Artistic Photography

[Camman]

I didnt want to post this in the "Digital Camera Example Thread" because I wanted to see some pictures people took as art and not just like an example of how pictures look on their digital camera.

Now let me start off by saying, I dont claim to be an artist, or a photographer or anything like that, I just have a new hobby of heading out with my digital camera and take pictures of stuff because it's fun for me, its a pretty low-cost activity, and sometimes I take pictures I really like. Here's some stuff I shot today, I'd love to see photos other people take if they're into just heading out with the camera as well, any comments/criticism/tips are also more than welcome! :) these are just 4 of them that I really liked and thought came out the best.

Some stuff I shot today, check it out, comment if youd like

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[Thrax]

My only picture I've taken.

[mmonnin]

I few suggestions, I have taken photography in hs:

For the one looking thru the chain links, get closer so that most of the picture is thru one hole and there is an object in the background. The link will focus your attention to the object in the background. Its called using frames. Leave some area outside the hole but most of the pic inside hole.

For the ones where you are looking down the fence, have something at the end of the fence. The fence will lead your attention to the object at the end of the fence. The fence right now doesnt really lead my eyes to anything.

A good test to see if the object you want to be the center of attention is to see if your eyes are first drawn to that. The first thing someone should look at is the focal point of the picture.

Hope that helps in your picture taking.:)

[Nolf-Job]

I like your top two Camman. If they're digital photos, you should try messing around with curves and levels in photoshop if you can. There's a lot of contrast in those black and white photos that could be brought out.

Here are some I took at school, and one from the top of the Sears Tower.

[Scuff]

Those are some awesome pictures. Thrax where was the on walkway picture taken? Its cool- the lighting and shadows.

[Thrax]

Must be that short bus. Heh. ;D

Nolf took those pictures.

[Straight_Man]

I didnt want to post this in the "Digital Camera Example Thread" because I wanted to see some pictures people took as art and not just like an example of how pictures look on their digital camera.

Now let me start off by saying, I dont claim to be an artist, or a photographer or anything like that, I just have a new hobby of heading out with my digital camera and take pictures of stuff because it's fun for me, its a pretty low-cost activity, and sometimes I take pictures I really like. Here's some stuff I shot today, I'd love to see photos other people take if they're into just heading out with the camera as well, any comments/criticism/tips are also more than welcome! :) these are just 4 of them that I really liked and thought came out the best.

Some stuff I shot today, check it out, comment if youd like


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You did well. If you want some wild effects, try running these through PhotoPaint... I like the central link in link-through with watertower having water tower framed in one fence link opening, and if you get too close, with a digital, the links will blur to get whole pic inside link unless it is a small object. Digital cams can be "far-sighted." These have a "don't fence me OUT" feel.

With a good pure normal camera, the pixel res is so tight, that folks who are pro artists are using 8 MP cameras to get these effects in fine focus with foreground and background flattened visually enough to record both in detail. You can get whole pic in a single link with both being detailed in final product, but you start with TWO pictures to get that from a digital source that is not hugely expensive. One of link, with everything else cut out, then a pic of what you want in it. what you want in it becomes background pic, the frame object gets layered on top of it in digital editign software. Photopaint, and Pasint Shop Pro can layer pics like this, and have tools to fade things in and out. You can select an area, wipe it to transparent, then have another pic below or above it and get artwork, but two pics are the starting point for even my 4 MP Camedia. That is how you do what marc suggests with a digital and have both in focus.

You have a good focal compromise in your artwork, now crop and see how far you can blow up the single link and tower. If your camera can natively save Tiff, and you can work with those tiffs, those will blow up better and retaiin edges, especially for radical blowups. For black and whites with no more than 255 gray scale steps, you can use .gif also, and that will be better than JPG for this one editing thing as far as how far you can blow things up without fuzzing them all to heck.

The corner pic is nice, but if you could drop soem of the hyper-bright washout and imitate sun through a thin cloud as far as diffusion you could get a sharp corner and have a sun splash effect that is slightly less doing a washout.

You have the basic edgy "realism art" idea well illustrated, Camman.

[Dexter]

Excellent Thread Idea Cam :)

Here's one I took about a year and a half ago, this was during a walk in a nearby forest-park, with my wife and my dog. It was early evening, and a fog had just rolled in, and my dog was running up the path toward me. I set the camera for action settings (flash on, fast exposure.) The result...

Dexter...

[Dexter]

And another...

this is a cactus in the backyard of my in-laws home in Sun City (Phoenix) Arizona, framed with the sun high and behind...

Dexter...

[Dexter]

And a few more....

Late one evening I was zoning out staring into the fire place, when it occured to me that it might be neat to play with the camera and some different settings takng pics of the fire.

Pic #1: No flash, long exposure time. Captures some nice glowing embers and blurs some flame movement.

Pic #2: same settings, tighter on the base of the fire.

Pic #3: Wider shot, no flash, even longer exposure time. This had the effect of really "searing" the flame into the image.

Pic #4: Normal settings with flash. Basically cancels out any effect of the firelight, serving somewhat as a reference file. Captures flame flickers in mid-air while still showing base ember glows, and also catches some smoke in the process.

Dexter...

[Dexter]

And the last one for now. My wife took this one, a silhouette of our older daughter as light by the sun coming in through a window.

Dexter...

[primesuspect]

Dex: I LOVE that dog pic... That is hilarious!

[Madball]

Some outdoor pics

[Camman]

wow, some great stuff guys, I really appreciate the feedback and suggestions on my first batch of photos, and Nolf, that second photo you have there is just incredible, I love seeing other people's work, glad to see others are interested in this thread, here's my two favorite pics from today's excursions in the beautiful 85 degree weather (the warmest day by far this year around these parts!)

<img src="http://purposelessproductions.net/misc/breakwater.jpg">

<img src="http://purposelessproductions.net/misc/3treeisland.jpg">

[dodo]

I like this shot from Jamaica....

[dodo]

Here's another, this time from here in the US...

[dodo]

camman, i like that first shot you have there, that was taken in portsmouth? the lighting is excellent.

