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I've used google+ to share with family. I collected all the photos while still at the event, uploaded them to the album, then emailed a private link to all my family members. They all seemed to get it.
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Dren posted:I've used google+ to share with family. I collected all the photos while still at the event, uploaded them to the album, then emailed a private link to all my family members. They all seemed to get it. This is the route you should go if at all possible when dealing with old people. Get all the photos yourself at the event (of at least those that aren't local). I'm personally looking forward to Apple's shared photostreams on iOS 7. One person starts it, all invited contacts can upload directly into the stream.
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Jul 6, 2013 17:56
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Dren posted:I've used google+ to share with family. I collected all the photos while still at the event, uploaded them to the album, then emailed a private link to all my family members. They all seemed to get it. I recently did this. The Picasa application is not needed at all. The drag and drop upload worked ok for me - I uploaded 270 full-size jpgs (5-10 MB each), and a few timed out. I just redragged them in. There is even automatically a link in the album where people can download a zip of all the photos. Though I separately supplied a private link from my Google Drive with a zip, just to make it a little easier.
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Jul 6, 2013 19:07
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Thanks everyone! I have done a few test albums and shared them with my wife, who has no google account, and it seems to work fine. She can see the photos through the link she gets in her email, and can't see them by manually going to my G+ account. Also it seems that if i create an "event" in G+, and invite people there, everyone can upload pictures to this event. If this works like i am led to believe then it is perfect for my needs! Now the job of sorting the 2000 photos i took down to about 50 or so good ones, then resizing them... I have never done much of anything like this before, and now i find myself having to sort thousands of photos, fix the ones that needs fixing (daytime pictures in bright sunlight is very hard for me to get correctly exposed for the moment), crop the ones that needs cropping to look better composed, then resize all of them. I find myself having to look up how to do every single one of these tasks, and i only have today and tomorrow to do it before i leave on a new vacation. Slightly stressed at the moment but it is quite fun. Is MultipleImageResizer.net any good? The other tasks i can use Paint.net for, and look into better alternatives later. Not sure yet if i will take the leap to buy Lightroom or even Photoshop, or if these programs are even needed unless i am a professional?
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Jul 7, 2013 16:25
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I use Lightroom for that stuff. That's pretty much exactly what lightroom is for. You could probably use picasa, the I'm feeling lucky button is quick and does a pretty satisfactory job of processing images. First things first though, go through the pictures and select only ones that are good. If you still have too many go through the ones you selected and be more selective. Pay attention to what you like about your pictures as you do this and next time try to only take keepers so you'll have less work to do in post.
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Jul 7, 2013 17:15
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Also keep in mind that there's a free 30-day trial for lightroom that you could use to handle everything.
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Jul 7, 2013 17:19
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Ineptitude posted:Thanks everyone! Lightroom is just really handy for organizing your photos and if you make any adjustments to you pictures at all. Definitely not a professional-only piece of software.
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Jul 7, 2013 17:43
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Ineptitude posted:Thanks everyone! Before you go processing your brains out, upload a few of the trouble images to G+ and see how the Auto Enhancer does. It incorporates a fantastic algorithm, the same ones used in Nik Software which they acquired. You'll still have to crop/resize, but it does wonders and you can enable it for all G+ uploads.
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Jul 7, 2013 18:28
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Reading up on multiple exposure techniques, I'm finding out my T3i isn't fancy enough for Canon to deem it worthy to include that feature. But I know you can do something similar in Photoshop, can you also in Lightroom? If so, anyone have a good guide or explanation on how to accomplish that. I live around Reno, I figure it'd be a great shot if I can include the city at night as well as the mountains in one. Very stark transition from beautiful mountains to god awful gaudy casino lights. *Bonus fact............I have yet to take my camera up to Tahoe. Yes I'm aware I'm a moron.
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Jul 7, 2013 20:17
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I just got a solid state hard drive hoping to speed up my editing and will be installing it tonight. Is it correct that I want to move my images and libraries to the new drive while keeping Lightroom and photoshop on my old one?
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Jul 7, 2013 23:14
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rio posted:I just got a solid state hard drive hoping to speed up my editing and will be installing it tonight. Is it correct that I want to move my images and libraries to the new drive while keeping Lightroom and photoshop on my old one? No, you should put potato shop on the SSD for sure.
