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* James * (K:20200)
1/20/2007 4:46:21 AM
hi lijie.... nice photo of the panda. when they're not eating, they're sleeping. a very lazy animal the panda is.
take care ~ james
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| Photo By: lijie cao
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* James * (K:20200)
1/20/2007 4:45:08 AM
haha i sometimes forget to make that ISO adjustment as well. hurts when i find out about it only after getting home and looking at the photos for the day.
nice photo here as well.
james
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| Photo By: Tim Schumm
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* James * (K:20200)
1/20/2007 4:43:51 AM
you should visit the cappadoccia region of turkey tim to compare these hoodoos (called fairy chimneys there) with the ones there. they're outstanding as well. although the temperature there in summer is quite high.
james
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| Photo By: Tim Schumm
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* James * (K:20200)
1/20/2007 4:41:17 AM
very nice photo for sure. is there always that little snow out there at this time of year? seems a bit strange to see so little of it, almost looks like the tail end of spring there.
james
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| Photo By: Tim Schumm
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* James * (K:20200)
1/20/2007 4:38:41 AM
hi craig. very beautiful shot as mentioned already. i guess you mean you lowered the temperature in PS?
james
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| Photo By: Craig Hanson
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* James * (K:20200)
12/15/2006 4:58:58 PM
nice capture of a rather strange looking woman. i have a few similar ones in my portfolio from my recent visit to western sichuan province, which is very tibetan.
merry christmas ~ james
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| Photo By: Ayse Altan
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* James * (K:20200)
12/15/2006 4:51:50 PM
a lovely shot. i would have hoped for a better reflection of the taj mahal in the pool..... guess its not to be. nice work nonetheless.
best wishes ~ james
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Photo By: Adele McGookin
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* James * (K:20200)
12/15/2006 4:49:32 PM
actually gary, the western media paid a lot of attention to the destruction of these buddhas. it was one of the last things the taliban were able to get away with. a shame such treasures were destroyed with no regard for historical value.
nice photo adele.
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| Photo By: Adele McGookin
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* James * (K:20200)
12/15/2006 4:44:38 PM
not a bad shot at all. you managed to get this photo without buses, trucks and cars in the background. well done. i have a similar photo in my portfolio as well.
merry christmas ~ james
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| Photo By: Adele McGookin
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* James * (K:20200)
12/15/2006 4:40:47 PM
interesting tradition here in china. i've never actually seen cricket fighting, never even heard of it actually. maybe i ought to visit shanghai again to check it out.
warmest wishes lijie~ james
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| Photo By: lijie cao
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* James * (K:20200)
12/15/2006 4:39:20 PM
i also visited the panda reserve in chengdu this summer. not easy to shoot a good photo of the panda, they dont move too much and dont spend a lot of time outside, and usually a big crowd of people there to take photos also.
best wishes ~ james
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| Photo By: lijie cao
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* James * (K:20200)
12/15/2006 4:38:01 PM
nice colour here. too bad it wasnt a bit sunnier outside, i think the colours would be a lot nicer. i was in chengdu this summer but never had a chance to see these pools. its part of jiuzhaigou isnt it?
best wishes lijie ~ james
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| Photo By: lijie cao
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* James * (K:20200)
12/15/2006 4:35:56 PM
hi cao lijie.... i remembered you as soon as i saw your name here.
nice photo of shanghai. been a long time, nearly two years since i've been there. nice to finally see some of your photos here.
best wishes ~ james
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| Photo By: lijie cao
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* James * (K:20200)
8/27/2006 6:39:57 PM
i dont know how you do it, but you do. a different perspective of the same mountain every time i look. superb work craig.... you ought to get in touch with japan tourism to advertise your shots for you.
james
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| Photo By: Craig Hanson
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* James * (K:20200)
8/27/2006 6:21:21 PM
nice work gregory. i was out last night doing the same thing, but what were your exposure data for this shot? i didnt have the same success that you had here. this shot is very nice.
best wishes. james
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| Photo By: Gregory McLemore
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* James * (K:20200)
8/25/2006 4:19:02 PM
thanks a lot stan. you've given me good information in the past and here again. i look forward to making some of these changes and seeing what happens.
warmest regards ~ james
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| Photo By: * James *
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* James * (K:20200)
8/25/2006 12:46:15 AM
nice shot. good to capture the water in mid stream as you did. nice emotive feeling from the photo as well. a bit too much film grain for my liking but still its fine. james
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| Photo By: Eleisa Martin
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* James * (K:20200)
8/15/2006 4:20:15 PM
quite easy to level the horizon henry. in PS, under menu heading of image ---> rotate canvas ---> arbitrary ---> then select the number of degrees cw or ccw.
