Photography VII - Holiday Photos

[Mudbug]

Another installment in the photography thread.

Previous installments::
Photography (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40091)
Photography II (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46799)
Photography III (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48068)
Photography IV (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48725)
Photography V (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?threadid=49449)
Photography VI (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49982)

Have a happy holiday season. :)

[tazo]

Merry Christmas to ya Colin, may your family be healthy and safe :)

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Here is one of the photos I promised in the last thread...

A basketball court at my school, nicknamed appropriately "the cage" :)

I really like the colors in here...

http://boycottbuymusic.com/photo/a1.jpg

[tazo]

Another shot from this morning:

http://boycottbuymusic.com/photo/a2.jpg

[tazo]

Third and final shot for the night peoples :)

Again, taken at my school around 7am ish...I really like the colors!

http://boycottbuymusic.com/photo/a3.jpg

[idkew]

Originally posted by tazo
Third and final shot for the night peoples :)

Again, taken at my school around 7am ish...I really like the colors!


that blue is one of the most satisfying colors to my eye.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by idkew
that blue is one of the most satisfying colors to my eye.

eye couldn't agree more... ;)

I'd like to see them cropped closer myself, esp that basketball goal.

[Capt Underpants]

I know this isn't really holidayish, but some clouds look like a christmas tree. Took this a couple of days ago...

[eyelikeart]

This isn't holiday either, but it's got blue in it. :D

[tazo]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
eye couldn't agree more... ;)

I'd like to see them cropped closer myself, esp that basketball goal.

Heh glad ya liked the color :)

I tried not to crop out the skies in em too much, since I really loved the color, and I thought the color would sort of carry the color...

Here's to hoping I can check out an ibook, digital camera, and Airport extreme over holiday break!! :)

[idkew]

my charlie brown christmas tree.

[wdlove]

Very nice idkew. It is just a small tree. Nicely decorated. Charley Brown's was bare.

[Capt Underpants]

Here's our Christmas tree. That's a very nice Christmas tree, idkew.

[Capt Underpants]

Here is the last pic I'm going to post... It's a close-up of an ornament on our tree. The compression software makes it look more out of focus than it actually is... But I guess you can use your imagination.

[idkew]

Originally posted by Capt Underpants
Here's our Christmas tree. That's a very nice Christmas tree, idkew.

you should try a 2 or 3 second exposure of your tree with the lights off. it might be really cool looking with the "snow". the room lights off, that is, tree lights on.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Capt Underpants
Here is the last pic I'm going to post... It's a close-up of an ornament on our tree. The compression software makes it look more out of focus than it actually is... But I guess you can use your imagination.

A very nice perspective Capt Underpants. It acutally give it a look of real snow on a live tree.

[idkew]

Originally posted by wdlove
A very nice perspective Capt Underpants. It acutally give it a look of real snow on a live tree.

very very true.

how messy is that capt? my parents did that once when i was a kid, and we got it everywhere? have they improved upon it?

[Mudbug]

one I got a few days back

http://mudbug.mine.nu/xmas03/xmas03-Pages/Image28.html

[neut]

here's a remix of tazo's "nite" picture (from the last thread, page 12):

http://organech.com/images/examples/neu-nite.jpg

all those colors really are in the original...just a bit darker ;)

photoshop kicks ass.


peace.

[tazo]

Originally posted by neut
here's a remix of tazo's "nite" picture (from the last thread, page 12):

http://organech.com/images/examples/neu-nite.jpg

all those colors really are in the original...just a bit darker ;)

photoshop kicks ass.


peace.

Jesus Christ :) :cool: :D :p

Thats umm, interesting? :)

[neut]

Originally posted by tazo
Jesus Christ :) :cool: :D :p

Thats umm, interesting? :)

just a few minutes with curves and a few layers of various blurring...the amount of grain when i brought out the color in one layer was just crazy! layer effect rock...

you'll get even better night shots when you get a more manual camera.


peace.

[Snowy_River]

Originally posted by Mudbug
one I got a few days back

http://mudbug.mine.nu/xmas03/xmas03-Pages/Image28.html


Here are three of yours that I like...

This one looks like Piglet is standing on the tracks... A shame it's not in a little better focus.
http://mudbug.mine.nu/xmas03/xmas03-Thumbnails/27.jpg (http://mudbug.mine.nu/xmas03/xmas03-Pages/Image27.html)

These two are just cute.
http://mudbug.mine.nu/xmas03/xmas03-Thumbnails/13.jpg (http://mudbug.mine.nu/xmas03/xmas03-Pages/Image13.html)

http://mudbug.mine.nu/xmas03/xmas03-Thumbnails/21.jpg (http://mudbug.mine.nu/xmas03/xmas03-Pages/Image21.html)

[zync]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
This isn't holiday either, but it's got blue in it. :D

Maybe you could put it into egg-nog :D

Well, if you guys can't tell....I'm back...wow, you guys lapped me in the past few hours...I was online at 7am and here I am set back 3 pages :)....

idkew, your shots on the other page were cool....the first one was the best...the people and the sparklers almost looked painted...regarding your other shots here's a few of mine that are similar :) hey the 4th is a holiday, isn't it? What's Photo VIII going to be? Drunk off your ass photos :D

These are all edited:

[zync]

Originally posted by neut
here's a remix of tazo's "nite" picture (from the last thread, page 12):

all those colors really are in the original...just a bit darker ;)

photoshop kicks ass.


peace.

Yeah I like to bring out colors in images that you can't see with your eyes, it's fun...yours reminds me of a monet painting :D

Mike, your night shot from page 12 of thread 7 reminded me of a few shots I have on 35mm....

Tazo, nice blue...your blue reminds me of a black in one of my pictures....well really it's more of the look of the cage picture that resembles it...it was a shot I posted in like thread 2...it'll be up on my website not too long from now, when it is I'll let you know...

