Carl's Corner :)

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Lady Fayre wrote: I bet it is lovely where you live

If you like this sort of thing. This is outside my windows..

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ronviers wrote: If you like this sort of thing. This is outside my windows.

I love the countryside as I used to live there when I was kid. I can see a rainbow in that photo and there's nothing wrong with a combined harvester either! Hee hee

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ronviers wrote: My kitten got up inside the header and I had to disassemble it to get her out. She did figure eights around my legs for two days after that.

Aww Poor thing.

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Lady Fayre wrote: Here's a filter I'm working on

I like it. If you added concentric circles and a tiny bit if refraction you would have a very realistic Fresnel lens. What are you going to call it?

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Lady Fayre wrote: venetian blinds

Here is one I made but the users rejected it. Maybe you can get some ideas from it.

Blinds.ffxml

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ronviers wrote: Here is one I made but the users rejected it. Maybe you can get some ideas from it

That's kind of you Ron Thanks for that

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Lady Fayre wrote: Thanks for that

Sure thing.

Have a good weekend.

If you can do venetians that open and shut, the way mine is constructed it isn't be possible - are you going for HU's or have you bought the program.


Just a tip if you submit on the weekend you stand a chance that on the recent submits page on monday the volume of weekend submits will push it off the first page, while if you submit later in the week you have a chance that it will be there over the weekend giving you many more days exposure increasing the downloads - if it doesn't matter and it pure pleasure ignore what I've said

Ireland looks like a beautiful country


Oh dear Ron flat countryside [ personal taste only ] but at least you get big skies

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ronviers wrote: Fresnel lens

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Lady Fayre wrote: Ice Cube Yo

You could try using an offset to warp the image to appear distorted by the ice

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Carl wrote: big skies

I like little skies - the smaller the better. I want to be where I look up and see jungle and those really high waterfalls. The ones that are a million feet high. I saw some little skies when I was in the Alps - it was great.

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Carl wrote: I'll take some pic and post them

That will be great.
Are you using the kit lens or did you buy one separately?

had a glance at those sites you posted will have proper look tomorrow - thank like looking at those sort of things

good tip, what if you don't have something neutral [ I presume your talking grey ]

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Carl wrote: grey

anything on the spectrum of black to white - it can even be black or white but scene black or white not blown out black or white - it needs to hold detail or the wb will not be reliable.

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ronviers wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that the histogram is the histogram of a jpg not the raw (even in raw mode) so it (the histogram) will be more accurate if you do a custom wb if you have the time.

now your confusing me - the jpeg hist is effectively telling you the raw hist?

Another very important thing I learned the hard way is that it is impossible for me take an extremely clear, low noise (translated low iso), pic if I push the button by hand - even on a tripod. So I made myself a remote shutter from a cell phone cable and a switch I had. I use the timer if I don't have my remote with me.

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Carl wrote: is it every pic is different

They are all different. Let's say you want to capture a face but you're not interested in a bright with panel to the left of the face. You need to be able to identify where on the histogram the face is and move that to the right edge of the histogram. This means you will loose detail in the panel.

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Carl wrote: I read it suggest 2 sec timer /tripod to stop button shudder on things like photographing artwork.

See, you learn everything the easy way and I have to learn everything the hard way. It took me days of shooting a single test scene to figure that out - very aggravating.

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Carl wrote: will have to read up

Remember ronbigelow.com. A very good series on the histogram.

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Carl wrote: nigglies

Anyone else just get turned on?

yes my brain going to explode soon

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Carl wrote: brain going to explode soon

If you don't get some sleep it will.

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Carl wrote: I was referring to Ron Biglow not the turning on

LOL - Freudian slip. Admit it - you love looking at nigglies.

tooo bad a joke hey - it is late