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[edit] Another Salutation

David,

You've heard this many times, but I'll say it again. Wow! Excellent work.
I also ask that you contact me if you would regarding the Hopetoun Falls picture. I can't seem to contact you directly as I'm in the U.S. and it appears my log in isn't worldwide (or at least not yet). If you have the time I would like to ask something of you. My U.S. wiki user name is William Lloyd, my email is william.loyd@hotmail.com

Thanks for the brilliant pictures. 72.161.52.188 (talk) 18:20, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POTD notification

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Hi Diliff,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Library of Congress Great Hall - Jan 2006.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 17, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-06-17. howcheng {chat} 18:24, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Just wonder.

Hi David, I'm not sure I posted my comment in the right place, so I've decided to copy it here too. Here it is: Hi, David, I just wonder how come you have not opposed the nomination of that animation Tvashtar erupts from NASA just yet ? Is the quality of that animation is not bad enough for you to oppose? Or maybe you have double standards (one for mine pictures and other for NASA pictures)? Please, understand me right. I'm just asking because you said you would oppose my image of an alien in an alien ship, if in your opinion the quality of the image would not be good enough. Whatever it is I'm glad you have not opposed the NASA animation because in my opinion an Encyclopedia is the place to share the knowledge and not just a high quality images. The questions I asked were just rhetoric questions. No response is needed. Thanks, David and good luck with taking pictures of the day. Mbz1 14:22, 18 May 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

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[edit] East Indiaman Götheborg

Hi David! I'm very impressed with your images here on wikipedia. I was wondering if you had any possibility of taking an image of the East Indiaman Götheborg in London? She arrived yesterday and will stay there for a week or two as far as I know. --Krm500 11:09, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use image

I've reverted this edit you made, as fair use images are only to be used in the mainspace per criterion 9 of WP:FUC. Thanks, -Panser Born- (talk) 17:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cake?

Timely or horribly belated? Who cares, cake needs no excuse!
Timely or horribly belated? Who cares, cake needs no excuse!

Happy Birthday? If so, please accept this GFDL, Wikipedian-created, genuine-Australian-produce Birthday Cake, with my best wishes.

If not, er... have some cake anyway! --YFB ¿ 22:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Hahaha thanks YFB. Twas on the 5th of May but it is certainly the thought that counts. By the way.. What? Are you stalking me? That change was only a few minutes ago!! ;-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 22:37, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Heh, nope - your user page is on my watchlist because I've left messages on your talk page (they come in pairs). I popped onto WP for a mo, your change was top of my list and I wondered if you'd added a new and exciting pic or something. Sadly I was disappointed, but you got cake out of it! :-) Anyway, belatedly Happy Birthday. Hope it was a good one! --YFB ¿ 22:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Well, I generally don't add pictures directly to my userpage unless they run the FPC gauntlet first, so you likely would have already seen it if it were added here! Sorry to disappoint! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 23:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Good point. Don't worry, the disappointment was momentary; anything's better than revising helicopter aerodynamics, which is what I'm supposed to be doing at the moment... Cheers, --YFB ¿ 23:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quick Question

Dliff, the picture is said to be taken next to Barcelona, but on an island? I'm slightly confused and had to ask you about it. I've been on Google Earth for about an hour trying to find it but have come up with almost nothing. If you could get latitude and Longitude for it or a Google/Yahoo map of it and post link I'd be very appreciative. Thank you. P.S. Very nice picture, all of your are. :-D MikelZap 00:12, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trafalgar Square covered in grass

Hi Diliff,

I believe you're in London and your photos are outstanding, so you seemed a good person to advise that Trafalgar Square is covered in grass for two days only - might make for an encyclopedic and rare photograph, should you get the chance to take a shot.

