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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 09-19-2017, 07:22 AM  
Poll: Expired Contest Poll VOTE NOTE: August 2017 "Portrait" Contest Finalists
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 57
Views: 10,127
I vote for number 15
Forum: General Talk 11-10-2012, 07:13 AM  
My top 10 reasons the GOP lost
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 21
Views: 2,414
Don't blame the messenger, blame the message!
Forum: General Talk 10-14-2012, 11:27 AM  
Sheriff Joe Arpaio suggests Obama's birth certificate is a forgery
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 26
Views: 2,691
What an excellent response - saves me (and others) a whole lot of verbiage.

Maybe Shiner can restore his personal credibility with a response - but I suspect he is the shoot and run personality type.
Forum: General Talk 10-10-2012, 07:07 AM  
Obama Campaign Accepted hundreds of thousands from Bain Capital Execs
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 41
Views: 3,987
Sir - you just don't get it!

Everything you wrote here (with the exception of the word "liberals") applies equally to yourself and like minded people. You have said nothing unique here and nothing conceptually different (except for your own verbiage, maybe), from that which may be found on any right wing forum.

Slogans, labels, catch phrases, tired out rhetoric and personal invective are the tools of ALL political parties including Republicans - because they work. Boring but true and you are using exactly the same tactics yourself!

Take a look at yourself a little bit more objectively. Your "opinions" are not FACT any more than are mine - what is more, given time and self maturity, even your own opinions may well change!

(Incidentally, I also have spent 5 years in the military but I would not dream of using this fact to reinforce the extra value or worth that should be placed on my political opinions)
Forum: General Talk 10-09-2012, 07:43 AM  
Obama Campaign Accepted hundreds of thousands from Bain Capital Execs
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 41
Views: 3,987
I think he probably does "..see it..." because he is not stupid.

The problem is that he feels that he has the right to be scornful, insulting and to categorize (or label) everybody who has a different opinion to himself whereas they most definitely should admire and respect his own contrary, political opinions.
Forum: General Talk 10-08-2012, 06:26 AM  
Obama Campaign Accepted hundreds of thousands from Bain Capital Execs
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 41
Views: 3,987
Read your own text man (not only the example quoted here) - you yourself come over as hate filled and full of contempt for anyone with different view to yourself, such as all Liberals, homosexuals and feminists!

Did you ever consider the fact that maybe you are an extremist yourself, and if not why not?
Forum: General Talk 10-06-2012, 08:01 AM  
Obama Campaign Accepted hundreds of thousands from Bain Capital Execs
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 41
Views: 3,987
What on earth is your point here?

Joshua Bekenstein and Stephen Pagliuca are free men, if they choose to donate to an Obama Victory Fund - let them.

The funds should be gratefully received - and put to good use!
Forum: General Talk 09-22-2012, 10:35 AM  
“I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more,”
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 12
Views: 1,884
Absolutely correct translation!

In other words:

"I only pay taxes because I have no choice, I do not agree with the concept of taxes and if I also had the means to "shelter" in other countries so that I reduced my liability to zero I would do so immediately. In short I wish I was like GE last year and pay zero taxes - only a fool agrees with taxation!";);)
Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II 08-01-2012, 11:35 AM  
Best 90 bux I have ever Spent
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 54
Views: 7,419
Did you need to use shims or did you simply "plug-and-play"?
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 07-27-2012, 05:39 AM  
Pentax RAW files
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 16
Views: 8,451
Yes it does - see attachment!
Forum: Photographic Technique 07-26-2012, 05:57 PM  
How much post processing do you do?
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 30
Views: 3,449
Not at all!

But see this article (..in total, not just the piece that I quote here...):



When Shooting in RAW, What Color Space Should You Use? - Photo Tips @ Earthbound Light
Forum: Photographic Technique 07-26-2012, 04:11 PM  
How much post processing do you do?
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 30
Views: 3,449
If you are really inviting input...??

One example from myself, (apart from the foreground/background issues mentioned previously) I would have brightened them for a start because they are all a touch too dark in my opinion, although that is subjective opinion - I agree.
Forum: Photographic Technique 07-26-2012, 10:01 AM  
How much post processing do you do?
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 30
Views: 3,449
There is a (snobbish?) school out there which take great pride in not doing any post processing and yes most of us with a little experience behind us could do the same if we wanted to - me included.

I take great pride in all my finished pictures and that includes taking the picture and getting it RIGHT in the camera as well as using post processing to obtain the best possible results. The best results always require some post processing in my very humble opinion.

