PixArtWeb Public Forum Topics http://www.pixartweb.com/ Copyright 2007 MVO Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:57:11 EDT [quote]westie4us wrote:Thank you for the detailed info on exposure Mark. From what other users of the Nikon D80 have mentioned it's common to have to adjust the compensation.I not always remember to do that. I will have to remember your advise to v... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=55.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=55.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:16:04 EDT I should have put up a sheet or had a plain wall behind me yes. I did like the ghost look about it. I've never tried the double exposure on my camera so this was a fun experiment you suggusted. Thanks http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=56.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=56.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:12:37 EDT Thank you for the information - have downloaded Picassa - am looking into Photoshop CS3 - I do appreciate your help!! http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=54.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=54.htm Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:20:51 EDT Both sound like perfect choices for me and just what I am looking for. I'll be looking into both of these recommendations Thank you for your reply!! http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=53.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=53.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:41:18 EDT Thanks! http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=52.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=52.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:40:17 EDT Cheers, Mark. I'll save the message next time. It said something like it had already been deleted and I wasn't the owner, I think. Yet others I deleted easily. And no, I hadn't altered my profile then.Thanks,Love Lynda XX http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=51.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=51.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 2:37:35 EDT [quote]westie4us wrote:Thank you Mark for your reply! I just had my sensor professionally cleaned about two months ago and got a blower recently to do cleaning myself.So I'll give it a try.I was worried that the blue dot could be a hot pixel but wasn... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=50.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=50.htm Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:08:51 EDT Lovely work but it's a shame you can't open them to see a larger version. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=42.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=42.htm Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:43:40 EST Thanks for submitting your favorites. Don't worry about "filling it up", we'll whittle down the number once the judges start voting, LOL :-) http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=49.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=49.htm Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:22:26 EDT HI Sarah,I agree it is good to get the brain cells working and try to look at nature or the picture in waiting a new way. I know I try to do that everytime I pick up a camera. Since I have started taking pictures I do look at the world differently.... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=48.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=48.htm Fri May 11 2007 11:42 am thank you for the info - will try to use it in future compositions! http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=47.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=47.htm Mon May 7 2007 8:54 pm Thanks, for show casing my work and your comments. This is one of my favorite shots too and is hanging on my wall at home. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=45.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=45.htm Tue Apr 24 2007 12:25 pm I love the colors and how the river is framed by the trees. I wonder how it would look in the fall with the trees turning color. I wish I could climb into the picture with my camera and and feel the momment. This picture shows the beauty of Mother... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=46.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=46.htm Tue Apr 24 2007 12:23 pm Barbara,All the photos uploaded here are "JPEG" images, which is a format that allows variable compression to reduce the file size. If compression is set too high, there will be visible artifacts that degrade the image.Below is a portion of your "Old... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=43.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=43.htm Sun Apr 15 2007 6:48 pm Thanks, Barbara. I thought that looked like a screen door :-)Link to photo: http://www.pixartweb.com/gallery_detail.php?cat=misc&pixno=675 http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=44.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=44.htm Sun Apr 15 2007 6:31 pm Just in case you haven't been following the "Latest News" section on our home page, we've recently added more helpful information to the PixArtWeb site.New articles by Mark and Sarah entitled "The Power of Post-Processing" and "Concentrate on Seeing"... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=41.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=41.htm Sun Feb 11 2007 6:11 pm Thanks Mark,You are awesome. I appreciate all you do here and the advice you and the other judges give. It helps a lot.Tina http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=40.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=40.htm Fri Feb 9 2007 10:11 am I love these specials! They did a great show about Jim Brandenburg a couple of years ago...I will be tivo'ing this!Sarah http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=39.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=39.htm Thu Feb 8 2007 7:41 pm Haha...winter in Phoenix is about the same...I will have to dig through my negatives and see if I can find something from back home :) http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=38.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=38.htm Mon Feb 5 2007 4:11 pm Great question! As I mentioned in the article "Basic Color Correction", unless your monitor is calibrated you can't properly evaluate your photographs for either viewing on the web or in print. (Printer profiling is also essential, but that's another... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=37.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=37.htm Sat Jan 27 2007 1:10 pm PixArtWeb will soon introduce a new competition called Theme Challenge.Similar to our current juried photo competitions, a new theme will be announced each month (or more often if participation is high). Members can submit photos that match the theme... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=36.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=36.htm Tue Jan 16 2007 4:40 pm Thank you so much for the improvements. We have learned so much since we started.We appreciate the time all you judges give us, and your comments. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=35.