anyone here Take Photos? [Archive]

Native American

03-31-2006, 11:15 AM

http://static.flickr.com/45/120801194_1874f10139.jpg

This pic reminded me that I took 2-week class about gas and electrical welding one summer in college. Which wasn't long enough to make me a good welder, but was long enough to allow me to spot a good weld or a bad weld when I see one.

I couldn't help but notice that's a pretty good quality weld on that flange! The welder who did that knows his stuff.

bannerman

04-04-2006, 10:31 PM

Only when she takes her clothes off and agrees to pose.

I used to be a freelance photographer eons ago.

are you familiar with Georgia O'Keefe?

i didnt have her paintings in mind when I took this shot but they must have been the inspiration
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DoctorDoom

04-04-2006, 11:24 PM

anyone here Take Photos?Not seriously.

<center><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/NESpring.jpg" /></center>

The background of this one ...

<center><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/God-Nietzche.jpg" />

DoctorDoom

04-04-2006, 11:49 PM

Random shots ...

<center><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/BESusans.jpg">

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Bfly.jpg">

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Irises.jpg">

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/MapleLeaves.jpg">

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/OrangeLily.jpg">

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/WhiteFls.jpg"></center>

Rhino

04-05-2006, 08:05 AM

are you familiar with Georgia O'Keefe?Sounds familiar. Names are not my strongpoint.

i didnt have her paintings in mind when I took this shot but they must have been the inspirationI like your sense of composition, lighting and color contrast. Few get the concept of lighting down correctly. The first pic probably would have been better without the shadow, but waiting for a lighting change may have messed up the effect of the sun shining through from the rear, which I really like.

Charity

04-05-2006, 08:21 AM

http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/303/303627/folders/232906/1818603MVC-018S.JPG

Charity

04-05-2006, 08:22 AM

http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/303/303627/folders/232906/1818607MVC-002S.JPG

Rhino

04-05-2006, 08:29 AM

One of my personal favorites.

http://home.earthlink.net/~simmoh/images/P6250192.JPG

These guys really know how to camp out!!!!

bannerman

04-05-2006, 08:33 AM

Not seriously.

<center><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/NESpring.jpg" /></center>

The background of this one ...

<center><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/God-Nietzche.jpg" />

cool. anyone believing God to be DEAD after lookng at ANY of his handiwork is visually imparied

i marvel at the variety and beauty that im finding in a one block square area by my semi sub-urban office.

its been a few years since i took any photos, and then not so seriously as to take the fun out of it.

bannerman

04-05-2006, 08:34 AM

One of my personal favorites.

http://home.earthlink.net/~simmoh/images/P6250192.JPG

These guys really know how to camp out!!!!

yewbectha they do

Charity

04-05-2006, 08:36 AM

Great pics everyone :-)

bannerman

04-05-2006, 08:40 AM

Sounds familiar. Names are not my strongpoint.

I like your sense of composition, lighting and color contrast. Few get the concept of lighting down correctly. The first pic probably would have been better without the shadow, but waiting for a lighting change may have messed up the effect of the sun shining through from the rear, which I really like.

georgisa okeefe was a painter who lived in the desert in the southwest of America

she did some really stark looking paintings of cow skulls cactucses and such stuff as she found in her surrounings

as per the photo the only way to get next to that photo shot on the landing to the 2nd story of my office non complex..was to shoot from the front

ive never SEEN the growth thats popping up out of the moss before.

i grew up the son of a professional photographer, but hadnt until recently begun to use my eyes to do any photogrpahy

bannerman

04-05-2006, 08:42 AM

http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/303/303627/folders/232906/1818607MVC-002S.JPG

DONT let that women with the HAIR scare the animals PLEASE!

shes been known to Stampede horses I hear ;-)

THANKS

i gotta get out of the suburbs

Charity

04-05-2006, 08:56 AM

LOL :-)

bannerman

04-05-2006, 11:23 AM

LOL :-)

99% of the photogaphs ive taken sinjce i got this new camera have been within a block of my office, most of them were taken in the PARKING LOT of that office.
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its sort of interesting seeing people walking by wondering what i could possibly be doing pointing my camera at what they havent a clue

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/4349/l10009298po.jpg

ive just discovered that my photos..look a tad different in different browsers

perhaps this holds true across the board

the safari browser thats the mac only browser renders them 99% dead on

same for an older internet explorer and netscape navigator

firefox washes them all out considerably

likely ...no one knows why

this huge photo graph was NOT colorized, retouched, nor satuarated its just as it came out of the camera,..green and red bark and all!