Cheers

Pstuart84 Talk 18:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POTD 2007-05-25

Hello Diliff, congrats for this POTD! It's another outstanding photo and I just wonder which software you use to stitch the images? That would be an interesting detail for the caption of your images. Anyway, thanks for making your panoramas available for wikipedia articles! Einemnet 08:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Sadly Smartblend isn't available on Macs yet, I also use hugin (one of the articles I try to improve) and as a Mac user I also use PTMac but tend to switch my workflows over to kubuntu. Having your partial panoramas tagged with information about the stitching software used could help illustrating some articles... :-) That makes me think of also uploading a partial panorama I recently stitched. A view of the Isar in Munich. Keep on shooting such nice panoramas! Cheers, Einemnet 09:21, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rainbow

Please could you contribute to the discussion about what is a reasonable number of images to appear on Rainbow. Neil Dodgson 07:53, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/St Peter's Square
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Your image, Image:St Peter's Square, Vatican City - April 2007.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 12:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hi David,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:St Peter's Square, Vatican City - April 2007.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 12, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-09-12.

[edit] comments

Your pictures are stunning!!! Do you watch photoshop tv? Thedjatclubrock :) 03:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC) It is a podcast by NAPP starring scott kelby, dave cross and matt kloscouski. It can show you some cool things (not as cool as yours) P.S. How do your pics come out so crisp Thedjatclubrock :) 09:38, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Colosseum

Your Colosseum image was used in a demo by Steve Jobs at the WWDC 2007 keynote. It's also used on the Apple website about halfway through the quick tour video for Time Machine. Noclip 15:14, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LOC and British Library photos

Hi Diliff,

Very nice photography. I'm a book editor for a children's-book publishing firm in the U.S., currently working on a project about great libraries. I may have a spot for two of your photos, the Great Hall Interior of the Library of Congress, and the reading room of the British Museum Library. Please contact me if you're interested. Thanks! (johnchamilton@comcast.net)

[edit] Night Panoramas.

Just a brief question. how do you avoid noise in your night panoramas. I've had a go at taking a few and have always tried dropping the ISO to avoid it but then of course as the shutter times reach into tens of seconds you'll get noise from that as well. I've gotton a few usable but not nearly as clean as yours so I wondering if you have some great trick you'd like to share : ) Thanks. -Fcb981 00:44, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I guess I'll keep trying then. It isn't as if I am getting really bad noise, I am just blown away by how clean this, this and this is. Thanks again, I appreciate your genorocity when it comes to offering advice. cheers. -Fcb981 17:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FPC query

I notice you opposed the Vietnamese child soldier FPC due in part to excessive grainyness. An edit has been made that reduces some of the grain, and I'd like to know what you think of the new edit before I close the nomination. Thanks. Raven4x4x 09:25, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use of image on Apple's website

You wrote on my talkpage (Spikebrennan 00:12, 11 July 2007 (UTC)) as follows:

Hi there. You invited me to email you regarding the issue I had with Apple. I emailed you on the 3rd of July and did not hear back from you. Did you get the email?

I'm afraid that I didn't get the email-- try me at dbrennan@dilworthlaw.com Spikebrennan 00:12, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I did get your email message, and I sent you a response email. Spikebrennan 20:00, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
David, I'm curious, did anything every come of this? I was reading an interesting article and thought of you. Thanks, Cacophony (talk) 07:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Amazing

I don't often write on users talk pages but I was compelled to make an exception in your case. I would just like to say how incredible every single one of your photos is. So here goes: your photos are incredible, every single one of them. Since I have an interest in photography I was wondering whether or not you could give me some advice on creating panoramas. I'm only using a point-and-shoot Sony Cybershot at the moment, until I can afford a Nikon 40X. Just some advice on how to take good shots, and also some good stitching software would be nice, thanks. Janipewter 01:21, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your turn...

... for the extreme weather! :) Have you been affected at all? --Fir0002 06:04, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cuttlefish

First off, your photos are AMAZING I'm really impressed with your work. Wikipedia is lucky to have you.

Anyways, I was doing some experimental photo editing and was wondering if there was an uncropped version of your "Georgia Aquarium - Cuttlefish Jan 2006" image, or if you had any other cuttlefish pictures.

Thanks!

TrevorCook 19:24, 29 July 2007 (UTC) EDIT: No problem, thanks for the response. Pretty impressive framing then!

[edit] POTD notification

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Hi David,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Royal College of Music - April 2007.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 24, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-08-24. howcheng {chat} 02:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POTD notification

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Hi David,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Colosseum in Rome, Italy - April 2007.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 5, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-09-05. howcheng {chat} 02:15, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can we use your image?

