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Which Board? => Main Forum => Topic started by: irv_b on July 20, 2019, 10:51:43 AM
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Okay so now everyone who expressed to join in has, B&W was the slightly more popular taste so I have loaded it with Ilford FP4 36 exp. It will be winging it's way to Sandeha to start us off, then it'll follow the list below as much as possible.
As there is 15 of us taking part it will mean that we get to shoot 4 frames each then pass it on. I have managed to contact Ed so when we are done it can go in the collab gallery.
- 4 shots each on a theme suggested by the previous shooter
- No time limit with the camera take as long as you like
- Camera contains FP4 so if you use it on the ISO setting stick to 125 so we all use the same.
- You can use it on aperature priority if you wish
- there is a flash traveling with it. You will need to put 2 AA batteries in the flash. I wouldn't send it in the post with batteries loaded
- Contact the next person to receive the camera to make sure that they are available, if not move to the next person on the list and we'll circle back to the missed out person
- there is a list of who is next with the camera and you can get the address of the next person to shoot from me or the Filmwaster themself via pm
- Most of all have fun
Order of travel
Sandeha, David, Paul, Nigel, Tony, Irv, Kai, Aksel, Christian (nachtiris), Manuel, Christian (cs1), Francois, Bryan, Ryan, Becky, Irv for processing
I know Kai is away in Aug and Bryan travel frequently for work so we'll sort that as we need to.
I think that is it -any queries let me know via this thread
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Thanks for giving birth to this project, Irv. I'm really looking forward to it. :)
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Instructions for nerds, here ...
http://www.cameramanuals.org/olympus_pdf/olympus_pen_ee-2.pdf (http://www.cameramanuals.org/olympus_pdf/olympus_pen_ee-2.pdf)
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Now with a lens cap, courtesy of a tub of Extra Mints and an NYC friend.
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;D cheers Sandeha
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Hey Irv!
Thank you for starting and mentoring this fine collab! I'm looking forward to it!
Kindest regards, Christian
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This is supercoool, thank you!
Looking forward to see what we come up with ;D
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Somehow I was left off the list.. I would like to play.
I'm in the states.. 8)
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Nice to have you on board, Becky. Just send Irv a PM with your name and address and you're in, I suppose.
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I hope so as I signed up the first day.... 8)
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I remember, Becky. Irv must have missed it but I dare say you'll be just before or just after Francois.
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I hope so as I signed up the first day.... 8)
Becky I'm SO SORRY. You are on the list. I got your name mixed up with Debbie :-[, after reading her newsletter, I made this list and put her name in instead of yours.
Once again, sorry!
I'll amend the list on the thread and check with Sandeha that on the list, travelling with the camera, that I have put you in it correctly.
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Looks to be sorted!
It's not the first time in my life I've been called Debbie..
All good now! 8)
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The Oly is heading onwards.
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It's arrived with me and it seems to be all ok.
I had to wind it on, so we might have lost a frame.
Was I supposed to have a theme suggested by Paul, or have a misunderstood?
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It's arrived with me and it seems to be all ok.
I had to wind it on, so we might have lost a frame.
Was I supposed to have a theme suggested by Paul, or have a misunderstood?
Glad to see it steadily doing the rounds. I hope everyone is having un with it. Yes Paul should have suggested a topic to shoot. there will be a surplus of frames left over so an occasional wind on shouldn't hurt.
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I didn't check - can you trip the shutter without winding on?
If not, there should be no lost frames ... and no double exposures either.
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You need to wind on to cock the shutter.
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I think the shutter tripped in the post. Nevermind, I'm sure we can run to another roll if needed.
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Just don't wind after you take the last shot :)
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It's arrived with me and it seems to be all ok.
I had to wind it on, so we might have lost a frame.
Was I supposed to have a theme suggested by Paul, or have a misunderstood?
My brain went to porridge, Nigel. Sorry. Theme for you (if you haven't shot one already) is "Backlit scenes". I didn't wind on after my last shot as I know it's easy for the shutter to trip in transit or when putting in / getting out of the box.
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It's arrived with me and it seems to be all ok.
I had to wind it on, so we might have lost a frame.
Was I supposed to have a theme suggested by Paul, or have a misunderstood?
My brain went to porridge, Nigel. Sorry. Theme for you (if you haven't shot one already) is "Backlit scenes". I didn't wind on after my last shot as I know it's easy for the shutter to trip in transit or when putting in / getting out of the box.
So, now I wish I hadn’t asked!
You’re too prepared, Paul. I want to say I won’t wind it on but chances are I’ll forget. 8)
I’ve forgotten who’s next on the list (I’m on the sofa and can’t move) but if it’s you could you DM your address?
