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Alvesgaspar 09:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

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Alvesgaspar 10:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

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--Pharaoh Hound 13:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Commons:Featured picture candidates/Silvereye - Zosterops lateralis

Could you please comment on the discussion taking place here? --MichaelMaggs 18:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Are you submitting photoshopped work as your own original photography? Do we need to review all your other photos and delete all the fakes?? --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 00:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Picture Removal tag

You made A comment on mentioning a "picture retouched" tag and I wondered if you could tell me the code for this as I might make use of it in the future! Thanks --Benjamint444 22:00, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey Benjamin, i added that tag to this other picture of yours. Maybe you want to change the description: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Silvereyepairofjuveniles.jpg --AngMoKio 22:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:Male and female superb fairy wren.jpg

• Bonjour!
• Parlez-vous français? il y a quelqu'un qui m'a mis un message sur ma page de discussion a propos de votre trés belle image (Félicitation) mais que je ne comprends pas pouvez vous traduire ou faire traduire ce message --WikiMeGa**** @@@-fr Accueil fr:Accueil 10:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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Jnpet 10:38, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Your stitched picture

I'm really not sure that the gray stain that comes from the top margin of the picture is a stitching mark, but it looks like one. The same regarding the smaller one at left - Alvesgaspar 00:10, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Your image Image:Pippit-closer.jpg

Hi Benjamin, could you please let me know whether this image is a single photographic shot, or whether it is a composite? Regards, --MichaelMaggs 12:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

• Just wondered. Thanks for the info. For translations I usually go to Babelfish. It's not perfect, but can give you a reasonable idea of what something's about. Regards --MichaelMaggs 22:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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--Simonizer 08:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

FPC

I simply don't belive that this bird has such fluorescent colors. Especially feathers on chest don't look naturally for me, rather paintbrushed with blue color.

--WarX 11:17, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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grendel|khan 13:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

IP address

• I don't know what computer I was on when I made these edits but heres a few contribs from when I wasn't logged on:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/202.182.65.201 and my home Ip address, It's usefull to keep on the net as I invariably lose it if if I write down

• My IP address: --203.213.246.73 13:45, 5 April 2007 (UTC) benjamint

Nice photographs

I am impressed with your bird photographs, but I think you are always going to be fighting an uphill battle with the composite images :-). From the looks of the quality of the Silver Eye one recently submitted to QIC, I would have thought that either of the two (?) images that made it up would be a QI candidate - do you still have the separate images? As I have noted on the review of the Grey Fantail it's a bit difficult when you have an image where the front and back birds are in focus, but those in between are out of focus :-). The Superb Fairy Wren looks good for QI promotion, DOF a little shallow as grasshopper and tail out of focus, but over-all a great photo - I was wondering whether you might put your obvious editing skills to work on the noisy background which might disqualify it in some reviewers eyes :-) --Tony Wills 02:52, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Looking closer (x8 magnification!) I see that noise is some sort of processing artefact (enlarging? sharpening?) and the body of the bird has it too. --Tony Wills 12:17, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks Tony --Benjamint444 04:02, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer of help with Commons:WikiProject Birds. Any help in any area would be appreciated, I suppose there are two distinct areas in which you may be able to help:

1. upload any good resolution and sharp pictures of birds (composition, backgrounds, noise etc aren't so important, just true representations of the species). Doesn't even matter if you don't know the exact species, but a common name and where they're found at least would help :-)
2. any help you can give on identifying species that you recognise (even if you only know the common name) would help see Category:Unidentified_birds and check that no birds in Category:Birds_of_Australia are mis-identified.

There is a page but it doesn't have a list for south-eastern Australia. Do you have a list of birds you have photographed and do you know where to find a list of birds in your area? ---Tony Wills 12:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Slater_rolled_up_for_wiki.jpg

Were you going to upload a new version of your QI candidate with the out of focus foreground cropped? Now that the nomination has been changed to a decline, QICbot will remove it in another day or so. Perhaps move the image to Consensual Review to give yourself more time. --Tony Wills 07:04, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Mist - Ensay region2.jpg

• What did you use for stitching for this panorama? --Digon3 14:42, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
• Also regarding the compression problem, this may have affected some of your other photos, eg the QI review of Image:Silvereye - juvenile.jpg mentioned JPEG artefacts, and the image was only about 200kb, probably should have been compressed no more that 750kb --Tony Wills 12:49, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
• "Latest image: Misty view from the bottom of my drive way" - And there we were thinking you had got up early and walked miles across the hills to get a good vantage point for this great photo :-) --Tony Wills 13:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Swift's Creek Cabal :-)

