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Mar 8, 2021 07:59:33   #
Frank T wrote:
The filibuster is a relic of days gone by and needs to be eliminated.
Presently, the Democrats are in power because the people v**ed them in. They should eliminate the filibuster and then concentrate on making the changes that they promised to make.
When the next e******n comes along, the people will decide whether or not they want to keep them in power or v**e the Republicans back in.
That is the way the systems supposed to work.


Yes, and if HR1 does become law, we will never have an honest e******n in the future. That will be the legacy of the Democrats...
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Mar 7, 2021 07:11:55   #
Ourspolair wrote:
Excellent captures and renderings. Thanks for sharing. No surprise that you run workshops on bird photography!


I don't want to sound like Nervous Nellie here, but what kind of workshop promotes 100,000 shutter clicks in 6 days. What??!!

Where does that leave time for anybody to take your time compose a shot, check for lighting and DOF, anything other than set a camera on auto and shoot burst after burst. I guess to each his own, but I want to think out my shots. My goal is to have as many printable photos SOOC as possible. I try not to let Auto do the work.
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Mar 7, 2021 06:55:22   #
Buffalolensman wrote:
I will be in Chicago for a workshop on black and white photography.
I was born on the Northside and spent no time on the Southside.
I am looking for recommendations on what to shoot during the
week I am there. Thanks.


Do you mean the Southside Murder Capitol of Chicago. Stay on the northside if you value your life and equipment.
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Mar 6, 2021 08:13:47   #
PaulBrit wrote:
Again, thanks to you all for your wonderful ideas and actions. Still sitting on the fence, so to speak, and I will, of course, involve Jeannie! Soon the decision will be made!


Let us know what Jeannie said!
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Mar 6, 2021 07:17:27   #
Rongnongno wrote:
While many here use only the web to display their work most photographers for one reason or another other are shy when it comes to printing. 11x14 seems to be a ceiling...

GO BIG!!!

I mean go above 20 inches as size for your print and mount it on canvas or whatever but not 'just a print'. This will really show the quality of your work and if you are in business will likely increase your sales. Oh and select gallery/fine art quality, not regular printing.

Yes, it is expensive, sometime really onerous but if you sell your work as fine art in fairs or for spot contract (portraits, wedding, others...) do not hesitate to print at least one image to a full, almost overwhelming size. The margin on these prints is about 200 to 500% not more... IF you know how to sell*. Note: in fairs? 300% minimal, no negotiation.


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* On those you never give a price at first and certainly do not list it.
- Print the image
- Loan it to the client. Yes, loan it for a month or so, no shorter and no longer.
- Friends and family will have the time to see the print. They will comment on it and place pressure on the client to keep it.
- More often than not the client will want to keep it. It is then that you announce the price and that your observations on the client being able to afford it enters the process. The price has to be high enough that they wince but low enough that they cannot afford it. I had a couple of clients say 'no, too expensive' then come back to get it. (Peer pressure at work).
- I noted at the time that every print after that were noticeably bigger when ordered by the family. I usually waited before taking family/friends orders. Once I had the same print reprinted three additional times (I got lucky, the bride's parents were divorced).
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It would give me the heebeejeebee's to have that spider on my wall, not to mention the nightmares of spiders.
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Mar 6, 2021 07:10:45   #
PaulBrit wrote:
This Friday morning Jean helped me hang up five photographs. They are all in 8” by 10” frames and they look good. They are hung on a tall wood wall to the Southern end of our main living room.

Maybe a couple more of my photographs will be hung in due course.

But, and here’s the rub, I have hundreds. In the main, taken with our Nikon D750, and while not all of them are of a standard to grace our walls, many are. Far too many to display on the wall.

So what do you do? I know that many of you are superb photographers and take some brilliant photographs. I frequently add my comment to a great shot!

But how do you display them?

Or how do you share them?
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I just revised my website so I can easily post new photos. I just posted a series of "Chicago" yesterday and put up 60 that otherwise would never have seen the light of day. Mainly for family and friends.
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Mar 5, 2021 10:48:03   #
berchman wrote:
"I do remember warning the people that there was a gun and yelling that pretty loud," said the 26-year-old Sullivan. "I witnessed other people be very -- they were very angry because nobody thought she should have got shot. She didn't have a weapon. I mean, she was breaking in but there was no reason for them to shoot her because there were several people breaking in and she just happened to be the person to climb through first. So, it's not like she was making violent threats or had a gun…. I mean, so that being said, I think they, they could have not k**led her."

Sullivan, who was inside the Capitol on Wednesday for quite a while, encountered a group of police officers before the shooting.

"When we made our way to that door -- and this is what you don't see in the video because you see from the moment the gun sticks out to when she gets shot -- we go to the door and, like, there's four officers there, and one officer is crying," Sullivan recalled, adding, "He's saying, 'Hey, like, I want to go home to my kids.' He's, like, looking at other officers saying this, and I'm like, 'Wow.' I don't think I've ever seen that out of a police officer."

It wasn't Sullivan's first encounter with officers inside the Capitol.

