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eyelikeart

Jun 30, 2003, 10:31 AM

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
i love how it's not "hope you stay safe"..... hah!

ha ha...if there's one thing about photographers...it's always about getting the shot! ;)

Seriously though, it's raining here, and it will for the next few days. This storm isn't much of a threat to us, as it's pretty weak. I'll post anything interesting happening, but so far it's just another day at the office. So far, nothing like last year's back to back storms to hit. Those were threatening, but proved to be nothing terrible once they hit landfall.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I didn't bring my camera with me today. It would make for some decent shots, as it floods in this part of town easily. :eek: :D

Mr. Anderson

Jun 30, 2003, 10:35 AM

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
i love how it's not "hope you stay safe"..... hah!

Its not a really big storm - 70 mph winds - so I'd expect it would be more of a nuisance than anything more dangerous.

And I hope you all weather the storm safely....:D

D

eyelikeart

Jun 30, 2003, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Its not a really big storm - 70 mph winds - so I'd expect it would be more of a nuisance than anything more dangerous.

Exactly. If it were bad even, I'd do the same thing I did last year: crack open a bottle of red & enjoy soak up the weather & spirits. :D

U guys should see some of the hurricane parties that get thrown. :eek: ;)

wdlove

Jun 30, 2003, 11:35 AM

Our weathman talked about Bill last night, always wonder why NE is so focused. We are only expecting some rain. He said gee, "Here's one that we can pronounce.!" :p

I hope that all of you in LA will be safe. Please keep is posted!

MrMacMan

Jun 30, 2003, 11:57 AM

Yeah I hope you guys are okay!

eyelikeart

Jun 30, 2003, 11:58 AM

Well I just got the word that we're shutting down the office for today. I'll be heading home in a minute. The Mayor of New Orleans also ordered all city employees to go home as well.

Looks like I'll have a day of green zen tea & Macrumors... ;)

Stelliform

Jun 30, 2003, 12:04 PM

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Mr. Anderson

Jun 30, 2003, 12:10 PM

Originally posted by eyelikeart
Well I just got the word that we're shutting down the office for today. I'll be heading home in a minute. The Mayor of New Orleans also ordered all city employees to go home as well.

Looks like I'll have a day of green zen tea & Macrumors... ;)

Well, until the power stays on - that's about the only thing the sucks with these high wind storms.....have fun on you day off and take some good pics!

And hopefully things don't get too bad...good luck!

D :D

Foxer

Jun 30, 2003, 02:09 PM

Kind of early in the year for this sort of storm, isn't it? Sat out several during my North Carolina days. I have to admit, I love storms.

eyelikeart

Jun 30, 2003, 02:28 PM

Originally posted by Foxer
Kind of early in the year for this sort of storm, isn't it?

Actually, no. Hurricane season started a couple weeks ago, so we're right at the begining. ;)

There's been a slight bit of flooding going on, but mostly it's been nothing. Took me about 45 mins to make it home due to a couple stops from a wrecked & stalled car. Guess I'll just play around till later on, then go back to work in the morning. :D

eyelikeart

Jun 30, 2003, 10:12 PM

The weather got pretty rainy here. It didn't get terrible around where I live, but we had a few power outages.

During one of them, sitting outside was more comfortable with the breeze than inside with no AC. So, while sitting around, all of a sudden I notice this weird red hue that comes over the atmosphere, lighting up everything in a very weird way. The color shifts to yellow a bit, then back to red again.

The center of the storm was right over. Keep in mind, these are during the span of about 30 mins. The pink color u are seeing is clouds, not sunset.

www.eye-creative.com/bill/index.html

zed

Jun 30, 2003, 11:21 PM

well Bill was a breeze (stupid pun intended :) )

I got a day off of work... the worst part was the drive home. I have to cross the Causeway... which is 25+ miles over open water... it got a little dicey towards the end. It was actually quite scary but i made it home ok. The rest of the day was spend watching the wind blow and the rain come down. The yard got a good bit of water in it... but that is what happens when you live below sea level...

i got a few pics, but alas... i dont have digital so it may be a few months before i see em.

hope everyone else in the area came out ok... i wasnt really much of a storm. (not what we are used to anyway)

-zed

eyelikeart

Jun 30, 2003, 11:26 PM

Originally posted by zed
The rest of the day was spend watching the wind blow and the rain come down.

hehe...glad to hear u guys came out ok... ;)

next time...I'm having a wine party... :D

zed

Jun 30, 2003, 11:35 PM

Originally posted by eyelikeart
hehe...glad to hear u guys came out ok... ;)

next time...I'm having a wine party... :D

hopefully not any time real soon...

but it sounds fun :)

Mr. Anderson

Jul 1, 2003, 09:24 AM

Glad it was a small one - love the pics eye - the colors don't look real ;)

D

eyelikeart

Jul 1, 2003, 10:20 AM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Glad it was a small one - love the pics eye - the colors don't look real ;)

yeah...it was surreal...so odd...

