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High Its her bright personality that brightens it up. Gish, some peoples kids.
Daris
Daris
Anyone else have a hard time organizing images? I ran across this one today. I filed it under a file "ships boats and tugs"
It's from September 1989. In September every year we have this weekend event called "The Fun Festival" I think I remember this ship being in port. It would be very odd for a NAVY ship to come into our port for no reason whatsoever. I'm sure the ship came into our port because of the event.
Upon rediscovering this photo, I did some research on it. It's a refueler.......... pretty obvious. The vessels name is the Willamette............. Same name as our states second largest river. It was in a number of ship accidents and was nicknamed "the Will Ram It" Hee hee......
A couple years after this image was taken, the boat was lengthened 108 feet so it could hold more fuel.
http://navysite.de/ao/ao180.htm
It was decommissioned 10 years after I shot this one.
See guys, it's not all fluff and feathers in my portfolio, I have historical stuff in my shoe boxes too.
I used this photo today, to better understand how to use my scanner. Tho the image isn't anything spectacular, I did learn some good stuff in the process. Time well spent.
It's from September 1989. In September every year we have this weekend event called "The Fun Festival" I think I remember this ship being in port. It would be very odd for a NAVY ship to come into our port for no reason whatsoever. I'm sure the ship came into our port because of the event.
Upon rediscovering this photo, I did some research on it. It's a refueler.......... pretty obvious. The vessels name is the Willamette............. Same name as our states second largest river. It was in a number of ship accidents and was nicknamed "the Will Ram It"
Hee hee......A couple years after this image was taken, the boat was lengthened 108 feet so it could hold more fuel.
http://navysite.de/ao/ao180.htm
It was decommissioned 10 years after I shot this one.
See guys, it's not all fluff and feathers in my portfolio, I have historical stuff in my shoe boxes too.
I used this photo today, to better understand how to use my scanner. Tho the image isn't anything spectacular, I did learn some good stuff in the process. Time well spent.
They neat Hi and look what I found
Well, bucko, ya know what brightened up these photos? ................some good old fashioned fill flash.
............and I want you to know, that unlike W, .......I had no clue how to do this, I just got lucky at the perfect moment.
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.........Nope, don't look any better made bigger.
.........Nope, don't look any better made bigger.
I'll have to get a different one........... for ya. I was even more handsome earlier at the same place. I got me around here some place. May take a few days.
Mines all fluff and feathers lol
I recently went to the Grand Canyon. Beautiful place got some good pictures. Here is one my prized one where the lighting and everything is correct.
Daris
Daris
Looks like a coyote turd?
That's perfect lighting Daris. Early morning or late evening creates much better looking shadows than mid day. You're really picking up on this photography stuff.I recently went to the Grand Canyon. Beautiful place got some good pictures. Here is one my prized one where the lighting and everything is correct.
Daris
If you want some photo critique, the only thing I'd do different is get down to eye level on the subject and possibly zoom in a little more............. or, get super close to the subject and use a wide angle lens to make the background appear farther away.
High could you post pictures on how to do all that. You know the smell-a-vision kind.
Daris
Daris
You mean the "KISS" method? (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
Here is a better picture or 2 hard to tell from a thumb nail in my pictures of what they are.:
See my dinosaur?
Daris
See my dinosaur?
Daris
Basically, simply shooting the subject at eye level will easily make a 100 percent improvement of a photo. Kids, flowers, a car, ..........a turd.
#1
No matter the subject, shooting the subject on a relatively horizontal plane will win heads over heals compared looking down on the subject.
#2
If you get up super close to the subject and use a wide angle lens setting, the subject will look big, but it will make other nearby objects look farther away than they really are. This will isolate the subject from the background.
#3
Now, get a long ways back from the subject and use the zoom setting on the camera to make the image appear to be large in the viewfinder. This method can make the background go out of focus, and isolate the subject in a totally different way than with the wide angle method.
With either method, close up or far away, your subject can be made to appear relatively the same size in your viewfinder, but the results are totally different.
Wide angle and close up is good for showing off a good looking sunset because it will include a large portion of the sky. A zoom setting won't do that.
#1
No matter the subject, shooting the subject on a relatively horizontal plane will win heads over heals compared looking down on the subject.
#2
If you get up super close to the subject and use a wide angle lens setting, the subject will look big, but it will make other nearby objects look farther away than they really are. This will isolate the subject from the background.
#3
Now, get a long ways back from the subject and use the zoom setting on the camera to make the image appear to be large in the viewfinder. This method can make the background go out of focus, and isolate the subject in a totally different way than with the wide angle method.
With either method, close up or far away, your subject can be made to appear relatively the same size in your viewfinder, but the results are totally different.
Wide angle and close up is good for showing off a good looking sunset because it will include a large portion of the sky. A zoom setting won't do that.
I do see the dinosaur. slightly above it and to the right is a big tortoise, and even farther up to the right, I see a pterodactyl sitting on a branch. Wow your trip was trippy.
I took two quick snap shots of a rock on my railing in both wide angle and zoom. I'll post em in a little bit. Takes me a while using a card reader.
I took two quick snap shots of a rock on my railing in both wide angle and zoom. I'll post em in a little bit. Takes me a while using a card reader.
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High could you post pictures on how to do all that. You know the smell-a-vision kind.
Daris
OK Daris. Two totally free items for you to copy and frame............ really, no charge!
These show two subjects at approximately the same size in the viewfinder , and relatively close to the same line of sight.
The first image of each, is using a wide angel setting. See all the stuff in the background? Yuck.
The second image of each is using a zoom setting. I stood farther back from the subjects, then zoomed in to make the subjects appear as large as when using the wide angle setting.
See how the zoom setting isolates the subjects and blurs the background?
Zoom, normal, and wide angle each have their purposes. For things like what I just shot here, the zoom setting works best to keep the background from being a distraction.
Wide angle makes the image too "busy" because so much of the background is in focus.
In a sunset photo, often the foreground is just a bunch of dark shapes and curves. You might want a lot of orange sky for your shot.
If the sky is full of interesting and colorful clouds, you might want a wide angle because that is a large part of your subject.
Ask yourself what you like about what you are about to shoot and shoot accordingly.
Basically, zoom in on a subject to isolate it, or get close and use wide angle to include an interesting background.
Rules are made to be broken, so what I said isn't written in stone. ............maybe pumice or vermiculite.
Hope this helps a little.
