Photogs: Those who take 'em and those who love 'em

11-04-2011, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

I have Frostwire, I've seen the Torrent option, but had no idea what it was for.

iPhoto is pretty good nowadays Dee, especially for those that like to keep their photo editing actions fairly simple (like me). I like it handles RAW files now. I've heard good reports of Aperture
http://www.apple.com/aperture/

girl_dee · 11-04-2011, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Incubus

iPhoto is pretty good nowadays Dee, especially for those that like to keep their photo editing actions fairly simple (like me). I like it handles RAW files now. I've heard good reports of Aperture
http://www.apple.com/aperture/

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

11-04-2011, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

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?

girl_dee · 11-04-2011, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Incubus

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

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.

Fancy · 11-05-2011, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

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

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

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.

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.

girl_dee · 11-05-2011, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Fancy

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.

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

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!

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?

11-09-2011, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by VintageFemme

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

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!

girl_dee · 11-09-2011, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by VintageFemme

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....

I just thought the layers were pretty damn amazing.

VintageFemme · 11-13-2011, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by VintageFemme

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.

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11-05-2011, 06:22 AM	#8
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11-09-2011, 07:30 PM	#17
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