User talk:Muhammad Mahdi Karim/Archive2

Unidentified fly 15/12/2008 am

Thi is Coenosia Muscidae Robert Notafly (talk) 08:24, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

More to id

I will do my best but Africa isn't easy. Post the pics 5 at a time on my talk page.Best regards from Ireland Robert akaNotafly (talk) 20:43, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi again

Just id'd your Sarcophagidae. If you add Category:Unidentified insects to the description page everyone will know where to look The bot may find them but may not.Also we need place and date and habitat info If in any doubt contact me back RobertNotafly (talk) 20:59, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for the Christmas review!

Hi Muhammad Mahdi Karim/Archive2. I would like to thank you for the interest you have shown in my request for adminship, and for the time you have taken to review my profile. As a Christmas present I've just been given the admin tools, for which I'm thankful as well. I have understood all the remarks that have been made during the review period. I will take them into account and begin using the tools with much care, until I gain more experience and self-confidence. Thanks again, and Merry Christmas! --Eusebius (talk) 15:12, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

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Clean up your discussion

Hi Muhammad Mahdi Karim,
May you want to clean up your discussion page, because it's really big (70kB). If you do so, don't just remove them. Copy them into an archiv as you can see it on User talk:Aka.
The use of it is that the page is smaller (which is good, because you save the whole page even if you just edit a word) and because you find things easier.
Contact me if you have any questions.
--D-Kuru (talk) 12:48, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

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review

• Geocoding not available for privacy reasons.
•  Comment Needs species and preferably race on the description. Then it would be OK IMO. Lycaon (talk) 21:54, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
  • Species provided. Race I don't know. Muhammad 06:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
    • In the scope, please? (in the form "latin (english)") --Eusebius (talk) 09:24, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
      • Ok now? Muhammad 10:22, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
        • Sure :-) --Eusebius (talk) 10:54, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
•  Question Once the issues raised by Lycaon are solved: wouldn't "head" be a simpler subscope than "wattles and comb"? I'd be ok with both. --Eusebius (talk) 22:05, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
  • I too am ok with both. Muhammad 06:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Ok now. Lycaon (talk) 09:26, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
•  Support OK for me. --Eusebius (talk) 10:54, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Result: 2 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Lycaon (talk) 01:09, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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Great images!

Your photography is an asset to Wikipedia. Thank you for sharing it with the world. --63.70.164.200 18:46, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind compliments Muhammad 20:33, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

HELP,PLEASE

Hello, Could you please let me know how I can upload images to the article on Operation Cast Lead currently underway in Gaza? Thanks my email is tokem3000@yahoo.com

Image usage report

Hi. Congratulations for the wonderful shots. Just to let you, as you ask in your images' summaries, I used one of your photos in my personal blog. The link follows: http://stoa.usp.br/gaf/weblog/40146.html . Bye and congratulations again.--Gaf.arq (talk) 01:29, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for informing me Muhammad 15:46, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

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Flash lighting and more

Dear Muhammad,

first off all ... put aside your flash :-) you don't need it, belive me. On daytime you allways have enought light available - so that's the name of the game: Available light photography which works best with insect macros. Even without a flashlight you can cause overexposure especially on the wings or bristles. To avoid that experienced photographers allways have a shade (similar to a reflector but semitransparent - womens stockings or silk paper) and reflectors with them.

Diptera.info is the best source you can find for identifying flies and other insects. Sometimes it lasts a bit, but with a bit of patience you will all your critters have be identified. If you are interested in seeing good macros and having a benchhmark you should visit this site. It's in german but for surfing in the galleries it should work with no german skills.

Right now there are -10 degrees Celsius here in munich and the insects taking a nap until april or march - until then I review FP candidates :-) .

Best regards Richard --19:47, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

• I'd agree with Richard in that you need to improve your lighting. As you know I am not an insect photographer. I'd expect that Richard either goes shooting at a time of day when the insects are cold and not moving too much, or sedates them. However, there are many ways to skin a cat and flash photons aren't really different to natural light photons. You will also get far superior results with a flash bracket and perhaps a softbox. The off-axis flash method would also have a considerably higher probability of a sharp shot, and you don't have to mess around with tripods and so on. I think I even mentioned when you were shopping for macro lenses that the lighting was at least as important as the lens.Noodle snacks (talk) 13:22, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
  • A flash bracket lets you move the flash away from the camera axis and therefore improve the quality of the lighting. [1], [2], [3], [4] are all such rigs. Fir0002's MT-24ex flash setup is essentially two flashes and a glorified flash bracket. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:52, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

URGENT IMAGE USAGE

Dear Sir,

I am writing to you to ask for permission to use one of your images in a book.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Kaaba_mirror_edit_jj.jpg

It is NOT for commercial sale. Single country use- Qatar It will be inside the book and NOT as a front cover.