More fireworks :)

[Mudbug]

http://mudbug.mine.nu/fireworks/fireworks.html

http://mudbug.mine.nu/fireworks/fireworks-Pages/Image57.html is my favorite ;)

btw - all mine are handheld - some you can tell, some you can't. :)

[zync]

Alrighty...two more....a closeup and then a wider angle which shows the fire the people had going across the street....

[zync]

God I hate AOL...BTW Graphic Converter is working now for some reason (well it always worked elsewhere :))

[G4scott]

I'll be taking holiday pictures when I can actually use my new Canon S-50... I just got back home today, and my parents let me check it out to make sure it works, but now it's back in its box until Christmas...

I'll be sure to post my photos when I get them...

[Mudbug]

just a pleasant reminder to everyone - please don't double-post.

thanks
-Mudbug

[zync]

Did I double post? If I did it was because of stupid AOL not responding...I hate to reconnect twice while posting that third pic....G4Scott...that kind of sucks...it's like OK you know what your present is and so there's no more element of suprise...oh well let's put it back under the tree....last year I caught my mom with season 2 of the simpsons a day or so before Christmas and she gave it to me then :) although I think they've done similar things before...doesn't make it any less crappy...

[Rower_CPU]

I've got some good shots from last year up at my parents. I'm looking forward to trying some more next week...

http://organicallydigital.com/images/xmas02/tree01.jpg

http://organicallydigital.com/images/xmas02/tree02.jpg

http://organicallydigital.com/images/xmas02/trees_snow.jpg

[Capt Underpants]

Originally posted by idkew
very very true.

how messy is that capt? my parents did that once when i was a kid, and we got it everywhere? have they improved upon it?

We bought ours at a place where they wrap the tree in plastic that slides up and down the tree, but is closed at the botton. That way we can just slide it up to take it in, slide it down and put a Christmas tree mat over the plastic. Then, when Christmas is over, we slide it back up and take it out. Overall, not very much gets on the carpet, but you do have to vaccuum afterwards.

[neut]

some holiday-ish, some not:

my tree:

http://organech.com/images/examples/my_christmas-tree01.jpg

http://organech.com/images/examples/my_christmas-tree02.jpg

my TiPB:

http://organech.com/images/examples/myTiPB.jpg

my microKorg:

http://organech.com/images/examples/my-keyboard01.jpg

http://organech.com/images/examples/my-keyboard02.jpg



peace.

[shadowfax]

here's a holiday photo... hah.

[wdlove]

The picture appears to be at your school, I see the gazebo. It qualifies and holiday with the evergreen and christmas lights and deorations on the gazebo. I'm sure if you might have forgot, but could you update us on the flower?

[eyelikeart]

not holiday...although it does have green in it...

from my shoot yesterday...

[wdlove]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
not holiday...although it does have green in it...

from my shoot yesterday...

Is that a different style of sushi eyelikeart. If it is vegeterain style then I would be interested in tasting, looks delicious.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by wdlove
Is that a different style of sushi eyelikeart. If it is vegeterain style then I would be interested in tasting, looks delicious.

It's actually a signature burrito at the restaurant where I was shooting. It's got chicken & spinach in it, wrapped in a spinach tortilla. The assignment was for a "savory" food shot of this particular dish. ;)

[idkew]

but i like that i caught the bee in flight...

[eyelikeart]

That's a HUGE flower! :eek:

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
That's a HUGE flower! :eek: maybe it's a SMALL bee?

[tazo]

wow. that is some sharpness and clarity to that flower! very cool idkew...

I am in the process of redesigning my meager photo site, I hope to have it done by the weekend...

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by shadowfax
maybe it's a SMALL bee?

no one likes a smartass... ;)



oh wait...I'm not supposed to say that! :eek:

[tazo]

Well after about 5 hrs of working, I finally finished the revamped design for my photography website.

Check it out:

http://photopacifica.com

Comments appreciated, and remember, that this teen *never* knew how to properly write html... :)

-tazo

[idkew]

Originally posted by tazo
...
Comments appreciated, and remember, that this teen *never* knew how to properly write html... :)

-tazo

add a &nbsp (or just a space) between "Click" and the link "here" on all the thumb pages.

maybe instead of nature and wildlife, use "flora" and "fauna". for close-up try "macros", "urban" instead of city life.

i like your bg color in index2, why not carry that color throughout the site, either as the bgcolor or as the font color. i might also make your font in the thumbs pages a bit more substantial, maybe a <b>.

i also might shrink the about, news... part a bit. maybe 50%.

your links page is a different bgcolor than your index2. close, but no cigar.

but, besides my nitpicking, i like it. the roll overs are nice. i may steal the diea from you and use them like that on my site.

[shadowfax]

mmm, i got up with the sunrise this morning at about 7 AM. very nice :)

i went walking for about 30 minutes, took the S230 along :)

[shadowfax]

here's a christmas pic :)

[shadowfax]

and a christmassy gazebo. you may have noticed i posted pics of the same things earlier... this is the "de-iced" version ;)

[shadowfax]

and lastly... sorry WD, i think the damn thing is gonna die after all :( oh well ;)

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by shadowfax
mmm, i got up with the sunrise this morning at about 7 AM. very nice :)


reminds me of this one...

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
reminds me of this one... i like yours a little better. all that pollution produces a haze that makes the sun a well-defined ball of fire... there was little haze in norman this morning, so mine just looks like a massive, distant explosion.

light is so neat though, isn't it? i love how it looks in yours like the sun is in front of the tower :)

[idkew]

Originally posted by shadowfax
mmm, i got up with the sunrise this morning at about 7 AM. very nice :)

i went walking for about 30 minutes, took the S230 along :)

man, that hurts my eyes. either my lcd just got brighter, or my mind thinks that the sun is bright, no matter if it is a picture or not.

i like the "wild" sun in your picture.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by idkew
man, that hurts my eyes. either my lcd just got brighter, or my mind thinks that the sun is bright, no matter if it is a picture or not. yeah, i think it's the contrast that feels so painful.

it's definitely not somethng that i would set as my desktop image... ;)

[idkew]

Originally posted by shadowfax
yeah, i think it's the contrast that feels so painful.


ah- good call. you're right. when i cover up the surrounding areas of the sun, it is not all that light. it is actually much darker in color than i thought. when you surround it with the contrasting sky, it is quite a difference, hence the perceived brightness.

