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justin carpenter

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 07:45

hey everyone, thought it would be time for a new thread. But lets keep this one! That way our thread doesnt have to say graveyard get-together as the title and this can be where all the general rambling can happen!

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justin carpenter

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 07:50

Hey Paul, glad you went up there because it really is a nice area. Shame about the cloud though.

I think I will be joining the Camera Club this year. Tina are you going to join the Brisbane Club aswell? You should (if you havent already).

Kelsey-Lee

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 07:56

Hehe, so it wasn't just me who thought the other thread was getting *cough* just a little *cough* long? :D

suspectim

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 08:13

justin carpenter

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 08:19

How often do u guys usualy meet up? Do u have any usualy meeting places or every outing is different.

Have u ever tried the local car dump. There are lots of old cars/rust/ and sometimes animals. Great for close ups.

Hey Tim,

We meet up a fair bit. Some outings that are short notice only have a few people attend because of other commitments etc... But other outings that have been planned for a while (eg. Currumbin) usually get more of the group there. It is always good though because if you plan on shooting somewhere you can just ask the group if they care to join.

The local car dump sounds like a great idea! We will have to remember that. Has anyone thought of a date for the cathedrals?

Kelsey-Lee

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 08:26

Hi,
Kelsey I realy like number 2.

How often do u guys usualy meet up? Do u have any usualy meeting places or every outing is different.

Have u ever tried the local car dump. There are lots of old cars/rust/ and sometimes animals. Great for close ups.

Thanks :D And welcome to the gang Tim!

As Justin said we meet up quite a bit. If we feel like shooting something and want company we generally post here and see if anyone's interested. Other times we plan an outing for the group and find the day best for most people.

I didn't even know there was a local car dump, but it sound like a great place to get some shots!

suspectim

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 08:26

what are some places u have all visited in the last 6 months or so. Sorry to ask so many questions.

Kelsey-Lee

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 08:41

what are some places u have all visited in the last 6 months or so. Sorry to ask so many questions.

It's fine. Asking is the only way you'll find out.

I've only been to one meet so far, and that was the Mt. Cootha Botanical Gardens and Toowong Cemetery, but Justin's been to a few.

Are you going to join the Brisbane Camera Group?

wakko

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 09:01

hahah not that it's long... just it's slightly off topic... ;) this can be our rambling thread ;)

I've only been to one meet too... which was the same one that Kelsey went to... cept I met up at the Cemetery only. Was great to put faces to names... and have a good yarn. oddly enough, there wasn't as much camera/geek talk as you'd probably suspect... actually just talked about what we did for work, what our other interests are, background, etc etc.

It's always fun to meet people with at least one thing in common and discover that there are in fact HEAPS more in common than first thought ;)

justin carpenter

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 09:19

Our very first meet was a shoot where we met in the city at 5.30.
http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=212431
and then there were a couple of night shoots in the city
then we were off to lone pine koala sanctuary. I was going to find all the threads but I realised it is a waste of time. After Lone Pine there was pretty much just everyone being busy around christmas and new year although we have been to the cemetery a couple of times now. The group has mentioned plenty of ideas so we will have to catch up on them. Things like whale watching, fraser island, st helena island, bird watching, camping and even new zealand have all been mentioned! If you go to the search option just type in Brisbane POTN and plenty of threads will come up for you to go through.

Hey everyone, should we all go together and shoot Australia Day fireworks ? Just an idea maybe someone can get us a good spot....

Any way Tim now you can go through all the threads and catch up !:lol:

Kelsey-Lee

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 09:34

I was thinking about the Australia Day fireworks too. Where are they being launched?

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 15:55

god justin/kelsey, how many clubs can i belong to?? I'll have to think on that one. I might be stretching myself a bit far if i do, cause when i get back to work, i do get very tired. Tomorrow is my first comp nite too guys, wish me luck!
tim, i like the idea of a car dump. One of this year's comp titles is wheels, and i always like to try and get something different, so a dead tyre could be a goer. Hmm, a thought just popped into my head, a tyre grave, with flowers! and no pinching my ideas, you ipswich club members!!:lol:

good move too justin

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 16:02

moved this comment from the other thread....

the end of creek road runs into the brisbane river, at murrarie, it does have another name for the last bit, can';t think of it off hand. I'll be there about 5. anyone care to join in? There is a bird roosting place there, with herons, egrets, ibis, pelicans, i'll add my link in a sec. It is on the right hand side as you drive in, near the end of the drive.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=261076

kelsey, i like both your photos, but the second one really grabs me too. great shot. good luck.

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catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 16:08

and here's another piccie

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f24/ottine/birds%20miscellaneous/IMG_0330web.jpg

need someone with the 100-400!!!

Andrew Carpenter

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 16:10

Good luck Tina.... Not that you need it, your a great photographer and I'm sure you'll do well. Your in a higher grade now, right?

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 16:10

tim, can you make the currumbin shoot on saturday, not sure if i asked this question already. Otherwise try to come sunday afternoon.

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 16:13

hey andrew, i am "b" grade at peninsula, as it is my first year, and while i am proud of my phtos, i am not a grade material yet!
but i am now "ab" grade at ipswich. Just handed in my first lot of photos, ready for next month. I now feel a bit nervous, i feel i have something to prove. Will explain when i see you. Can you bring justin out on sunday? If you duck over the gateway, and take lytton rd exit, it's a quick trip.

australia day fireworks could be something....

