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Curiosity killed ...
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I'm using Ni-MH batteries in my Sony and it seems fine. I do carry spares and I do find that using the video or lots of flash eats them, but I don't do much of either.
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fletcher christian
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I'm in. pics
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Ariel
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I love the ferryman pic - where does that come from (not your back garden I suspect)?
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fletcher christian
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It's from a meditation walk near Glendalough
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Jack the Lass
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I'm doing project365 (inspired by comet on fb) and am putting my photos there, on my blog and in a set on flickr - I'm just a week behind as I've been on holiday, and have to decide which of the eleventy million pictures I took to use for each day I didn't know about the project365-specific site - maybe I'll use that next year. I'll keep an eye on everyone else's though, I've loved seeing pics of Alaska and Hawaii and all over on facebook.
Meant to add: I'm generally choosing pictures that reflect the day, or the best ones if there are more than one. Sometimes it's just a picture of the dinner but that's OK (TME makes very photogenic dinners as it happens). [ 30. April 2011, 21:26: Message edited by: Jack the Lass ]
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Welease Woderwick
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I had a go through the year so far, JtL - some great stuff there. I may copy my stuff over to Flickr as well, as that would give me more leeway but perhaps just choosing one shot a day as special is better, teaches me to be more discerning. I will still post loads of stuff on Flickr anyway.
I took a shot I liked today - when I saw the old lady sitting alone at an engagement function I was fascinated by her - some elderly people have the most wonderful faces to photograph! So I liked the shot but I knew it wasn't really right, I played around a bit but then tried Greyscale and that was that - I tried Sepia bit it was wrong so it's up in plain monochrome.
Constructive criticism welcomed.
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Jahlove
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Can someone tell me how to enter the details of the camera I'm using please? Can't see a field for it.
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Jahlove - I don't enter my camera, it does it automatically. Same with Flickr.
I had some photos I liked and didn't put up on the Project365 - mostly because they weren't encapsulating the day, so put them on Flickr last night - the link is to the May Fayre selection, there are a couple of others there too.
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I like that shot, Welease Woderick - but I suspect the guys who are producing amazing shots would have adjusted the shading separately to give more tone. I'm sure LilBuddha or my daughter can tell you how.
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Jahlove
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k - I guess the camera details don't show on my home page then coz it assumes I know what camera I'm using
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Ariel
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If you modify the file in any way then save it, you'll probably lose the attached info about camera details. I resize all mine to a smaller size for ease of uploading which means the camera info is lost when it comes to upload, though it's all still there on the unamended originals if I need it.
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Welease Woderwick
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It retains my info - today's shot was converted and all sorts but still shows FinePix S1800.
Uploading software can be moody.
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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: I took a shot I liked today - when I saw the old lady sitting alone at an engagement function I was fascinated by her - some elderly people have the most wonderful faces to photograph! So I liked the shot but I knew it wasn't really right, I played around a bit but then tried Greyscale and that was that - I tried Sepia bit it was wrong so it's up in plain monochrome.
This is a beautiful shot that I'd have thought would have worked well in sepia to give it that classic, Victorian look. What was it that you thought was wrong about the sepia - or are the words "classic" and "Victorian" the clue here?
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Welease Woderwick
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Here it is in Sepia but I think it is too yellow - perhaps that is just the sepia on offer from Irfan View and I should have tried another package.
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Ariel
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Ah, I see. I have a sepia setting on my compact camera, but I also have filters in Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro - which are adjustable so you can get the right quality. I tend to go for a more faded, brownish sepia, myself: the sort that looks aged through heat and light, but not too dark.
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Welease Woderwick
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Hmmm, now I have got them side by side I am not so sure. Will have to read the manual on new camera to see if there is a sepia setting.
I may invest some time and a little cash on a Photoshop course if I can find one with a fluent English-speaking tutor.
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lilBuddha
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WW,
Careful choosing a course. My experience with such has been deceitfully mixed. It might be more cost effective to purchase a book or video course, though those too can be of dubious value.
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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...: There's a sepia setting on my pocket camera, as well as black and white.
Ariel, I love the jousting photo - that's amazing.
Thank you! The other knights' colours weren't as interesting, but that was the Spanish Knight from Castile who was a bit more elaborately decorated than the others. The pic is slightly cropped, but otherwise unaltered.