Hey, Benjamint444. Your Ensay misty photo made me take a second look because it seemed odd that this particular region of rural Australia would have produced two Wikipedia photographers, you and Fir0002. Then I remembered an interview on WikipediaWeekly where I think Fir mentions a brother. Is that you, or are you a friend/relation of Peter's? Just idle curiosity really, but it would make a bit more sense of things :-) --Yummifruitbat 20:14, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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Apples vs Wrens

"they're not nearly as bad this time as with the wrens image". The combined bird photos show interactions/behaviours of birds which were unlikely to occur - eg birds standing very close to each other but somehow not interacting with each other. But having sorted out what (the previously unstated) rules were about combined images (ie the editing should be described), I think too many people are not assuming good faith on your part and are overly suspicious of every image you offer. Odd lighting of apples may be a QI flaw but shouldn't be a contentious issue. So continue with the great images but describe any edits :-) --Tony Wills 11:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Res limit on commons

Ben, I have replied on my talk page. --MichaelMaggs 15:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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--Simonizer 07:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Just wanted to thank you for sharing the awe-inspiring photo of that landscape. Keep up the good work :)--62.149.114.19 10:30, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Stunning. Just Stunning. When I first saw it I thought it was a painting or something. Just a phenomenal shot. Congrats. -- 17:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

what difference does it make apart from compositionaly?

what difference does it make apart from compositionaly?

I don't know. Part of my brain is saying, hang on, there's something odd. But I can't work out what. Maybe it's a difference in the lighting. Maybe it is is just knowing that it's a composition. All the best, Ben Aveling 10:41, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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Sorry

I have discovered some undeclared edits in your flirting swan image. You need to address these problems.--Benjamint444 09:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC) Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Cygnus olor flirt.jpg

Sorry, too Benjamin but you confuse me a little bit with your strange discoveries. Cant understand why you wasting your time, especially with this. I was answering your comment in the FP list and cant say more. Excuse me for not answering in this case, anymore. Its not personal, its just timesaving. :) Be happy! :) --Makro Freak 13:42, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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I need a better camera

One of my photos is now a on Wikipedia, they certainly seem to expect a lot more than on commons (there was very little criticism here). I'm coming to the conclusion that my Olympus camera is a bit of a limitation. :-( --Tony Wills 06:25, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions, I haven't looked at the Panasonics, but your photos show their quality. One thing that really annoys me about the Olympus is it's inability to focus in low light levels, and often slow auto focus. How's the Panasonic in low light or for quick moving subjects? --Tony Wills 11:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

• I use 'The Gimp' on Linux as editing software, which seems quite capable of doing what I need, except that I really haven't used it, enough or read enough tutorials, to do everything I want to. So I can do basic stuff like crop, rotate, white balance, adjust brightness levels on the whole image etc, but haven't mastered using layers and masks to help separate out the background so that I can blur it or sharpen the main subject etc. --Tony Wills 11:05, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
  • You should. Layers are good stuff.  :-) Ben Aveling 11:17, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

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Hello, and thank your for sharing your files with Commons. There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. Please remember that all uploads require source, author and license information. Could you please resolve these problems, which are described on the page linked in above? Thank you. --Siebrand 09:36, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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Your sig

Hey Ben,
You should change the linking of your sig, currently it links to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjamint444|Benjamint ie nowhere. When naming non interwiki links use [http://www.whatever.com Name for Link] - so instead of a | put in a space --Fir0002 www 22:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

• • Thanks --Benjamint 11:39, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

• No problemo - to avoid the double bullet like you've got above use " :* " --Fir0002 www 12:31, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

• I know, it's just been a while since I did any wiki editing.--Benjamint 13:32, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Swifts creek region444.jpg

Helo Benjamint,

In the Featured Picture nomination of your image, some people have stated that the information is insufficient. Although putting just Swifts Creek, Victoria, Australia would be enough, I'd like to go a step beyond and also note the exact location, just to make this wonderful picture even better. Using Google Earth, I've found the location to be this, so, if you could take a look, preferably with Google Earth, I'd like your confirmation. Thanks, and thanks for your top-quality work. - Keta 16:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

• Coordinates: 37°15′0.51840″S, 147°42′44.269″E
• OK, I added the location, it's down the same road as Fir0002's pic, on the same hill, looking south. - Keta 11:07, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Swifts_creek_region444.jpg

Hi Benjamin. Did you mean to withdraw named picture from FPC? If so please use *{{Withdraw|~~~~}} , if not consider this message non-existent ;-). Regards. Lycaon 09:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Your template and all your images

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Your template and all your images have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created this image, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. If the file is up for deletion because it has been superseded by a superior derivative of your work, consider the notion that although the file may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new file. In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

  — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 10:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