I've never experienced that before... ;)

dreamlance

Jul 1, 2003, 10:25 AM

We closed the university for a cloudy day. I bet Dr Authement is kicking himself in the tail right now. It didn't even get windy! I was hoping to play in the rain too :mad: Oh well, there's still plenty of storms to come, I'm sure.

jelloshotsrule

Jul 1, 2003, 10:33 AM

hopefully it won't mess with the weather up here too much

i can't believe the title of the thread hasn't been corrected yet....

eyelikeart

Jul 1, 2003, 10:37 AM

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
i can't believe the title of the thread hasn't been corrected yet....

not "hey eye! great photos! did u almost die trying to get 'em?!" :eek:

;) I noticed that yesterday...just didn't feel like doing it...

wdlove

Jul 1, 2003, 02:31 PM

Nice pictures eyelikeart, thank you for sharing. Are they pictures of your house and yard? Where you live are you 6" below sea level, or I guess what I'm wondering is all of New Orleans below sea level. It's amazing that you don't have more damage!

jelloshotsrule

Jul 1, 2003, 03:09 PM

you can't seriously expect us to believe those colors are real.... hahahah!

i've attached a comparison of a picture i took along with a tweaked version (to get some colors along the lines of eye's hurricaine pictures)

i rest my case. ;)

eyelikeart

Jul 1, 2003, 03:18 PM

The photos were taken at my mother's house. There wasn't nearly enough weather activity to bring any damage. As said earlier, this was a very minor storm.

Now, jello...u believe what u want. I have no reason to post fake images up. I was there, and I have witnesses who saw exactly what I did. ;)

wdlove

Jul 1, 2003, 03:24 PM

I believe you eyelikeart. A photographer always has pride in his work. Getting just that right picture is a source of pride!

pivo6

Jul 1, 2003, 03:29 PM

Eye, Very interesting pictures. Those colors are so odd. I've seen yellows, blacks, greens, during a storm, but never that red, except at sunset of course.

eyelikeart

Jul 1, 2003, 03:38 PM

Now I feel like I'm defending my own word here.

Like I said, it only lasted for about half an hour. The first few were simple ones I grabbed when it was still a bit yellowish out. The basketball goal I underdeveloped a little to get a better silhouette, but the others I didn't go overboard on.

Again...think what u will.

Moxiemike

Jul 1, 2003, 04:00 PM

Sorry to debunk you here Jello.... but i must say, eye's pics are legitimate.

Here's why.

Let's use this one as an example:

http://www.eye-creative.com/bill/source/pict0019.html

Now. Had eye tweaked the hue/saturation on the photos to simulate the crazy pinkish red color, the light on the garage door (by the car) would also have taken on a hue that isn't that of a lightbulb. If the sky were, say, blue, and he tweaked levels the light, which is natural color, would have moved along with that of the sky.

Secondly, the grass does have a greenish hue to it. Again, if this were faked, the green would have went the way of the color tweak and wouldn't have retained the green. However, if it were real, which it is, the color of the grass would be green with a reddish pink hue to it, due to reflection of the light.

Secondly, to get that kind of color, he would have had to do a TON of extra saturation (assuming of course, that a hurricane storm's sky is greyish) to get that level of color. As such, the light that i referenced earlier would be blown out, and there would be a huge level of noise that would be introduced into the photo.

Reference this:
http://www.eye-creative.com/bill/source/pict0004.html

as a very clean photo. No noise there, for sure.

NOw I know we could say that he masked areas off, etc etc etc but really how far do we think eye would go to make some statement on a web site for a bunch of people he doesn't really know!

evoluzione

Jul 1, 2003, 04:53 PM

Originally posted by Moxiemike
NOw I know we could say that he masked areas off, etc etc etc

wouldn't "selective colour" be a good choice for this kind of colour correction??? saves a lot of the masking time... ;)

heh, ok, from hurricanes to photoshop tips in less than one page, not bad eh?

evoluzione

Jul 1, 2003, 05:12 PM

seriously though, nice pics eye.

and y'all be careful out there! ;)

Mr. Anderson

Jul 1, 2003, 05:55 PM

Actually, I've seen skies like that once before - again with a storm. Its a very odd feeling - but I don't doubt you eye. Photoshop is great but it sucks when people question your shots and don't realize that sometimes things can be very odd without the help of digital manipulation.