[tazo]

Originally posted by idkew
add a &nbsp (or just a space) between "Click" and the link "here" on all the thumb pages.

maybe instead of nature and wildlife, use "flora" and "fauna". for close-up try "macros", "urban" instead of city life.

i like your bg color in index2, why not carry that color throughout the site, either as the bgcolor or as the font color. i might also make your font in the thumbs pages a bit more substantial, maybe a <b>.

i also might shrink the about, news... part a bit. maybe 50%.

your links page is a different bgcolor than your index2. close, but no cigar.

but, besides my nitpicking, i like it. the roll overs are nice. i may steal the diea from you and use them like that on my site.

Thanks for the nitpicking Idkew, I will go edit that stuff right now, I mean its not hard to edit a roll over image, just change the text in the jpg ;)

I will also edit that bottom part of the main index, the about...etc :)

thanks for helping me idkew

-tazo

[idkew]

tazo- would you add your site to your sig?

[tazo]

It is actually in my profile I think...

Oh yeah, and I just finished updating all that stuff you mentioned idkew, pretty tedious work :) Had to remake all the galleries with the diff background color, text color, matching the different pages's background colors to the index page's, remaking the header images to be the right color [match the bakcground] ...

I have been busy ;)

As for adding *anything* to my signature, that is going to be a no-go Idkew, I no longer have the privilege of having a sig on MR.

http://photopacifica.com

what do you think now?

-tazo

[neut]

...here's some at sunrise without the sun.

and yeah, they're supposed to look like that. :)

http://organech.com/images/examples/0019.jpg

http://organech.com/images/examples/0020.jpg

http://organech.com/images/examples/0021.jpg


oh, and by the way, i'm watching you!

http://organech.com/images/examples/0022.jpg


peace.

[tazo]

wow those are some super dramatic sunset shots! :)

Here is a sunset shot i took a long time ago, right when I first started getting "into" photography:

Taken a bit, after sunset, when the sun was actually not in its full blazing sunset state

http://www.boycottbuymusic.com/photo/people/image/7.jpg

The only true "Sunrise" shot i have ever taken, did not have any sun;)

http://www.boycottbuymusic.com/photo/city/image/3.jpg

-tazo

[neut]

Originally posted by tazo
http://photopacifica.com

what do you think now?

-tazo

nice clean site tazo...a few things though:

there's a huge table taking a lot of space in you secondary pages (news, about, etc.); kill it.

also in your secondary pages...the title still has the old color in the closed sections of the letters (damn it's been too long since i took typography...what is that part called...damn).

and you can make your email address clickable...what are you using to write your html? and for that matter how are you making your images (titles)? just curious.


peace.

[tazo]

hi neut,

I dont know why the inside parts of the letters would have the old color :confused: I edited them in photoshop, selected the old color from [range], and then had it fill with the right bg color. I will take a look at them tho and edit them if necessary.

Thanks for the comments on the site, and I will look into the table comment, although I am unsure what you mean...:confused:

EDIT:

I just edited the contact page to have a clickable link for my email, I don't know why I didnt have it like that in the first place :)

[neut]

what i meant by the table is that there seems to be something pushing all the content way down in the page...i have to scroll way down to see the news, links, etc. i thought it was a table but it seems to be the breaks ("</ br> </ br> </ br> </ br> </ br>" Yikes!). a bit too many ;)

btw- the color in the images could just be an optical illusion too :)


peace.

[tazo]

I think the problem is that the </ br> tag only works in some browsers :( in firebird/mozilla variants it only displays a max of 3 </ br>'s, in IE, and safari in particular, it displays about 40 :)

I will edit the page to have like 2 <p> tags, that is a cross-platform tag and would have basically the same effect.

EDIT: I updated the 'bottom' pages to omit the like twelve </ br> tags :) There is now 2 </ br>s and a <p> tag in their place :)


-tazo

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by tazo
Taken a bit, after sunset, when the sun was actually not in its full blazing sunset state

The only true "Sunrise" shot i have ever taken, did not have any sun;)

-tazo

I remember those shots fro a while back, they're nice shots, espec. the top one...

In relevant news to me in terms of photography, a while back I registered another35mm.com (Cheers to eye for helping with the name) and since then I've just been sitting on it.
Well, I finally decided to get some hosting up and running for it and the first beta should be up soon.

Also, as a joint Christmas and B-Day present (My B-Day's only on the 4th of Jan) I might be getting a nice new D-SLR, currently the competition is the Canon 10D and the Nikon D100.

Any suggestions are welcome :D

[idkew]

Originally posted by Wardofsky
I might be getting a nice new D-SLR, currently the competition is the Canon 10D and the Nikon D100.

Any suggestions are welcome :D


d100! d100!


you want a d100!


anyway- check out dpreview.com (http://www.dpreview.com) for some great reviews. 16+ page reviews, amazing depth. best i have found. you can NOT beat this site.

[tazo]

wow wardo, wish I got 2000 dollar birthday/xmas gifts :)

I would say go with the d100, as frank and mike have one, and could probably give u pointers if you wanted em :)

[idkew]

New "Painting With Light (http://www.benjamin-nau.com)" photos uploaded and ready for viewing on my site.

I will post a couple below.