Please advise as a matter of urgency to kcullen@grouporigin.com

Kind Regards, Kirstiie Cullen

Used your image: 2009 Anti Israel Protest Tanzania.JPG

Hi,

Just to let you know that we used your photo "2009 Anti Israel Protest Tanzania.JPG" on the front cover of www.theovi.com, our non-profit online magazine. We have given you a photo credit at the bottom of the article to which it links.

Keep up the great shots!

Asa B.

Thanks for informing me. Muhammad 08:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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Cycad cone

About File:Cycad cone.jpg I have been looking at so many scans of PD-old plant paintings. The paper has faded into the color of that cone and the leaves painted probably originally more green inks have turned more blue throughout the last more than one hundred years since they were printed, blue like the leaves in that image.

It is all I can do to not make almost the same color adjustments to that image as I am to the old paintings I have been working on.

Are you certain that the cone is that color of yellow/pink and the leaves are so blue as are in this photograph?

This is an apology kind of, for my eye right now and the feeling I have to alter the colors in that image. -- carol (talk) 01:34, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

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FYI

CHECK THIS OUT :-) --Richard Bartz (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Feels good, thanks. :) --Muhammad 06:49, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hello, We at radioa2z.com used one of your photos on our official website under the "Listen 2 Past Shows Now!" tab. This page is for streaming our past shows and your photo is an ideal image for what we're looking for. If you have any issues with us using your photo, please let us know at Contact@radioa2z.com. Thank you very much for your consideration! -Radioa2z.com

VIC

Hi Muhammad, I nominated a few pictures at VIC but there are no reviewers far and wide. Do you think you could hop in and review some pictures ? Maybe you would nominate some, too and we could enlive the page a bit ? Regards --Richard Bartz (talk) 23:46, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey Richard, I reviewed your images. When I get more time, I will add some of my own. --Muhammad 07:03, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool, thanks, let me know --Richard Bartz (talk) 13:43, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

VIC

Hi Muhammad, I changed the scope for the bee and your vote was canceled, could you please ? :-) --Richard Bartz (talk) 17:57, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

• Understaff/ignorance continues :-/ could you please review that pictures [5], [6], thanks in advance --Richard Bartz (talk) 14:56, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done Didn't review the bug, as it was already reviewed. May want to nominate the bug for FPC as well --Muhammad 16:52, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
    • 4 more to go - could you, please ? --Richard Bartz (talk) 15:02, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Bellow

Ogonile Muhammad, A bellow is only a adjustable spacer ring. You have to buy a very expensive one when you like 2 transver the camera functions to the lens, otherwise you get feature restrictions with time-consuming adjustments. He's big and bulky but you can reach a larger image ratio, thats for shure. I would - if not having a MPE65 - prefer simple spacer rings (Kenko 1,4x Teleplus Pro 300 DG, Kenko 1,5x Teleplus MC DG) or a reverse mounted lense. Ask Alves Gaspar, he has experience with spacer rings in macro photography and did it well and ask User:Kevincollins123 the author of that picture which is done by a reversed mounted lens and a focusstack. Cheers, Richard Bartz (talk) 15:21, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

No, there is no limit. But every s-ring decreases sharpness and f-stop. --Richard Bartz (talk) 20:14, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

A kenko extension tube (different to teleconverters) set will get you to 1.68:1 on the sigma 150 apparently. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:07, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Probably not your intention...

to support and promote a VIC in the same edit, so I have changed the status to supported, which i am sure was your real intention ;-)

PS. I've been away for some time, and wow, you have really developed your skills since I was here the last time. New, cool macro gear, lots of very nifty photographs. Surely a lot has happened since some flash-lit photos of a dead street rat and a bloody frog! Keep up your excellent work! --Slaunger (talk) 22:52, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I wanted to support not promote, so thanks fro correcting. Sometimes, I go back to my old nominations and see how kind you, Richard, Alves and others were in explaining everything and not get frustraed with the images. So the excellent work is partly due to you guys too ;) --Muhammad 06:24, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:NYC_Panorama_edit.jpg

I have uploaded a restitched version of Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:NYC_Panorama_edit.jpg with more width and quality, please take a look and vote if you like. --LiveChocolate (talk) 09:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Squandered chance

The picture had great potential but I think it's too late for a retouche/edit. You should have done this before because now everyone will be very picky when painting some background. What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over. :-) --Richard Bartz (talk) 19:08, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Send me the original by mail. Discretion is self-evident --Richard Bartz (talk) 19:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Eristalinus macrocphalus

Jambo Muhammad. I made a simple crop of your spectacular syrphid. Would it be better at en:FPC? Lycaon (talk) 19:20, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you Hans. I have added it to the nomination as an alternative. --Muhammad (talk) 04:38, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Got the email ?

--Richard Bartz (talk) 12:37, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I replied it allready --Richard Bartz (talk) 13:12, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Let's do it the wiki way .. check this out :-) --Richard Bartz (talk) 16:52, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Notification of use of a valued picture

Dear Muhammad Mahdi Karim,

First, thank you for making your Kaa'ba image available on Wikimedia.

