Tupperware Rings, Red Tinfoil & Rainbow Photography -- It's all here (13)

timbernet wrote in post #6719864
Some people disable "Right Click" - but I know of ways to get past that... some people use flash, but I have a Print Screen button and can take a screenshot and crop - but the quality isn't going to be too hot.

If someone saves it to their desktop for use a a background, cool - no biggie.. if someone wants to make a grainy 8x10, no biggie.. I care more about selling large photos... 8x10? TINY!

so how does one "disable" the right-click function?

also, how do you reduce the resolution of a shot?

canonnoob wrote in post #6719869
so looking at my page how can i improve?

less is more as the saying goes. There is a "lot" of information on there.

perhaps keep the introduction of yourself separate *edit - just noticed i can reduce that section, so ignore me *-, and also remove (from the visitor's point of view) of when a gallery was made and modified (lots of dates on there). a 3rd tip may be to try a different font if you can (or are you stuck with times roman?). see if it can be asthetically pleasing.

however, everyone has their own opinion, and this is just mine.

Harm wrote in post #6719904
so how does one "disable" the right-click function?
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zenfolio makes it so it automatically disables right click.

canonnoob wrote in post #6719936
zenfolio makes it so it automatically disables right click.

neat.

what printing paper do you guys offer?

Hey Chris, don't you know this guy?

https://photography-on-the.net …php?p=6719158&p​ostcount=1

He's selling a 300 2.8.

Permagrin wrote in post #6720009
Hey Chris, don't you know this guy?

https://photography-on-the.net …php?p=6719158&p​ostcount=1

He's selling a 300 2.8.

We met up with him on our Gorge waterfall shoot. Nice guy.

i think i killed the thread.....

nah...David did. He wasn't making a smart aleck comment and it threw everyone off their groove

Why can't people qualify their word usage? Or, for that matter, why do people assume that a word means something when it hasn't been clarified. English can be a concise language if we allow it to be, but most people don't seem to.

Take the word "best" for example. I can't assume anything from that, your "best" is different than mine and it is all based on the purpose of the object I am applying "best" to.

I am beginning to wonder if there truly isn't something which is the Best, in and of itself.

Photoshop is not the BEST photo editing application, there are others that do things better or differently and those might be the best for some person, making say, LR better for person Y while person X prefers PS.

SIGH... why do I bother to think on such silly issues. (This isn't in reference to anything in this thread.)

WHAT>?!?!

aussieskier wrote in post #6720554
Why can't people qualify their word usage? Or, for that matter, why do people assume that a word means something when it hasn't been clarified. English can be a concise language if we allow it to be, but most people don't seem to.

Take the word best for example. I can't assume anything from that, your best is different than my best and it is all based in the purpose for whatever object I am apply best to. I am beginning to wonder if there truly isn't something which is the Best, in and of itself, Photoshop is not the BEST photo editing application, there are others that do things better or differently and those might be the best for that person.

SIGH... why do I bother to think on such silly issues. (This isn't in reference to anything in this thread.)

uh oh...Grandpa Riley is on another rant!
What happened Riley? (and there's nothing wrong with thinking things through...but know that when someone these days gives "an opinion" and says something is "best"....because this is the ME generation...they probably truly mean that it's best for everyone)

not that I agree with that philosophy...but it's all too common

Nothing happened really. It is more I have noticed people asking in various threads what is the best application for x, or the best sports lens, etc. But don't qualify the context to the usage of the item.

People just tend to assume that "best" equals one of the following: A. "top of the line" product offered by some company, B. most expensive, C. what they use themselves.

(A and B are probably interchangeable)


As for a Grandpa Riley rant, my brother told me "act your age dude, your 20 but act like you are 50, stop being a stuck up tight***"

As for the Me generation, my cynical side say this economic mess we are in needs to slap a WHOLE bunch of people across the face for misled, self-centered consumerism. I suppose it is a good thing I don't listen to that side too much .

you'll always be my favorite grandpa

and just because you see things realistically doesn't make it wrong.