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/6598/panoplyofnaturalcolor1qi.jpg

Charity

04-05-2006, 07:59 PM

bannerman

04-06-2006, 07:19 PM

I have one of those floppy disk cameras. I really love it because the disks act as cheap flim and it's easy to store or transfer. I take pictures several times a week with the homeschool group kids and my son's two baseball teams he is on and so on. I know everyone gets sick of me sticking my camera in their faces LOL, I just love to capture the moments. These are the times to cherish and remember. :-)
So,....most of my subjects are people.

Kids are the best subjects for Photographs,

we know that they wont be those same kids for long. the same KIDS yes but the moments captured in photgraphs are really very precious indeed.

my only regret in buying this new camera when I did... is i didnt have it before my Daugthers Wedding.

Peachdiane

04-07-2006, 08:02 AM

the safari browser thats the mac only browser renders them 99% dead on

I haven't used safari in ages. Now you're gonna make me try the browsers out. :D

Keep the pics coming. I like them!

Peachdiane

04-07-2006, 08:15 AM

I suppose mom won't be cooking bacon nor SPAM for dinner. ;)

bannerman

04-08-2006, 06:59 PM

Fetal Pig Dissection LOL
This will gross out the ladies here :-)
My son wanted me to post this LOL

http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/233/233898/pages/700779/MVC-013S.JPG

ooo Got any CLOSEUPS? ;-)

DoctorDoom

04-10-2006, 04:36 PM

Here's a sure sign of spring in New England.

<center><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Snowdrops.jpg"></center>

Teenager

04-11-2006, 06:17 AM

What kind of camera do ya'll use?

Rhino

04-11-2006, 07:49 AM

I use an Olympus digital now, though I don't take anything of great quality with it. I have an old Olympus OM-1N 35mm film camera that I used to be able to do wonders with. That's what I freelanced with.

DoctorDoom

04-11-2006, 07:57 AM

Canon A70, Canon A95 and Fuji S5100. The Snowdrop flowers above are by the A70 in macro mode.

Native American

04-11-2006, 08:04 AM

Here's just a simple shot taken in my back yard a few months ago. I'm not much of a photographer, as you can tell.

Nice big rainbow though....

Canon PowerShot S400, a small 4M digital thingie.

Teenager

04-11-2006, 08:12 AM

Here's just a simple shot taken in my back yard a few months ago. I'm not much of a photographer, as you can tell.

Nice big rainbow though....

Canon PowerShot S400, a small 4M digital thingie.

http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=1095&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1144764237 (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=1095&d=1144764237)

I think I see the pot of gold....

Question: How much do those camera's cost, which ones are the best, and where should I hunt for them?

Native American

04-11-2006, 08:24 AM

That particular rainbow was huge, and it was a complete semicircle. Couldn't even fit it all in with my camera, unless I had done a serious of panoramic shots and stitched them together, which I was too lazy to do that particular afternoon, because I was having too much fun just staring at that huge rainbow (it was very bright also, although the pic doesn't show that very well) and marveling over it.

You can get nice little 5 or 6 Meg digital cameras with nice 2 1/2 inch displays for only a couple of hundred bucks now, and they'll fit in your shirt pocket.

You can do nicer work with SLR digitals, and those can be had with resolutions up into the 12 megapixel range, plus come with better lens. But they're rather big and bulky, and certainly won't fit in a shirt pocket. And the highest-resolution models will cost a bit more than the $300 you'll shell out for a 5 megapixel shirtpocket model.

So there's tradeoffs, and it depends what you want to do. That rainbow shot is quite a bit more detailed than what you see there, because I uploaded a hugely-compressed version of it, to save server bandwidth (since I haven't donated anything to this site yet) but the original can be printed up in a very nice 5" x 7" size, or even an 8" x 10". But the topline SLR digitals will do even better than that.

Native American

04-11-2006, 08:27 AM

Not seriously.

