GKPE 8, Yet more NZ ramblings from some flightless Kiwis.

Hi all!

Its been an extremely long time, thought id jump in and show some work of mine over the last two years.....i think its fair to say I've grown a lot as a photographer in this time!

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Those are awesome

lance v wrote in post #14652217
Hi all!

Its been an extremely long time, thought id jump in and show some work of mine over the last two years.....i think its fair to say I've grown a lot as a photographer in this time!

Yep - looks like you are getting the hang of it!

BTW Auckland Museum has 2 photo exhibitions on right now - Wildlife Photographer of the Year and NZ Geographic Photographer of the Year. Definitely worth a look.

http://www.aucklandmus​eum.com/1754/camera-home

Here's a photo I shot a few weeks ago during the super moon. I have tried a few different processing approaches and still not happy. Any thoughts? Or is it just crap?

Couldnt afford the $300 "L-Bracket" so made a temp one. Has enough room for shutter release cable. Found trick is to make sure its level from left to right. Need to trim the bracket and paint black.
Only good for 17-40 and 50mm so far. Havnt tried with 70-200.

10 shot pano ....... cows moved and it got the PP treatment .... cant beat them join them

Potisdad wrote in post #14655296
Here's a photo I shot a few weeks ago during the super moon. I have tried a few different processing approaches and still not happy. Any thoughts? Or is it just crap?

Some times photos just dont turn out no matter what we do. Ive got a couple that I love the shot but cant get it to come to life. These are good for PP learning or testing photoshop filters.

Wow Lance. Nice to see you back. Those photos are friggin Awesome. I'm well impressed

Hi David.. I like the photo, but know what you mean. I also have some shots like that that i just cant seem to make work.

Tony. Looks pretty cool. If it works and can save a few hundred then I'm all for it!

lance v wrote in post #14652217
Hi all!

Its been an extremely long time, thought id jump in and show some work of mine over the last two years.....i think its fair to say I've grown a lot as a photographer in this time!

Good to hear from you Lance.

Indeed, these are terrific.

The last thing I remember you posting was a quite intriguing posterior, thought that may have been the cause of your demise

Potisdad wrote in post #14655031
BTW Auckland Museum has 2 photo exhibitions on right now - Wildlife Photographer of the Year and NZ Geographic Photographer of the Year. Definitely worth a look.

http://www.aucklandmus​eum.com/1754/camera-home

Looked like you were talking to yourself for a while David

I hope to get along to at least one of the exhibitions.

weka2000 wrote in post #14655320
Couldnt afford the $300 "L-Bracket" so made a temp one. Has enough room for shutter release cable. Found trick is to make sure its level from left to right. Need to trim the bracket and paint black.
Only good for 17-40 and 50mm so far. Havnt tried with 70-200.

10 shot pano ....... cows moved and it got the PP treatment .... cant beat them join them

Tony:
I missed your call the other day, didn't get back home till late afternoon.

I have the following arrangement that you can have. I'm going to build something different, suitable for 360 degree pano's. Its a Kaidan QuickPan QPU-2. Call around any time to pick it up, the kids are on holiday, I'll leave it on my desk.

This is it, you can have it minus the indenting base; the dust is free. I've got a replacement bubble level for it somewhere.

Cheers Mark ......... fancy a day trip to the coromandal?

Wow anyone got any pictures of the Auckland flooding today?

weka2000 wrote in post #14662035
Cheers Mark ......... fancy a day trip to the coromandal?

No problem. I would be keen but it would have to be next week.

KeenEyeNZ wrote in post #14663551
Wow anyone got any pictures of the Auckland flooding today?

No but I got wet & picked up a week or so of work from it

Now, in other news.....

I have wiped my old photo processing software (Bibble Pro Raw convertor and PSP) from my computer & back-ups forcing me to use CS5 & Bridge. It's going to be a steep learning curve!!

A couple of reasons: I have the new software and as it has become the industry default, I should utilize it and its better capabilities rather than my original software.

Bibble has been bought by Coral and are no longer supporting Bibble as such, I don't like Coral's version that they released as a trial.

I was also starting to have issues with the 1Ds files in Bibble, possibly due to the age of the camera and not really supporting it anymore.

And finally, the PSP software has been buggy from the start, never really got colour management issues with it sorted despite numerous attempts with their on-line support.

So, its goodby to they old and hello learning curve!

Good luck.
Photoshop drove me totally bonkers at the beginning.
I think one of the main problems is that there are at least 3 ways to do anything. So if you have a problem and ask one person... they show you one solution. Then later you ask a someoneelse, and they show you a complete different way.