Posts for: ejones0310
Jun 19, 2021 11:11:31 #
When I installed Microsoft Office, it also installed OneDrive. Part of OneDrive is a folder on your computer that is also called OneDrive. They are linked to each other so that what you save, rename or delete on one also happens on the other. Since the photos you lost were in the My Pictures folder, I can only think that you must have moved the OneDrive folder into My Pictures, or directed the installer to put it there and then renamed the folder to something else. Later on you forgot that you had done that, but the software still keeps them linked regardless of what you name the folder on your local hard drive.
Jun 17, 2021 22:27:05 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
The Brown Recluse has small fangs and most often f... (show quote)
The only way we knew it was a brown recluse is I rolled over on him and smashed him. Our garage was on the other side of that wall and it had a population of several hundred of them. I’m not sure why dad didn’t spray. We had DDT back then. The bite didn’t show up right away, but swelled up over the next week and got hot. My entire upper arm was affected. Over the course of the next year, the venom worked on my arm and one day the bite burst open and black goo ran down my arm. I now have a large invention where the bite was.
Jun 17, 2021 22:12:21 #
Jun 16, 2021 21:39:56 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
e jones, you definitely will have black widows and fiddleback (recluse) spiders where you are. For an assessment how how many widows you have, I can suggest you go outside at night with a flashlight, and look around in the garage, shed, and around the outside of the house. I did that once as a kid around my grandparents' house in California.
I am still astonished to this day how many there were! 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷
I am still astonished to this day how many there were! 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷
We have a local pest control company who’s tag line is, “Sleeping with spiders?” I use them for pest control and the only spiders I find are the brown garden spiders all curled up. If I have black widows in my house, I’d be on the phone to the pest control company for a respray.
When I was a teenager, 16 or 17, I was bitten by a brown recluse. My parents never used pest control.
Jun 16, 2021 21:18:39 #
I use an Alienware M17 connected to two Dell 25” UHQ monitors. I wouldn’t want to trust my edits to the built in LCD screen on the laptop.
Jun 16, 2021 08:02:52 #
davidrb wrote:
Whatever the whim of the administrator is what the site is relagated to at that moment. Sometimes there appeasrs to be no rhyme nor reason other than someone woke up cranky that morning. I wonder where this will land.
My bet is Chit Chat. But I’ve seen the same thing and wondered the same question. Moderation seems to be uneven.
I had a post deleted as too political, yet the guy who quoted my post in his reply got to keep his. WTH. My post was clearly visible in his reply.
Jun 16, 2021 07:43:20 #
stant52 wrote:
But what I am looking at is the clarity, the detail . Is my focus correct ? Not subject matter . I shoot an assortment of pics, landscapes, car shows, still life, I'm still trying birds but they're never in focus .
Thank you
Thank you
They appear to be too soft to me. Do you do any sharpening in post? Your lighting also needs some work. Try a different angl where the light can be seen shining through the flower. A light modifier would also be of help. They look like you shot them in full sun with the sun behind you. That’s a cliche lighting theme, which makes photos look run of the mill. Branch out, try some things you haven’t tried before. Look at things from different angles than the normal.
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I went back to photo #2 and looked at the exit data. I see your shutter speed was only 1/30 second and your ISO was 200 and aperture 5.6. Given your focal length was 220mm, I would say you were using a zoom. Try a prime lens with a close focus and boost your ISO so that you can get your shutter speed up and also your aperture into the f8.0 range. That should sharpen things up. Most zooms are a little soft compared to a prime. Also your shutter speed should be faster than 1/focal length to combat motion blur. The faster the better so long as it doesn’t compromise your aperture. If you can’t get the speed into that range mount your camera on a tripod and turn the VR off.
I know that’s a lot to digest, but you did ask.
Jun 15, 2021 21:56:35 #
Voss wrote:
Oh, I know that. No problem.
Yes, I did. Normally, I’m a fan of black and white. When I shot film, I kept one body loaded with either Tri-x or Pan-x depending on the light conditions. Now that I shoot digital, I never seem to remember that I can convert any color shot to B&W during post processing. I think that might be why I like your sets so much.
Jun 15, 2021 21:50:28 #
robertjerl wrote:
The Towhee had been eating seeds on the flower bed behind the bath and got splashed. The finches left and the Towhee hopped down to look, went back to the seeds a couple of times and finally did a real quick dip before leaving.
Probably making a mental note:
The fat guy fills these things (4 in the yard) at sunset, I think I need to be here early before the mob uses it.
Probably making a mental note:
The fat guy fills these things (4 in the yard) at sunset, I think I need to be here early before the mob uses it.
We get a lot of Starlings at our feeder and they flip the seeds out on the ground to get at what they want. The poor sparrows don’t have a chance at the feeder, so they take the starlings’ rejects. They make such a mess!
Jun 15, 2021 21:47:37 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Thanks, it's nice to know that you enjoyed seeing it. I've watched the mud daubers flying with spiders in their clutches and if there is a bit of a wind it's quite entertaining for they go forward....then blown back...then forward, and on and on. We have a shed that they use to plaster their nest on the beams and walls. As you can tell, it doesn't take much to entertain me. 
You can post your boring stuff anytime you want. I enjoy it.
Jun 15, 2021 21:46:17 #
Voss wrote:
Interesting. And I debated whether or not to include the color shot.
I’m glad you did. I hope you didn’t take my other comments to heart, I was only joking.
Jun 15, 2021 21:41:53 #
RichinSeattle wrote:
Subject matters. (In fact, I'd say it's the most important factor in getting people to admire your work.) And, the subject of your pix is "pretty flowers." Regardless of how well they're taken, they're ONLY flowers (which I can go into my backyard to peruse in person). Expand your horizons.
On a recent trip to Victoria, we were headed to the Butchart Gardens. A friend of ours said, “They’re just flowers.”
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We don’t all have the Butchart Gardens in our back yards.
Jun 15, 2021 21:35:38 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
The orb weavers are good at keeping the flying nui... (show quote)
That is the most awesome photo that you have posted yet.
Jun 15, 2021 21:33:17 #
Jim-Pops wrote:
Yes I did. I had another in the set that was looked better when I opened it up on the computer. I only did a mild edit to get what you see here.
Glad to hear it. I thought I was losing more of my mind than I think I’m loosing. Now that I read that sentence, I think I had best revaluate what I think I’m losing!
Jun 15, 2021 20:59:48 #
quixdraw wrote:
Fabulous photo! I just can't make myself a friend of Spiders. Outside, unless close in and venomous, o.k. Inside, dead on sight!
I am with you, but before I kill one indoors, I will try to trap it and take it back outside. That is except for fiddlebacks and black widows. Ther are immediately squashed even if outside. If the other spiders are too hard to catch, then I just dispatch them before they can get away.
I never saw a black widow except in photos until last year. Then I saw two in separate habitats, which makes me believe they were different spiders. Attempts to dispatch both failed. They are quick.