjoyed. *My wife liked it because it gave her quiet time at home. Wafa is just jelous that you have found a hobby that you and your mate love together.. I have never seen evidence wafa does anything with his wife. Maybe she watches him watch girls crotchshot ball on the tube. |
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On Aug 2, 11:56*am, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote: Jim wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in messagenews:RcOdnS1ldMjO5gnVnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@comca st.com... 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. The only photo Harry ever posted online that I really liked was an owl photo taken in a Florida State Park. I was really impressed by the sharpness, composition and exposure. *It looked like it was taken with a 500-600 mm pro lens. * I was surprised when I found the exact same photo in a professional wildlife photographer's *blog. *I am not sure, but either the photographer stole Harry's image or Harry stole his image. *I know if I was Harry and a pro stole my image I would have raised hell.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I liked the picture of stumpy. Not the dead tree, but the stump little finger in the picture of a postcard.. pfffft. |
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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...rent=2ndbw.jpg 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...t=4thplace.jpg 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...twascute. jpg 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...=noribbon1.jpg Deservedly so I would say - there is nothing special about that image. My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...fe3rdplace.jpg http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...blemention.jpg 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. |
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On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:51:14 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote: John H. 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...rent=2ndbw.jpg I touched this up some after the comments made in rec.boats. I do appreciate your help. Yes. It's stunning. 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...t=4thplace.jpg Another nice photo. 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...twascute. jpg I think I'd have to agree with the pro. It looks like too much dead space in the middle of the photo. An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...=noribbon1.jpg My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...fe3rdplace.jpg http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...blemention.jpg She's obviously having a ball with her D50! Very nice photos. My wife hasn't used her D50 much, complaining that it's too big. Plus, she's always making me lug the D200. What lens was your wife using? JohnH, The bird was the Nikon 70-200mm VR with a 1.7 converter. The horse was the 70-200mm VR. I think the flower/spider photo was a Nikon 105mm VR macro. I purchased another 18-200mm because we both wanted to use that lens. If you really need a fast lens, the 70-200 is great, but the 18-200 is much easier to lug around. I've got the 18-200 and love it. Now that Nikon fixed the focus problems it works well. That 70-200 is a beautiful lens, if this is the one; http://www.diduprice.com/stores.asp?productid=2139 But, it is a little on the big side. I've not taken it on any trips. Your trip out west, that you mentioned to Russ, sounds like fun. Retirement is a bitch. So little time, so many things to do! |
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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...rent=2ndbw.jpg 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...t=4thplace.jpg 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...twascute. jpg 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...=noribbon1.jpg Deservedly so I would say - there is nothing special about that image. My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...fe3rdplace.jpg http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...blemention.jpg 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? |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:56:46 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote: 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. The only photo Harry ever posted online that I really liked was an owl photo taken in a Florida State Park. I was really impressed by the sharpness, composition and exposure. It looked like it was taken with a 500-600 mm pro lens. I was surprised when I found the exact same photo in a professional wildlife photographer's blog. I am not sure, but either the photographer stole Harry's image or Harry stole his image. I know if I was Harry and a pro stole my image I would have raised hell. 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? |
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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? It looked like it was done professionally. |
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On Aug 2, 11:56 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: Jim wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in messagenews:RcOdnS1ldMjO5gnVnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@comca st.com... 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. The only photo Harry ever posted online that I really liked was an owl photo taken in a Florida State Park. I was really impressed by the sharpness, composition and exposure. It looked like it was taken with a 500-600 mm pro lens. I was surprised when I found the exact same photo in a professional wildlife photographer's blog. I am not sure, but either the photographer stole Harry's image or Harry stole his image. I know if I was Harry and a pro stole my image I would have raised hell.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I liked the picture of stumpy. Not the dead tree, but the stump little finger in the picture of a postcard.. pfffft. LOL, I liked both of them. Really some first class work. |
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John H. wrote:
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:56:46 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: 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. The only photo Harry ever posted online that I really liked was an owl photo taken in a Florida State Park. I was really impressed by the sharpness, composition and exposure. It looked like it was taken with a 500-600 mm pro lens. I was surprised when I found the exact same photo in a professional wildlife photographer's blog. I am not sure, but either the photographer stole Harry's image or Harry stole his image. I know if I was Harry and a pro stole my image I would have raised hell. 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. |
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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...rent=2ndbw.jpg 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...t=4thplace.jpg 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...twascute. jpg 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...=noribbon1.jpg Deservedly so I would say - there is nothing special about that image. My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...fe3rdplace.jpg http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...blemention.jpg 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. |
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On Aug 2, 12:08*pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote: wrote: On Aug 2, 11:56 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: Jim wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in messagenews:RcOdnS1ldMjO5gnVnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@comca st.com... 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. The only photo Harry ever posted online that I really liked was an owl photo taken in a Florida State Park. I was really impressed by the sharpness, composition and exposure. *It looked like it was taken with a 500-600 mm pro lens. * I was surprised when I found the exact same photo in a professional wildlife photographer's *blog. *I am not sure, but either the photographer stole Harry's image or Harry stole his image. *I know if I was Harry and a pro stole my image I would have raised hell.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I liked the picture of stumpy. Not the dead tree, but the stump little finger in the picture of a postcard.. pfffft. LOL, I liked both of them. *Really some first class work.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I really think, and not to be sarcastic, that those two photos should end the conversation with wafa. Both scenes lent themselves to a great shot, even the dead tree. but the instamatic tourist feel of wafa's pics say all that need be said about his skills in the field... I will post my stump pic later, the storms are coming in fast.. have to mow the lawn and put down stuff... |
