Crap.
There go all my aspirations of being a famous author.
Guess I'll keep working on getting famous as a photographer.

yeah, the pentax forum here is not the right market for such a book...but hey there's always the canon forums!

what do you think about my new diet book idea.
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365 pages, all printed on rice paper each page has one line..."eat this page today...only this page."

or my parenting book for raising teenagers...
a 2000 page hardcover book, with only one paragraph.
"If you suspect your teenager is on drugs, apply this book liberally to side of teenagers head. If you don't suspect your teenager is on drugs, you are probably wrong. Do it anyways."

Hey oldtimer...I want to write a "Dummies Book" for dummies that are too dumb to know which "Dummies Book" to buy.

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Think it'll sell?

so I guess extensis portfolio or lightroom is going a little overboard?

another strategy is to use video lights....has obvious pros and cons...but works great with fast lenses.

I simply snap a jpeg, (of a greycard with greyscale and color chart)import it into my computer, display it full screen on my already profiled monitor, and adjust my brightness in the tool set up menu to match as closely as possible.

then I shoot the same image in raw and process it to my standards...(I like my images atouch on the warm side) display it on my monitor.
now I go back to my camera and tweek the settings under the rec mode to get the in camera jpegs, on the cameras lcd to match as closely as possible to the computer processed raw file.

that way my in camera lcd display will closely match what I'll see on my computer when I get them downloaded and processed. (I shoot alot of jpeg, and raw accounts for maybe 10-20 % right now but doing more raw every month.)

of course out in the feild ambient light renders this to less than an exact science....but it does seem to work for the most part.

interesting thread.
seems to me, the sensor on my ds2 gets all it's best image data in the top third of the histogram....in other words, If I over expose low-key subjects, then bring it down in photoshop, it will look better than exposing for it so it shows in the bottom third of the histogram.
of course, overexposing the highlights is tabooo...

I'm having such a fabulous weekend!
by yhe way, who here is a mamber of a professional association, or attends these types of workshops?

So I'm working a tradeshow (VIP Vision, Insperation, Passion) hosted by the professional Photographers of Canada. Right now I'm helping with the behind the scenes work for the Judging of submitted images and am seeing submissions, from the best Pro photographers in Canada. What a treat to be viewing the work, and hearing the panel of judges critques.
There will be seminars all weekend.
This is great! There's tonnes of amazing images!
I'm definately going to submit some stuff next year!
I suddenly feel inspired to really push myself to create more work.
Too bad all you guys can't be here this week.
Us Pentaxians with our sharp lenses, sharper tongues, and slightly soft jpegs, could really hold our own!
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Dude, there's Years Old and then there's Mileage Old....

...ask anybody who's ever bought a used car which is Worse!
Now me, having had so many injuries over the years, you'd be amazed I can still walk upright. I can't remember what it was like to wake up in the morning, and not feel pain. I can't remember what it was like to feel normal, and will probably never have a day without my constant companion.
Does that sound like a complaint? Hell no! Happy to still be here, and don't mind a few reminders, that I earned it!
(whomever coined the phraise "That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" in my opinion is an idiot....turth is that which doesn't kill you...usually leaves you hurting and bleeding....It's your Faith, and your will to survive that makes you stronger.

Live it. love it!....hope for forty more...

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