The perpetual photo thread [Archive]

shetline

07-17-2006, 04:02 PM

This is a picture I'm pleased with, not so much for the image itself, but for what I thought was a pretty good Photoshop job of cleaning it up and getting rid of a bit of messy, mostly temporary, reality cluttering up the shot:

http://www.shetline.com/photo/british_museum_04.jpg

http://www.shetline.com/photo/british_museum_04_src2.jpg

(Removed: crane, fence, lamp shadow, cleaning supplies, rooftop antennas, other stuff along wall at right, person on other side of wall)

Powerdoc

07-17-2006, 04:24 PM

Originally posted by Placebo
That's a nice one, I like the luminous highlights on the cordite smoke.

Thanks

Powerdoc

07-17-2006, 04:26 PM

Originally posted by shetline
This is a picture I'm pleased with, not so much for the image itself, but for what I thought was a pretty good Photoshop job of cleaning it up and getting rid of a bit of messy, mostly temporary, reality cluttering up the shot:

This is great photoshop work, but personnaly I wouldn't have removed the lamp shadow : it add mystery to the pic (interaction between the lip of the statue and this shadow) : but it's just me :D

midwinter

07-17-2006, 06:23 PM

Yeah, and you left that big-assed FACE right in the middle of the pic of that cool building!

midwinter

07-17-2006, 06:27 PM

http://static.flickr.com/47/165176216_0c03bd2c7c.jpg

200 foot waterfall about an hour hike from my house.

(edit: Removed: crane, fence, cleaning supplies, antennas, helicopter, giant gorilla, lizard monster, UFO, and 40 very small people)

bergz

07-17-2006, 06:55 PM

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/1380/peiscolalt3.th.jpg (http://img392.imageshack.us/my.php?image=peiscolalt3.jpg)

no PS, no BS.

--B

Placebo

07-17-2006, 08:19 PM

Oh, I thought there was going to be a Loch Ness monster somewhere in it. :(

Splinemodel

07-17-2006, 09:40 PM

Is that what you French guys do on July 14th?

hardeeharhar

07-17-2006, 09:53 PM

http://web.mac.com/billybobsky/iWeb/Germany-Morocco%202006/Germany-Morocco%20Four_files/IMG_0590.jpg

Portugese Cistern in Al Jadida Morocco.

tonton

07-17-2006, 10:30 PM

Originally posted by hardeeharhar
http://web.mac.com/billybobsky/iWeb/Germany-Morocco%202006/Germany-Morocco%20Four_files/IMG_0590.jpg

Portugese Cistern in Al Jadida Morocco.

Wow. Unbelievable shot. Got a desktop sized image?

midwinter

07-17-2006, 10:31 PM

Originally posted by tonton
Wow. Unbelievable shot. Got a desktop sized image?

You should see it before he used photoshop to remove the crane.

Splinemodel

07-17-2006, 10:41 PM

Originally posted by midwinter
You should see it before he used photoshop to remove the crane.

Alright, you've had enough. ;)

hardeeharhar

07-17-2006, 10:44 PM

Originally posted by tonton
Wow. Unbelievable shot. Got a desktop sized image?

Sure...

hardeeharhar

07-17-2006, 10:48 PM

Originally posted by midwinter
You should see it before he used photoshop to remove the crane.

Actually there were two cranes, and a tank.

midwinter

07-17-2006, 10:48 PM

Originally posted by Splinemodel
Alright, you've had enough. ;)

OKOKOK. Here's a serious post:

http://static.flickr.com/10/17251102_5662b8ee57.jpg

Gene Clean

07-17-2006, 11:09 PM

"The Blackbirds"

http://static.flickr.com/44/119678417_7e8eb32fae.jpg

midwinter

07-17-2006, 11:11 PM

That's my favorite part of Day After Tomorrow.

Gene Clean

07-17-2006, 11:37 PM

What is?

midwinter

07-18-2006, 12:10 AM

Originally posted by ShawnJ
:lol:

Midwinter needs to post more when he's drinking.

Next time I'm drinking, I'll make sure to post.

hardeeharhar

07-18-2006, 12:28 AM

Fuck, Shawn...

Now we're going to have a bunch of posts concerning the feminist upbringings of young girls in mid-victorian england with considerable focus on sexual innuendo in 'children's' poems.

Powerdoc

07-18-2006, 01:11 AM

Originally posted by Splinemodel
Is that what you French guys do on July 14th?

