post your photography

[laz]

Well, as the title says, post your photography.
I guess I will start it off: buddha guy.png (http://chartermi.net/~laz9999/Buddha guy.png)
be warned, the image is about 3.8mb in size, ya its a huge loselessly compressed image. And it might not work in MS Internet Explorer.
I have better images, just not online right now, they are scanned on my grandma's computer... damn that cd-r for not working. it was a print that I had to scan.
Go on people, post your digi or film images. I know some of you have camers, and you MUST have taken pics of something other then your face.... Show it.

and ya, I know of the post your art thread, but, hell I want a photoaraphy one on its own.

[MetallichicA]

The only photography I have up on the web right now is at my website (http://www.bexgd.com). I have a few more pics on my camera that I need to upload sooner or later. I'll let you all know when they're up :)

My favorite, btw, is the wheel from the brewery.

[laz]

Very nice photography there ChichA.
Hm... is that link working for anyone? Gonna have to fix that...

edit: Buddha_guy.png (http://chartermi.net/~laz9999/Buddha_guy.png)

[mikm]

Will start posting here soon...my digital camera comes on the 2nd.

[DragonSon]

Hmmm.......[MUST GET DIGITAL CAMERA]......

[mikm]

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[DragonSon]

Good Photos m2k! Great balace of light and darkness...the perspective on the first photograph is great..Keep them coming!

[mikm]

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[caitcid]

I know nothing of photography...when I was around 7 or 8 I took this picture with one of those disposible cameras.

Location: Monterey California

[mikm]

Not too bad...would look much better if it was in a higher quality, but because of the age of the prints and because of scanning without a photo-quality scanner, quality loss is expected.

Save up some money and buy yourself a camera, preferably with a macro function for closeups. All my shots are taken with an olympus c-5050 zoom (35mm-104mm equivalent) with a focusing distance of 3cm.

Anyways, at your library, look for camera reviews in a consumer reports book. You can by a fairly good point-and-shoot for around $100. SLRs are more expensive, mainly because of the cost of lenses. I started out on my parent's old Nikon- manual focus, aperature-priority (you set the aperature, the camera sets the shutter speed). So, once you feel comfortable with your point-and-shood, buy a secondhand camera and some used books on photography. As your needs grow, you can buy more and more lenses for your purposes (telephoto, wide-angle, macro). Then, look at more advanced film SLRs, or a high-end point-and-shoot. The most important idea is to keep experimenting, don't be afraid to try new techniques.

[caitcid]

Jeeze..I am only 14! I don't even have a job or the money to pay for that! PLus..I it was photography so I posted it up..I am more focused into the arts of the pencil..not much for the camera stuff

I could take photography next year..they lend you good cameras.. ^.^

[mikm]

Heh...I'm 15. I have just been saving my money for many years (plus a small summer job through my school).

[laz]

nice nice everyone.
Well I have a few more, but I have no scaner of my own, and they are on my grandmothers crap-tastic computer. And I have no way to get them other then to e-mail them, and I have only gotten about 4 now, and I am waiting for the actualy good pictures before I post more, and to get them up on my web-page. But it doesnt like to have to upload large files (anything more then oh say 100kb, and the pics are on average almost 4mb...)

[Russ]

A few of mine:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1951480/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/2494970/

[DragonSon]

Really nice photos Russ! Great balance of light and dark and the panoramic feel of it is just engrossing, great work! I would really love to see more of your photos posted in here. :D

[Russ]

You can check out some more on my devart site at http://russgarrett.deviantart.com. I had those two printed out to put on my wall :).

[DragonSon]

Great work! I especially like the Night Panorama.

[MetallichicA]

Russ, what do you use for those panoramics? They're beautiful :)

[Russ]

Fujifilm FinePix 602Z camera, PTGUI (www.ptgui.com), and Photoshop. And a lot of patience (this one (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/2494970/) took me 8 hours to get right).

[mikm]

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[Triton4]

Beautiful contrasting colours there, m2k

[mikm]

Thanks :). I have another one, but it is a little to dark so I have to adjust the levels (histogram)

[mikm]

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[mikm]

Ok...started posting my photography again
http://mkm.deviantart.com

[Cleanup]

Originally posted by caitcid
Jeeze..I am only 14! I don't even have a job or the money to pay for that! PLus..I it was photography so I posted it up..I am more focused into the arts of the pencil..not much for the camera stuff

I could take photography next year..they lend you good cameras.. ^.^

I'm fourteen and I use a trusty old-school Canon AE-1 Program. First camera with a microchip. :)

Ah, you guys really shouldn't use links from DevArt. The screenshot system in DevArt is fucked up nowadays. They're trying to iron it out. I couldn't understand Russ' panoramas because of it.

[Russ]

I also have a Nikon FTN, Olympus OM-2 and Olympus IS1000, which I rarely use these days because getting film developed is such a pain. Digital is great.

I'm going to move everything off Devart soon, it's slow and annoying at times.

[Trista]

Here is mine.

[EnDurA]

here's a sunrise i snapped

[mikm]

5 up so far under my account. Pretty nice pic, Endura.

[CaptainNuss]

Here's one I took about six months ago.

[CaboWaboAddict]

Here's one of mine... The little one hatched in a nest on our back deck.

[CaboWaboAddict]

another I like...

[CaboWaboAddict]

After a storm...

[CaboWaboAddict]

Sunset on St. George Island...

[CaboWaboAddict]

A Christmas ornament...