~dodo

[Camman]

camman, i like that first shot you have there, that was taken in portsmouth? the lighting is excellent.

~dodo


oooo I really like that second one over the water.

yeah, all these are from around the Portsmouth area, the first set are at an old weapons storage place that is now a wildlife preserve and the second ones were from Odiorne Point state park and Four Tree Island (if you know the area at all, otherwise the names I guess are kind of pointless to mention :) ), I really liked that one at the breakwater because you can see how the water is alot rougher on the right side, came out quite well

[dodo]

I really liked that one at the breakwater because you can see how the water is alot rougher on the right side, came out quite well

wow, i didnt even notice the difference in the water. thats amazing!

ive driven through the portsmith area, but i looked on a map where those state parks are, and i have never gotten out to the point there. perhaps i should sometime.

~dodo

[morfeu]

Nice to see this kind of thread over here.

Here's a photo to an water drop at my kictchen, i took at least 40 shots to get this one, loads of pacience and luck required.

[morfeu]

Here it is another one:

(I've resized, it was a bit big for here)

[Dexter]

Morfeu:

those are GREAT pics!

Dexter...

[Nomad]

Sorry Nolf, felt like screwing around with your bridge image, hope you don't mind.

http://atrax.goatpower.se/pubup/upload/Bridge.jpg

[Leonardo]

Morfeu, those are professional-grade photos you posted. Outstanding craft you have.

[morfeu]

Morfeu, those are professional-grade photos you posted. Outstanding craft you have.

Thank you Leo, u can always check more photos at my photos link bellow.

Im hoping to post some of my best photos at some magazines (newspapers) this year over here in Portugal, wish me luck. :)

[Camman]

Morfeu, those are incredible photos, quite excellent and beyond the capacity of anything I could do.


In case anyone is interested, a really popular website for news info about stuff going on in my area, www.PortsmouthNH.com currently has one of my photos on their front page as it's part of a spring photo contest for pictures taken around the seacoast area.

[Thrax]

Me practicing with focal length and exposure time on my Olympus C50-Z.

[entropy]

thrax, i really like that pic :) blue tint and sparkles really add a cool effect. if i had one of those, i'd try to closer and try to slow down the shutter so it catches the impact and a slight blur ... but that's a very cool picture

[Thrax]

The neat thing is, that picture wasn't manipulated at all with any program. Came right off the camera, resized, and posted. I love it.

[entropy]

how'd you get all the blue? or is it just reflecting from the blue blanket/carpet/whatever that's resting on?

[Thrax]

White balance adjustment. :)

[entropy]

ah, don't know how to do that or anything, but that's usually a thing you want to get rid of, isn't it? make everything funny looking .. but it worked beautifully for that

[primesuspect]

This was taken a few minutes ago in my backyard. These are the new baby frogs for the season. They started singing tonight. I found maybe 5 or 6 of them, and they are LOUD.

Yay for built in mosquito management!

[Nomad]

how'd you get all the blue? or is it just reflecting from the blue blanket/carpet/whatever that's resting on?

lol, that's a TV it's on top of... I don't clean much.

[Madball]

I like that picture Prime. That may be my desktop for awhile.

[primesuspect]

Madball: I have a 1280x1024 version if you'd like.

[Camman]

My latest trip around the seacoast:

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<img src="http://purposelessproductions.net/photos/resevoir2.jpg">

<img src="http://purposelessproductions.net/photos/dover1.jpg">

<img src="http://purposelessproductions.net/photos/dover2.jpg">

<img src="http://purposelessproductions.net/photos/dover3.jpg">


all my photos that I take from around here, well the ones I like anyway and want to shared are online at
http://purposelessproductions.net/photos/index.html

[Madball]

some rocks

[Madball]

more rocks

[Madball]

Hole In The Wall

[LawnMM]

From father's day weekend...

http://home.ptd.net/~lawnmm/campfire.jpg

Not bad for a digital camera at night...

[bothered]

Here's one little bothered took on our day out in London. Kodak LS443.

[hitokiri]

From father's day weekend...

http://home.ptd.net/~lawnmm/campfire.jpg

Not bad for a digital camera at night...


That is verrry nice. Its an long exposure shot right? I have one in the header of my site :)

[LawnMM]

That is verrry nice. Its an long exposure shot right? I have one in the header of my site :)

I think I had the digicam set for a two second exposure on that shot

[entropy]

Some pics I took while on vacation. The one with the canoe turned out exceptionally well. All pics compressed to 800x600 (or 600x800, depends) from the original 1536x2048 and saved at Quality 8 in PhotoShop, though they're still quite large...

[entropy]

One more that I thought was decent

[NiGHTS]

I'm a fan of the beach :cool:

[danball1976]

Here's one from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs is approx 450,000 people, was approx 150-200,000 23 years ago. Houses are selling for $150-200K or more.

The last two of course are the 7 Falls in Canon (They installed new steps sometime in the last 23 years)

They also stabilized the Royal Gorge bridge in 1983 (I was there in 1981 or 82)

[danball1976]

Not sure if this is considered artistic though...
2 panoramic pictures composed of six seperate shots

[primesuspect]

Can you guess who this is?

I took this with my last remaining time with my beloved Kodak LS443... Adjusted to grayscale, played with levels, added some noise and faded the background out a bit, and here he is:

[primesuspect]

I can't take full credit for this pic. It was a self portrait and I simply photochopped it and goofed with the levels and colors. I like the effect.

[morfeu]

Just a pic (in a few hundreds) i took for my photo website.

//edited for size by admin :)

[primesuspect]

My son Perry has started his own portfolio ;D

Actually he takes dozens of pictures. Some of them are pretty cool because of his unique perspective (mostly having to do with his height, I suppose)... But I think the things he decides to shoot are interesting too... He likes to take pictures of totally mundane things, but some of them turn out interesting. This is a composition that I made that involves two photos of coffeetime that he snapped. He took one pic of my coffee cup and one of my wife's... I composed this photo using only those two images:

[Nomad]

That's pretty cool, Prime.

[Nomad]

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[primesuspect]

V8!

