AW - Saturday Night (Dial-Up Warning)

[Nnnnsic]

Sheepie's family on the left, followed by Sheepie and Radar!


PlatinumWeaver looking this way behing the ever prominent MJ with MHD in the right-hand background.


My humble Dad, also known as gstark.


Too many people to name!


Onyx smiling (it's not often he lets someone get a picture...)


Geoff took this: Me in the background with my hat talking to PlatinumWeaver while Mudder drinks a beer in the foreground.


Group shot: Dean, mudder, Geoff, Geoff's Bel, sirhc55 (Chris), MHD, and gstark.


All the work they've done for us: Philo, Tran, and Chrissine (I'm pretty sure I have spelling issues with the last name...)


MHD (Scott)


Spada with Gleff in the background.

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??? (I don't remember!!!)


Stubbsy with his prize.


??? (I don't remember!!!)


Johndec.


Sheepie's son!


Gleff.


Leek and family!


More at PlatinumWeaver & Mudder's table!


Wendell and... people I don't remember the name of!!!


Tran, Poon's missus' and... I don't actually have a clue!

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Poon, Philo, Bernie and Birdy!


Sirhc55 (Chris), Ipv6ready, and Kipper!


Geoff, Chi and Gstark crowding around the video chat feed setup.


Bel, Geoff and Chris.


Birdy and Stubbsy.


Mj.


Matt K. reaching with a ticket...


Sirhc55 won something!


Glen giving a bottle of wine to a winner of a door prize! (Yes, I forgot the name of the person... sorry!!!)


Stubbsy and Gstark.

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The patron Birddog114, also known as Thanh!


The official pastrycook of the DSLRUsers.com forum is applauded!


Here is the pastrycook's masterpiece...


Another shot of the pastrycook's artistry...


Wendell, Birdy, and Gstark...


Wendell and Gstark in a group hug!


Robw and Gstark...


...giving Robw and his fiancee Lorraine a card congratulation their marriage...


Lindy, gstark's signficant other, checking out the video chat room.


PlatinumWeaver.

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And just because I love black and white so much...


Our great Joe.


Stubbsy's weapon of choice.


The webcast commentator at the end of the night, Geoff.


Matt pondering in his own decisive moment.


Birddog.


The cake.


Just for Glen...

[Glen]

Leigh, I assume "more images coming"


Great shots, you and Stubbsy really caught the spirit of the event

[birddog114]

More post counts for you Leigh! Clever.

[gecko]

Thanks for sharing the images Leigh
Is it possible to add usernames as captions to the images for the poor unfortunates who could not attend?

Looks like it was a fun night.

Thanks
Gecko

[stubbsy]

Leigh

Looking at these shots shows me how little I know about shooting in an environment like this. I used the same flash as you and shot in the same place, but my shots were incredibly dull and dark. Nowhere did I get the lighting depth you've got here.

I know you were using a D2x, and I a lowly D70 , but at the end of the day that can't account for it. Where did I go wrong!!!! PS where are the shots from the Friday dinner?

[Nnnnsic]

I'll be getting them online later tonight.

I've added some black and whites here now.

And I'm not sure I was doing anything different with the flash... I've always found that using the flash I'm at a disadvantage because I never know the hell I'm doing...

[Nnnnsic]

Is it possible to add usernames as captions to the images for the poor unfortunates who could not attend?

Okie dokie... I'll fill in the names of the people I remember the names of!

Sorry if I don't remember your name... I have to remember too much these days and it's not any offense to you!!!

PM me if you know the names of the ones I miss.

[Glen]

Leigh, that last B&W should be Pic of the Week

[rokkstar]

Nice shots Leigh.

And as for me podering my decisive moment - damm right I was. Although it was more
"What the F**K was I thinking!!!"

[Onyx]

Excellent pics Leigh. Viewing these took me back to Saturday night, and what a wonderful night it was. I hope those that weren't there could also get the same feel of the ambience and mood by these images.

Thanks for posting the pics that I don't look half demented in... I can't wait to see the finger salute series.


Edit: for an admin, it's surprising the number of people you DON'T know Nnnnsic!

[Nnnnsic]

I considered putting the salute ones online, but I figured we should see the softer side of you...

[stubbsy]

Is it possible to add usernames as captions to the images for the poor unfortunates who could not attend?

Okie dokie... I'll fill in the names of the people I remember the names of!

Sorry if I don't remember your name... I have to remember too much these days and it's not any offense to you!!!

PM me if you know the names of the ones I miss.

First group
#1 - Amanda, Luke, Leon (sheepie) , Andre (radar)
#2 - Dean(platinumweaver), Michael (Mj), Mr happy Photographer, Arek (flyer), Scott (MHD), Deb (HappyPhotographer), Louise
#10 - Spada, with Geoff (gleff) in background
Second group
#1 - Tamara (Byron), purdey(?), Bruno, Lyn (nikofan)
#3 - Bjornn (nickname - mr Nikofan) - and you may not be able to remember his name, but he's wearing a name tag in the shot for $#$@#$ sake
#5 - Sheepie's son is Luke
#8 - That's Brett (spooky) growing out of Andrew's head
#9 terri (Glen's wife), Wendell, barry and Dargan
#10 Mrs Poon is called Jean (the other lady is from England - one of Poon's customers from there)
Third group
#1 - Poon, MHD's bum, Philo (Mrs Matt K), (english man husband of woman in previous group), birddog
#2 - Chris, IPV6ready, kipper


How's that for a start. I'm going by memory so I may have got a few wrong

[Nnnnsic]

#3 - Bjornn (nickname - mr Nikofan) - and you may not be able to remember his name, but he's wearing a name tag in the shot for $#$@#$ sake

I'm too lazy to open up an image, zoom in, and then go "Ahhhhhhh" and add the name in.

[birddog114]

Second Group

#1 Tamara/ Yedrup/Bruno/ Nikonfan

[Nnnnsic]

Edit: for an admin, it's surprising the number of people you DON'T know Nnnnsic!

I'm probably the technical admin... I handle the "future developments to the site" and "graphic" side of things... people... bleh!!!

[birddog114]

Second group

#9 Joanne (Johndec's wife) / Wendell/ Barry/ Dargan

[Geoff]

Awesome shots Leigh! Well done! For those of you whom are considering the December meet that are interstate - book your flights now - you won't regret!!

[BBJ]

Fantastic shots you have all done very well, i hope all these wonderful pics are colated i think the word is and put into a archive for future referance of our history. Well i do something like this for the Ulysses website i manage all pics i burn to cd and pass onto our historian for our branch.
Cheers

[NeoN]

Great job,Leigh ,
Nice of you to let us see the faces behind the names ,for us that were unable to come to the AW, It looks you all had a great time
The Photo of Birddog in B/W is Tops...
NeoN

[the foto fanatic]

Thanks for the pix Leigh.
Looks like great fun!

[kipper]

Great shot guys.

Stubbsy, you're probably considering this yourself, but organise a time to meet up with Leigh, or get Leigh to burn you a DVD with the NEF files on it and compare similar shots with iso speed, aperture, shutter speeds, flash mode and any dialled in compensation. I haven't really mastered flash use yet, but I have played around with it a fair bit and usually get the results that I want after a bit of experimentation.

[christiand]

Thank you so much
for sharing the photos !

Best regards,
CD