thank you everyone who's still here, though we do seem to be lacking quite a few, Bobert, Bob Roseman, Jan around ? This retirement/ house husband lark is quite good, spent the last couple of days revising at http://www.stevemccurry.com http://www.pdnonline.com/ - (the legends online series has salgado's migrants in it) http://www.peterfetterman.com has a really good gallery, including erwitt, cartier-bresson, hass http://www.magnumphotos.com - photographers section http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/NGM1999_09p29.j pg - just look at that image, look at the balance of colours and the framing on the oarsman in the water, due to the reflection of the sky. http://www.kochgallery.com/exhibitions/erwitt/pages/EER01%20%2028.htm - or the humour in this image. yep. I'm having a high old time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pinimage" <pinimage@netvision.net.il> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@ase-listmail.rit.edu> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:05 PM Subject: RE: I'm back > Welcome back old friend! > > _______________________ > Pini Vollach > http://www.pinimage.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu > [mailto:owner-photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu]On Behalf Of nod > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:05 PM > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > Subject: I'm back > > > and may be for some time. I got married, sort of am now retired as we had to > move because of my wife's career, so am seeing if I am still a competent > photographer. > > I picked up an interesting compact digital camera over the weekend, an > Olympus c-2 also known as a D-230. It has spot metering, can turn off the > flash, and has a fixed focus equivalent of a 35mm f2.8 lens, and since I am > so used to my beloved leicas, I shunned more expensive zooms that wouldn't > give me the ambient results I like. > > This is a good camera. It's tame and unresponsive compared to the M6's but > the instant preview and editing facilities are worth their weight in gold. > Image resoultion is 2 million pixels, which is enough for snapshots and > printing small images and on one occasion good enough to do a crop for web > publication. I've put this weekends test shots on the web at > > http://bouncing.org/gallery/ > > all images have been sized down for display on the web, all have been dodges > and burnt in photoshop. They are just excersizes really, but feel free to > have a look. > > nod.