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Think that's me next, Nigel.
Address sent...
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OK, my four frames are in the can AND I remembered not to wind on after the last shot! Although trying to shoot 'backlit' (thanks Paul ;) ) I'm likely to have four underexposed images. I'll try to get it in the post in the next day or so - over to Tony.
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My time with oly has come to an end, and I must say, he/she was a charming little houseguest.
Shortly to be waved off to continue the journey, resplendent with a natty new wrist-strap.
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My time with oly has come to an end, and I must say, he/she was a charming little houseguest.
Shortly to be waved off to continue the journey, resplendent with a natty new wrist-strap.
That’s a very fine addition, nice work.
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My time with oly has come to an end, and I must say, he/she was a charming little houseguest.
Shortly to be waved off to continue the journey, resplendent with a natty new wrist-strap.
I like the strap Tony. :)
Who's next?
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Thanks gents... Oly is now on the way back to Irv.
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The dandy camera has arrived, seems to be in perfect order (haven't pressed the button yet). Aksel is next on the list, will try to shoot my frames this week.
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The EE-2 is now on its way to Aksel. The hot shoe looked a little unprotected so I added a cover for it.
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Arrived safely, now trying to make sense of the assignment from Kai-san. Adding a softie and time correct braided neck strap + a link to this forum/thread if any custom officer should find the camera interesting when entering the EU again.
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Hi Guys
just a quick shout out to see if the camera is still doing the rounds now the world is in Lockdown or has it got lost in the post.
Last notification was that it was with Aksel in Norway. Hopefully all is okay with him and it'll resume its travels once CV19 restrictions has eased.
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I know right now shipping is at an all time slow.
I've been waiting for a padded envelope to come from the US for about 4 weeks now and it's just been released by customs to travel in the country.
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If you check Aksel's activity you'll see he hasn't been on here since beginning of February. So maybe send him a message?
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Sorry to everyone on here!
I took my snaps and packed it up, then life came in the way and I forgot all about it. Had it not been for a message from irv it would still be on my shelf.
Now, I will ship it out to the next on the list, early next week. Agin, my sincere apology for the delay!
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Hi Aksel,
don't worry and no need to apologize. We are living in strange times. Most important your're well and so your family and friends.
A lot of people are using film cameras to slow down a bit, so there is no need for speed in this nice little collaboration. :-)
Cheers!
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Hi guys!
The Oly has arrived in Vienna on Wednesday, it seems to be fine! Thx Aksel!(https://www.dropbox.com/s/td5vcsvc6w37a9q/filmwaster_traveling_oly.jpg?dl=0)
Now it's my turn to handle Aksel's proposed topic. I'm looking forward to it!
Stay tuned!Christian
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OMG... it wasn't lost by the postal service and sent on a world tour of bad destinations only to land in a Tibetan village where somebody carried it by horseback to a post office in a neighboring country where the package was seized by the customs officer and sent to a depot where it was inspected and found that it wasn't delivered to the right country only to be put back in the postal service where it traveled by rail to cross the continent so that it could be delivered in Austria...
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OMG... it wasn't lost by the postal service and sent on a world tour of bad destinations only to land in a Tibetan village where somebody carried it by horseback to a post office in a neighboring country where the package was seized by the customs officer and sent to a depot where it was inspected and found that it wasn't delivered to the right country only to be put back in the postal service where it traveled by rail to cross the continent so that it could be delivered in Austria...
Reminds me, I once sent a package for work that went to the Philipines instead of Philadelphia. It got lost somewhere in Manila and never turned up again. :D
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Hello guys!
I'm sorry for sabotaging the collaboration. The last months were really tough, a lot of troubling things happened, additional to the whole COVID-mess.
But the Oly is still in perfect condition and is ready for travelling once again!
@Manuel: only your address is still required :D
Stay safe!Christian
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That's good news!
I thought the camera had been eaten by a bear.
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Hello guys!
I'm sorry for sabotaging the collaboration. The last months were really tough, a lot of troubling things happened, additional to the whole COVID-mess.
But the Oly is still in perfect condition and is ready for travelling once again!
@Manuel: only your address is still required :D
Stay safe!Christian
Christian we are so glad that you are ok.
The camera is secondary to your personal life so please don't think that you put the project under any danger.
I have said for people to take their time when they received the camera, as I know we all have busy lives, the main thing is to have fun when using it. Hopefully if anyone is having a bit of a photographic slump using a different camera with a topic suggested by someone else will help.
Take care of yourself and your family, and we all look forward to brighter days ahead.
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The Oly has arrived today. Such a beautiful little camera! :)
I will contemplate my theme a couple of days before I start taking pictures.