Yes I use big white guns for shooting July 14th fireworks :D

Powerdoc

07-18-2006, 01:12 AM

midwinter

07-18-2006, 01:26 AM

Originally posted by hardeeharhar
Fuck, Shawn...

Now we're going to have a bunch of posts concerning the feminist upbringings of young girls in mid-victorian england with considerable focus on sexual innuendo in 'children's' poems.

Ain't no innuendo about it. ;)

hardeeharhar

07-18-2006, 09:36 AM

Originally posted by Powerdoc
Nice shot. It must be a cool place

Yeah, it was... Just enough still water to get great reflections...

trick fall

07-19-2006, 10:11 PM

Some very nice pics all around. I'm not really a very good photographer, but here ya go.http://homepage.mac.com/trick8/Florida%20palm.jpg

shetline

07-19-2006, 11:12 PM

How about a whole bunch of photos from Egypt and Libya and a total solar eclipse, all strung together at a fast pace with cool music using iMovie?

(Yes, I posted this once before, but I like showing it off. ;) )

I have no idea how many of you can view this at once before my web hosting service balks at the bandwidth, but here you are anyway:

http://www.shetline.com/movies/egypt_libya_2006.mov

It's a 15-minute video, 46.9 MB, and requires a bandwith of about 450 kbps to stream smoothly.

The video is basically a fast-paced slide show (most images aren't shown any longer than one second) with some (I think) pretty cool music, with a couple of short snippets of motion video thrown in. I've hopefully made it more entertaining to watch than the average slide show -- I guess all of you can judge how successful I was.

Low-res, monophonic version for lower bandwidth:

http://www.shetline.com/movies/egypt_libya_2006_lowres.mov

Splinemodel

07-19-2006, 11:26 PM

It's good that you went to Egypt now. . .

By the way, sweet slideshow. Is that an iMovie job?

midwinter

07-19-2006, 11:41 PM

What's the music?

Edit: nevermind...got to the end.

shetline

07-20-2006, 12:01 AM

Originally posted by Splinemodel
It's good that you went to Egypt now. . .
Yes, I was thinking that I'm glad I'm not in Egypt or Libya while bombs are dropping on Lebanon. Our trip was this year, last two weeks of March.
By the way, sweet slideshow. Is that an iMovie job?
Yep. I've got to tell you though, although iMovie was pretty good to work with overall, it has some annoying glitches (like constantly rounding off one frame's worth of duration off whole series of slides) and bugs (I had one crash lose me hours of work), plus some annoyingly limited features (such as not being able to change font styles and sizes within a block of scrolling text).

For the DVD version, I also ran into some iDVD annoyances -- my feeling now is that both of the pieces of software felt a little more like late beta releases than final products, especial considering the very mature version number of 6 that I was using.

blackbird_1.0

07-20-2006, 12:32 AM

Originally posted by Gene Clean
"The Blackbirds"

http://static.flickr.com/44/119678417_7e8eb32fae.jpg

Interesting. :)

Fellowship

07-20-2006, 11:07 AM

shetline that was a top notch production and I must say I really appreciate it when people put into practice what is said in my sig.

I think you provide a great service when you share your journey as you have within that video-slideshow.

Exploration of diversity is what it is all about.

Great work!

Fellows

Fellowship

07-20-2006, 11:11 AM

Powerdoc,

Love that pic!

Fellows

mikef

07-20-2006, 01:08 PM

Originally posted by ShawnJ
^I feel like I'm playing PhotoHunt on a MegaTouch.

:D

I love PhotoHunt. Who said adults can't play kids' games?

Powerdoc

07-20-2006, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by Fellowship
Powerdoc,

Love that pic!

Fellows

Thanks
:)

Yes it's great to see other culture. Shetline did it the right time.

cubs23

07-20-2006, 11:33 PM

Originally posted by ShawnJ
^I feel like I'm playing PhotoHunt on a MegaTouch.
haha, my thoughts exactly... yeah, good job on the photoshop clean up though.

G_Warren

07-21-2006, 01:16 PM

http://static.flickr.com/55/188301664_ca7793b48e.jpg

gregmightdothat

07-21-2006, 02:57 PM

Originally posted by G_Warren
http://static.flickr.com/55/188301664_ca7793b48e.jpg

Holy shit, that one on the left is ridiculously fucking adorable.

You need to send that to cuteoverload.com

midwinter

07-21-2006, 04:07 PM

Originally posted by gregmightdothat
Holy shit, that one on the left is ridiculously fucking adorable.

You need to send that to cuteoverload.com

You mean the one with the deformed leg? ;)

hardeeharhar

07-21-2006, 04:26 PM

I think that that is a leaf.

