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Subject: [Leica] Ted & Assignments in LWC
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:56:43 -0700
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Tina Manley offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted & Assignments in LWC


>I think if we don't allow comments on the photos, including but not limited
> to Ted's comments, interest will drop off drastically.  Why would you
> bother to post something if you don't get any feedback?  We somehow manage
> to look at and comment on hundreds of photos a week.  I think that's a 
> good
> thing!  We are all learning from Ted's great criticisms on the challenge
> photos and that's a good thing, too.

Hi Tina
I don't have a problem if lots of folks comment. Although many perspectives 
rarely work, as in deciding good, bad or ugly by committee?  As long as 
argumments don't start. Then it becomes a total waste of time. And many of 
us don't have much time to waste????

My comments are purely from "shooting experience! Lots & lots of it over and 
over again" Not learned from reading  a book. Now I am the first to admit my 
lack of reading camera manuals, certainly digital and digital "darkroom 
effects & how to's" have hindered a few things since digital came into 
being.

However I still plod on shooting when I can using the KISS system. If it 
works when I press  " auto levels or auto colur and the frame on screen 
looks "cool" I leave it be. I don't start fiddling trying to make it look 
better. Like I said, use the "KISS IT" button!! :-)  Beauty! :-)

cheers, Dr. ted  :-)



>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>
>> Ted, you certainly have a busy schedule for a man who blithly gave us the
>> choice of TWO assignments for this week, and who HASN'T limited the 
>> number
>> of photos that anybody can submit on the topics. Best of luck with the
>> weddings.
>>
>> Personally, I have NO objection to you picking just one winner and
>> commenting as to why you think it is the winner in your eyes. I don't 
>> think
>> it is necessary to comment on every picture submitted. The LUG should be
>> DAMNED happy to have a great photographer with your considerable skills 
>> and
>> vast experience judging the entries submitted, and equally be very happy
>> with your choice of winner. It's a personal choice for you and LUG should
>> just accept it. If people are unhappy, they can choose not to enter.
>>
>> I consider that entries should be limited to one photo per LUG member, no
>> comments submitted until the result is announced, and no criticism of the
>> judge's choice be entertained. This might make it simpler to manage!!!
>>
>> If you are loath to make rules, I might suggest to the rest of the LUG
>> that they only submit one photo per topic, rather than blizzard a raft of
>> similar efforts at the hapless judge. At our age, all of us are surely
>> capable of choosing our own best picture on each topic. Bear in mind, the
>> sheer volume of both emails and pictures on the LUG sometimes makes it 
>> very
>> difficult to look at everybody's photos, and cranking up the volume even
>> further should be discouraged.
>>
>> These are my personal opinions and I'm equally sure that all of you have
>> your own!!
>>
>> Other opinions, anybody????
>>
>> Douglas
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGS: Wedding Photos
>>
>>
>>  Tina Manley OFFERED:
>>> Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Wedding Photos
>>>
>>>  My son and his bride got married in Gibraltar in March, after hiking 
>>> the
>>>> Camino de Santiago.  They got remarried yesterday in Charleston for all
>>>> of
>>>> their friends and family who couldn't make it to Gibraltar.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/**151792382<http://www.pbase.com/image/151792382>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/**tinamanley/image/151792383<http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/151792383>
>>>>
>>>> It was a beautiful wedding!  I only took about 1000 photos ;-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Tina,
>>> Well I'll be the wedding photographer next Saturday as two of my
>>> grandson's Kyle -Victoria and Kyle-Ottawa get married on the same day! 
>>> :-(
>>>
>>> However, it was originally planned to be on separate Saturdays. One 
>>> today
>>> and one next Saturday.  I mean when you have two grandson's the same 
>>> name
>>> it's bad enough when you are talking about them or about them you have 
>>> to
>>> designate which one all the time. Let alone their about to be wive's mix
>>> the wedding day dates, both happening on the same day!! :-(
>>>
>>> The families bad enough with 2-Ted's, 2- Scotts, 2- Kate's thoughout the
>>> collection. But  when they screw-up the wedding  dates makng it 
>>> immpossible
>>> to get to both you take the nearest, save a big pile of money in 
>>> airfares
>>> and let the Kyle in Ottawa with bride fly here for a bit of a Honeymoon
>>> with the "old lad. Then with his cousin Kyle and is bride they will both
>>> share the honeymoons together !  Me?  I'll be editing my thousand
>>> frames???? :-)
>>>
>>> The scary thing is, they were two little boys not so long ago who sat on
>>> my knee and watched grandpa show slides from the last assignment from
>>> wherever in the world! :-) BOY DOES TIME EVER FLY!
>>>
>>> Any tips for the old lad as I haven't shot a wedding in nearly 50 years
>>> and I always hated every minute even though I was extremely well paid 
>>> for
>>> doing them. :-(
>>>
>>> May have some happy snaps to show after next Saturday.
>>> mmmmmaaayybbbbeeee???????????? ;-)
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> ted
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No poblem G'Pa could've flown to Ottawa and been back here for the week
>>> laer. Well it started out like that
>>>
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>
>
> -- 
> Tina Manley
> http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com
>
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