Andrew Carpenter

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 16:18

We were just looking at a map the other day and saw a massive water way, and we agreed we should check it out, I think it's the same place. So It's highly possible.

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 16:23

Meaty0

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 17:59

creek road becomes metroplex av. My directory doesn't show the water, but it is a good spot. I just noticed there is also administration road near it, which would run along the back, but not too sure if it is any good. Might get there a bit earlier and check it out. If anyone has a kayak, you could get closer!!

I'm all confused again:oops: Must be gettin' geriatric or something. Which day is this shoot on Tina? Perhaps to save those interested parties from having to track back through the old thread, could you reiterate the date/time/place again?

I'm pretty keen to go.

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 18:02

sunday afternoon, at the end of creek rd in murrarie, going to shoot the herons and egrets
i hope to be there by 5, bringing an ipswich club member

Kelsey-Lee

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 18:47

Sunday sounds good, so I'll be there if i can make it.

Nice piccie Tina, and good luck! :D

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 18:59

hey guys, tag has asked a question in our graveyard thread if you want to reply

justin carpenter

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 20:39

hey look what I just found! I only thought they made up to 8gb cards.
click here! (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=1097&A=details&Q=&sku=461865&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation)

kendickson

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 21:44

Tina,

I will be there on Sunday at 5pm.
I am on call fro work but that should interupt too much.

Cheers

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 21:45

OMG, can you image my poor old psd trying to download that much info!! It would take hours. But sure is a sign of the times, when those megapixel cameras start hitting the 20+ mark! I remember thinking how great my 3mp camera was! and that was not that long ago either. You know, when i shoot raw + jpeg, i only get 225 photos on my 4 gig card, so that's only 900 photos. Easy filled on a couple of days shooting!! (or even one day!)

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 21:46

great ken

kendickson

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 21:48

Andrew Carpenter

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 22:09

Sundays shaping up to be as big as Saturday, those that are doing both will need the next week off to process photos.

catsith

17th of January 2007 (Wed), 22:17

poor ralph, he doesn't know iv'e asked you guys! don't scare him!!:p

and you're right andrew, it takes me ages to post process!

okay guys, i am off to redcliffe via a few stops in brisbane, have a meeting to attend. Not sure i will feel like hopping on when i get home, so catch you tomorrow morning!

Andrew Carpenter

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 01:29

When visiting My sister, my seven y/o told her he wants to be a scientist when he grows up. She went to the back room of her work and stuck these on his face.

Meaty0

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 02:10

When visiting My sister, my seven y/o told her he wants to be a scientist when he grows up. She went to the back room of her work and stuck these on his face.

Gee Andrew; it looks like your sister does the same kind of work as me. That's an oculus trial frame and I see a Snellen chart in the background. Not many optometry/ophthalmology-type people use those frames now (thank goodness).

michael_

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 02:29

why not just use the aussie one :(

Greg_C

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 04:04

Hi guys, just calling in to say hi on this thread. I checked it at lunch from work and it only had 1 page, get home and now there's three! I'm keen for the Murrarie shoot on Sunday arvo so put me down as another starter. I'm on call also but this will only be a problem if there are storms about.

Now to start a MAJOR argument;) why don't you guys that shoot raw shoot jpg it is so much quicker to process:D :D ;)

Cider, we've always had a thread of our own floating about. Usually titled what ever our next planned shoot was going to be. We'd then run this for a while afterwards before switching to the new thread. We're a bit of a chatty bunch up here, plus reasonably active as we're out shooting together every two to three weeks.

wakko

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 04:31

/me pets Michael...

I don't think I can make the Murrarie one... now I know where you're talking about (end of creek road by multiplex or whatever it is...). I know the swampy/low lying bit you're talking about... don't forget to take insect repellent ;)

After reading your true life converter thing Tina, I went and borrowed my friends Kenko 2x... might have a play with it tonight :)

How's the end of the week shaping for everyone else? (starts general rambling)

shayb

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 04:35

Ok I'm abit brain dead at the moment and i'm not up to date here so... can some one tell me what's happening sunday? I've writen saturday off i've got way too much to do.

Greg_C

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 04:39

the week can't end soon enough for me, first week back at work after three weeks. Good thing next week is a extra short week as Monday is my rostered day off. Add to that Friday being Australia Day :)

Am I the only one thinking about what I can shoot on Aust. Day. I'm wondering about a trip to Southbank, although they do have a reputation for not liking photographers.

Meaty0

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 06:12

Ok I'm abit brain dead at the moment and i'm not up to date here so... can some one tell me what's happening sunday? I've writen saturday off i've got way too much to do.

Checkout post #21 in this thread. I totally understand the braindead bit though.

Meaty0

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 06:16

Hey everyone...

I got home from work, walked out onto my side verandah to have a glance at the sunset and guess what was there....

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8193/mcnaught3hr8.jpg

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6196/mcnaught1qb9.jpg

Greg_C

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 06:20

Cool Paul, serendipitous find eh!

wakko

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 06:40

ahhh excellent Paul.

Great shot!

Andrew Carpenter

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 06:50

Dang!!! to think you drove up the mountain to only see cloud. Well caught Paul.