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Doc, judging by that photo, I'd say you live somewhere close to where I used to live (Wayland, MA) before my moving to Arkansas last summer.

You can PM me if you want to tell me and want to keep that info private.

Rhino

04-11-2006, 08:36 AM

Question: How much do those camera's cost, which ones are the best, and where should I hunt for them?I don't know about the specific cameras he mentioned, but always choose optical zoom over digital zoom. Digital zoom really isn't a zoom at all.

Charity

04-11-2006, 09:02 AM

Sony FD Mavica 10x optical zoom

DoctorDoom

04-11-2006, 09:54 AM

Doc, judging by that photo, I'd say you live somewhere close to where I used to live (Wayland, MA) before my moving to Arkansas last summer.I'm in the Berkshire hills.

DoctorDoom

04-11-2006, 10:07 AM

Native American

04-11-2006, 10:18 AM

I'm in the Berkshire hills.

That's a nice area. My wife and I and my two little dogs went camping on Mt. Greylock last Spring, and did a bit of geocaching, including leaving a travel bug in one of the caches.

Native American

04-11-2006, 10:21 AM

Here's the future of digital photography. Film, move over.

Foveon's revolutionary X3 sensor (http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02021101foveonx3.asp)

Sigma SD9 Preview (http://www.photo.net/equipment/sigma/sd9)

Looks like an interesting technology. They can only crank out 3 megapixel resolution right now apparently, but presumably they'll be able to increase that over time.

bannerman

04-16-2006, 04:16 PM

What kind of camera do ya'll use?

I use a deceptively tiny little camera

the Leica D LUX 2 (http://www.leica-camera.com/digitalekameras/dlux2/index_e.html)

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2869/suchisthespring6qz.jpg

i helped revive this poor old tree thats been in use as a telephone pole for the last several decades

bannerman

04-16-2006, 07:06 PM

Looks like an interesting technology. They can only crank out 3 megapixel resolution right now apparently, but presumably they'll be able to increase that over time.

the hoopla and article about the 3 megapixel sensor and camera is from 2002

makes ya wonder what happened

this is a little study is surfaces, and refectivity from my baby leica <br />

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<div align="center"><img src="http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/1950/weatherreportcontinued6jc.jpg" /></div>

i altered only the exposure on processing

TSawyer2112

04-16-2006, 10:31 PM

Great thread Bannerman and nice pics everyone! :thumb: I will try to post a pic or two later. Unfortunately some of my better ones were taken as slides, and my scanner isn't the best with slides.

I have an old Canon TLb SLR that I have had for nearly 18 years. Even when I go to digital, I will never get rid of it; too much sentimental value. I'm in the market for a good digital camera. I was originally thinking of a digital SLR, however additional lenses that would cover the same range that a good ultra-zoom (non-SLR) would cover seem outrageously expensive. I am looking for something with 6+ MP, Minimum 8x Optical Zoom, and lots of manual settings. I am currently focused in on the Fuji Finepix S9000. (http://www.neocamera.com/review_fuji_s9000.html)

BTW Doc, I love the Nietzsche vs. God thing. I don't believe I have ever seen that before. You or whoever came up with it needs to put it on T-shirts, coffee mugs, bumper stickers, and anything else it will fit on.

TSawyer2112

04-16-2006, 10:55 PM

Here's a couple I took with a low res digital.

bannerman

04-17-2006, 10:28 AM

Here's a couple I took with a low res digital.

i like the composition

Bambi....my Early Rising Neighbor

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not 20 minutes ago i caught babmbie here eating breakfast

ive never seen the deer out this early in the day

Charity

04-17-2006, 10:38 AM

You shot Bambi with the wrong tool :-)
Great shot!

bannerman

04-17-2006, 04:30 PM

You shot Bambi with the wrong tool :-)
Great shot!

firing a round in the city limits for any reason would land me in jail FOREVER around here

it bambi had been a Mountain Lion..i'd likely get life... as they are STILL a proected species... even while gobbling up Pets ...Livestock and attacking PEOPLE

thats right they get to attack us..and our animals and we if we protect ourselves from them by SHOOTING THEM go to jail, and get a HEFTY fine

the greenies need a LIFE.

its a wonder that common weeds arent protected