Recent content by weybourne

A few years ago, I attempted to overlay a "modern" picture of a bike, taken with a crop DSLR on top of a scanned copy of an old 35mm negative of a bike taken with a 50mm lens - this was to compare frame geometry (lengths and angles). The old photo appeared to be straight on from the side. I...

I've tried using the site's search function today and only get "page not found". I've tried clearing cookies etc. but still get the same result. I even tried it through an anonymiser and still got "page not found".

I've given it a go for one image but I suspect its purpose is to protect them rather than me.

Plenty of images with Photobucket watermark. A reverse search of some images found the originals in their "native" websites. It seems to me that when you search a term, they in turn search the internet and load the results as their products.

I forgot to say - as I recall it, walking to the bar to get my first drink, I had to concentrate to walk straight - a similar effort as what I would otherwise make after several drinks :beer:

Yes, I have. I recall feeling ever so slightly nauseous and unsure on my feet before my first drink - not a lot but enough for me to notice it and feel a little uncomfortable. I wear bifocals now and it felt a bit like when I first got them but wasn't used to them. I reckon if I had worn them...

Yeah, the only reason I would compress/zip a folder of jpegs is to create a container file, so to speak, so that all photos are contained in a single attached file.

Be aware that if it's jpegs that you're compressing, in terms of file size, you might not be reducing the size by much at all, if anything significant, on account of jpegs already being compressed files.

I don't take my DSLR out much unless I'm specifically going out to take photos, on account of the size and weight of it and lenses. I have a Panasonic FZ200 that frequently gets taken out for things like holidays, day trips, or out on the bike - times when I'm not going out specifically to take...

Well of course "rubbish" can be a value judgement and subjective. There's also consensus as to what's good and bad. Unlike the curate's egg, there can be good and bad in a photograph. This whole thread is on the premise that there is "better" (and you can't have better without "worse" - and...

I have to admit that when I posted the above, I failed to read the OP properly and overlooked the Flickr bit. I think that by extension, what I said above would go some way to explaining re. Flickr inasmuch as there's a lot more low standard stuff available nowadays but I have to say that I...

We've got two major changes between the last days of the dominance of film and today's ubiquitous digital photography - certainly on the "domestic" front rather than the pro/enthusiast front. Firstly, film was (is) a lot more expensive and slower to create photos (by slower I mean you don't get...

There's a bus stop like that on my road except that it says 'not in use' where the service numbers would be at the top of the post. I gather that it makes more sense to do that than remove the stop because if ever they want to use the stop in the future, if they had removed it then they would...

Same here :D

By my reckoning (and, to keep the maths & science within my limited ability, assuming the position of the stars and the earth are fixed in relation to each other, and that the earth rotates 360° in 24 hours), it will take the earth 4 minutes to rotate 1° - so your 20s exposure (as reported by my...