Part of the prize, $100 package of Gazillion Bubble products. It will make a nice photoshoot when it comes, hehe
I was in Detroit on a work trip last year. In the suburbs, it is nothing but burned out houses/businesses boarded up with plywood.
Had the camera with me, I have to take a look at what I got on image. My main focus with having the camera was the hockey game we went to, thus I don't think I have much of the surrounding areas.
Had the camera with me, I have to take a look at what I got on image. My main focus with having the camera was the hockey game we went to, thus I don't think I have much of the surrounding areas.
Pretty much what I eat every day. Quick and easy...
Probably nothing. My daughter will probably steal it, LOL.
I need a beginner electric guitar, no money for a real one. They do have a half decent one sold by Fender (China guitar though) that I've been reading about. Seems decent enough for a start. Consensus seems to be just replace the tuners and a better strap and do a little filing work on the frets and it's pretty decent. My acoustic is just not right for me (cheap one as well). Electric would allow me to play without waking everyone up at night also.
If it were the grand prize ($1000), then a Nikon D80 18-135mm would be in the mix. There's still hope, still eligible for the grand prize in July.
I need a beginner electric guitar, no money for a real one. They do have a half decent one sold by Fender (China guitar though) that I've been reading about. Seems decent enough for a start. Consensus seems to be just replace the tuners and a better strap and do a little filing work on the frets and it's pretty decent. My acoustic is just not right for me (cheap one as well). Electric would allow me to play without waking everyone up at night also.
If it were the grand prize ($1000), then a Nikon D80 18-135mm would be in the mix. There's still hope, still eligible for the grand prize in July.
Hmm.... Yeehaaar? I would prefer...
"Get in the fastlane grandma, the bingo game is ready to roll!"
"Oh, I'll be cow kicked!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has... just... left... the building!"
"Well shave my face with a rusty razor!"
"She wants to sell my monkey!"
"Buy Sam a drink and get his dog one too!"
And my daughter's personal favorite...
"Scratch my back with a hacksaw!"
Mike Lang, 30 year voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Screw that NASCAR crap, hehe. Note the Dynamic Duo in the avatar
"Get in the fastlane grandma, the bingo game is ready to roll!"
"Oh, I'll be cow kicked!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has... just... left... the building!"
"Well shave my face with a rusty razor!"
"She wants to sell my monkey!"
"Buy Sam a drink and get his dog one too!"
And my daughter's personal favorite...
"Scratch my back with a hacksaw!"
Mike Lang, 30 year voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Screw that NASCAR crap, hehe. Note the Dynamic Duo in the avatar
I always hate adding a post to a thread that I had previously replied last to, but that was a good while ago....
So....
WhooHoo!!!!!
From my email this morning:
My daughter has been asking almost every day if her bubble modelling won, LOL.
So....
WhooHoo!!!!!
From my email this morning:
My daughter has been asking almost every day if her bubble modelling won, LOL.
Ouch! I didn't even notice that with the screenshot. With that many just in the system tray, imagine what the process list looks like! I'd have to guess at least 55 in the process list. He has more icons just in the system tray than I have process listed in the process list!
Nice ride Shotglass. When I'm in the market, unfortunately I'll have to get something that is kid friendly because Wifey starts working tomorrow night and she'll have her car and my car won't be just a work runner for me any more. That right there that you show definitely isn't kid friendly.
Learner permits and bike licenses are for girls . I rode for 4 years, never did bother to get my license.
. I rode for 4 years, never did bother to get my license.Always carry a lightbulb with you everywhere you go. I always carry a lightbulb and any time I am going to touch my car or any metal object, I get the lightbulb out of my pocket and hold onto the end to allow the built up static to discharge. Sometimes it is built up so much you can see a slight glow in the bulb for a split second.
Don't carry the lightbulb in your back pocket for obvious reasons.
Don't carry the lightbulb in your back pocket for obvious reasons.
I'm jealous, we have no blooms yet. It was snowing this morning! Grrrrr!
Rest assured, when the apple trees start to bloom, I'll have some blooming macros and some bumblebee macros. Last year's apple blooms and bumblebees I was too new to this photography stuff.
Rest assured, when the apple trees start to bloom, I'll have some blooming macros and some bumblebee macros. Last year's apple blooms and bumblebees I was too new to this photography stuff.
You missed the whole ricer thread/argument, didn't you?
Riceburners are made in the land of rice. Ricer is when you bolt on a bunch of junk in attempt to make your car "look fast". Unless you are Tristan of which ricer is just when you put anything that is not factory stock on your car
.Yeah, I typically shoot my little cam in full manual mainly because of not having separation between exposure lock and focus lock (both stuck on the half shutter button push), but moving to Aperture priority is the perfect next step to move to away from Program which is more of an auto mode than the A, S, and M modes.