[siebe83]

@CaptainNuss: great photo! mind if I set it as my desktop? :p (not very appropiate for the summer maybe, well whatever... :D )

@cabo: hehe, i saw those birds and spider before somewhere ;)
I like the stormy one

[Pixelcraft]

Didn't know there was a photography thread when I posted this, but oh well (http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=185811)

[Pixelcraft]

here's another

[Pixelcraft]

one more

[CaboWaboAddict]

Originally posted by siebe83
@CaptainNuss: great photo! mind if I set it as my desktop? :p (not very appropiate for the summer maybe, well whatever... :D )

@cabo: hehe, i saw those birds and spider before somewhere ;)
I like the stormy one

The two photos are my background on my computer this month... you saw them in the July desktop thread.

The courthouse is one on my favorites.

[CaboWaboAddict]

Here's one from a diner we frequent...

(unretouched other than size)

[CaboWaboAddict]

Another diner shot...

[CaboWaboAddict]

Here's another bird - kinda abstract lookin'.

[siebe83]

lol
that bird's funny :p
you keep birds?

damn, i wish i had a cam
nice shots in mind...
another reason to find a job :/

[CaptainNuss]

@CaboWaboAddict: I like the stormy one as well.

@Pixelcraft: The katie photo is great!

@siebe83: Thanks for the compliment! By all means, use it on your desktop. But I've uploaded a bigger, unframed version: http://zephanya.bei.t-online.de/winter.jpg

[siebe83]

@CaptainNuss: that would be great! Though when I click that link, it says it's a private homepage :(
Private Homepage

Das Dokument konnte nicht gefunden werden.
Bitte überprüfen Sie Ihren URL
Sure it's the right link?

Thanks anyway :)

[CaptainNuss]

Strange, works for me. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll mail it to you.

[siebe83]

Guess I complained to soon. It's working now :)
Thanks!

[CaptainNuss]

No problem. May I have a screenshot of your desktop? (I'm quite proud that you're using my photo, so... :) )

Here's another one. My mother was painting stones and a bottle stood nearby, so I arranged the stones in a way that would make them fill the whole background and activated macro mode. One of my first photos. (just got the digital camera about eight months ago)

[CaboWaboAddict]

Originally posted by siebe83
lol
that bird's funny :p
you keep birds?

Thanks! Yeah, My younger son and I are into birds. He has a parakeet. I'll post a pic later if you like. (Its not on this computer)

[siebe83]

@CaptainNuss
ok, here's the screenshot :p
(not really exciting, just a wallpaper)
shot (http://home.student.uva.nl/siebe.dekorte/winterss.png)
not completely satisfied with how it's shown on the desktop
it's not showed completely, since it has a different ratio than the desktop
first I had it stretched, but that would make it shrink horizontally

anyway, i do like it the way it is now: looks nice :)

the bottle is nice: reflecting the light
though I like pics which reflect a mood more
a mysterious landscape or weird weather conditions, such sort of things :p
not really into the compositional pics, more pics that just happened to be shot at the time

@cabo
I like watching birds i don't know the name of while sitting in the park
(not all birds btw: in town a lot of filthy pigeons around, I prefer the small ones)
a friend of mine knows lots of bird names; I always forget them :(
if it's a nice pic and it's not too much effort, yeah would be nice :)

[CaptainNuss]

Thanks for the screenshot, will go into my collection. (I love screenshots) :)

I don't have many landscapes yet, but here's the first sunset I've shot. (and the only one, actually) I'm not completely satisfied with the way it turned out, but it's a start.

[MidnightViper88]

Here are two of my favorite digital photography pictures... :D

http://ford427v8.50megs.com/cgi-bin/i/Pictures/Misc/04212004sunset.jpg - I took a picture of this sunset when I was riding with my mom down, uhh...Damn, forgot what road it is...Took this back in April when it was still cool enough to wear a hoodie outside, this was one of the last good "winter" sunsets (Spring never came around Louisville :p )...Have a few "suburban" points of interest to an otherwise "nature" picture, with the highway on-ramp and cars and stuff...Oh, and look at those twin arches in the background...I feel hungry now... ;) :p

http://midnightviper88.50megs.com/cgi-bin/i/Pictures/Misc/06202004%20Ohio%20River%20Sunset.jpg - Took this on the night of the summer...What do you call it? The longest day in summer and after that the days get shorter? Whatever it's called, I tried to get in the quarter-cresent moon, and if possible, one of the passing boats to add a few more points of interest...This is at a resturaunt called "Captains Quarters" right near a boat dock (No doubt :) ), this is the Ohio River, and this picture is facing the Indiana side of the river...I would've liked to get a bigger boat, especially one with alot of lights to reflect off the water, but none came (Well, one did come, but that was whent he sunset was pretty much already gone)...I would've also gotten the sunset itself, but for the longest time for the sun to set, that day's sunset wasn't interesting at all... :(

Oh well... :)

[CaptainNuss]

I like the sky on the first picture, even though it would have been better if it wouldn't have been shot out of the car, but well, you can't really stop and get out to take a picture. :) The second picture is a bit grainy. How long was the exposure time?

Attached is a picture I took on the 25th of December of a present my cousin got. I really like this one because of the warm, vivid colors and the long exposure which adds some sort of motion to the picture.

[CaboWaboAddict]

This is my son's 'keet, Cloudy.

[Pixelcraft]

Feuer Sturm (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/8809798/)

[MidnightViper88]

Originally posted by CaptainNuss
The second picture is a bit grainy. How long was the exposure time?

My digital camera's ISO speed isn't happy with clear pictures in dark areas, even when I set for a long exposure time...I had another picture just a few minutes after taking that with a larger boat that didn't have as much noise, but because of the long exposure time, it came out slightly blurry because I accidentally moved it a bit...Whoops... :D

[Pixelcraft]

What do you call it? The longest day in summer and after that the days get shorter?

summer solstice

[siebe83]

Originally posted by Pixelcraft
Feuer Sturm (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/8809798/)
Did you make that pic, or did you take that pic?
;)

@cabo:
Cloudy is a name I can remember :)
does the flash disturb them, or didn't you use a flash? (looks like it's indoor)

[CaboWaboAddict]

My son named her because he said she looked like a cloudy sky.