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Jul 7, 2013 23:27
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Emergency camera question: I have an Intova IC14 w/waterproof housing. I'm currently vacationing in Belize with my husband. Today we went on an excursion that involved some rock climbing (which I never do) so while my husband was helping me climb down a ledge he knocked the camera off of it and it fell a few feet. It was in the housing when that happened, but now when we turn it on, the lens only "sees" black. Everything else, as far as I can tell, works right because we can review prior photos and all that. But, we tried taking new photos and they just come up black. Any ideas? I emailed Intova to get a repair quote already since I know the limited warranty won't cover it. But I'm kind of hoping we can fix it ourselves so we can keep using it the rest of our trip. The dive photos and videos it got when we did scuba the other day were amazing! 
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Jul 7, 2013 23:43
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Paragon8 posted:No, you should put potato shop on the SSD for sure. Russet potatoes are best for frying, I recommend a twice fried procedure, and keep your swap disk clean.
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Jul 7, 2013 23:55
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Reichstag posted:Russet potatoes are best for frying, I recommend a twice fried procedure, and keep your swap disk clean. where I grew up there was only one kind of potato and it seemed to be specially cultivated to be kind of poo poo for every cooking process
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Hip Hoptimus Prime posted:Emergency camera question: With a point and shoot like that there are 2 places where this could probably happen. 1: The lens cover isn't opening. Do you see the lens extend out of the body and the plastic lens cover open up when you turn the cover one? 2: The shutter isn't opening. Basically the shutter is stuck closed so that's why no light is seeing teh sensor. 3: The sensor is broken, or a connection to the sensor has broken. Is the camera not throwing any error messages or warnings?
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Jul 8, 2013 00:20
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Looks like the new hard disk is a lower priority - I deleted all of the images on one SD card thinking that they were already on my pc (since I usually transfer them right when I get home). Well, since I was waiting to get the new hd hoping to increase editing speed I did not upload them to my pc and just deleted 50% of the photos I shot for an event yesterday  I am loving dumb as hell! Time to look at which recovery program to try to use to get back hopefully most of my photos.
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Jul 8, 2013 01:06
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Don't even sweat it. Recuva, PhotoRec, and there's a free SanDisk utility too I think. Long as you aren't dumping more data onto the card it's stupid easy to get them all back.
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Jul 8, 2013 01:26
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I wasn't quite freaking out yet because I did rationally know that nothing would have been overwritten, just that initial sense of FFFFFFuuuuckk. I found Recuva and it was super easy to get the images back. I had snapped 5 shots after deleting the folder so I did lose 1 of them, but all things considered I am fine and very relieved. Also, so far this SSD seems like SO much of an improvement. I have only had 5 minutes in lightroom reviewing images for import so I will have to reserve final judgement for when I am elbow deep in edits.
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Jul 8, 2013 01:41
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Mr. Despair posted:With a point and shoot like that there are 2 places where this could probably happen. Yes, the lens cover opens. There's no error messages or warnings, so it sounds like the shutter might be jammed shut. The last photo my husband took was of me climbing down the ledge. The next one is low light with a bunch of lines of something, then the next one is just some lines with a black background, and then after that the next two we tried are just black. So--if the shutter is stuck, I'm guessing there's no real way to fix that other than sending it in, right?
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Jul 8, 2013 02:53
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This might sound dumb, but does anyone else have the issue of their LCD screen fogging up massively due to air coming out of their nose? It's not that big of a deal but I can never tell if a photo was poorly exposed/lit or it's just my breath that has fogged up 1/3rd of the screen.
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Jul 8, 2013 03:52
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I read SH/SC so much that I thought I was in the hardware questions thread over there and was about to say "for the love of God move back from your monitor!"
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Jul 8, 2013 03:55
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xcore posted:This might sound dumb, but does anyone else have the issue of their LCD screen fogging up massively due to air coming out of their nose? It's not that big of a deal but I can never tell if a photo was poorly exposed/lit or it's just my breath that has fogged up 1/3rd of the screen. I'm hoping it's only your right (presumably) nostril that is actually doing the fogging, not your whole goddamn schnoz like a kid against a sliding glass door. If that is the case, just stick an earplug or something up there so you aren't fogging up your LCD with it while shooting. It happens to me occasionally, however I've adopted a tilted-head-schnoz-off-the-LCD approach that works well. It does lead to some not level photos, but unless I have a spirit level to tell me it's level, it won't be level for me anyway. As an aside, does anyone here find the digital level on cameras like the 5D3 / 6D useful? I find it jittery as hell, at least when trying to get something level handheld. On a tripod it's pretty awesome.
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Jul 8, 2013 04:06
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mclifford82 posted:not your whole goddamn schnoz like a kid against a sliding glass door.  at the mental image of this.Yes, it's just my right nostril (i think) causing the fogging.
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Jul 8, 2013 04:43
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Easy fix, only breathe out of your left nostril.