Hi David,

Let me just say, your images are beautiful!!! Very impressive. =)

I'd like to ask for your permission if I can use your Collosseum in Rome image for my 2008 calendar? The calendar is 4 pages and 15"x20" big. It's a free give-away calendar for local distribution (Philippines only). Please contact me via cheng.cindie@gmail.com to discuss further. Thanks!

Cindie Cheng —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.76.193.141 (talk) 02:49, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Places I've been

Hello,

am I wrong or is Austria missing. Since you made that wonderful picture of Salzburg City, I guees you've been there.
Nintendere 11:35, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks for pointing that out, not sure how I missed it! I've now added it. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 09:46, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Complimenti!

Hello,

I'm the user Brisckerly in the italian wikipedia. Your images are very beautifol. I'm a photografer too, but I'm not good like you. Comunque, complimenti! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.10.91.223 (talk) 07:07, 8 September 2007 (UTC) - My Italian talk is this

[edit] Barnstar

The Photographer's Barnstar
Can I say WOW? Really great images. :-) – sgeureka t•c 17:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Montreal City Hall
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Hi David,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Montreal City Hall Jan 2006.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 6, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-01-06. howcheng {chat} 17:45, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Basilica de Notre-Dame de Montreal

The interior of the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal would be a spectacular image. Anyways, amazing pictures! Large, but amazing. Ebuz610? 19:40, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Noise

I saw yet another great pic edited by you (Anole Lizard Hilo Hawaii NR.jpg) and saw "Noise reduction performed by Diliff to reduce noise/grain in original image." I'm wondering - what software do you use to reduce noise? CS2? JaGa 19:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks. Your pics are nothing short of amazing. Big Ben alone is mind boggling... --JaGa 07:28, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Questions Two

Hi Diliff,

Just a couple of quick questions.

I see you list the Canon 17-40mm f/4L among your lenses. I have that marked down as my next lens to purchase in the very near future to replace the 400D's pretty ordinary kit lens, but have read some varying opinions of it. The main complaint seems to be to do with producing soft images. I think Fir has it, but he seems to prefer the 70-200mm f/2.8L (obviously somewhat different uses, so I'm not considering that as an alternative). Just wondering about your take on the 17-40 as a trusted photographer; would you recommend it?

Also do you find the Speedlite 420EX meets all your needs? I've been looking at getting the 430EX, which I assume is just a newer model.

Thanks, --jjron 11:30, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jjron. To be honest I don't usually use my 17-40mm f/4L lens very often these days, as it is a bit too wide on a full frame camera. I bought it as my wide angle walkaround lens when I had a Canon 10D but the 24-105mm f/4L IS lens is a much more versatile workhorse on my 5D, having both a wider focal length range and IS. It isn't quite as good as the 17-40mm f/4L optically though, to be honest. The 24-105mm is only average for an L quality lens, but its strength is in its versatility so it stays on my 5D most of the time. I do recommend the 17-40mm though. I rarely find it to be soft (except around the edges on my full frame 5D, but it is seriously wide at 17mm, so I can't be too picky really as almost all ultrawides have that problem).

The other thing is that these days I'm a bit of a high res image junkie and I am more likely to use a longer focal length and stitch multiple segments together to present a wide angle scene than to take a single photo with a wide angle lens, with the added benefit of being able to use the panorama software to also correct the perspective at the same time. Call me eccentric if you like. :-) I suppose it takes about the same effort as a using large format camera with similar (if not greater) image quality benefits. Down side is obviously the fact that sometimes the subject matter is not static and makes for a rather difficult stitching job!

As you said, you cannot even begin to compare the 17-40mm and 70-200mm lenses. The 70-200 is a little sharper, but I find that often you think its sharper because you're looking at something quite far away in detail, whereas with a wide angle lens, you feel like you should be able to resolve more detail than you are actually able to but a given object takes up a proportionately small amount of space in the frame. So I think sometimes it is more of a psychological thing. Anyway, in the end, yes I would recommend the lens. I think you'll be quite happy with it.

As for the 420ex, I also don't use the flash very often as I prefer natural lighting, but it does everything I need it to. The main benefit of such a flash over the built in flash is simply that you can bounce it off walls for more aesthetically pleasing lighting. If you don't think you're likely to do this, then I probably wouldn't even bother buying an external flash to be honest.