The story behind these:
I was sitting in Chicago rush hour, leaving town on 290 (as you Chicagoans can tell) and I decided to at least occupy myself. Did the same on the way back in town. I took about 200 shots with shutter speeds of <1 second to 15 seconds. All different apertures. Selected 30 or so to post on my site after some light photoshopping of levels and saturation. Tried my best to hold the camera steady.


BTW- I welcome any and all criticism of my works and any ideas to help make it better.

[idkew]

and here we go...

[idkew]

next:

[idkew]

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[idkew]

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[idkew]

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[Snowy_River]

Originally posted by tazo
wow those are some super dramatic sunset shots! :)

Here is a sunset shot i took a long time ago, right when I first started getting "into" photography:


-tazo

All this talk about sunrise and sunset shots...
How about a moonrise shot?

http://www.ghwphoto.com/other/images/apr040316.jpg (http://www.ghwphoto.com/)

BTW, tazo, why can't you have a sig anymore?

[tazo]

Somebody say moonrise? [well sort of...]

http://boycottbuymusic.com/photo/a3.jpg

Snowy,

I can't have a sig anymore because I abused my privelege, by writing instigating and provocative statements of personal opinion in my sig. Such views in sigs were not to be tolerated by the admins and I can understand their dismay with my behavior.

After all, what happens when someone writes something hateful in their sig, and they have 3000 posts? Suddenly the signature is a pretty big medium of harassment. My message in my sig was not harassing, but it was provocative. Think anti-political correctness statements...

-tazo

[Rower_CPU]

Since we're posting old stuff...

Sunrise (http://www.organicallydigital.com/photos/sunset_11_08_03/)
Lunar Eclipse (http://www.organicallydigital.com/photos/eclipse_11_08_03/)

[tazo]

wow rower, those shots are very very cool. You showed these before right?

if i had to choose one shot as the best sunset shot, this one would be it: http://www.organicallydigital.com/photos/sunset_11_08_03/pages/DSC04199.html

[Rower_CPU]

Yeah, these came up back in IV or V...the colors were insane.

The eclipse shots would have come out a little better at a shorter exposure (like the close up shot), but with the freeway and planes I was having way too much fun with long exposures. :)

[tazo]

who wouldve thought ol' tazo's photo thread would live on in a 7th reincarnation :-D pretty crazy.

[Backtothemac]

I took some of some candles tonight. I love them! Especially the one called Melting Pot. Makes a great Desktop.

http://homepage.mac.com/chuck_stacey/PhotoAlbum10.html

[idkew]

very holiday-esque b2tm.

i hope you didn't get your camera too close to the flame!

[Backtothemac]

Originally posted by idkew
very holiday-esque b2tm.

i hope you didn't get your camera too close to the flame!

Um, I did not think about that, but it wasn't too close, just good zoom, and Macro focus.

[MacMumm]

Originally posted by Backtothemac
I took some of some candles tonight. I love them! Especially the one called Melting Pot. Makes a great Desktop.

http://homepage.mac.com/chuck_stacey/PhotoAlbum10.html

Great candle shots Back, the Melting Pot shot is great!

I hadn't thought much about candles, until I saw your post...so I had to take a couple. :)

I found this one fun, since it had the reflection of two other candles in the background...

[MacMumm]

This one is a bit strange!

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Backtothemac
I took some of some candles tonight. I love them! Especially the one called Melting Pot. Makes a great Desktop.

http://homepage.mac.com/chuck_stacey/PhotoAlbum10.html

Thank you Backtothemac. My wife and I love candles. My problem is getting them to burn correctly. The multiple ones are especially difficult. Do you have any suggestions on the subject?

[Backtothemac]

Originally posted by wdlove
Thank you Backtothemac. My wife and I love candles. My problem is getting them to burn correctly. The multiple ones are especially difficult. Do you have any suggestions on the subject?

Well, those candles were in our clubhouse last night for a party. I used the full 7x zoom, and engaged Macro. Instead of Program, I had the F stop at 3.5, shutter, at 1/40th. I did it without a tripod, but I would have loved to have one, so I could have opened the shutter up a bit more. 1/8th would have given a nice wave of the flame.

I am just really learning how to do the photography, I have only had the camera for about a month and a half. So, I am learning, Eye, Duke, and Tazo would probably have better ideas.

One thing that was neat about last night, is that the shot was in a brightly lit room. But by closing down the shutter, it made the room look dark, and really bring out the candle itself.

[eyelikeart]

I did this one at 1 sec, f5.6...

the extra time allowed it flow a little to create a smooth effect...

and yes I've posted it in the past...

shoot me... ;)

[wdlove]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
I did this one at 1 sec, f5.6...

the extra time allowed it flow a little to create a smooth effect...

and yes I've posted it in the past...

shoot me... ;)

Never eyelikeart, thank you. ;) I always enjoy a fire. It brings back fond memories from my childhood. My father would use our fireplace a lot in the winter. Ocassionally he would use it to cook. It also made a great addition to the Chrismas season decorations.

Just to ask the question again does anyone know how to burn multiple and single candles properly. They don't seem to burn in the center properly. I do try to keep the wick trimmed.

[shadowfax]

mmm, time for another onslaught... ;)

first, yet another redux of the classic emptied pockets... a little scantier, and a little funnier, maybe. i seriously got that fortune out of a cookie the other day.... pffft, how dumb is that? well, i'll make it shine... in bed.

[shadowfax]

here's some christmassy stuff :)

fake tree:

[shadowfax]

real tree:

[shadowfax]

yes, that's a deer head on the upper right, heh.

eye, the next two are for you... sort of.

[shadowfax]

überwide!