Greg_C

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 07:09

I'm up way past my bed time!! Truely!!

My subscription to and electronic Sci Fi publishers web site came through tonight. Been waiting a few days for this. The publisher is Baen (http://www.baen.com/) and they put out heaps of books I like. They have a eBook area a lot of which is free, so you sci fi fans take a look. The subscription gets me advance copies before they are published - with no protection. There's a very interesting article on their site about digital rights management that bags it heaps. It seems Baen are making more money from the exact opposite idea, make some stuff free on the web and people will go out and buy the book if they like it anyway. I've book Baen books in which there was a CD with a copy of all of the authors other works (published by Baen) to that date!! It is a little hard to read a complete book as html though.

justin carpenter

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 07:11

Greg, I've started shooting RAW now. And decided to shoot only RAW rather than JPEG and RAW. I think I still need to get the hang of it but will probably learn all about it at TAFE :D .

justin carpenter

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 07:13

Tina, I was looking forward to this shoot at Creek Road but there is a 60% chance that I will be working on Sunday. Oh well... time and a half on sundays!

mc41

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 07:27

Dont forget to wonder down to this place when you are done with the church/catherderal

Andrew Carpenter

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 07:54

Is that the uniting church, to the left of the flame? Nice shot.

Greg_C

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 08:08

Greg, I've started shooting RAW now. And decided to shoot only RAW rather than JPEG and RAW. I think I still need to get the hang of it but will probably learn all about it at TAFE :D .

I play around with RAW every now and thenbut always seem happy with what I can do to the jpg's. I've probably had only 3 or 4 images that I could'nt do something with the jpg's. These where when I stuffed up some white balance big time and only the raw could fix it. My bad, bright stage lights through off the white balance. I'll usually use it as an insurance policy.

One day I might convert for good but for now I got a bunch of actions and stuff in PS that I love that usually mean most shots are finished in a few minutes.

mc41

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 08:41

Is that the uniting church, to the left of the flame? Nice shot

Andrew Should be around 50 meters to the left

catsith

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 08:46

why don't you guys that shoot raw shoot jpg it is so much quicker to process

i do both

haha, too funny andrew

great shots paul, lucky you

nice shot bill

justin, i shoot raw and jpeg, cause sometimes i only want to muck around with the jpeg file. I only play with the raw if it is a good photo worth working on. I use the jpeg for my casual keeps. I also look thru the jpeg files easily, and delete all those i don;t want to work on.

Meaty0

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 15:36

Greg, I've started shooting RAW now. And decided to shoot only RAW rather than JPEG and RAW. I think I still need to get the hang of it but will probably learn all about it at TAFE :D .

A wise decision.:D

Meaty0

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 15:42

Dont forget to wonder down to this place when you are done with the church/catherderal

Did that one a while ago, but wasn't totally happy with it....might go back again...

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4290/warmemorialvz7.jpg

catsith

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 16:52

like the idea though paul, it's a good shot.

well, i went to redcliffe for my meeting yesterday, via the nudgee wetlands, no real keepers as i did not have a long enough lens! but too bright, and forgot to change my setting from light bulb to daylight!! DOH! but i did get a few shots of an egret eating a snake! will see if i can rescue some of the photos. I also went to the nudgee boat ramp, and thought i had some lovely images of a heron, but for some reason, it just doesn't seem good enough. From there i checked out nudgee beach, but not happy with my images from there either...
will have to go back i think, and put more though into it. I have no time to process amy of them.

catsith

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 16:53

shay, we are going to the end of creed road, into metroplex, to shoot some birds on sunday afternoon, about 5. Not much point being there too early, the sun doesn't go down till late. Not far from you, are you coming? Sorry you can't make in sat.

Kelsey-Lee

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 18:13

wakko

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 19:16

@ Kelsey: Yeah photoshop CS2 has a camera RAW importery thingamy-dohicky-whatsit... Personally, I use RawShooter which has a great browsing function too with batch exports to TIFF etc.

The main thing I like about RAW is that... I can keep what I've changed, and go back and manipulate it without image loss. With JPEG, if you do your conversions, and save it without saving as, it's a destructive save. With RAW it's just a 1KB 'settings' file so to speak. Biggest plus for me cos I keep stuffing things up ;)

michael_

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 19:18

Meaty0

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 19:37

I generally just shoot RAW and convert them into tif/jpeg but I can't figure out how to actually edit the RAW image directly. I got to the right place accidently once, but I think that was with my Photohop CS2.

Hi Kelsey-Lee,

In PS CS2, I open Adobe Bridge and use that to download the images from my camera into a folder I named "Imagedump" in my digital images folder on the computer. (I use a USB card reader.) While still in Bridge, just open your folder with your RAW image files in them and double click on the image you want to work on. It automatically opens CS2 and the Adobe Camera RAW window as well. You can work on your image in Adobe Camera RAW and change a whole bunch of things, then you can click open to open the file in the standard Photoshop window. Note, you are still working with a RAW file and should save it as a TIFF, JPEG, or PSD or something like that. :-D

Alternatively, you can just use something simpler like RawShooter and then save the image and work on it in PS later on.

justin carpenter

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 20:20

Kelsey you might have to download the raw plug-in though for photoshop. I use Photoshop to convert my RAW's but i also downloaded Windows RAW viewer so the raws photos can be viewed in the same sort of way that Windows Picture and Fax viewer allows you. When you have this it also shows the Raw files as thumbnails.

