Uncle, uncle! I can read it, but I can't write any profound response. The second paragraph sounds familiar, but I don't know why. Is it a variation on "The quick brown fox" thing?
It's too early to be awake after a night that felt like a fever breaking...when I didn't even feel like I had a fever. Hell, it sounds as strange in English as it would in German.
Gruss Gott, RtR At 10:55 PM 8/24/2009, you wrote:
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: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit '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: <mailto:Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>Larry Knight To: <mailto:ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:23 AM Subject: [ratpack] Re: Some good photos Is he a Nikonian or a Canonite???From: <mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PAUL W WATSONSent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:22 PM To: ratpack Subject: [ratpack] Some good photosWhile 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>http://www.pbase.com/twistedlight/great_salt_racePaul