She didn't seem to be bothered by the flash at all, but it was a bright day when I took the shot. I wouldn't try it when its darker, as I'm sure it would startle her.

[Pixelcraft]

Originally posted by siebe83
Did you make that pic, or did you take that pic?
;)

I took all the pictures, and collaborated them into one collage.

btw - Captain Nuss - Feuer Sturm and Rauch mean "firestorm" and "smoke" right? Just wanna make sure.....

[CaptainNuss]

...which could lead to another picture of a startled bird. :D

Pixelcraft: Your picture's great! The only thing that bothers me is that I can see where one of the images the picture is composited of ends, but otherwise very nice.

[CaboWaboAddict]

A shot of the fireworks...

[CaboWaboAddict]

Another shot of the fireworks...

Edit: It was a very windy night - Lennox Mall, Atlanta, Ga.

[mikm]

Not bad...got some new stuff at my devart.

[CaboWaboAddict]

Thanks. I checked out your devart... especially like the butterfly & barn.

[CaptainNuss]

Cabo: The first one's amazing!

[mikm]

Originally posted by CaboWaboAddict
Thanks. I checked out your devart... especially like the butterfly & barn.
That's my old site, haven't updated it in many months, b/c I forgot my password and the email account I registered with became a pay services so I had to switch. See my new site in my sig (mikm.deviantart.com).

[CaboWaboAddict]

m2k, great work. I really like the starfish and the 'shrooms.

[mikm]

Thanks

[CaptainNuss]

There's some great stuff in your gallery, m²k. My favourites are Red II, Seattle, Lone Tree, Hoodoos and Tree and Lost in Thought. What camera do you take the pictures with?

OK, here's a picture I took just yesterday. I've tried to photograph this cat before, but it (or she? don't know) wouldn't let me. We had a barbecue yesterday, so while hoping to get something to eat I was able to get some shots. This one's my favourite. It's my first framed picture of something that's actually alive, so let me know what you think.

[CaboWaboAddict]

Nice one Cap'n. The only this is its a little light for my tastes.

[Zana]

wow, I've never seen a cat with blue eyes....very pretty :)

[CaptainNuss]

Cabo: Thanks. :)

Zana: Thanks. :) But, strictly speaking she didn't really have blue eyes... well... I thought a blue-eyed cat would be nice and anyway I wanted to see whether I could produce satisfying results with The Gimp 2, given that I'm still quite new to photo manipulation.

[Pixelcraft]

about a mile away from my house at about 8:45pm -

[CaboWaboAddict]

Sweet!

[siebe83]

:up:

[CaboWaboAddict]

I guess I really need a website...

Here's four from Callaway Gardens at Easter 2004.

[CaboWaboAddict]

#2

[CaboWaboAddict]

#3

[CaboWaboAddict]

#4

[Pixelcraft]

Wow, great pics Cabo! I'm impressed!

The one thing that gets to me though is that: maybe it's your camera, or your graphics program, but something is just compressing the hell out of those pictures. When I'm working on something in photoshop, I usually save it as a .tiff file (no compression), and then when it's finally done I save another copy as a .jpg file (so I can upload it and not have it be huge)

You should go on deviantart if your looking for a website or something.

Crescent Moon (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9100695/)

/edit: Nevermind, it was just the fairyland picture that was really compressed. The rest aren't too bad. :o

[CaboWaboAddict]

I have to compress the shit out of them to beat the 100K limit. They 6M pixel images from a Canon Digital rebel.

I guess I really need to setup a site.

Nice pic BTW!:D

[xzxzzx]

One can see some of my photography at http://xzxzzx.com/fpics

When I'm not quite as lazy, I'll add the rest of my collection on there, and probably size the images down so they load faster.

[CaboWaboAddict]

Looks good. I like the sunsets. I'll check it again.

[CaptainNuss]

Here's my newest picture, taken today in Kiel (northern Germany).

[Pixelcraft]

I like DoF pics like that, Captian Nuss. They bring out kind of a illusionistic feel...:up:

Red Tiger (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9314677/)

[CaptainNuss]

Thanks, Pixelcraft. The border fits your picture very well. The yellow part of the flower looks interesting. Did you edit it?

[Pixelcraft]

yeah a little bit, but I didn't really edit the yellow part....

[CaptainNuss]

Two pictures I took when giving our plants the juice of life yesterday. Left one's a rainbow I created with the water, right one shows the light that's coming through the tree's leafs reflect in the water. I'm not completely satisfied with those two shots, that's why I haven't framed them yet.

[CaptainNuss]

OK, here's two attempts at... I think you call it "natural borders".

[CaptainNuss]

The second..

[siebe83]

:up:
the first one is nice, with the mirroring in the water

[MonKeyRum]

I like the bridges CaptainNuss. I have a couple pics I took from a local arborituim. Sorry I had to scale them down. If you want a full size pic PM me.

[MonKeyRum]

number 2

[CaptainNuss]

PM sent! :D

[Pixelcraft]

We just got a new kitten http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/aww.gif

http://thumbs.deviantart.com/300W/fs4.deviantart.com/i/2004/225/b/c/nursing.jpg

[CaptainNuss]

Sweet!

I just went through your DeviantArt gallery. I really like berries (probably because of the blue colour) and Interstellar Serpent. :up:

[mikm]

MonkeyRum- very nice shots. The one thing I would do is use a tripod and use a very long shutter (~ 1/2 s) and it will give that really nice, long motion blur.

[MonKeyRum]

I never had any formal training in photography. I was wondering how they got the motion blur on the water when it was falling. I was going to try adjusting the exposure length, but in my mind I questioned if that would pull too much light in and ruin the exposure....


