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Topic: Take a picture once a day, whether you need to or not (Read 1162187 times)
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Viin
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I'm waiting for Viin to post pics of stuff he throws out the window of his plane during less than perfect weather conditions!
You wouldn't be able to see it anyways, it's all cloudy and stuff!
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Cats rock don't they When I was about to move in with my GF the one thing she was deeply unsure about was the potential damage my cats were going to do to her nice house and soft furnishings etc. Now, 4 years later, the cats have fucked the place, shredded the furniture and caused us to completely redesign the garden... and my GF doesn't mind at all :) I like the Alcatraz pics Viin, there's something about the outside being full of flowers that seems right somehow :) Today I made a mini-planet:
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Brogarn
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Discworld! Kind of... Need a shot from the bottom so we can see the elephant and turtles.
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Slayerik
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Just got back from my trip to Michigan's Upper Penisula. God's Country.
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"I have more qualifications than Jesus and earn more than this whole board put together. My ego is huge and my modesty non-existant." -Ironwood
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NiX
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Locomotive Pandamonium
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WHAT WAS IT LIKE IN THE SUN?
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Discworld! Kind of... Need a shot from the bottom so we can see the elephant and turtles.
Haha :D
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Murgos
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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Cyrrex
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Today I made a mini-planet: Okay, I wasn't a big fan of gas mask. I liked the second one to an extent. This one is pure awesome, however.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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ZOMG SPORE BETA
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schild
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I demand Hi-Res versions of these! Super hi-res if possible! Also! Do you want a dropbox? I'm sure someone can hook you up! Also, lol crossthread meta action: Edit: My bad, wasn't saved correctly.
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« Last Edit: July 31, 2008, 08:03:09 AM by schild »
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Ookii
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is actually Trippy
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My problem with DropBox hotlinking is that if you delete the image then it no longer shows up in the thread. Nothing like browsing old picture threads that contain no pictures.
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schild
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This is why I have dropbox on it's own volume. I delete nussing. Or at least try not to.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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I demand Hi-Res versions of these! Super hi-res if possible! Also! Do you want a dropbox? I'm sure someone can hook you up! Also, lol crossthread meta action: Edit: My bad, wasn't saved correctly. Haha awesome :D Hi-res, sure, I've got renders of 2048x248 of the 1st one and about 1700x of the second. I'm working on higher res ones but I keep crashing the stitching software How does hotbox work? Does it link directly from your PC? Cos mine isn't on 24/7 and when it is it tends to be using a lot of bandwidth, so it might be better for me to upload full res versions to my Flickr account and set you up as a Flickr friend so you can get them.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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schild
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Ookii
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I added both of you to Flickr :-p.
You can find out who flickr users are from their image IDs if you're tricky.
Edit: Oh and schild you can personalize your URL so it doesn't have 83822999@n00 in it, you can specify something of your choosing.
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« Last Edit: July 31, 2008, 08:50:15 AM by Ookii »
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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K, added you both as contacts. My Flickr name is Apocrypha, who'da thunkit :D You should be able to see all sizes now, let me know if you can't. I'm gonna do some bighuge renders tomorrow, will let you know when they're up :) edit: Goddammit I've just noticed a giant piece of sensor dust on the graveyard one where's the OCD smiley?!
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« Last Edit: July 31, 2008, 12:15:25 PM by apocrypha »
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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NiX
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If you're not a paying customer to Flickr, I'd be more than happy to get you an invite to DropBox so you can have unlimited access (2GB ) for your pictures.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Many thanks for the offer Nix, but no need, I am indeed a paying Flickr customer :)
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Yesterday in NJ: I wonder exactly what kind of drugs you can get there?
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schild
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Fuck that store. What the hell is the guy in that car doing when he should be driving?
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Der Helm
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Fuck that store. What the hell is the guy in that car doing when he should be driving?
The car is not moving.
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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Murgos
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Fuck that store. What the hell is the guy in that car doing when he should be driving?
The car is not moving. Duh, it's a picture. If it were moving it would be a movie. Some people.
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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Viin
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We took a train up Pikes Peak here in CO today, to try and get away from the heat. Was 90ish when we left, the top (14,110 ft) was around 70, and it was 97 when we got back down. Long trip (1.4 hrs or so each way) but the scenery was great. And only one good image from the top, not even that great. Colorado Springs is down at the bottom through all the haze: Couple more here. These are all taken with my Olympus Stylus 410 point and shoot camera. I need to start lugging my Canon Rebel around, but this little guy is so much easier.