Asaph

07-21-2006, 04:58 PM

Some dried roses my fiance has at her house and my new macro lense.

http://static.flickr.com/65/194493095_24dcdcbd8d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/forrestcook/194493095/)

user23

07-22-2006, 07:56 PM

Originally posted by Asaph
[B]Some dried roses my fiance has at her house and my new macro lense.

very nice!

The Cistern photo is beautiful.

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h181/pedxing23/IMG_0752.jpg

user23

07-22-2006, 07:57 PM

Originally posted by shetline
This is a picture I'm pleased with, not so much for the image itself, but for what I thought was a pretty good Photoshop job of cleaning it up and getting rid of a bit of messy, mostly temporary, reality cluttering up the shot:

(Removed: crane, fence, lamp shadow, cleaning supplies, rooftop antennas, other stuff along wall at right, person on other side of wall)

nice job. quite nice, in fact.

Feynman

07-29-2006, 02:45 PM

http://homepage.mac.com/jaredstutts/DSC00745.jpg

Asaph

07-31-2006, 08:10 AM

http://static.flickr.com/63/161031605_a2fe2a3552.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/forrestcook/161031605/)

Bergermeister

07-31-2006, 12:14 PM

Can't seem to link to images on my iWeb site...

Have some photos you might like.

http://web.mac.com/kaj_68/iWeb/main/Albums.html

ThinkingDifferent

08-01-2006, 09:56 PM

Originally posted by Asaph
http://static.flickr.com/63/161031605_a2fe2a3552.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/forrestcook/161031605/)

I like how the trees are framed by the clouds and the ground.

Asaph

08-12-2006, 07:42 AM

http://static.flickr.com/25/54896495_82c858d773.jpg
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/forrestcook/54896495/)

shetline

08-12-2006, 08:56 AM

http://static.flickr.com/25/54896495_82c858d773.jpg
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/forrestcook/54896495/)
Love that!

shetline

08-13-2006, 09:43 PM

Time for another cute attack -- Arthur and Lyta...

http://www.shetline.com/img/arthur_and_lyta_head_together_on_hearth.jpg

Arthur's black fur is very difficult to photograph. I had to play around with the brightness curve in Photoshop to bring out some of the detail in his fur in a better way that simple brightness/contrast adjustment could accomplish.

OBJRA10

08-13-2006, 10:56 PM

http://homepage.mac.com/jaten/.Pictures/wateredge.jpg

full size here (http://homepage.mac.com/jaten/.Pictures/wateredgel1.jpg)

shetline

08-13-2006, 11:02 PM

full size here (http://homepage.mac.com/jaten/.Pictures/wateredgel1.jpg)
Where's the shot after she gets pushed in? :D

OBJRA10

08-13-2006, 11:05 PM

http://homepage.mac.com/jaten/.Pictures/P4301143.JPG

OBJRA10

08-13-2006, 11:06 PM

http://homepage.mac.com/jaten/.Pictures/barn.jpg

maimezvous

08-13-2006, 11:28 PM

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/maimezvous/Hawaii06.jpg

I'm no professional, but I like this picture. If you ever get the chance to go to Hawaii, take it.

maimezvous

08-13-2006, 11:31 PM

(snip)

full size here (http://homepage.mac.com/jaten/.Pictures/wateredgel1.jpg)

I love this picture. Just thought I would let you know.

Splinemodel

08-13-2006, 11:37 PM

Hey OBJ, is that you getting married, or do you do wedding photos?

icfireball

08-13-2006, 11:48 PM

Souix Falls
EDIT: REMOVED (KILLING MY BANDWIDTH)

Graduation
http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/gargoyle/gallery2/photos/g2data/cache/derivative/0/1/17.dat

OBJRA10

08-14-2006, 08:51 AM

Hey OBJ, is that you getting married, or do you do wedding photos?

no, I just dabble in wedding photography...

OBJRA10

08-15-2006, 06:46 AM

another

http://homepage.mac.com/jaten/.Pictures/walk.jpg

Asaph

08-15-2006, 06:22 PM

http://static.flickr.com/24/51112009_4770364ea8.jpg
(http://flickr.com/photos/forrestcook/51112009/)

davy sez

08-15-2006, 09:57 PM

Quite possibly one of the most beautiful parts of Europe:
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/dmis394/022_22A.jpg

Celemourn

08-21-2006, 10:32 PM

http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0021/0407301014291powerplant.jpg

More here:

http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/free/gallery.asp?memberID=80798

Go nuts.