Anyways heres 3 more from when the NHL All Star game was in town and they had built an ice palace across the street from the Xcel Energy arena

[MonKeyRum]

number 2

[MonKeyRum]

number 3

[CaptainNuss]

I wish I had seen this thing for real!

Originally posted by MonKeyRum
I never had any formal training in photography.
When I got my digital camera, I found this site (http://www.shortcourses.com/) which has tons of short courses which I found very interesting and helpful. I especially recommend short course 3.

[MonKeyRum]

thanks for the link, I'll have to see what I can use.

[CaboWaboAddict]

Really great shots, MonKeyRum! I really like Ice Castles 5 and 55. The NHL All Star game is coming here next season, but most likely it won't be cold enough for ice, let alone an ice castle. I would have loved to see that in person.

Have one on me... Mas tequila!

[Wolfgang]

Just discovered this thread... I had never ventured into Arts and Design before. Will start to more often now! Some of your pictures are really good, not the usual crap people put on the internet of their family in different poses blocking the view. I have a canon powershot S400, a compact point and shoot thing, but with quite a lot of manual control (pretty much everything except the aperture).

xzxzzx, I've seen lots of the stuff in your Denmark pics, the Elsinore castle ones are good. When I was there that day I watched some guys jump in the water and swim to Sweden.

[Sach]

Just thought I'd look around, cosidering Im such an art nerd...
Im just gonna go and give you guys a link to one of my amateuresque photo's.. hope you at least find it decent..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/lenfent/I_Heart_My_Ragdoll_II.jpg

[Sach]

Originally posted by MonKeyRum
number 2

damn, without any training, thats a nice shot.
The vibrant color, and just the whole feeling i get from this.. very nice.
Excellent job.

[S-uper_T-oast]

The ice castle was alot cooler (no pun) then it was in those pictures. It was all shiny and pretty and colorful. :D

[MonKeyRum]

this isn't my work, but I figured that all the photobuffs that actually come into this thread would love to see this:

http://www.downunderchase.com/photogallery/index.html

Lots of cool pics:)

[MonKeyRum]

Thats a cool pic Sach!!!

The expression on the girl sells the scene.

I have yet to produce any what I call good photographs with the sepia or black and white filters.

[CaptainNuss]

Here's one I took spontaneously on my way home from a party. I had always wanted to take a picture of this building at night, and I think it turned out allright.

[Wolfgang]

I like that a lot. If you have a larger copy, may I have it please?

[Exist]

Hey HOOOO !

I have photos on my site : HERE (http://www.musicandart.tk)

check them out and yeah please sign my guestbook hehe ;)
see ya
Luuke

[MonKeyRum]

Love this one:

http://web.utanet.at/eorywolf/pics/kunst/1355691.jpg

[CaboWaboAddict]

We went on a hiking trip to Greeter Falls in Southern Tennessee (near Chatanooga).

Here's a photo I took of the falls...

[Mattress]

Nice shot Cabo!

[Wolfgang]

Yeah, pretty damn good. How long was the exposure?

[CaboWaboAddict]

Thanks!:D

It was about 5 seconds. Nasty overcast day, rain, etc.

[CaboWaboAddict]

Here's another shoty of the falls (about 1/3 second exposure)

[CaboWaboAddict]

Here's one of the cascade below the falls (again about 1/3 second exposure)

[Mattress]

quite nice

makes me want to go take some photos.

[Wolfgang]

I like the last one the best. Actually your Canon EOS Rebel used an exposure of 1/6 of a second :D.

[simon snowflake]

:)

[Pixelcraft]

Nice bird there Simon. I love the nostrils on those critters. :P

Construction At Dawn (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12484015/)
Opposite (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12633178/)
Cuisine (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12633518/)

[simon snowflake]

I found it quite hard to get it sharp at 6 - 8 cm distance

[siebe83]

You really live in Gent, Snowflake? Was there last weekend, nice town :)
(oh, btw, most of the links in your sig are dead)


Great pics cabo. I liked the first one the best (i.e. this one (http://forums.winamp.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=1523285)). It looks like a really soft shower :)
I like pixelcraft's dawn as well

[Wolfgang]

I like the cuisine. I havent seen vegetables like that for ages (I don't eat them).

[simon snowflake]

I know about the links in my sig, been a while since i've been here. Back then they worked. :D I'll fix then one of these days.

And yes i really live in Gent, but I was born in Hoorn You know where that is.

[Pixelcraft]

Thanks Siebe, Wolfgang. :)

I think this may be one of the best pictures I've ever taken. Yes, I actually took this. :D

hope I don't get banned for this :p

[Mattress]

haha, nice

[simon snowflake]

bug porn. :)

links in sig are fixed

[mikm]

http://mikm.deviantart.com/gallery <-- all my photography

[ptv-graph-X]

My gf says its tite but she is my gf. What do u people think?

[Mattress]

that's a photo?

[ptv-graph-X]

sry guy didnt noe u just wanted photos.'=-

[siebe83]

Originally posted by simon snowflake
And yes i really live in Gent, but I was born in Hoorn You know where that is.
Yeah, I know where it is. Never been there though. Should I go there? (guess not :p)

@ptv-graph-X:
It's ok to post art other than photo's on these forums, but not in a photography thread ;)

@mikm:
your photo's are great, close-ups really well done

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by ptv-graph-X
sry guy didnt noe u just wanted photos.'=-

if u c at da top, it sez post ur photography.

[simon snowflake]

another bug:

click me (http://users.telenet.be/smooth_graphics/diverse/fotos/Sv400076a.jpg)

note, its a stupid camera with no decent manual focusing.

[CaboWaboAddict]

Originally posted by Wolfgang
I like the last one the best. Actually your Canon EOS Rebel used an exposure of 1/6 of a second :D.

:)

I knew the camera name was in the file properties. What did you use to read the exposure setting?