[neut]

Originally posted by MacMumm
This one is a bit strange!

i like that one! it looks like the candle is taking a quick shower... ;)



peace.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by shadowfax
eye, the next two are for you... sort of.

hehe...I love it... :D

[neut]

taking self portraits is hard! i've never really tried before, but here goes nothing...

http://www.organech.com/images/examples/0023.jpg

http://www.organech.com/images/examples/0024.jpg


i guess that's me...???



peace.


btw- hopefully i'll be finishing organech.com (alpha) over the holidays...i hope some of you can check it out. i'm going to have a **** load of artists on ther eventually (music/art/whatever...underground locals) along with my desktops, photos, and animations. we'll see what happens...a few free albums too (aac of course, for the music lovers out there ;) )

[idkew]

hey all, i just added a disclaimer (http://www.benjamin-nau.com/webalbum_disclaimer.html) to my photo site.

Please take a look (http://www.benjamin-nau.com/webalbum_disclaimer.html) at it. Let me know what you think.

Basically I do not want people using my photos for profit, not unless I get some, of coarse.

[idkew]

Originally posted by neut
\btw- hopefully i'll be finishing organech.com (alpha) over the holidays...i hope some of you can check it out. i'm going to have a **** load of artists on ther eventually (music/art/whatever...underground locals) along with my desktops, photos, and animations. we'll see what happens...a few free albums too (aac of course, for the music lovers out there ;) )

you are more then welcome to link to my photos if that is something you are after.

[zync]

I'll be brief...Nice shots everyone ;)

I bet you guys wonder where I've been....I've been busy lately, just glad the thread hasn't closed and moved on already :)....I went to my gf's chrsitmas formal dance (so she's still in HS so sue me :))...after all our plans screwed up I followed one of our friends to her house which we had no idea how to get to...she was speeding and like two seconds before I was going to call her to tell her to slow down because I've heard about the speed traps in her area we friggin' hit one. We both got the same speeding ticket except I also got yet another following too closely citation because she had stopped more agressively than I had and so it looked like I was on her ass when, in reality I had been trying to keep up while not obviously speeding my ass off....so yesterday sucked for us :( that's 245 dollars I have less to spend on camera equipment and the like....it ruins my christmas which also pissed me off because he was like be careful it's a holiday weekend and I was thinking:

1. No, it's the weekend before a holiday later on in the week...and
2. If it's a holiday that's supposed to be about being nice, why would a cop be such an asshole to give me a ticket to ruin my christmas, especially when I blatantly told him I was following her and had no idea where I was going...I mean he even knew by my license that I lived like 50 miles away....

What's really annoying is that I'm driving my car, which isn't a really expensive car but it is a nice car and I'm dressed well so he obviously thinks man this must be some rich kid or something...living off of dad's money so he obviously can afford to pay that...after I signed the tickets I should have been like I hope you're happy, I'm not even done christmas shopping...I have 6 bucks to my name (if I close my bank account otherwise probably like 1.60) and someone owes me 78 dollars for a job I did....so now I'm 160 dollars in the hole...thanks asshole, people like you ruin christmas...I felt like driving 17 miles under the speed limit to get caught and give them my ticket to call it even...geez, you have to be such an asshole to be a speed trap cop....

The guy that pulled her over asked her why she didn't pull over sooner...the only other place was a fire station and he suggested going there....if some cop had told me that I'd probably be like well then you'd give me a ticket for parking in a fire lane and if they had to leave I'd have to leave :D

Anyway, on a lighter and brief note, here's me and the rest of the good fellas (note I'm not the only college guy...señor blur face is my best friend who graduated a year before me (though we should have graduated at the same time and he's a year younger than I) everyone to our right graduated with me) ;)

[zync]

I was playing around in Photoshop and came up with this...

[Wardofsky]

This'll be a short post, don't worry, it's about 1-30am...

As before I talked about getting hosting done, well I finally got it done.

http://www.another35mm.com
and
http://forums.another35mm.com

Now remember, I know nothing about HTML and PHP script so if the forum stuffs up, I probably did something to it...
At least now I can host some stuff, mainly images...
As I get older and learn more about coding it might imporve.

:D Enjoy

http://another35mm.com/gallerysite/images/WPG-034.jpg

[idkew]

but, i likes. maybe it will warm us northerners up.

[Zenith]

My father got his Canon 300D today, and I thought I might try it a little. I've never taken a lot of pics before, but I have some knowlegde when it comes to understanding the optics, physics, and how the camera work in general. It was really cool, and I really want a digital SLR sometime, but right now being a poor student, I can't afford any more than my new G5 :D

So anywho, here's the pics! Hope you like them. And please keep in mind that these are my first DSLR photos.

http://www.teamg5.com/img/div/piano.jpg
This is a picture of our grand piano. It was really dark so I used a 10 sec exposure time. I like the results because the lack of shadows and normal lightning, making the grand piano look like it's a rendered 3D object...

http://www.teamg5.com/img/div/glass.jpg
Here I used F 5.6 and 8 sec exposure time to minimize the depth and blur in the image. I tried with a F 36 / 1/4 sec exposure as well, but I forgot to use the timer and shook the camera so the result was terrible. This one look quite cool though.

[5300cs]

Wow, very nice pictures :)

[Wardofsky]

The look very amazing!
The colours in the first pic are nice and warm.

The closest I can get :p

http://another35mm.com/gallerysite/images/WPG-003.jpg

[Zenith]

Originally posted by Wardofsky
The look very amazing!
The colours in the first pic are nice and warm.

The closest I can get :p

http://another35mm.com/gallerysite/images/WPG-003.jpg

That's cool! I remember that I tried something similar once, but the result was disappointing...

BTW, that's a Kawai or an older Yamaha piano? :D

Maybe you should try with a bigger apperature opening and set the focal point a little further behind in the picture to add more depth? Just a suggestion. ;)

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by Zenith
BTW, that's a Kawai or an older Yamaha piano? :D

Maybe you should try with a bigger apperature opening and set the focal point a little further behind in the picture to add more depth? Just a suggestion. ;)

Yep, it's a nice Yamaha, sounds good...
In terms of the aperture, etc. no can do, it was an old point-and-shoot...