Placebo

08-21-2006, 10:58 PM

Where's the shot after she gets pushed in? :D
Now aren't you edgy. :p

Placebo

08-22-2006, 06:49 PM

Experimenting with camera / post tweaking

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9684/brightoe7.jpg

playcrackthesky

08-22-2006, 06:58 PM

Quite possibly one of the most beautiful parts of Europe:
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/dmis394/022_22A.jpg

That is stunning. Where is it?

Gene Clean

08-22-2006, 07:07 PM

Looks like Montenegro to me. The town may be Kotor.

davy sez

08-23-2006, 10:25 AM

That is stunning. Where is it?

Its lake Bled in the northwestern part of Slovenia. I have family near there in Ljubljana so I spent this summer visiting them. It a great place because not only is it unbelievably beautiful, it's also really cheap (although I think that will change when they switch to the Euro next year).

Celemourn

08-23-2006, 08:18 PM

http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0019/0410170627271flag3.jpg

http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0606010944571215am.jpg

http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0021/0408012004231img_0213-the-bug.jpg

http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0606011021381sundown_pier_thumbnail1.jpg

http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0606011000501mouth_of_the_bay-big_thumbnail.jpg

Powerdoc

08-24-2006, 02:03 AM

Celemourn : nice pics.
But I don't understand pic 2 : link error ?

Celemourn

08-24-2006, 07:56 AM

Celemourn : nice pics.
But I don't understand pic 2 : link error ?

/boggle they all seem to be working from my end... will check with exploder.

Powerdoc

08-24-2006, 08:02 AM

/boggle they all seem to be working from my end... will check with exploder.
It works, but I don't understand the interest of a blurry image of a garden and a balcony ?

Celemourn

08-24-2006, 08:05 AM

It works, but I don't understand the interest of a blurry image of a garden and a balcony ?

Ah! It's rather tongue-in-cheek. I suppose I should have included the title: 2:15 AM. It's actually a park, rather than a garden. :D

Splinemodel

08-24-2006, 11:32 AM

Celemourn: whatever camera you're using, or what ever post-processing you're doing, has resulted in some very rich color.

Celemourn

08-24-2006, 12:02 PM

Celemourn: whatever camera you're using, or what ever post-processing you're doing, has resulted in some very rich color.

Thanks. Canon EOS Digital Rebel. I primarily have just tweeked the saturation and brightness in these, with an occasional tweeking of the sharpness. Also the whitepoint. I only shoot in RAW, specifically so that I can tweek WP afterwards. That's probably the single biggest part right there. I'm a tad bit colorblind (never knew until I enlisted in the Army) and I think that may have some impact on my preference for vivid colors. As a result, I usually adjust my photos toward a higher than typical saturation and contrast. I'm currently using Canon's Digital Photo Professional software that they have online for free. Will be stepping up to Aperture whenever I get around to getting a MacPro.

I really don't care much for pastels. :D

Yose

08-24-2006, 02:05 PM

http://www.ericnowina.com/highlandflower.png

Took the photos this last weekend while having fun with a lensbaby.

Celemourn

08-24-2006, 02:07 PM

http://www.ericnowina.com/highlandflower.png

Took the photos this last weekend.

Cool. I like the blur effect. Looks kinda like the time I did an improvised macro with a 200mm lens.

Yose

08-24-2006, 02:11 PM

Cool. I like the blur effect. Looks kinda like the time I did an improvised macro with a 200mm lens.

Thanks. Right now I'm not too happy with my current lens, it's a Tamron 24-135, F4.5–F5.6, etc., and have been playing aroun a lot more with the Lensbaby I got at Christmas.

Celemourn

01-20-2007, 08:45 PM

The Waning Day Before The Coming Dark
http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0606011021551the-waning-day-before-the-c_th.jpg

Sky Burn
http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0606011021131skyburn_thumbnail1.jpg

Nuclear Sunset
http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0606011020411nuclear-sunset_thumbnail1.jpg

Extinguish
http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0606011000161extinguish_thumbnail1.jpg

Industrial Moon
http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0605310526051industrial-moon_thumbnail1.jpg

Bridge Over the River Titabawasee
http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0605310525491riverb_w1_thumbnail1.jpg

The Fountain
http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0605310525421fountain_thumbnail1.jpg

Park
http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0605260800491park.jpg

Sundown at South Haven
http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0605242230541sunset-at-south-haven.jpg

Asaph

01-22-2007, 10:12 PM

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/297827390_7ea27c4931.jpg
(http://flickr.com/photos/forrestcook/297827390/)

Celemourn

01-23-2007, 01:33 AM

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/297827390_7ea27c4931.jpg
(http://flickr.com/photos/forrestcook/297827390/)

awesome.