[Nomad]

V8!
I bought it today at the gas station and really enjoyed it, hadn't had it in awhile. I also bought this cappucciono stuff (next to it) which is very good.

[primesuspect]

Two compositions that I made. The first was me playing around with Photoshop CS' extract filter, and I consider it a learning exercise. The composition pretty much sucks, I just sort of floated that sunflower in there, but I like the purdy colors.....

[primesuspect]

This one was inspired by a day at the park with my boys. All photos that make up this composition were taken in the park. It's called "The Magic Tree"

[Camman]

wow, that's really awesome Brian, I like it a lot :thumbsup:

[primesuspect]

Prints are for sale if you want one ;D

[primesuspect]

Taken today in downtown Detroit. This shot was taken from the Millender Center Skywalk. The building you are looking at is the Renaissance Center (It's technically called the GM Renaissance Center now, but no local would ever call it that)

[Nomad]

It's the Renaissance Center, period.

[entropy]

Nice shot prime! I love it!

[Dexter]

Nice anlge, I love what it does to the lines of the tunnel vs the tower. Very "tourist brochure" looking shot, and I mean that in a good way :)

Dexter...

[Nomad]

Oh crap, it's emozilla.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Hallock/Emokid.jpg

[primesuspect]

Dude, you HAVE to do a "gunther" angle of your face.... come on! ;D

[Nomad]

Dude, you HAVE to do a "gunther" angle of your face.... come on! ;D

lol, I'll buy a set of those sunglasses if I get the chance too.

[primesuspect]

I'll come over and we'll do a gunther photo shoot :eek3: :wtf:

[a2jfreak]

Is "do a gunther photo shoot" slang for "have a mantouch session?"

I'll come over and we'll do a gunther photo shoot :eek3: :wtf:

[primesuspect]

No.. THIS (http://www.gunthernet.com/) is GUNTHER. ;D

[Nomad]

Is "do a gunther photo shoot" slang for "have a mantouch session?"

No, but we'd probably play a rousing game of ass-slap anyways. :p

[t1rhino]

Picture of my dog Charlie. He was around 4 months old at the time.

[mcwc]

The first picture was taken back in Nov 2003 at my front door during sunset. I love this pic and was my desktop for a while.

The second picture was just fooling around in the dark of my ADSL modem, router, a few zip disks, and random junk on my desk.

[GnomeWizardd]

here is my desktop but hte picture that is my background i took Last Sunday morning while i was out in the boat fishing. Its a picture of the Rosevelt Bridge connecting Stuart,Fl to Jensen Beach ,Fl

[GnomeWizardd]

what do u guys use to resize pics?
http://www.dark-harp.com/pictures/sunrise.jpg

http://www.dark-harp.com/pictures/bridge1.jpg

[entropy]

Jeez gnome! Use Photoshop... even MSPaint if you have to! :wtf: :p

Edit:
Since I never really posted a lot in here, and don't feel like uploading a TON of pictures, anyone who wants to see any of my photographs/one digital artwork can check me out at http://entr0pic.deviantart.com . I update it fairly often, and will be uploading a lot of new stuff pretty soon :)

[primesuspect]

I resized them for you, gnome. Use photoshop or if you want to go the free route, use picasa (free from google).

[Madball]

storm brewing

[GnomeWizardd]

thx cause everytime i resize with paint it just doesnt look right

[gtghm]

Some how I missed this thread... Great pics all. :)

I go to www.phototalk.net . Great place to post your stuff and get feedback.
You can search on user names and see other members stuff, I'm there gtghm

Just a couple of mine.

[primesuspect]

wow! I love that "post alley" shot.. Very dynamic :D

[gtghm]

Thanks, its one of those trendy Seattle grunge spots... :mullet:

[primesuspect]

I took this tonight. Only adjustments were selecting the hands and turning them grey.

[gtghm]

Thats cool you should post that over at that phototalk.net place...

"g"

[primesuspect]

This is a collaboration between my wife and I. She was given an assignment for one of her college art classes and she recruited me as the photographer for the project. We found various objects around the house, posed them, photographed them, photoshopped them, and assembled them.

[Access_Denied]

i love that music on http://www.gunthernet.com/ :thumbsup: ;D

[gibbonsl]

thx cause everytime i resize with paint it just doesnt look right

Infreview is also a good one

[primesuspect]

omg thread revival. Come on people, I know we have some talented photographers out there! Morfeu, where are you?!? :D

"tracey on fire" Taken with the Kodak LS443, and then screwed around with the colors (obviously) in photoshop.

Shutter speed: 1/30 sec.
Action program mode
f-stop 2.8
aperture 2.8
7.5mm focal length with camera's built in flash

[entropy]

Prime, that turned out pretty awesome. Reminded me of a pic I had on here. We took a pinhole camera outside and did these. A pinhole camera is just a light-tight box (we used a cardboard oatmeal container painted black inside), a pinhole, and shutter (cardboard). Inside you stick a piece of photopaper. Open the shutter for a few seconds outside. If it's inside, open it for several minutes (like 10). Has a neat effect. This is my outside my school. On top is what you get what you process the paper. On bottom it's inverted (ie - 'true' black and white colors). I thought it was pretty interesting.

(That shadow is from me holding the thing in front of my face. Smart cookie, I am.)

[primesuspect]

Those are sweet!

[Ioana]

Amazing!!!! Go on pls, for the sake of humanity.. :thumbsup:

[mmonnin]

Yeah I did that in photography class in HS. I always bumped the box moving the shutter around.

[Ioana]

undefinedHello friends...These are made in a very happy day of my life, with a borrowed camera, of course, as I don't have one. And Santa didn't bring me one either.. :D Enjoy!

[primesuspect]

Welcome to short-media, Ioana. Those are great photos :D

[morfeu]

Here it is another one.

I really like the water subject.

[Camman]

here's what I sent out as some post card type thank you notes, photo by me, edited in photoshop to remove color info of background

[GnomeWizardd]

Down the road a little bit

[Ioana]

Gnomewizarrd that sky is heaven like.... beautiful !!!!