There's something about the glint of sunlight on armour and the flash of bright colours, and the thunder of horses' hooves that made it all quite exciting even though we all knew it was only a re-enactment and just entertainment. One of the knights punched one of the others, knocked him off his horse and started a fight with him (scripted, but convincing enough), and I suppose in those days they would indeed have been a bunch of hot-headed young fighters, keen to show off and not taking any perceived slights to their pride.
It's made me want to go and dig out my DVD of Ivanhoe now...
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Lilly Rose
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I've been reading this thread with interest and am actually considering doing a 365 on 365Project. I've read the rules and how to do it, but haven't been able to find an answer to my query.
Can anyone more experienced help me please?
Does the photo I add have to be taken on the day I add it?
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No, you can add a number of photos at once. I signed up last Tuesday, but had already taken photos from the Wednesday before so put them all up at once. It automatically recognises the dates I took them, but my camera and computer are both talking to the site.
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Welease Woderwick
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The system appears quite flexible so if you go away for a few days it is easy to catch up when you get back.
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Jahlove
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quote: Originally posted by Ariel: If you modify the file in any way then save it, you'll probably lose the attached info about camera details. I resize all mine to a smaller size for ease of uploading which means the camera info is lost when it comes to upload, though it's all still there on the unamended originals if I need it.
Thanks, Ariel - that's it.
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Welease Woderick - your lovely frangipani flower would fit this week's theme of nature up close, if you wanted, and added the tags to it. You can add tags by editing later. It has to be in the form that's given on the Blog page - theme-natureupclose
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Ariel
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... and the frangipani's made it to New Faces! You're doing well.
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Welease Woderwick
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Yikes! Laziness obviously pays off - I was tired and couldn't face heading out to take some snaps so wandered round the garden instead, took a few, including that one, cropped it a bit and stuck it up there out of desperation!
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Welease Woderwick
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This might be either an obvious thing or a silly thing to say but then I'm no stranger to saying silly things!
I reckon I learn more from the ones I don't post than I do from the ones I do. I took a series of shots this afternoon but none were quite right, the light was good but it was a matter of angles - but if I can learn from that then tomorrow perhaps I can do it that bit better.
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Ariel
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My broadband connection has died I might be able to upload something by dialup later. Looking forward to catching up with everyone!
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I am learning so much from looking at the other photographs too - when I can get past the camera envy. Most of the pictures that I want to have taken are on DSLRs.
I'm currently pushing at using macro and I'm getting better at working out what I can and can't do on the camera. More are getting the right thing in focus and I've got more choice on composition than I had when I started. But I've taken so many pictures of may blossom this week. It's also doing me good, giving me an incentive to get out for a walk in greenery every day.
I'll put some of the ones that didn't make the cut up on Flickr later.
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Welease Woderwick
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Yes, that seems to be the way forward.; Flickr offers greater flexibility in so many ways - this morning I took a series of photos that might well work fine as a series for which 365 is no use at all, unless I want to go back there daily and take more.
I'm going to persevere with this one though, I am enjoying the challenge so far even though it is sometimes frustrating.
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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...: I am learning so much from looking at the other photographs too - when I can get past the camera envy. Most of the pictures that I want to have taken are on DSLRs.
Yes, it was this realization that pushed me into getting a (secondhand) one. It's been quite a steep learning curve but I'm beginning to get results that are more in line with what I actually intended than either happy accidents or things that have to be deleted.
I might also have to have a "spillover" directory on Flickr. If I get time this weekend I'll try to sort something out.
Looking at Project 365 it is interesting seeing the different approaches that people generally are taking. Some are doing a sort of daily photo-journal, some have gone for the photography as art approach, others seem to be trying to clock up as many followers as possible or coming up with pictures so worked on in Photoshop that they count more as computer art than photographs. But there is some really good stuff out there - and even the not-so-good stuff is often quite interesting. You can see what people are trying to come at, and you get an idea of their perspective on the project. I'm glad WW suggested this.
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lilBuddha
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I stopped to take a photo this morning, I have been remiss. While aiming my camera I heard a noise. To my right, half an arm-length way, was a hummingbird, hovering to look at me. Bold as brass, she stayed for at least 30 seconds. Seemed a bit longer. I contemplated turning the camera towards her, but thought it would frighten her away. Instead, we took each other's measure until she decided I was not interesting enough and flew away.
