Barry Beckham

Can I ask why the need to create your artwork at 1024*768, I am sure your not using a monitor of that resolution. What is your monitor resolution?

This is the point I made with almost the first beta of v7. That nav bar should be off by default.

OK, I understand, can't think of any reasons at all can you Over and out, jack plug pulled

Dave A club can't encourage new work by banning anything over a 1/3 years old. People produce new work because they are inspired to do so by their interest in what they are doing. You can't legislate for the old guy still using slides, you have to accommodate him. If you try to cast your net of rules under those circumstances far too many innocents get caught in the net. A club doesn't need rules for the one odd person. Rules is rules. But the AGM is sometimes a good place to change this if you have the backing of sufficient numbers of members. We should never have foolish rules like that in the first place. How can you justify such daft rules by saying rules is rules. Do you really think that a rule like that is going to radically improve the standard of a camera club. I just fought against another stupid rule recently regarding AV and mainly PTE and I lost. Here is it word for word from the motion that was passed.“FullMotion video capture (above 8 frames/sec) must not be includedunchanged from video cameras, however simulated motion (eg stopmotion animation) by manually sequencing a succession of stillcaptures may be used for effect.” This is the typical response of camera club committees to anything new, I have seen it so many times Ban it !!! Its the last thing we should do, but plenty do and enough people rolled over and accepted this one. How will the organisors know if the video is above 8fps for sure. How would competition secretaries be sure images were less than a year old? Its not hard to sidestep is it. A quiet word in the ear of anyone who abuses good sense is a far better way to deal with issues rather than rules which are just unjust and wrong. Take the scenario of the member who spends a fortune on a once in a lifetime holiday, being told after 12 months that he can't use any images from the trip. Just not reasonable is it.

Paulo Yes, I think I did use one of them a year or two ago and it did pretty well, but it wasn't until I looked back that I saw I had a few more that could be used. However, a local club to me (not the one I joined) has a rule that images used in competition must not be more than 3 years old and another Australian club I saw in the internet yesterday limits images to be no more than 1 year old. I am not sure what the motive is to ban images that have never seen the light of day or been used in any competitions simply because they were taken a while ago. As far as I can recall, my Canon images don't come with a sell by date Perhaps someone here can suggest what the motive might be for a rule like that. It would rule out any image I shot in the UK because I have been in Australia now 3 years, is that a fair and reasonable rule? I don't think so.

It was the music that inspired the slide show this time rather that the usual route where we need to find music to go with images we have alreay shot. I was just lucky that after several visits to the balloon fiesta I had just enough images to make the show. In fact I think I am right in saying the track never existed when the pictures where taken

I think AVG should be congratulated. They have given you all so much enthusiasm to write reams on this topic Note to self. I wonder who will tell me this is a serious matter doing damage to AVG and PTE? :lol: :lol:

Created in Version 7.03 best viewed at 1920*1200 Top of the page here http://www.beckhamdigital.co.uk/slideshows_3.html

Igor The last Dell monitor I bought would not work correctly untill I removed my previous DVI cable and used the one that came with the screen ? I will get around to it shortly

Igor Yes I have thought about that, but it is such a pain in the but to do it. I have all my wiring neatly in troughs up under the bench so everything is very tidy, but of course swapping things over can be a pain. Both of the Monitors are connected by DVI, the troublesom one is W7 64 bit the other is Vista Pro 32bit. I will get around to swapping them over as soon as possible and will report back what I find.

Igor I am using a Dell 2709W monitor, but I just tried something I had not done before and tried the same slide show on my wife's PC with the same monitor (Dell 2709W ) and the slide show plays without that distortion. (the PC spec and op system is different on her PC and its 32bit) I then tried the slide show on my other Dell monitor, a later model attached to an older PC and the slide show plays fine there too. I had wrongly assumed that the distortion was a feature of flat screen monitors. I cannot find any settings on the Nvidia card on my machine to affect the distortion. My PC is the only one of the three that is 64 bit. Where does one find this turn off of overdrive pixels? The refreshrate is 59hertz, but other settings available don't change the distortion. For those interested the show is posted here http://www.beckhamdigital.co.uk/slideshows_3.html Its called Beautiful Dawn. I went back to a black starting image despite the distortion

I think your right Tom, but if anyone knows how or if we can combat it, perhaps it's Igor. Its the little things like this that make a difference.

Igor I am sure I am not the only one to have noticed this, but on flat screen monitors a fade up from black can display some odd things on screen. I am not sure what to call the effect, but its not very attractive. I think its on par with the moire effect. It seems to be worse fading up onto a monochrome image. Is there anything that can be done about that. I have tried moving away from black to a dark charcoal colour and adding noise, but I would rather stay with black.

