c0MeT iN MeLb

[!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~!]

YES! i went out tonight due to bugger all cloud, walked down the edge of the freeway, bout 300mtrs from my house....
Waited 3/4hr then my Mrs noticed this tiny smear in the sky, VERY hard to see with the eyes!
due to being around lights it was awful hard but i managed to get a few. My cam has a max of 30sec exposure or BULB which i do not have a remote so 30sec was my only way really
very noisy pic, and i PS it HEAPS!
hope u enjoy my lame attempt from the busy freeway

[mattyjacobs]

I think your caps lock key is broken.

[!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~!]

ha like hell! i have a logitech G15 gaming Keyboard with LCD!! it better never break for the price i paid!

[gstark]

I think Matty is referring to your (ab)use of capitals in the subject header.

A small housekeeping issue here, if I may.

Some may think it cool to use caps as you have, or to use ur instead of your or you're, m8 instead of mate, etc.

Within this forum though - and this is actually in the FAQ - we do expect our members to communicate in English, or at least something that very closely resembles it. Within that context, I think it's fair to say that we'll accept - tolerate even - the odd, isolated incidence of this, but on the whole, some of the more pedantic amongst us will get a tad upset if it happens too frequently.

Besides, the English language, as it is, is so rich, and full of ways that you can mess with people's mind without needing to resort to this sort of allegedly cool .... whatever it is ... I struggle to understand why one would even bother.

So please take this in the spirit that it's offerred - a friendly nudge, and nothing more than that.

[Nnnnsic]

Might wanna try some Noise Ninja on that image to help reduce the noise.

Regardless, it's a nice try. The colours are nice but the image composition is lacking.

And I'm not entirely sure why you find it necessary to wRiTE LIke A laMEr WaNNabE hACkeR, but you might wanna try not doing it as it makes you look a bit childish.

Still, nice try with the image.

[!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~!]

thanks guys, i wasnt really going for a great image here, i just wanted to capture the event as such lol.. I was standing at the on-ramp to the freeway so by no means a good spot and the lighting was terrible... this weekend i might try to get out of town and get sum shots in a easier situation!
ease up eh i'm just having sum fun, thanks Gary for quietly expressing a point.
As for being a hacker...i have had my day and learnt it was wrong...this was in the day of 486-166mhz
it was a means of capturing attention as with sum of our images we try to do..u replied so it worked and u also commented on my pic, noise ninja, which i have just d/l'd and am playing with right now...thanks

[!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~!]

may i ask, when in a situation like this (night low light) how do u focus on a subject such as the comet? as in AF mode my lens just kept hunting and couldnt focus and in MF mode i couldnt see a thing through the view finder and just had to guess on the focus by comparing it to the foreground!

[Nnnnsic]

Likely set it to infinity since it technically is there.

[gstark]

it was a means of capturing attention as with sum of our images we try to do..u replied so it worked

Do you really think so? Consider that many will do something similar, in that we may name a thread in a slightly misleading manner - perhaps using a pun based upon the subject matter - to achieve the same goal, and we have no problems with that.

The difference that I see is that the use of an imaginative title may come across as humorous, and as such will usually work.

By way of contrast, I suspect that many members here will look at the way you have entitled the thread and actively avoid it, because it comes across in a whole different light. For many, I suspect that it acts as a turn-off, and as evidence of that, I would respectfully make the observation that so far in this thread there has been just the one comment on the image, and it's been almost two full days since you started the thread.

So you say that one person has commented and thus your strategy has worked; my observation would be that because of your strategy, just one person has commented on the image, and thus it might appear to have failed.

...

Now, some members get a little peeved that their images don't attract the comments that the OP might like to see, or perhaps the number of comments that the OP would like to have seen. Unfortuantely, there's nothing we can do to force people to comment on your images, save to say that if a member sees some qualities in an image that moves them to post, they will. We need to learn and accept that that's how it will be.