GeneB wrote:
I know what LOL and OMG means but I have seen many other phrases shorted to letters and have no idea what they mean. your example "IMHO" is one of them. Could somebody compile a list of the most common shorted phrases and pass them along. please excuse my ignorance.
"in my humble opinion" I can sympathize with you, however a quick google check usually works.
OviedoPhotos wrote:
We have more serious problems in the US than this. The media and the 545 folks in DC have divided us many ways. While we are distracted with this crap they cut deals like the ACA, NDAA that hurt us even more. The Fed recently made changes that are going to touch our wallets.
Sadly soap operas and sports are more important to the citizens of the US than what goes on in the beltway.
A big ditto on this :thumbup: :thumbup:
Wall-E wrote:
To get what your see in your mind's eye, you will most likely have to add some light, usually from a flash, set pretty low, set for rear-curtain trigger (so the light from the flash comes at the end of the exposure), and off-camera if possible.
You might also try some light painting (using a handheld light like a flashlight and sweep it over a portion of the subject during the exposure.
Curious...why, and what's the advantage of rear curtain vs first curtain?
Aldebaran wrote:
Give him a break, I modified the title after his asked :lol:
Thanks for clearing that up, and it seems that jeep daddy above was a little too quick with his comment. My question is why are you selling it? It looks like you only got this a short while ago
Wow, makes me want to break out my Marklin stuff...nice job on the shots!
dirtpusher wrote:
back in those days, going into the reserve, was dodging vietnam...
So was marital status (another form of combat, however) and also going to college. But, as I said earlier, you sign up to work for Uncle Sam for six years, and you always had the risk of being activated, then, and now.
Bottom line guys is yesterday's enemies are today's friends, and yesterday's friends are now our enemies...will we ever learn?
And, I believe GW Bush was in the Air National Guard, and in my mind that does not qualify him as a dodger. So many, if not most reserve units today are serving on active duty status, and if he, or many other reservists were not activated at that time it was because of the circumstances at the time, plus having a pool of draftees, or RA (regular Army) to fill the need. Today's reservist is not that fortunate, but when you join the reserves, you always know that that possibility exists and could become a reality.
Penny MG wrote:
You sure hit the nail on the head on that one. Can you believe the absurdity????? What the heck is wrong with some of these people????
You know, a few short decades ago before all this PC crap began if little Jimmy were to do that to little Mary everyone would say, "...aww, how cute is that. He must have a crush on Mary." (no harm, no pain) The only real thing that political correctness has done is to create hypocrisy. I'd bet a lot of money that if today little Mary went over and kissed Jimmy, not a thing would be said...or maybe they would say, "...Oh, how cute." In the business world if a woman said, "...he's got a great body," nothing would come of it. But in that same scenario if a man said,"...she's got a great body," he'd be brought up on sexual harassment charges, fired and walked out the door, and have that on his work record for ever. I don't know about you, but I liked the old days better.
bvm wrote:
That's a pretty easy thing to do when you won't let foreigners in.
It's almost impossible to get a driver's license.
very few jobs except translators, but you can teach english.
They are painfully polite.
They are a one ethnic group society.
Their food is dull to tasteless.
Meat is more expensive than gasoline.
not to mention that little incident in 1941, and some of the horrific things they did to the Chinese, but hey, we're all friends now
CliffB wrote:
Same sort of stupidity rampant here in the UK as well. How the idiots who make these decisions ever got through childhood and on to these positions amazes me.
Sounds like PC is contagious then :(
splitload wrote:
We are too politically correct to do something like that, that is why our country is making a mad dash to being a 3rd world country,rather than the strongest.
Bingo!! only in America can a six year old kid get accused of sexual harassment by kissing his little girlfriend on the hand! And, it will stay on his record. Can it get any more absurd than this..geez!!
sounds like a bent pin in your card slot, and possibly the original suspect card damaged them. Get a good flashlight and look closely into the card slot and see if a pin or two may be bent. If so, use a very fine straight blade screwdriver and attempt to straighten the bent pin. If this is the problem, and you manage to fix the problem, you would have just saved a bunch of cost from your repair source. This just happened to me, and I did get lucky
amehta wrote:
When you're shooting in a fairly controlled setting, the precision of a light meter is great.
I agree that we have to think about the shot. I have found the camera's meter to be quite accurate, so I can put my attention to situartions where I know it will be fooled. Exposure compensation is my friend.
I'm amused that you shoot mostly in manual mode, but picked the username "autofocus". :-)
Just to clear a few things up about me, and my comments. When I say I am shooting in manual mode it means I'm not shooting in"A," "S," "P," or auto mode. I am controlling the exposure I want for the shot by adjusting my aperture and shutter speed in "M" mode, or manual. And depending on the job where manual exposure control is not practical I will switch to one of the semi automatic modes like aperture or shutter priority.This has nothing to do with how I focus the shot..that is almost always in auto focus mode. I think you are confusing exposure control with focus control...2 separate functions.
Now, about the choice of my user name "autofocus"...among other things, I enjoy shooting cars, customs, hot rods, classics, etc, and I created that name for that part of our business. (my wife and I are both photographers and that part of our business is mostly portrait/life style photography) Sorry about the confusion, and I hope this clears it up. If you want to take a peek at some of my shots, just click on the flickr link beneath my name