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Welease Woderwick
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We have Sunbirds [local equivalent of Humming Birds] nesting in our hibiscus hedge and they will only stay still when I don't have a camera in my hands, otherwise they just flit all over the place quicker than I can react.
Temple festival today with NINE elephants! I think that might be worth a snap or two.
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Welease Woderwick
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Congrats CK, you're on New Faces again with those scrummy looking Eccles Cakes - and is that carrot cake with cream cheese frosting?
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So is fletcher, that funny blank one is his, if you click on it you find out that it's his chick picture.
Yes, probably carrot cake, I've eaten some from that stall in the past. I had one of the cheese and tomato pastry things in the foreground for lunch.
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Jahlove
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Infuriatingly, my camera (Fujifilm AV150), at a month old, has developed a fault whereby it refuses to format SD cards. Returned today to the dealer who didn't have an identical model for replacement so I've paid a bit extra for an Olympus FE-5040 - currently on charge. Annoying, as I was starting to get to grips with the functions on the Fujifilm but hopefully, the Olympus won't be too advanced for me. Getting quite into this now
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Lothlorien
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quote: We have Sunbirds [local equivalent of Humming Birds] nesting in our hibiscus hedge and they will only stay still when I don't have a camera in my hands, otherwise they just flit all over the place quicker than I can react.
Yeah. I glanced up from my breakfast the other day to see two men preparing to abseil down a wall near me in inner city. Not the thing I normally see around here. Traffic jams are more usual. Grabbed the camera, display came on but the battery was too low to take a photo. By the time it was charged they had long gone. [ 07. May 2011, 21:59: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]
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I have managed to addict my daughter too! She started Project 365 using her Blackberry and 6 days in she's bought a camera of her own.
Ariel, I love the ducks on the punt, the taste of the soukh and the duckling peering through the weeds, but they are all brilliant.
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Welease Woderwick
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Strangely my new Fujifilm S1800 is being badly behaved as well - may have to go back for maintenance. I have really enjoyed their stuff before - or perhaps first I need to read through the instruction book to see if I am making a basic error somewhere.
[edited to approximate to English] [ 08. May 2011, 09:42: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
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Lothlorien
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quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: Strangely my new Fujifilm S1800 is being badly behaved as well - may have to go back for maintenance. I have really enjoyed their stuff before - or perhaps first I need to read through the instruction book to see if I am making a basic error somewhere.
[edited to approximate to English]
My Nikon D3100 manual is OK but I've just bought a Kindle and downloaded D3100 for Dummies. I'm obviously in that case as I've found the book much clearer than the manual and was only a little way into it before I found two things I had not seen in the manual. :
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Welease Woderwick
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I took the Fuji back today and they agree it is faulty - it is off for repair and back, they say, in no more than ten days. Do I believe them?
Went upstairs and the part for the Canon still hasn't arrived but the little Polaroid Compact is fixed, he said it was a simple contact problem which, when he found it, took seconds to fix so no charge! What a nice man!
So for the next little while it will be just the little compact, but it takes okay shots within its limitations and as I always resize before posting it makes very little difference.
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Ariel
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I've just bought my first tripod. Woooo, I feel all professional now.
CK - thanks for your kind comments! I find, incidentally, that the little compact camera is much better for taking reflections than the DSLR, which tends to look through them.
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In theory, I'm teaching photography unit on the theme of reflections for an Art and Design qualification, which is part of the reason for the obsession currently, so I have been trying to take pictures of reflections for a while.
We are taking that group to Duxford on Monday and they should be taking photos
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Welease Woderick and Ariel, you do realise your bicycle and train pictures would fit this week's theme of transport? You would have to tag them as theme-transport to enter them.
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Ariel
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Nah. I don't want to have to do a whole week of transport photos.
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Welease Woderwick
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I've tagged that one and will now wait and see what happens; I have another transport one as a possible today if I can get out into town later.
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Lothlorien
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quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: I've tagged that one and will now wait and see what happens; I have another transport one as a possible today if I can get out into town later.
you could always take one of feet walking!
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You don't have to post a whole week, just one photo would count.
And Lothlorien, I seriously wondered about my boots as a subject. Because I know that some point I'll need a photo inside and quickly, I haven't done it yet, but it's what I was thinking of using as an avatar. You'll see why when I get around to it.
For once I didn't take my camera with me last night when I went to see the cat I feed occasionally, and came nose to nose with a fox, just to irritate me.
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