Hope this info helps! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:41, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the considered opinion. I think that is the way I'll go for the lens, in fact pretty much decided now after reading this, seems like it would be pretty suitable for a walkaround on the 400D, and nothing comparable from another manufacturer jumps out. I bought the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM which is doing some good work, but the 70-200mm L is definitely sharper and overall better quality, but to get IS in the L you're paying about twice as much. Going to 300mm also was a factor, but to be honest beyond 200mm it's pretty ordinary in most cases. Still, the IS is good. I can't believe the work you put into some of your images with multiple segments and the stitching; I think I'd just be far too lazy myself, so a wide angle will be put to good use for me!
I see what you're saying with the flash - two main reasons I'm looking at the external unit, firstly getting rid some of the harsh flash lighting by diffusing or bouncing of walls as you mentioned, the second is that I take a fair number of pictures in poorly lit halls (like for school functions) and the extra flash distance should come in useful. I was more tossing up which external flash unit to get, but on balance between price and function, this appears to come out on top.
Thanks again. --jjron 10:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] disregard restitch

Hi Diliff,
Just got on my laptop now (in melb) and had a close look at the stitch I did in PS and realized though it fixed Image:London 360 crop3.jpg (the only error I checked it for) it had heaps of errors elsewhere. I think your's is the best stitch possible. Thanks for the chance anyway :) --Fir0002 09:35, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amazing

I couldnt find your contanct information, but i just want to say your pictures are amazing! You are an ispiration —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.193.129.99 (talk) 02:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo stitching software question

Hi Diliff, first I'd just like to say how much I enjoy your work. I've been doing panoramas for a while now, gradually improving my skills in Photoshop. This is extremely time consuming and tedious work so when I saw your page I immediately downloaded PTGui (only the demo for now but it says is full featured) and Smartblend plugin. I find that it is much better at lining up the images seemlessly than I can do in photoshop but it often fails to blend the sky as well as I can in photoshop or as well as any of your images. In some I've gotten multiple sun-related gradient changes where none should be. I'm just wondering if this is a something the software has trouble with, or if theres a way to fix this that I just don't know about? Also, does your camera (significantly better than mine) improve the stitching process? Thanks for any assistance you can give. Giligone 16:11, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/London 360 degree panorama
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Your image, Image:London 360 from St Paul's Cathedral - Sept 2007.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 11:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi David,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:London 360 from St Paul's Cathedral - Sept 2007.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 24, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-01-24. Perhaps you could add some building identification if you time? If not, no worries. howcheng {chat} 01:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Downsampling

Hi Diliff, congrats on yet another FP. I spent a good 15 min just staring at it, scrolling, staring some more. Really amazing.

I've been experimenting with your stitched panorama technique. So far, I'm getting nice results, but resizing is a problem. I'll stitch a bunch of images and get a HUGE but sharp pano, but whenever I downsample (Photoshop Elements 2.0) I lose sharpness badly. How do you do it? JaGa 19:16, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply! I uploaded an example to my user page. The smaller image just doesn't look as sharp to me - in the whole roof, really, not just the slanting away part. JaGa 21:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brilliant

The Pleiades (photograph by Rochus Hess) are awarded to you for being a star. Thank you for illuminating our world. --

this lovely red cat is awarded to you for showing beauty

I feel bad because a couple of years ago I was not happy with one of your Buckingham Palace pictures. But I see you have put in some fantastic work, quite humbling really. I am a City of London Guide and would like to request many places for you to photograph. I would also like to discuss some other photography matters with you. Have you a business contact number?

By the way, I hope you are getting the view of St Paul's from the top of Cheapside before Jean Nouvel's massive One New Change gets built. It's still a demolition site and the view of both St Paul's and St Augustie (almost from Starbucks on Cheapside) is excellent.

I also hope you are getting the view of the demolition at Commercial Union Plaza by Leadenhall Street while the old P&O Building is demolished from the ground up.

Incidentally I have put this star cluster up on your User page but you might like to restore your Barnstar formatting below it since I have used "gallery" format.

