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作者: maanmo 時間: 2007-12-2 12:59 標題: photo droppings ..volume 3.1 cheap shots from pet cams

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testing posting in this new playground

[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2007-12-2 13:13 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-1-18 01:06

same place as above,
this time, it is the 2008 canadian figure skating championships

i photographed some skaters practicing, through glass
  outside the door , maximum 10x zoom

  using iso 400, the highest iso  for my camera
  double noise reduction, in camera, and in photo editing
  curve adjusted brightness and contrast

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-2-21 00:33

chinese new year parade ,
i saw lots of cameras in the rain

from my own camera, the only interesting things in the photos are people's faces

i particularly like the 2 kids under the dancing dragon,
my aim was to shoot the dragon,
its not an interesting photo of the dragon, but i like the
way the people pose themselves in this cropped photo

the kid in a warm pink coat with a hood to keep out the rain is the star
i only see this kid when i am looking at this picture long after i took it

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[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-2-21 00:44 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-2-22 00:40

another look of the new year parade,
my camera starts to get wet from the rain
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while browsing flickr for other people's vancouver photos
i see one that is not related to the chinese new year but if of great interests to me

its vancouver 1989, ( 19, almost 20 years  old photo) by  grco61
"From Queen Elizabeth Park, from a photo scan. In the "OLDE" days, before the trees grew up and obscured the view. ""

   not only the trees were young, but many buildings on the north side
of false creek  were still not there yet
grco61 also has a photo of san francisco 1991 aerial view

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grco61/2271714216/in/pool-vancouver

here is what grco61 says about his cameras
Resident of BC since 1959 (ex-Ontario), family grown and away, love to travel and take pictures. Once in a while, I get a good one. Love exchanging pics and comments with Flickr friends. Thanks to all who have been so kind to my offerings.
My equipment:
Minolta STSi 35mm
Toshiba PDR 750 digital, 3.1 mpix
Pentax Optio S50 digital 5 mpix
Canon flat bed scanner
In 2007, my Toshiba and Pentax died. Now using Olympus SP510UZ and Kodak C743

very nice cameras he has been using, and very nice photos

[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-2-22 00:50 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-1 00:57

another photo from chinese new year,
i heard some nice songs , this one live on stage, and a few more very nice
cantonese songs in a music store.

looks like this new year, there will be no need for a new camera
although the new olympus sp 570 is coming out this march

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-3 12:54

eagle on old tree

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-3 13:15

eagle on old tree , photo 2
saturday, saw a high flying eagle partying with some crows in the sky
later , a guy with a DSLR was shooting at a eagle resting on a tall conifer
by an apartment building
he told me the eagle nest has been there for 2 years now

sunday , i took my camera with me, after a few minutes of looking at
the nest, the eagles flew back for a photo session that last only a few
munutes before they flew south

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[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-3-3 13:20 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-11 01:07

chinese new year in the garden
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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-13 00:35

the eagle on the old tree again

when the eagle spreads its wings and fly over hastings street,
over the pond, the horse racing course to the water over the harbour
i press the camera button, and it does not wake up
so we only have a pic of the eagle at rest
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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-15 16:39

nice photo i see on flickr by hkcl@flickr's photos

check out all hkcl@flickr's hong kong photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9216038@N03/

i like the view of 長沙灣, the sky is just a ribbon over head

[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-3-15 16:41 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-17 18:32

i like to live like eagles in a city

what the eagle above sees
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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-19 12:38

so i like to live like eagles and shoot the city

but here is the master
with a camera showing the way, " one should not live like eagles "
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentam/2337053521/in/pool-hongkong
from ken Tam's photo album on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentam/

go see ken tam.. wow, ( ken tam's photos are tagged with Nikon D80 )

the photo set for this girl is interesting ,

[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-3-19 12:49 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-20 13:00

ken tam's photo above shows very well the correct way to hold the camera, and your subject

on flickr again, suburbanvoodoo shows how to shoot the harbour
compare my view of the vancouver downtown and harbour with this shot of the hongkong harbour
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suburbanvoodoo/

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-26 12:16

in a photo above, i showed my camera's view of downtown, and the harbour hidden by the trees
and ugly buildings

but i found on flickr, some body posted some photos from the ctv chopper
you can see downtown , stanley park , the harbor , the northshore mountains, and bowen island better
http://www.flickr.com/photos/murman/tags/ctvchopper9/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/murman/
check out murman's photos on flickr

