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Daktari 11-04-2011 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 455157)
I have Aperture, I paid a fortune for it and I hate it.

Picasa is a GREAT and free simple program that I use to resize and do color corrections on. I may just want to leave it at that. I love using it to import and organize my pics, I have about 10,000 on my mac and twice that on external hard drives....

I will check iphoto out. I am lazy and should have done that by now.


dee
I think you might like iPhoto. I'm surprised you don't like Aperture...how many licenses do you have for it? :winky:

girl_dee 11-04-2011 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Incubus (Post 455161)
I think you might like iPhoto. I'm surprised you don't like Aperture...how many licenses do you have for it? :winky:
I dunno but you are more than welcome to it if I can get it to you.

I am also colorblind, so using color sliders is out of the question, unless I really want the sky brown and the grass blue. :|

ButchEire 11-04-2011 07:10 PM
Without intent, I NEVER post a photo that has been manipulated in any way, so if you can get an idea of what you CAN do without photo editing, it is possible.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6103/...4504950352.jpg
bird1 by Unleashed Image, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6102/...35f4eb88e4.jpg
meerkat4 by Unleashed Image, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6042/...7e30205bec.jpg
_MG_0127 by Unleashed Image, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6101/...96009d7b1e.jpg
IMG_0105 by Unleashed Image, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6213/...dce518197a.jpg
_MG_0093 by Unleashed Image, on Flickr

Daktari 11-04-2011 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 455163)
I dunno but you are more than welcome to it if I can get it to you.

I am also colorblind, so using color sliders is out of the question, unless I really want the sky brown and the grass blue. :|
Hah a colour blind photographer...that must make colour photography a challenge for you.

I'm sure we could work something out about Aperture :cheesy:

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Originally Posted by ButchEire (Post 455166)
I'm not a talented photographer sadly so I always use basic 'corrections', the same sort of things that exMrs.I used to show me in the darkroom only I do them digitally.

Very cool pics even though the subject matter isn't to my taste :thumbsup:

girl_dee 11-04-2011 07:15 PM
Like I said I don't own Photoshop but wondered what the draw was.

I started out on Film, everytime I hit the shutter I remember thinkin 27cents, 27 cents, the cost of taking one picture.

I loved the adrenaline rush of waiting, and clicking at that exact right moment. I don't want to lose that. I already take 200 pics of the moon for example, and may keep one.


Daktari 11-04-2011 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 455170)
Like I said I don't own Photoshop but wondered what the draw was.

I started out on Film, everytime I hit the shutter I remember thinkin 27cents, 27 cents, the cost of taking one picture.

I loved the adrenaline rush of waiting, and clicking at that exact right moment. I don't want to lose that. I already take 200 pics of the moon for example, and may keep one.

When we were urbexing regularly I and two of the four of us used to take hundreds of pictures digitally and then edit the number heavily to achieve our best 50 or so. exMrs.I used to take either her old FM2 or the Hasselblad and take maybe 20 really cracking, thought out shots. I wish I could that sort of photographer.

girl_dee 11-04-2011 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Incubus (Post 455173)
When we were urbexing regularly I and two of the four of us used to take hundreds of pictures digitally and then edit the number heavily to achieve our best 50 or so. exMrs.I used to take either her old FM2 or the Hasselblad and take maybe 20 really cracking, thought out shots. I wish I could that sort of photographer.
I love the long thought out shots, I love composing and trying to capture what my eye sees in the viewfinder. I love that rush. I don't love just shooting randomly and thinking *I can fix that later in Photoshop*, I've even gotten lazy on leveling my shot.



Daktari 11-04-2011 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 455176)
I love the long thought out shots, I love composing and trying to capture what my eye sees in the viewfinder. I love that rush. I don't love just shooting randomly and thinking *I can fix that later in Photoshop*, I've even gotten lazy on leveling my shot.


