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| vtsteam:
--- Quote from: S. Heslop on November 14, 2013, 12:25:07 PM ---I used to do photography as a hobby till I had one of those existential crises when I realised nobody except myself cared about my boring photos of trees and lakes. --- End quote --- You're the one who counts. People who are bored by what you make are boring. I'd rather make something. |
| Arbalist:
I use a DSLR (Pentax) and Adobe LightRoom. |
| superc:
Like some others here, I cut my teeth on film. Dad used to own a photostudio after WW2 and we had a complete darkroom in our basement. I still have his old Rolliflex 120 and his Welta. Later on Uncle Sam once sent me to Nikon School and my old F-1 is nearby along with my now useless Phototerm developer machine (I am on a septic and well system these days so dumping developer chemicals is a no-no). Yeah, Y2K brought changes. A little Sony Sureshot at first. Ultimately for the places I go sometimes, the environment I sometimes find myself in, water resistant became a must. It didn't take long to learn the Sureshot didn't like rain. Most of my better photos are taken with the Pentax Optio WP class of camera, but in a pinch I will use the (water resistant, drop resistant) Rugby II phone. Images are fairly easy to transfer to the PC with either one if you have a USB cord of the correct size. For picture tweaking, yes, you can buy Adobe, but I found a pretty good and totally FREE piece of imaging software on line. It is called Irfanview and you can download it and the plug ins for it at irfaniview.com Don't forget to get the plug ins and spend some time playing with it. Of course it allows resizing of pictures, adjusting gamma and all that good stuff. |
| SwarfnStuff:
Yep, Irfanview is my go to photo viewer / resizer of choice. It is a great piece of freeware. I do have more complicated software for really fiddly stuff but that is several versions behind as between Irfanview and it I get all I need done easily enough. John B |
| Arbalist:
Pentax DSLR, Adobe Lightroom and Photobucket for me. I must add that I don't really like having to click on the small photos in some folks posts to see them full size. |
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