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Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
THESE pics taken with a FUJI HS 20. Fujifilm HS20 EXR is a 16 Megapixel super-zoom with a 30x stabilised lens and a 3" articulated flip-up LCD screen. 30X zoom is the same as a 720 mm lens...and with out changing the lens you can go to macro 24mm))) [IMG][/IMG]
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Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Rhododendrons in bloom out the front door of our cabin...I'm not sure if you spell "rhododendron" that way...but Joe won't notice anyway.
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Posted by goddinfla (Member # 1502) on :
If OP ever finishes that bathroom there will be a lot less "fertilizer" in the yard.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
you gota go there huh????ITS CLOSE TO FINISHED....TILE GUY..... is what iam waiting for. he is my neighbor, and 3-4 weeks ago he had radium seeds put in his prostate. then he got an infection and back in the hospital. high fever and hes ok now and trying to catch p o the jobs he had going 3 weeks ago))))he did half the bath room floor. wants to do the wallin the shower before finishing the floor.......something about the wall tile haS TO GO TO FLOOR, then the floor tile seals better at the edge. this way. [IMG][/IMG]
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Here's an image I took a couple weeks ago about 20 minutes from the hotel. It's on the banks of a lake on the top of a "mountain". Azalea not long before blooming. I've shot a bunch of wildflowers and tree blooms the past 6 weeks or so.
Awhile back, watched a documentary on blind photographers, and got inspired a bit to get more serious about it while I can. (I can see like an eagle compared to the people in that doc!)
Note: tried to put up just one photo from flickr and didn't work, so here's more than one pic. Lots of wildflowers and some other. They're not all masterpieces. I'm still in the learning stage. But there's probably a few I framed and put up on the wall. (Never sold a print yet, but people seem to be happy when I give them one. Even had one guy who liked one a lot...the one with the restaurant door...and offered to take three prints of that one and he'd pay me whatever the cost of the paper was. No nice way to say FU, so I smiled and politely said probably will pass.)
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Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
My backyard looks like a swamp right now...
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Don...lots of really nice stuff...thanks for posting...oh by the way you mentioned the inspiration you got from the documentary on blind photographers...well something I've never mentioned before in here...but I'm also blind...I sorta think of myself as the "Stevie Wonder" of signmakers.
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Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
well we got the blind(rusty), the cripple(me) and i guess that leaves (don, david or denis) to be the crazy)))))hahahahahahahaha don, how do you get your signature on the photos???? i like that? just take photo into photoshop and add it?
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Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
OP, do you have adobe lightroom? I almost never use photoshop anymore, even though lightroom and photoshop are meant as a matched set. You can get lightroom 5 for a good price. A lot of people get it bundled with cameras and printers, and sell it on ebay. Looks too good to be true, but that's how I got my copy and the serial was inside of the installer...I didn't even have to type out the serial. I think maybe $50?
Lightroom lets you set up your signature. You can have as many as you need, change the opacity and a few other things, and can turn it on or off when you print or export a photo.
Lightroom is wonderful if you shoot in raw, but I imagine your camera is like my fuji and doesn't do raw. It will work with your camera, but there's a LOT less you can do with a jpeg. They pretty much come out of the camera written in stone. With raw, you can even fix exposure after the fact in your computer.
I'm blind, too, OP. Blind AND crazy? What a combination. My right eye hasn't even detected light for over two years. 20/20 in my remaining eye. But, what's nuts is that I've seen pics of the inside of both eyes, and the optic nerve in my good eye is twice as mangled from glaucoma as the one that's 100% blind. That's what glaucoma does...it mangles and permanently kills the optic nerve. Once that's gone, you're done. There's no such thing as a nerve transplant. Maybe 100 years from now they'll be able to implant a computer chip or something, but hell...what am I really going to want to see when I'm 160 years old?
By the way, I have an Olympus digital slr that I'd give you the cousin discount, if you ever want to get into it. Just offering, kn
own you long enough to know better))))))))
Anyway, if you do get lightroom, drop me a line if you want and I'll look up a youtube to show you how to set up signatures.