Tsk! at you Dee...ya can't be that lazy. I aim to do as little as I can. I have actions in photoshop (which is now on my last iMac but one and not on this new one hence my desire for Aperture or similar) for certain levels of sharpness and saturation etc but that's it. Sometimes I've had to correct barrel distortion but only when using the 18-200...another reason I like fixed glass.

I came to love the discipline of self portraiture because I had to think how I might achieve the shot I wanted.

girl_dee 11-04-2011 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Incubus (Post 455179)
Tsk! at you Dee...ya can't be that lazy. I aim to do as little as I can. I have actions in photoshop (which is now on my last iMac but one and not on this new one hence my desire for Aperture or similar) for certain levels of sharpness and saturation etc but that's it. Sometimes I've had to correct barrel distortion but only when using the 18-200...another reason I like fixed glass.

I came to love the discipline of self portraiture because I had to think how I might achieve the shot I wanted.
Have you tried Picasa? http://picasa.google.com/mac/

I have my Aperture disk and will mail a copy to you or anyone else who wants it... Can I copy it?

Daktari 11-04-2011 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 455182)
Have you tried Picasa? http://picasa.google.com/mac/

I have my Aperture disk and will mail a copy to you or anyone else who wants it... Can I copy it?
I did try picasa briefly but found I preferred Photoshop at the time. For real basic stuff I used to use Picnik.

I don't know how to make working copies of software discs. The same issue is there about legality of copyrighted material though.

girl_dee 11-04-2011 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Incubus (Post 455183)
I did try picasa briefly but found I preferred Photoshop at the time. For real basic stuff I used to use Picnik.

I don't know how to make working copies of software discs. The same issue is there about legality of copyrighted material though.
That's what I thought, So I will just mail my disk to you. :)

Daktari 11-04-2011 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 455185)
That's what I thought, So I will just mail my disk to you. :)
I know Photoshop comes with multi licenses so I'm assuming that Aperture does too so that a purchaser can load onto a laptop and a desktop.

girl_dee 11-04-2011 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Incubus (Post 455189)
I know Photoshop comes with multi licenses so I'm assuming that Aperture does too so that a purchaser can load onto a laptop and a desktop.
i see, well i've only used it on laptop, it came installed.

girl_dee 11-05-2011 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by fotografferKel (Post 455218)
I just stumbled upon this thread. Love love love photo taking. Cajun Dee, I just fell in love with you. I love your thoughts on capturing the perfect shot. I am right there with you. I love your web site. I, too was born and raised in Louisiana. I am from Bossier City. I left LA in 2000 for Hot Springs, Arkansas. I have lived in the mountains ever since. Still love my swamps and cypress trees though.

Linus, thank you for starting this thread. Your photos are awesome. I envy the places you have visited. I love taking photos. Honestly, I can't stand taking pics of people. I am a landscape photographer. I don't mind taking photos of people who are unsuspecting of it. Like homeless people or a child exploring our beautiful world we live in. I am just a freelancer at heart. I also have found that my 12 year old daughter is a pretty good photographer. She has opened up another type of photography to me. She stages shots. Heck, I am enjoying getting up on a Saturday morning and spending the day just walking around our small town and exploring with our cameras and seeing what kind of stuff we can get into. Spending time with her and with our cameras is just priceless.

I opened my photography studio in our small town of 900 plus people this week. I'm excited and scared. Any thoughts about this? All ideas are accepted!!! I am going about this by the seat of my pants!!! I did a "Christmas Kiddo's Photo Contest" and I'm doing a free sitting fee and a DVD with photos on it and a Memory DVD set to the parents favorite song to the photos. The parent can take the DVD to Walmart and print the photos out. It went over well. I got 349 new people on my FB photo page.

Anyway, I use a NIKON D3100 and LOVE IT! I have always used NIKON even when I used a 35mm. I gave my daughter my NIKON CoolPix P500 to use. It's a Point and Shoot. She is amazing with it. I bought Photoshop and a book to learn to use it, but am scared to death of it. I NEED to learn how to use it so bad. I use Picnik to edit photos. I KNOW I need to use a more adult program. I'm fixing to make myself learn to use Photoshop!!!