[ptv-graph-X]

ok maby ill start new thread but what the downloaded thing fore--------> my subs name Mrs.Fore

[Wolfgang]

What? I know you're able to write in proper English if you try.

Cabo: I just saved the file to disk, opened up the properties, summary and advanced, it shows all sorts of things.

[CaboWaboAddict]

I never bothered to look at the advanced page 'cuz the summary page was blank. Thanks!:)

[Mattress]

It snowed tonight so I took a couple of photos of the tree outside my house with the branches all covered.

The tree bumps up against the street light and it's caused the light to malfunction. It turns on and off randomly through the night. I took this one second exposure when it was off. I then did some serious levels and contrast tweaking in photoshop.

Dev Art (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12784631/)

[simon snowflake]

@Mattress
If i where you i would convert it to a greyscale picture, and then colourize it to get the sepia back. The pixelated colours don't do the image good at this moment.

[xzxzzx]

Like this (http://xzxzzx.com/tmp/Mattress1high.jpg)?
or better, this (http://xzxzzx.com/tmp/Mattress2high.jpg)?

[simon snowflake]

the links seem dead

[xzxzzx]

Yeah, it's my server, must've gone down. Gah. I'll fix it tonight, the files are too big to attach.

[Mattress]

Yeah I didn't mess with it for very long. I'm not sure why most of my photos have been so grainy lately either.

[xzxzzx]

Well, the links are back up for now. My wireless bridge is acting like the Tacoma Narrows bridge (http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/research/nonlinear/tacoma/tacoma.html).

Time to say "fuck it" and run a wire, but that, unfortunately, must wait for now.

[Pixelcraft]

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[CaboWaboAddict]

There is an exhibit of Chihuly glass at the Atlanta Botannical Gardens which we went to see this past weekend.

Here's a sample...

[CaboWaboAddict]

Another...

[CaboWaboAddict]

One more... (this one is my December Desktop now)

[Wolfgang]

This is the latest picture I took:

http://forums.winamp.com/images/edit.gif


Sorry, couldn't resist. The desktop one is good. Looks like a place I'd like. I went to a glass-blowing workshop once. It was fascinating.

[xzxzzx]

Your [ img ] tags are a bit b0rked, there, Wolfgang.

[Wolfgang]

No they aren't. What are you on about?

[xzxzzx]

:p

[aurorarose237]

Hope you guys don't mind if I post a black & white one here.

The Tree (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14359318/)

[Pixelcraft]

Originally posted by aurorarose237
Hope you guys don't mind if I post a black & white one here.

The Tree (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14359318/)

Not at all, black and white is great! That's a really cool shot too, I'll have to check out your gallery sometime. :up:

Blue Shine (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14432787/)

[CaboWaboAddict]

Originally posted by aurorarose237
Hope you guys don't mind if I post a black & white one here.

The Tree (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14359318/)
Nice:up:

[aurorarose237]

Thanks guys. :D You guys have nice pictures too.:up:

[Pixelcraft]

Burlington Sunrise (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14608006/)

[Wolfgang]

Very pink! :)

Good picture.

[Pixelcraft]

Originally posted by Wolfgang
Very pink! :)

Good picture.

lol, yes is it is quite pink...

thanks

[Schmeet]

http://www.deviantart.com/view/14736172/
This is a shot i took down at one of the parks in my town. Lucky i got this 'cause now the park has a load of construction work going on so all of the landscape is gone. :(


Any tips anyone can give is appreciated.

[Wolfgang]

Nice park, Mr Stevens. A bit too much glare in the picture though. It's too bright.

[Pixelcraft]

BUMP

I have a new one....

Washing Out Reality (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/16949183/)

[Wolfgang]

cool! what is that machine?

[Pixelcraft]

I have no idea, it's this old thing that's lodged into the ground outside our school. It's where all the smokers hang out.

[CaboWaboAddict]

Well, I finally got around to getting a picture host. Here are some of my shots...
http://gallery.greatestjournal.com/albums/up4/795/1176795/a-IMG_0986.jpg
http://gallery.greatestjournal.com/albums/up4/795/1176795/a-IMG_0980.jpg
http://gallery.greatestjournal.com/albums/up4/795/1176795/a-IMG_0981.jpg
http://gallery.greatestjournal.com/albums/up4/795/1176795/a-IMG_0983.jpg
http://gallery.greatestjournal.com/albums/up4/795/1176795/a-IMG_0985.jpg

[joshmwaa]

my photography is at http://littleman69.deviantart.com/gallery/

thanx

[Rullingen]

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23624955/

[JaVS_v2.5]

How bout a picture of students? :p

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/89/07/23507098/19387685358721l.jpg

[CaboWaboAddict]

I seem to remember this pic from GD... How did you take the phot if you are in it? Oh, self-timer... right.;)

[callmescam]

This is a shot of me I took about a year ago. Kinda neat.

/Edit/
Thought I'd include the picture this time.

http://onfinite.com/libraries/803964/429.jpg

[mark]

http://nobbyWAGD.deviantart.com

[MidnightViper88]

*BUMP*

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/54794392/

This is my uncle Charlie's Siamese/Tabby cat...It was sitting on top of this chair in the living room, but I hadn't noticed it was there at first because the color of it's fur looks similar to the color of the chair...Something about the way the afternoon light from the window lighting up half of it's face in contrast from the darkness that the living room could achieve with the lights off seemed perfect for a picture... :D

[skryingbreath]

I usually despise pictures of domesticated animals, or animals in general, but the lighting is neat. It would be interesting to see the source of the light cropped out. I'm glad you decided to give it a border and resize it. Most photographs on dA are borderless 1800x1800.

[Mobasup0]

*crap removed*

[MidnightViper88]

Some pictures of lorikeet I took while at the Louisville Zoo yesterday...

