5 October 2007

Another side of Floriade

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Signets in Commonwealth Park (Canon EF100mm Macro, 1/250, ISO 200)(Copyright 2007)

Floriade is without a doubt a popular and colourful display of flowers. After taking some 350 shots, it was nice to take a break from photographing the tulips and bees and take a minute to capture these signets paddling in the pond at Commonwealth Park.

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Thanks asp. Watermarking is fine by me if you really want to – but perhaps just leave that off, and request acknowledgement if people want to copy and send your work on to others. It’s certainly a way to get a profile and a following, and build up toward earning money from commercially viable and valuable images. Plus you won’t get flamed by the jealous!

Asp – nice work, pity its not up any more.

We like to run the site free and open, and will continue to do so. Sometimes you will put your heart out there and it will get stomped on. Hope to see more of your work in the future.

No offence asp but there were two things about your post that got you the reactions…

the wanky data. no-one gives a flying toss about it. best to not post such wankisms unless you’re posting at an anal photo comp site

watermarking an image that at best was a snapshot. nice snapshot but not world-beating. and as for your bleat about someone entering your pic and winning $50, two things come to mind…one, you didn’t have the foresight or imagination to submit it yourself, and two, it should make you just feel all warm and fuzzy proud to know your pic made it even though someone else entered it. I doubt you thought to yourself as you squeezed the shutter “this shot might win me dollars at an obscure photo comp one day”

Anyway there it is in a nutshell, don’t be so dweeby, wanky and stop acting like a dog-in-the-manger and you’ll get on here a whole lot better

No longer is it a mature forum to express views, debate local issues and display facets of our city

*kethunk*, ROFL, ROFL, ROFL

Sorry, just picked myself up off the floor.

Unfortunately, with a site of this nature, your get your mature debates along with your low brow trolls. It the price we pay for an open forum.

HA, keep it on topic or you’ll be moderated out.

el ......VNBerlinaV811:45 pm 05 Oct 07

Perhaps you should “stick to forums which aren’t so low-brow. then?

very mature. No longer is it a mature forum to express views, debate local issues and display facets of our city.

el ......VNBerlinaV811:06 pm 05 Oct 07

If you hadn’t carried on in that other thread like a complete arse-clown, you probably wouldn’t be copping so much shit,

lady-man.

Bloody hell, talk about a dummy spit.

I guess you’ve taken your bat and ball, and gone home.

As of 10:17pm the image is AWOL.

of existing posts, I count 1 about the technical aspects of the image and two (appreciated ones) about the ABC gallery.
The rest are comments about watermarking, Danman, eating swans and snide comments about how many shots I took.

Last time I posted photographs (excluding the illustrations), most comments referred to the images them selves, peoples opinion of the content and constructive criticism. Sure, RiotACT isn’t a photography forum, but at least one could expect proper comments.

If you want close up shots of tulips the tulip farm on the federal hwy is the place to go. It costs 10.00 so is far less crowded than floriade, and you can get a whole bed of tulips to yourself.

Where’s the image gone?

Asp, you know this isn’t a specialist photography forum. You get the criticism that you get, you can’t complain if it doesn’t suit.

You might want to look at the DRM issue again if you’re spending money. I don’t know any that hasn’t been cracked. DRM will stop the uninformed amateurs who want to pinch a shot, but it won’t stop the dedicated who want the image.

I prefer to degrade the image. A computer monitor can’t come close to a print, so degrade it to the best a monitor can handle, but that won’t print well. Personally I look at it like putting a flyer on people’s windscreens — people get to see it, but the real quality stays with the original.

Yep, you’re definitely a lady-man.

Boasting?
This shot is on a number of forums and has attracted both praise and constructive criticism. General, nonconstructive negativity and cynicism is just annoying. As Danman said, RiotACT isn’t what it used to be. Think I’ll stick to forums which aren’t so low-brow.

I prefer Danman’s shots … and he doesn’t tend to boast while posting them.

correction: “Though I agree” = though i disagree.

Can’t take shots, take lots. That’s my motto.

JD114,
According to the meta-data, the shutter speed was 1/250. Though I agree, I think it was faster and the meta data is wrong. I think it’s more 1/500 or even higher. The lens was a Canon EF100mm Macro f/2.8. Meta-data indicates it was taken at the focal length of 100mm.

Apologies for spelling, I was lazy and had Firefox spell check my post, not realising it changed cygnets to signets.

Sadly, I believe the watermark is nessesary. Last year, someone took an image of mine off a forum and entered it into a photo competition on another website I look at regularly. It won $50. Not much, but that was my $50 and prize credit I should have gotten. I don’t think anyone on here would do such a thing, but many photographers will watermark images. I am about to invest in a digital copy protection system that uses near invisable watermarking and DRM embedded in the image so that images can be protected without unsightly watermarks.

Swaggie,
I bracket shots and due to wind, often use burst mode because the wind can move a shot out of frame often. So there are many multiples. I took 423 shots in four hours. Poor exposures were delated when the images were downloaded into Adobe Lightroom. I then ranked the images, resulting in around 10 images rated 5 stars (great/unique) and another 30 rated 4star (very good).

350 shots??? Hoping a couple turned out right were you? LOL

(Canon EF100mm Macro, 1/250, ISO 200)(Copyright 2007)

Are you sure it wasn’t taken at 1/200 at 98mm non macro? Sure looks like it to me. It just doesn’t quite have thqat 1/250 feel about it…

And why destroy the integrity of the image with a senseless watermark? It’s not like it’s such a world-beating image that your status as a future millionaire would be compromised if someone were to use the image somewhere sometime for some purpose…

“Cygnets”.

I’m a little worried that the photographer appears to have drawn a crosshairs watermark over the cute little creatures.

It’s cygnet.

ABC Floriade Gallery…
So you can win $30 of Bananas in Pyjamas or Gardening Australia DVDs?
Or have your photo shown and talked about by the disasterously provincial weatherman they’ve put on recently?

Score!

stereo henry8:02 am 05 Oct 07

You should upload some to the ABC’s floriade gallery.

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