i didnt see the same tilt in the horizon doyle did tho, but it almost always happens with seascape shots.
james
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| Photo By: Henry Jalandoni
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* James * (K:20200)
8/15/2006 2:19:20 AM
i just saw in the forums that you want to do a sunset shot of this place. does the sun actually set in the direction you're looking here?
regarding this photo, not sure what time you took it, but i would guess sometime around noon or mid afternoon when the sun is higher. there isnt a lot of light shining onto the trees, and they really look dark as a result. probably best to retake this photo in early morning when the sun is at a lower angle and more light will be available to show more detail and colour in this photo.
best of luck with the sunset. james
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| Photo By: Carlen Boersema
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* James * (K:20200)
8/15/2006 2:08:25 AM
not sure how you got the blue sky, did you paint it in using the software? i had an overexposed sky on one of my photos from the gansu grasslands last year. i was in the same area the day prior and took a similar photo that day, and the sky was blue with nice fluffy clouds. so in the end, i ended up selecting, cutting and pasting the blue sky from one photo and adding it to the other photo (which had better detail on the ground) to make one decent photo. i dont really like doing that, but i didnt have such great luck taking photos in that area so i had to come up with something.
what i'm saying is its sometimes better to just cut and paste a real sky into a photo that needs one, instead of painting one in. the sky you added is fine i think (as i said i dont know how you did it), but it does seem a bit deep in colour, altho with a polarizer on a bright sunny day early in the morning it could pass. just providing an alternative here in case you werent aware.
good work getting rid of those power lines too.
james
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| Photo By: Carlen Boersema
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* James * (K:20200)
8/14/2006 5:03:21 PM
very lovely, this one is almost perfect. nicely done. james
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| Photo By: kiyoshi serizawa
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* James * (K:20200)
8/13/2006 5:29:44 PM
hi alison. condolences to you on the loss of your mother. my mother passed away two years ago and i miss her tremendously. i know how you're feeling.
lovely photos, and a nice memorial to your mother for your friends on UF to see.
best wishes. james
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| Photo By: Alison DuFlon
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* James * (K:20200)
8/13/2006 5:10:52 PM
the result is not bad. i would say you could go quite a bit longer to brighten this one up even more. the clouds make this one interesting.
good work. james
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| Photo By: Timothy Yap
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* James * (K:20200)
8/13/2006 4:19:34 PM
hi hugo.... i'll be back out again soon at night and will make the corrections recommended by you and some others. i do think there will be a lot of improvement.
take care hugo. james
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* James * (K:20200)
8/13/2006 4:18:18 PM
truly beautiful colours here claudia. this is one of the things i miss from home, here in china, at least in south and central china, you simply cant see this in the fall. the area is too tropical or just the wrong kind of vegetation, or it just doesnt get cold enough. nice capture of natures beauty here.
best wishes. james
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| Photo By: Claudia Perilli
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* James * (K:20200)
8/13/2006 4:13:53 PM
hi lisa. you're right, there are some pretty bright sources of light in that photo and they can overpower the rest of the image i think. as i noted to hugo and james, i didnt adjust my aperture settings at all last night, only the shutter. so thats probably a big reason for some problems.
as for the bridge, there (hopefully) arent any lighting problems there, and i do look forward to a successful time shooting photos there. you can see a decent photo of the bridge here:
http://www.pbase.com/alex1030/image/31062389
thanks for the help and best wishes. james
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* James * (K:20200)
8/13/2006 4:10:02 PM
hi james. as i indicated to hugo, i neglected aperture totally last night and was concentrating too much on shutter speed without necessary adjustments to aperture (had the camera on manual). will give it a go again with smaller apertures to see what the results are. will also consider shooting in RAW. incidentally, ISO for my photo was 200.
thanks for the help james.
best wishes. james
best wishes. james
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| Photo By: * James *
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* James * (K:20200)
8/13/2006 4:05:54 PM
hi hugo. i had the camera on manual and was focusing too much on shutter speed and totally neglected the aperture values. that's probably a big part of the problem.
as for metering, I used matrix metering which is supposed to take information from various areas of the frame. i thought this might be more useful since there are a variety of light sources throughout the photo. but i could experiment with other metering values.
thanks for the help hugo. always appreciated.
best wishes. james
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* James * (K:20200)
8/13/2006 3:58:44 PM
hi timothy. that photo was shot at ISO200. will also start shooting in RAW and experimenting more as well. its the best way to learn, just thru trial and error. thanks for the help.
best wishes. james
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| Photo By: * James *
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* James * (K:20200)
8/13/2006 3:56:46 PM
hi burak. thanks for the help. repositioning the camera is an option. i'll do that next time i visit that area, just for the practice. i will also attempt to bracket the photos next time as well.
best wishes. james
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