Best wishes and please contact my Talk page with your details. --FClef (talk) 21:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Photographer's Barnstar
I know you are running out of room for these, but because I selected your image of Zion Angels Landing for my userpage this month, I hereby award you the Photographer's Barnstar. Argos'Dad 00:41, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Versailles Chapel - July 2006 edit.jpg

Hi Diliff,
I noticed you've overwritten my edit with this version. I think really since it is a fairly significant edit to a FP you should put up the old one in the delist section (or perhaps just in the regular) and see what people think is the better version for FP. Because at the risk of sounding hypocritical I think it is too saturated. Image:Toledo Skyline Panorama, Spain - Dec 2006.jpg is a big improvement in my opinion but again I think for a FP edit there needs to be discussion and community consensus.

On a side note what program/technique are you using for your HDR tonemapping? Image:Clapham Common 360 Panorama - July 2007.jpg turned out very nicely as well.

Anyway, regards --Fir0002 07:08, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

No worries - I'm not fussed with overwriting my edit, but I think it does need less of a sat boost. I'll probably let you do it since I guess it'd be better to go from the origs. It might be worth putting a note on the FPC talk page with regards to changing an FP - don't know if it's happened before (except during a delist) so not sure as to what the correct protocol would be...
Yeah that makes sense - I was thinking "how the hell did he get all those people to freeze whilst he took the bracket?!!". I have actually converted to raw since we last spoke on the topic - mainly thanks to HDDs being super cheap ($140 for 500GB!! how can you go wrong?) and CS3 having a much nicer raw converter (it's got that handy highlight recovery feature...). So what you do with those image sequences is expose different levels in raw and then tone map in Photomatix yeah? They turn out very well, esp the Munich one (I'd be quite interested to see a "normal" exposure image for that scene if possible...) --Fir0002 12:52, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] High quality Montreal Basillica images

I always wondered what happened to your great shots of the interior... is there some "story" as to why they're not in use? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:27, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 33=35 Eastcheap

Hello Diliff, go here to see another nice use of your image. It's a section from an article on R.L. Roumieu, who designed the building, created and written by me.

Request: Please could you photograph the building from the front, getting in the Boar's head and the roofline?

thanks. --FClef (talk) 20:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] photos for geoscience site

Hi - I’m writing from the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University. We are looking for some photos to put on our website that portray Earth science, and found the Wikipedia site with your photo of smog over the L.A. basin. We're looking for photos for our Environmental Studies Program, and this would be very useful.

Would you be interested in allowing us to use your photograph or one similar in nature? We would like to get a high resolution image, if you have one available.

We'd also be interested in the photo of the Golden Gate bridge with fog, for our Atmospheric division.

Thanks very much, Jennifer Rumford Web Developer College of Geosciences —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.91.54.235 (talk) 15:51, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Hi Jennifer. You are free to use the image of smog over the L.A. basin within the bounds of the license - in other words, you have to attribute me, David Iliff, AND include a copy or link to the licence. If this is too restrictive, the image is available for sale for a relatively small fee (and with less restrictions) here.
  • As for the photo of the Golden Gate Bridge image, I'm not sure what you are referring to but it is not my image. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 17:21, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wonderful pictures!

Thanks for showing us all this beautiful pictures you have made!

Really a very good job!

Keep on taking photos! ;-)

Christopher —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.245.47.104 (talk) 23:00, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tagus River in Toledo
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Your image, Image:Tagus River Panorama - Toledo, Spain - Dec 2006.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 08:24, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
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Hi David,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Tagus River Panorama - Toledo, Spain - Dec 2006.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 21, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-03-21. I believe this is the longest I've gone without having one of your photos as POTD. howcheng {chat} 00:26, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Day Panorama

Hi Diliff, Yeah I was pretty proud of it too :-). I was actually thinking of waiting for a really nice day with puffy cumulus clouds and that but due to constraints on slack time at school I had to work with what I got on that particular Sunday. Also I guess clouds would bring more hassle in blending it. And yes it was manually blended in Photoshop. The way I did it was to set up the tripod on my front verandah (yes it is a nice view ;-) and take the same panorama every 2hours - I guess I didn't really need to shoot an entire pano but anyway - and then I stitched them and loaded it into photoshop and deleted through using a gradient layer mask (more than 250px of feather). Looking forward to seeing your attempt! :) --Fir0002 21:31, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your comment for my Nikon image

Hi Diliff, I just would like to let you know about my comment here (I forgot to log in). Of course, a photo showing the Nikon D200 camera would be better without the stuff arround it - but this would be a completly different photo. You could also argue that the photo does not show the back of the camera .. you know what I mean ;) -- regards, Aka (talk) 15:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amazing work!