I'm so ashamed.

[idkew]

hey everyone, i have a suggestion.

since i can only set my display to 1152x768 at the largest, and I am sure there are others in my situation, could we all agree to post pictures no wider than say, 800px and taller than 600px?

I only complain because it is annoying draggin back and forth when reading posts, since the widest picture in the page sets the width of the table.


So- I suggest a max resolution of 800x600. Anyone with me on this one? Or am I asking too much?

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by idkew
So- I suggest a max resolution of 800x600. Anyone with me on this one? Or am I asking too much?

hmm...I recall posting something similar a while back...

but now I can't find it & don't feel like looking any further... :eek: ;)

[idkew]

i can become the official "size bitch"

:D

[zync]

Originally posted by idkew
hey everyone, i have a suggestion.

since i can only set my display to 1152x768 at the largest, and I am sure there are others in my situation, could we all agree to post pictures no wider than say, 800px and taller than 600px?

I only complain because it is annoying draggin back and forth when reading posts, since the widest picture in the page sets the width of the table.


So- I suggest a max resolution of 800x600. Anyone with me on this one? Or am I asking too much?

Get a NEW PowerBook!! :D J/K of course....the only thing I don't agree with is the 600 vertical max, howabout we do like an FM submission? 640 for the longest edge? That's pretty much what I've been trying to stick with...

[Zenith]

I took some pics today as well. We're having a drop in temerature here now, and when I got this pic the temp was approximately -8 degrees Celcius, or 17.6 F. That's causing all the fog and making the landscape look pretty amazing. Too bad I'm recovering from a flu and can't go outside to shoot pictures like that, so I had to do it through a window... And the shot is taken from 3rd floor in my house, btw.

http://www.teamg5.com/img/div/fog_small.jpg

[idkew]

Originally posted by zync
Get a NEW PowerBook!! :D J/K of course....the only thing I don't agree with is the 600 vertical max, howabout we do like an FM submission? 640 for the longest edge? That's pretty much what I've been trying to stick with...

640 is not bad... lets also hear what others have to say. i want this to be in agreement instead of one pushing something upon others.

i do think we can go wider than 640 though.

any other suggestions?

btw- nice fog. looks like it is coming in to attack you!

and for that new powerbook. once apple gives me a g5 powerbook, maybe v2, then i will give them my ~$4,000.

[neut]

Originally posted by Zenith
So anywho, here's the pics! Hope you like them. And please keep in mind that these are my first DSLR photos.


nice camera...and pics!

i'm just starting to use the DSLR we have here at work (cannon EOS 10D). i think i may have it over X-mas...


peace.

[neut]

Originally posted by Zenith
That's causing all the fog and making the landscape look pretty amazing.

very nice :)


about the posting; i've been using 800x600 max. I would assume those with iBooks can still fit that on screen with ease. i would think any bigger would be difficult to properly view...


peace.


edit- added this picture here (three posts in a row isn't very nice ;)

http://www.organech.com/images/examples/0025.jpg

[Zenith]

And here comes another photo of our usual winter fog by afternoon. It's almost as it's taken from a plane.
I really like the colors, and of course the fog itself, covering all the background terrain.

http://www.teamg5.com/img/div/skyer_liten.jpg

[neut]

Originally posted by Zenith
...I really like the colors, and of course the fog itself, covering all the background terrain.

r-r-remix...

http://organech.com/images/examples/skyer_liten_remix.jpg


peace.

[neut]

some quick macros from work...

http://organech.com/images/examples/0026.jpg

http://organech.com/images/examples/0027.jpg


peace.

[Zenith]

Originally posted by neut
r-r-remix...

http://organech.com/images/examples/skyer_liten_remix.jpg


peace.

Ha! Suddenly it doesn't look like it's 15 degrees F outside anymore... :D Personally, I'm more a fan of natural color and only slight modifications.

[Tiauguinho]

Neut,

Mmmmmm... to be honest with you, you shouldnt change it, since its already changing that is already extremely beatiful. Its looks bad too...

[neut]

Originally posted by Zenith
Ha! Suddenly it doesn't look like it's 15 degrees F outside anymore... :D Personally, I'm more a fan of natural color and only slight modifications.

hmmm, not according to your website ;)

which is nice by the way. i need to get my ass in gear and finish mine.


peace.

[neut]

Originally posted by Tiauguinho
Neut,

Mmmmmm... to be honest with you, you shouldnt change it, since its already changing that is already extremely beatiful. Its looks bad too...

well, it's more of a smog re-interpretation of what was once a beautiful day...human interaction always ruins things.

my remix is not meant to be beautiful, but i can remove it if Zenith doesn't like it...it's his image. :)

[zync]

Originally posted by Zenith
And here comes another photo of our usual winter fog by afternoon. It's almost as it's taken from a plane.
I really like the colors, and of course the fog itself, covering all the background terrain.

That's taken from your house? And you have three floors? Damn dude, have the flu all the time and just look out the window....I don't know why but I get the flu every few years and each time, for me at least, it's been less of a pain, for some reason it never hits me hard like it does others, I've not changed a single thing in my daily routine, I still drive with the windows open when it's below 50 outside (I live in FL give me a break :)) I still do everything, I don't like to tell others that the flu isn't that big of a deal because I guess to some it is but for me I can't see why people stay at home and don't go to work/school because of it....oh well....however I do call people idiots who request antibiotics from doctors when they have a cold....when will people learn that antibiotics are for bacteria and not virii!?

BTW your site looks a lot like http://www.elfincreative.com/...

[Zenith]

Well, first of all, I'm never sick. Only this year I had the flu twice, with a lot of fever and a lot of headache. But it takes me only a couple of days to recover, and I never take drugs when I might be sick. Only a paracet or two when I get the flu. But I could never pretend not being sick when I've got the flu, because it hurts to much. I don't think I'm used to pain since I usually don't get sick in any way. BTW, we got 15 degrees here now, so I better just stay inside. Especially now since I was sick just a couple of days ago.