I certainly wish my camera was capable of nice DOF like that. I typically do everything at an f/3.5 aperture which is my widest available. It also happens to be more equivalent to an f/8 on a dSLR, thus not much DOF unless I can really fine tune the focal distance, subject distance, and background distance and get them perfect.
On that note, I have this interesting little display down the road from me shown here....
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This is just out in the middle of nowhere along side a major road. I have no idea what it is, but I do see a guy there now and then adding stuff. I've been wanting to catch the guy to ask permission but haven't really seen him since starting the interest in photography. So, I was out shooting (same time I shot the bridge posted last night) and thought, the heck with it, I'm just stopping. Unfortunately, it was at the time of crotch deep snow and I didn't want to be trudging through all that. I got a few shots off and plan on stopping again now that the weather is getting nicer. There is so much in old signs and other "junk" to shoot here I could probably spend hours. I especially want to see what is inside the little shack.
So, here are a handful of shots with the snow. Quite a few for a single post actually.....
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7.
8.
And finally, these are my 3 favorites of the shoot....
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11.
Ouch, didn't realize there were 11 shots until I went through and numbered them.
I certainly wish my camera was capable of nice DOF like that. I typically do everything at an f/3.5 aperture which is my widest available. It also happens to be more equivalent to an f/8 on a dSLR, thus not much DOF unless I can really fine tune the focal distance, subject distance, and background distance and get them perfect.
On that note, I have this interesting little display down the road from me shown here....
1.
This is just out in the middle of nowhere along side a major road. I have no idea what it is, but I do see a guy there now and then adding stuff. I've been wanting to catch the guy to ask permission but haven't really seen him since starting the interest in photography. So, I was out shooting (same time I shot the bridge posted last night) and thought, the heck with it, I'm just stopping. Unfortunately, it was at the time of crotch deep snow and I didn't want to be trudging through all that. I got a few shots off and plan on stopping again now that the weather is getting nicer. There is so much in old signs and other "junk" to shoot here I could probably spend hours. I especially want to see what is inside the little shack.
So, here are a handful of shots with the snow. Quite a few for a single post actually.....
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
And finally, these are my 3 favorites of the shoot....
9.
10.
11.
Ouch, didn't realize there were 11 shots until I went through and numbered them.
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Hey cool, Sam. Sort of like those gigapan shots (remember the Obama inauguration photo posted a while back.) I've actually been wanting to try that out, stitching photos together taken at the long end of my zoom. But I haven't tried to do any stitching actually.
@Blackout, take a look at the very last image that DWB posted, the fence with the blurry tree in the background. By getting out of the Program mode of the camera and into the Aperture Priority mode, you could have done something similar with those swings and having the building and other stuff in the background blurred and less distracting. Aperture Priority is just a semi-auto, or semi-manual depending on how you want to think of it, mode and all you are doing is selecting one single setting while the camera figures out the rest. Thus there's no extreme mindboggling concepts to think about.
Aperture plays a big part of getting that fence shot that DWB got. It's a matter of setting a wide aperture (low number) in aperture priority mode and the camera will set the shutter speed for you just as it would in the mode you used there. It would allow you to be a bit more creative while still being pretty easy to figure out.
Just a thought to help you out. Once you get out of auto or Program mode, the creative possibilities are only limited to the range of your camera/lens combinations.
And I'll have some stuff to post tonight after the kids head to bed and I have time to upload.
@Blackout, take a look at the very last image that DWB posted, the fence with the blurry tree in the background. By getting out of the Program mode of the camera and into the Aperture Priority mode, you could have done something similar with those swings and having the building and other stuff in the background blurred and less distracting. Aperture Priority is just a semi-auto, or semi-manual depending on how you want to think of it, mode and all you are doing is selecting one single setting while the camera figures out the rest. Thus there's no extreme mindboggling concepts to think about.
Aperture plays a big part of getting that fence shot that DWB got. It's a matter of setting a wide aperture (low number) in aperture priority mode and the camera will set the shutter speed for you just as it would in the mode you used there. It would allow you to be a bit more creative while still being pretty easy to figure out.
Just a thought to help you out. Once you get out of auto or Program mode, the creative possibilities are only limited to the range of your camera/lens combinations.
And I'll have some stuff to post tonight after the kids head to bed and I have time to upload.
Just a quickie. I have more uploading to do tomorrow.
Catching up on some winter shooting here.
Catching up on some winter shooting here.
Cool stuff DWB. I didn't have a chance at a good look at work.