[Ioana]

some other pictures from that happy day

[GnomeWizardd]

why thank you Ioana

Living in Florida has its perks

[Geeky1]

I took this a few hours ago. Walked a block from my grandparents' vacation home in Carmel to the ocean. This is resized and rotated a bit (I was holding the camera slightly tilted)

[Geeky1]

Here's two more I took on Carmel River Beach yesterday. (resized, used "auto color" & "auto contrast" features in PS)

[Geeky1]

Another one. Nothing done to this one except to resize it from 2048x1536. If you're curious, btw, the camera I'm using is a Canon S30.

[muddocktor]

Here's a couple I've taken with my Kodak DC4800 camera. The train has only been resized and the plane was sharpened a hair and resized.

[Dexter]

I have been meaning to put some pics in this thread for quite some time, but just never got around to it....

Way back in June 04, my family made a trip to Michigan to visit my wife's family for her parents' 50th Anniversary. While there, we made a group trip to a beach near Muskegon...the name of the beach escapes me at the moment.

My older daugther was about 15 months old at the time. I sat her on a lifeguard boat at the beach, and posed her for the following set of pictures. She was very cooperative to model for Daddy. I am biased of course, but I think she is one of the most beautiful little girls I have ever seen. :)

Dexter...

[Dexter]

These next two are my two favourite shots from the series...in fact, they are two of my most favourite shots I have ever taken...the way she is looking off into the distance on the first shot is priceless, and the closeup of her sandy foot just fascinates me....

Dexter...

[Dexter]

Here is a wider shot of the sandy foot, a bit more silhouetted by the bright sky behind her....

Dexter...

[Dexter]

From the same trip: my brother-in-law has some llamas and sheep on his acreage, he uses the wool to make custom wool clothing, he has his own loom and everything. Here is a closeup of a llama's face, and my nephews chasing sheep...

[Dexter]

Same trip. This one was snapped by my wife out the window of the van as we came over the bridge at the border at Sarnia / Port Huron. Note the flags at half-mast, this was shortly after Reagan's death.

Dexter...

[Dexter]

Same trip, another shot that I like of the sheep, this was taken through the fencing.

Dexter...

[t1rhino]

While on vacation two weeks ago in St. Maarten.

[t1rhino]

Another from vacation.

[FormFactor]

My only picture I've taken.



CHEMTRAILS!! Look out!!!

[Camman]

pics from today's ventures out into the snow around the seacoast

[Camman]

and the other 2

these 4 were my favorites from all the pics I took today

[leishi85]

here is my weak attemp

[leishi85]

here is the same picture, photoshopped.

[profdlp]

My dad gave me his old 1 Megapixel Kodak DC215 when I went down to Virginia to visit over Christmas.

This shot is of me reflected in the glass of the patio door with my dogs looking at me wistfully.

You're going for a walk without us?!!

[shwaip]

a little out of focus, but it was dark out and I didn't have a tripod.

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~hanusaem/content/pics/winter.jpg

[Easy Breeze]

Message removed by forum moderator. Please see replies below from others. If you have nothing useful to contribute to the thread, don't bother. - Dexter

[leishi85]

just because u said that, now i'm gonna post a picture i took

and it's "artistic"

[primesuspect]

Original Message removed by forum moderator.

if you don't like it, don't honor the thread by posting.

I hate ****ty opinions that serve one purpose: To hurt other people's feelings. People give ****ty opinions and call it postworthy. Postworthy my ass.

[Rot Katze]

hey great pics guys :)

I just realized mudds pic of the F14 was taken in Pensacola at the Naval Aviation Muesem..heh, I live near there =p

[Camman]

Original Message removed by forum moderator.

Can you tell me the point of this post? If you don't like our art, stay out of the thread, you haven't done anything to help us further ourselves as artists as everyone else has by commenting and sharing their work, go find something else and keep your non-productive opinions to yourself.

[Scuff]

Here's a pic I took of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania battlefield from June 2004.

[vernsan]

Here's one I took recently when I was walking around my neighborhood.
http://www.bluefi.net/images/camera/3/CIMG0018.JPG

[Freemymelody]

Here's one I took recently when I was walking around my neighborhood.
http://www.bluefi.net/images/camera/3/CIMG0018.JPG


ooh, very pretty!!! is that a carol or a cabbage? :rolleyes: lol

[vernsan]

LOL i get the same responce..i too even thought that.. *its not a cabbage* but i wish i knew what it was. it was in a garden of flowers sooo. i wish i knew. clues anyone?

[rc1974]

Here's my addition to the collection. :cool:

http://www.digitalvideowebshow.com/lizard.jpg

nothing but a photo of a collard lizard using a digital camera, cropped in Photoshop 7, with the smart blur effect added... for artistic effect...

[GnomeWizardd]

Took this at seaworld with my new Fuji S5100 on saturday

[Dexter]

Nice shutter speed on that, captured the action quite nicely without any blur. Thanks for sharing. :)

Dexter...

[GnomeWizardd]

i havent done anything to alter the pic either thats what came from the camera ( except the size )

[TheBaron]

I love that picture Leishi

also, nice camera gnome!

[Leonardo]

Springtime in Washington, DC (resized)

[Leonardo]

The Wonders of Flight (resized)

[Leonardo]

Some Gave All (resized)

[Leonardo]

A Planned City (resized)

[Leonardo]

Three Dimensions (resized)

[GnomeWizardd]

here is one of a duck playing in the water at seaworld. I am actually using the full size version as my background

[GnomeWizardd]

here is another bird i just was walking around and saw

[morfeu]

Both of this Shots were taken at north of Portugal.

1st one was taken by my old Pentax about 8y ago or stg.

The 2nd was taken at Peneda Gerês National Park a couple weeks ago, beautiful park.

[LIN]

beautifully captured as always, morf. i especially like the top pic :)


LIN

[primesuspect]

awesome.. Your skills are inspiring. :thumbsup:

[Shadow2018]

I agree with prime. That is truly inspiring work!

