The 6th official Random Discussion For TPBM Photos and Photographers Thread (6)

Hi ya Jim ..I think my ducks are freezing today lol But I think I"ve had a breakthrough on the need for speed or not ..lol with SLR camera manual mode .I"ve been reading and reading and today it clicked ..so we will see if it realy has come together or not .Proof is in the pictures right ..lol

Deb, getting used to manual exposure is a great way to learn about the relationship between aperture, shutter speed and film (sensor speed), and something I think everyone should get a grip on. When I learned I had no choice, as that is all there was. Shortly after AV and TV cameras started coming out. I hardly ever shoot in manual now, but use AV or TV. If you are relying on the camera metering for exposure you get the same result. If you need to expose higher or lower than what the camera metering says, I then adjust the Exposure Compensation (EC) to get it right. When I first started using the EC I was always confused as to which way to go. I worked out a little helping saying, "If the background is bright, go to the right" (basically exposing a bit more). Now if I shoot a subject with a dark background I know to move the EC over to the left so I don't over expose the subject. \

It is freezing cold here today, I've spent the better part of the morning trying to disinfect my computer, I 'm not quite finished yet as there are still some issues. I think I need to reinstall firefox, can't get it to run at all and am on using IE at the moment.

Skrim17 wrote in post #4742027
It is freezing cold here today, I've spent the better part of the morning trying to disinfect my computer, I 'm not quite finished yet as there are still some issues. I think I need to reinstall firefox, can't get it to run at all and am on using IE at the moment.

IE isn't so bad.

I installed FireFox on my Mac, but didn't like the look of it, so went back to Safari instead.

I've got some sort of trojan launcher and vole situation going on here Pete, I need to tun spybot one more time then my regular antivirus and hope for the best. Had to run chkdsk too and it found a TON of bad sector type sstuff.

Crissa.

Do a google search for "Hijack This" and download and run the program when you find it.

What it does is make sure that it's loaded before anything else, and then logs exactly what programs are loaded when your system starts up. When you get the log file, post it up here for us to take a look at, it might well be possible to find the acorn that's growing into your trojan problem.

Pete wrote in post #4742033
IE isn't so bad.

I installed FireFox on my Mac, but didn't like the look of it, so went back to Safari instead.

I had Firefox on my computer, too. I really didn't like it. Not too sure why, but I just didn't. So I installed SlightlyWarmButNotTooH​otCoyote and it was OK, but ran kinda slow. After a while I tried that HasAReallyHealthyRespe​ctForFireRetriever but it had some glitch where it would allow you to go to a site, but it kept wanting to bring you back to the webpage you started at. I took on a 30 day trial of DressesInClothesToKeep​WarmYorkshireTerrier but I think it was designed for a laptop, not a bigger machine. My friend uses the AlwaysTooHotInSummerAn​dFrickin'HugeSaintBern​ard program and, while being extremely user friendly, it was just too big to deal with. So, for now, I think I'll stick with BundleOfLoveEnglishSpr​ingerSpaniel.

My stomach is making weird rumbling sounds.

I'm not too sure why...

Not being very computer savvy, I have resorted to reformatting my hard drive a few times to get a clean start. It does take a while to get the programs I have reloaded and updated, but it sure does help performance. I even had some tech help once that burned up over $400 telling me I did not have to do this, they could find the source of the problem and fix it. Well, it never got fixed, and I ended up reformatting anyway. It is real easy to pull all your user docs from your backup.

Dan, sticking to a much simpler browser like HotDog will make things way easier to work with. You were drawn in by the hoopla that comes along with those fancier named programs.

Pete wrote in post #4742111
My stomach is making weird rumbling sounds.

I'm not too sure why...

Either you are pregnant, hungry or need to stick near the throne.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #4742131
Dan, sticking to a much simpler browser like HotDog will make things way easier to work with. You were drawn in by the hoopla that comes along with those fancier named programs.

You may be onto something there.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #4742139
Either you are pregnant, hungry or need to stick near the throne.

Quite probably the latter. I need to find a good, absorbing book, I think...

Pete wrote in post #4742159
Quite probably the latter. I need to find a good, absorbing book, I think...

Any particular reason it has to be absorbing?

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #4742181
Any particular reason it has to be absorbing?

First thing I read into that too. Eeew