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Here's my views.

LIKES:

landscape photography; being on location; tinkering with settings; this forum; watching less TV; downloading images; uploading images; new cameras.

DISLIKES:

having to replace my cartridges with printers (just as expensive as the reverse); torrential rain on arrival, fine weather on departure; pixel-peeping; DSLR snobbery; occasional suspicious looks; cold weather; crooked horizons; learning Photoshop; getting less sleep due to inability to log off from here.

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Mesh
Australia
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5% lighting, 5% composition. 90% location. Get there.
 
Likes:

Portrait photography (human and animals), seasons, this forum (so much creativity and good ideas and critics), photography gives satisfaction

Dislikes:
the memorystick are ALWAYS to small.. doens't mather how big the memory is. ;)

When you need good weather, you get bad weather and vica versa. (for portrait shooting, for example).. ;)

Nice topic, Mesh!
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http://patty.maze-online.nl (Done! even the 'About me' section)
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I just love animals. Animals are my life...
 
Thanks, Patty. And those little sticks are relatively expensive, too!

Cheers

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Mesh
Australia
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5% lighting, 5% composition. 90% location. Get there.
 
Meshwork said:
Here's my views.

LIKES:
landscape photography; being on location; tinkering with settings;
this forum; watching less TV; downloading images; uploading images;
new cameras.
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Mesh, May I add:

Complete relaxation when shooting, gives me the opportunity to get away from the city (I usually shoot on weekends in country areas), play with a very enjoyable toy.
Meshwork said:
DISLIKES:
having to replace my cartridges with printers (just as expensive as
the reverse); torrential rain on arrival, fine weather on departure;
pixel-peeping; DSLR snobbery; occasional suspicious looks; cold
weather; crooked horizons; learning Photoshop; getting less sleep due
to inability to log off from here.
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As above plus: taking the SLR to have the sensor cleaned and find out that they missed half of the dust specks, PP and crop ready for posting and realize that the picture is too soft or over sharpened (so back to PP)and most importantly, too many new toys coming out too often (especially when an update comes out as soon as decided to buy the camera you liked).

BTW Mesh it's getting too late down your way! Time to Zzzzzz!
Meshwork said:
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Mesh
Australia
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5% lighting, 5% composition. 90% location. Get there.
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Ben.
Your C&C are appreciated.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benoz/
 
LIKES:
  • Large yet comfy camera bags. I actually have a few but my fav is actually a large bag that is stamped with a photo of a hula girl and a wolf with big eyes howling at her. It holds everything but the kitchen sink and is almost bigger than I am!
  • Seeing the most intricate details in the tiniest of critters - like the prisms in the eyes on dragonflies. Then again, I'm a huge Sci-Fi fan and horror fan.
  • Learning the names of the butterflies, insects, bugs and so forth. Because once I've taken a good shot, I want to make sure I don't name a damselfly a dragonfly (guilty).
  • Most excellent form of exercise because it's almost too much fun!
  • Making my friends and family smile when they see the photos I've taken.
  • Taking killer photos.
  • Provides a most excellent excuse to go to the most exotic and unique of places! You know....like the city park.
  • This forum and the friends that I've made here, as well as viewing all the photos (both good and bad) as well as the tech jargon.
DISLIKES:
  • Forum Exorcist Wars
  • Sweating
  • Stickers; it's a killer to have a sticker lodged in the back of one's sock only to bend down - and get that sticker lodged in the old 'fanny' pack.
  • Sweating
  • Harsh lighting.
  • Sweating AND
  • Sweating
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Sky
'If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?'

 
Likes
  • This Forum
  • The good people who take the time to help others
  • Ability to instantantly view a picture & re-shoot if necessary
  • New cameras that make photography easier (tilting LCDs, larger LCDs, etc)
  • Gadgets (Gorillapod, etc.)
  • Pictures are "free" because the "film" is completely re-useable
  • Ability to delete my mistakes
  • Ability to easily share a photo with anyone around the world in 5 minutes
  • Memory cards keeping getting larger, while the price is smaller
  • Superzoom lenses & IS
Dis-likes
  • Camera bags that cannot hold two six-packs of beer
  • Camera bags that cannot keep beer at the ideal temperature (10F - 120F)
  • Inability to find a large bag like the one that Sky (Arctic Fox) has to store extra batteries and more beer ;-)
All the best,
Jim
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Favorite slogan: Photographers take pictures, not cameras.
 
Rich, I'm chuckling here. Since when have you become a man of few words?

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Sky
'If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?'

 
if you don't mind the hula girl and the wolf thing that it has going on.... And it's a shame that I didn't pick up more of them when I bought mine. A $3.99 special - and a regularly priced $40 bag!! I would have gladly sent you one. I'm nice, you see.

And I wanted to say that I really liked your 'like list' but wanted to ask about the gorillapod in the Gadget Category. What is it? It has a kicky name and I feel a bit like Jessica Simpson in that commercial when she commented, "I don't know what it is but I totally want one."