[morfeu]

Thanks guys. :)

[Hawk]

Little something I played with in PhotoImpact 5 Bundled Edition... Resized,Added Frame and Text.
Settings are beneath the photo for those interested;
White Ibis grazing in yard. White one is adult. Others are young that haven't reached maturity yet.
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/hawk77/birds1.jpg
Make: FUJIFILM ComponentsConfiguration:YCbCr
Model: FinePix S5000 CompressedBitsPerPixel: 30/10
Orientation: top-left ShutterSpeedValue: 1/446 second
XResolution: 72.0 ApertureValue: 8.9
YResolution: 72.0 BrightnessValue: 902/100
ResolutionUnit: inch ExposureBiasValue: 0.0
Digital Camera FinePix S5000 Ver3.00 MaxApertureValue: 2.8
ExifOffset: 252 MeteringMode: multi-segment
ExposureTime: 1/450 second LightSource: daylight
FNumber: 9.0 Flash: none
ExposureProgram: portrait FocalLength: 57.0 mm
ISOSpeedRatings: 200 FlashPixVersion: 1.00
ExifVersion: 2.20 ColorSpace: sRGB
ExifImageWidth: 1280
ExifImageHeight: 960

[Hawk]

Couple more with PhotoImpact 5 Bundled Edition... Resized,Added Frame and Text.
Settings are beneath the photos for those interested;
Florida Sunsets;
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/hawk77/sunsets4.jpg http://webzoom.freewebs.com/hawk77/Evening%20breezes.jpg
Make: FUJIFILM
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[Madball]

Pic my wife took when we went to our cabin for Father's Day.

[Hawk]

Wow, Nice pic madball. Wish I had a cabin to go to like that.

[Madball]

Its right on the edge of Glacier National Park. Not a bad place to get a way to.

[primesuspect]

uh yeah, no crap! ;D

That looks amazing! :D

[primesuspect]

MasterBuilder K - aka my son kyle, at a playground. I got dizzy and almost sick taking a series of photos like this, but.... oh how we suffer for our art ;D

[Leonardo]

Solar explosion over Resurrection Bay, Gulf of Alaska.

[Leonardo]

Three Dimensions in Blue Ice.

[Hawk]

Hehehe, MasterBuilder K....... I remember that concentration on not looking around tooo much or else pay the consequences....... Dad get the picture QUICK, or I'm gonna spew somethin atcha! lol, nice shot prime. Handsome young man. I can see a young prime in there thinking up devious things to pull on SM LAN participants.

Ahh, The beauty of nature Leonardo. Well Done, Well Done. Wish I could see those glaciers in person. Wow.

[Leonardo]

A couple more - Blue Boat, Misty Seascape:

[Hawk]

That Blue Boat one makes me think Seafood! lol.
Nice shots Leonardo. :thumbsup:

[Leonardo]

Here's the seafood (http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34644&highlight=fishing), but not "artistic".

[entropy]

I love the Blue Boat one, Leo. Wow. Reminds me of a more desolate Maine. Wow. That's so cool, it looks like such a relaxing place to live. Curse you... :p

[Nomad]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Hallock1988/Thor.jpg

[Black Hawk]

OT: Every single time I look at the title of this thread, "artistic pornography" pops into my head. :shakehead ;D

[Dexter]

Nomad,

your cat looks a lot like mine :)

What did you do to that pic? Looks like you flattened the levels or just ran a high-pass filter over it... Nice effect, whatever you did.

Dexter..

[Nomad]

It's a simple PS effect. Duplicate the background, make it black and white, put the contrast up between 50-75%, then add a gaussian blur of 1-5. Change the blending of the layer to Overlay.

[Dexter]

Nice, I will have to try that procedure out on something one day.

Dexter...

[LIN]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Hallock1988/Thor.jpg
NICE! :cool:


LIN

[Gargoyle]

I'm about to dramatically add to everybody's bottom scroll bar. :D

This is a picture of the Valle Grande (http://www.vallescaldera.gov/) in the Jemez Mountains, about
30 miles from where I live. Later that day I went mountainbiking
in there. Good times. 11 photos from my 3 megapixel camera were
stitched together using the Panorama Factory (thanks Mediaman (http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=257&p=1)).

This was originally 13000 pixels long (15 feet printed).
I halved that and reduced the jpeg quality a bit.
I think I still need to adjust the brightness. The early morning
shadows are too intense.

[Leonardo]

Sunset (about 11:30 PM) in late July. Picture taken from our deck, resolution reduced.

[Gargoyle]

Man, I wish I had a view like that from my deck. Nice one Leo :thumbsup:

[Leonardo]

Clouds creeping up the river valley.

[Leonardo]

Glacier and morning fog.

[Leonardo]

Gargoyle, very, very nice panorama.

[Leonardo]

Fishing.

[profdlp]

Beautiful pictures, guys. :)

[Dexter]

Let's get some more artsy pics going here folks!

This one was taken way back in Feb 05, and I just happened across it again as I was scrolling through some old pics looking for something. My wife took this, downtown Vancouver, near her former office building (she had gone down to meet visit some former co-workers and run some errands downtown.)

Dexter...

[Tex]

And the last one for now. My wife took this one, a silhouette of our older daughter as light by the sun coming in through a window.

Dexter...

Sorry Dex I couldnt help but comment... In this pic your daughters head is sorta distorted and she looks a lot like Barry Bonds.

Tex

[Leonardo]

...my favorite theme - mountains

[Leonardo]

fireweed

[Hawk]

Here's a couple shots of the sunset outside my front door--- after rains and a cool front moving in. 69 degrees now.
http://img439.imageshack.us/img439/6563/fireinthesky2ck.gif
http://img439.imageshack.us/img439/9316/fireinthesky25cv.jpg

[profdlp]

Here's a couple shots of the sunset outside my front door--- after rains and a cool front moving in. 69 degrees now...
Beautiful pictures, Hawk. I could use a little sunshine right now. Thanks. :)

[Hawk]

Beautiful pictures, Hawk. I could use a little sunshine right now. Thanks. :)
Thnx prof, Weathers been beautiful here for the last week or so.
Cool nights 50's- 60's and 70's during the day.
I enjoy the evening sky's this time of yr. Lots of colors.