Tina, luckily you shoot raw so you can change the WB when you process them :D

catsith

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 20:22

i copy my piccies into a folder in my documents. E.g. i have a general folder, like, potn meets, and then sub folders for the dates/places. Same for cairns, i have sub folders for the diffefrent trips i do up. I then have a major folder where i keep a copy of my best phtos i've worked on, broken into sub folders for birds/nature/landscape etc.. I have a lot of folders in my documents, but i've found that the easiest system.

Andrew Carpenter

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 22:09

Hey Paul, What time is Friday arvo drinks on your verandah, while casually looking to the western sky!!

catsith

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 22:54

Hey Paul, What time is Friday arvo drinks on your verandah, while casually looking to the western sky!!
haha,, funny, but i can't come!!

hey guys, i was going camping at easter with the peninsula club, but they are not going now, so am at a loose end. What is everyone doing? Maybe get together for camping?? just an idea to throw around. Not that i like to go away at easter, the traffic!! but....

Meaty0

18th of January 2007 (Thu), 23:37

Hey Paul, What time is Friday arvo drinks on your verandah, while casually looking to the western sky!!

D'oh! That's a good idea actually, but I'm going to the pub tonight. :D

You'd probably get a good shot of the comet from the cliffs at Kanga Point. It's a lot brighter than I thought. About 7.15 seems to be the magic time.

justin carpenter

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 00:23

I have a folder in My Pictures called Photography. And in that is 2 subfolders. 2006 and 2007. And in that there is jan,feb,march,april etc... And in those there is 19-01-07 etc.

Kelsey-Lee

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 02:03

I have a My Pictures folder, and that's where EVERYTHING picture related goes, generally sorted no further than the date. I really need to sort it out and get a better system :D.

Greg_C

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 02:42

Mmm I can see I have a lot of work to do to convert you folks to an Image Management Database.

Really is the best way to go and you'll wonder how you ever did with out it. Here's a link to a detailed description of my workflow (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2485076&postcount=10). I may have pointed some of you at something like this once before I think. I REALLY REALLY recommend IMatch as an Image Management DB. I'd be happy to help anyone get setup with IMatch. I'll be honest and say it can be a little confusing when you are first using it, but I reckon with some help you'd be able to use it no worries.

Let me know if anyone is interested and we can work something out. Maybe a good topic for a non shooting get together?? I run IMatch on both my laptop and desktop machines (legally:D and you only need a single licence to do this ) and just sync between the two so I can bring the laptop to demo it.

wakko

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 03:17

Hi Greg

I'm definitely interested in something like that...

How does it handle RAWs? and on top of that RAW AND JPEG :| I'm sort of lost as to what I want to use/do/whatever/whereever... :|

Greg_C

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 03:56

Hi Greg

I'm definitely interested in something like that...

How does it handle RAWs? and on top of that RAW AND JPEG :| I'm sort of lost as to what I want to use/do/whatever/whereever... :|

I has full RAW support and RAW and JPG at the same time is ok - I do this sometimes myself. What you do is tell it to scan a particular folder and it goes away and does this. It creates thumbnails as part of this process. You then come along and add category data to the images when ever you like. I'm in the habit of doing this ASAP.

Remember we are talking about a DB program here and not an editor of any sort. It'll do slideshows and there are lots of options as to whether it uses it's own thumbnail or uses the image (for speed). Supports offline images so if you burn some stuff to DVD it will still be able to show you what the image looks like via the thumbnail inside the DB. Lots of scripts for web page creation also.

In less than a minute I could sort out all shots of my kids that that have me in them shot also, who care when they were taken or what folder they are in. Want to know which shots you've taken with your 24-70 at F5.6, easy as two or three clicks and its done. You quickly get away from the idea of running everything from folders, although you still can as there is a folders view. Want to open an RAW file into CS2 just right click and send to CS2. If you then save a TIFF from this it will automatically index this one just after it has been saved - if you want it too.

The first screen capture shows the folder view, the second the category view for my web posted stuff. The Red and Green bars are colour codes you can add to make the images stand out.

Screen Capture 1 (http://www.steadyhands.net/share/IMatch1.jpg)
Screen Capture 2 (http://www.steadyhands.net/share/IMatch2.jpg)

wakko

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 04:13

hrmm... looks good...

currently i just chuck everything in their respective camera folder... and then date - whatever the subject is.

eg: 2006-12-28 - Toowong Cemetery POTN Outing

then just chuck everything in there :) hahahah... simple but *shrug* :)

Greg_C

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 04:22

just let me know when/if you want a look at what I do or some help setting it up. Happy to help. As you might have guessed I'm kinda hooked on DB's to organise my all my stuff. I also have CD, DVD, Book, Software, databases that I regularly update.

wakko

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 05:00

mmmm will do...

how free are you (outside of working?) I'm based in MacGregor, but am willing to go for a cruise somewhere and get some tips :)

Greg_C

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 05:16

I'm just around the corner at Runcorn. I don't have that much on over the next few weekends after this one. Whenever?

wakko

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 05:26

oooo great :) yeah... one of these days... better do it before bub pops out or I'll have no time OR money to do anything :)

Greg_C

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 05:34

Ah before kids that wonderful time when it seemed like I had a life of my own! I shouldn't complain, my kids are great. We'll all tell you but you'll never believe it until you experience it. Your life is about to change in a huge way.

