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[seraphim]

I like the texture on the craft.


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[redduck]

From my backyard today - odd cloud formation, then it took on the shape of an eagle (c'mon....it's an eagle!)

It looks like the underside of an alien space craft with a duck insignia as it hovers right above the clouds.

 

[springnr]

Gotham city duck signal

 

[audreyh1]

B-17. Tried to give it a vintage look with some grain, and other settings.

Really nice work on the plane - that looks great!

 

[Ronstar]

Like it. Good work.

Nice!

I like the texture on the craft.
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Really nice work on the plane - that looks great!

Thanks - I used one of the presets in the Color Efex Pro plugin for Lightroom - part of the NIK/Google Collection

 

[davemartin88]

B-17. Tried to give it a vintage look with some grain, and other settings.

Nice picture, that's the B-17 I took a ride on a few years back- my dad was a radio operator/machine gunner on one of these during WWII. Would you mind if I printed a copy for my wall as this one is a lot better than any of the pictures I took that day.

 

[Ronstar]

Nice picture, that's the B-17 I took a ride on a few years back- my dad was a radio operator/machine gunner on one of these during WWII. Would you mind if I printed a copy for my wall as this one is a lot better than any of the pictures I took that day.

Thanks - sure - print it. If it doesn't turn out very well, let me know and maybe I can sharpen it a bit.

It's great that you got to ride in it, and that your dad used to fly in one. I'd like to see some more old planes. I saw this B-17 at the Luke Air Force base air show in Arizona last March. I've been checking, but I don't think Luke is having an air show this year.

 

[Aus_E_Expat]

Another cloud photo.

Clouds shining above the smog.

Taken from my balcony at 6am this morning.

 

[seraphim]

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Modern firearms have become nothing more than ugly blocks which are being pawned off as tactical. A firearm should have a beautiful design, as well as being balanced, comfortable and functional.


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[seraphim]

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Took some photos of a Lee Enfield .303 No4 Mk1 for a gun site.

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[seraphim]

I was going to scope that rifle but some collectors screamed at me. Apparently it has some value. I paid $45 for it about 10 or 15 years ago.


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[Ronstar]

Seraphim - I like your firearm photos. Nice lighting.


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[seraphim]

Thanks


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[Ronstar]

A shot from an Arizona balloon festival

 

[RonBoyd]

A shot from an Arizona balloon festival

Wow! That is really impressive... technically. (The scene is arresting, also, but the photography is greater than outstanding... if there is such a word.)

 

[frayne]

Great shot, Ronstar. Care to tell us about camera settings, HDR, etc. ?

 

[Walt34]

Nice timing to get the spectators lighted by the flame from the burners!

 

[RonBoyd]

I would, also, be interested in the dimensions of the image that generates such a large size after hitting the "full image" bar.

 

[Ronstar]

Thanks guys. I really got lucky with the lighting on this one. The burners illuminated the people's faces very well.

Shot was F3.5, 24mm, 1/160, ISO 500 on a Nikon D610. I developed it in Lightroom and NIK Google Color Efex Pro plugin (can't remember what preset). Color Efex Pro copies the original raw file and creates a new image of the edited version in Lightroom as a tif.I published the Tif file directly from Lightroom to Flickr. The Color Efex Pro plugin didn't change the raw photo much - maybe darkened the sky a little. The image is not HDR.

The file shows up in Lightroom as 4991 x 3332. I used the share function in Flickr to generate html code for the image. I copied the code as the image filename in my ER.org post. The image in Flickr shows up as 2048x1367.

 

[RonBoyd]

The image is not HDR..

I didn't think that it was... that was one of the things that impressed me. The huge size allowed much closer inspection than normal showing that there was very little alteration other than the usual color/contrast/exposure enhancements. Again, kudos.

The file shows up in Lightroom as 4991 x 3332. I used the share function in Flickr to generate html code for the image. I copied the code as the image filename in my ER.org post. The image in Flickr shows up as 2048x1367.

Well that explains how you got past the 1600x1600 limit imposed by the "Attachments" feature. Interesting.

 

[RonBoyd]

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[Ronstar]

Thanks for the link! Some great tips there.

 

[Walt34]

I bookmarked the site and will probably end up spending some money. Thanks. I think.

 

[explanade]

That looks more like cheap package tours than photo workshops, which can be ridiculously expensive -- for instance, the National Geographic Explorer ones go to many exotic places but cost around $10k for 2 weeks land costs, double occupancy.

 

[seraphim]

I like the balloon shot as well. Nicely done.


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