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got friend-zoned yesterday over the internet.

WTF? well, she wants to be friends with me and not be in a relationship. Does this make any sense? I feel I should walk away. I have enough GIRL-FRIENDS.

thoughts?

I'm certainly not going to get rich doing real estate photography but man am I busy this year! Woo-hoo!

I accidentally shot part of a home today using TIFF files instead of JPEG. That's about 2GB more than it needed to be... thankfully DVDs are cheap!

rmiddendorf wrote:I accidentally shot part of a home today using TIFF files instead of JPEG. That's about 2GB more than it needed to be... thankfully DVDs are cheap!

Just open it as a TIFF and save it as a JPG.

Mike W. wrote:

rmiddendorf wrote:I accidentally shot part of a home today using TIFF files instead of JPEG. That's about 2GB more than it needed to be... thankfully DVDs are cheap!

Just open it as a TIFF and save it as a JPG.

You opened up the floodgates for a Rodney Ramble.

Oh I know how to do it, I just make it a rule to always archive my raw images out of the camera. I shoot between 10-16mp images but my clients only care to get 2.5-3mp images most of the time for real estate. Works well for uploading to the internet and still can be printed reasonably large!

I'm just complaining that I'll have to deal with the larger files here on the back end, that's all. My client won't notice a difference. But its kinda like towing a small pop-up camper with a Mack truck. You can do it, but why the heck would you?

Interestingly enough this all came about because I switched my real estate camera from an old D200 to a D300s this week. The D200 doesn't have the TIFF capability and to switch from a JPEG to a RAW (.NEF) file requires you to hop over the TIFF setting on the newer camera. I forgot this and only clicked once on the return. The RAW image can be necessary when there are adverse lighting conditions.

While I'm rambling I'll also toss this out there. The D300s seems to have more contrast out of the JPEG image than the D200. My knee jerk reaction is that it is the difference between the CCD and CMOS chips, but I have yet to figure that out. It may also be the in-camera image processing. This additional contrast is desirable for me in most photography, except real estate. So I've been tweaking my settings a bit to try to assist in softening the colors. Although the colors look better out of the D300s than the D200, the extra contrast doesn't if that makes any sense. I've already backed my flash off from -2/3EV to -1/3EV when used, and I changed the setting in the picture processing menu from Standard to Neutral. That seemed to soften the contrast quite a bit. We'll see how it pans out long term.

Interestingly enough I've been using the D300s for about a year and a half for everything other than real estate and haven't noticed this, however every other aspect of my business is usually done in RAW mode.

/Rodney Ramble

Meds and 20 fat grams every 8 hours gets old.

Carlos Santana is still good though.

rmiddendorf wrote:

Mike W. wrote:

rmiddendorf wrote:I accidentally shot part of a home today using TIFF files instead of JPEG. That's about 2GB more than it needed to be... thankfully DVDs are cheap!

Just open it as a TIFF and save it as a JPG.

You opened up the floodgates for a Rodney Ramble.

...

/Rodney Ramble

OK, you know what you're doing. It just amazes me how many people these days don't know the simplest stuff, like opening it in one format and saving in another. Just a couple of weeks ago I had to go into a long winded explanation to my daughter in law about why she couldn't open a MS works document with Word, and how to save it so she could. I mean I know people who sit in front of a computer all day long doing entry work and don't have a clue what program will open a .jpg.

I don’t know whether to be flattered or pissed that some random dude in Germany is using a pic of my car on on Ebay.

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Mike W. wrote:

rmiddendorf wrote:

Mike W. wrote:

rmiddendorf wrote:I accidentally shot part of a home today using TIFF files instead of JPEG. That's about 2GB more than it needed to be... thankfully DVDs are cheap!

Just open it as a TIFF and save it as a JPG.

You opened up the floodgates for a Rodney Ramble.

...

/Rodney Ramble

OK, you know what you're doing. It just amazes me how many people these days don't know the simplest stuff, like opening it in one format and saving in another. Just a couple of weeks ago I had to go into a long winded explanation to my daughter in law about why she couldn't open a MS works document with Word, and how to save it so she could. I mean I know people who sit in front of a computer all day long doing entry work and don't have a clue what program will open a .jpg.

Mike I didn't mean to sound unappreciative. I know you had good intentions. I'm really just ranting about upgrading equipment and how it can be a challenge in general.

On the same topic of upgrading the TV station where I worked and currently freelance just went from SD 16:9 for their news acquisition and playback (the set has been HD for years) to HD 16:9. This upgrade has caused a lot of hiccups in their systems as well. Its just fascinating how the software and hardware mfgs change things just for the sake of meddling sometimes and make systems less efficient and less familiar requiring more training.

I currently miss using my D200 but am gradually getting over it as I believe the end product is better. I still have the thing and won't ever get rid of it but I've been using a D200 for real estate photography for 6 years so the change is a little difficult.

/Continued Rodney Rant.


EDIT: Perhaps the weirdest thing about this camera switch is that there are now images I barely have to edit at all. This is odd to me.