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=35.htm Tue Jan 9 2007 7:47 pm [quote]Barbara Hopkins wrote:Can you tell me what the numbers in parentheses under the photos in the gallery mean ... i.e. (67) ??Thanks![/quote]Those are the tentative judges' scores for each photo after it has been ranked and placed into the Novice... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=34.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=34.htm Sat Oct 21 2006 6:35 pm About 3 weeks ago, I posted (in the Judges/Samples Gallery) my photograph entitled "Generations". In the description, I noted that this image was in celebration of 180 years of photography (the first photo was arguably made in 1826).At first glance, ... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=33.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=33.htm Mon Sep 11 2006 9:07 pm Kim, yes you can delete any photo that is not yet in competition. Just go to your album by clicking on the "Artist's Gallery" icon from the photo details page, or from the ALBUMS link.You'll see "Delete this Photo" below the photo in your album which... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=32.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=32.htm Mon Sep 4 2006 3:56 am My husband had been after me to find out about the Colgate Building that I photographed. He said I should contact the architect and send him the picture. Well, when I went online to research the building I found out that it is the tallest building ... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=31.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=31.htm Fri Sep 1 2006 9:49 pm How you view your digital photos on a computer display is indeed a big and often unrecognized issue.To begin with, the quality of your monitor (LCD or CRT) greatly affects how colors and details appear in an image. Photographers often spend more on t... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=30.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=30.htm Tue Aug 22 2006 11:32 am Thats a very interesting effect to the back ground. Nice photo. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=28.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=28.htm Wed Aug 9 2006 9:19 pm I was just reading through them Mark and they will be a big help to me. I hope you don't mind me saving the info in document form for future reference. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=29.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=29.htm Wed Aug 9 2006 4:20 pm Thanks Mark, I was going to mention about the judges volunteering their time but my post got too lengthy, like this one I guess LOL. I very much appreciate their involvement and really want to thank all of you for your comments. I am finding now, tha... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=24.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=24.htm Sun Aug 6 2006 12:20 pm Hi Gilly,Since this is a photo judging site, we require that the dimensions of submitted photos are large enough to permit evaluation by our judges: between 500 and 800 pixels wide.If your photo has been resized (typical for web view or emailing), it... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=27.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=27.htm Tue Aug 1 2006 2:22 pm I deleted it for you. However, you can do this yourself by going to your album (while logged in). You'll see a "Delete this phopto" link beneath photos that are in the NEW category.The photo that you uploaded was probably too small and the server ups... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=26.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=26.htm Mon Jul 31 2006 2:42 pm TheoExplain how you lost those files in a little more detail. They MAY be able to be recovered. If the only copy of those files was on one CD and you corrupted that CD you may be out of luck. I'am glad you made the most of that day, Cedric was a luck... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=18.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=18.htm Mon Jul 31 2006 1:21 pm I plan to add a list of terms and various articles on photography techniques in the coming weeks. They will appear in our Technique pages. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=25.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=25.htm Mon Jul 31 2006 1:07 pm [quote]Theo wrote:It's nice to be able to open the group of photos together, much easier to compare them. Is voting only open to the judges? That would eliminate the 'popularity contest' thankfully.I'm looking forward to seeing the winners, and learn... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=22.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=22.htm Fri Jul 28 2006 1:42 pm Never mind.......... Carey http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=23.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=23.htm Thu Jul 27 2006 11:30 pm I posted to the wrong place and it was fixed pronto. Thanks Mark. Carey http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=19.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=19.htm Thu Jul 27 2006 11:10 pm Theo, I like this one, Phoenix's hair is very soft and fine so it's very hard to get real detail.I have a 0lder Nikon FE2, I usually used 400 speed and it's still hard to get her hair just right.Thanks for any help you can send my way. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=21.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=21.htm Thu Jul 27 2006 9:45 am Ofcourse you can post older photos. All photos are more than welcome. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=20.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=20.htm Thu Jul 27 2006 3:50 am [quote]Theo wrote:Interesting comments on The Online Photographer, Mark. You said "You'll have to use some judgement." So where does that leave us as far as getting permission goes? If I upload a pic without a signed permission, will it be posted??[/... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=17.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=17.htm Sun Jul 16 2006 6:18 pm Aha!! That's why my second photo that I uploaded last night is not showing, will try again. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=16.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=16.htm Sun Jul 16 2006 4:48 pm [quote]Kim & Furkids wrote:Hi all-This is Kim & Furkids (Aunt Kim to Bailie & Kailie on the Terrier Club website) I was wondering if a picture of any breed of pet can be entered here - I have SEVERAL. Also have many pictures of recent vacation to A... http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=15.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=15.htm Sun Jul 16 2006 2:42 pm Great idea Connie, thanks for setting it up Mark. I've got Cedric as my thumbnail. http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=14.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=14.htm Sat Jul 15 2006 2:57 pm Hey Carey and Theo,I went ahead and posted my first picture on in the photo section. I am inspired that there is an avenue to display my attempts. Here is the first...Connie http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=13.htm http://www.pixartweb.com/forum.php?mesgfile=13.htm Thu Jul 13 2006 9:57 pm