Photography 2

[Ernesto]

Well thanks so much dubba six. I don't mind at all.
I have a few more real cameras, old Nikon SLR and a digital 4 mega pixel I think that i use for inspections. The digital has an excellent an excellent lens on it and can do super close ups. But these new camera phones have way more megapixels than my digital camera has. Its amazing how they can cram all that into a small phone.

 

[highup]

Really cool stuff Ernesto.
My uncle lives down your way and sent me a photo of two flowers on a cactus. He says it has 47 buds about to bloom.
Is this 'bloom season' down on the desert?

 

[highup]

OK, one more New Carissa photo. They ended up heating the ship so hot while burning out the fuel, that it cracked in half and the two pieces separated a couple days later.
The smaller half sat on shore for about 10 years and our guvner decided it was an unsafe thing to have so close to the beach. It must be removed.
In reality, it was a tourist attraction and people paid to travel the dunes to go see it. It was well known and made money locally. Not quite as famous as the Edmond Fitzgerald, but I think someone wrote a song about it.
The guvner saw his as an opportunity as a $25,000,000 removal bonus as punishment to the ship owner. It was later, removed so we could have a safe beach once more. O happy days are here again. The dangerous metal is gone and our shoreline is pristine once more. Thank you guvner for taking away out tourism dollars.

The larger, 400 foot long part of the ship was towed off shore to be sunk. The tow line snapped because the weather was still so stormy and it went ashore for a second time 100 miles north of here.
A new exotic and expensive tow line from some place like the Netherlands was brought in, and they finaly got the bow towed it out to sea to sink it. The NAVY used it for target practice and shot a zillion 5 inch holes at the waterline (give or take a few)............... it wouldn't sink.
So then out of frustration and embarrassment, they shot a million dollar+ Mark IV torpedo at it from a nuclear submarine to finally send the bow of the New Carissa to it's final resting place at the bottom of the Pacific.
Ah, my old slides are bringin back old memories. This new to me Canon scanner is gonna be fun. This memory of our most famous shipwreck was a real hoot from beginning to end. They should have hired Monty Python, the Marx Brothers or the Three Stooges and made the story into a documentary movie.

This image is from 2 1/2 or 3 miles away, from a hill looking across the bay and over the sand dunes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Carissa

 

[highup]

The camera has about 1% to do with the photos. Ernesto, you have a talent. There are several of those shots that I would frame. Good stuff. When I get a second, I'll edit a few of them and put them up here if you dont care.

A lot of people don't realize that. The most important thing about photography is.................... be there.
Go to the same place that you enjoy 10 or 20 times, and one of those day might be that one "right day" when the ideal conditions happen and may never happen again.
....bu bu bu bu butyagotta be there!

 

[ws6owner]

A lot of people don't realize that. The most important thing about photography is.................... be there.
Go to the same place that you enjoy 10 or 20 times, and one of those day might be that one "right day" when the ideal conditions happen and may never happen again.
....bu bu bu bu butyagotta be there!

Exactly.

I'll edit a couple of those when I get on my pc.

Heres one from a family shoot last week. This was such a cute kid to work with.

 

[highup]

I'm not "assuming" anything, but what kind of retouching was done? Daris was so nice asking why I don't do photography instead of wasting time on my knees. OK, I do have some pretty decent stuff. It's all on Kodachrome. If I had 1% good stuff out of 500 boxes of slides, I'd be a happy man.
Today's darkroom is digital and it confuses the livin daylights out of me. I'm just curious what you do to make an image like this so........................ perfect. It has "mood" written all over it.
Very nice.
I wish I knew what you know about digital.
I just fidget around with PS till something looks right.

 

[Nick]

Excellent Photo W.

 

[Ernesto]

Really cool stuff Ernesto.
My uncle lives down your way and sent me a photo of two flowers on a cactus. He says it has 47 buds about to bloom.
Is this 'bloom season' down on the desert?

Its definetly bloom season here with the monsoon season kicking in.
Your uncles cactus sounds like it is a south american night blooming cereus like the one I showed next to the bench. Its about to bloom again for the third time this summer. The blooms die early in the morning but are the most spectacular flowers I have ever seen.

 

[ws6owner]

I'm not "assuming" anything, but what kind of retouching was done? Daris was so nice asking why I don't do photography instead of wasting time on my knees. OK, I do have some pretty decent stuff. It's all on Kodachrome. If I had 1% good stuff out of 500 boxes of slides, I'd be a happy man.
Today's darkroom is digital and it confuses the livin daylights out of me. I'm just curious what you do to make an image like this so........................ perfect. It has "mood" written all over it.
Very nice.
I wish I knew what you know about digital.
I just fidget around with PS till something looks right.

If you want, when I get a few minutes, and back to my lap top, I'll do a little step by step for you.

Excellent Photo W.

Thanks!

 

[Ernesto]

High, here are two different species native to south america. The first one has pink edges, has 14 buds on just one arm, and the one with fuzzy buds has pure white, not quite as many buds but the fuzzy one sets little fuzzy buds for months until the rains come then blooms. The first one just buds and blooms straight away. There is a skinny one native to the sonoran desert. All of the flowers are the same sized, about nine inches long and six inches in diameter.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Ernest did you get hungry in the last picture? That would be like biting into a porcupine.

Daris

 

[highup]

Tricocereus Peruvianis Yup, sounds a bit South Amercan to me. Good guess Ernesto.

 

[highup]

If you want, when I get a few minutes, and back to my lap top, I'll do a little step by step for you.



Thanks!

That would be cool. Lightening and darkening are hard for me to figure out. This is made a lot worse because of Kodachrome's narrow exposure latitude. ......the blacks become......... black with no detail, and the highlights become blown out with no detail in the same photo. I always liked cloudy or overcast days because of that. I do know that I can't create detail where there is none, but sometimes a little shading or lightening can make or break a photo.
My program is an old Photoshop 5.5 so it lacks tools the newer versions have.
The info might be better done in an e-mail unless the info you have is in a link. We wouldn't want to bore the rest of the gang here.
Don't make a hurry out of whatever info you were planning on showing me. I'm gone for the rest of the day anyway and still messing around with the scanner.

 

[Floorist]

My wife's college photography teacher, said overcast days are the best to take pictures. She also said the photographer, not the camera was the most important.

 

[Ernesto]

Ernest did you get hungry in the last picture? That would be like biting into a porcupine.

Daris

Its those dastardly javelinas. They eat anything.

@ high, that be the one. Mine used to be eight feet tall until it froze back a couple years ago, almost totally froze and died. Climate change,what can ya do.

 

[Nick]

Don't you know there is no climate change E?

 

[ws6owner]

My wife's college photography teacher, said overcast days are the best to take pictures. She also said the photographer, not the camera was the most important.

exactly.


sorry, I've been busy today. Highup, here's the basic process that I use to really boost a dramatic black and white image.




Just for reference, here's the before and after images.

 

[ws6owner]

found this little fella outside earlier

 

[highup]

Now THAT, is a portrait? Very nice.
I can't get that you tube to work well even after letting it load up. I have a friend with high speed and I'll view it later when I am down at their place. Thanks.

 

[Floorist]

I think Austin has the picture upload fixed.