These birds are very pretty, since they're very colorful...These particular birds at the exhibit were trained to land on people's heads and everything...I didn't have any land on me (One did land on my dad's head, but my stupid camera took too long to turn on before it flew away), but they did enjoy the human company, especially for those with nectar...

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59835132/

This bird kept getting onto the walkway, which isn't good for the lorikeets, since they might accidentally get stepped on...

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59835194/

There was a forth bird in this "group", but he was far off to the side and didn't join in with the others...Moments after I had taken this picture, the four of them got into a bird fight...

[MidnightViper88]

Some pictures of lorikeet I took while at the Louisville Zoo yesterday...

These birds are very pretty, since they're very colorful...These particular birds at the exhibit were trained to land on people's heads and everything...I didn't have any land on me (One did land on my dad's head, but my stupid camera took too long to turn on before it flew away), but they did enjoy the human company, especially for those with nectar...

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59835132/

This bird kept getting onto the walkway, which isn't good for the lorikeets, since they might accidentally get stepped on...

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59835194/

There was a forth bird in this "group", but he was far off to the side and didn't join in with the others...Moments after I had taken this picture, the four of them got into a bird fight...

[gaekwad2]

http://www.23hq.com/wrdlbrmpf/
Originally posted by skryingbreath
I'm glad you decided to give it a border and resize it. Most photographs on dA are borderless 1800x1800.
Borders are pretentious. :p

[skryingbreath]

Blasphemy.

[J.Melo]

I suck at photography...

[Shelly22]

CaboWaboAddict, Your photos are gorgeous!:)

[chison]

Originally posted by CaboWaboAddict
Another...
interesting ^^ the yellow one reminds me of those frog who's heavy poison~

[MidnightViper88]

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/KravinMorhead/CocaCola.jpg

Ohhh, here we go; When people like I get bored when we go somewhere and neglect ourselves of some self-sufficient entertainment, we start to take "artsy" photographs of our drink...

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/KravinMorhead/bumblebeecloseup.jpg

And that, my friends, is a bumblebee doing the pollination...Fun stuff, those bees do...

[tuckerm]

Very nice, I like the coke one :)

[h92o]

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k227/xoet/fourorfive.jpg

IMGr means that the image gets reduced for the forum guess this is not happening here, aah well...

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k227/xoet/fourorfive.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>
still getting used to the image tag thingys

http://s89.photobucket.com/albums/k227/xoet/?action=view&current=fourorfive.jpg

but I took the photo but did not make the little things in the photo...

[izchan]

Here is something that can be nice ... :)

[tuckerm]

Updated my dA with 6 images from Duluth, MN:
http://tuckerm.deviantart.com/gallery/

[ScorLibran]

I found this little guy on the railing of my back porch. So I snapped a macro shot of him with my little Nikon L-10.

Luna Moth Caterpillar (http://www.scorlibran.org/chris/pictures/LunaMothCaterpillar-1.jpg)

One of the most interesting things I noticed was his "hoof-like" feet.

[Avion]

Hi guys. I am really happy I found this thread cause I love photography, and enjoy seeing other peoples work :)

some pics have been resized and some haven't.
some images were taken length wise and were rotated.

yard & shed (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/Theodis/photography/IMG_0099.jpg) [1200x900 pixels]
feild (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/Theodis/photography/IMG_0153.jpg) [1600x1200 pixels]
december/christmas lights and building lights (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/Theodis/photography/IMG_2125.jpg) [1600x1200 pixels]- with low iso and extended exposure I created bleeding lights behind the falling snow. I also used a flash to make the falling snow shine

[P$ycHo™]

the flower and the cristmas pictures are awsome!

[ryan]

http://vague.us/art/gallery/

I even wrote a PHP script to display it all :p

I took most of those in 04\05 I think.

[P$ycHo™]

http://vague.us/art/gallery/fullsize/bad_curve2.jpg

my fav out of them

[ryan]

Nothing like chew spit.

[Jp-Daelin]

Here's some of my art:

http://danjp.deviantart.com/art/Firetop-76155405
http://danjp.deviantart.com/art/Above-01-80751315
http://danjp.deviantart.com/art/Thrashed-01-80751433

[ryan]

Originally posted by Jp-Daelin
Here's some of my art:

http://danjp.deviantart.com/art/Firetop-76155405
http://danjp.deviantart.com/art/Above-01-80751315
http://danjp.deviantart.com/art/Thrashed-01-80751433

[Happy Cat]

Yeh you guys know the dA drill, if you want to see the photos bigger just click them.

HDR Photo (http://beachrockz4eva.deviantart.com/art/Sydney-Opera-House-80549719)

it didn't turn out perfect, but I'm happy with it

Sydney Harbour Bridge (http://beachrockz4eva.deviantart.com/art/across-the-famous-bridge-again-63393988)

Toy Bunny Rabbit (http://beachrockz4eva.deviantart.com/art/Who-Am-I-69143357)

Black and white Flower (http://beachrockz4eva.deviantart.com/art/Thoughts-Of-A-Cropped-Flower-59346798)

edit: user submitted url? wtf

[gaekwad2]

Originally posted by Happy Cat
Yeh you guys know the dA drill, if you want to see the photos bigger just click them.

HDR Photo (http://beachrockz4eva.deviantart.com/art/Sydney-Opera-House-80549719)

it didn't turn out perfect, but I'm happy with it

Sydney Harbour Bridge (http://beachrockz4eva.deviantart.com/art/across-the-famous-bridge-again-63393988)

Toy Bunny Rabbit (http://beachrockz4eva.deviantart.com/art/Who-Am-I-69143357)

Black and white Flower (http://beachrockz4eva.deviantart.com/art/Thoughts-Of-A-Cropped-Flower-59346798)

edit: user submitted url? wtf
spam protection

[P$ycHo™]

nice stuff!

