Let's Picture This

Let’s Picture This
For The Photographer in all of us May 22, 2008

THE UNVEILING OF THE F-STOP SHOPS’ FIRST NEWSLETTER
With everything that’s going on in the new life of The F-Stop Shop I can’t believe I’m even attempting an undertaking such as this. Never the less, it’s going to have to start sometime and that time may as well be now!!!!!!

Let’s Picture This will endeavor to bring you some insight and everyday wisdom and tips to make your photographic endeavors a little more enjoyable. In an effort to bring this knowledge to you in an understandable
format I will be choosing the areas to cover. Giving the countless Photographic situations, one is limited only by his or her imagination.

Let’s take a closer look at cameras. Digital? Film? What’s the best? Each has its’ own plus and minus. Let’s take a closer look at 35 mm cameras. Their only minus is the cost of having the film developed vs digital which uses an assortment of capturing media.. But for absolute resolution, and I no doubt will take a lot of grief with this comment, film cameras have it won, Hands Down!! A good film camera will equal or even surpass the Digital counterpart. The cost of both is really the issue. But the cost thing I’ll have to give to the Digital. Although a good Digital slr will run $600 to $1000 verses $200 to $300
for a 35mm. The digitals ability to delete
unwanted shots makes it more cost effective to operate. I have countless thousands of photos shot with an assortment of film cameras and considering only 2 to 3 photos worthy of keeping it’s easy to see the Digital won that round. The Digital however has won the Princess and the Pea award in that it’s
unable to take a licking and keep on tickng
like its film counterpart. There’s a lot of electronics in that little package and one has to treat it right. Don’t Ever Shoot directly into the sun with a Digital. It just hates that, to the point of, saying to you,
“I QUIT!!!”

Digitals have come a long way though and I
must admit I use my Olympus E-Volt more
my assortment of film cameras. We all live in a Digital world these days and Im trying to go with the flow.

Check out the links below to see what the
Experts think.

http://www.normankoren.com/Tutorials/MTF7.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3409155.stm

http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/film.vs.digital.1.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Company Name: The F-Stop Shop
Contact Name: Michael F. Major
Telephone: 1-239-353-1634
Fax: 1-239-353-1634
E-mail: majorbige@hotmail.com
Street Address:680 11Th. St. N.W.
Naples, FL 34120
URL: http://www.thef-stopshop.com


NAPLES, FLORIDA- MEM OLDE EMPORIUM LLC. GOES BACK TO BASICS
WITH A FRESH, BUT NOT SO NEW APPROACH
In this topsy, turvy Web 2.0 world the owners of MEM OLDE EMPORIUM LLC.
launch the first of many websites, The F-Stop Shop, with a back home, back to
basics approach.
In an ever changing world it's weird and even unique to be able to see a fresh
approach in affiliate marketing. Everyone has an angle. Which one is the right
one? With the launching of The F Stop Shop, we may well discover that back
to basics in this hustle and bustle world will work, and work very well.
The idea was concieved on the platform that a service to people should be personal. One customer at a time, catering to all the personal needs, questions
and problems that may arise. With a wealth photogaphic knowledge to offer
and a fresh approach, The F-StopShop is very well on the right track
One picture is worth a thousand words. It's so very important that we keep all
those memories of a lifetime close to our hearts. We all have families, friends
and acquaintenances that are too soon out of our lives and we're left with only
memories to hold onto. When you document your memories with pictures, one
can look back twenty years from now and say, I remember that day.
Mr Major was quoted recently as saying, "I'm an old fashioned kind of guy.
I was born into an old fashioned family and taught basic wholesome values,
the values of family, friends and honesty. I've lived by my values for sixty years and I'm not changing to make a buck. I'm not going to sell you anything you
don't need. I sure wouldn't want that done to me. That's why mem olde emporium llc. and the f-stop shop are in existance, to give people a fair shake.
No, I'm not a fiancial tycoon, but I'm sure proud to offer these services to the
public and I genuinely hope they're beneficial to everyone out there"
The F-Stop Shop can be found on the World Wide Web at
http://www.thef-stopshop.com
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An Afternoon In The Everglades

This Guy Just showed up while my wife and I were fishing and stayed around for couple of hours

They're quite a bit bigger that the Florida Grey squirrel and I believe there are different strains.

The ones with the ear tufts are really neat.

WE live about 20 minutes from Janes Scenic Drive in Fakahatchee Strand. This was shot

upon returning home

Our pet hawk. He/she hangs out at our favorite fishing hole and waits for hand outs. We usually try and toss him/her a fish when we're there .