First off, as you've heard a million times, your work is simply astounding. I wanted to ask if you've ever considered writing any kind of tutorial (or do you know of a good one) for shooting and stitching panoramic images? You seem to have a pretty firm grasp on it... :) -- Andy Ewert (talk) 18:30, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk

Dude, you're images are AMAZING!!!! Keep up the good work! 125.63.139.146 (talk) 10:52, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Champ de Mars from the Eiffel Tower - July 2006.jpg
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Hi David,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Champ de Mars from the Eiffel Tower - July 2006 edit.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 21, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-04-21. howcheng {chat} 23:20, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What to take?

Hi Diliff!

First of all I would like to say Great pictures! I was wandering if you could give me a couple of idea of what I could take pictures of around my house? Like common things you would find in a typical American house or city. I can't think of what I could take a good quality picture of with a Kodak Easy Share C330 (only camera I have access to). If you could give me some idea that would be great! Thanks Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 03:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nice

Nice photos. Stephen Ewen (talk) 06:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Colosseum Photo

Hi, I just wonder if you are the person in this page where I found your photo: [1]
Apparently it's not you.

  • Thank you very much for bringing it to my attention, anonymous person... This is the worst kind of image theft... Not just being used on a commercial site, but actually being SOLD on a commercial site, with the uploader pretending to be the original photographer and copyright holder. Very frustrating. I've written a strongly worded complaint to the site administrators requesting it be removed immediately (there were actually two images of mine there, not just one). Thank you again. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 09:52, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
    • Yeah that was really nasty - you should demand whatever that guy earnt off your photos! --Fir0002 10:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm the first poster, I only want you to know I strongly agree. Do anything you can, no mercy :) Federico Spano` (Fedespan on it.wikipedia.org) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.208.83.243 (talk) 11:57, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm really frustrated with Wikipedia's image policy. It's time for some changes, photographers should still have the rights to their photos, why can't there be an agreement that photographer grant Wikipedia to use copyright images for free? --Krm500 (talk) 12:36, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Commons Guide

Hello,

Could you please see this this and consider participating:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Photography_Guide_Project_Alpha

--Thermos (talk) 16:51, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


Hello,
Unfortunately the project page was deleted because of lack of media (I suppose). An undeletion request has been filed and I hope to have the page up on later day. In the meanwhile, sorry for inconvenience. I will notify you on the further developments. --Thermos (talk) 03:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Missing image Image:London Black Cab - April 2007.jpg

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[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/White-fronted Capuchin monkey
An image edited by you has been promoted to featured picture status
Your edit, Image:Cebus albifrons edit.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! jjron (talk) 08:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] commons:Commons:Picture of the Year/2007/Finalists

Hi David,

We left a note at your Commons talk page, but you may not have checked it yet. :) Two of your images have made it to the POTY final round of 28. Voting is now open (you're welcome to vote too). Congratulations and good luck. cheers, pfctdayelise (talk) 10:18, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photographic Master Award

Congratulations! You have been selected as one of Wikipedia's Masters of Photography for your outstanding contributions to the project. Please place this award somewhere on your userpage! Also be sure to visit the Photographic Masters' Guild Homepage. There you can find out more about project and utilize the forums etc. As a recipient I would request that you create yourself a profile and add five of your very best images (not necessarily 5 FP's - just five photos you think are your best) to the Guild Gallery. If you don't do this within 14 days of recieving this award I'll assume you'd rather I do it on your behalf.
Well Done Diliff - I thought you should be the first! --Fir0002 08:19, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Hi Diliff - can you check that your details are to your liking? --Fir0002 10:04, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How did you get the Windsor Castle picture?