You are correct...there are loads of people who don't know what they need, don't even know the applications of use and who ask questions in innocent ignorance only to have the gear heads and justifiers tell them they need something they don't. Or maybe they do but most often they don't.

Harm wrote in post #6717165
Hope it is slowly dying down...I am looking at Brissie/Perth/Sydney as a possible moving point next year. Could be most likely to be Perth/Sydney, but brissie would be nice....esp if that storm is a complete one off and not a regular thing!

Oooo let us know in the brissie thread if you come to brissie (even before).

I like brissie out of those three choices. Don't let the weather put you off, because it's not normally like that. We do get a couple of storms a year in summer, but that's about it. It's usually lovely and warm all year round and not TOO hot like further north.

Permagrin wrote in post #6718620
Scott...oh I wouldn't have waited....I was just thinking aloud at my own scenario. At the time that we bought the camera gear we could have afforded to do it right the first time.

Instead we bought 2 xt's w/18-55 lenses and the 75-300III.
Bad move...all it did was make us hungry for better.

We sold the 75-300 right away and bought the 70-200 F2.8 and the 28-105.

We didn't keep the 70-200 though because having not been long from the P&S crowd, it was incredibly heavy and always felt like it was going to snap off the front of the xt.

so we bought the 200 2.8
the 85 1.8
the 50 1.4
and the 24-105L

Then we sold the xt's bought 2 30D's.
and then it just went downhill. I never liked the colors from the 30D and went almost immediately into the M2N. But wasn't prepared for the weight and stopped using it. Finally sold it for the 5D/30D combo...which I was relatively happy with (at least the 5D part). But the 30D left me wanting the 2n's fps and I was never happy with how it tracked. We acquired a BUNCH of lenses during this time...and sold a bunch. Then I made one of my biggest mistakes (not by upgrading to the M3 but by selling the 5D to do it). The M3's initial (year long) problems nearly soured me on photography for good.

On another note though, it stopped that gear lust I had. No longer was newer better.

Right now I'm very content with what I've got. The ds2 has noise issues (the M3 is the best camera ever, so far, for dealing with noise and I got spoiled quickly by it) but other than that, it's a dream camera. The 40D works great and while it doesn't shoot as fast as the M3 and I do miss that, it is nice to have a smaller camera when I want one.

The list of things I would not have bought, had I known what I know now:

the xt's and the 30D's.
the tokina 80-400 and the tokina 400
the tamron 14mm
the m2n
the 50 1.4 (never used it...maybe a dozen times)
the 85 1.2 (loved the photo quality, hated the slowness...if this lens focused faster I'd still own it)
the 100-400 (but we all know I hate that lens)
the 70-300 dois (bought this because I didn't want to spend the money on the 100-400...it's nice but never quite fast enough for birding)
I would have put the M3 here IF it had not got fixed properly.

things I wish I had not got rid of:

the 24-105
the 17-40 (while I need the 2.8, the 17-40 has better IQ)
the 200 2.8 (stellar prime for a steal of a price)
and the 5D

woah that's a story and a half... and I know what you mean about gear lusting. I must admit I'm guilty of it. The difference between you and me is that you sell your gear to fund other gear. I just keep accumulating... I'm a hoarder and a luster

in other news... brisbane got 200mm+ of rain overnight last night. My temporary fix to a cracked tile in my roof proved a vain attempt to prevent the inevitable.... (read it overflowed )

we also got a small swiming pool in the laundry (about 1-2mm coz it's in the lower part of the house without good (unblocked) exterior drainage).... AND a minor puddle in the back lawn.

other than that, we were pretty lucky. several places got 1-2m of flooding... apparently the worst floods since the 1974 flood (before the big catchment dam to prevent major flooding). we had more rain in the 12 hour period than 1974.

*phew*

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooornin​g

Wow Feng...it's been a long time since I'd heard of such storms in AU. While I know there's been a lot of damage, this rain should help out in the long run, right?