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Skipjack Joe
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Good point Rico. I initially said it was oversaturated, and it is somewhat. But what made it strange is that the color balance was changed in certain
areas.
It appears that the near lagoon had been highlighted and altered to make it more greenish but also yellowish. So normal torquoise color has been
altered to look more greenish, resembling the color you see in lakes that have an algal bloom.
I'm not sure how that 'slick water' was achieved. That could be natural.
BTW. The ecology of the place is real interesting in where and how the mangrove bushes have settled in. Is that due to warmer water or less wave
action? Maybe both.
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BajaNuts
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In the photo above, the green looks too green, almost lime-green, which is not a usual color for the ocean.
Or at least that is the way the image is displaying on my monitor using my video card. Another's monitor and vid card may make the same image look
completely different.
Does anyone know where this photo came from when it was posted here? I mean, did the photographer email it to DK who posted it or did DK scan it from
an actual calendar and post it?
I have learned a lot from this discussion. Thanks everyone for sharing your photographic knowledge.
But in referring to the image in question, I don't know as we have enough info to credit or discredit the image. Notice I said IMAGE, because that is
what we are looking at on this forum format.
I tend to think of film pictures as photographs and digital pics as images (jpg, etc). Does anyone else make this distinction or are they all
considered photographs whether digital or film?
What about when a film processed photograph is digitally scanned and then sent out over the web as a digital image? Is it still a photograph or is it
now an image?
HMMMMMmmmmmmm........
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Carlos Fiesta
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2010 Baja Calendar
Thanks David K and Doug for your help in exposing the calendar. I really appreciate it! This is my first stab at something like this so it is a big
learning curve for me, and I can use all the help and kudos I can get. And I will accept all comments from the Nomads with a grain of Guerrero Negro
salt.
I find it is interesting that there has been all of this talk about the quality of the photos and photo shop chat and nobody (including me!) has even
seen the calendar yet. I hope to get it back form the printer in about 10 days. The photographs from Charlie Chandler are excellent and I can't wait
to share the calendar with other Baja aficianados. And many thanks to Marv for entrusting me with his Baby. I will try to carry on the spirit of the
Baja Calendar the best I can.
Thanks again for your support!
Carlos
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k-rico
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Carlos,
Since all things printed are being replaced by digital versions, have you considered offering a downloadable version on your website in addition to
the paper version? The cost of goods is next to nothing. You could sell the digital version for a few bucks and size the pages so they print out
nicely on 8.5 x 11 paper if buyers wanted a paper version.
Doing so might increase your profits and no doubt the folks doing the printing could also put together the digital downloadable file, most probably a
.pdf file.
The coming iTablets are really going to further reduce printed media.
Just a thought.
[Edited on 11-10-2009 by k-rico]
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capt. mike
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that bay shot reminded me of a gigantic sand trap on a surreal golf course.
guess i should have stayed away from the blue tabs....
hey Ken - there was only one chick in my class, a structural engineer. she was cute but really stuck on making sense of the electric theory from her
professional perspective which didn't always work to her advantage.
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David K
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Thanks for getting re-signed onto Nomad, Carlos! De nada for the plug (here on the Baja Miscl. Classified Ads forum)...
BajaNuts, the photo is from the web site! http://baja-calendar.com
Just amazing how much drama there is over a promo photo for a calendar!
Some of you guys really need a Baja trip, bad!
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DENNIS
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North Carolina Museum of Art
Raliegh, NC
919-839-6262
http://www.ncartmuseum.org
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The Real, The Surreal, The Unreal in Contemporary Photography
Where can you see a man serve as a human coat rack with seven hats on his head and a raincoat on his outstretched leg? Or a dog in a polka-dot dress
lead its companion on a leash:, Or a restaurant overrun with bright red foxes! Only in the world of photography and, in the early months of 2001, only
at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
From Jan. 14-April 1, 2001, the Museum hosts "Is Seeing Believing? The Real, The Surreal, The Unreal in Contemporary Photography." The exhibition
explores how many of today's leading photographers do not simply document the world around them but actually create constructed realities through the
use of costumes and props and the construction of elaborate and imaginative sets.
"The contributions of these photographers have greatly impacted the perception of photography as a fine art, elevating it to a position equal with
painting and sculpture," said Dennis P. Weller, exhibition co-curator and the Museum's associate curator of European art. "As a curator of old master
paintings, I am very sympathetic to the extraordinarily high degree of craftsmanship and visual appeal found in these photographs."
Visually exciting and beautifully crafted, the 30 images in the exhibition not only relate to performance art and installations but will also resonate
with viewers familiar with imagery of print advertisements and television commercials. In fact, perhaps the most widely known of the artists
exhibited, William Wegman has posed his pet Weimaraners most recently for photographs appearing in Honda ads.
Several of the exhibited photographers explore aspects of portraiture and specifically self-portraiture. Cindy Sherman's History Portraits, for
example, find the artist using period costumes to comment on old master art. Valeriy Gerlovin and Rimma Gerlovina, a husband and wife team, likewise
return to an old master source in After Dürer. Nina Levy adorns herself with a fake, oversized head in the series Spare Parts; Janieta Eyre utilizes
double exposure to twin herself in photographs that capture the ambiguity of identity; and artist Chuck Close is captured in a series of haunting
holographic images. Following the lead of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, Teun Hocks photographs himself in futile situations, as in a Sisyphean
image in which he tries to push a huge rock up a daunting slope. And in another comedic twist on portraiture, Laurie Simmons photographed her friend
Jimmy DeSana wearing an oversized camera for the image Walking Camera I (Jimmy the Camera).