[hypermood]

Tiger Swallow butterfly at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens

[Hawk]

Nice shot hyper,
Butterflies make cool photo subjects with all their colors.
There was a news clip on the other night, about the buterflies making their annual trip to mexico. Thousands and thousands of them. The tree's looked like they were alive.

[LIN]

that is just beautiful, hypermood. :cool:
i'm surprised you had time to snap it before it flew off :)


LIN

[hypermood]

Thanks, I actually got lucky enough to get a few shots before it flew off :) The lighting was just right for this one.

[Sledgehammer70]

http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/katrina_cloud_1.jpg

[SmiGDig]

Camman: I love the first two shots, amazing stuff for some interesting web design ideas.

Keep it up. I'll post some of my stuff on here shortly.

[lemonlime]

Finally got a digital camera this winter, and snapped some shots. Still getting used to the functions, but managed this macro. It's a place called Belfountain about an hour outside of Toronto. Beautiful rivers and scenery.

http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=19504&stc=1&d=1142312450

[WISKINITA]

here is a pic i took of a lightning storm from Sandia Peak in New Mexico. It took about 30 mins. to capture with so many missed bolts. But I finally guessed right. Also note, my arms were killing me as I did not have a tripod or anything to rest my cam on. I will also attach the pic of the rain cloud pouring out rain like a pitcher on a small section of Albuquerque.

[WISKINITA]

IN THE LIGHTNING PIC, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE WHERE IT STUCK SOMETHING ON THE GROUND. NOTE THE LITTLE FIRE BOLT!:wow2:

[profdlp]

Nice shots! :)

[WISKINITA]

thank you all!

[airbornflght]

Hey wiski, one tip for lightning shots, if it is a storm during night, set your camera to manual mode, and bump your aperture's f-stop as high up as you can get it (8 or higher will suffice), and then set your shutter speed as long as you can get it, I set mine to 13 seconds, which is as long as it goes, and I have gotten 4 strikes in one exposure. It is really awesome, though I love photography, I will upload some pictures in a seconds that I took yesterday because I'm going to attempt to teach the kids in my yearbook staff how to use a Digital SLR. I love still life shots, but I also love doing candids, when people dont know you are taking their pictures, that is actually capturing life as it is, I dont like the "say cheese" pictures so much. Though I have to take some of those.

I just wish I had a better camera. The camera I use now is a Canon Powershot A610 It is a pretty nice camera, it has manual settings, but the aperture doesnt go as high as I'd like it too (8 is max) then only other gripe I have with it is low light action shots, and the zoom. It is only a 4x optical zoom, im not sure what that comes out too because all the lens has on it is 29.32mm lens, so I suppose it could mean that it can go from 29.32mm to 117.8. Not bad. Though manual focus is a pain to use, which I have too for macro shots or night shots, especially lightning shots, which I set the focus to infinity.

[WISKINITA]

cool. thanks for the tips. now here is one i will share:: I'm not sure what is going on, but i recently saw a link on videomaker.com that had this website called ZoomVid.com under a list of video/photo share sites. I went to it and it's not live yet, but looks really cool. I saw a few things under a seach about it that said it was going to be a place to store and protect your videos, photos, files, and audio, etc. It said the files could be publicly viewed, but in no way copied or hacked because they don't use any third party video player like Windows media or Real Player at all. The website had something about consumer; corporate; and government but that's about all i could get from it. That seems really cool considering I stamp my name on my pics, but anyone with photoshop or the like could smear my name off and claim them as their own. So i guess when it becomes available, i will post links to my files instead of the actual pics so everyone can still view them but nobody can "steal" them. I'll post more about it as soon as I find out more.
here is the link to that site http://www.zoomvid.com

[airbornflght]

trust me, there are still ways to steal them no matter how much 'protection' you give them. in general, if a person is worth a damn, he will respect a copyright/credit if you place it on the picture, though I would do like all the pictures that I send out.

in photoshop, simply put the credit in one of the corners nice and compact so as not to obscure the actual photo; But usually only on hi-res images. I personally think that huge watermarks are distasteful and ruin the picture. but then again, Im not in it for the recognition or money, I just like taking pictures. I took a picture of a girl on our softball team sliding in for the win after 12 inning they were in sudden death. It was an awesome picture, and her grandma saw me take it. Her grandma looked at it, took me to her mom, then her mom took me to her (she is hot) they asked me if I'd burn it to a CD. I went home, did a little ps work, got it sized and credited it, then burned it and also had a 8x10 print made of it, which is cheap to do at walmart only like $2.20. Gave it to them and they thought it was really awesome, good enough for her mom calling me telling me that I deserved something, I told them I really didnt need anything and that it wasnt that much work, she sent me a check for $40. which was a nice surprise.

I just cant wait until soccer season starts, cause I can get right down on the goal lines and get really good pictures. Last year I got one of my friend doing that thing where you kick the ball up, do a back flip thing kick the ball and land on your back. (I forgot what it is called) anyway, I got him right after he kicked the ball, he really appreciated it, because he asked me to come and do it for him, I took it with the schools 35mm SLR with a 300mm tele lens. I just wish the lighting would have been better, because I had to use 800 speed film so it was a little grainy. But that is the only other picture he has aside from his all state picture.

Here are 3 of them.

[airbornflght]

And here are 3 more.

I really hated downsizing them, they use so much of their beauty. and 488Kb limit is murder on images that have a lot of different colors. The pics that looks like I shot into the sun, that is the moon from a couple weeks ago, I heard that this is the closest its been in a long time, so I decided I would take some pictures of it. I have taken them all pretty recently, actually, aside from the moon pics, I took them all yesterday.

I try to compose them and take good pictures, but I always learn new things, and different interesting angles. I like looking at pictures that professional photographers took their pictures to see how they did it. I also like looking at deviant art, because there are some good photographers on there.