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-3-26 21:55

of all the things a photographer want, the most important is the point of view

but one does not need to be on a chopper

if the rapid transit line to richmond is elevated the views will be fantastic

some what like this one
this is what the eagle sees when it looks east
we are looking out of a window of a house on a slope
at the bottom, the school is on the valley bed , the creek that runs there
has been covered underground long ago, just like what stupid people do with
rapid transit lines
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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-4-17 00:33

saturday, lilluet and graveley

someone with a nikon D80 under the cherry blossoms

he just put on the wide angle lens,
i want to capture the reflection of the blossoms on the lens

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[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-4-17 00:48 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-4-17 00:35

the nikon D80 under cherry blossoms
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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-4-17 10:42

spring journey
below the blossom sky
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i have no wide angle lens
instead stitched 2 photos together
ajust the hightlights and shadows with photoshop
to bring some clouds back into the white out sky
before the rain drops fall
put my camera back into the pouch in a hurry
but the nikon d80 i leave behind did not get wet
because the rain does not come
the guy said he would post some of the nikon d80 photos somewhere on a
chinese website
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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-7-11 15:53

an old friend under the bright july sunny sky

the most common woodpacker in BC, the northern flicker

when it flies away , it shows a flash of white feathers

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-7-12 22:44

summer morning in the garden

to bring out the web, i use 2 modes in photoshop
linear dodge , overlay
+sharpening

if you dont know what "linear dodge" and "overlay" modes are
the best explaination of how to use them are found in

Real world Adobe Photoshop CS2 : industrial-strength production techniques / Bruce Fraser, David Blatner.

such a good book, ( no longer available in the vancouver library
its status is overdue , lost , damaged

but you can get hold of this book right now from the bunaby library
its a thick book , i just browse through some of the step by step examples of how to process photos with photoshop
bruce fraser's techniqes are more elegant that those described in introductory photoshop books

bruce fraser himself, passed away more than a year ago

to take this photo
i have to remember how to use manual focus with my olympus c 740
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[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-7-12 23:53 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-7-15 00:38

the PNE prize home 2008

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a picture of the hostess

when the hostess's image is stitched with other photos to form the whole
bedroom , the hostess is not there any more
only a little of her hair, and back

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[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-7-15 01:40 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-7-20 12:47

Giro di bunaby,
my camera wants me to take it there again, or else buy a new camera

this year i was late and missed the women's race and the wind blowing the
spectators , winds that made me had dreams of glory....

during the men's race , the day light is fading fast

low light photography is a big challenge for my olympus c-470

but apparently , this guy's photos will be sharp and bright

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-7-20 23:26

many cameras at the giro di burnaby

the blond photographer is here again , i had a photo of her last year

at the upper left is what i think is the official camera, the photos of which overruled the announced results of the women's race

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[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-7-21 00:28 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-7-22 23:22

the biggest lens, i saw at the bicycle race

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if you look straight ahead ( behind the lady photograher's forehead, is the
back of a back building .
i climbed its outside stairs to shoot one of the pic shown above

[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-7-23 00:29 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-7-23 11:32

someone else, standing more or less at the same location
using a nikon D300 has a photo that shows the stairs i memtioned above better

check out all her photos on 2 cycling events

http://flickr.com/photos/katidebelic/sets/72157606245723391/

Vancouver host the superweek in the middle of the summer and I managed to attend 2 different criteriums this year, the Tour de Gastown and Giro di Burnaby.

32 photos | 9 views

items are from between 16 Jul 2008 & 17 Jul 2008.

