You can find more info over at: http://www.imagingluminary.com/

I checked out the link to Taz Tally’s scanning course, but from the description couldn’t tell whether or not this covered Film Scanning (Color Negatives, Chromes, Black & White film).

Could you confirm whether or not this is covered? If not, I would really love to see Kelby Training put a course together on Film Scanning.

Thank you,

Alessandro

The Practical Elements training went live last week actually not this week.

I am curious if you have a time frame for the training you mentioned in one of your sessions about a Wacom training class from Corey and when that might be going live.

Thanks and appeciate your ever sharing of knowledge you ‘give’ us.

We have the same issue with our spam filter on The Digital Photography Show. Some legitimate posts do get flagged, but it would be hard to live without the filtering, which catches hundreds of spam comments a day.

Some blog hosts, instead of using a spam filter like ours, employ CAPTCHAs, which require you to type the letters and numbers shown in a graphic that a computer couldn’t decipher. That cuts down on the number of false positives, but I always have a hard time figuring out what the heck I’m supposed to be typing. Those distorted and often overlapping letters look like gibberish to me. Maybe I’m a replicant.

As Peter M said above, most spam filters can be set to the number of links in a comment to flag it as spam. Most are set to 2 or more links per comment. My guess it that you are using Askimet as the spam filter since it is the one that WordPress pretty much recommends. If you go into your admin panel, go to the Plugin’s page, and click the edit link next to the Askimet entry, you’ll see where to set the number of links to flag as a spam post. Be careful changing it through as the number of links is a solid way of checking for spam and Askimet does rely on this to some degree. A good way to test if this is the case is to have someone post a comment with 2 links, then another with 3, and so forth until you find the magic number (that is, if you’re not using Askimet and cannot find the threshold for the one you are using). Hope this helps!

On the “tri-podding” note… I will be going to Atlanta in mid-August and want to shoot some of the buildings in down town. I really won’t know what time of day or location I will want to use until I get there so getting a permit before hand will be kind of tough. But then it would be an interesting experiment to see what kind of reactions I get from Atlanta officials… I’d just hate to stir up the pot and make it harder for other photographers to shoot in the future.

About the permit think in NYC. I am a boomer, age 62 and 2 years active in Professional Photography, and most of my work sucks, though I am making progress.

I really need the younger guys and ladies to inspire and help me, the way your business does. I sort of think my generation is akin to a phrase I call “The Sons of Gehazi” . The good news however, Gehazi was later shown mercy.

We were rebels with many causes who started out with good intentions, resulting with dubious results. One of those results is draconian rules and regulations to control, hinder, and extricate freedom of expression. My perception is; as a reaction to my generations foolishness to promote anarchy under the guise of freedom. Please forgive my generation for our part in the erosion of personal freedom

Ken

I think the reason why some of the comments get put into “awaiting moderation” maybe that the comment has more than one link in it. A common characteristic of comment spam is a large number of hyperlinks.

Your Spam filter might consider that some one is trying to inundate your blog with outside links and flags it for you to approve.

If you are using wordpress, then you also may have Comment Moderation set to intercept comments with two many links.

Peter