Yes, I am aware of the other extreme - which is too much post processing producing worst pictures than those straight from the camera.
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 07-26-2012, 05:33 AM  
Pentax RAW files
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 16
Views: 8,451
DNG file format is what you are looking for I think.
Your camera should give you the choice of saving in PEF or DNG.
Adobe supplies a converter - see Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Windows : Adobe DNG Converter 7.1
Forum: General Talk 07-13-2012, 02:47 PM  
How welfare entitlements destroy economic growth
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 17
Views: 2,066
Sir, with your philosophical outlook on life Its a wonder that you haven't done away with yourself. As a contributor to this forum (and also based upon your own intellectual effort in this forum) you are clearly not in GROUP 1 above and therefor how can you live being "totally dependent (on Group 1) and with your only motivation in life being Fear and Envy"?
Forum: General Talk 07-12-2012, 05:50 AM  
Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 249
Views: 15,235
This is the same old downside or problem with Democracy everywhere - the people need to be carried kicking and screaming towards their own self interest. Special Interests excel in making sure that that is true and they do a real good job of enlisting "we the people" to fight against their own good.

The masses are their own worst enemy and they never seem to realize this and that process is exactly what is occurring now with "Obamacare".
Forum: General Talk 07-11-2012, 06:15 AM  
Scranton Lawsuit
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 48
Views: 4,464
Evolve or become obsolete!
Living all your life longing for the "good old days" is a recipe for defeat and failure.
Forum: General Talk 07-11-2012, 05:23 AM  
Scranton Lawsuit
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 48
Views: 4,464
Sounds more like they are, in reality, TEA PARTY believers pretending to be Democrats - or they have signed the Norquist Pledge regardless.
Mr Norquist, in any case should be proud of them!
Forum: General Talk 07-09-2012, 08:02 AM  
Words of wisdom from Boehner:
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 2
Views: 1,010
Boehner: I can't make you love Mitt Romney - Political Hotsheet - CBS News







QuoteQuote:

Speaking last week at a fundraiser in Wheeling, W.Va., Boehner was surprisingly candid in his characterization of Romney's candidacy when asked, in a question-and-answer session: "Can you make me love Mitt Romney?"

..........."No," he answered, as first reported by Roll Call. "Listen, we're just politicians. I wasn't elected to play God. The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney."

He added that the presumptive Republican nominee had "some friends, relatives, and fellow Mormons... some people that are going to vote for him," but suggested that at the end of the day, Republicans would be voting against President Obama rather than for Romney.

"I'll tell you this: 95 percent of the people that show up to vote in November are going to show up in that voting booth, and they are going to vote for or against Barack Obama," Boehner said. "This election is going to be a referendum on the president's failed economic policies. "

Calling Romney a "solid guy," Boehner went on to say that the former Massachusetts governor is "going to do a great job, even if you don't fall in love with him." .........



(My highlight above.....)

With friends like that (Boehner) who needs enemies?
Forum: General Talk 07-05-2012, 10:21 AM  
O(MG) Canada
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 9
Views: 1,190
While this is indeed shame on Canada - no excuses possible, USA also does not have clean hands:

Eric Stevenson: Canada, U.S. shouldn?t be exporting asbestos | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com
Forum: Photo Critique 07-05-2012, 08:28 AM  
People Attempt at a candid portrait & post processing
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 13
Views: 1,407
My attempt:
Forum: General Talk 07-05-2012, 06:47 AM  
How God fights NASA
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 15
Views: 2,134
Wildman, do I smell a slight tinge of socialist thinking in your ideas now?
;)
Forum: General Talk 07-03-2012, 02:53 PM  
Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 249
Views: 15,235





QuoteQuote:

(Original from Winder):

(The soul-destroying search for a family doctor - The Globe and Mail[/url]

The first thing I did was register with an Ontario government program called Health Care Connect, which aims to match people like me with doctors who are accepting patients. But both the woman on the end of the phone, and the pamphlet she later sent me, stipulated there is no guarantee a doctor will be found. Since the program was started in 2009, fewer than 60 per cent of the people registered have successfully been paired with a family physician.....

I phoned all 84 doctors who were listed as practising within 10 kilometres of my home. Some of their receptionists were polite. Some were surly. All rejected me.

In 2010, 4.4 million Canadians, or 15 per cent of the population aged 12 and older, reported they did not have a regular medical doctor.



Be careful when you are using selective, subjective, probably biased (and certainly self serving) individual opinions (see above) to make inferred (or suggested) 'objective' points!

Here is a quote from Statistics Canada - possibly a little more objective and realistic comment, although it too should be taken with a grain of salt!

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-625-x/2012001/article/11656-eng.htm
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 07-03-2012, 05:41 AM  
Post-Processing Post Processing Challenge #76
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 24
Views: 2,796
My effort....
Forum: General Talk 07-02-2012, 08:31 AM  
Why I Don't Want A Kindle....
Posted By stevewig
Replies: 31
Views: 4,007
Jason, you are doing exactly what I mentioned in my post above yours, namely rationalizing.

There are many possible stages of mobile phone usage between "switching your phone off" every time you finish a conversation and compulsively using every spare moment of your day "diddling" with your phone regardless as to whether you may also be driving at the same time (or not) or walking towards a fountain in the mall!
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