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Sky
'If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?'

 
Likes:
  • Macros (and finding tiny bugs later that I couldn't see with my eyes)
  • Infrared photography (this is my new interest, & I'm enjoying reading up on it & trying new ways to improve my shots)
  • my camera club weekly meetings (we have a huge club here in St. Louis, they received a plaque from PSA for "best camera club" for members of the club who earned the most points in, I think, digital images)
  • gadgets & researching new equipment on line
  • playing with my images in Corel Photo-Paint or Painter
  • taking 'photo field trips' (without my family, who think 1 shot of anything is more than enough although they're quick to grab one of my shots for a desktop image!)
  • and, of course, chatting & reading here on STF
Dislikes:
  • when Sony announces the newest model a day or week after I made my purchase
  • trolls
  • having to clean my lenses & filters (worry about scratching)
  • when the batteries I thought were charged aren't
  • reviewing my shots & finding I didn't pay attention to something I should have, like WB, ISO setting or something obtrusive in the background
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Karen
 
I gave my brother in law one at Christmas he loves it, it's great - it's a tripod that has flexible twisty legs so you can fix it around anything - very small and light and portable - a wonderful invention!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/82db/
Arctic Fox said:
And I wanted to say that I really liked your 'like list' but wanted
to ask about the gorillapod in the Gadget Category. What is it? It
has a kicky name and I feel a bit like Jessica Simpson in that
commercial when she commented, "I don't know what it is but I totally
want one."

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Sky
'If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?'

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Patrick

http://www.flickr.com/photos/froxfield_rover/
 
Patrick - thank you so much for the link. I'm going to go check this out right now. This is exciting stuff!!

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Sky
'If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?'

 
What a great topic Mesh.
Here is my take...

Like:
The art of photography
Talented photographers
Looking at photo exhibitions
Sooting (oops) people
Love street action
Being able to express my art as I want
Going on shooting trips with my wife who is a great photographer by her own.

Learning a new thing and then coming back to an old photo and getting out a completely different artwork out of it.
Everything else that doesn't figure in the list below.

Dislike:
Cameras
Pixel peeping

Getting there just to find out that I forgot the flash card in the card reader...
Fundamentalism, racism and narrow minded people
Spinach

Cheers
Moti
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ARPS - ABPPA
 
Hey, Sky, a friend of mine at work received a gorillapod from her sister-in-law for Christmas, didn't have a clue what it was for, and knowing I was into photography offered it to me. I felt like she had given me the absolute coolest thing, but to her it was a useless gadget!
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Karen
 
Arctic Fox said:
Patrick - thank you so much for the link. I'm going to go check this
out right now. This is exciting stuff!!

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Arctic Fox said:
Sky
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Thanks! for the offer of the large bag with the hula girl and the wolf thing that it has going on.... And it's a good thing that you didn't pick up more of them when you bought yours. A $3.99 special - and a regularly priced $40 bag!! I would have diplomatically refused it. However, I agree, you are nice. :-)

Gadgets

You may find several sizes in a Circuit City Store, if you have one nearby. Here is the original Mfgs. link
Joby Gorillapod flexible Tripod / Monopod
http://www.joby.com/

You might also like a small, lightweight tripod / monopod, the Versapod 2.

Scroll down on their home page to see that the base of the "monopod" opens up to become a tripod. Versatile, lightweight, convenient.
http://www.trek-tech.com/versipod2/

All the best, Jim
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Favorite slogan: Photographers take pictures, not cameras.
 
Meshwork said:
Here's my views.

LIKES:
landscape photography; being on location; tinkering with settings;
this forum; watching less TV; downloading images; uploading images;
new cameras.
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New gadgets helping to do better photography (Cameras, lenses, Apple computers, Lightroom), friendly people in Forums, listening good music when PP/download/upload, enjoying a plate with fruits brought by my DW in my computer room,
Meshwork said:
DISLIKES:
having to replace my cartridges with printers (just as expensive as
the reverse); torrential rain on arrival, fine weather on departure;
pixel-peeping; DSLR snobbery; occasional suspicious looks; cold
weather; crooked horizons; learning Photoshop; getting less sleep due
to inability to log off from here.
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Unfriendly posts and people in Forums; posting a photo in forum, got a few hundred visitors, and not a single comment; windy day in that weekend when otherwise is ideal for Macro photography; forget the ISO @1600 when even 400 would be high;

waiting for R1 to write the 23 Mb files when I should take 20 frames in the next 10 seconds. Noise. Aunt xxxxxxx stepping in front of me taking pics about the bride when I setup the pose and the bride expecting my photo (and she won't see the pic from aunt.xxxxxxx camera)
The list could be longer.

Joe
http://joecan.smugmug.com/
If you are always telling the truth, you don't have to remember what you said.
 
Jim - thanks so much for the info. I'll check that out.

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Sky
'If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?'

 
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