Burnaby Now tells the story of the photofinish in the women's race
http://www.canada.com/burnabynow/news/story.html?id=49eb43a9-042b-4c02-b820-9c681f45665c

[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-7-23 12:39 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-8-3 00:31

my camera speaks again...

take me to shoot some fireworks or buy a DSLR camera and keep it in a closet

ok ok, i am a traditionalist, we shoot fireworks last year, and will shoot again

i am not playing with a camera, i am living with a camera

life goes on, year after year after year

the camera shoots forever and forever
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[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-8-3 01:36 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-8-3 00:38

my camera speaks again...

take me to shoot some fireworks or buy a DSLR camera and keep it in a closet

ok ok, i am a traditionalist, we shoot fireworks last year, and will shoot again

i am not playing with a camera, i am living with a camera

life goes on, year after year after year

the camera shoots forever and forever
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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-8-12 22:35

i took 120 pics at last sunday's chinatown festival and olympics celebration

one of these pic is a lotus between water and sky

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hard rock and soft bum

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-8-13 21:43

the chinatown festival and the olympics celebration.. all in one..
offer great opportunities to take photos

nothing beats people photography...

  i emailed 2 sets of photos to 2 of my camera subjects
  but not everyone gave me their emails

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-8-14 23:09

i enjoy photographing people , more than anything else

from the the 120 photos , i now select these 2

" 妈妈，我要去北京 "

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-8-17 00:56

夢想在成長中

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take this opportunity to photo lots of people , dream on , keep shooting...

[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-8-17 02:10 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-9-14 22:06

so many photos taken from the vancouver olympics celebration , and then a hundred
photos from the PNE..

when i took my olympus c740 to the PNE, we may have gotten into the evening news

see how i shift my camera to include the tv camera man

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[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2008-9-14 23:08 編輯 ]

作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-9-17 22:24

it takes me one month to select from the hundred photos taken at the PNE and post this one today

take as many photos of people as possible, this girl is a natural for the camera
the more people like this girl, the more enjoyable playing with a camera is

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-10-1 00:13

life goes on

before digital cameras , people dont usually waste film shooting bees

but with digital cameras everyone can try

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2008-10-14 14:29

another insect ? sometimes thats what happens when you play with a camera

you can almost predict what the next pic will be like...

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2009-4-19 21:37

maanmo take his pet camera out for a walk in spring time

with a song in the heart

忘不了　忘不了
忘不了你的淚　忘不了你的笑忘不了　忘不了
忘不了葉落的惆悵　也忘不了那花開的煩惱

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作者: 快樂牛郎 時間: 2009-4-19 21:48

36# maanmo

These kids already have so many troubles to forget?

作者: maanmo 時間: 2009-6-21 22:28

忘不了春已盡，忘不了花已老。

。又是龍舟時節

maanmo is a traditionalist, this is year 3 of my dragon boat shooting
with the same olympus 10x zoom c740, which i was very happy to have bought a little more than 2 years ago

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2009-7-25 22:42

忘不了春已盡，忘不了花已老。

又是煙花時節

maanmo is a traditionalist

same place , same time, same camera

this year, the fireworks was joined by rain, lightning and thunder

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2009-7-29 11:49

本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2009-7-29 12:51 編輯

maanmo is very pleased with the fireworks  lightning photo above

maanmo has wanted to  capture the fireworks from  the east vancouver area for several years

this is the 3rd year of practice with the same camera

and  its always good to compare  what others have taken with the same subject

http://www.flickr.com/photos/felixaldhi/3757454854/in/pool-vancouver

/ Panasonic / DMC-L1

作者: 快樂牛郎 時間: 2009-7-29 11:58

40# maanmo

haha my nice little camera

作者: 快樂牛郎 時間: 2009-7-29 11:59

忘不了春已盡，忘不了花已老。

。又是龍舟時節

maanmo is a traditionalist, this is year 3 of my dragon boat shooting
with the same olympus 10x zoom c740, which i was very happy to ha ...
maanmo 發表於 2009/6/21 22:28

How come the corners look so artifically out of focus?

作者: maanmo 時間: 2009-8-1 00:54

How come the corners look so artifically out of focus?
快樂牛郎發表於 2009-7-29 12:59

the answer to your question is
the occasion being maanmo's third try at photographing the dragon boat race
this year i am  disappointed because i did not capture something that satisfy my
photographic imagination
so after  picking  the best photo ,  i judged the photo to be too flat
and applied photoshop's  2 easiest tools,  cropping and blurring

