[ratpack] Re: Some good photos
- From: "Larry Knight" <Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:10:56 -0600
I second the motion, especially when (and the when was this morning) your wife
calls up and want you to fix the computer over the phone, Right NOW!!!!!!
I like the comment about the Mexican book about Manual.
Lar
From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ray Buck
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:34 PM
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Some good photos
At 11:33 AM 8/24/2009, you wrote:
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'zokay, nobody's perfect!
People really should read their camera manual ...amazing what you can find
there. Even if it is a bit hard to understand sometimes.
Why would anyone want to read something when they can ask someone a question?
Lemme tell ya (and I'll bet Larry can back me up on this) computer users are
hell on wheels when it comes to this. Even when "flyby help" (or tooltips or
whatever ya wanna call the popups that are displayed when ya hold the cursor
over a button or other object) is available, users will still call someone and
ask, "what does the button with the trash can on it do?" Duh. It mows the
lawn. Of course. Then I'd suggest reading a Mexican book about a guy named
Manual and they'd get all pissed. Scroom. I hated doing phone support.
Now: question.
While I was in Hawaii, I took some pixes of their indigenous Red Jungle Fowl
(just plain chickens, if you ask me!) Using matrix metering, the chicken was
properly exposed, but the background, grass, which was about a zone V or 18%
gray mid-tone was overexposed by about 2 stops. Didn't happen when the rooster
was on an asphalt (state road workers spell that assfault [I thought that's
what blondes thought was a proctological disorder, not a highway surface] )
parking lot. Hmmm...
qaStaHvIS jIH ghaHta' Daq jIH tlhapta' 'op vo' chaj SoH tlhob jIH ghaHta'
'ach nuq ghaHta' joq ghaHta' Sum doq chugh (Klingon.)
Kéuihdeih yauh deui daaihg wá, "Làih, ngóhdeih y u ginchou y tgo sèhngsíh,
tùhng y tjoh g utaap, taapdéng y u t ng t n, làih wàih chyùhnyèuhng ngóhdeih ge
mèhngjih, fáuj k ngóhdeih jauh wúih fànsaan y n go saigaai b t tùhng ge
goklohk. (Cantonese.)
That has never happened to me before, and I wonder why? Anybody have an
answer? Would going to center weighted metering or spot help? What do you
think?
Why did the chicken cross the assfault? To overexpose the background.
I think center-weighted metering would probably have helped, although if ye
olde chicken was properly exposed and the background was not, it seems like you
have 2 levels of exposure with 2 different portions of the photo. HDRI (high
dynamic range imaging) could help by combining the properly exposed subject
with the properly exposed background.
I'd have to defer to your expertise here, Carl...you've been doing this for a
lot longer than I have. I guess it's wonna them things where I'd test with
different metering modes and camera modes just to see what I got. But I spose
the commute would be a bit difficult.
RtR
----- Oriuinal Message -----
From: "PAUL W WATSON" <TSWATSON78@xxxxxxx>
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:53:25 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Some good photos
Sorry Lar, he is a Canonite!
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Knight <mailto:Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:23 AM
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Some good photos
Is he a Nikonian or a Canonite???
From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ] On Behalf Of PAUL W WATSON
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:22 PM
To: ratpack
Subject: [ratpack] Some good photos
While I was at the Miller SCCA race one of the drivers asked me if I would show
another photographer friend the ropes. His name is Michael Wells and takes
some pretty fair photos. He is interest in coming to a Pack meeting if and
when we have another one. In the mean time here is is web site.
http://www.pbase.com/twistedlight/great_salt_race
Paul
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