On your picture of the Windsor Castle, if the quadrangle was off limits to the public, how did you get the picture of it? ~BJA 1:34 AM 02/03/08

  • Through the bars of a gate. I wasn't in the quadrangle, just viewing it from the gate. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 19:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Tour of Gipps

Thanks :) And yeah it is a very nice vantage point - you probably remember it from this shot: Image:Great_alpine_rd_outside_omeo.jpg which I nom'd a while back. No worries with the profile - glad you were happy with it. Did you check the gallery too? Maybe you want different pix there... I got into Aerospace/Law at Monash Uni which should be quite interesting - but perhaps too much for me, especially since I didn't do Legal Studies in VCE as I wasn't expecting such a good ENTER! Anyway see how I go - the good thing is with this double degree is that I'm essentially doing an Aerospace degree with the electives taken up by the Law units. So if I want to quit at any point I'm not behind the main stream of Aero (ie I can quit at 4 years and have an Aero degree) which is reassuring :) --Fir0002 10:39, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for letting us all know about the photo stitching program that you use. Because of this I have been able to work wonders with my cheap camera. Some of the pics that I have used it for are on my user page, check it out. I have actually tried wide lenses, fish eye lenses and so on but they were all crap, this program is much better. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. (talk) 04:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chester Cathedral at dusk 2

Would you be interested in taking another look at the FPC? It would be great if you'd like a stab yourself - if you're interested email me - can you work with the source NEF files - if not let me know what format you'd like. cheers --Joopercoopers (talk) 12:43, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

ping! you have mail. --Joopercoopers (talk) 14:50, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tower Bridge sunset photo

I have to admit, your photo is marvellous. Simply south (talk) 22:31, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] picture use

David, The pictures are very good. I would like to use one in an educational publication. Can you contact me urgently please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rtbounford (talk • contribs) 10:03, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Upright tag

Please have a look at my Talk Page for your reply - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 16:46, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Tagus River Panorama - Toledo, Spain - Dec 2006.jpg

Just to let you know that the Tagus image of yours is now being promoted at COM:FPC. And to ask a question: how did you manage to stitch the images in the bottom part of the picture, where the water in moving? With a lot of cloning? -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:54, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Thanks for letting me know. I particularly like that image. To be entirely honest, I don't actually remember whether I needed to clone the water, but the blending software that I use does an excellent job of masking the seam lines, and in a sense automatically clones it when it needs to. I don't know how it does it, but it does a very good job. :-) It also corrects (most of the time) parallax errors. That is, it corrects them when it is possible to disguise the error. But when you have objects in both the foreground AND background that need to line up correctly, well, then it usually fails! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 21:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Great contributions

Hello Diliff. Your contributions are simply outstanding. Please visit my user page. You will find something. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 04:44, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FPC

Thanks for the comments, you're right in any shape or form that I take it. :P If you ever need any help with anything (which I pretty doubt) my talk page is always within limits. Regards, Rudget. 20:53, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Rudget. 21:14, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Casa Milà
An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status
Your image, Image:Casa Milà - Barcelona, Spain - Jan 2007.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 09:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tower Bridge and Thames sunset
An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status
Your image, Image:London Thames Sunset panorama - Feb 2008.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 08:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] One more question

Hi, Diliff,
May I please ask you to tell me what IYO would have happened, if the current nomination of Big Ben image passed? Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:03, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

  • I would have nominated the previous FP for delisting, as I said I would. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 18:09, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I know, but do you believe it would have get delisted? Looks to me that more people like current FP better.--Mbz1 (talk) 19:00, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
  • All we can do is work with consensus. If consensus wants two similar featured pictures, then so be it. I think people, overall, liked a combination of both Option 1 and Option 2 - in other words, Option 3. If Option 3 is featured, then I think people will happily support the delisting of the old FP. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 19:50, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Big Ben Clocktower replacement

Hi David,

I hope you don't mind, but I closed your Big Ben replacement nom (the FPC page seems longer than I've ever seen it be). At the length that it was at, and at the bottom of the page, it just didn't look like it was going anywhere. While it looks like there was enough opposition against the new "blue sky" pic, it's probably just a procedural matter of listing/delisting wrt the reprocessed original. If you remember the red newt FP awhile back, where the photog claimed the color was off, that one was first delisted and then immediately renom/promoted after some clarification and explanation. If you can't get around to it, I'd be happy to set up the nom.