Okay, I'm shutting up. Photography is my life. I love it!

Thanks everyone! Kel
WOW, Bossier City? Never thought I would hear that name outside of Louisiana.

Well we are much alike, Kel. I don't like shooting people either. One thing I love is candid shots like you say, I used to love taking pics of the kids camping and enjoying ice cream at the resort I worked at, fishing pics, a cute little girl outfishing her dad, stuff like that. I don't think I could do studio work. I like the big ole sky and the great outdoors.

OK where is your FB page! You can do lots of contests on FB pages and stuff, get people excited about it...

What do you plan to shoot in your studio? Or is it for your finished photos?

Fancy 11-05-2011 05:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 455163)
I dunno but you are more than welcome to it if I can get it to you.

I am also colorblind, so using color sliders is out of the question, unless I really want the sky brown and the grass blue. :|
I never would have guessed that about you, but I think it would be fun to see the results of you mixing up the color slides! :)

(you know I'm a huge fan of your work)

girl_dee 11-05-2011 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Fancy (Post 455456)
I never would have guessed that about you, but I think it would be fun to see the results of you mixing up the color slides! :)

(you know I'm a huge fan of your work)
Lol yes.. especially the blue, greens and browns..Maybe I am on to something!!! Brown skies and blue fields.....

I shoot in Raw then hit the *color correct* auto button in Picasa. That is the extent of my editing.

I will be sending Incubus my Aperture disk, I can't wait to see what comes of it!

Fancy, I am a huge fan of yours too. I NEED to get back to working my Photosite on ArtAmerica, but when you feel like your pics are so run of the mill and compared to all the others, nothing special, you lose interest.

Fancy 11-05-2011 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 455464)
Lol yes.. especially the blue, greens and browns..Maybe I am on to something!!! Brown skies and blue fields.....

I shoot in Raw then hit the *color correct* auto button in Picasa. That is the extent of my editing.

I will be sending Incubus my Aperture disk, I can't wait to see what comes of it!

Fancy, I am a huge fan of yours too. I NEED to get back to working my Photosite on ArtAmerica, but when you feel like your pics are so run of the mill and compared to all the others, nothing special, you lose interest.
I hear what you're saying about run of the mill feeling, but I've always seen your vision as different, and a cut above. Although, I know from my own experience I go through phases where I feel like everything I've shot has been shot before. Sometimes taking a pause and then coming back to shooting gives me fresh perspective.

The eyes have it. :)

girl_dee 11-05-2011 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Fancy (Post 455470)
I hear what you're saying about run of the mill feeling, but I've always seen your vision as different, and a cut above. Although, I know from my own experience I go through phases where I feel like everything I've shot has been shot before. Sometimes taking a pause and then coming back to shooting gives me fresh perspective.

The eyes have it. :)

Yes exactly, Like a sunset, I've seen and taken what I feel is nice sunset/sunrise shots, but they are a dime a dozen. We should start a pact to get back on track!

I am SO glad I came here, I went to my photo site and actually had two sales!!

WOW!!!!!!!

THAT made my day!

Fancy 11-05-2011 06:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 455471)

Yes exactly, Like a sunset, I've seen and taken what I feel is nice sunset/sunrise shots, but they are a dime a dozen. We should start a pact to get back on track!

I am SO glad I came here, I went to my photo site and actually had two sales!!

WOW!!!!!!!

THAT made my day!
That's awesome! How do you like that site for selling?

I was trying out the Smug Mug site to sell for awhile with a couple of the theater projects I worked on. I was surprised at how easy it was to setup and the minimal charges to have a "shop". Although, most of the stuff I shoot I have no interest in selling; it's more about personal fulfillment.