On Friday, 3 April 2009, at 9:00 AM Hong Kong time(UTC+8), I have a blog posting going up on http://e-cuneiform.blogspot.com/ which includes your image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaaba_mirror_edit_jj.jpg, unedited, with both alt and mouseover attributions giving full attributions (description, description of rightsholder, source, and license.) I am wanting to be exceptionally careful because of the sacred nature of the image for so many.

You asked to be informed of uses of your image and I am respecting your request.

If you have concerns, please let me know, although I will be traveling in India for a peripatetic wedding and it will take me a few days to receive messages and make any changes.

I can think of no reasons why you would be unhappy with the usage of the image on the relevant blog posting and, if I am wrong, I will make all reasonable changes as swiftly as possible.

Best regards, Chris

Thank you for informing me and for correctly following the license requirements. --Muhammad (talk) 11:53, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

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Use of Image

Muhammad,

I wanted to let you know I've used your picture of a Dik Dik looking for the background to some training materials I intend to send to people via email, and use in classes/workshops. They may, at some point, be made available online on our training page, in which case I will let you know about the new distribution format.

The material involves explaining what a reference file is, and the picture was chosen because the dik dik looks curious about something.

Sharon.

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File:Tanzania map-fr.svg

Hello Muhammad,

For this map, I said I'd be happy to do the translation. I think English will be OK for me (there are enough reference maps around), but for Swahili I could do with some help. Would you be interested? I am doing it for another map (File:Haiti topographic map-fr.svg) where a Creole speaker is giving me the Creole names and I will translate the map.

Do you think you can have access to a good reference for the Swahili names for Tanzania ? If so, what I could do is send you a table of all names to be translated and you could maybe fill it in, and then I translate the map?

If you are interested please let me know. Asante! le Korrigan →bla 21:14, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

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Important proposal

I wrote a proposal for equalizing the different picture formats on FPC Please have a look. Best regards --Richard Bartz (talk) 20:30, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

File:House sparrow portrait.jpg

Hi Muhammad - thanks! Yes, it is a juvenile, from the bill which is pink (yellowish or horn-coloured in adults) and still has an obvious nestling gape (the soft, swollen base, which becomes harder and less swollen as the bird matures). It is not possible to distinguish the sex of juvenile House Sparrows, both sexes have the same plumage pattern as adult females. - MPF (talk) 09:35, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Replace

Upload the edit as new version over the promoted fp - then use the badname template onto the edit. bg --Richard Bartz (talk) 08:14, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

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New proposal for the FP candidates voting process

Hello! I've written a proposal to bring more impartiality in the voting process of FP candidates. Could you please give your comment on that here? Regards -- Tiago Fioreze (talk) 20:53, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

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Welcome

I hereby award to Muhammad this Photographer's Barnstar for more than 10 featured pictures and his worthy contribution to Commons, under hard working conditions. Welcome to the club! Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:53, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you Alevsgaspar. --Muhammad (talk) 20:17, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome from me too! Lycaon (talk) 20:31, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you Lycaon ;) --Muhammad (talk) 21:27, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Muhammad, you're really doing a great work with your images and most of all macros. I know it is not an easy task to connect to the NET from Tanzania (I've been there). I really appreciate your images!--Mbz1 (talk) 21:47, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

file uploads

Hey Muhammad, I saw you have problems sending large attachements over your internet connection. If you want, we can try to set something up. There is a program called winrar that allows splitting large files into smaller chunks. You could email them to me, and I would join them and upload for you. Not under my username of course, we casn set up a 'muhammad_upload' user or something. Anyway, let me know if you're interested. Cheers, --ianaré (talk) 13:53, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

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portrait/night photo tips

Hi Muhammad,

Well, there is no easy answer for night events.

First of all, some events require flash photography. The best tip I can offer here is to shoot in horizontal format (landscape) in order to avoid the side shadow that the flash produces when shooting vertical format. Generally, flash light provide very flat light, but when it is the only source, that´s what you get.

Second, with flash photography, watch out for objects in the first plane (front of photograph) because the automatic exposure will give you a reading based on those subjects, and not where you want the light. So try to get your subject with nothing in between you and him/her.

If the subject is very important and the opportunity to shoot low, the priority is in getting a good, well exposed photograph, even if the lighting (flash) is not the greatest.

Once you know that you have assured a good picture with good exposure, use aperture priority mode in your camera, select the largest aperture, and get a shutter speed reading, and adjust your ISO speed so that your shutter speed is 1/60 or higher, and brace yourself so you don´t get camera shake and blurr, especially when using large focal lenses.

So the secuence is:

1. Flash in horizontal mode. 2. No obstructions between camera and subject. 3. Existing light in Auto Exposure Mode with an ISO speed that will give you 1/60 or more... 4. Shoot, shoot, shoot...

I hope this helps.

--Tomascastelazo (talk) 18:13, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Ceriagrion glabrum male.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. But a wee bit too much denoising for my taste (eyes look odd). --Dschwen 20:16, 6 May 2009 (UTC)