ANGELS LOVE THE 40D!

I posted that pic at 10:50PM local time, over 4 hours after I got
home.
We left Destin at 10:30AM EST and arrived home around 5:30PM EST.
Yes, we stopped for burgers on the way. The Krystal on I-459 in
Birmingham if you must know. I had the #1 combo with a large Diet
Coke.

Any other questions, Douggie?

 

Can't hear you, Jurgen. Your voice is muffled when you talk through
your hat.

The speed limit in Florida is 65 mph on non-interstate highways
(unless in a zone posted otherwise) and 70 mph on interstates. I
don't know what Friday you traveled, but it must have been prior to
1987 when the limit was raised from 55 mph.

I also wonder why the Florida speed limits pertains to this at all.
Taking State Road 29 (65 mph) north out of Pensacola puts you in
Florida for about 40-some miles and then you are in Georgia. When you
pick up I-65 you will be driving at 70-75 mph minimum.

I'd allow five hours for a 400 mile drive that is mostly interstate if
I wanted to get home from a holiday. I could push it down to four,
but I do take breaks and can't stand eating while I drive. The seven
hour figure is what I'd take if I took state and county roads for a
leisurely drive and quite a few stops to take photographs. The only
"recommended" stop is when you see a good photo op.

Either that, or he accessed his internet account from his laptop. You
don't have to home to post. I have no idea what Bret does (nor do I
care), but it's no great trick to upload images to a laptop, edit
them, upload to your photo host, and access a newsgroup from somewhere
that isn't home.

As far as being a Bret sock puppet, my past posts put that to rest.
I've complimented him on some good shots (and he does produce some
excellent work), I've complimented him on his composition (he has a
damned good eye for a photograph), and I've panned some of his shots.
Those gulls look like dead birds to me. The single gull shot has
everything but an Adobe logo on it, and the arm in the other gull shot
doesn't look like it's from the same frame as the birds. I may be
wrong, but they don't look legit to me.

 

I think most Europeans, and people of European descent, are decent.
Except for some French waiters I've run across. Oh, and a German
gasthaus owner in Tuttlingen who wanted to charge me extra for a duvet
on a cold night. Nothing decent about her and the breakfast sausages
were terrible.

 

Hi Douggie.

BTW, you misspelled "Jerkin."

Seriously, D-Mac, is it Jurgen or Juegen?


Your Paranoia seems to be as bad as the idiots visiting from aus.photo.
Eventually you'll either start getting it right or give up... Idiot!

 

Ever wonder why all your identities are so transparent, Douggie?
Maybe it's your breath?

So how's that Linear Pano coming along, Jerkin?

 

Please don't forget the free plug:

http://www.mendosus.com/photography/doug.html

Thank you.

 

Don't say "free plug." It just gets Douggie excited.
The last free plug he had was named Julian.

Or this new Jerkin fellow.

 

Hehehe

Indeed.

JR

 

point taken ;-)

 

Let me make one point clear about my position on Photoshopped images:
it's a very legitimate form of the photographer's art. That's what we
try to create...art. We try to create interesting and pleasing images
that capture the attention of the viewer. Sometimes that comes right
out of the camera, and sometimes that comes from manipulation of the
image.

My only objection to Photoshopped (or images manipulated by any
program) is when an altered or manipulated image is presented as a
"straight" image and a denial of manipulation is stated.

Even this is a gray area. Sharpening, boosting detail or colors with
Channels or Curves, cloning out imperfections, and the use of the some
of the other tools in Photoshop is manipulation. Changing exposure of
a RAW image is manipulation. And, in my opinion, legitimate
manipulation that need not be disclosed. When two or more photos are
combined into one, though, it becomes Photoshopped art and not a
"straight" photograph.

 

Four hours to drive 400 miles? Are you allowing for the time it takes
to sign all those tickets?
Going through Pensacola is out of the way. From Destin it is best to
go up 331 and eventually hit I-65 in Alabama (not Georgia). It's
about a 7-hour drive, but I've done it in 6.