Drop me a line here or a PM whenever your ready.

wakko

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 06:12

heheheh i can't wait though... I love kids... but we'll see what happens when she's screaming and i can't give her back ;) heheheh

will do on the PM/post thingy...

justin carpenter

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 06:30

i'll take it to page 6....

Went to lake samsonvale today, although I haven't processed any photos yet. If I have anything decent, I will show you. Have a great time on the outing tomorrow everyone !! Can't wait to see all of your photos. Try and get them processed as fast as possible! :lol:

wakko

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 06:48

hahah...

where's that lake? you guys know all the good spots... I've been in Brisbane for about 5 years (it'll be 5 in May)... and I still don't know where to go for good shots...

Andrew Carpenter

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 07:19

hey Wakko and Greg, don't remember much pre kids, started early, this shot taken just before christmas

wakko

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 07:26

hi Andrew.

What a happy photo. I definitely hope my family is happy like that in the many years to come :)

Thanks for sharing ;)

Andrew Carpenter

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 07:34

This place was somwhere between Samford and Strathpine, we try to find kid friendly places, I run a muck with the little guys while Justin runs around taking photos, I point and shoot at all possible moments. here's one I snuck in.

kendickson

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 07:59

Kelsey-Lee

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 08:33

Andrew, that is a really nice photo.

Five boys? Woah. Only two girls and two boys over here. :D

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b208/Loquaci/4.jpg

Hehe,I got the biggest gun. :)

wakko

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 08:37

hahahahah all the guns look the same to me :|

well... some of them look the same.....

blah I'll shuddup now ;)

Kelsey-Lee

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 08:43

hahahahah all the guns look the same to me :|

well... some of them look the same.....

blah I'll shuddup now ;)

:lol: Shhhh! :D I have the bigest gun. :lol:

Kelsey-Lee

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 08:47

See you tomorrow nearly eveyone. :D Better get some sleep.

justin carpenter

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 08:59

wakko

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 09:38

wow that's great Justin!

I just showed a couple of friends... they were also very impressed :)

Greg_C

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 14:31

Greg, I might be interested in some support in this area - I currently use a program called Image express and have a workflow that seems to be OK but am interested in i-match as I think my software is reaching its limits.

Cool, no problems. Just drop me a line when you want to look into this, or I'll keep you informed as to when feng and I are going to do it.

Greg_C

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 14:36

Meaty0

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 17:54

herehttp://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=362497235&size=l is a panorama that I did today. It is 17 photos all up. I also tried to simulate a ND Grad Filter with a gradient fill layer. May not be the best of photos, but I was happy with the stitching, never had one work as well as this. I will have to get one of those panosaurus tripod heads soon so I can master the panorama!

Wow! That's a fantastic panorama. Very well thought out and executed panorama. Couple of questions. What did you stitch it with? Did you stitch together TIFF's or JPEG conversions?

I use Panorama Factory, but it has problems stitching together more than 12 TIFFs. The file becomes just too big and the program just shuts down. Even with 12 shots, the final image is something like 150Mb or more.

Nick C.

19th of January 2007 (Fri), 18:51

Wonderfully done, Justin!
I didn't know there was still water in there ;) Did you take that from just off Vores Rd somewhere?

Greg, what do you use to catalogue your DVDs? I've been using an Access database I've put together. I keep refining it because I often think of different ways I want to search for stuff or additional information I want to store. I've seen some of the software available for download but nothing really takes my fancy as yet.

Greg_C

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 02:24

[quote=Nick C.;2568112Greg, what do you use to catalogue your DVDs? I've been using an Access database I've put together. I keep refining it because I often think of different ways I want to search for stuff or additional information I want to store. I've seen some of the software available for download but nothing really takes my fancy as yet.[/quote]

Hi Nick, I use CATvids (http://www.fnprg.com/catvids/). It's a cool front end that uses an access DB so you may be able to import directly from you existing DB.

Nick C.

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 03:26

Greg_C

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 03:32

Thanks for that, Greg. I had come across CATvids on my travels. Like many of them, I think I may have dismissed it thinking the amount of features was a little overwhelming. I'll have to set aside some time to read up on how to customize and use it properly.
I hope you're right about importing because re-entering the amount of data I've got is not an attractive prospect.

I took a quick peek at it again Nick, definitely an import function but only from a text file, tab, csv or space separated files. You can map the fields int he text file individually to the specific DB fields. If you are handy with access you could just merge your data I guess.

justin carpenter

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 03:46

Wow! That's a fantastic panorama. Very well thought out and executed panorama. Couple of questions. What did you stitch it with? Did you stitch together TIFF's or JPEG conversions?

I use Panorama Factory, but it has problems stitching together more than 12 TIFFs. The file becomes just too big and the program just shuts down. Even with 12 shots, the final image is something like 150Mb or more.

Thanks Paul, I converted the RAW images to JPEG before stitching them, then once it was stitched I saved as a JPEG and edited it in Photoshop afterwards.
Should I have saved the photos as TIFF's?

I use Zoner Panorama Maker, a family friend got it with one of his Pc User magazines.

justin carpenter

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 05:39

well everyone?!? how was your day? I am very curious! I guess you are all busy processing right now !

