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How to post a second photo to a discussion thread at BetterPhoto

Word of warning: This procedure is time sensitive. If your session times out, you will be asked to log back in. If that happens, the image will not be uploaded. This is not the time to write an instructional handbook nor your life history in the comments box. Also, once you start, do not accept phone calls or respond to email ... basically stick to the attitude of "Don't disturb me unless it's fire, flood, or blood."

1) Create the image you want to add to the discussion (and know where the file is saved ;)

2) Sign In. It must be the log-in that requires your email and your password. The link is in the navigation bar on the left side of BetterPhoto.com or here. I don't care if you were just signed in. Sign In, again. Sign In always takes you to the "My Better Photos" section of your admin area.

3a) If you are adding an image to an existing discussion, locate the discussion. Click on The Forum link in BetterPhoto.com's navigation bar. After navigating to the the discussion, click on the "Respond" link at the bottom of the discussion.

or

3b) If you are creating a Before and After discussion, first add your "After" image to your gallery as you normally would. Then to enter your "After" photograph into a discussion area, go to your gallery and click the "Discuss" link under your image.

4) In either case, write your comment to include with the photo. If you want to skip comments, I think you can just hit the space key a few times and go on. If that doesn't work ... three periods will ;)

5) This is optional but useful: Select and copy your comments.

6) Select number of images you want to upload (just above the "Submit" button).

7) Click on the "Submit" button.

8) Complete the upload as you normally would. If you are taken to the log on instead ... keep reading ....

Note 1: If you are not taken to the upload page, then probably too much time passed between "Sign In" and "Submit", your session will time out. If you are asked to sign back in at this point, the image upload isn't going to work. You have two options:

If you copied the text in the comment box before clicking "Submit", Cancel the post (I think you just abandon it). Click on Sign In (THE two-step Sign In), find the discussion, click respond ... Click in the comment box, hold down the CTRL + V and wa'la your comment will magically reappear. Then submit.

If you didn't copy and your comment is long and tedious, then go ahead and log in. It will post the text. Then you can just do what everybody else does ... try again to add the photo in another post.

Note 2: An easy way to copy your comment.
a) Click the mouse anywhere inside the comment box.
b) On the keyboard, hold down the CTRL key.
c) Press the A button (CTRL+A).
(All text will be selected ... if your whole page is selected/ highligted, be sure you clicked the mouse inside the comment box.)
d) Still holding down the CTRL key, press the C key (CTRL+C).
(This will copy everything that is selected.)
e) If for some mis-fingering reason you end up with no text in that box, just a nice C, press CTRL+Z (undo) and that should bring back the text.

Note 3: The image you add into a discussion does not display in your gallery. If you want it to display in your gallery, the image will be in the "your photos" list (on your admin page) and you can change it's setting to "display." This is a nice feature that allows you to upload helpful images without having them count against your 30 free displayed images.

I reserve the right to be wrong. If I left something out or have it in the wrong order, contact me.

Have fun!
Pam

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NikonNet -- Mark Alberhasky: Second Thoughts

Mark Alberhasky: Second Thoughts:

Mark says it all! ..

"'On a trip ... I gave myself permission to pretend I was shooting an assignment for National Geographic,' Mark says. ... 'When I got home there was this one unbelievable slide [of a windsurfer], and I knew it was going to get into print. I'd never published anything, but I thought, this is an incredible shot, and somebody's going to want it.' Mark got the names of editors of windsurfing magazines from the web and sent out email inquiries. When the editors offered to take a look at some of his pictures, he emailed them. Within 30 minutes, three of the magazines said they wanted the windsurfer. Eventually the photo was published overseas as well as in the States.

'I thought, if I can get this kind of satisfaction, and people liked what I was seeing and photographing, why not really commit my time to this? Why not be really serious about it and see what I can do with it?' That's what he's been doing for the past four years -- shooting on every vacation and making an effort to market his work.

Even a quick glance at Mark's work reveals that he's got a pro's eye for composition, detail and color. 'Probably subconsciously I was drawn to pathology, which is a very visual field, because I'm a very visually-oriented person,' he says, 'and looking into a microscope is very much like looking into a viewfinder. I think spending 25 or 30 years at a microscope has helped train my eye. All day long I'm looking at abstract patterns, looking for that one cell that stands out. That helps me see the one tree that stands out, or the particularly interesting abstract that jumps out of a bunch of patterns.'

... To Mark, photography is all about 'allowing yourself to see beyond the obvious, so when you look at a scene, you're no longer seeing a tree, you're seeing shapes and the light and what the light is doing. Most people have trouble with that; they just see a tree.'

One way to design a photograph most effectively, Mark suggests, is to train yourself to look into the viewfinder, not through it. 'The problem with looking through it is that we're making an emotional connection with the subject. Seduced by the magic that captured our attention in the first place, we forget to pay attention to what is actually included in the frame.' Which, he says, is why we cut off heads, make family members the size of ants in the landscape or place subjects dead center in the frame.

Above all other subjects, Mark loves shooting travel images. 'When I get into an environment where I can put medicine away and relax and shoot,' he says, 'I'm so stimulated by what I see that my visual senses explode.'"

NikonNet -- Jim Richardson: Northern Lights

NikonNet: "Jim cautions that photographing lightning is a problem for several reasons. 'One is, you can die. People need to take this stuff seriously. Second, it's raining, so you have to find some way to keep the lens dry during the long-time exposure.' When he can find them, Jim favors gas stations that have overhanging shelters for their pumps. 'You don't want to be standing out there with an umbrella, which looks suspiciously like a lightning rod,' he says."

Posted in honor of (thankfully not in memorium of) Karen and her First Strike