Posts for: goldenyears
Jul 20, 2023 14:35:37 #
Policing copyright is difficult, if not impossible today. Search google for "steganography" or "applied cryptography," embeding and decoding invisible data placed in images. If I remember correctly (and that's probably doubtful) many years ago, McGraw-Hill did something like that to protect their images. I suspect it might have worked back then, but today there must be too many mages to search through.
Jul 20, 2023 14:13:21 #
One less item to carry around.
Jul 8, 2023 19:09:37 #
Canisdirus wrote:
Folks never seem to learn the lesson of John Henry...
Prompted by this post to learn about legend of John Henry, I discovered he died of exhaustion after winning a digging contest versus a steam shovel.
Jun 28, 2023 20:25:32 #
If I was told I had to teach young kids about photography, first I'd plead to be excused so someone else had to do it. If that didn't work, to introduce the topic I'd print two photos of the same subject, one well composed and the other as good in every way except composition. Then I'd break the kids into pairs and ask them to agree which one they liked best and explain why. I'd give a prize to the pair who did the best job. Then I'd do it again with another aspect of photography, and so on. Bribery!! That's my suggestion.
Jun 22, 2023 15:00:19 #
Ruraldi wrote:
I'm doing a presentation for junior high children ... (show quote)
I think of a "photograph" as a visual representation of something captured with a camera, and a "picture" as a general term. But I think I see what you are trying to get at. What is the camera being used for? To record or to create?
Jun 19, 2023 14:24:51 #
petercbrandt wrote:
I totally agree that cameras today have too many features. Many features actually confuse me. I use some masking take with short notes to remember where that a certain adjustment is. Sometime l have to 'reset' the camera because unwanted features are messing with me.
True for me too.
Jun 19, 2023 14:18:45 #
Red6 wrote:
Given a survey of all UHH members, I would bet that this list would be 10+ pages long and probably include most of the features we see now in our modern cameras. If a simple camera were made with a select few features, it would most likely fail due to the feature set appealing to a small group.
I believe that is a true prediction. I would love to see the results of a survey like that.
Jun 19, 2023 14:13:26 #
TriX wrote:
Amen!
I have a sneaking feeling that if all photographers started with a manual film camera...
I have a sneaking feeling that if all photographers started with a manual film camera...
When I was a young kid with a hand-me-down film camera and a small allowance I only had the negatives developed and picked the ones I wanted printed. Sometimes I marked out a part on the negative to print with a wax pencil. I wished I could do my own photo processing but didn't have the space or money to do that. I formed habits that carried over to eventually using a digital camera. I finally got my darkroom... photo editing software. And now I have a camera with me all the time... my cellphone.
Jun 18, 2023 13:49:51 #
Rick from NY wrote:
Kruger National Park. Original link didn’t work
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5VwCtfcWeKk&feature=share
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5VwCtfcWeKk&feature=share
I've never been on a safari. It looks staged to me. If so, is that sort of enethical treatment of wild animals normal in the safari business?
Jun 17, 2023 15:26:49 #
I don't use my cellphone as a data storage device. I transfer photos, documents and other data I want to keep from the phone to the cloud to be downloaded to a pair of external SSD's on my computer. I keep the phone, the cloud, and the internal drive on my computer "clean."
Jun 1, 2023 13:21:01 #
dpullum wrote:
The Tulip virus has worked its magic well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_breaking_virus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_breaking_virus
Thanks for the reference! I had no idea.
May 31, 2023 12:45:08 #
First of many close-up flower photos I hope to share here from time to time.
May 29, 2023 19:16:01 #
It isn't a bad idea to have lots of forum sections. If there were not forum sections I would spend the majority of my time on the site combing through all the posts looking for content that interest me, with little time left to enjoy the posts that interest me. Even if a forum section eventually suffers from non relevent content, it's still better than not having different forums.
May 25, 2023 14:13:55 #
I wonder if, in 1827, artists worried that the camera obscura was the beginning of the end of painting as an art form? I suppose some thought it would never amount to anything worthwhile. I'll ask my wife what she thinks about this current AI controversy... but later... right now she is busy working on a painting.
May 17, 2023 17:56:25 #
I totally understand that for others, using the camera skilfully is, in itself, their source of enjoyment and satisfaction. For me, the camera is a means of capturing raw material. The process of transforming an image is how I derive enjoyment and satisfaction. The end product ends up being merely a record of the effort I put into producing it, and if I'm lucky, something I might use to fill that empty space on my wall. I have to admit, though, that I do like to receive compliments when others see it.