Re: FAO Kully and Dat

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:44:28 +1000, Demosthenes
<demosthenes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ah yes, the delectable Ms Ashworth. You caught me out. Though, truly,
I thought the photo was a tiny bit on the small side since I chose not
to zoom that one. However, I'm very glad you enjoyed it.

Tiny things come in small packages, or something.

Merely an amateur, Datto with a little bit of luck and some good
positioning. Merely an amateur.

You do seem to be getting over your distaste for the assembled masses
up the front.

One can only assume that the master Perkins saw his act at one point,
and was inspired to emulate His Bluriness in at least some small part
as a homage to the great irishman himself.

My, that's quite an impressive effort just to avoid saying he's got a
blurry ***.

Yes, this little black dog should have probably used spot metering.
Unfortunately, it's one of the few settings that the A70 *won't*
remember, so you have to reset it every time you start up.

Yeah, mine's the same, but I think that's light metering. I was
talking about auto focus here.....the first item in the menu.

I've never experienced anything like that, thankfully.

Apparently it's caused by an epoxy ccd connector rather than using a
more expensive ceramic one. The epoxy doesn't hold up all that well in
warm, humid environments. Living here that is difficult to avoid, so
don't lose those links.

On the plus side, I dropped mine into the service centre at Cannon
Hill (fitting) and was able to pick it up again about a fortnight
later at no charge.

I think that was at the point where I was locking the arpeture and
letting the shutter speed choose itself. But it was all over the
place. 1/25th I can handle, but half the time it was dropping to
1/10th, 1/6th or even worse and that's just impossible unless you
happen to be freakishly lucky. So after a bit, I switched to Tv mode
and left it set at 1/60th as a reasonable compromise that would allow
me to get (mostly) steady shots with decentish light.

It seems to have worked well, although I noticed a couple of shots
with smaller apertures. That could have been converted to speed. I
feel the need....the need for.....sorry.

If you used spot (light) metering in Av and aimed for the brighter
part of your target you could probably maintain a reasonable shutter
speed with the amount of light in that particular shot (and some of
the others), quite possibly a bit faster at times too. I was able to
do that at the GOBs as the Albert Park stage had bloody good lighting.

I guess I'd rather sacrifice a bit of exposure. You can do something
with a slightly over or underexposed photo. Hard to make anything of a
blurry mess ....

My thinking exactly. A _beautiful_ blurry mess though is another
kettle of lobster spunk.

The giddy fuckers ... that was what I had to contend with during the
Grates, which is why all I have is a blurry mess. I was being bumped
all to ***.

They probably all made the same mistake I did initially and thought
that her horsey badge http://tinyurl.com/r4e9v was something else
entirely. (It's like a picture puzzle. It takes a while to see it both
ways.)

Yeah. It works less often in colour though. It's very hard to get a
good colour shot in low light with this camera at iso400. Throw it to
BW, though, and you've got a 30-ish per cent chance of coming out with
a neat atmospheric shot.

I've never tried it as I always think I'll get around to converting it
later with software. I'll definitely be giving it a shot next time
after seeing your beauties.....and your photos, obviously.

the other bonus, is BW images consume less space which means you can
shoot away much more.

Heh. I took about 170 shots during REM's show and didn't quite fill
one of my cards. I'm pretty sure Mr Stipe was avoiding me towards the
end. Still, that's about one per $ of ticket price, so quite
reasonable imo.

Those dark images with tiny specks of bald light don't tend to take up
too much room.

Yes. I've been looking more than a little idly at buying an EOS before
I head overseas. I was on the verge of buying a 350d this morning,
then two of my colleagues got retrenched at work due to some cashflow
probs we're having, so now I'm thinking I might be wiser to hold onto
the money instead ...

Oh, lovely. You might find it a bit more difficult getting it into
regular gigs though, unless you get it in in some sort of official
capacity.

I haven't tried full m,anual yet, but I'll give that a whirl, the next
time I'm at a gig and see how it goes.

Just for a little bit. I don't want you being too harsh on poor Ben if
it fucks up completely.

A bit like Timmy's photo. I rather liked that one.

You're just trying to get hits on your site now. It is soooo obvious.

Yes, like that one, and I like it too. As it happens my camera first
fucked up when he played at the Valley Fiesta after Gentle Ben. Only
started doing it again about a year later.

Post processing is something I've not attempted. Mostly because I'm
lazy. But I have photoshop and people seem to rave about Noise Ninja
so I might try to source that as well ...

No, sorry, I don't have it, but it is supposed to be good.

I did a very basic digital photo intro course (Gimp) a while back and
the tutor had me print a series of images of a few different photos at
various stages.....after levels, curves, sharpening, etc, and it's
quite a revelation when you see what an improvement a minute's effort
can make to an image.

Of course being a lazy also, I've not developed much past the very
basics since.

Question: That lovely Gallery software you use...do you happen to know
if you need control of the server to use it? (ie. might it be possible
to use it on geocities or similar, or even on your own computer?)

Dunno. I'll have to investigate for you.

Thanks, but don't waste your time. I'll have a squiz. I just hoped
that you might know off the bat with all your web techy knowhow.

Well, I got the best shots during the day in the Supertop. At night it
was either pretty *** (I came out with a lot of very dark photos from
Sonic Youth) or I was too far away to get any shots (Wolfmother, Yeah
Yeah Yeahs). I'm particularly annoyed that I sacrificed a really good
position on Sunday just before YYY came on and never got back anywhere
close by the stage.

I'm sure that your dedication to your religion didn't go unnoticed,
Demo.

You had to pee, didn't you?


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