[ratpack] Re: Some good photos

  • From: humminboid@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:55:08 +0000 (UTC)


Man muss das Leben eben nehmen wie das Leben eben ist, nich wahr?  Warum?  Das 
ist wie das liebe Leben ist! 



Die liebe Frau ist im Telephon shrank. Ich habe ein Fraulein im rucksitz des 
autos. Die Katze sucht eine Vogel. Der fauler Hund schlaeft immer noch, und der 
schnelle rote Fuchs springt ihm hinueber.  Zu Befehl, mein Fuehrer! 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Buck" <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 6:35:04 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Some good photos 

Jah, der Hund is gut and Katz ist im Keller.  Warum?  Ich weise nicht. 


At 03:27 PM 8/24/2009, you wrote: 



Ach;  das ist eine gute erklaring, aber, Ich have gar nichts verstanden. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Buck" <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:33:31 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
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 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 ] 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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