Camps Bay Fire

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INFERNO: Residents in Camps Bay, Cape Town, on Wednesday night used garden hoses and sprinklers to keep a mountain fire away from their homes. The fire has since been contained. (Paul Watson) very nice :) I wonder, though, if this story[^] isn't somehow related... :suss:

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Shog9 The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under

Paul Watson

Shog9 wrote: I wonder, though, if this story[^] isn't somehow related... You mean the fire was really a cat incinerator *Paul notices all the cat lovers cringe* out of control? :eek:

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

Bruce Duncan

WTF! Is News24 now exclusive to MWeb subscribers ? Wait... It works if I connect via the SAIX proxy server. Double WTF! :wtf:

Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
I can levitate birds...

Marc Clifton

I think the hardest thing about night shots is lighting control. Equally hard, but opposite, is daylight snow photography (go find some snow, ha ha ha!). And along with that, is discovering that the human eye and brain do some amazing things that film just can't do by itself. In some ways, this is where a digital camera can really shine, if it has the ability to do gain adjustment on the fly (on a per pixel basis instead of applying gain on the entire image based on an average area). I haven't heard of this technology yet, though. Anyways, the point being that our perceptive system is constantly in motion and making, in essence, localized gain control adjustments. Furthermore, the brain actually puts in missing information and integrates what the moving eye sees, way before it hits our conscious perception. Quite the parallel processor, eh? The only way I've been able to come close to this is to carry around a large flash to provide the necessary front lighting and totally guess at the f-stop and exposure settings. There's a few professional films out there that are also highly forgiving, usually on the overexposure side of things. I've had good results with what would normally be horribly overexposed areas with these films, because it can really bring out the textures in the otherwise underexposed stuff. Don't ask me for any film recommendations though. I use a digital camera exclusively now (Sony DSC-F707) and love it. Incidentally, I had some fun once trying out film from different manufacturers. There was quite a difference between Fugi and Kodak because they lay down the emulsion layers differently, so I've heard. So Kodak is good for people shots and sunrises/sunsets and Fugi really brings out the blues and greens in nature shots. Unfortunately, the printing processes now do color correction and so the intrinsic differences in the film are often eliminated as part of this process. It's a shame, because when I've used color filters, the affect is not even noticeable. One thing I like about a digital camera is that I can see the immediate affects of the gain circuitry, and I've found that by sometimes taking a shot slightly off-center, I can get a better overall image, because of how the camera determines the gain. I imagine, on automatic setting, the same thing is true for a film camera. Even with a digital camera, it's still an art. That's what's so fun about it! Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulato

Paul Watson

Bruce Duncan wrote: WTF! Is News24 now exclusive to MWeb subscribers ? Wait... It works if I connect via the SAIX proxy server. Double WTF! Ahh the wonders of South African DNS :-D I get times when all international sites do not work but local do. Pretty standard that. The FUBAR bit is when local sites refuse to work but international sites work fine. I hear they are laying a new line down the east coast of Africa which will have a nice 120gig pipe, can't wait!

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

David Stone

David Wulff wrote: something exactly similar What does that mean? "Oh, it was precisely the same, but slightly different." How does that work? ;P

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Shog9 0

David Stone wrote: How does that work? Like identical twins, i would guess.* *yes, hot female asian ones, Paul

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Shog9 The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under

KaRl

Now you've got your 1/4h of glory :) Congrats, a new career is begining :-D

Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop

Paul Watson

KaЯl wrote: Congrats, a new career is begining LOL, well hobby at most. Tough earning good money out of photography and if you do manage to then it is normally after 20 years of learning and getting your work out there and into the right places. And my shots are not anywhere near worth buying... maybe one day :)

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

Paul Watson

Shog9 wrote: *yes, hot female asian ones, Paul Ahh, velly well done tiny glasshopper, you ah learhning, yes, indeed. Hah so. :rolleyes: (Still I was going to comment on the "exactly similar" thing as well. It is strange, but not...)

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

KaRl

Not always. A friend of mine is photograph. He made small jobs for 5 years, then got one for a car magazine, which he's always working for. First he's paid approx. 100€ per picture in the magasine (generally between 5 to 10 pictures per week), and second cars makers lend him their newest cars so he can make the pictures. Nice, isn't it? :)

Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop

Paul Watson

KaЯl wrote: First he's paid approx. 100€ per picture in the magasine (generally between 5 to 10 pictures per week), and second cars makers lend him their newest cars so he can make the pictures. Nice, isn't it? That second bit would be payment enough for me :-D He must be quite good though. Care to tell me his name and which car magazine? No problem if you don't want to. I will be happy with photography wether people want to buy my shots one day or not. And probably if I did get paid then I would put the money back into better equipment and travel money so I can get those glorious shots :)

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

David Wulff

No one likes a smart arse David, especially not me. ;P

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Roger Wright

Paul Watson wrote: My humble photographic tribute to our world[^] The 'Holey Rock' looks amusingly like a seal at rest... Nice shot!:-D "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)