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Originally Posted by FlyBoeingJets I'm trying to get away from the concern about image noise in favor of ISOs that I'm unaccustomed to using (because of the worry about noise)

**ValleyFan** · December 5th, 2007, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by FlyBoeingJets

I'm trying to get away from the concern about image noise in favor of ISOs that I'm unaccustomed to using (because of the worry about noise) so that I can get higher shutter speeds to decrease blur caused by camera shake.

I finally got around to reading that article you posted from PCPhoto about this, one thing I wanted to throw in there is when you are worried about noise, try shooting with the histogram as far the right as possible without clipping. This means you want to overexpose the shot as much as possible because noise hides in the shadows, then bring you exposure down in post.

**FlyBoeingJets** · December 6th, 2007, 07:53 AM

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And holly CRAP, that ball head on your wish list can hold 22 pounds! Makes me think I should have looked at ball heads a bit more before purchasing my head.

Hah! 22lbs! I didn't notice that! I think the tripod can only support 11! I might need to re-evaluate my tripod requirements. Since the primary use of the tripod would be landscapes/macro/portraiture, I don't have any plans to use the tripod and ball-head with the big lens. Nevertheless, I wonder what the D200, battery pack, and 70-200 lens weigh together? I suppose it would be nice to have a tripod and ball-head that can handle the weight of the big stuff in case I ever need it.

**FlyBoeingJets** · December 6th, 2007, 02:35 PM

Okay guys. As of today, I am officially a professional photographer!!

I got an email from a guy at the CBC who wanted to purchase the rights to this picture:

and use it to illustrate a follow-up to this article:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/stor...e-lawsuit.html

He offered me $25 and I said okay.

Go me.

Unfiltered · December 6th, 2007, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by FlyBoeingJets

Okay guys. As of today, I am officially a professional photographer!!

I got an email from a guy at the CBC who wanted to purchase the rights to this picture:

and use it to illustrate a follow-up to this article:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/stor...e-lawsuit.html

He offered me $25 and I said okay.

Go me.

W00T! Awesome! See? That assclown is good for something other than adding to the Kings' organization loss record.

**ValleyFan** · December 6th, 2007, 03:26 PM

Wow, that is awesome, congrats!

Did he tell you how he found it?

**FlyBoeingJets** · December 6th, 2007, 03:35 PM

He said he'd searched flickr for Marc Crawford.

I really sort of posted this as a funny thing. I find it more amusing than anything else. I don't necessarily have any aspirations of being a professional photographer unless the current career takes a turn for whatever reason. I guess it's good that I've sold something. Now if he actually uses it, that'll be another story.

**ValleyFan** · December 6th, 2007, 03:39 PM

That tells me two things right there: I need to get hip to the flickr, and I need to be better about key wording

**rinkrat** · December 6th, 2007, 04:11 PM

I had a magazine ask for a few Cammy pics and then they didn't use them. :(

A goalie school asked for pics of Quick so maybe I still have a chance at fame and fortune. I'll have to get going on flickr too.

**FlyBoeingJets** · December 6th, 2007, 04:31 PM

Flickr: It's the ****, Yo!

I should sell them that. It'd be a good advertising slogan in some places.

DeaderFan · December 7th, 2007, 03:38 PM

Hey BoeingJets,

I was checking out the Young Gallery the other day and I came across this photographer that made me think of you. This series is by France Bizot, called "Aircraft windows."

This gallery charges big bucks for prints. Now that you are a "pro," maybe you too can start raking in the cash

Here is the link for the gallery: http://www.younggalleryphoto.com/photography.html

By the way, I was flying back to LAX from PHX yesterday on an older 300 series and we had to declare an emergency and go back because the cabin started smelling like smoke. You guys get that often?

**FlyBoeingJets** · December 8th, 2007, 08:00 AM

Nope. Chances are it was a recirculation fan going bad. Happens every now and again, but isn't anything dangerous.

Hope we took good care of you during that, though. Lots of passengers would tend to "think big" when the reason for returning is rather small.

**ValleyFan** · December 8th, 2007, 04:03 PM

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Okay...here's a question for the Photoshop guru's in here:

Is there a way in PS to take correct the distortion in an image that's introduced by a fisheye lens?

EDIT: I've just tried a plug-in called PTLens. It takes out the distortion, but it makes the edges of the image very fuzzy with a lot of artifacts when it does. AND it only works on jpg images for some reason.

Another plug-in I completely forgot to mention is DxO, but it isn't cheap ($300)

**FlyBoeingJets** · December 8th, 2007, 04:53 PM

D3 Review.

http://www.letsgodigital.org/html/re...o-gallery.html

D3 vs 5D Comparison

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d3/vs-5d-180mm.htm

**FlyBoeingJets** · December 9th, 2007, 04:20 PM

Just f'in around today:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenn_calvin/2099428640/

That'd be a good stock photo. I might have to redo that one with the camera mounted on a tripod set to a lower ISO and have it on a background instead of just on the floor.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenn_calvin/2098693901/

I didn't realize how dirty my living room floor was. This photo is kind of strange, because it looks as if the tower tilts to the right. I swear I lined up the tower to the crop grid when I rotated it! I even tried it three times! I think the near-white highlight on the right side of the tower of blocks draws they eye and makes it appear tilted when it isn't.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.