[mtripoli]

Taken last night... my wife Cat got a trophy for high handicap game on her bowling league (plus $100 cash...!)...

[ivox3]

what are you guys doing with these mortars ? .....practicing some type of old homemade apothecary type stuff?

[Maximus3D]

Mike: you're funny with your wifey photos

Chris: Hehe you know.. it's for grinding gunpowder for use in my very spicy cooking..

/ Max

[ivox3]

So you really are an actual cartoon character!!......amazing.

[kirkt]

@maximus3d - the panorama source images were taken by installing the camera in portrait orientation and then simply rotating the camera about the vertical axis of the tripod (pan) - of course if the camera and tripod are not perfectly level, the images climb/descend in a staircase fashion as you pan from left to right. Then you have to crop that off of the final panorama.

This is a nifty and relatively inexpensive device to aid in capturing image sequences for panoramas. i am thinking of getting it not only to level the camera and have more control over the sequence, but also for the ability to rotate the camera about the lens nodal point.

I tried to restitch the image sequeces above in Photoshop CS2 and got pretty terrible results - even though all of the images in a sequence were taken with a manually set exposure under unchanging light (imagine, overcast skies in London! Can you believe it?), PSCS2 had noticable seams where the images were blended together. Using "Advanced Blending" made the seams even more noticable.

I'll take some HDR panoramas with various tone mapping curves and post them here.

[daros]

it's not a good photo but....

[NicoR44]

Hi Jack, ehrr daros

[Leonardo]

Taken last night... my wife Cat got a trophy for high handicap game on her bowling league (plus $100 cash...!)...

GO CAT!!! just enough money to buy another ferret

I took some pics this past week of some of the projects that my office has done... Prepare to be amazed

Miami Beach==================





There are more... but I don't want bore you guys

We also visited Pinecrest (Miami) to see how some of happy clients are enjoying their custom built homes



Life is good

And from Coral Gables (Miami) here is our almost finish "New Office" I'll be sitting on the top floor right where trelis is at



leo

[ludenhud]

I think your photos look great ludenhud, you've got a good eye. Move on to people now I wonder how that pic with the man feeding the birds would look in b/w though...seems like a good candidate.

Thanks I do agree I have to move on and climb to the next level.
The thing I am up to though is the fear of taking photos of people in a close distance. It feels so dumb to stand there with my pocket Ixus 500 and taking photos of someone like the tourist I somewhat is...
I'm thinking about a new camera where I have the option to play with fstop and things like that because I'm feeling really limited with the equipment I have at the moment.

This is a sneak shot from the beach for some days ago. It's suffers from low quality due to ahh I don't know actually, sometimes my camera just won't take crispy images....



And this is a bonus from a beach BQ we had this summer.


And thanks maximis and thomasAn that made me glad to hear

Leonardo sweet bananas.

[GM5]

ludenhud - you really should invest in a better camera (not that there is anything wrong with what you are doing with you camera). You have a great eye for photography and you will have a LOT more control if you use something like a Canon DSLR...

Leonardo - nice renders

Max - nice mortar and pestal shots. That might be fun to try with M~R



A backyard critter:

[EONA]

Wierd camera glare . The sensor havig a hard time with the sun?

With Fill in flash

Trying to get the best out of my Digital Dinosaur, an Olympus D-600L from 1997

[Voidmonster]

I took this a while back and I've since lost the specs for the photo. Taken with my regular Canon 10D with the 28-135 IS lens.

[ludenhud]

Who requested a spider from down under?

I was about to send a late postcard to my mother today when I saw this beast. Approximately 8cm from front to back leg.
I was too afraid to try another angle so this is what I got out from 10 shots from the same position.



Data
Resolution: Orig. res. 1944x2592
Focal length: 7mm
F: 2,8
Exposure time: 1/320 sec.
ISO: 50

Espen Oeino Naval Arch - Haha such a cutie

Voidmonster - I'd say you cropped the picture to the point where you feel there's not enough room left. It feels tight and I’m close to feel uncomfortable myself

What you can’t see your brain will create an illusion of and for me this photo has something in the background you’re trying to hide
Just some thoughts, cool action shot though.

Greg Montague - I've been thinking about that, but I can't really get my mind to what or if I should buy myself a new one...

Wow the picture of yours is great, I would have taken it in a nother format so that the just perfeclty posisionated fungus would be a more present component of the picture (Hum after seeing it again, I don't know what to think, it's firmly a great shot ). I'd like to see more from you, make a daily post

[Voidmonster]

Ludenhud:

Awesome spider picture! Now you just need to find a few huntsman spiders and take pictures of them crawling on your hands for scale!

And yeah, that picture was from my 'claustrophobic' phase of photography. I had been intentionally making my pictures uncomfortable. Been trying to let them breathe a bit lately though.

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I'm headed up to LA today. I'll try and get LA-type pictures.

[Voidmonster]

I ended up not going to LA and not taking any photos. So, here's an old one I took in the Anza Borrego desert.



I don't have the specs handy for it though, sorry!