Other photographs in the exhibition focus on setting more than character. Sandy Skoglund's photographs include a café filled with foxes or an office
amidst an avalanche of leaves. Patrick Nagatani embeds often-elegant automobiles in earthy archeological sites. And James Snitzer emblazons text
across landscape - as in the image lunadisney - for potentially satirical cultural commentary. (left: Sandy Skoglund, A Breeze at Work, Courtesy of
Janet Borden, Inc., New York)
The exhibition is curated by Weller and by Janis Goodman, associate professor of fine arts, the Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, D.C.
Weller presents the lecture "Is Seeing Believing;" on Sunday, Jan. 14, at 3 p.m. in the Museum auditorium. And an exhibition catalogue features essays
by Weller and independent curator Laura McGough, the co-director of NOMADS, a media arts organization in Washington, D.C.
Read more about the North Carolina Museum of Art in Resource Library Magazine
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DENNIS
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Chancing not to belabor a "rant" as I've been noted as having here, let me give you some software that will enable you to have your way with a
photograph. I think someone asked how this was done.
These are just a very few of what's available:
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1149282...
https://www.photoshop.com/
http://www.niksoftware.com/colorefexpro/usa/entry.php
http://www.alienskin.com/snapart/
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As I said, these are just a few. Have fun.
P.S. At least two of these will give a 30 day free trial so, give it a try.
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DENNIS
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Allow me to give this a bump for our wondering skeptics along with a parting thought for yous guys who think I'm over the top with my qualified
opinions.........
BITE ME.
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Dave
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Could I get a 2009...cheap?
At least I already know what's going to happen so I could go back and maybe change some things.
2010 looks scary.
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DENNIS
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"Could I get a 2009...cheap?" so says Dave
Why not? It's a Mexican thing. They'll keep a calendar on a wall for thirty years if they like the picture.
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Carlos Fiesta
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Baja Calendar drama
Cactus Heads:
I am reading this Baja Calendar threat and it is just cracking up! Capt. Mike you were right...it's all very amusing! Jaun del Rio (of Juan y Juan)
and I were having a margarita at Hussong's Cantina last year and talking about doing a calendar about the sexy "Fish Camp Girls of Baja". Could you
imagine the comments? Anyway, we couldn't find any sexy fish camp girls so that drama got stopped before it got started. So I guess The 2010 Baja
Calendar is the next best thing to discuss. Thanks again Doug, David K, Capt. Mike and all those who have supported my. Mil Gracia por Todo!
P.S. The College Girls of La Paz is on the drawing board.
Carlos
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Skipjack Joe
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HDR
Diane,
Here is an HDR image and the critiques on it. They seem to be typical of nature photographers I have run across. I am not suggesting this has anything
to do with the calendar. Just answering your query.
http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/ic.cgi?a=vp&pr=134014&CGISESSID=3f5b6b383b18a6cc38d5fea1b3adda19&u=16702
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tripledigitken
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Igor,
Can't say I like that HDR image. As is often the case it is overdone, on top of that I don't like the crop.
Ken
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capt. mike
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Carlos - you and your plane need to get in with The Cabo Boys, you'd (and Juan) fit right in!
www.caboboys.com
i hope to make one of their epic trips one year. i think they skipped 2008 but looks like 2009 might be on the wing.
maybe Cap will chime in.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Carlos Fiesta
Cactus Heads:
I am reading this Baja Calendar threat and it is just cracking up! Capt. Mike you were right...it's all very amusing! Jaun del Rio (of Juan y Juan)
and I were having a margarita at Hussong's Cantina last year and talking about doing a calendar about the sexy "Fish Camp Girls of Baja". Could you
imagine the comments? Anyway, we couldn't find any sexy fish camp girls so that drama got stopped before it got started. So I guess The 2010 Baja
Calendar is the next best thing to discuss. Thanks again Doug, David K, Capt. Mike and all those who have supported my. Mil Gracia por Todo!
P.S. The College Girls of La Paz is on the drawing board.
Carlos |
It is just great that you are finally here posting mi amigo!
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pacside
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
my qualified opinions.........
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ah come on DENNIS quit being so modest...
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by pacside
ah come on DENNIS quit being so modest... |
It ain't easy. 
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Cap
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Just returned from south Florida, and I thought the water in calendar picture looked mormal... Kidding, the thread derailed in my opinion when
November (current month page)'08 page was not mentioned. This fantastic aerial shot by a very talented photographer was taken out the dirty, faded,
and scratched windows of my old plane, affectionately reffered to as 'the POS". Now I'm no photography expert, but I think this was an amazing feat
from a low wing plane, dangling sideways in his threadbare seat belt.
Seriously though, I am sure this years calendar will be great and wish the producers the best with displaying their view of Baja.
As for the CaboBoys, we have been scouting locations, dodging Ida, And drinking rum. This one will be good! I'll post a report link when the time
comes.
Cheers,
-cap
Fly low, land on roads.
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Wahoo
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Way to go Carlos!!! Looks like a great Calendar!
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