That elfinteractive.com homepage looks a lot like mine... ;) Allthough mine is a bit darker and vivid. I need to do something about the opening animations, since I don't really like them myself, heh.

And lastly, but not least, have a merry Christmas!

[zync]

Well, I don't know who's site was created first but they're both very good, although I can't read yours :) You have a merry christmas too! May it look just as nice outside for Christmas as it did in your "clouds" photo :D

[zync]

Neut, your car light trail picture is very cool BTW, the way the lights lit up that tree made it look especially cool....I like the fact that the light goes both vertically and horizontally...almost like some weird photoshop filter...

[MacMumm]

Great photos everybody. I especially like the interior of the piano! That show is great!

I am working on organizing my photos, and put up a new menu through .Mac. Take a look if you like, and let me know what you all think! :)

http://homepage.mac.com/mumme/Menu26.html

[scem0]

Those are really nice pictures MacMumm.

Were they all taken in Oregon? I've been to Oregon myself, but I didn't get to check out all the rivers and waterfalls, mainly just The Oregon Trail and various other historical landmarks, but now I wish I had visisted more than 1 river. ;)

The photos were very nice. :)

scem0

[Moxiemike]

a little christmas cheer. my cool as S*!t little nephew:

http://mikemancini.com/santa.jpg

[idkew]

a neat one of my parent's house...

[wdlove]

You have a real cute nephew, Moxiemike.

That is a card perfect picture, idkew. A Currie & Ives view.

I enjoyed your scenery pictures, thank you for sharing MacMumm. They would be perfect to use as desktop wallpaper.

[MacMumm]

Originally posted by scem0
Those are really nice pictures MacMumm.

Were they all taken in Oregon? I've been to Oregon myself, but I didn't get to check out all the rivers and waterfalls, mainly just The Oregon Trail and various other historical landmarks, but now I wish I had visisted more than 1 river. ;)

The photos were very nice. :)

scem0

Thanks scem0, I'm glad you enjoyed the photos. :)

Most of the photos I shoot are from Washington and Oregon. I'm sorry to hear you didn't get much time to see more nature, as Oregon is full of it! Maybe next time. :)

[zync]

Hope everyone had a good Christmas/holiday....I haven't meen receiving emails from the board when you guys post for some reason...I've checked all my settings and they're all the same as before...oh well....I should post some pics tomorrow since there's still the white-on-white assignment on FM :)

BTW, mike, your nephew does look like he is cool as ****!

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Moxiemike
a little christmas cheer. my cool as S*!t little nephew:

hehe...dude...he's cute man... :D

[bennyek]

Here is a shot of my boy we took for christmas cards on my new digital rebel

[bennyek]

here is another of my niece. A typical christmas morning scene

[zync]

These are my shots for the WA on FM....well, the first one is the one for the assignment and the second was one of the attempts....I keep the first one for the composition though I think I like the second one better overall...the assignment was white on white so I used two of my three whitest things :D

Coty and my Mustang:

http://helios.acomp.usf.edu/~clay4/img/linked/fm/coty.jpg

and the "huge pigeon":

http://helios.acomp.usf.edu/~clay4/img/linked/fm/coty2.jpg

[eyelikeart]

That bird is damned funny! :D

Here's a shot I grabbed over the weekend while playing around downtown.

[MacMumm]

zync, I like both "white on white" shots. I just like the second one more because of the way the bird is looking. :)

Speaking of white...I woke up this morning to some white stuff...

[neut]

great photos everyone!

zync- your birds a ham...:)


here's my daughter, Raiven, on christmas day...

Canon EOS 10D:
http://organech.com/images/friends/raiven-crow01.jpg

Sony Cybershot 505v:
http://organech.com/images/friends/raiven-crow02.jpg


two of many portraits taken over the holiday; i'll post more later.


peace.



edit: when I view these images on my PC they are a bit wide (squished)...hmmm, makes me wonder...

re-edit: figured out the problem...my PC monitors are wacked yo! to square up my monitor, so it can display correctly, I lose a good 3/4 inch on both sides!!! 19" CRT my ass...I need a couple LCDs so I light these on fire and through them off a building ;)

[wdlove]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
That bird is damned funny! :D

Here's a shot I grabbed over the weekend while playing around downtown.

eyelikeart is that by any chance part of the levey system in New Orleans to hold back the water, since you are below sea level or so I have heard?

Lucky you MacMumm, you have snow. Our T today was 50, normal for this time of year is 39. :(

[zync]

I'm glad you guys liked Coty...she's hilarious...you should see some of the things she does....she's from Hawaii where she grew up (a few months) with pigs, in fact she chased them around despite being afraid of everything :)...Coty was our old neighbor's bird bought by her husband (one of the former buc linesmen) when they were on their honeymoon...she makes all sorts of noises, even an alarm from her previous owner's house...we've had Coty for around 5 or 6 years....

neut, your daughter is scaring me but she's cute....and MacMumm I like your snow shot :)

[MacMumm]

wdlove, the snow was great today! Too bad I have to drive in it tomorrow with the people who don't know how to drive in it!

zync, as always, thanks for the positive input on my photos.

I must say all the kid photos are great! I hope everybody is having a great holiday season.

All I have to offer is another photo from a different part of town...

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by wdlove
eyelikeart is that by any chance part of the levey system in New Orleans to hold back the water, since you are below sea level or so I have heard?

It was at the rear entrance of One Shell Square I believe. It's just some sorta guard railing.

[MacMumm]

I was on my way to work, and I thought I would attempt being artistic to start off the day...

[shadowfax]

mmmmm, nice rims. what do you drive again?