[TheElusiveMelon]

Very nice :)

[ryan]

Good stuff.

[skryingbreath]

Originally posted by Happy Cat

Neat, however I think your sydney opera photo would have been a lot more extraordinary if you used a neutral density filter to blur out the people. As it is it seems very touristesque.

[P$ycHo™]

however the effect of the half-transparent tourists looks pretty cool imo.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

My first dabble in the world of HDR photography. Shot this about four hours ago...

IMG_4402.jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4402.jpg)

I don't have the fancy software the "professionals" use to process HDR from bracketed images, so I did what I could with multiple exposures, Paint Shop Pro, lots of layers, and about half an hour. :)

[Razzinno]

Looks good Sarge. I can usually get the watermark off the free Photomatix images, but it's a bitch.

[gaekwad2]

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
My first dabble in the world of HDR photography. Shot this about four hours ago...

IMG_4402.jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4402.jpg)

I don't have the fancy software the "professionals" use to process HDR from bracketed images, so I did what I could with multiple exposures, Paint Shop Pro, lots of layers, and about half an hour. :)
No, that's the way actual pros do it.

Notice the absence of ugly halos?

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

:D

I'm going to do more when I get some free time.

[tuckerm]

I haven't done night shit in a very long time. I just took this a couple minutes ago indoors but tommarow i'm going to go out into the city and try some things in the night. I havn't actually tried to do anything in the city at night

http://tuckerm.deviantart.com/art/RedBlue-83339372

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I took a few more sets of shots this past weekend while I was in Louisiana visiting with my mom. I've only had enough time so far this week to work on the first set, so I'll just post that right now.

This is the state capitol building in Baton Rouge, LA. I had my photo gear set up in the middle of the intersection of N. 4th Street and North Street (about a quarter mile away from the front doors of the capitol building).

img_4431[s].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4431%5bs%5d.jpg) - Underexposed shot.
img_4430[s].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4430%5bs%5d.jpg) - Normal exposure.
img_4432[s].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4432%5bs%5d.jpg) - Overexposed shot.
img_4432[hdr].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4432%5bhdr%5d.jpg) - HDR image. (2400 x 1600, 1927.18 KB)

I wasn't overly pleased with the results, actually. I apologize for the lens flare and ghosting again. I used a different lens for this set, and I forgot that it also had a UV Haze filter on it. Personally, I'd rate it as "decent." What's everyone else think of it?

[tuckerm]

Decent too, it's good, but not something i'd use as a background or get printed.

[skryingbreath]

I think you have achieved a better contrast and more naturalistic photograph with just the single normal exposure. Really I find HDR useful for starkly lit natural landscapes when the photographer didn't have the advantage of a cloudy day, or is shooting at mid-noon when shadows are darkest and highlights are blown. HDR bumps the mids/blacks/shadows up to ad more balance. Night photography is what I would describe as needing a lot of dark space, so HDR is pointless in this execution.
Originally posted by tuckerm
Decent too, it's good, but not something i'd use as a background or get printed.
Care to elaborate? You know, give reason to your statement.

[gaekwad2]

Originally posted by skryingbreath
I think you have achieved a better contrast and more naturalistic photograph with just the single normal exposure.
In this casee, definitely, since the HDR offers hardly any additional information (except flare and ghosting ;)).

You might get a better result by just bringing the trees up a bit but leaving the sky and the (pretty evenly lit) building alone, but really that subject doesn't need any HDR tricks.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

The reason I tried HDR for this one is because of the bright areas. If you look at the street lamps in the normal exposure versus the HDR image, you can see that they're quite a bit more drowned out in the former whereas they're more detailed in the latter. The normal exposure does look a lot more clean and clear, though. I might just try and fix up the normal exposure to see if I can make it better. I'll have some different shots up in the next few days.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

img_4442[hdr].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4442%5bhdr%5d.jpg)

This one turned out better than the last. I took this shot from the top of the levee on the east bank of the Mississippi River near the intersection of River Rd and Convention St in Baton Rouge, LA. looking southwest (towards Port Allen) at the I-10 bridge.

I'll spare you the before and after shots. This image is comprised of three exposures, about two dozen layers, and three hours of post-process. Still not the best, though.

[skryingbreath]

This is a great use of HDR. The reflections in the water wouldn't have been possible without the several exposures. To make the composition better I'd crop the photo to the lights, get rid of the unneeded things on each side.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I didn't crop this one because I wanted to show how I framed the original exposures. (Actually, I had to crop four pixels off the top and left sides of the original 3456x2304 image because of alignment issues, but that was it.) I'll probably go back and crop it more a bit later. I'm pretty happy with the way that one turned out, for the most part. I also just got done uploading another picture...

img_4433[hdr].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4433%5bhdr%5d.jpg)

I had my camera set up in the same spot for this shot as it was in the last one. I just turned it to face west directly across the river to catch this bigass tug boat. Not quite as much post-process as the last one, but almost.

[swingdjted]

I wish I actually realized how interesting boat wakes look in a sunset when I was out last summer. I could have taken some real nice shots. Alas, I didn't think of it. Perhaps next time. For now there is this not-so-good one.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I like the colors in that shot. :up:

These two aren't HDR, but they did take a little post-process time to compile. They're composite shots using several bulb exposures layered together. The first one was taken at the intersection of River Rd and Convention St (looking east) in downtown Baton Rouge, LA. The second shot was taken from the pedestrian overpass above River Rd in between North Blvd and Government St (looking north) in Baton Rouge, also.

img_4452[100dpi].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4452%5b100dpi%5d.jpg)
img_4495[100dpi].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4495%5b100dpi%5d.jpg)


Here's my latest HDR submission:

img_4508[100dpi].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4508%5b100dpi%5d.jpg) Normal exposure.
img_4509[hdr100dpi].jpg (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4509%5bhdr100dpi%5d.jpg) Final HDR image.