[WISKINITA]

nice pics. you have a good eye for the random bits of beauty that are lyin around everywhere that most people take for granted and/or simply overlook.

here are a few tips (i'm no pro, but took a class once so take it however anyone one of you wants): it's recommended that you subject or item you are shooting not be centered and usually not at eye level. off center the object either high right, high left, low right or low left. you can play with it for emphasis. like if you take a shot from a lower angle, put the object in the high left or high right position to give it strength. if you shoot down (or from a higer angle than the object) put the object in the low left or low right region based on how it is facing.

for instance: that blue flower in your pic is facing to the right. imagine what the same pic would look like if it were not centered and not at eye level. since it faces to the right, you would put it in either the high left or low left region. the flow (or facing and bend of the flower) should face the center and not the edge of the screen. and by this I mean just slightly off center from either a high or low angle in the more left region of the screen (and not in the right). anyways, just givin you all ideas on how positioning works.

[airbornflght]

Yeh, I took videography for 3 years so I am kind of 'programmed' with those rules, which are very similar. but I always think about the rule of thirds and composing my shots.

Those shots I didnt give a whole lot of thought too, I just was looking for something unique and interesting. I actually have 22 printed right next to me on 4x6s to show the class about how to take a picture and getting all the settings right.

Though in college I'd like to take a photography class, though I don't want to just a beginners course, I want to take a class focusing on composition and techniques. Because I already understand the settings and and thier interactions with each other.

[Shalimar]

I just spent the last hour looking at every shot you guy's have taken.

Some awesome work i must say guy's, the mountain & water views do it for me.

Leo & Andy.....some nice work there. :thumbsup:

Shal

[danball1976]

How about this?

I took it from the back seat at 70MPH with a 1/1000 sec shutter speed and ISO400 at 3:30PM Oct 29

[airbornflght]

Well, I can certainly tell you took it at speed, and while it is a pretty picture there isnt really a point of interest. My eye doesnt lead me to any particular place in the picture. The exposure is pretty good, so you are over one big hump in photography. Now you just have to focus on your composition.

[Kwitko]

Here are some pics from my summer trip to CA.

[airbornflght]

Those are really nice picture Kwitco. Has that middle one had some ps work done on it? Because it looks like a really soft focus, softer than I could do with my camera.

[Kwitko]

Thanks, airborn. They've all had some work done in Photoshop. The first shot uses a polarizing action to punch up the sky and ocean. The middle one was a long exposure. Problem was there was a spot of sunlight shining right in the middle of the stream that just "collected the light." You can see it more in this shot. The second shot below is of my niece, and one of my favorites. Everything about it just worked perfectly. Her expression is priceless. Only minor retouching to get rid of a few blemishes on her face.

[airbornflght]

Yeh, I love polarizing filters, they help a lot for taking shots through glass and also snow. I love all the filters, they are nice to have.

[Kwitko]

Not a polarizing filter. I used an action in Photoshop to mimic a polarizing filter.

[airbornflght]

ahh. ok.

what camera do you have? is it a point and shoot, or an SLR?

[Kwitko]

Nikon D50 SLR.

[Gargoyle]

My camera (hp model 733, 3.2 MP) is pretty awful, especially for outdoor photos, but it can only screw up color like this so much. This was taken right about here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=87544&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=35.877124,-106.143551&spn=0.015822,0.033989&t=h&om=1), on the way to Santa Fe from Los Alamos. The picture is looking south towards the Rio Grande. It's been resized and JPEG quality reduced to 97% to fit as an attachment, but no photoshop enhancement (yet).

[airbornflght]

Nikon D50 SLR.

you lucky dog.

[WISKINITA]

wowsers! all of these pix are simply amazing! i'm glad we revived this thread! KEEEEEP IT GOING! it's nice to see that we hackers can get up from the computer once in a while to capture true beauty... well, and to stretch a bit. I'll be adding to this collection again very soon, as I have recently captured some awesome new pix. be back soon.................

[WISKINITA]

i just want to take a sec. to brag and give myself some love for bringing this thread out of a 6 month hibernation period! it was left in March of 06, and I was a newbie to this site in Sept of 06 and from the looks of it, brought it back to life! yeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaw

[WISKINITA]

oh, and sorry to triple post and all, but I posted a while back in this thread about a site I found listed over at video maker that would work for those wanting protecion when sharing photos online or whatever. anyways, I said I would update when I knew more about it. Well, it hasn't gone live yet, but I did see that they added a video sharing thing for Christmas cards with your own video added to the cards. Not sure if you can set it to your own photos, but I'll check. For those that didn't see that post, the site is at http://www.*******.com. Still waiting for the full photo/video thing to open up. Let me know what anyone of you finds out. Happy Holidays if I'm not back soon enough with my pix.....

[airbornflght]

There's an edit button wiski. Photography is probably about my only hobby that I'm really into. Computers are more of my life than a hobby. Because I don't feel safe calling something that I spend half of my time with a hobby.

[WISKINITA]

here is one I call "Heart of the Texas Sky" because, well...i guess that is what it is. The moon is hidden just behind it. Please don't copy or repost it, it is my most prized pic that I took for my hot lady! enjoy. and get MORE PIX UP EVERYONE! oh and here is one from the top of Sandia Peak in New Mexico

22113 22114

[lewicron]

That second one is beautiful, wiski - nice work!

Don't know if these really qualify for this thread, but I bought myself a wacom graphics tablet for christmas the other day and I haven't stopped playing with it since. This thing is awesome when you use it with photoshop. I highly recommend anyone who uses photoshop as a painting medium to get one.

Anyway, here are my best results so far. The first is a self portrait and the second is of some chick with an exceptionally nice arse. Unfortunately, she was a bit of a munter, so I gave her a new face. The drawing is all done freehand but I have to admit that the colours are lifted straight off the source images with the eyedropper. It's cheating, I know, but... well... who cares?

[profdlp]

...I bought myself a wacom graphics tablet for christmas the other day and I haven't stopped playing with it since...
After I saw the second picture you posted, neither have I! :celebrate

[Kwitko]

This is a work in process, since I have to work on adjusting the levels. It's a shot of the Empire State Building as seen from near my office. The sun was just setting, and the orange in the sky was just amazing. There was something eerie and beautiful about it at the same time, with the cemetery in the foreground.

http://www.kwitko.net/images/DSC_0126.jpg

[profdlp]

That is a great picture, Kwitko. :thumbsup:

[lewicron]

That is a great picture, Kwitko. :thumbsup:

I agree :). If it were mine though, I'd crop it next just to the left of the church steeple to tighten the composition.