[MacMumm]

Originally posted by shadowfax
mmmmm, nice rims. what do you drive again?

Thanks shadowfax, I drive the Acura Integra on the left in the photo (the Sentra in front of it was my old car) and I got lucky to buy the car with the rims that were only 2 months old.

[Wardofsky]

New gallery up, not great shots but more of "digital references" to the 35mm shots I took.
Click here for gallery ;) (http://another35mm.com/gallerysite2/)

http://www.another35mm.com/gallerysite2/images/P1010230.jpg

http://www.another35mm.com/gallerysite2/images/P1010239.jpg

http://www.another35mm.com/gallerysite2/images/P1010241.jpg

And just a fun shot;
http://www.another35mm.com/gallerysite2/images/P1010242.jpg

[shadowfax]

macmumm, you gotta love a car that's just had a rimjob ;)

the most kickass rims i've ever seen were on a BMW 740 iL outside penn square mall in OKC... it had 20 or 22 inch rims, i forget which. they were absolutely massive--you could barely see the rubber walls. a very chic car :)

[idkew]

Originally posted by Wardofsky

And just a fun shot;
http://www.another35mm.com/gallerysite2/images/P1010242.jpg

another fun sign:
http://www.benjaminnau.com/pictures/SpainPreviews/BlacknWhite/picturefiles/120.jpg

and another:
http://www.benjaminnau.com/pictures/SpainPreviews/BlacknWhite/picturefiles/119.jpg

[big]

WOW, by far my bet is on Rower_CPU's snow trees.... you all have good ones too, but that's my vote, here is one from my archives.....

http://sherroddrawings.com/images/bad/foliage/P1010019_1.JPG

and a link to some more you might like (http://sherroddrawings.com/images/bad/foliage)

[idkew]

ok all, lets see some good "artsy," maybe drunk, new year's eve photos! ;)

[big]

I thought that's what I had posted!

[zync]

Macmumm, I really like the composition in your second hydrant shot, the rims are nice too as shadowfax said....I like the angle on it too, you should reshoot that shot and put it up on this weeks WA on FM....

idkew, that second sign is freaking hilarous! :D

Here's a shot from about 6:00 this morning...

[idkew]

Originally posted by zync
Here's a shot from about 6:00 this morning...

i feel like we are wating for somethign to jump out of the darkness in this one.

[DVW86]

Here is a holiday snap shot that I took.

[zync]

Originally posted by idkew
i feel like we are wating for somethign to jump out of the darkness in this one.

Actually, at around 4 when my mom was leaving I went out to my car to grab a CD to rip and a car was backing up into my driveway to turn around and something in the bushes jumped as I advanced...my mom thinks it was probably a deer....I promptly went inside and grabbed one of my knives and the mag lite that's usually in my car....nothing was there....probably was a deer...but hell, at my house anything can pop out of anywhere...I think I'm going to make a B&W copy of it...

DVW86, I like the composition it might be better cropped closer though :)

[zync]

This is an interesting effect I made with a custom brush I have set for photoshop...

http://mail.usf.edu/~clay4/img/linked/tree.jpg

[Freg3000]

Photo from the back of my house. Photoshopped out the nasty electrical wires. :)

[big]

that is "cool", send some of your white stuff down south....

[DVW86]

This is a picture that my Dad took from his front yard. There has been no Photo Shop or other enhancements done to the picture.

[DVW86]

Here is another one my Dad took of his front yard.

[DVW86]

This isn't a holiday picture, but I thought that I would show you some of my handy work. I made the knife and took the picture.

[idkew]

DVW86

You need to take more pictures of that car! Lotsa macro opportunities with such a shape and texture. Nice colors, btw.

[DVW86]

Thanks, that was my firt car I bought when I was 16. Now it just sits and gets rusty(er). :)

[zync]

Originally posted by DVW86
This isn't a holiday picture, but I thought that I would show you some of my handy work. I made the knife and took the picture.

Did you make the blade itself too or was it from a blank? I'm thinking about getting into forging swords and knives :D I pretty much do everything when it comes to art so I figure why not...

[DVW86]

Originally posted by zync
Did you make the blade itself too or was it from a blank? I'm thinking about getting into forging swords and knives :D I pretty much do everything when it comes to art so I figure why not...

I made the everything from scratch. I have been making knives since I was 13. Here is another set I did.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by DVW86
Thanks, that was my firt car I bought when I was 16. Now it just sits and gets rusty(er). :)

That car looks to be in relatively good shape. It looks similar to a car that my Dad had gowing up. Is that a 50's model car?

[DVW86]

Originally posted by wdlove
That car looks to be in relatively good shape. It looks similar to a car that my Dad had gowing up. Is that a 50's model car?

It's a 1949 Chevy. When I parked it, it still ran and drove well. I figure it would cost about $10,000 to restore it to decent condition.

[shadowfax]

not to bring up the whole blurry light jazz again, but i got a couple i liked OK.

[shadowfax]

the other one....

[shadowfax]

also, my family changed up our living room... painted the walls, bought new furniture... it kicks ass now, heh.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by shadowfax
also, my family changed up our living room... painted the walls, bought new furniture... it kicks ass now, heh.

That is a very nice living room shadowfax. It looks like your parents are also into art and books. That is definitely a room to be proud.

[shadowfax]

yeah, my dad is. the left wall is all vermeer... the leftmost is his favorite, girl with a pearl earring. he sent the next one, the pregnant woman reading a letter from her lover, when my mother was pregnant and he was on a two month sabbatical in eastern europe (his first vacation, at the time, in like 4 years)... then the little tiny painting on the right is MY favorite, "Don Quixote" by Honoré Daumier. my dad also loves fancy leatherbound books, as you can see...

anyways... sorry about the OT.

[shadowfax]

here's the end of this intallment of the photography series, methinks. MacAztec started a new thread and didn't end this one, so here goes:

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