----------------------------------- ecookman Sun May 31, 2009 12:05 pm My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- AAAHHH. Spring is in full swing and around where i live and travel there is lots of nice scenery....especally my backyard. (sorry I missed the blooming of my plum tree) Now is the time to get out my camera and start taking pictures. Every now antd then when I think i have a good photo I will post it here... Please rate and comment! :) ----------------------------------- ecookman Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:39 pm Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- This next picture was a test to my love of aircraft and to see how well I can photo edit. The picture of the Cessna, it from http://www.cessna.com/MungoBlobs/220/709/sin_corvtt_flt03_hires.jpg, and the picture fo the clouds was from...http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Cumulus_Clouds_Over_Jamaica.jpg any way... here is the end result. ----------------------------------- Tallguy Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:58 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- dude the plane one is sweet!!! if only the landing gear was up . . . lol ----------------------------------- Clayton Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:33 am RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- The landing gear does not retract on that particular model of Cessna. EDIT: I'm more disappointed about the lack of a pilot. And there are a couple of artifacts are the plane if you look close enough. ----------------------------------- jernst Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:14 am Re: RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- And there are a couple of artifacts are the plane if you look close enough. yeah, the edges in most parts are quite rough, doesn't look to natural to me. ----------------------------------- ecookman Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:31 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- lol well it was a first for me... i see what you mean. I put is against a black background and yea.... i see it.. any clue how to get rid if that (and i cut the pilot out because he was annoying me.... (i made some changes to it today such as adding a glare where the pilot should have been. ----------------------------------- jernst Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:03 am Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- Its quite good for a first try I suppose, was just trying to give you some feedback so you know where to focus on to make it look nicer next time. There are a few ways you can soften the edges I think, if you are careful with a blur tool or something similar I think you can do it. I'm no professional photo person though so I wouldn't know anything more than you really. Ive just seen some ppl do some of the editing since I work with them. Keep at it, I'm sure you'll learn all the tricks soon :P ----------------------------------- ecookman Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:53 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- thanks ^_^ i should have a new image up later on today! ----------------------------------- ecookman Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:27 pm Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- alas another lilac photo...for this shot i lied on the ground and looked for inspiration...upon finding the sun i moved one of the branches to look exactly like this lol. R/C pls ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:01 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- That one looks really nice in low-res, but it gets really grainy or blurry when you zoom in. Great shot though. :) ----------------------------------- ecookman Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:36 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- yea unfortunately my camera doesn't really like taking macro photos... thanks ----------------------------------- endless Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:06 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- are these taken with a point and shoot or a dslr? either way, good on you for getting into photography. keep at it, if you keep taking pictures regularly you will see great improvement. ----------------------------------- ecookman Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:07 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- it is a cross between the two (at the time $400 was my budget) Kodak Easy Share Z612 if you are intrested ----------------------------------- ecookman Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:10 am Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- A few days ago at lunch i was bored and whipped out my camera, and headed for the fiela across from the school, it was kinda buggy but i was able to scrounge up some nice pics ----------------------------------- ecookman Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:22 am Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- I have recently been trying to take pictures of the moon and have succeeded and they look quite nice those will be up torrmrow, and here is for all of the non believers in square waves. ----------------------------------- endless Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:54 am Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- not to jack your thread, but maybe you'd like to see my stitch together of the last lunar eclipse. it was a while ago, but i think i did the extra zoom on the lens for the last two at 200mm, not done on post. ----------------------------------- ecookman Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:09 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- slightly out of focus, but not bad, great actually ----------------------------------- ecookman Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:12 pm Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- As promised, the moon ----------------------------------- endless Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:38 pm Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- yea thats pretty good. i actually hadn't done any moon shots or anything, and since it was the last lunar eclipse for a while i decided to see what i could do with it. i think its out of focus because it was a slowish exposure time, and the moon's movement caused some blur (you can see extended leading edges). i love trying new things with the camera, here's my first attempt at lightening. took a while of ghost shooting at a 5 second exposure time for something to happen in the time frame, but i think it turned out well. ----------------------------------- ecookman Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:00 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- wow very well done taking pictures of lighting is something I hadn't thought of actually. and just a random question, what camera do you use. ----------------------------------- andrew. Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:42 pm Re: RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- it is a cross between the two (at the time $400 was my budget) Kodak Easy Share Z612 if you are intrestedEww, Kodak. I've had very bad experiences with their digital cameras. If it were me, I would've saved a couple hundred more and got an entry-level DSLR. Anyways, it's better than what I've got. My SLR isn't digital and is from the 70s (takes great shots though and I have a nice macro lens and a nice zooming lens). It's a Ricoh XR-500. ----------------------------------- endless Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:05 am RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- i use a Nikon D50 mainly with a 18-200mm VR Nikkor lens. ----------------------------------- andrew. Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:05 am RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- That's what my dad just bought. I think he even has the same lens. EDIT: Now that I check, he actually has the newer D5000. ----------------------------------- ecookman Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:25 am Re: RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- it is a cross between the two (at the time $400 was my budget) Kodak Easy Share Z612 if you are intrestedEww, Kodak. I've had very bad experiences with their digital cameras. If it were me, I would've saved a couple hundred more and got an entry-level DSLR. Anyways, it's better than what I've got. My SLR isn't digital and is from the 70s (takes great shots though and I have a nice macro lens and a nice zooming lens). It's a Ricoh XR-500. I would have, but I already pushed my budget by $100, and the camera is a extremely good camera. (besides macro) ----------------------------------- ecookman Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:59 am Re: RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- i use a Nikon D50 mainly with a 18-200mm VR Nikkor lens. When I get enough cash I was going to buy the pentax K10. ----------------------------------- endless Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:28 am Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- you should look into Nikon or even Canon if you haven't yet. the main reason being that you can find lenses for pretty cheap as used for these brands, plus Nikon has the best quality glass for our price range, and Canon has best quality glass for professional price range. if i were to get a camera right now, i would get a Nikon D70, it's a few years old now and discontinued and you can get it for very cheap. but even so, many professional photogs still carry them around because they are so good. also, you should just get a body, or maybe one with a kit lens, then pick up a 50mm prime lens and learn how to use the camera before jumping into zoom lenses. ----------------------------------- ecookman Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:36 am RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- lol so true, but i have a advantage :) my parents for about 20 years have been recreational photographers, so they have lots of old pentax lenses. ----------------------------------- endless Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:35 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- ah, Pentax it is then. :) ----------------------------------- ecookman Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:18 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- lol yep :) ----------------------------------- ecookman Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:35 am RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- due to inclement weather, there haven't been any nice photos to take. Hopefully (if the forecast is correct) i should have a nice and sunny day to take pictures. that being said i should have at least 2 photos up by the end of the week (weather dependent) ----------------------------------- ecookman Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:22 pm Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- Here is sun set pic i took a couple days ago. (sorry i accidentally had the trees be the focal point T_T by the time i noticed the sun was down already) Also I am trying to figure out a way to upload a pano I did (100mb) ----------------------------------- syntax_error Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:51 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- anything like drop.io will work to add, not that I am much of a photographer but the photo seems to fuzzy to me? ----------------------------------- ecookman Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:10 am Re: RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- anything like drop.io will work to add, not that I am much of a photographer but the photo seems to fuzzy to me? thanks, and yea, notice how the tops of the trees aren't fuzzy? I accidentally set the focal point to the trees not the clouds :oops: if you view at about 75% of the normal size it looks fine. ----------------------------------- ecookman Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:24 pm Re: My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- Some pics of my new plane I built in 12hrs sorry the pics start from the botom And yes...I have no floor currently. Soon I getting new Hard Wood flooring Total cost: $200 ----------------------------------- andrew. Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:41 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- Cool. It reminds me of grade 9 when we had to biuld a glider for the tech ISU. We had to design the glider so that it would fly properly. BTW, I just had hardwood floors put in too. They did it yesterday. ----------------------------------- ecookman Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:51 pm Re: RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- Cool. It reminds me of grade 9 when we had to biuld a glider for the tech ISU. We had to design the glider so that it would fly properly. BTW, I just had hardwood floors put in too. They did it yesterday. lol whan this crashes my teacher and I were gonna make a scale glider ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:59 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- wiring looks pretty complicated. hope it works out ----------------------------------- ecookman Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:45 pm RE:My Photo Gallery ----------------------------------- well the plane flys. but it is stable at extremely high speeds only. at low speeds it is virtually uncontrollable. it is waaay to floaty. Next project...building a flying box.