Oshkosh Photos

Wow what a week! AirVenture 2007 was amazing... people... planes...
toys... planes... food... planes... beer... and more planes. What
could be better?

I have posted more thoughts and 35 photos on my blog at
http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2007/0...e-2007-part-2/

Cheers,
-- Art Z.
-- N7430J, 1968 Arrow 180

I have posted more thoughts and 35 photos on my blog athttp://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2007/07/29/oshkosh-airventure-2007-part-2/

Fantastic, Art -- and, hey -- the best picture on your site is the one
of you and Dave that I took!

:-)

BTW: I personally saw you take 35 pictures in about 20 minutes one
day. Where are the other 2000 pics?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Jul 29, 4:37 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
BTW: I personally saw you take 35 pictures in about 20 minutes one
day. Where are the other 2000 pics?

Jay,

Oh c'mon, you exaggerate. I shot 336 pictures last week, not
2000. :-)

When I was a kid, my dad taught me that if 10% of my pictures are
worth sharing with other people and 3% are worth printing, I'm doing
darned well. I was tickled pink this morning when I counted out 35
pictures and realized that I had hit the 10% (because I don't count
the one you took [which is outstanding, BTW] or the one of the balsa
wood glider).

So the other 313 pictures are on my laptop and nobody will ever see
most of them and the world is a better place because of it.

Cheers,
-- Art Z.

Oh c'mon, you exaggerate. I shot 336 pictures last week, not
2000. :-)

When I was a kid, my dad taught me that if 10% of my pictures are
worth sharing with other people and 3% are worth printing, I'm doing
darned well.

True enough.

The part that kills me about digital photography is the amount of time
it takes to go through and view, enhance and crop them. If it takes
only a minute to do each picture (and I've found it takes longer,
usually), you're looking at over 5 HOURS of time (without a break) on
your computer!

They lied to us when they said that computers would save us time...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Jul 29, 6:50 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:

They lied to us when they said that computers would save us time...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck

They did, indeed. But hearken back a mere 10 years when you could
shoot the same number of pictures in the same amount of time, wait a
week to see them AND pay 9 dollars a roll before you realized you
needed to shoot that last one again. Lessee: about 10 rolls of film at
about $5 a roll plus at least $ for developing is $110. So 7 days and
$110 could get you the same pics, maybe.

Yeah, computers suck but they satisfy that need for immediacy!

Greg Chapman

On Jul 29, 6:50 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
The part that kills me about digital photography is the amount of time
it takes to go through and view, enhance and crop them. If it takes
only a minute to do each picture (and I've found it takes longer,
usually), you're looking at over 5 HOURS of time (without a break) on
your computer!

Jay,

That would certainly be true if I edited every photo. I only tweak the
few that I will post and, most of the time, I don't tweak at all.

BTW, Nikon Capture NX http://www.capturenx.com/ makes "basic" image
editing very quick and easy. Highly recommended. It's not Photoshop,
you *cannot* paint or smudge or combine images, etc. But it trivially
corrects lighting, exposure, shadows that are too deep, etc.

Cheers,
-- Art Z.
-- N7430J

Art,

I cheat a little. I don't have any idea what operating system you use
but there's a free Power Toy for Windows XP which makes pretty short
work of getting the picture size under control for the web. It's
called, simply, the Image Resizing tool. Install it, select a bunch of
images, right click, choose Resize and then select the size you want
all those pictures to be. A couple minutes later and all you've got to
do is the HTML work!

Greg Chapman

That would certainly be true if I edited every photo. I only tweak the
few that I will post and, most of the time, I don't tweak at all.

On Jul 30, 9:37 am, Jay Honeck wrote:
I have posted more thoughts and 35 photos on my blog athttp://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2007/07/29/oshkosh-airventure-2007-part-2/

Fantastic, Art -- and, hey -- the best picture on your site is the one
of you and Dave that I took!


Great photos.
Thanks for the time you took..

Art Zemon wrote:
Wow what a week! AirVenture 2007 was amazing... people... planes...
toys... planes... food... planes... beer... and more planes. What
could be better?

An airshow without kettle korn is like a summer's day without
strawberries...

Hilton

Hilton wrote:
Art Zemon wrote:

Wow what a week! AirVenture 2007 was amazing... people... planes...
toys... planes... food... planes... beer... and more planes. What
could be better?


An airshow without kettle korn is like a summer's day without
strawberries...

Hilton


OK, you're back. Let's get the Moto Q software up and running.