Well, you're wrong, but I take no offense since my wife said the exact
same thing. "That shot looks fake, " she said.

FYI, here is the unaltered unsharpened JPG shot which was extracted
straight from the RAW file. No alterations were made to it.

http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/104654159/original

 

Your not following. The Pensacola to Chattanooga drive was Jurgen's
route. He claims to have made that journey last week. He didn't
mention Destin and I commented on his route, not yours.

I was wrong on the 400 miles in four hours. Mind fart. Four hundred
miles is about 8 hours in mixed highway driving, less on all
interstate. I do drive fast, but not that fast.

OK, if you say it's out-of-the-camera I'll take your word for it. I
see no reason to doubt you. You have no history of calling a fake
real, and if you say it's real I'll accept that 100%.

It's a flat, dead-looking picture of the sky and the gulls, and the
arm looks more real. The framed hand looks too posed to be part of
the same frame. That's why I thought Photoshop.

 

<Snip>

Well, you're wrong, but I take no offense since my wife said the exact
same thing. "That shot looks fake, " she said.

FYI, here is the unaltered unsharpened JPG shot which was extracted
straight from the RAW file. No alterations were made to it.

http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/104654159/original
I have the same problem with grey & white aussies on a light colored agility
obstacles. It just looks like I cut and pasted the dog into the scene.

-Jim

 

A very well done shot. It does look light a great studio shot with a
stuffed bird. But the image itself reminds me of the birds when they
see free food. Yikes, duck!

Now, as for the rest of you folks who can't seem to say anything nice
about anyone. Stick a cork in it. The past several years everything
and anything has been attacked and placed on a spit and burned to a
crisp by the flame wars. It is time to get the frick over it! Really,
how often can one person be the center of attacks because they like
anothers work. Because anothers work seems to stand out from the hacks
and ordinary shooters. Because one works at their craft and doesn't
demand to be paid for taking a snap-freaking-shot of auntie line
dancing at someone wedding! Or one who produces a beautiful landscape
and has their grandkids mug and hold it in an advertisement? Time to
end this BS and get on with being straight and either saying you like
or you don't and not to be angry when the other fellows don't like
yours. Nit picking at someones work without offering some advise as to
help just makes that picker a nitwit.

So folks, that is as much as I want to say. I know there will be quite
a number out there who will say, "How dare he!" Well I dare you all to
become better photographers. Better people. Better mentors of
photography.


Draco

 

No, it's a gull, not a duck. These birds in my shot are fake, though:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/x2008.jpg Only a
little bit less lifeless looking than the gull.

I don't think you are justified in applying the tar brush to "the rest
of you folks". There are the Helens who gush at anything and the
Jurgens who have nothing good to say about anything, but "the rest" of
us often make comments from critical to complimentary regardless of
who posted the image.

 

Bad link: This is the right one:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/x2012.jpg

 

Tony,
I did mean the rest of those folks. I am sorry if it got splashed on
you as well or on others here who have been the type of menters I hope
to become. I'm not perfect by any means. Just tired of those who spew
hate because they can. So, again I apologize for any and all who got
"tared" by my broad stroke of the brush. I hope the "Helen's" of the
world would out number and out shout the "Jurgens" of the world.

And Tony, I meant "duck" as in dodge, bob and weave, get the frick
out of the way, "duck". I wouldn't call those decoys "real" either.
But not bad shot though.

Draco

 

You are rather gullible if you think I didn't know this.

 

Incredible!
Someone lies about their picture to conceal their poor taste and you see
the need to give the person who outs him, a back hand swipe. From your
history here, you fit into the Helen category. Before you take that as a
complement. Think about it for a while.

JH

 

If being over enthusiastic and genuine about someone's work is a bad
thing in your or the cynic's eyes, I can live with that.