Best regards, Malachirality (talk) 07:00, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pied Cormorant

Please see the cropped version here Thanks, - Milk's Favorite Cookie 19:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wow

Good grief! I never understood why photographers had to be so perky about lenses and stuff that cost so much money, while I thought anyone could do the same thing with a little $150 camera and a little lighting luck. I stand corrected! Amazing pictures! Just astonishing! Thanks for sharing them with us! ~RayLast «Talk!» 13:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Excellent

I just finished looking at all of your photographs on your user page, and wanted to drop a little note. All of them, are spectacular. Not some of them, not even the MAJORITY of them. They are ALL just awesome, and I would like to thank you for being so selfless and sharing them to the world. I commend you sir, and keep up the good work. The photography and Wikipedia worlds are lucky to have you. Ctolson (talk) 16:18, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Delist nom

Hi Diliff,

Have put up your Big Ben picture for a delist and replace. I thought there was a pretty strong consensus to replace the current version with the reprocessed version in the recent nom, but it didn't happen, so have proposed this at FPC. See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Big Ben. --jjron (talk) 15:00, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Beautiful Through your Lense

Hello, I was wondering if using your photo of the Zion Canyon on my user page would be ok. I give all credit of the photo to you. Also I will add your name to my user page's friends/helpers category. If you don't agree to me doing this then just you may just contact me at my disscussion page. Thank you.

I am begining to study photography myself and if there is anything you would like to share with me then that would be grand! --Tj999 (talk) 20:50, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chester Cathedral

Hi there - remember this FIC? I went back - reshot it all in 13 frames with 4 different exposures, tonemapped each, stitched and then cropped and corrected colour balance. I'd be very grateful if you would take a look and let me know what you think of its chances at FIC before i resubmit. Many thanks. --Joopercoopers (talk) 00:56, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question(s)

Hey Diliff. First, let me tell you that your images are astounding and beautiful. I wish I had the equipment you had. Second... I would love for a picture that I recently took to be considered for POTD. However, I have no idea how to go about uploading it and listing it with a free(?) license. Feel free to shoot me an email if the details are long. And thanks ahead of time.  ;) Queerbubbles | Leave me Some Love 23:51, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I need your help

Hello Mate, I am doing a project for my photography class, about an inspiring photographer, and because I find your pictures to be fantastic, I've decided to present your work in class, I was wondering if this is Ok, and if you could assist me in answering some brief non personal questions. Please email me at NHathi@gmail.com...Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NHathi (talk • contribs) 04:44, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Using the Colosseum picture

Hi, just thought I'd let you know that I put that picture up as the main image in a blog of mine (since it's written in Latino sine Flexione and the Colosseum is just perfect) and the copyright information is here. Even though it's Creative Commons I like to let people know when I can. Mithridates (talk) 13:47, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chester Cathedral

I did tweak the colour and uploaded it again here - I'd appreciate your opinion - alternatively I've got the hdr files and the unstitched tonemaps uploaded to some webspace - email me if you'd like to work on it and I'll grant you access. regards --Joopercoopers (talk) 16:13, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Hehe - I elicited the help of three people to do the colour balance on my dell laptop :-) I'll send you the link tomorrow when I'm back at work and cen remember the URL and password. Currently there's the hdr and tonemapped jpg files - if you want to grab those first (the hdrs were just simply created in CS3) - I can then delete them and upload the NEF files too. Thanks again. --Joopercoopers (talk) 22:56, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok - I'll just upload the NEF files then - yeah, from memory there were actually 4 exposures per shot in a matrix of about 12. Laughably one of my mates is a colour therapist (don't ask) --Joopercoopers (talk) 00:00, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello again - well the ISP seem to be slow resolving the problem on the site - however, zip files are fine to download for some reason, so I've individiaully zipped them and then uploaded to the site. Let me know if you have any further difficulties. regards --Joopercoopers (talk) 14:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Great stuff! No my D40 doesn't autobracket, so you get a little movement touching the controls - curious about the motion blur, seem to remember it was a pretty still night, but both photoshop and qtpsfgui seem to be able to align the brackets together without too much difficulty. regards --Joopercoopers (talk) 15:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)