Me fears that DWB is getting himself a bad case of GAS (Gear Aquisition Syndrom)
Me fears that DWB is getting himself a bad case of GAS (Gear Aquisition Syndrom)
3 posts. I was smart enough to mention that it was already posted so I didn't post Comfortably Numb
I just posted a couple of other Gilmour links.Please refrain from the generalization there, old man. Not everyone reading this thread are just kiddies
Now I'm going to be missing bedtime because I'll be watching all the videos in the sidebar.
And my pick would already have been posted, David Gilmour in Comfortably Numb.
Couple of my other favorites of Gilmour....
Coming Back to Life (I'm halfway through trying to play this one, about the only thing I can play.)
Shine on You Crazy Diamond Acoustic (absolute must see for all Floyd Freaks)
There's no way out of here
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That was good. I like that one.
Here's a few that our Canadian friends would also vote for....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfjKMpbJOs4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5AZkrZUqCQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MEpzRGgtok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVec6Xhy9s
If that's the way you want to go....
Baseball is wrong. Man with four balls can not walk.
Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways, going to Bangkok.
Man who fight with wife all day, gets no piece at night.
Oral sex make one's whole day, but anal sex make one's hole weak.
Foolish man give wife grand piano. Wise man give wife upright organ.
Panties not best thing on earth, but next to it.
Tis why I DVR everything I want to watch. I haven't seen a commercial for ages.
Good job on the photo resize. Did you buy just that bush in the upper left corner that shows in the thread or is there a car there too?
Not showing off any mind boggling photography skills here, but....
The dog was outside. Wifey and I are watching TV and she pauses the DVR.
"Do you hear water running?"
Then we hear the well pump kick on. Yup, water is running somewhere. Can't pinpoint it anywhere in the house which is easy because it's a small house and the furthest water source is only about 12 feet from any point in the house. So I open up the front door where we have an outside faucet. Water is just gushing out and the dog is just happy as can be romping around in the giant mudpuddle forming there. This was spur-of-the-moment through the front screendoor hence the muddy paw swipes on the glass. Wish it would have come out with better detail.....
What Dad? Why you looking at me like that?
The dog was outside. Wifey and I are watching TV and she pauses the DVR.
"Do you hear water running?"
Then we hear the well pump kick on. Yup, water is running somewhere. Can't pinpoint it anywhere in the house which is easy because it's a small house and the furthest water source is only about 12 feet from any point in the house. So I open up the front door where we have an outside faucet. Water is just gushing out and the dog is just happy as can be romping around in the giant mudpuddle forming there. This was spur-of-the-moment through the front screendoor hence the muddy paw swipes on the glass. Wish it would have come out with better detail.....
What Dad? Why you looking at me like that?
A young guy from Louisiana moves to Florida and goes to a big
"everything under one roof" department store looking for a job.
The Sales Manager says, " Do you have any sales experience?"
The kid says "Yeah. I was a salesman back in Louisiana ."
Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job.
"You start tomorrow. I'll come down after we close and see how you did."
His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down.
The boss says, "You had just one customer? Our sales people
average 20 to 30 customers a day. How much was the sale for?"
The kid says "$101,237.65".
The boss says "$101,237.65!!! What the
heck did you sell?"
The kid says, "Well, first, I sold him some small fish hooks. Then I sold him some medium fishhooks. Then I sold him
some larger fishhooks. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said
down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat,
so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a
twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn't think his
Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the
automotive department and sold him that loaded 4x4 Expedition."
The boss said incredulously, "A guy came in here to buy a fish hook....and you sold him a BOAT and a TRUCK!!!"
The kid said "No, the guy came in here to buy Tampons for his wife", and I said, "Dude, your weekend's shot - you should go fishing..."
"everything under one roof" department store looking for a job.
The Sales Manager says, " Do you have any sales experience?"
The kid says "Yeah. I was a salesman back in Louisiana ."
Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job.
"You start tomorrow. I'll come down after we close and see how you did."
His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down.
The boss says, "You had just one customer? Our sales people
average 20 to 30 customers a day. How much was the sale for?"
The kid says "$101,237.65".
The boss says "$101,237.65!!! What the
heck did you sell?"
The kid says, "Well, first, I sold him some small fish hooks. Then I sold him some medium fishhooks. Then I sold him
some larger fishhooks. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said
down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat,
so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a
twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn't think his
Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the
automotive department and sold him that loaded 4x4 Expedition."
The boss said incredulously, "A guy came in here to buy a fish hook....and you sold him a BOAT and a TRUCK!!!"
The kid said "No, the guy came in here to buy Tampons for his wife", and I said, "Dude, your weekend's shot - you should go fishing..."
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