Fancy 11-05-2011 06:22 AM
Speaking of sunrises...here's one of my favorite sunrise shots (in an indirect way). Sunrise on Jekyll Island, GA with remnants from the outgoing tide. :)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-S...2/DSC_0155.JPG

girl_dee 11-05-2011 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Fancy (Post 455473)
That's awesome! How do you like that site for selling?

I was trying out the Smug Mug site to sell for awhile with a couple of the theater projects I worked on. I was surprised at how easy it was to setup and the minimal charges to have a "shop". Although, most of the stuff I shoot I have no interest in selling; it's more about personal fulfillment.
FineArtAmerica is dirt cheap and I like it much better than SmugMug.. I did like the forums in SmugMug but I am sure there are some I haven't found yet on FAA.

girl_dee 11-05-2011 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Fancy (Post 455478)
Speaking of sunrises...here's one of my favorite sunrise shots (in an indirect way). Sunrise on Jekyll Island, GA with remnants from the outgoing tide. :)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-S...2/DSC_0155.JPG
Wonderful!

girl_dee 11-05-2011 07:42 PM
In light of the pin up thread I decided to go into Picnic for editing, WOW what fun!

SoNotHer 11-05-2011 11:55 PM
So where are you all happiest selling your stock photography? Istock? Shuttersotck? Getty? Or something else?

girl_dee 11-06-2011 05:35 AM
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Originally Posted by fotografferKel (Post 456184)
I LOVE Picnik!!! They are constantly updating it, too. I joined it for a year because my daughter loves editing her photos on it and heck i fell in love with it, lol.

Dee, I am Kelli Fotograffer Mims on FB. I think I might already be friends with you on there though. After the Reunion I went nuts and started asking everyone to be friends with me on there, lol.

I sure love your outlook on photography. Oh and I am going to be taking photos of PEOPLE in my studio...UGH. I'm going to try to make a living at it. I am going to bite the bullet and make myself enjoy it and on weekends do what I LOVE TO DO with my camera. I'm going to bid for the local school's photo contract and yearbook contract, too. Gonna see if I can do the proms and all other school events. I am the only photographer in town, so I should have no problems getting weddings and senior pics, etc. My partner is a DJ and has been doing weddings since 1998, so we already have that going for us. We've just added my photography to that business. If I could just learn how to use Photoshop, I'd feel SO much better about all of this. Monday I'm going to hit the books and learn it!!!

It's nice to know a fellow LA person on here, especially a fellow photography lover!!! : ) Kel

Yes I saw your FB page, thank you but I wasn't sure if that was your photography page too! I sold two prints on FineArtAmerica recently so I was over the moon.

Photoshop Lightroom has some really great effects that I've seen lately.

I am sure you will have no problem with your studio, BUT I have a question. Would doing shoots like at parks or out in town work for you? I think the backdrop of trees and such works wonders!

laissez les bon temp rouler!

girl_dee 11-06-2011 05:35 AM
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Originally Posted by SoNotHer (Post 456197)
So where are you all happiest selling your stock photography? Istock? Shuttersotck? Getty? Or something else?
This is one thing I would like to venture into, how do you do this??

VintageFemme 11-09-2011 05:19 PM
would anyone be interested in doing a photo theme week? peter lik does one on his facebook page, or he used to it's been awhile but i always tried to add to it. it was such fun and you got to see some really incredible photos of a similar genre or item. i don't know how we could do it - i guess open a new thread maybe and a week ahead of time vote on a theme topic from perhaps three different ideas? then the next week on that thread submit our photos for the chosen theme? does that sound right? would anyone want to participate in something like this?

Daktari 11-09-2011 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by VintageFemme (Post 459713)
would anyone be interested in doing a photo theme week? peter lik does one on his facebook page, or he used to it's been awhile but i always tried to add to it. it was such fun and you got to see some really incredible photos of a similar genre or item. i don't know how we could do it - i guess open a new thread maybe and a week ahead of time vote on a theme topic from perhaps three different ideas? then the next week on that thread submit our photos for the chosen theme? does that sound right? would anyone want to participate in something like this?
Yup, I'd be up for participating intermittently. I'm a self portrait specialist though rather than a photographer.