@_@ Artman

01-23-2007, 10:20 AM

This is a picture I'm pleased with, not so much for the image itself, but for what I thought was a pretty good Photoshop job of cleaning it up and getting rid of a bit of messy, mostly temporary, reality cluttering up the shot:
(Removed: crane, fence, lamp shadow, cleaning supplies, rooftop antennas, other stuff along wall at right, person on other side of wall)

Nice photo. That's the British Museum, correct? I went to London and stayed at a bed and breakfast a block away from the museum. I'd get up early and would spend an hour or two every morning in a different part of the museum before I went on my trek through London.

I will have to post some of the shots I took from that trip and when I went to Ireland...(they're at home though, tonight)...:smokey:

Guybrush Threepwood

01-23-2007, 01:11 PM

Please do, that would be cool...

Also, my favorite picture Celemourn is "Sky Burn". That must of been one pretty awesome moment.

Outsider

01-23-2007, 04:24 PM

I didn't take this one, but I wish I had:

http://www.thepires.com/pub_img/beinarttoddlerpedes1.jpg

Outsider

01-23-2007, 04:27 PM

Captin's Cove in Bridgeport CT

http://www.thepires.com/img/desktops/BigProp800x600.jpg

Thousand Islands, NY (those are my neice and nephew):

http://www.thepires.com/img/desktops/SunSet800x600.jpg

Something my wife took:

http://www.thepires.com/img/desktops/ButterflyPerch800x600.jpg

Celemourn

01-23-2007, 04:42 PM

Please do, that would be cool...

Also, my favorite picture Celemourn is "Sky Burn". That must of been one pretty awesome moment.

Thanks :D. South Haven, MI, where I took the photos (most of them) has some really great sunsets. It sits right on Lake Michigan (I THINK it's lake michigan.... I'm a geography dummy! The one on the LEFT!) and is one of my favorite spots to shoot. Though I've never been able to accurately reproduce the colors (lack of experience I think), a little bit of tweaking of the RAW images has provided some nice stuff, IMO. This particular excursion was really cool, because just as the sun dropped below the horizon, some people who were walking down the pier toward me pointed behind me and said something to the effect of, "Hey, there the moon, too!" I whipped around and got treated to the moon rising above the trees and resort-ish condos. Uber cool. Didn't get many good shots of that though. I still haven't figured out how to get good shots of the moon... always over-exposes the moon, and underexposes everything else.... must be the lens.. yeah, better buy more lenses... Anyone got a spare $3000 so I can get an f1.5 800mm lens??? :lol:

On a personal note, I think three of my all time favorite shots that I've captured are "Sundown ..." from the recent post, the partial panorama of the trees framing the flagpole (bout in the middle of the page) and the shot of the power plant from across the cooling pond (most of the way up). I particularly like the clarity and breadth of spectrum that I got one "Sundown..." I'll have to figure out how the heck I did that one of these days...

Celemourn

01-23-2007, 04:43 PM

I didn't take this one, but I wish I had:

http://www.thepires.com/pub_img/beinarttoddlerpedes1.jpg

that's... rather... frightening. :D

The niece and nephew shot is really cool. I like the silhouette and the moment it captured.

Asaph

01-23-2007, 08:39 PM

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/60/229425082_5f89f73e38.jpg
(http://flickr.com/photos/forrestcook/229425082/)

The view I was treated to for climbing up to over 8000 feet on the little annapurna peak in the enchantments (Washington). I don't know which lakes those are, but we walked around them on the way up. I got a little dizzy from the view.

Celemourn

01-24-2007, 12:30 AM

@_@ Artman

01-24-2007, 08:30 PM

Wow. A lot of great photographers here! Well, here are some of the photos I took in Ireland...

http://img11.imagepile.net/img11/61670kilkeacastle11.jpg

This is sunset outside of Kilkea Castle where my cousin was going to get married.

http://img11.imagepile.net/img11/90848kilkeacastle01.jpg

Kilkea castle, a hotel, restaurant and also had a golf course in the "backyard".

http://img11.imagepile.net/img11/78903kilkeni19.jpg

In the small town of Kilkeni the pub was stocking up for the football match...

http://img11.imagepile.net/img11/39638kilkealodge41.jpg

The owner of the bed and breakfast we stayed in had a very restless cat...