[Thermalfish]

http://www.thermalfish.com/Tribeadelic/lorenza.jpg
Canon EOS300 SLR (film)

http://www.thermalfish.com/images/broke-inlet_03.jpg
Nikon D200 SLR (dig)

http://www.thermalfish.com/images/november.jpg
Thats the aussie Pilbara folks.

[Kwitko]

Cropped and lightened up the cemetery a bit. Although I kind of like the headstones darker rather than lighter. The crop I like. Good suggestion, lewicron.:)

http://www.kwitko.net/images/DSC_0123.jpg

[WISKINITA]

very very interesting pic Kwitko! that's a different yet really cool combo: the sky, the empire state building, the cemetery, the church. good eye and good shot!

[mirage]

Well, here are a couple of frames from me. After today's camera thread I just remembered the days I was taking pictures.

[mirage]

and several more

[mirage]

last one, promise :)

[Leonardo]

The little boy picture is outstanding!

[mirage]

Thanks Leo. He is my oldest one, now 11.

[profdlp]

Nice pictures, mirage. :)

[Leonardo]

I could not discriminate over a few good ones, so I just tossed in a bunch of shots that are emotionally strong for me. Please forgive the excess. I have lived in California and Tennessee and several states between, resided abroad in Europe for eight years, traveled to far lands as different and distinct as Russian and Thailand, but my chosen home of permanence is The Great Land, Alaska.:cool:

The spirits of peace descend upon Eagle River Valley



http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/1896/mountains19february2007gz5.th.jpg (http://img96.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007gz5.jpg)
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3324/mountains19february2007uo1.th.jpg (http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007uo1.jpg)
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5701/mountains19february2007na4.th.jpg (http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007na4.jpg)
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2265/mountains19february2007fw8.th.jpg (http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007fw8.jpg)
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1384/mountains19february2007lq1.th.jpg (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007lq1.jpg)
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1007/mountains19february2007as8.th.jpg (http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007as8.jpg)
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/170/mountains19february2007qi3.th.jpg (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007qi3.jpg)
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/2116/mountains19february2007dy3.th.jpg (http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007dy3.jpg)
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7388/mountains19february2007kq9.th.jpg (http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007kq9.jpg)
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6095/mountains19february2007am8.th.jpg (http://img96.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007am8.jpg)
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9063/mountains19february2007mw8.th.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007mw8.jpg)
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3200/mountains19february2007ie3.th.jpg (http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007ie3.jpg)
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8103/mountains19february2007bp4.th.jpg (http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007bp4.jpg)
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/9493/mountains19february2007ip7.th.jpg (http://img224.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007ip7.jpg)
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6229/mountains19february2007kp5.th.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007kp5.jpg)
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4379/mountains19february2007ry4.th.jpg (http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007ry4.jpg)
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/6167/mountains19february2007jr9.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mountains19february2007jr9.jpg)

[Gargoyle]

Nice, Leo :thumbsup:. I especially like that last one.

[mirage]

Very nice pics, Leo. So uplifting ...

[Kwitko]

The spirits of peace descend upon Eagle River Valley

Absolutely fantastic. Makes me want to move to Alaska!

[LIN]

lovely pics, everyone. :)

what can i say, Leo, - absolutely stunning. :cool2: :)


LIN

[Gargoyle]

Someone at the lab snapped an awesome early morning rainbow over the plutonium facility. Full res version available here (http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/nb.story/story_id/10592).

Has a Dr. Strangelove-esque element to it :D. The distortion (I'm not sure if it's from the lens or from stitching software) kind of adds to the effect, I think.

http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=23218&stc=1&d=1180730261

[Kwitko]

That's a sweet pic, Garg.

[Leonardo]

Keeping the tread alive with great pictures.

[leishi85]

i guess i will add my latest creation.
I had these pictures for a while now.

This picture is West Lake in Hangzhou, China.
http://icrontic.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=23368&stc=1&d=1182223375


This second picture is me relaxing at a private resort in the mountains outside of Beijing, China.
http://icrontic.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=23369&stc=1&d=1182223375

both of these pictures, i edited it with photoshop to give them the old film feel.

[airbornflght]

Here are some picture that I've taken. The heart cd one has some photoshop in it. The rest are just long exposure pictures that I was playing around with. Nothing spectacular. Just me and my boredom. Most of these shots were taken with a 15 second exposure. The keyboard one was actually ten seconds.

Que thrax and or Nomad to rag on the heart cd picture in 3... 2... 1...

[airbornflght]

And two more.

The second one didn't turn out how I wanted. My poor little desk lamp wasn't powerful enough for what I wanted to do and I was too lazy to grab my tripod.

[Kwitko]

i guess i will add my latest creation.
I had these pictures for a while now.

This picture is West Lake in Hangzhou, China.

Love that first pic. Really does feel like a still frame from a movie.

[leishi85]

awww, i thought u were gonna say you loved the picture with me in it....

[Kwitko]

I managed to get some macro shots in between the drinking and gaming. Click on the images to see full-sized versions.

http://www.kwitko.net/macro/DSC_0404tn.jpg (http://www.kwitko.net/macro/DSC_0404.jpg)

http://www.kwitko.net/macro/DSC_0405tn.jpg (http://www.kwitko.net/macro/DSC_0405.jpg)

http://www.kwitko.net/macro/DSC_0416tn.jpg (http://www.kwitko.net/macro/DSC_0416.jpg)

[Nomad]

I like the last one best.

[Kwitko]

Funny, others said they liked the last one also. The first two are kind of drab. The colors need more punch.

[airbornflght]

Funny, others said they liked the last one also. The first two are kind of drab. The colors need more punch.

eh?

[Kwitko]

Eh what?

[Thrax]

He tweaked the saturation.

[Kwitko]

"Ask me about my wiener!"

[RyderOCZ]

They look great Kwitko....they look like they don't belong in a city suburb, which makes them even cooler, IMO.

What the first 2 may lack in color, they make up for with detail, I like where the camera focused and the blend of fuzzy/sharpness that was achieved.