Not a Bluejay. Way too small, and no crest. It's just slightly larger than a sparrow. Very similar in size to an Eastern Bluebird, in fact. Finch-sized, I guess.
two freaking weeks of chasing down this schematic and it comes down to the fact that the freaking eagle part had the tranistor legs in a different order...arg
@jrista Well, that's definitely true- the bitching and moaning has really gotten old... However, a part of it is also that its no longer the 'off season' for the retail photography side of my business... Which means that I don't have quite as much time as I may have had even a month ago- I'm booked for 10+ sessions a week- not including weddings- for the next 6 weeks. Not that I'm complaining...
Not that I'm pointing fingers on the 'bitching and moaning' without including myself in all that. I know I've rolled a few grenades into chat over the past couple of months. :-)
I guess I'm at the point where I wish us 'regulars' could just spend less time over-analyzing every damn question that gets posted and either:
1. Just answer what comes in to the best of our ability with the information given if we've got something helpful to contribute and even if the information given in the question isn't as complete or well-phrased as they might be if we were writing them, or
2. Don't answer the questions that we don't like (for whatever reason), choosing to simply move along quietly, resisting the temptation to add a bunch of crap in the comments, and instead just letting other photo-SE users tackle them, or let the questions just "hang out" for a few days to see what happens... without all the stupid crap that seems to have been increasingly going on in the comments over the last month or two...
@JayLancePhotography Some of that is surely my fault. I first started doing it in older questions which weren't getting answers (or good answers) after a long time. I think that's reasonable and appropriate. But then it kind of started creeping up, and I probably also set a bad example.
@rfusca I sure hope the quality of digital viewfinders improves if that's the case. When I bought my Panasonic FZ28, I just about puked the first time I tried the EVF. I really missed the optical VF in my Canon G3, even if it was obscured when the lens extended.
it'll catch up and get to 98-99% of the optical and then the ability to dynamically overlay stuff in the viewfinder will start to win out over that last 2%
@rfusca Yeah, me too. :-) It's an uptick from last year, so... it doesn't make a trend or anything, but it is a step in the right direction... Especially since we've had a late spring around here so it was a rather slow start to the year for the retail side of things. I find myself still reading every question that comes in... But often it is 8 to 10 hours after it's been posted and some good answers have already been collected... End result = I'm answering less.
I keep saying to myself that I need to "set the example" and post some more questions just to feel like I'm participating (lord knows that seems to be my windmill that I try and flog you guys with here in chat!), but thus far I haven't had the time/wherewithal to actually get it done. We'll see if I can actually get to playing some Jeopardy this week...
bah i messed up on updating the new header image this morning. didn't notice the file didn't have an extension... so it wasn't pushed with the new build. i have since corrected it on dev, will be deployed whenever the next build is
In photography as well as in paintings (especially those from the middle ages, where a lot of symbols were used), the position of the hands often means a lot ; does anyone know a list of all those meanings, or could you maybe give a few of them? Thanks!
I'm sure some do. I find it a little....odd, I guess...but there seem to be quite a few artists in many medium who have hand fetishes...or maybe not quite fetish...but an undue attraction to them.
@mattdm That makes two of us! :-) I guess the question will stay open until either I get around to reading the book, or someone else provides a solid answer...
@rfusca Yeah, it doesn't usually warm up around here until late May, early June... Which tends to inform both the Senior portrait market and the wedding market...
Whereas we got a 'surprise' snow dusting two weeks ago, and have had weather that other parts of the country would consider 'April Showers' for the last week... :-)
I tend to have to 'weave' my photo sessions around the weather in June...
"We'll have a break in the clouds between 3 and 4pm, so why don't you show up at the park at 2:45 and we'll get some pictures done!"
if you want to talk about a wide range of situations, how about this - on saturday an Elvis impersonator showed up at the wedding as a "surprise" for the bride. I found it very odd, but it was entertaining anyways
It was uploaded to facebook, then I took a screenshot of the facebook mobile site on my iPhone, emailed that to myself, then uploaded it to the site here ;-)
they just don't know what they're talking about...its so wierd. Like i went in one day, and mentioned something about 'stopping down to make it a little sharper' and you'd have thought I was speaking Latin
he didnt say anything about getting legs in his picture
"How can I take horizontal photos where the object is lying flat on the floor? Do you know any stands/tripods which allow to point the camera straight downwards?"
In photography as well as in paintings (especially those from the middle ages, where a lot of symbols were used), the position of the hands often means a lot ; does anyone know a list of all those meanings, or could you maybe give a few of them? Thanks!