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Hi all
I have had a conversation with a couple of guys in the project and due to personal reason they understandably wish to drop out of participating which isn't a problem.
Before the camera gets posted on all I would like to know, are the remaining people wishing to carrying on or due to the current situation should we curtail the project.
If you wish to carry on please post on here or send me a message.
Thanks
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I would like to continue with it.
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I never signed up originally but, if you have anyone dropping out and need a replacement, I'd be happy to step in. I need something to make me get out and take more photographs.
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I'm happy to continue!
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I'm still in for it!
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Just to let you know, I still have to take my pictures. Got struck down by a bad cold last week (not sure where I got this from as we are not seeing anyone). With the upcoming hard lockdown, I will probably only be able to send the camera on in January. Hope that is ok.
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Thanks for the update Manuel. Don't worry to much about shooting if you are feeling under the weather, best to get well. Stay safe.
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So an update. Manuel has posted the Oly to me. It's currently partying somewhere in a DHL depot in Germany. I'll update when I get it.
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Well, despite my previous experience with DHL, the Oly has arrived in one piece. It's currently warming up.
(https://i.imgur.com/kHOkYW0.jpg)
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What frame number is it up to now, Pete?
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What frame number is it up to now, Pete?
It's on 39 but I think it should be on 40 so either it was started at -1 or someone only took three pictures.
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While I'm thinking about the theme Manuel has given me, I've cleaned up the top plate a little and re-painted the 'EE-2' as most of the paint was missing.
(https://i.imgur.com/xO8OGwW.jpg)
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Glad the Oly got through well! :)
Your paint job looks great!
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While I'm thinking about the theme Manuel has given me, I've cleaned up the top plate a little and re-painted the 'EE-2' as most of the paint was missing.
(https://i.imgur.com/xO8OGwW.jpg)
Thanks for that Pete, it looks so good now. As I have said to everyone please take your time when shooting your theme, there is no rush.
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The Oly is ready to move on to Bryan.
It's gained a couple of accessories while in my possession including a step up ring, a lens hood and a proper Olympus close-up lens.
(https://i.imgur.com/3HRmvwcm.jpg)
Bryan will be needing the CU lens or another similar for the theme I've given him.
Will be in the post soon.
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I do like doing closeup stuff, looking forward to it.
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By the time that Oly gets back to Irv it will be the best equipped EE-2 on the planet!
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Camera arrived yesterday, looks like it survived the journey. Even the U.S. Postal Service is no match for that vault it's shipping in.
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Camera arrived yesterday, looks like it survived the journey. Even the U.S. Postal Service is no match for that vault it's shipping in.
I just shipped the camera to Grit and he has his assignment. I hope I got the parallax correction right when I used the closeup filter. If not I meant to do that ;D
I reinforced the camera vault with gaffers tape so it should be quite challenging for the US Postal Service to destroy it but I know they are up for the challenge.
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woo-hoo!
And I think I'm last in line after Grit, so I'm excited to see this little traveller after it's been around the world.
this is so cool.
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OK, my assignment is complete! Apologies, I took 5 frames by accident :-[ - my excuse is that it's actually been forever and a day since I shot 35mm! The shutter is very quiet and I thought I hadn't tripped it, when in fact I had. But hopefully the photos turned out. One day I will actually learn how to use cameras! Anyway, the OLY is ready for its last photographer before returning home; I should have it in the mail by the end of next week.
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According to my reckoning, there should be plenty of spare frames so can't see it's a problem.
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woo-hoo!
And I think I'm last in line after Grit, so I'm excited to see this little traveller after it's been around the world.
this is so cool.
I think that you may as well just shoot the roll off to the end Becky.
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Hey!
It's here! The little vagabond world traveler has hit my doorstep just this morning.
All in good shape! 8)
Excited to do my part in this epic camera adventure.
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Glad it arrived safe and sound!
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I'm really intrigued to see the images from the travels across continents over this past two years, when they're back with Irv. Is the plan to post as many of the images as possible for us all to see?
And it's whetted my appetite for the next time something like this happens.
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I'm pretty certain the plan is to share them...we have a gallery place here, or I think it's actually essays, that it could be a good fit for...
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I'm pretty certain the plan is to share them...we have a gallery place here, or I think it's actually essays, that it could be a good fit for...
Fab, thank you :D
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the traveling OLY is on its way back to Irv!
Can you believe it!?!?!!
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Holy cow!
How long has it been?
Gotta be at least two years.
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woo-hoo!
According to tracking, the Traveling OLY has reached the UK as of Monday, June 28.
Now to see how long it sits in customs......
I mailed the box on June 18.
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UK customs have been pretty quick lately. I just got a package from Japan shipped five days ago by Fedex. But depends how you sent it and what value you put on it. Low value items generally get through quick.
