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Nice pistol collection ws6.
Haha thanks. There are 2 more in the van in case anything goes wrong. My buddy and I got the deal of the century at the pawn shop a couple months ago. 2 angled paslode finish nailers for $80. Included cases, chargers, and 5 batteries. They work beautifully.
I wasn't talking about nailers. There's uh, more pics one can access on your link than you might want people to see. I dunno.
Oh! Thanks! Yeah thats not big deal. I use photobucket to store my non-photography snap shots.
I was like, he calls nailers pistols. That's unique lol.
I've also got a glock 19 which isn't pictured.
I could share the wealth but what would be the fun in that?
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We had some fun clouds last Friday afternoon 20 miles southeast of me. Lots of deep rumbles, and I saw a couple bolts of in cloud lightning, but just one strike.......... it was to the right side of the photo, but I didn't click fast enough.
I used a 20-35 lens set at 20 and it's still not quite as wide as I wanted. This is on some Kodak 100 speed print film that I scanned on my scanner. I went a little too far using 'levels' in Photoshop to correct the color and contrast, and it made the sky a little too gray. It had a gray/blue/purple tint that afternoon. We don't get clouds like this often, and if we do, it's late at night so you wouldn't even know they were there. The larger part of the 'storm' was 150 miles northwest of here. Looked on a lightning website and they had 2000+ strikes in a 20 by 50 mile area in a 30 minute period..
I used a 20-35 lens set at 20 and it's still not quite as wide as I wanted. This is on some Kodak 100 speed print film that I scanned on my scanner. I went a little too far using 'levels' in Photoshop to correct the color and contrast, and it made the sky a little too gray. It had a gray/blue/purple tint that afternoon. We don't get clouds like this often, and if we do, it's late at night so you wouldn't even know they were there. The larger part of the 'storm' was 150 miles northwest of here. Looked on a lightning website and they had 2000+ strikes in a 20 by 50 mile area in a 30 minute period..
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A couple hours earlier around 3:30pm and 20 miles south of where this was taken, the sky against the taller mountains was a really dark purplish/gray. A dark sky like that was really strange to see at 4pm, so it was obvious that lightning was a comin soon. The front was heading north towards us. I was able to get in a few shots before the rain started. It didn't rain much, just some large drops. Lightning was more long rumbles and blinking clouds, so no real fun developed from this one.
I just scanned some black and white Illford film. I can't find a setting on the scanner for B&W. I think maybe that is a good thing tho. I can modify the contrast a lot using the color controls, and when it looks like I want it to look, I can sharpen it, then convert it to black and white.
I'm thinking that if the scanner only offered me a true black and white image, it would be pretty hard to make contrast changes.
WS6owner.............. am I doing this right? Seems like otherwise, I'd be doing a lot of masking, something I know almost nothing about.
Here's a side by side, the after next to the original scan. I didn't spend much time with it, but looking close, I gained a lot more detail.
I'm thinking that if the scanner only offered me a true black and white image, it would be pretty hard to make contrast changes.
WS6owner.............. am I doing this right? Seems like otherwise, I'd be doing a lot of masking, something I know almost nothing about.
Here's a side by side, the after next to the original scan. I didn't spend much time with it, but looking close, I gained a lot more detail.
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OK, another B&W from that roll. I didn't let this one go totally black and white.
looks good to me. I really dig the black and white.
OK, in B&W now.
Here's a different view of the sky on Friday. Not sure if I hate the negative film, as I was so used to Kodachrome. My good wide angle lens doesn't want to focus to infinity, so I gotta cheat. Not sure anything here needs to be in focus anyway.
Had some more fun with Photoshop tonight. Here's the original scan converted to gray scale, followed by a modified image to add contrast.
This is a 1600' high mountain on the coast 60 miles south of me. It's called Humbug Mountain.
The original scans come out flat and boring, and minor dust specs on the film shows up really bad, so those need to be cleaned up.
The two rather odd looking images are what I did to the image before converting it to a semi-black and white image. Playing with colors can make areas stand out better. This is (or was) commonly done when using black and white film, but colored filters were put on the lens to do sort of what I did here. They had their tricks, and I have mine. Not that I am doing it correctly, but it seems to work.
When I added colors and the photo went yellow, it made the lower triangular corner of the photo go too dark, so I isolated that area and made it go green to lighten it up so that I could get a little more detail there.
I'm learning something, but not sure just what................... If nothing else, it keeps me off the streets at night.
This is a 1600' high mountain on the coast 60 miles south of me. It's called Humbug Mountain.
The original scans come out flat and boring, and minor dust specs on the film shows up really bad, so those need to be cleaned up.
The two rather odd looking images are what I did to the image before converting it to a semi-black and white image. Playing with colors can make areas stand out better. This is (or was) commonly done when using black and white film, but colored filters were put on the lens to do sort of what I did here. They had their tricks, and I have mine.
Not that I am doing it correctly, but it seems to work.When I added colors and the photo went yellow, it made the lower triangular corner of the photo go too dark, so I isolated that area and made it go green to lighten it up so that I could get a little more detail there.
I'm learning something, but not sure just what................... If nothing else, it keeps me off the streets at night.
Nick
In Remembrance
I have a lot of photo software , if you like i can burn them for ya and send them to you.
Got back late tonight and after getting this new to me scanner............ I wonder how the heck to organize my hundreds (thousands if you count the culls) of images so that they can be found. I have hundreds of boxes of Kodachrome slide film with moon shots, ships or boats and river scenes all on the same roll.
How does a guy ever try to organize images so that they can be retrieved?
How does a guy ever try to organize images so that they can be retrieved?
Here's an example. Not something one would expect out of a single roll of film.
I can see snow, a river scene, a snow scene and a lighthouse , all in a single roll sometime.
Is there some sort of a photo numbering/labeling system for dummies available to help us old timers categorize our images?
I can see snow, a river scene, a snow scene and a lighthouse , all in a single roll sometime.
Is there some sort of a photo numbering/labeling system for dummies available to help us old timers categorize our images?
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