VintageFemme 11-09-2011 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Incubus (Post 459720)
Yup, I'd be up for participating intermittently. I'm a self portrait specialist though rather than a photographer.
ok great! let's wait and see if there's much interest and if there is, we'll do it! i think it would be fun. don't you have to be a subscribed member though to create polls? i couldn't do that - someone else will have to do create them. we'll give it a day or so and see if anyone else wants to participate.

p.s. i've seen some of what you do besides your amazing sp's and what i've seen is great. you would have a lot to contribute i bet!

Daktari 11-09-2011 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by VintageFemme (Post 459726)
ok great! let's wait and see if there's much interest and if there is, we'll do it! i think it would be fun. don't you have to be a subscribed member though to create polls? i couldn't do that - someone else will have to do create them. we'll give it a day or so and see if anyone else wants to participate.

p.s. i've seen some of what you do besides your amazing sp's and what i've seen is great. you would have a lot to contribute i bet!
I don't know about suscribed members and polls I'm afraid.

Let's hope a few folks want to get creative.

girl_dee 11-09-2011 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by VintageFemme (Post 459713)
would anyone be interested in doing a photo theme week? peter lik does one on his facebook page, or he used to it's been awhile but i always tried to add to it. it was such fun and you got to see some really incredible photos of a similar genre or item. i don't know how we could do it - i guess open a new thread maybe and a week ahead of time vote on a theme topic from perhaps three different ideas? then the next week on that thread submit our photos for the chosen theme? does that sound right? would anyone want to participate in something like this?


YES! I would! I got so bored with my 365 that I just quit, felt very self indulgent, I would love to do this, for fun and creativity!


Wryly 11-09-2011 07:30 PM
I'd be willing to give this a try. It seems that I go too long without picking up my camera.
I usually take pics when I'm out for a walk. I'm too shy to do the random street pic. Never do self-portraits.
Obviously - I need to get out of my rut!

girl_dee 11-09-2011 07:37 PM
Meanwhile....

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...86346252_n.jpg

I just thought the layers were pretty damn amazing.

VintageFemme 11-13-2011 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by VintageFemme (Post 459713)
would anyone be interested in doing a photo theme week? peter lik does one on his facebook page, or he used to it's been awhile but i always tried to add to it. it was such fun and you got to see some really incredible photos of a similar genre or item. i don't know how we could do it - i guess open a new thread maybe and a week ahead of time vote on a theme topic from perhaps three different ideas? then the next week on that thread submit our photos for the chosen theme? does that sound right? would anyone want to participate in something like this?
Okay then! Let's do this ... it'll be fun. I'll create a thread now but I can't create polls I don't think being a free member so ummmmmm, I'll figure something out.

little man 11-13-2011 02:37 PM
finally, a little time and the right headspace to edit some recent photos from a Dia de los Muertos dance party i went to here.

you can have a look here, if you're interested.

girl_dee 11-13-2011 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by little man (Post 463156)
finally, a little time and the right headspace to edit some recent photos from a Dia de los Muertos dance party i went to here.

you can have a look here, if you're interested.


Looked like a lot of fun, great shots :)

girl_dee 11-13-2011 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 456246)
This is one thing I would like to venture into, how do you do this??

Does anyone have advice on selling stock photos...

ButchEire 11-13-2011 03:39 PM
I have accounts with several stock photo sites. Advice? Well, from my experience, you can't really sell an artistically-inclined photo as well as you can a generic one. People looking for stock are looking for appealing, but generic. You also can't really do editing on potential stock, because each time you save the edit, the picture loses quality and when it's reviewed, they can pick that out a mile away.


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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee (Post 463228)

Does anyone have advice on selling stock photos...


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