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Animal Kingdom / Re: MY dog

« on: May 24, 2013, 09:03:33 PM »

The neighbour's malamute, Odin, that I walk daily.
Taken with the Sony RX-100

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe Creative Cloud - Adobe Owns you!

« on: May 10, 2013, 02:51:48 PM »

Thanks for posting this Ramon.  Even before your post, I had decided I would have nothing to do with CC.  I'm currently on LR4 and PS CS5.  My intent is to get the PS CS6 perpetual license upgrade and call it done on PS unless they relent in the future and provide upgrades via perpetual licence.  I will continue to upgrade LR via perpetual licence as long as they make it available and it meets my needs.  If LR goes CC only in the future, I will move to Capture One.  In fact if I hadn't invested so much time learning and becoming skilled at LR, I would move to Capture One now because I think it is a better raw converter.  But I'll stick with what I am familiar with for now.  As a hobbyist, I will not get roped into the Adobe CC world.  I can see how it works for larger companies, but not for me.  And since they have made it very clear they don't give a hoot about the consumer cohort I belong to - even more reason to shun their cloud.
Diane

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: Nik Collection Bundle for $126.65

« on: April 01, 2013, 10:17:30 AM »

Thanks RienzphotoZ and nWmR12.  You are right, when I go to "Edit photo in" the entire suite is listed.  I didn't think they were there because I was looking for them in the plug-in manager and they didn't show up there. 
Thanks!

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: Nik Collection Bundle for $126.65

« on: March 31, 2013, 10:47:45 PM »

So I pulled the trigger and bought the suite earlier today.  I have both LR4.3 and Photoshop CS5.  I can only see all the Nik plugins in PS, they are not showing up in LR.  Is this normal?
Thanks

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Canon General / Re: How well do you see color?

« on: February 26, 2013, 11:21:50 AM »

Repeated and scored zero.

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Canon General / Re: How well do you see color?

« on: February 26, 2013, 11:03:29 AM »

Your score: 3
Gender: Female
Age: 60-69
Monitor: calibrated iMac
Area of trouble was the blue-green transition.

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PowerShot / Re: A camera for backpacking into the wilderness...

« on: January 24, 2013, 07:45:42 PM »

Sony RX100
Diane

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: What is the best place to sell your equipment?

« on: January 23, 2013, 08:26:39 PM »

Just to reiterate, having just read some of the "experiences" others have had with CL and eBay, I haven't had a single unpleasant transaction yet using: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/] [url]http://photography-on-the.net/forum/[/url]  In fact, have met some really nice people.

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: What is the best place to sell your equipment?

« on: January 23, 2013, 07:17:07 PM »

If you sign up for membership here: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/ you can post on their buy/sell forum.  They don't charge like the Fred Miranda site does.  That's where I've gotten most of my used equipment.

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Lenses / Re: 70-300L for Outdoors?

« on: December 06, 2012, 09:41:54 PM »

Can't imagine you will regret that purchase.  I love mine and it's size is perfect...lives on my 7D.
Diane

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Contests / Re: Gura Gear Giveaway!

« on: December 06, 2012, 09:39:37 PM »

Time to ditch the heavy Tamrac....please, please let me win!  Thanks CR Guy.
Diane

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Kitty

« on: November 25, 2012, 11:25:28 PM »

Guess I'll join in on the fun...

Chris, those are just gorgeous.  Mackerel tabby DSH/ASH...my favorites!
Diane

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Lenses / Re: Landscape tips needed on shooting the Grand Canyon

« on: November 14, 2012, 06:56:55 PM »

@DianeK and others that have been there:

One more thing comes to mind.  Canyons inherently have shade challenges.  The best light at sunup / sundown will come part and parcel with very large shaded areas.  Is there any credence to choosing to use more unfriendly overhead/midday light to minimize the massive dynamic challenges the shadows will bring?

That's a really broad composition question, and I appreciate it depends on what you are trying to accomplish.  But I'd like your thoughts on how to pick your exposure battles on sun vs. shade.

- A

I'm afraid I'm not a very "thoughtful" shooter.  The only plan so to speak I had that day was to be at the east end of the canyon on Desert View Drive so I could have the setting sun on my viewpoints (although the haze on the horizon really complicated things).  When we were down about a mile on Kaibab trail it was noon, so I just did the best I could with what I had even attempting to get some detail on this raven in the harsh noon light 

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Lenses / Re: Landscape tips needed on shooting the Grand Canyon

« on: November 14, 2012, 06:40:29 PM »

First image is Lipan Point, second is Navajo Point

Nice shots.  I've noticed a blue shift like yours on the distant horizon mountains in my photos as well. It is certainly what my eyes see, so these shots are well rendered.

Can you walk me through what causes that blue cast (physically, that is)?  I'm guessing it's diffraction of light through so much air (perhaps that's nonsense), but from a photog perspective, is that something you wish to capture, wish to filter out, wish to shift to true black shadows, etc.?  What are the composition and post-processing considerations for this?   Would I see a similar cast if I went with the longer tele?

Just curious.

- A

Thank you.
There was a general haze that day which is what I think caused the distant blue haze. Twas a very frustrating day for that reason.  I don't know if a UV filter would have helped or not because I don't use them.

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Lenses / Re: Landscape tips needed on shooting the Grand Canyon

« on: November 14, 2012, 10:20:29 AM »

DianeK, those pictures so beautiful, what camera and lens did you use for each

Richard, thank you for the compliment.  60D with the EFS 10-22 for both.  Lipan at 22mm, Navajo at 16mm.  Both f/11, 1/40, no filters, handheld.  We were losing the light quite quickly at the end of the day.  There's only 13 minutes between the two shots and they are at different places (no...we didn't break any speed limits  )