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I know this is a strange question, but it seems appropriate to here.

What do you do with unusual pictures?
(ie, pictures that you wouldn't hang in your house, or at your office)

For example, I have attached one that I took today in the park.

Curious to hear your answers!

--Alan



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Camera: D60
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: 8
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Actually, I use them in other pictures. There probably will be an opportunity at some other time (say Thanksgiving) to utilize this turkey picture.
Alan Smith said:
I know this is a strange question, but it seems appropriate to here.

What do you do with unusual pictures?
(ie, pictures that you wouldn't hang in your house, or at your office)

For example, I have attached one that I took today in the park.

Curious to hear your answers!

--Alan



EXIF info(for those who care)
Camera: D60
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: 8
Lens: 75-300@300mm
--
equipment listed in Plan
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Alan Smith said:
I know this is a strange question, but it seems appropriate to here.

What do you do with unusual pictures?
(ie, pictures that you wouldn't hang in your house, or at your office)

For example, I have attached one that I took today in the park.

Curious to hear your answers!
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We all take pictures that we would hang in our house and we leave them on the HDD for no one to see or we erase them:-)

Takes a bit getting use to.

Ya go out and shoot a CF card full of images. Make a file, dump the images over the the file and then clean them off the CF card. Insert the CF card back into the camera, so it doesn't get lost:-)

Sit down, before anybody has a chance to see your images as we don't want them to know how super crummy we really are. Erase all images that are clearly garbage. You know the ones, out of focus, poor exposure, bad composition, shots of the ground and feet. Once that preliminary cleaning is done, then go through your images to see what you like, don't like and get rid of the duplicates that you're sure you don't need or won't want to keep.

Nowwwww, you can bring whom ever into the computer room for their personal screening of your photographic talents.

As I said in my above, we don't want them to know how super crummy we are, the viewer will only think that we're just plain crummy:-)

My wife is my culling critic. I ask her if an image works and if it doesn't work for her, unless I had a specific plan in mind, it gets erased. Now I've gone from a hundred shots, to thirty-one shots, down to the decent sixteen or so from the shoot and those are the ones the rest of the world sees, get printed, given away and hang on the wall.
 
I post them.
Mook
Alan Smith said:
I know this is a strange question, but it seems appropriate to here.

What do you do with unusual pictures?
(ie, pictures that you wouldn't hang in your house, or at your office)

For example, I have attached one that I took today in the park.

Curious to hear your answers!

--Alan



EXIF info(for those who care)
Camera: D60
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: 8
Lens: 75-300@300mm
--
equipment listed in Plan
Click to expand...
 
Alan, this is off topic for your post but I am curious what application or plug-in you used to give the appearance of the matted frame for the photo. Thanks, Dave
Alan Smith said:
I know this is a strange question, but it seems appropriate to here.

What do you do with unusual pictures?
(ie, pictures that you wouldn't hang in your house, or at your office)

For example, I have attached one that I took today in the park.

Curious to hear your answers!

--Alan



EXIF info(for those who care)
Camera: D60
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: 8
Lens: 75-300@300mm
--
equipment listed in Plan
Click to expand...
 
Dave,

I used an action in Photoshop that I actually got from this forum from DianeB. If you (or anyone else) would like me to e-mail it to you, just send me an e-mail.

--Alan
DaveO said:
Alan Smith said:
I know this is a strange question, but it seems appropriate to here.

What do you do with unusual pictures?
(ie, pictures that you wouldn't hang in your house, or at your office)

For example, I have attached one that I took today in the park.

Curious to hear your answers!

--Alan



EXIF info(for those who care)
Camera: D60
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: 8
Lens: 75-300@300mm
--
equipment listed in Plan
Click to expand...
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equipment listed in Plan
 
You must be one of them city folk for this fowl bird is one of the local geese, not a turkey.

--Alan
jim powers said:
Alan Smith said:
I know this is a strange question, but it seems appropriate to here.

What do you do with unusual pictures?
(ie, pictures that you wouldn't hang in your house, or at your office)

For example, I have attached one that I took today in the park.

Curious to hear your answers!

--Alan



EXIF info(for those who care)
Camera: D60
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: 8
Lens: 75-300@300mm
--
equipment listed in Plan
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
--
equipment listed in Plan
 
Alan,

Yep, a city folk. The only geese we see are the ones standing in the road by the duck pond. On second examination, it's doesn't look like a turkey, either.

Thanks.

Jim
Alan Smith said:
--Alan
jim powers said:
Alan Smith said:
I know this is a strange question, but it seems appropriate to here.

What do you do with unusual pictures?
(ie, pictures that you wouldn't hang in your house, or at your office)

For example, I have attached one that I took today in the park.

Curious to hear your answers!

--Alan



EXIF info(for those who care)
Camera: D60
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Aperture: 8
Lens: 75-300@300mm
--
equipment listed in Plan
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
--
equipment listed in Plan
Click to expand...
 
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