Meaty0

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 05:44

Thanks Paul, I converted the RAW images to JPEG before stitching them, then once it was stitched I saved as a JPEG and edited it in Photoshop afterwards.
Should I have saved the photos as TIFF's?

I use Zoner Panorama Maker, a family friend got it with one of his Pc User magazines.

If you have the space to save them as TIFF files, it's not a bad idea. TIFF retains all the original data in a non destructive manor and has its own compression algorithm which is also lossless. JPEG is lossy especially when you resave the image after editing or resize the image. However, for panoramics, JPEG is sometimes the only way to go because of the small file size. I'm going to make a brave statement here that Greg will probably disagree with, but I suspect JPEG files will go the way of the Floppy Disk Drive.

justin carpenter

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 05:56

interesting thought Paul, and I am with you on this one. Maybe not soon but after a decade or so...man..imagine what our computers and cameras will be like then!

kendickson

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 05:59

Cool, no problems. Just drop me a line when you want to look into this, or I'll keep you informed as to when feng and I are going to do it.

Greg,

Might tag along when Feng does it if that is OK with both? Saves you going through it twice.

Cheers

catsith

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 06:02

i'm home guys, poor bob is just knackered and has gone to bed. Had a wonderful day, i am in the process of downloading. I think i got some great images, but won't have time till tomorrow to work on them. Thanks guys for a great day out.
Quick rundown, discovered a tamron 2x will fit on my lens!! (shopping tomorrow!)
Got some lovely little birdies, and some not so little birdies, tree kangaroo (and overheard a dad telling his son about this tree kangaroo, which he pointed out, and said they can climb trees. i proceeded to look over the edge of the rail into the pen, thinking some more, but it was a wallaby!! No hope for some people!!) Also cute baby koala shots, pelicans, ummm, the list goes on.. oh yes DRAGONFLIES!! The only thing i didn't shoot was the kangaroos/wallaby's. Went for a swim afterwards to wake up for the drive home. great day out!

justin carpenter

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 06:08

sounds like the day was huge! Can't wait to see the photos tomorrow Tina

catsith

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 06:13

IT'S OFFICIAL...
we have an invite from the qmsee, (train club) welcoming us on the 11th feb. If everyone who is coming can pm me their email address, i will send a copy of the word document they sent me regarding directions, and rules. I can't work out how to put it here, and it may be a bit big. Basically it is a model train club, with big enough trains to ride on, running off real coal with real boilers etc. Should be able to get some nice photos from there (those in camera clubs...social doc maybe?)

catsith

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 06:14

thanks justin, we missed having you there. (sort thru 9 gig of photos!)

cool photo andrew (on whichever thread it was on!)

catsith

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 06:38

woohoo guys, i got some cracker shots of the dragonflies, and one in flight!!

shayb

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 07:04

That sounds good tina, i've been to those trains hundreds of times (my mum lives next door!) they are very cool.

hope everyone had a good day, can't wait to see the shots.

wakko

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 07:38

can't wait to see shots too... 9G of photos... sheesh! :)

Nick C.

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 19:50

Got your email, Tina. Ta.
I'll be there on the 11th. That happens to be my dad's birthday but I don't think there's anything big planned.

catsith

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 20:39

feng, that's only about 500 shots.

great nick

here is my link to my dragonflies.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=265920

and my koalas

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=265933

HelenThura

20th of January 2007 (Sat), 22:25

I agree 9G is more than a handful Tina.

Justin, that is a lovely pano, great work on it :)

catsith

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 06:13

helen, are you back from kayaking? how was your trip?

Meaty0

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 07:05

We assembled at Murrarie today to photograph some birds. I think Tina got all the birds, while I got the boot!

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/8994/murrarieboot0rb.jpg

Kelsey-Lee

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 08:16

Haha, nice boot Paul!

Awww, I love the bay koala shots tina, and your Dragonflies are spectaculr1

Speaking of Dragonflies, post processed my first ever photo of one:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=2575169#post2575169

More to come. :D

How was Murrarie? :lol: Hehe, would've gone if I knew where Murrarie is. :o

Greg_C

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 15:24

And a nice boot it is Paul!!

I've just posted some more shots from Currumbin, this time a Rose-Crowned Fruit Dove (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=266201)

Still got heaps from Saturday and now some from yesterday.

catsith

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 18:06

paul, you peeve me!!:lol: I took a photo of that boot, and it is crap!! Yours would make a good social doc. entry i reckon.

How was Murrarie? Hehe, would've gone if I knew where Murrarie is.

kelsey, you wally, what do you think a street directory is!?

Meaty0

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 21:10

paul, you peeve me!!:lol: I took a photo of that boot, and it is crap!! Yours would make a good social doc. entry i reckon.

kelsey, you wally, what do you think a street directory is!?

That's okay, I couldn't take a good photo of a dragonfly if my life depended on it. AND I didn't get one good bird photo from Murrarie :-(

Meaty0

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 21:15

Okay, so my photos from Murrarie were crap...bad karma or something. So I raced out to Queensland Uni lake to check out the birdlife early this morning....not much...until....you produce the magic piece of bread.... then....

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8971/universitybirds424ca.jpg

Then suddenly, the 70-200 lens you brought is a bit too long and you get this....