This is the old capital building in downtown Baton Rouge at the intersection of North Blvd and River Rd. I took these images (three exposures altogether) at the west gate (on River Rd) looking east at the building. This image took all three exposures, 60+ layers, and about five hours of post-process. Until I can build a new computer, my HDR images are going to look grainy like that simply because my current system (almost three years old now) isn't powerful enough to handle extreme high-quality without running out of resources.

Also, if anyone wants the full-resolution version, you can get it here (http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/350D_misc_100/IMG_4509%20%5bHDR%20100DPI%5d.png) (large file).

[swingdjted]

They need to change a light bulb (left post at top of staircase) and add a security camera (rightmost lamp post).

Very nice shots though. I can see the limited number of colors, especially in the full-res - is that something that a better system would fix, and if so, what kind of specs would you need to do the job to your liking?

[skryingbreath]

Why do you need 60 layers? That's insane. The only reason you need that many is if you're retouching/mattepainting or dodging and burning like a motherfucker. There are simple ways to cut down processing timing. I've gotten mine down to a max of 15 minutes, sometimes an hour if a photo needs specific correcting/dodging.

What's taking so long?

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I do manually what Photomatix does automatically. The number of layers I end up with depends on the settings I use when I make my selections. The tighter the tolerance I use, the more layers I end up with and the less grainy the image looks.


They need to change a light bulb (left post at top of staircase) and add a security camera (rightmost lamp post).
Yeah, I noticed that after I took the shots. I was mad because it messed up my perfect picture. :P

[skryingbreath]

http://xs127.xs.to/xs127/08226/img_4680405.jpg (http://xs.to)

[swingdjted]

Where were you?

You always seem to include boarders. It's a good thing.

I can tell you put a lot of work into lighting and making sure only the colors you wanted to show up, but despite all that work, the thing that gets me most is the curiousity as to what the hell the material the tiles are made of. They almost look like slate.

The pic is something that warrants some time spent looking at it. I will never pretend to be a photography critic, but I'll still say it's intriguing anyway.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Nice. :up:

[P$ycHo™]

looks a bit like FarCry2 concept art to me. Great shot!

[skryingbreath]

Originally posted by swingdjted
Where were you?
Exactly here. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=*******n,+ca&ie=UTF8&ll=39.146429,-121.926656&spn=0.002392,0.005708&t=h&z=18)

Thanks y'all.

[thomasz]

But how can I post them? Is it have many times?

[P$ycHo™]

but what are you trying to say? is it have any sense?

[swingdjted]

To post a picture, click on the link below for some directions. Hopefully this helps.

http://forums.shoutcast.com/showthread.php?postid=2328401#post2328401

[gaekwad2]

Originally posted by swingdjted
http://forums.shoutcast.com/
lol wut

[swingdjted]

How did that happen? I just googled for a post that explained posting pics, and got shoutcast? Never noticed till now. I had no idea forums.shoutcast.com and forums.winamp.com were the same...

[tuckerm]

Yeah, I knew about forums.shoutcast.com for a while. It's a good way to get past the proxies that have blocked forums.winamp.com

[swingdjted]

Hey, what size [width] should I make photos now so that they fit perfectly wide on the new forum format (without breaking frames)?

[gaekwad2]

printscreen, paste in irfanview, selection

800

[swingdjted]

Like this?
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4853/likethisis3.png (http://imageshack.us)

Edit - seems to work, but resizing was hard to find on that program, but I found it.

I've been using VSO lately to resize. It's right there in the right click menu and allows resizing of multiple pictures right away. I miss the "powertoys" that were around on XP.

[gaekwad2]

If you don't mind using command line get ImageMagick, it also has the best downsizing filter among the software I know of (properly implemented Lanczos).

[swingdjted]

Command line is a weakness for me, but I might try it anyway.

[gaekwad2]

This is what I mean by best downsizing filter (note the moiré):

http://xs135.xs.to/xs135/09021/resizingexample867.jpg.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs135&d=09021&f=resizingexample867.jpg)

Photoshop offers two different bicubic settings (sharp or smooth) but neither fare any better (or at least used to in older versions). The problem seems to be that most programs use a filter kernel based on the source image size, which is correct for up- but wrong for downsizing (as with audio downsampling you have to remove frequencies that are above Nyquist in the target, else you get the nice artifacts seen above).

[P$ycHo™]

i use xnview for my picture viewing/converting/resizing

handles pretty much every format (even videos, audio, pdf), integrates into rightclick for converting, set wallpaper, and send to imageshack(<-pretty usefull)

[swingdjted]

I can see what you mean - looks like the bricklayer was laying a curved pattern.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Grabbed a couple shots of the state capitol in Salt Lake City last night with my A590 IS.

http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/A590_IS_misc_100/IMG_0132.jpg
http://sarge.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Misc/A590_IS_misc_100/IMG_0137.jpg

I haven't edited these images at all. Just resized them for this post. :)

[swingdjted]

^quite nice. Did you use a monopod/tripod at all? What settings?

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I used my UltraPod II (http://www.pedcopods.com/up2.htm) for the first shot. I took the second shot with my camera propped up on my half-rolled-down window (because it was freakin' cold outside, and I didn't feel like getting out of my truck again :p).

First shot:
Shutter - 1 second
Aperture - F/2.6
Focal Length - 6 mm
ISO - 100

Second shot:
Shutter - 0.5 second
Aperture - F/3.5
Focal Length - 10 mm
ISO - 200


And thanks. :)

[swingdjted]

That's a pretty still shot for a window and half-second.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Canon's Image Stabalization is awesome. :up:

[Sebastian Grey]

I'm afraid you won't like my photos! I'm shy. Maybe some day...