I believe it's a burrowing Owl. While We were at the Big-T it landed on our picnic table and stayed most of the morning. I got 18 shots of it. I'm partial to this one

I use an Olympus E-1 for most of my pictures. This was shot with a 14 by 42 Zuiko lense at

about 10 feet

Grey Squirrel

Lantana, the shot taken on a portion of Janes Scenic Drive I Highly reccomend anyone that's

visiting in the South West Florida area to take a day and do Janes Scenic Drive It's native

Habitat for Deer, Bear, Turkey and Panther The dirt road cuts through the middle fo the

Panther Refuge.

It's not much to look at. I don't even know what it's called, but it smells as sweet as honey

Just one of our many fishing holes. Good for small Tarpon, to 40 pounds, Snook, Bass

and most of the exotic panfish like Oscar, Myan Ciclid and such.

MySpace.com - My Photo Albums - My Photos

MySpace.com - My Photo Albums - My Photos



Cool Stuff to do with Photoshops' Photomerge
In The Cats Eye




Greetings!! It's The Old Panhandler here with some
information on a subject that may be of some interest
to any and all you photographic Buffs out there.
Adobe products have been on the market for what seem
like forever. For any of us with a camera, be it an
inexpensive point and shoot or a Top of the line digital
slr we use Adobe Photoshop in one form or another to
make those memories of a lifetime come to life, you
know, that "One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words"
type of memory.
What I'm going to focus on is an application within
Photoshop Elements, namely Photomerge. Photomerge
is great for splicing multiple photos together to achieve
a panoramic photograph. I've used it in the past with much
success. But that's NOT its only use!!!
I've done some photograhpic retouching and restoration
for friends and Clients in the past and they asked if I
could combine all gererations of a family into one picture.
That's when I discovered one of the many other uses for
Photomerge.
As an example, I've used a macro shot of our resident
"BadBoy". His Given name is Percy but he responds to
Badboy as well. The photo was shot in Tiff format and
absolutely no clean-up. The camera that I used is an
Olympus E-volt E-300. Since I used the macro setting
on the Olympus I needed only minimal cropping to
achieve "In The Cats Eye" displayed above.
The other photo, you ask. Just look in the cats eye and
you'll see out old boy "George". This photo came from a
scanned image I took many years ago. The photo was
cropped to include just his head and very little else. It was
saved as a giff. , 75 times 75 pixels to be able to fit it in
the eye. Photomerge doesn't merge the photos, but allows
you to super impose the two. After that's done all that is
needed is a little clean-up with the clone stamp tool and
there you have it!!!! This took me about 15 minutes to do.
This is just a cheap Parlor trick to prove a point. "With
Photoshop You're limited only by your imagination."

Cool Stuff to do with Photoshops' Photomerge
In The Cats Eye


Greetings!! It's The Old Panhandler here with some
information on a subject that may be of some interest
to any and all you photographic Buffs out there.
Adobe products have been on the market for what seem
like forever. For any of us with a camera, be it an
inexpensive point and shoot or a Top of the line digital
slr we use Adobe Photoshop in one form or another to
make those memories of a lifetime come to life, you
know, that "One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words"
type of memory.
What I'm going to focus on is an application within
Photoshop Elements, namely Photomerge. Photomerge
is great for splicing multiple photos together to achieve
a panoramic photograph. I've used it in the past with much
success. But that's NOT its only use!!!
I've done some photograhpic retouching and restoration
for friends and Clients in the past and they asked if I
could combine all gererations of a family into one picture.
That's when I discovered one of the many other uses for
Photomerge.
As an example, I've used a macro shot of our resident
"BadBoy". His Given name is Percy but he responds to
Badboy as well. The photo was shot in Tiff format and
absolutely no clean-up. The camera that I used is an
Olympus E-volt E-300. Since I used the macro setting
on the Olympus I needed only minimal cropping to
achieve "In The Cats Eye" displayed above.
The other photo, you ask. Just look in the cats eye and
you'll see out old boy "George". This photo came from a
scanned image I took many years ago. The photo was
cropped to include just his head and very little else. It was
saved as a giff. , 75 times 75 pixels to be able to fit it in
the eye. Photomerge doesn't merge the photos, but allows
you to super impose the two. After that's done all that is
needed is a little clean-up with the clone stamp tool and
there you have it!!!! This took me about 15 minutes to do.
This is just a cheap Parlor trick to prove a point. "With
Photoshop You're limited only by your imagination."

The F-Stop Shop