Regarding the white background. I felt sort of forced to use that because with the coming of flat screens I am not happy with the fade up from black anymore. Its hit and miss and on the first image in this sequence it was awful. I almost posted a query for Igor to ask if there is anything that could be done about that in the programming of the software. On the old CRT screens the fade up would have been perfect. Tried a charcoal colour, tried adding noise, but I didn't like any of them. I think your right about the white on this occasion and I have now changed it, but I am not totally happy with the slow fade up of the first mono image. Judy Its very hard to sell photographs these days no matter how good they are. Many photographers have had to close shops in the perfect location. Why? I can only guess that everyone sees themselves as an expert and tell themselves that if they really wanted a picture like that, they could take it themselves. A good friend of mine is in this position and has had to start teaching photography as well, or his shop would have to close. Generally speaking, Mr and Mrs Average don't see any value in photographs. How many times have you been told. That's a lovely picture, you must have a good camera !!!

Version 7.02 Anthony I don't disagreeand as I use PTE on my tutorial disks I am not too happy for AVG to be classing them as Viruses, but its been going on for a long while. If there was an easy answer, I guess Igor would have discovered it.

Colin. You say that as though I should be doing something about it? Dump AVG and use something else that you can have some confidence in.Seems to me that AVG has become worse than useless to PTE users, so why tolerate it? Beats me

http://www.beckhamdigital.co.uk/slideshows_3.html

As some of you may know, we do have a number of albums of Music on our web site that is offered to photographers for their digital projects. The muscians have recognised the issues amateur photographers have with copyright and have allowed their music to be used for low level comercial use. Low level use means those who may want to use the music on a commercial venture and a good example may be a wedding photographer who wishes to use music and sell a commercial product. The numbers of products will not be high and therefore the license covers that use. One of the muscians Richard Goldsworthy has just sent us his latest work called Lifted. His music is soft, gentle solo piano. You will find the album and samples of the 15 tracks at the top of the page HERE

I think DavyC is entitled to his opinion, but some may notice that I have not responded to him for some time now. I decided that was the way to deal with those whose comments are designed to be confrontational. I think most members can deduce reasonable comment from spitefulness and those that can't,well,enough said. I would not normally ever post a PM,but perhaps this is a time when it would be permissible to do so. Some time ago DavyC downloaded one of my slide shows, grabbed all the pictures from it, then remade that show, posting it back on this forum via Mediafire. I think I had some reason to be a little annoyed at that, but I just sent this personal message to him. (Copied exactly from the forum messages) Davy Its not really the done thing to take someone elses work, change it and then repost it. I would like to ask you to reconsider if it was right and reasonable to do that. Barry Beckham He replied with: Hi Barry, I have the greatest respect for you and your work. I do in fact recommend new members to our local camera club to your site. It was not my intention to cause you any grief. Ihave deleted the post, and deleted the Mediafire show aswell. Happy to post a public apology. Regards, Davy My response was the following and as far as I was concerned the issue was over and no apology was necessary. None Necessary, thanks for understanding. Barry It appears his apology was not as sincere as I first thought, as ever since then his comments on anything I post is confrontational. He has obviously taken a huge dislike to me and responds accordingly. Anyone who thinks it entirely OK to take someone else's work, remake it and then repost it, shouldn't expect their comments to be taken very seriously. I don't because I am aware what the motivation is and I ignore them. So, please do not concern yourselves, allow DavyC to make all the comments he wishes, I am a big boy and the more ridiculous his comments, the less credible they become. Its only a slide show.

I recently needed to replace an old monitor and as I like the Dell 16:10 I thought I would get another, but try as I might, 16:9 was the only format I could get and I found the same with the laptop too.

Eric I do not have any expeprience of this, only the playing of slide shows made with a larger resolution than the projectorsize. In that case they all play fine, but I would expect the following will happen the other way around. Your 1280*1024 slide shows will be restricted to the 800 pixel height of the projector and I would expect the width to remain in proportion. Meaning you would see your 1280*1024 shows OK on that projector, but with black bars left and right. That is not a big issue I don't think, because they are probably less noticeable on projectors than a monitor, because the projected images does not have a plastic edge. Your 1024*768 pixel images will be expanded slightly if you never ticked the fixed size of slide box, but from 768-800 pixels, I think you would find the result OK. Once again you would have bars either side, but not a problem on projectors. IMHO The two mock ups are in proportion and what I would expect to see

Its called Rock Guitar

Greg Thanks, well it was a bit of fun really, an excuse to show some images.

Just some of the images I have completed in 2011 Its fast and furious. Top of the page here called http://www.beckhamdigital.co.uk/slideshows_3.html

Igor Many thanks, I think your right to deal with the sound editing next Barry