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Same thing here. It depends greatly on how it was shipped.
UPS and Fedex are the fastest. Purolator and Canada Post are the last two on the speed ratings.
And Canada Post is as slow as tar...
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It was sent through the US postal service, which is usually reliable and safe.
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woo-hoo!
According to tracking, the Traveling OLY has reached the UK as of Monday, June 28.
Now to see how long it sits in customs......
I mailed the box on June 18.
I have received a notice that the camera is at the sorting office waiting for me to pay the custom fee which I have just done. So hopefully it'll be in my house on Monday and I'll get the film off to get developed.
I did mention it to Ed when we started if we could get it on the collab section and he said no problem.
If anyone has any other ideas as what to do with the pictures, shout out.
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Not to put any pressure on you Irv but any results yet?
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Hi everyone
Sorry I haven't been on much lately, my son just moved into a flat and we have been doing it up.
Anyway the roll was sent off to get developed and I have received it back.
So I'll get them scanned over the next couple of evenings and if you guys pm me their email, I'll get their shots to them, so they can edit them as they see fit, then we'll get them on a collab gallery
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Hi all
I have emailed the negs which I think you took, from trying to work out what you shot, from the topic list, so hopefully you have all got the correct pics. There are some with marks on the negatives, which I would think could maybe from the roll being x-rayed so many times but I think they are able to be edited out.
If I have sent anyone the wrong ones give me a shout and I'll send the right ones.
I'll give it another week or so for those guys who haven't sent me their email address, to catch up, then we'll decide on a date to send to the collab gallery
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Hi everyone.
I'll give it till next weekend 14/15th to hear from Sandeha, Paul, Nigel and Kia-San to get their pics to edit.
If I don't I'll do a basic clean up and we'll get all the shots posted somewhere.
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Irv, I've sent you my email address a week ago. When I checked my sent messages tonight there were none, all my previously sent messages has been deleted. :o
I'l try again now, please tell me if you haven't received my message tomorrow morning.
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Hi Irv, I have sent my email some time ago. Let me know in case it didn't come through.
Thank you!
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Hi everyone.
I'll give it till next weekend 14/15th to hear from Sandeha, Paul, Nigel and Kia-San to get their pics to edit.
If I don't I'll do a basic clean up and we'll get all the shots posted somewhere.
You might be better to send them a message Irv as none have been around for a while. Paul especially hasn't been here since early last year. They should get an email if you send a message.
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Irv, I've sent you my email address a week ago. When I checked my sent messages tonight there were none, all my previously sent messages has been deleted. :o
I'l try again now, please tell me if you haven't received my message tomorrow morning.
I have replied :)
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Hi everyone.
I'll give it till next weekend 14/15th to hear from Sandeha, Paul, Nigel and Kia-San to get their pics to edit.
If I don't I'll do a basic clean up and we'll get all the shots posted somewhere.
You might be better to send them a message Irv as none have been around for a while. Paul especially hasn't been here since early last year. They should get an email if you send a message.
Good idea- thanks Peter
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Hi All
just a quick update. I managed to get hold of Ed - he is having a well desrerved holiday- and when he returns on monday between him and Satish they are going to do some jiggery-pokery and sort out the gallery to enable us to get the pics on there.
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That will be great - so looking forward to seeing everybody's contribution
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Hi to all who participated
Thanks to Satish who has done some work upgrading the gallery, we are ready to upload the pics for the Oly trip collaboration.
If you send your photos to him via the Filmwasters Gmail account (forumadmin@filmwasters.com ) and title the email "Collab", by
Please add to the photo
1.Title
2. The theme given to you by your predecessor
3. A few sentences explaining how you've interpreted the theme.
4. You can put all 4 of your photos or as few as you like
5. Your website/blog/Flickr address that you'd like listed.
I will contact those who don't frequent the site much now, so I suggest to get your shots into Satish by the 1st of November and we should be able to get them posted a week or so later.
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Any thoughts on max res sizing? I think there were limits last time.
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Good point Sandeha! I just checked and the maximum size is 20MB. Please resize your photos if necessary.
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I've just sent mine to Satish c/o the "forumadmin" address. Hope they're received okay. I'm really looking forward to seeing the whole collaboration and I'm even on the lookout for an EE2 or EE3 :o
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Yeah, I've received a few submissions so far. Waiting for a quorum/majority before I actually start uploading 😉
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Just sent mine over. I wish I could remember the theme I was trying to interpret... Cities? Art? People? No idea really, looking back on them
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David your subject was London Summer exhibition
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my efforts just sent... looking forward to seeing everyone's results.
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Irv - thank you for the prompt. I nailed the subject matter, then. :)