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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Fieldwork last week yielded shot of cute lil' bebbeh garter snake.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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These are all taken with my Olympus Stylus 410 point and shoot camera. I need to start lugging my Canon Rebel around, but this little guy is so much easier.
Beautiful looking place! One thing though, your Canon DSLR wouldn't have got you anything more there than the p'n's did, except maybe slightly less noise, a bit more resolution and a slightly higher dynamic range. Landscapes like that are always hard to shoot ad hoc because whatever camera you're using you're still going to get overexposed sky and/or underexposed foreground. To turn them into amazing shots you need to use a ND grad filter (ugh, hate them), wait hours/days/weeks/months/years for perfect light, take multiple tripod-mounted exposures and combine into HDR or just photoshop like mad :) So nice times out of 10 the point and shoot does the same job nicely without you having to lug 2 lbs of DSLR about. On the other hand if you just want some more manual control than the 410 gives you, so you can deliberately drop the sky 2 stops for example, then something like a Canon G7/G9 might be a lighter option, awesome little cameras those. Apologies if I'm teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here btw!
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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NiX
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Apologies if I'm teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here btw!
.... WHAT?! Thanks for the info otherwise. Didn't know all of that.
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Ironwood
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You can't tell me you've never heard that phrase before.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Cyrrex
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I, for one, have never heard it. I'm still not convinced it isn't something naughty.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Teaching your grandmother to suck eggs means telling someone something they already know and in fact probably know better than you do yourself. No idea where it comes from, my grandmothers certainly never sucked any eggs as far as I knew....
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Signe
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You should probably not attempt to teach your grandmother to milk ducks, either. It's disrespectful.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Viin
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So nice times out of 10 the point and shoot does the same job nicely without you having to lug 2 lbs of DSLR about. On the other hand if you just want some more manual control than the 410 gives you, so you can deliberately drop the sky 2 stops for example, then something like a Canon G7/G9 might be a lighter option, awesome little cameras those.
Yah thats why I like the little one - most of the time the shots come out pretty good, though I really could have used my 300mm zoom lens for some of these shots. I also have a couple of UV filters that I thought might help with the haze. Funny, I spent $1000+ on a digital SLR so I can swap lens, and it turns out I hate lugging them around! (Edit: but I always take it to air shows - without being able to zoom all you get are pictures of sky with a black dot in the middle). I will look at those Canon's though, I think my little guy needs an upgrade (and my mother-in-law needs a hand-me-down digital camera).
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« Last Edit: August 04, 2008, 06:35:25 AM by Viin »
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Cyrrex
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Teaching your grandmother to suck eggs means telling someone something they already know and in fact probably know better than you do yourself. No idea where it comes from, my grandmothers certainly never sucked any eggs as far as I knew....
I got the inference (after reading it a couple times, I'll admit), but was more curious as to how/why it came about. Do all grandmothers like to suck eggs, or are they simply pre-disposed to be good at it?
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Yah thats why I like the little one - most of the time the shots come out pretty good, though I really could have used my 300mm zoom lens for some of these shots. I also have a couple of UV filters that I thought might help with the haze. Funny, I spent $1000+ on a digital SLR so I can swap lens, and it turns out I hate lugging them around! (Edit: but I always take it to air shows - without being able to zoom all you get are pictures of sky with a black dot in the middle).
Heh I do the same... I've got 4 different lenses for my Nikons but there never seems to be room in the camera bag for any except the one on the bloody camera... too many flashes and clamps and pocket wizards and grids and stuff :p I got the inference (after reading it a couple times, I'll admit), but was more curious as to how/why it came about. Do all grandmothers like to suck eggs, or are they simply pre-disposed to be good at it? Can't find out anything much about it, the internet is failing me a bit. Most plausible explanation I found was: "I think the presumption is that your grandmother has no teeth and therefore prefers raw eggs to the hard wholemeal-mixed-with-barley bread that was the staple diet of British peasants in the 18th/19th centuries. (The dental health of the 18th-19th-early 20th century British was truly terrible; it was taken for granted that old people were toothless.)" Of course, since all the cuts and neoliberalist policies being applied to NHS dentistry in the UK over the last 15 years the average British dental health is rapidly re-approaching that state so maybe the phrase will start to make more sense soon...
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Cyrrex
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That sounds plausible. Also makes more sense that it's the Brits in the thread who've heard it before.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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