Again, great shots! :D

D

eyelikeart

Jul 1, 2003, 06:24 PM

thanks for the props guys...

I have zero reason to fake images...

NOW...if I wanted to play a trick on u guys...it wouldn't be something like that...

I think...deep down...I still owe someone for initially pasting my mug on a woman's body... ;)

jelloshotsrule

Jul 1, 2003, 06:53 PM

what's funny is that you all thought i was serious.... hah.

moxie, i'd at least have thought higher of you. ;)

Moxiemike

Jul 1, 2003, 11:07 PM

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
what's funny is that you all thought i was serious.... hah.

moxie, i'd at least have thought higher of you. ;)

Hey man, regardless, I couldn't let you let others think you can retouch photos that easily.

I loved pointing out holes in your theory. :D

jelloshotsrule

Jul 1, 2003, 11:27 PM

Originally posted by Moxiemike
Hey man, regardless, I couldn't let you let others think you can retouch photos that easily.

I loved pointing out holes in your theory. :D

i'd have needed to actually have thought that in order for it to really be a "theory"

Moxiemike

Jul 2, 2003, 08:24 AM

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
i'd have needed to actually have thought that in order for it to really be a "theory"

Perhaps you didn't think it conciously, but by posting a before and after to disprove eye, be it jokingly or seriously, you've admitted to some sort of thought process doubting him, and done so in a subconcious manner. ;)

Jello, tell me about your mother...

eyelikeart

Jul 2, 2003, 08:31 AM

Originally posted by Moxiemike
Jello, tell me about your mother...

nevermind that...how do u feel about your father... :eek:

Moxiemike

Jul 2, 2003, 08:35 AM

Originally posted by eyelikeart
nevermind that...how do u feel about your father... :eek:

Me? My dad is cool as s*** for reasons I can't go into here.

But aside from that, he's been a good steady and knowledgable influence throughout my twenty-six years and 51 weeks. :)

eyelikeart

Jul 2, 2003, 08:55 AM

Originally posted by Moxiemike
But aside from that, he's been a good steady and knowledgable influence throughout my twenty-six years and 51 weeks. :)

ahh...that's right...

u will be 27 next week... ;)

Mr. Anderson

Jul 2, 2003, 08:58 AM

Sorry to get this thread sidetracked back on subject, but the remnants of Bill are going to be hitting the DC area soon and they're saying 2-5 inches of rain!

Damn, we have not had a break all summer so far - it has been so damn wet and now this!

D

eyelikeart

Jul 2, 2003, 09:24 AM

:( ah...damn...sorry...

At least it wasn't terrible though. How much were u guys affected last October by the double storms?

jelloshotsrule

Jul 2, 2003, 09:31 AM

Originally posted by Moxiemike
Perhaps you didn't think it conciously, but by posting a before and after to disprove eye, be it jokingly or seriously, you've admitted to some sort of thought process doubting him, and done so in a subconcious manner. ;)

Jello, tell me about your mother...

1. nah, good try though. ;)

2. she's cool. a little bit of a freak. she's also freakishly short. far too easy to hold conversations over her head...

wdlove

Jul 2, 2003, 07:46 PM

Originally posted by eyelikeart
thanks for the props guys...

I have zero reason to fake images...

NOW...if I wanted to play a trick on u guys...it wouldn't be something like that...

I think...deep down...I still owe someone for initially pasting my mug on a woman's body... ;)

I remember similar color schemes during the many times seeing a tornado in Nebraska. Nature has many beautiful color schemes!

Moxiemike

Jul 3, 2003, 08:14 AM

By the way, I was hanging out with my boy james, who spent the last month and a half in Nawlins. Right near Eye, as a matter of fact.

He got home last night, and we were hanging and he told me about the "Crazy red sky" the night of bill that "i'm sure [eye] must have be shooting."

So there's our proof. ;)

eyelikeart

Jul 3, 2003, 09:26 AM

Originally posted by Moxiemike

He got home last night, and we were hanging and he told me about the "Crazy red sky" the night of bill that "i'm sure [eye] must have be shooting."

word...

I'm glad he saw it...but he never did hook up for a drink. Didn't u say he's coming back?