"I had talked to these other officers prior, and I saw that fear in their eyes," Sullivan said. "It's indescribable, the fear, of hopelessness and despair when there's 10 officers at the end of a corridor and there's thousands of protesters … and there's nothing that they can do other than k**l them. They either shoot them or back down."
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As a former policeman, trained in r**t tactics, you always can back down. I did not see a huge physical threat to the officers, in the manner of r****rs with guns drawn and firing at the officers. Do not mistake, I do not condone what the r****rs did. But, any officer who stands on a barrier line and cries that he wants to go home needs another line of work. I was in harms way many times, maybe hundreds, and in the moment the mission was all that counted. Just like a soldier on the front lines. The mission is what counts. And a tactical retreat is always possible. It seemed to me that the r****rs were more interested in entering space, not injuring officers. The elected politicians were already whisked out, even AOC who hid in another building, so the physical building does not have the same weight to defend as the people. All in all, a very sad day for America, but it does not change the fact that the officer k**led an unarmed civilian who was posing no immediate threat to anyone.
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Mar 5, 2021 08:37:12   #
dennis2146 wrote:
I have a HUGE number of friends who send them to me. God is Good. If you notice, every one of them is absolutely true. That my friend is the fun part.

Dennis


Sorry Dennis. Not fun, just sad that our country is in this sad state. I am older so I won't have to pay back what we are having done to us now. Just think, 680 Bn out of 1.9 Trillion for C***d Relief to actual people. Pelosi learned from Alinsky too. Never waste a good crisis. And all that pork is paying it forward for the next e******n. Billions to unions, endowment for arts (hollywood) and more. All in the name of helping people mostly out of work, but the democrat supporters mainly. Sad, sad, sad.
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Mar 5, 2021 08:29:00   #
RixPix wrote:
My friends in DC are telling me that those in the know regarding strategic security have been authorized to use deadly force if any militants attack government property today.


So strange that we have not heard anymore about a policeman shooting an unarmed white woman who was no immediate threat to anyone. But it that had been a black man, would the press treat it any differently? I think so.
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Feb 26, 2021 06:05:13   #
Ednsb wrote:
First of all on Apple all the way.
1. I have a ton of images on my iMac that my wife wants to be able to see on her phone and laptop. I was trying to use Google Photos to share but it was always a struggle as it often would not upload an image (jpeg) and I couldn’t figure out why. I also looked at Amazon Pictures but honestly, it is very confusing to use and has a very small limit on videos.
2. Way too many images to put up on any hosting sites without having to get a mortgage on my house!
3. I have gone old school and downloaded the images to a thumb drive which she can put in her laptop but that doesn’t do anything for her phone.
4. I've thought of using a NAS drive but I am not sure that will even work?

Any help would be appreciated but hold off the snarky replies please.
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I went the way of having my own web site. I have now posted about 300 photos and I will go up to probably a thousand. Same cost. Maintain the site, etc. Unlimited storage and views. Just a learning curve to program in WordPress.
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Feb 25, 2021 07:45:47   #
User ID wrote:
It’s most curious that so many who scoff at the widespread shift to fully live view cameras will tend to point out that they haven’t yet seen any significant gains in image quality from live view systems as compared to SLRs. Is this ordinary short sightedness or is it an intentional classic straw man thing ? I haven’t yet heard of anyone adopting live view primarily for its image quality.


When a DSLR actually takes the picture, the mirror is up. So, the photons to the sensor is exactly the same, and lens and sensor being the same, the quality would be... the same.
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Feb 22, 2021 07:46:18   #
Indrajeet Singh wrote:
A series of really small birds that make difficult to grab images, especially on the wing!


Stupendous Images!!!! Especially the Blue Tailed Bee Eater /with bee!
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Feb 21, 2021 17:52:53   #
Tea8 wrote:
So maybe it's me, but I went to your site and when I click on the individual tabs the one for China doesn't have pics showing, just the words.



I might have been tweeking it when you looked. It is working now. China is the only one that currently has different sections for different cities. I am also going to put up Bejing (wall and pandas) and River Li in separate sections. China is just VAST.

Thanks for looking and letting me know. I checked and it is working now.

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Feb 21, 2021 14:43:49   #
TheShoe wrote:
What is surprising to me is that Adobe gave you almost 2 years notice that Flash was going away and you did nothing. If you had started right after the end-of-life announcement you would not have been rushed to make the switch.


Haha, yes, in a way I did nothing. I really did work at finding some kind of person/software/thing to get me going, but life got in the way.

Once the site went down though, I was forced to learn WordPress and Elementor to get it put back up. There are many platforms I could have used, but I wanted one that was infinitely expandable, and did not had a large loading time. So, this way, I load only 20 thumbnails, and then the user can load a larger version if needed.

Thanks for commenting.
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Feb 21, 2021 13:57:55   #
burkphoto wrote:
Nice work! I like the fact you kept it simple and seem to have edited down to your best images.


Thanks for looking Burk. I know you are a pro so your comment means I am moving in the right direction...

I really do this for family, and not every (!!!) photo is great art, but just to say we were here and wish you were too.

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