STAREDOWN WITH THE 40D !

On Dec 31 2007, 3:57*am, "Prisilla, Queen of the Desert"
wrote:

Relax Russ, he's already 'selected' his next camera. An Olympus 35mm
SLR. LOL!

PQOTD

At least when D-Mac posts using one of his many dirty socks he doesn't
mention his annika1980 site. Keep posting, Queenie.

russ templeton wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:52:35 -0600, Neil Ellwood
wrote:

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:02:36 -0600, russ templeton wrote:

You could have at least done something about that rotten white-balance
that your camera created. A deer's coat isn't magenta. Get your monitor
adjusted, or get a better camera, or something. How about some talent,
see if you can buy that somewhere while you're at it.
I think you need a new monitor or lessons in setting it up.

What a waste of time.
At least you realise you are.

If you people can't see the 5+% magenta cast in the mid-tones of that animal's
coat you sorely need some time in a darkroom, or at least some decent eye
examinations that will reveal your inability to detect colors adequately. Not
only do the midrange tones have a magenta cast but the whites are decidedly too
blue (-Y). I even detect a bit of a blue-green cast in some of the white in the
ear tuft. That camera has some nasty color-channel problems.

Um, 'Russ'... the animal is standing in a green forest with who knows
what else reflecting light onto it. It's not standing in a white studio.
That is perfectly normal. It's just personal preference at this point,
whatever WB adjustments one might make, and I don't think I would change
a thing, it depends on the other shots in the set & the mood I wanted to
convey and my memory of the scene.


My monitor displays perfect gray levels from blacks to whites, smoothly without
even one minor range of values getting a color cast in it. It will even show an
intensity difference between 0 and 1 and 244 and 255. I have tested it with
every method known, some of those methods even revealing their own inherent
flaws when I found they couldn't compete with my own ability to detect slight
color shifts. I spent 25 years of my life in a darkroom manually adjusting
colorhead enlargers for the slightest color corrections needed. I can adjust any
video display better than any technician doing his rote benchwork by the book.
When doing photomicrography I can hand-stack a layer of filters to provide a
purer daylight light source for incandescent lights than filters that come from
laboratories specifically designed for the purpose. I can detect as little as a
1% color shift in any one channel easily, sometimes even 0.5%. In fact, I find
incandescent color shifts so annoying that I just built my own filter stacks for
my yard flood-lights so they put out pure daylight at night because that nasty
yellow-orange cast on white snow at night was driving me up a wall. If you can't
see those color problems in those images no wonder companies like Canon and
Nikon can get away with selling overpriced crap like that to people like you.
You're hopelessly color blind.

You're just more losers proving that fact to the world. If it isn't proved in
the images you post then it's proved in how you can't even see the flaws in all
of them. It never ends with you ****ing fools.

Go ahead, throw that image through any utility that will auto-correct for
improper color shifts. Watch any one of them correct for a bad magenta cast in
that image. You're just too ****ing stupid and inept to see that on your own
without having to resort to that. You just proved it.

On Jan 1, 8:36*pm, wrote:
Off Topic.

On Dec 31 2007, 7:00 pm, "Prisilla, Queen of the Desert"
AKA Douglas MacDonald wrote:

On Dec 31, 9:56 am, wrote:

On Dec 31, 8:46 am, russ templeton wrote:

Oh, but it's much more fun watching a useless **** of a resident troll trip over
a 244 vs. 254 typo as the only thing that it can pleadingly latch onto for its
desperate need for attention.

So now he admits the typo... **Who* tripped? *(grin)

3-0.

Do you really believe yourself? Only an idiot would.

PQOTD

Can I give you a small tip, Douglas? *(No? *Too bad!)

Your style is just too distinctive for you to post *normally*, let
alone an abusive message aimed at me. If you really want to sneak back
onto usenet after the incredable (heh!) embarrassment of the Sarina
and Susana busted identities, you really need to *avoid old foes*.

By the way, I just *loved* it when you signed off for Susana as
"Douglas" - that was WAY COOL!http://groups.google.com.au/group/au...thread/dc8042f...

You *meant* to do that, right?

(O;

I am still waiting for the "no embedded profile" explanation from that
thread :-(

Matthew Winn wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:17:42 -0600, l v wrote:

russ templeton wrote:
You could have at least done something about that rotten white-balance that your
camera created. A deer's coat isn't magenta. Get your monitor adjusted, or get a
better camera, or something. How about some talent, see if you can buy that
somewhere while you're at it.
Magenta? My monitor does not show any magenta in the deer's coat.

There is some magenta. Here's a copy of the image (with apologies for
being an image thief) with the magenta parts of the image replaced by
a saturated yellow to make them stand out.

http://i11.tinypic.com/80v5mwp.jpg (200kB image)

You can see a few pixels near the border of one ear that were magenta.

By the way, don't be tempted to skip over "russ templeton"'s long post
dated 2007-12-29 20:38 (2007-12-30 02:38 GMT). It's a keeper.


Now that you pointed it out, I can see a slight hint of magenta in the
locations you pointed to. Based on "russ's" posting, I expected a
purple deer.

I liked the $25k for an 8x10. I'm thinking "russ" is either paparazzi,
private investigator or blackmailer

--

Len

"Prisilla, Queen of the Desert" vehemently
accused in

om:

On Dec 30, 9:53 pm, wrote:
Mostly offtopic, just chomping on our troll. I know one
shouldn't make fun of someone with a disability, but this
****** is just *too* funny, and I'm bored. Thanks for the
entertainment, 'russ', aka Mr CHKDK..

Here's my favorite bits:

If you people can't see the 5+% magenta cast in the mid-tones
of that animal's

We can see a *very* slight magenta tinge in a few tiny areas.
So insignificant that a tiny, easy tweak would fix it, and it's
completely irrelevant in the scheme of things.


Fanboi, fanboi, fanboi!
You are one quick draw mouth, dude. Like when it comes to
putting other people's images down but all of a sudden... Fanboi
of Bret Douglas!

Wow, the ranks are forming. Those with experience, skill and
knowledge are bypassed for mythologists who imagine up their
skills and invent an unprovable history in the industry. How is
it you claim to have a Medium format camera but like the magic
you give yourself in bed, it never works? God will help you if
you help yourself, but God help you when you get caught doing
it. Give up on the critique Mark. You have no ability to carry
it off.

It's a sickening thought that those lies on your web site about
where you got your mythical ability from and in fact your claim
to have any ability at all, only come from your over active
imagination which gives you those gooey wet dreams. To you
wetting agent is your own sperm when you wake up from the dream.

Relax Russ, he's already 'selected' his next camera. An Olympus
35mm SLR. LOL!

PQOTD

Dammit Doug, STOP MORPHING! My KF is almost full.

Willa
--
http://www.pbase.com/willarojo

“I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to
live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.”
Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph line from
Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing
important to communicate.”
Thoreau, Walden
******
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_disorder