I Have the Willpower of a Gnat.

Phyxius

I went to the mall to HELP my mother carry Christmas presents and to help her buy a little point and shoot for my brother as well as memory cards, batteries/chargers, and a case.











I ended up with THIS instead....


AND, if that didn't put me far enough in the hole I also bought a 17" 2gig laptop. AM I STUPID?! "Sorry everybody, I decided that Christmas is the season of giving and I'm giving myself everything." :huh Maybe I can learn to knit in the next two weeks??

My first shot with it. Just a quick point and press because I was checking to make sure the aperture and shutter speed were okay, having never been able to shoot at 2.8 before

Which was 1/2000 F 2.8 @ 200mm.

I posted in another thread about contrast/exposure though. First time shooting RAW too. A lot of the shots turned out a little bit dark. They looked good on the LCD, but a little dark on my monitor at home and so I used RAW adjustments for the first time and upped exposure on most of them by .33 or .67. Should I play with contrast too? Are RAW files usually less vivid or was it just colorless subjects (brown/black/white horses against leafless trees (more brown)?

ziggy53

Christina,

Two weeks is not much time to knit anything, but plenty of time to meet and marry rich!

You are not "stupid", just a little crazy, lens crazy! (Well maybe "techno crazy" since you bought the laptop as well.)

You may have to give everyone beautiful images for Christmas, so be it.

Is there the chance that these equestrian images could bring any revenue? What else can you do to generate income? If you leverage your purchases to create income, you can call them "investments", and everyone will understand.

Get creative and get busy (and most especially remind me to take my own advice).


Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.


ziggy53

ivar

Mehh, business expenses, nothing to feel bad about

Phyxius

ziggy53 wrote:

Christina,

Two weeks is not much time to knit anything, but plenty of time to meet and marry rich!


You are not "stupid", just a little crazy, lens crazy! (Well maybe "techno crazy" since you bought the laptop as well.)

You may have to give everyone beautiful images for Christmas, so be it.

Is there the chance that these equestrian images could bring any revenue? What else can you do to generate income? If you leverage your purchases to create income, you can call them "investments", and everyone will understand.

Get creative and get busy (and most especially remind me to take my own advice).


Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.


ziggy53

Haha yes funny how latin does that, but "Qui multum habet, plus cupit" is probably a better one for me considering the topic of this thread

Do you know any rich men would like to be met and married?

Yes I can make money with the riding pictures. In my area I'm fairly reasonably priced. Even at a small show (less than 20 people) I'm still making a couple hundred off picture sales. I've done some ad work for a company and I make double that, but they've moved way out of state and I'm no longer convienent. :cry I just need to wait for the weather to get nice and get to a horse show every weekend and then my camera would pay for it's self Rather, the lens would pay for it's self.

Phyxius

ivar wrote:

Mehh, business expenses, nothing to feel bad about

Hehe, good thinking...but then I can't get any of this - Drop!

ziggy53

Phyxius wrote:

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Do you know any rich men would like to be met and married?

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I'm still looking for a "Sugar Momma" for myself. I could stand being a "kept man", at least for a while. (Sue, the love in my life, would probably object.)

For you, I think Warren Buffet is still available. (Second wealthiest, 44 Billion, but just gave away much of it. Still has enough to live on.)

http://www.forbes.com/static/bill2005/LIRC0R3.html?passListId=10&passYear=2005&passListType=Person&uniqueId=C0R3&datatype=Person

Phyxius wrote:

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Yes I can make money with the riding pictures. In my area I'm fairly reasonably priced. Even at a small show (less than 20 people) I'm still making a couple hundred off picture sales. I've done some ad work for a company and I make double that, but they've moved way out of state and I'm no longer convienent. :cry I just need to wait for the weather to get nice and get to a horse show every weekend and then my camera would pay for it's self Rather, the lens would pay for it's self.

There you go.

Best of luck,

ziggy53

Swartzy

I am crackin up
Oh boy do I know the feeling....hey, nice find BTW..hehe. That's why my wife won't let me near the Apple Store either

ivar

Phyxius wrote:

Hehe, good thinking...but then I can't get any of this - Drop!

:lol I had no idea there was an online drop (licorice) service. That's too funny.

Did you order some for Sinterklaas? It's today!

Phyxius

ivar wrote:

:lol I had no idea there was an online drop (licorice) service. That's too funny.

Did you order some for Sinterklaas? It's today!

Hehe, no I thought Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet were supposed to bring it to ME! Oh dear, is that what I've done wrong every year?

We have a Mozart Cafe German Deli in DC. They don't carry a whole lot, but it's better than nothing and they have Niederegger Marzipan and Schwermer Marzipan

ivar

Phyxius wrote:

Hehe, no I thought Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet were supposed to bring it to ME! Oh dear, is that what I've done wrong every year?

We have a Mozart Cafe German Deli in DC. They don't carry a whole lot, but it's better than nothing and they have Niederegger Marzipan and Schwermer Marzipan

Well did you write him with your wishes? Maybe next year

I lived in Naples, Fl for a while, and we actually had a store which imported german, english and dutch food, including licorice

Phyxius

Swartzy wrote:

Oh boy do I know the feeling....hey, nice find BTW..hehe. That's why my wife won't let me near the Apple Store either

Uh-oh! Maybe I don't want a sugar daddy, if he's gonna keep me from buying stuff! I need a new long lens before the GNP shootout next fall. Any suggestions?

drdane

Phyxius wrote:

AND, if that didn't put me far enough in the hole I also bought a 17" 2gig laptop. AM I STUPID?! "Sorry everybody, I decided that Christmas is the season of giving and I'm giving myself everything." Maybe I can learn to knit in the next two weeks??

I posted in another thread about contrast/exposure though. First time shooting RAW too. A lot of the shots turned out a little bit dark. They looked good on the LCD, but a little dark on my monitor at home and so I used RAW adjustments for the first time and upped exposure on most of them by .33 or .67. Should I play with contrast too? Are RAW files usually less vivid or was it just colorless subjects (brown/black/white horses against leafless trees (more brown)?

Hi, Christina

You did get that stuff on sale, didn't you?

Re: Raw Workflow - I found a good RAW tutorial on the net, but now I don't recall where it was

I can share mine with you if you like - it's reasonable thorough. Let me know!

Dane