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
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. I will post a copy of the first place photo when it is sent out via email. No offense, I still think you've done better work though - in particular with your initial portraits. I actually prefer portraits and candid street photos. 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. Which is why I love the critique from the pros. They are not a member of the club, so they can feel free to give their honest impression. I think I learn something on all photos critiqued, wither i took them or not. .. |
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John H. wrote:
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:51:14 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: John H. 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...rent=2ndbw.jpg I touched this up some after the comments made in rec.boats. I do appreciate your help. Yes. It's stunning. 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...t=4thplace.jpg Another nice photo. 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...twascute. jpg I think I'd have to agree with the pro. It looks like too much dead space in the middle of the photo. An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No ribbon. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...=noribbon1.jpg My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...fe3rdplace.jpg http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...blemention.jpg She's obviously having a ball with her D50! Very nice photos. My wife hasn't used her D50 much, complaining that it's too big. Plus, she's always making me lug the D200. What lens was your wife using? JohnH, The bird was the Nikon 70-200mm VR with a 1.7 converter. The horse was the 70-200mm VR. I think the flower/spider photo was a Nikon 105mm VR macro. I purchased another 18-200mm because we both wanted to use that lens. If you really need a fast lens, the 70-200 is great, but the 18-200 is much easier to lug around. I've got the 18-200 and love it. Now that Nikon fixed the focus problems it works well. That 70-200 is a beautiful lens, if this is the one; http://www.diduprice.com/stores.asp?productid=2139 But, it is a little on the big side. I've not taken it on any trips. Your trip out west, that you mentioned to Russ, sounds like fun. Retirement is a bitch. So little time, so many things to do! That is the lens, and for wildlife photos she really needs the fast lens, and you definitely need to F2.8 with the teleconverter. But it is one heavy lens. |
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On Aug 2, 12:16*pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: 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. I will post a copy of the first place photo when it is sent out via email.. No offense, I still think you've done better work though - in particular with your initial portraits. I actually prefer portraits and candid street photos. 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. Which is why I love the critique from the pros. *They are not a member of the club, so they can feel free to give their honest impression. *I think I learn something on all photos critiqued, wither i took them or not. |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
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...rent=2ndbw.jpg 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...t=4thplace.jpg 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...twascute. jpg 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...=noribbon1.jpg Deservedly so I would say - there is nothing special about that image. My wife's two ribbon photos. http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...fe3rdplace.jpg http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...blemention.jpg 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. |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
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... |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 09:13:33 -0700 (PDT),
wrote: On Aug 2, 12:08*pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: wrote: On Aug 2, 11:56 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: Jim wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in messagenews:RcOdnS1ldMjO5gnVnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@comca st.com... 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. The only photo Harry ever posted online that I really liked was an owl photo taken in a Florida State Park. I was really impressed by the sharpness, composition and exposure. *It looked like it was taken with a 500-600 mm pro lens. * I was surprised when I found the exact same photo in a professional wildlife photographer's *blog. *I am not sure, but either the photographer stole Harry's image or Harry stole his image. *I know if I was Harry and a pro stole my image I would have raised hell.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I liked the picture of stumpy. Not the dead tree, but the stump little finger in the picture of a postcard.. pfffft. LOL, I liked both of them. *Really some first class work.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I really think, and not to be sarcastic, that those two photos should end the conversation with wafa. Both scenes lent themselves to a great shot, even the dead tree. but the instamatic tourist feel of wafa's pics say all that need be said about his skills in the field... I will post my stump pic later, the storms are coming in fast.. have to mow the lawn and put down stuff... In the meantime, you are welcome to use mine. http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ing1/STUMP.jpg |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
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We had a good night at the photo competition
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? |
OT : We had a good night at the photo competition
John H. wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 09:13:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Aug 2, 12:08 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: wrote: On Aug 2, 11:56 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: Jim wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in messagenews:RcOdnS1ldMjO5gnVnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@comca st.com... 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. The only photo Harry ever posted online that I really liked was an owl photo taken in a Florida State Park. I was really impressed by the sharpness, composition and exposure. It looked like it was taken with a 500-600 mm pro lens. I was surprised when I found the exact same photo in a professional wildlife photographer's blog. I am not sure, but either the photographer stole Harry's image or Harry stole his image. I know if I was Harry and a pro stole my image I would have raised hell.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I liked the picture of stumpy. Not the dead tree, but the stump little finger in the picture of a postcard.. pfffft. LOL, I liked both of them. Really some first class work.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I really think, and not to be sarcastic, that those two photos should end the conversation with wafa. Both scenes lent themselves to a great shot, even the dead tree. but the instamatic tourist feel of wafa's pics say all that need be said about his skills in the field... I will post my stump pic later, the storms are coming in fast.. have to mow the lawn and put down stuff... In the meantime, you are welcome to use mine. http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ing1/STUMP.jpg .. Nice photo, where did you find that work of art. You should have thrown it on your shoulder and carried it home. ;) |
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