I'd love to go and shoot the rally, but I have football finals (soccer) on the Sat midday... (yes, I play football in my old age).... So, I'm hoping to make it to a stage on the Sunday and would love to capture a car flying thru the air over a brow of a hill, or sideways at 160klm...will let you know how I go ( just go to church and forget that I even mentioned the Rally event..lol). I'll repent later for going....
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ha ha I'm playing hookie for the Bathurst V8's this year too. Those rally drivers are lunatics eh. Two of my wife's cousins are rally drivers.
Hi Peter, I replied to the question re the formula 1. We have a round of the World Rally Championships up here this weekend in Kyogle. My son is volunteering as a race official
:-)) yes I know by now that ya crazy about HDRs … and I have fun to watch your touched up shoots
… just over the time I got the feeling that HDR makes – to some extend – all pics somehow similar, i.e. detracting, better, outshining the actually literal information of the very shoot with that, what you call "fresh perspective” … funny, despite the enhancement of brilliance to me all these pics have a flavor of sadness
Have a great day, joachim
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I should rephrase that & say it gives a sense of freshness "to me". I work as a travelling sales rep & drive through a lot of rural areas and have taken a lot of traditional photos over that extensive area that I cover. HDR has let me shoot the same scenes with a "fresh to me" perspective. There are many scenes for which HDR is not suitable of course, especially anything with movement.
One of the things I really enjoy about fotki is the exposure it gives us to many different styles that we can pursue if we see somethign we like simply by asking the photographer how they did it. Very rarely have they not been helpful, most of the time they are the exact opposite - very helpful.
--- Yeap, ya right, I do enjoy the community … you just can chose what ya keen about and, besides some non hurting critters & fritters :-))) I crossed only kind, enjoyable and helpful people. Well mate, see you in the contests “battles” joachim
hi peter thank you and yeah, take that robert!! lol. i really didnt expect it to do that well. i dont enter the da that often because i am not good at it like most on here are. when i do, it is something simple. those ones where you add stuff is impossible for me to get to look right. thats why i was asking the question that robert flipped out over. thanks again
… thanks so much your supporting comments for my DA entry this week which I enjoyed as usually :-))
… although it came out quite OK (however nothing more) I’m not very convinced about all this heavily used HDR and filter techniques as long as not applied carefully just to support the original photographs where it is needed. Latter shall be the way how I gonna use these in future incl. for the multi-layer pics I may create as another way of artistic composition. Unfortunately there were again some great pictures in this contest which – like in all the others – are bobbing up and down in the backyards for what reason ever, but certainly not an objective one.
... wishing you a blessed and wonderful week, Joachim
Glad it worked-out ok Peter - I've got one from this character . . . http://members.fotki.com/michelbark/about/ Seems to be advertising Dental Health Care . . . Made a complaint to Fotki (id 16894) but they haven't actioned it yet.
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Well hopefully now that they've started they could keep all these guys in a database and ban all their IP's from posting on fotki.
Fotki got back to me this morning (very fast) & they did delete them, way to go fotki !!
"Hi Peter,
We have received several complaints regarding Spam messages in guestbooks. Following these complaints we have removed all these messages and blocked the spamming IP in our system. Anyway, we would like to apologize for possible inconvenience.
Your Fotki Team.
Fotki Customer Service response on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 8:25 AM EDT"
Hi Pete - deleted comments - no, never as far as I'm aware. But if someone writes a whole bunch of stuff and later decides that they don't want it to be seen - and are stupid enough not to make it private, I suppose they could always delete it retrospectively. If it's their comment, it's theirs to leave or remove, as they want. Were they all comments from one source? Even if they were from more than one source, if they were "all" the comments, the multiple sources could be a single person with multiple accounts. Peter
Hey mate, that's what I get, random typing in the message box, no links, but check the names next time - all seem Italian and always with Viagra or connotations thereof !
hi again ok, got it. i dont get any visitors to my albums so i dont get nasty comments.lol. sounds like someone is jealous not to mention childish. glad they are all gone. no reason to be that ignorant. take care
G'd evening bro......it's early Sunday morning in the Glen and it's quite cool for August (45 F. / 7 C.). Sun is just up and it should get a bit warmer. Regarding "inappropriate" comments on Fotki: I haven't noticed much change, but then I don't get and never have gotten a lot of that kind of stuff. You have many more visitors than I do.......so, proportionately, you probably experience more junk comments. I doubt Fotki removed such things from your site....perhaps the weather is changing and those individuals involved no longer have the time to mess with you. In any case.....don't hold your breath. They'll be back.
Mike
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Yeah I guess I was being optimistic about fotki wiping them all out. It was just a nice surprise to see them all gone. I didn't delete them this time to save escalating the situation, trying to ignore it, but anyway we'll see what happens. I agree, I'm not going to hold my breath.
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