作者: maanmo 時間: 2009-8-25 15:49

本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2009-8-25 16:52 編輯

maanmo of course contiunes to play with camera,
just that nothing seems to be worth posting

here is another shot at the fireworks this summer
one week after  the lightning storm

does it matter whether it  is south africa or china , probably not
this time its a new location, with people around me

where as , for the lightning shot,  maanmo was alone
i find i like to do photography alone, with no people around me

but in case of people photography,,  like shooting models,
scott kelby , in his books on photography explained very well, why the photographer should talk all the time , sending out vibrations to the model,  helping to keep the
model in top performing shape

the reason why maanmo post this pic now is
as follows
if the portrait photographer does not talk, the subject may loose  enthusiam, becoming cold and lifeless, full of anxiety
similarly if the camera player does not post photos for a long time , the photographer will loose  enthusiasm
keep the interests in photography warm , by posting photos

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作者: 快樂牛郎 時間: 2009-8-25 15:57

That's right

作者: maanmo 時間: 2009-10-4 22:10

maanmo is a traditionalist...

so maanmo kneels on the ground and pray to heaven

但願人長久，千里共嬋娟

the 4th year ? may be its the 5th year, maanmo post a moon pic on this forum

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2009-10-25 22:40

本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2009-10-25 23:48 編輯

maanmo has just acquired 2 old cameras

2 and 1/2 years after using the old olympus c740  3 megapixel 10x (2003  $80)
the first one is fujifilm finepix a345 (2005 )
the second one is a conon  sd700 is (2006)

learning to use a different camera usually takes many days
i like the finepix a345 , a 4 megapixel 3x  compact point and shoot,
quite an improvement  over the finepix z2650 , i used for a year about 3 years ago, 2 megapixel 3x
  smaller in size, ( the first compact camera i ever carry ) bigger  LCD

  i have not taken any interesting photos yet, with this finepix a345
  which is , i believe , usual experience for people trying out new cameras
so i combined 2 photos into one,

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as to the canon, i put my heel on it right away.
as you know, maanmo like to put the heel the the canon g10

putting the heel on any canon camera is a good way to get to know it better
as a result, this canon cannot take pictures
but maanmo is very impressed with the reviews on this canon
being a first Digital ELPH with optical image stabilization system
its introduction price almost touched $500

it is fate of maanmo, that maanmo never shoot with a canon
nonetheless , it is educational, heeling it hard...
picking up the pieces , i look at at with boundless admiration
the brain of the camera is just a small piece of circuit board with 2 small black chips the size of a dragonfly's eyes

作者: maanmo 時間: 2010-2-12 12:56

本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2010-2-12 14:01 編輯

for many years , it has always been maanmo's aim to shoot the olympic flame
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作者: maanmo 時間: 2010-2-15 17:09

as you know, maanmo has been talking about photography, in this forum for many year

so, happy new year to you , again...

yesterday, maanmo , being a traditionalist, take the pet cam out for a walk,

to capture the chinese new year parade and  the olympic celebrations

maanmo sees so many DSLR s, and so many other cams
maanmo does not know, what photos these cameras take

but maanmo is particularly fasinated with a bosom  in  the world with booming blossoms

open up, open up,  maanmo waited,

a happy spring to you, may the bosoms of the world open up

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2010-2-28 20:42

maanmo 's olyjmpic photo experience five photos, for the 5 ring circus

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2010-7-7 01:10

本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2010-7-7 01:19 編輯

maanmo is a traditionalist

so here is this years dragon boat race

same place , same time , same camera

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come to think of it, when maanmo bought the old cam, the little sister was not yet born
my heart is focusing on something

作者: maanmo 時間: 2010-7-18 23:06

same place, same time, same camera

a different PNE dream home,

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作者: maanmo 時間: 2010-10-18 18:35

夏日匆匆

thanks giving has come and gone too

that thanksgiving morning

maanmo ventured into the garden
my back was warm with the sun

I have the same camera,  i see the same flowers , the same bees

but there will not be that many honey bee dates left

maanmo knelt down on the soil and prayed to heaven

thanks for the bees, thanks for the flowers
thanks for summer

and thanks for the summer girls

how did I ever lived without you girls?

the  bees and I would like to sing the song
thanks for the flowers, thanks for the summer girls

hear our 苦命歌

命裡有時終須有  命裡無時莫強求

we pray for more summer days, more summer flowers, more summer girls

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作者: 快樂牛郎 時間: 2010-10-18 19:39

haha, nice presentation

作者: maanmo 時間: 2010-11-26 23:53

本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2010-11-27 00:03 編輯

finally after using this camera for many years
I test its video function

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special thanks to the bird , for co starring with the wind turbine

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