I've been shamelessly flirting with new Temp all day. I think it's pretty clear that we're perfect for each other.

Karl Grau wrote:I've been shamelessly flirting with new Temp all day. I think it's pretty clear that we're perfect for each other.

Clear to whom; you or her?

Not to complain, but that photo doesn't tell us much.

davintosh wrote: Clear to whom; you or her?

So far, just me but I know she's coming around.

davintosh wrote: Not to complain, but that photo doesn't tell us much.

Well she's the perfect age for me, she's single and she's hawt. What else do you need to know? It may be a tad awkward getting her pic from the front at this early stage in our relationship

I only shoot Raw. The screen on the camera is totally worthless, so if something has to be adjusted I can do it more easily and with more incremental adjustments.

I have been so busy I haven't finished my reply to your PM. I personally don't care for any of the in camera processing, which is one of the main reasons for shooting raw. The D300 should be sharper than your D200, btw. The chip doesn't make much difference there aside from flash sync and the shutter. Only CCD camera I had was my D70. The D300 is much better.

Karl Grau wrote:I've been shamelessly flirting with new Temp all day. I think it's pretty clear that we're perfect for each other.

One word.....turdclipper.

Possible butterface.

Karl Grau wrote:It my be a tad awkward getting her pic from the front at this early stage in our relationship

davintosh wrote:

Karl Grau wrote:I've been shamelessly flirting with new Temp all day. I think it's pretty clear that we're perfect for each other.

Clear to whom; you or her?

Not to complain, but that photo doesn't tell us much.

That photo tells me all I need to know. There may be better photographers here but THAT photo speaks to me!

wkohler wrote:I only shoot Raw. The screen on the camera is totally worthless, so if something has to be adjusted I can do it more easily and with more incremental adjustments.

I have been so busy I haven't finished my reply to your PM. I personally don't care for any of the in camera processing, which is one of the main reasons for shooting raw. The D300 should be sharper than your D200, btw. The chip doesn't make much difference there aside from flash sync and the shutter. Only CCD camera I had was my D70. The D300 is much better.

Thanks for the info Chris. I prefer to shoot RAW and do for everything but real estate, however I also prefer to archive all my unedited images so that could- and would- get storage heavy with homes. I have been toying around with the idea of going Blu-Ray as an archive format but there is no easy drop into the empty bay solution on my MacPro.

I know the D300s is sharper and I've never questioned that, its the contrast and difference in metering I've noticed. Although I think after a few shoots today the new settings (Neutral picture setting and -1/3EV flash exposure) seem to produce the best images. I also think I'm still getting comfortable with not needing to adjust them as much, which seems odd to me.

RAW rocks for the exposure adjustment and white balance after the fact too. Its a pretty awesome format.

Dropped my phone into the toilet while texting my brother-in-law while watching the UNC game at a pub. I wasn't really bothered by all the foam, but rooting around for it made me gag.
I've got to shake this string of lucklessness.

oldskool wrote:Dropped my phone into the toilet while texting my brother-in-law while watching the UNC game at a pub. I wasn't really bothered by all the foam, but rooting around for it made me gag.
I've got to shake this string of lucklessness.

I was gonna give you sage advice from my long years of life, but I forgot what I was going to say

LOLOLL

oldskool wrote:Dropped my phone into the toilet while texting my brother-in-law while watching the UNC game at a pub. I wasn't really bothered by all the foam, but rooting around for it made me gag.
I've got to shake this string of lucklessness.

Not texting whilst peeing would be a good way to start.

I wanted to keep the "stealth booty shot" alive but today I GOT CAUGHT!
Girl getting my coffee heard the "kashheee" when the stupid phone makes when taking a pic and I played it off as a "new" phone. She liked it and so did I.

Today she was wearing a skirt and had her hair in a ponytail. I really liked the ponytail.

I popped my "yard cherry" today and grabbed a bunch of shit at the Pick-n-Pull.
I usually just go there looking for fist fights but today there was a fresh 535is and I was hopping around like a bunny.
Someday I will make you all proud like.

oldskool wrote:I popped my "yard cherry" today and grabbed a bunch of shit at the Pick-n-Pull.
I usually just go there looking for fist fights but today there was a fresh 535is and I was hopping around like a bunny.
Someday I will make you all proud like.

If they're clean grab the front spoiler and bracket and the rear spoiler too. Someone here would probably want them.

Between all my car stuff, freelancing at the station on the weekends, my photography company having its best real estate season ever and, the most important thing, taking care of my daughter full time I'm exhausted. Of course a significant part of that is self inflicted. But all I want to do this evening is relax and play some GTA4: Episodes from Liberty City. Even Final Fantasy XIII-2 involves too much thought. Brain break need.

Over dinner tonight my wife says, "An Audi tried to take me today", I looked at her and cracked up laughing.
After our laughter subsided and I regained my composure I asked, "So, what did you do?".
She replied, "I didn't let him". I cracked up again. Jason's Deli serves good groceries.