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/5976/universitybirds458sl.jpg

and yes he pecked the lens hood, but no damage to the lens. Next time, I'm using the 150mm Macro lens!

wakko

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 21:26

Greg_C

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 21:49

that's a great shot paul! :) heheh

on a happy note for me... my Katz Eye split prism screen just arrived today!!! can't wait to get that installed... yay for MF! :)

just need to find a K-Mount to EOS converter now :)

Mmm I was looking at these the other day. Be interested to see how it works out. I remember reading that with the earlier versions you lost the little focus squares. I reread it last week and it seems this has been solved. This was the one thing that had turned me off. There were reports of metering changes but again latest reports discount these. Let us know how it works out.

Greg_C

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 21:51

Okay, so my photos from Murrarie were crap...bad karma or something. So I raced out to Queensland Uni lake to check out the birdlife early this morning....not much...until....you produce the magic piece of bread.... then....
Then suddenly, the 70-200 lens you brought is a bit too long and you get this....
and yes he pecked the lens hood, but no damage to the lens. Next time, I'm using the 150mm Macro lens!

hehehe, I love the wake in front of the birds, seems that are very familuar with bread. Good new about the peck.

Greg_C

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 22:04

That's okay, I couldn't take a good photo of a dragonfly if my life depended on it. AND I didn't get one good bird photo from Murrarie :-(
I kinda know how you feel Paul. I had some high hopes for my Pelican shots - trying a bit of panning. All of them are just a little bit off. On reflection I probably needed to at least double the shutter speed from the 1/250 it was shot at. I really wanted to TOTALY freeze the motion. Oh well - my bad.

No.1
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image17873.jpg

No.2
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image17883.jpg

No.3
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image17874.jpg

No.4
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image17882.jpg

wakko

21st of January 2007 (Sun), 22:45

Mmm I was looking at these the other day. Be interested to see how it works out. I remember reading that with the earlier versions you lost the little focus squares. I reread it last week and it seems this has been solved. This was the one thing that had turned me off. There were reports of metering changes but again latest reports discount these. Let us know how it works out.

Yeah I read that too, and yes... the blackening of the prisms. I also opted for the optibrite treatment too... so yeah... hopefully it'll be all good :)

Now to savage my camera :|

Will take shots (with my crusty P&S) of my work ;) hehhe... wifey will wonder why I'm dismantling my camera :|

Greg_C

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 02:55

I've posted another from Currumbin on Saturday. This time it's one of the Pelicans (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=266377).

catsith

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 04:23

shame greg, that last shot of the pelican with the sunset would have been great. There is always so much to think of when shooting!

catsith

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 04:24

here is tony hard at work! he was after my dragonfly! Tony, how did it turn out?

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f24/ottine/IMG_0844web.jpg

catsith

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 04:29

here is my major mitchell
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=266478

Greg_C

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 05:16

shame greg, that last shot of the pelican with the sunset would have been great. There is always so much to think of when shooting!
yeh, oh well. another day. waiting to see what ken turns up as he had my 70-200 and was shooting much the same as me. Nice work on the Major Mitchell Tina.

I just registered a couple of domains I now have www.carlill.net and www.carlill.net.au - both are just parked for now so don't click on them - I said don't click on them - yet.. One I'll leave parked and the other I'll move all of my Genealogy and Family History onto. Been meaning to do this for ages but only got around to it tonight. A good friend hosts these and steadyhands for me.

catsith

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 06:10

great duck shots paul!!:lol: :lol:

Meaty0

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 06:16

great duck shots paul!!:lol: :lol:

THANKS!

Umm...they're geese actually...but it's hard to tell with a blurry shot like that.

catsith

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 06:27

Umm...they're geese actually...but it's hard to tell with a blurry shot like that.

oh well, ducks...geese....birds of a feather...:lol:

Meaty0

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 06:31

hehehe, I love the wake in front of the birds, seems that are very familuar with bread. Good new about the peck.

If you thought those guys were in a hurry for their breakfast, check out this guy. It looks like it's got an outboard....

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4753/universitybirds119yn.jpg

Sorry about it being blurry to, but at f:2.8, I was a bit hopeful. My bad karma continues....must.....get....more.....practice!

Greg_C

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 06:55

If you thought those guys were in a hurry for their breakfast, check out this guy. It looks like it's got an outboard....

Naaa you just had a string attached to him!! whoo hoo one more post until 1500.

wakko

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 07:00

Great shot guys and girls!!!! very impressed. :D

On a side note... I finally installed my katz eye focussing screen... I must say, it's great for the manual in us all :) can't wait to find a K-Mount -> EOS converter now!!! :D

Next time we meet up, you should have a look... it's fantabulous :)

For those who don't know what it is... check this link: http://www.katzeyeoptics.com/item--Katz-Eye-Focusing-Screen-for-the-Canon-30D--prod_30D.html

None for the 5D yet though :( hopefully they make one for the 5DII or whatever it's gonna be called :)

catsith

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 07:12

and the mannikins
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=266502

Sorry about it being blurry
see paul, that is why i shoot manual, so i can control the shutter speed as well. The camera is not taking into account a moving subject. great shot though, he sure is motoring!

catsith

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 07:14

feng, i'm still confused! I'll wait till i see it to work it out.

wakko

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 07:20

feng, i'm still confused! I'll wait till i see it to work it out.