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Or move to someplace that isn't a humid hellhole.
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Hip Hoptimus Prime posted:So--if the shutter is stuck, I'm guessing there's no real way to fix that other than sending it in, right? It might be cheaper for that to just buy another one than to send it in.
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mclifford82 posted:As an aside, does anyone here find the digital level on cameras like the 5D3 / 6D useful? I find it jittery as hell, at least when trying to get something level handheld. On a tripod it's pretty awesome. Sounds like it's your hands that are jittery. But I agree about only using that feature on a tripod. If I want something perfectly level I'll usually already be using a tripod anyway.
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ZippySLC posted:How does one get better at photography? I alternate between thinking my photos are good and that they're poo poo, and all the while nobody seems to comment either way when I post pics on facebook, where i basically look for adulation. It's about to fall into the archives, but I wrote a lengthy post on this subject a while back. For me, it really helped to read some books/articles about art fundamentals like line/form and color theory, as well as photo-specific books dealing with light and tone. The idea of the components of a picture serving as linguistic elements with certain meanings resonated strongly with me. It's helped me to get out of the mindset of going out and snapping things that merely "looked cool." When I pick up a camera now, I really try to either go into a shoot knowing what I want the end result to look like in my mind's eye, or barring that, I try to compose the picture in a way that makes artistic sense with the subject matter. If you can abstract a picture into lines, forms, and colors, and if you know what the common "meanings" of those things are, you can appeal to people who are equally familiar with those things with your work or know what your picture is "saying" if you choose to bend or break the conventionally accepted understanding of what those things mean. At this point, the hardest part of photography for me is the thinking that goes into producing a photo, not the physical act of taking the picture.
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TheJeffers posted:It's about to fall into the archives, but I wrote a lengthy post on this subject a while back.
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XTimmy posted:Any recommendations on the articles about art fundamentals? I feel my grasp of light and tone is at a good level, but I fall apart when it comes to composition. The Photographer's Eye is a good book that focuses on composition rather than basic technique.
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The best introduction I've read is in Bruce Barnbaum's The Art of Photography, since he talks about form and line in a way that's linked to photographic subjects. I can't recommend it enough.
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Jul 8, 2013 14:58
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The key to taking good photos, is to take good photos.
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Jul 8, 2013 15:11
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Musket posted:The key to taking good photos, is to take good photos. zen "Don't concentrate on the camera, or you will miss all that heavenly glory."
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Musket posted:The key to taking good photos, is to take good photos. Nonsense. the key to taking good photos is to buy new, more expensive, equipment.* *I read a lot of internet forums.
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When I stopped caring about what you thought of my photos, my % of keepers tripled. Shoot for yourself. Find a good photo friend you can bounce ideas off and will bullycurate your work and tell you when you are pure poo poo but also will praise your good work, when its good. Take the time to edit. Imagine the world through your viewfinder (Trademark by Nikon). Look at good photos books. I tend to buy one photo book a month and obsess over it for that month. Take in every aspect of each image. Make notes. What was it about that Shore image you loved so much. Copy it. Over time that evolves into your own style. Stop caring about critics. See ya at MOMA for my show in 30 years.
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Jul 8, 2013 16:22
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mclifford82 posted:Before you go processing your brains out, upload a few of the trouble images to G+ and see how the Auto Enhancer does. It incorporates a fantastic algorithm, the same ones used in Nik Software which they acquired. You'll still have to crop/resize, but it does wonders and you can enable it for all G+ uploads. Yeah by processing i meant "cropping", i dont know how to do the other things yet, at least not manually. I agree about the G+ automatic processing being fantastic though! (and more than enough for our needs)
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TheJeffers posted:The best introduction I've read is in Bruce Barnbaum's The Art of Photography, since he talks about form and line in a way that's linked to photographic subjects. I can't recommend it enough. This book is great. It starts with two photos of the same scene. One is a snapshot, the intent was there, but the photographer hadn't thought it through fully enough and it ends up a mess. The other is very nice indeed, and it goes into great detail on the photographer's intent, explaining what they hoped to convey emotionally, and even how they scoped the location but figured the light would be better later that day so came back later.
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I have that book, as well as Understanding Exposure. Haven't finished either yet, though.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:zen Don't think. Feeeeeel. Michael Freeman's other books, Photographers Mind/Photographers Vision, are both quite good as well. David DuChemin, while a bit of a social media/internetfame type, has written a couple of nice books (Within The Frame and Photographically Speaking) that are on that whole 'think about what you want to communicate, rather than just HDRing the Harbour Bridge' path of thought. Well worth flipping through in a bookstore.
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