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<title>Photo viewing software</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What software do you use to just open and quickly view your photos?  I have windows 7 and I am not happy with the gallery photo viewer, I would like to try something else, any suggestions?  I will be doing editing in other software.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-22 21:54:45</pubDate>
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<title>[Game] Can you identify this...?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20414826</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ok, I thought of a new game. Its like this:

I post a picture, and you've got to identify it. 
Whoever posts the right answer gets to post the next picture. 

Simple, right?

Just make sure your pictures are not all that easy to identify. No hints allowed, and pics should not be less than 800 x 600 px

I'll start. My image is up there. Now guess :)]]></description>
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<title>Some Hot Shots.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[No, not girlie shots real hot shots. On Monday 11/16/09 the Broward Sheriff&#146;s Office Fire Rescue Division did a controlled simulation of the dangers of using deep fry turkey cookers and I grabbed a few stills while my cameraman taped the simulation. 

The boil-over simulation consisted of placing a partially frozen turkey into an overfilled deep fryer with the oil heated to 450 degrees, needless to say the results where something you wouldn&#146;t want to have at your home though last year a few people here in Broward County did just that with disastrous results which in one case resulted in not only a very badly burned chef but the total loss of his home as well. 

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BSOFR Firefighter Nick Maggio and the bird.

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And in it goes.

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Now we&#146;re cooking.

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Things are going south fast.

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Not good.

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Houston we have a problem.

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At least we didn&#146;t have to call 911.

Bottom line be safe and enjoy this Thanksgiving.

Wayne
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If you cannot fix it with a buttset and some beanies you're not a technician.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-17 19:40:32</pubDate>
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<title>Artify #264 New Orleans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Enjoy but be gentle, this is my first time. ;-) ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-20 00:32:07</pubDate>
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<title>[CritEditY] I was at the scene of a car &#x27;fire&#x27; today</title>
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<description><![CDATA[So on my way to replace a dying server for work, I stopped by McDonald's and happened across what passes for a major event in these parts: a car 'fire.'

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The battalion chiefs around here are usually nice guys.

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Here's where it started to get interesting. Rather than break a window and open the hood latch from inside, they decide to use a crow bar.

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The car's owner finally shows up and offers to open the hood.

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Due to the use of the crowbar, the hood wouldn't open as normal, so they were proceeding with the brute force attempt.

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This guy gave me all sorts of weird looks the 10 or so minutes I was there.

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At this point, the professionals show up. I guess I'm different in that I don't keep the tripod ring mounted on the 35-350 all the time since it's useless weight...

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Now I don't really understand his technique. He could easy have moved in other ways to not bend like this, and I missed the one where he was literally bending at a almost 90 degree angle versus just moving to his right 2 feet and squatting or kneeling. I stayed much further back than he did... I suppose I'm a very very 'shy' shooter.

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At this point, I was already spending time I didn't have (regardless of whether or not WA L&I says I should have a break) so I skee-daddled and moved on.

Feel free to critique.
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Come play Mafia! | My Picture Blog]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-21 00:01:07</pubDate>
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<title>Let&#x27;s travel.. UPDATED</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'll start off..

Cuenca, Spain: A brief synopsis. Located in the Castilla-La Mancha province. The old village is situated atop a mountain peninsula surrounded by high cliffs, the perfect place for a medieval castle stronghold. Very much a part of Cuenca's more recent  history is the legend of Don Quixote. It is an ancient village with many original buildings and narrow winding streets just the same today as they were 1000 years ago. In all of my travels, Cuenca tops #1 for the oldest hotel I have ever stayed in - 600 years old. Cuenca today is a very artsy new-age town and village with many young people as much as it is place locked in ancient times.

Looking down on the village from the mirador.



An old building with a decaying modern surface: Cuenca, Spain



Religious paintball: Cuenca, Spain



Calle de San Pedro: Cuenca, Spain

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<pubDate>2009-11-09 14:21:42</pubDate>
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<title>A Stormtrooper&#x27;s day off...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[or how Darth Vader's minions enjoy themselves when no-one is looking.

 
The Star Wars film series is certainly an epic, following a tale of Good versus Evil over the landscape of an entire universe.
But even with a running-length of over twelve hours, George Lucas's story could not hope to explore every last detail of the Stormtroopers - those poor minions who have to do the bidding of Darth Vader.
Luckily, a new blog has appeared to fill us in on the day-to-day lives of the Stormtroopers when they're not protecting the Death Star from those pesky Jedis.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1228594/A-Stormtroopers-day--Darth-Vaders-minions-enjoy-looking.html
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old 
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. 
At the going down of the sun and in the morning 
We will remember them.

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<pubDate>2009-11-21 17:15:01</pubDate>
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<title>&#x22;Bokeh panorama&#x22; technique</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Has anyone else ever tried the Bokeh Panorama technique? I've been messing around with it for the last week or so. I haven't really tried to do anything very artistic yet, just trying to become familiar with the method of shooting the images and getting comfortable with software needed.

You take lots of pictures with a shallow depth of field, then stitch them together to create the impression of medium format or large format photography. The results can be pretty dramatic.

This image was about 20 images stitched together. 
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25 Images
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Around 50 images
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55 Images
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All of the above photos were taken with a Nikkor 85mm wide open @ f/1.4 to achieve the limited depth of field. Through trial and error it seems that having some of the image in front of the focus plane exaggerates the effect. You don't need to use a large file, I used a standard large fine jpeg out of my camera and I ended up with a 400mb file once stitched together lol. You can just use the "small jpeg" straight out of you camera unless you want huge images, you also don't have to really worry about using high ISO either since each frame is a small part of the final image, any noise just basically disappears. 
 

There are some web sites with instructions on how to achieve this affect sometimes referred to as the "Brenizer Method"
http://blog.buiphotography.com/2009/07/the-brenizer-method-explained-with-directions/

http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/get-greater-depth-of-field-with-brenizer-method/

There is a Flickr group with lots of sample images as well.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/brenizermethod/

I hope some of you give this a try, it is always nice to learn something new that expands your portfolio.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-21 14:28:05</pubDate>
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<title>Gearheads skewered in funny video.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0toBw68L5Y4&feature=player_embedded]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-17 01:59:31</pubDate>
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