Yeah... if you're into manual focusing, then you'll love it... the old split prism focusing screen. You litereally pull out the old one (clear/frosted) and put in the split prism one...

remember the old manual cameras? Had a little blackish semicircle thing? It's pretty much that for a digi cam... used in conjunction with your old focus points ;)

catsith

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 07:27

UPDATE...

in case some of you missed it, the next meeting is at the qmsee train tracks on the
11th feb. (sunday), at Warner. They have model trains (proper steam etc), and take passengers for rides around the tracks. For those of you that need a map, and their info sheet, send me your email, and i'll send it on to you. Families are welcome. Kids usually love riding the trains. They have indicated they would like some photos of the day, which i am sure is no problem. I will get back to you re time, but i think about 9.00 ish or so would be fine. Will update closer to the day.

shayb

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 07:50

wow great pelicans greg. sunday spawned a poor performance from myself only got a couple of ok shots

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v731/_shay/IMG_2436ps.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v731/_shay/IMG_2327ps.jpg

shayb

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 07:59

Greg_C

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 08:02

wow great pelicans greg. sunday spawned a poor performance from myself only got a couple of ok shotshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/shaybull/365807077/
thanks shay but I was disapointed in them, I wanted to freeze them totally - next time maybe. I like the Indian Mynah of yours and the colours in the sunset are nice.

Must have been some bad vibes going down there on sunday, no one so far seems pleased with their results.

I've spent the night so far moving all my personal stuff up onto my new domain and setting up redirects from the old locations. Everything should be up and running on the new site(s) now. Been thinking about setting up a online gallery on the new site for my family to share photo's on. I've gotta make some time to rehash these pages totally soon. I did the original version 7 or 8 years ago in frontpage and haven't changed a whole lot since. Needs a total makeover I think, ditch the theme that being used and start from scratch again.

kendickson

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 08:33

yeh, oh well. another day. waiting to see what ken turns up as he had my 70-200 and was shooting much the same as me. Nice work on the Major Mitchell Tina.

Greg,

Many thanks for the loan of the lens - got a couple of fair shots but generally disappointed with my efforts as well. Maybe I just have lens envy from seeing you guys with the big glass:lol:

kendickson

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 08:35

Hi gang,

Also thought I would post an almost one to show some of the frustation of shooting birds - with Camera's that is;)

kendickson

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 08:39

On another note saw this today, it's a fair way off but i think i'll make the trip up for this, if theres enough interest maybe i'll make another thread

Wide Bay International Airshow (http://www.widebayairshow.com.au/index.htm)

Shay,

Look like it would be good - I would be interested in that. Being ex-military - I sometimes miss the access I used to have to fun things liike that.

HelenThura

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 21:01

Since birds are all the rage at the moment here, I though I would share one of my photos from the other week.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/350091021_c52e5b01fe_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/helenpalsson/350091021)

These are a few of the many birds who visit my Grandfather each afternoon. When I was up there the other week I think counted at least 5 different species in the space of about 20 mins.

Paul, those ducks at UQ crack me up.

Andrew Carpenter

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 22:23

Nice birds Ken and Helen. Just read in my local paper that government House is open to the public on Australia Day, It's a fairly nice looking place, with really nice gardens, might help fill in some time waiting for fireworks or JJJ's no.1 song.

Meaty0

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 22:40

I love that shot Helen. I think the composition doesn't get much better than that (rule-of-thirds and all that). Well done!

justin carpenter

22nd of January 2007 (Mon), 22:48

great shot helen, lovely looking birds.

Nick C.

23rd of January 2007 (Tue), 00:18

Greg_C

23rd of January 2007 (Tue), 00:40

Ken, I firmly believe there is a learning curve with new lenses. Usually a new lens will means steps into a area of photography that you haven't ventured into. This takes some getting used to usually. All this means that you'll have to borrow it again some time to learn more!!

Hi Helen, that's a nice shot, it sound like a nice backyard that your Grandfather has.

Got to work today to find a package waiting for me. :D:D. I'd ordered this from ThinkTank in the US on 12/1. Nice people to deal with who have cool bags and accessories. Be nice if they had an Aussie agent.

Lightning Fast - Padded case with water cover for my 580EX flash. Will fit onto my Lowepro Belt. This is to make me use my flash more. Lately when its been in the backpack I don't bother to use it as I have to get it out. I figure if its on my hip I'll use it more. We'll see how the theory plays out.
Pixel Pocket Rocket - CF card wallet - holds ten somehow? I've got 4 in there now and the wrap around is a little tight --- but it works.
Big Stick - Monopod bag. Fits well, could do with a strap to sling it over the shoulder. It does have a series of loops though so you could feed something through these.

wakko

23rd of January 2007 (Tue), 01:01

Enjoying looking at all these shots, people. Keep 'em coming.

Feng, I think the reason Katz Eye don't make screens for the 5D is because Canon produce and market their own interchangeable focusing screens for the 5D and 1D series. Probably just another reason for Canon to add a little more cost to the more expensive cameras.

Yeah I read something about that somewhere... although I don't think they're split prism ones are they?

I know one other company that has started developing one for the 5D... will investigate the 5D/1D interchangeable screen thing... I don't think I can live without it now... but will definitely have more of a play :)

wakko

23rd of January 2007 (Tue), 01:03