Rusty, I have "write Rusty" on my to do list for tomorrow. If I get sidelined, it will keep on reminding me until I do it. Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
OP..PS. Maybe you'll appreciate my pics more when you know that all the nature pics were from hiking alone on various mountain trails around Huntsville. That's a task when I don't see in stereo. I find myself on my hands and knees trying to navigate boulders when I can't tell how far to the next step. It kinda freaks me out sometimes...specially when I'm holding a camera that I really can't afford to replace if I drop it. Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Don..tomorrow I will be gone all day...my service dog and I will be participating in a Special Olympics event in Nashville.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
OP, I looked up your camera. It DOES shoot raw. Get lightroom if you don't already have it. You'll love it.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
fuji hs20 says: Among those 11 buttons are controls for ISO, exposure method, autofocus and focus mode, white balance, one touch video capture and a handy RAW selection feature incorporated on one of the axes of the selector button. You can select RAW via internal camera menu and the feature stays enabled until you disable it – or, you can designate the camera to shoot in RAW on the spur of the moment via the selector button. The camera will stay in RAW mode until you take a first shot, then after it completes writing the file and presents the shooting screen again you have about 5 seconds to take another shot in RAW before the camera reverts back to the non-RAW mode you were using prior. never tried using RAW......... but can try it. i also have an older FUJI S-700 only 10X zoom. use it for work photos....most of the time. its a little smaller and the flash popup spring is broke. have to prop the flash open when i want it)))))we have a bunch of YASHICA SLR camera bodies and CARL ZIESS lenses.......but its all flim......not digital. as for blind....well sorta in my left eye. no peripheral vision or down vison. had a stroke in my optic never when they did the heart by pass 2010.
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Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
OK, Rusty. You're messing with me again? Is your dog's name "BS"?
I'll check the box on the email before I send it that will let it stay there until you get back to open it. Is 48 hours a long enough delay?
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
got a lady friend living in huntsville. she & i was buds in sarasota. she married a guy from up there, got divorced, married another guy he died so she is single living with her dogs and cats....lisa holmes is her name......not sure where exactly she lives or works.......this is her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/lisa.holmes.773776/photos?source_ref=pb_friends_tl Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
I do the skeet shooting event for the blind at the Special Olympics every year...it's a blast and they say I'm a pretty good shot...at least that's what they tell me...and yes my dog's name is "BS"...so not only are you a talented photographer but a clairvoyant as well.
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Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
Nice pictures Don.... and Happy Birthday!!!!!
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Oh great, Dave. That's all I need is another birthday to deal with. Thought I had the birthday cake turned off. But, thanks.
OP, the deal with raw is that it keeps ALL the information in the photo file. It can give you amazing control in editing. Lightroom is totally nondestructive. No matter what you do to the photo, the original is always still there. Allows for experimentation, and for fixing what would be impossible with a jpeg.
I'm reading that the sensor in your camera is tiny, about half an inch. So, your images aren't going to have as much info as my Nikon...and my Nikon is a crop sensor as are all dslr's till you get up in the thousands of dollars...so mine can't touch those because of my sensor size. (Most people aren't going to have a full size sensor unless they can list it as a biz expense on their taxes.)
Again, Lightroom 5 and shooting raw will do you good. You'll get a lot more enjoyment out of taking pics. I think that after version 5 you might get into Adobe's sign up and pay monthly BS.
I'm ramblin today. Wasn't able to get much sleep last night. I work evenings till about 1am, but am on call until 9am and the phone rang off the hook...again. Not going to say I wouldn't wish this job on my worse enemy...because I most certainly would.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
OP, checked out the facebook link. Out of my league, but it's the thought that counts. Probably best to not waste her time Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
nice program.....d/l 5.7.1 lightroom. took the gardenia photo into it played a little with adjusting it.. easy to use, better then photoshop. [IMG][/IMG]
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Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
I wouldn't steer you wrong, Joe. Go take some pics in raw and give those a test run with lightroom. Better yet, take same pictures in raw and jpeg and see the difference in editing them.
All you have to do to get a pic into photoshop is go to the menu up top, photo, edit in...
Easy as that is, I almost never edit photos there.
Now, do a google search for NIK lightroom plugins download. Used to be over $100, and now it's a free download. Lightroom filters/plugin. Good stuff.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
thanks...........hennie does most of the picture taken with the HS 20 FUJI..and ill load 5.7.1 on her puter.....she can adjust away..........
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