This deletion debate is now closed! --Tony Wills 20:48, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:Goat kid444.jpg

Shouldn't this picture disclose in the description that it is a composite? --MichaelMaggs 22:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

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Tern Pic

Nice pic Ben. Not a breeding plumage bird, though. Can you tell us where this was taken? Not saying the ID is wrong, but that bill is very yellow for a (Greater) Crested. Might be a young Lesser, but that would be unlikely on the SW coast. --Glen Fergus 08:23, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Superbfairywrenscropped.jpeg

Please, give source information for Image:Superbfairywrenscropped.jpeg. --Mihael Simonic 19:30, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

• Fixed, someone had vandalised the page. --Tony Wills 21:57, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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-- Cecil 14:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, there is a proposal and vote concerning the {{User PH-0}},...,{{User PH-3}} templates, that you may be interested in. --Tony Wills 10:42, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks, have voted.

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Congratulations

This message was left on my userpage "One of your pictures has been selected as "Today's featured picture" in the Spanish Wikipedia[3]. Congratulations for your work, it's spectacular. --Xavigivax 06:53, 23 October 2007 (UTC)", but it is in fact one of your images (with a minor edit by me), I have corrected the attribution :-) --Tony Wills 08:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I see they've got another one of yours nominated for next month too [4] --Tony Wills 08:10, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

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nominations

quite cute not quit cut :)

-- carol 12:49, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

So, since you give all of your images that one particular time, it is actually not so much an approval but instead it is somewhat of an insult? I would like to think that both of my grandfathers were looking over my shoulder when I do things. Neither one of them are alive any more that they can actually do that, but can you respond to people as if that is what is happening? -- carol 15:27, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for replying to this here. -- carol 21:09, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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Female Mallard Duck Rest FP Nomination

Hi, I just wanted to get your attention about a fix I made based on your comment on my FP nomination. ;) Fixed now. Acarpentier 19:19, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

FP nomination Female_Mallard_Duck_Rest.jpg

Hi, I just wanted you to know I've followed your advice and uploaded a new version of the image. I dont want to botter you with that, but maybe it will make you reconsider your choise. Good day. ;) Acarpentier 17:03, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

pouty predators

Somewhere I read that you were still in high school and good with photoshop. I am not going to argue with either of these things, feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

Let me make a little gallery before I ask my question(s)....

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  not a predator (maybe) but same effect

My first reaction when I see these photographs is always "Aw" and then I feel a little sick of and disappointed with myself because these are proud and brave predators (except for the emu, I don't know how they get their food). Then I wonder if they are being held/restrained for the photograph, and I start feeling a little more sick of and disappointed with myself. These pouty predator photographs of yours never show the whole body. It is a very psychological journey and probably very very predictable -- at least the first 'aw' part of it.

And that is one of my questions, are the animals being held by their keepers while you get the photograph? The other questions are more education oriented: are you manipulating the eyes? If so (and even if not) did you learn your photoshopping techniques from a teacher at your school or from a book or a little of both of those with a little help on the 'aw potential' from the reaction of the girls there? Sorry to make it a genderish question, but I think it just is one anyways.

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That second small gallery is another successful "aw campaign". This one never worked that well on me but is quite similar I think to what your photographs do. As strange as this seems to me, I am sorry that the collection of photographs of these images is so small because I think it should have been easy for me to match a precious moment photograph with one of yours. The baby and the owl almost go together though, don't you think?

Please overlook the rudeness of these questions, I know it is there. Instead, look at the compliment I am giving you of knowing so much more than they (probably) knew (or were willing to share) when I was in high school. A friend of mine once suggested that they should require marketing science for high school graduation. It was a good suggestion but if they start to do that now, there are a lot of idiots like me who would be at the mercy of modern day high school grads -- where the rudeness is there is also a compliment of the latter order also. -- carol 12:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

You didn't mention if you had 'shopped the eyes. -- carol 04:21, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Ben likes to not declare his photoshopping of images (which means reviewers don't trust him, but he never learns ;-), I think he should just add {{RetouchedPicture}} to his standard template and be done with it. He is sometimes more interested in making 'good looking' images than documenting what is actually there.

PS I think the whole colour cast of image:Chappell Island tiger snake.jpg was too red already (from the artificial lighting?), and now the red mouth and jaws look unrealistic. :-) --Tony Wills 11:21, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Tony, but I've made correct use of {{RetouchedPicture}} ever since my 1st and 3rd FPC noms when I wasn't aware of it. Ignorence is no excuse and I'm not defending what I did then but I've done things properly ever since. Tiger snake Image: too red? Maybe, maybe not. when you know something has been edited you look at it with different eyes.Benjamint 12:02, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

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