The "Post a Picture You Took" thread

[Bevo&Pevo 5290]

The picture of the pier looks like it is built in a cloud.  Here's some phone pictures from the dining room table in So Tex.  Finally, we got a decent internet connection this morning.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Took the kids to see their grandparents in Fulton this weekend.  This morning my pops and I tried to go out and do some photography in South Texas, but the weather sucked and most of the spots I had hopes for didn't pan out.  On the way home I saw this black buzzard on the church in Tivoli.  Fucker put a curse on me and I got a speeding ticket 15 minutes later.  I couldn't decide on an edit.  I mean, they are both kind of boring and typical, but not sure about cropping.  I wish I had the sky from the catholic church shot for the background of the vulture.  Anyways...

 

[Longhornstampede 3191]

I've tracked down the Maypearl Monster! Took a drive this morning and I had a cheap 15 year  old Kodak digital camera I found in a drawer with me... And I forgot to turn off the fucking date stamp!! 

 

 

Edited March 20, 2023 by Longhornstampede

[LTbear 4172]

[LTbear 4172]

 

[DougO 5257]

17 hours ago, Longhornstampede said:

I've tracked down the Maypearl Monster! Took a drive this morning and I had a cheap 15 year  old Kodak digital camera I found in a drawer with me... And I forgot to turn off the fucking date stamp!! 

 

 

I'm skeptical. It seems too in focus to be real. 

[naija 2869]

Amazon is shutting down DPReview. Stunning.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Amazon is shutting down DPReview. Stunning.

Damn. Although I can’t recall the last time I visited that site.

[Anton Chigurh 3320]

Their YT channel is great, though those guys are going to PetaPixel now.

[DougO 5257]

I stopped reading DP a long time ago, but would occasionally read something there when I googled a particular thing that led me there. It's crazy that Amazon can just pull the plug like that and shit all over the users and creators. 

[Longhornstampede 3191]

If you know, you know...

 

Edited April 1, 2023 by Longhornstampede

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Not much going on lately.  Driving around and around and around and not seeing much of interest.  I have a 4 day weekend coming up, so hopefully I can get out of the city. /blog.

Nikon F2 - Ilford HP5

Digital...unique washateria in Houston's South Side...

 

[PittsburghTiger 6237]

This one is not earth shattering or anything but, it’s kinda cool.  Was heading in for a steam and the sunset was reflecting off the glass wall. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

So much for a road trip with this shit weather.  Headed down to the train yard for a bit...

I collect knives.  Mostly folders, but I picked up a couple of fixed blades recently.  Tired of my usual product shots (usually on railroad tracks), so put a some of my favorite photo books as a backdrop.  Meh...

In case y'all don't venture into the snake thread.  A beautiful Speckled Kingsnake, one of my favorite species...

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Another day of crappy weather, so I headed down to my usual haunts.  As I approached the train yard on Wayside, I saw a couple of trains and a couple of cars stopped at the bridge over Hunting Bayou.  I jumped out to see a van in the water.  I see one guy getting out and another still inside.  Me and a couple people that got out of cars, plus the train crews ask if anyone else is inside or hurt, fortunately no one was.  Had they rolled the van, I am sure I would have had to cut one or both of them out of their seat belts.  One of the onlookers said he was behind the van and it looked like they were chasing another car and attempted to sideswipe them, lost control and went into the bayou.  Dumbasses.

It started raining again as I saw this cool Northwestern Heritage unit.  I wish it had been leading, but still cool to get a shot.

 

[Jerry Callo 8777]

Spring is here. Momma Texas slider laying today.

[Francisco 2.0 32432]

Soccer game #3 in the books:

 

 

 

 

[Crapinon 2285]

[LTbear 4172]

The bears are finally awake

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

A little of this, a little of that (and some cross posting)...

Bland attempt at product photography. 

Healthy road Cottonmouth...

Always pass by the yard...

While down there I see some smoke at the far end of the yard and go to investigate.  Grass fire right next to the tracks, which a string of cars is sitting on...a few of which are tankers.  Not sure if full or empty, or what kind of product they were carrying.  Regardless, not good.  I head back to the hump of the yard to look for a UP worker, but don't see any.  I head back and see two guys from a business on the other side of the line trying to put the fire out.  I was about to ask if they needed help when a fire engine pulled up on the other side of the tracks, the road was blocked by the train.  I knew they would would make it to the other side in less than 5 minutes, but somehow these two guys got it under control.  Potentially very bad situation, even if the flames couldn't have reached the tracks.

 

[Cajun 11760]

Help me out fellas.  Some dude who lives on the other side of Canyon Lake from me took the photos below last week and posted them on Nextdoor.  I like that "stretched" effect, or whatever it's actually called.

What is that called and how does one get that look from a photo?

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

He is using a wide angle lens (could be camera or phone).

[Cajun 11760]

On 4/17/2023 at 6:53 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

He is using a wide angle lens (could be camera or phone).

Thanks PS.  That gives me a track to run on.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Thanks PS.  That gives me a track to run on.

If you are looking for a lens, something like 12-24mm will do the trick.

[Cajun 11760]

 

18 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

If you are looking for a lens, something like 12-24mm will do the trick.

I don't even have a camera.  Well, not a traditional camera.  What I am looking to do is take photos of that nature with my DJI drone.  I'm checking into if and how that might be accomplished.

[Cajun 11760]

My daughter giving her dad a heart attack after a snow near Lajitas...

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

 
I don't even have a camera.  Well, not a traditional camera.  What I am looking to do is take photos of that nature with my DJI drone.  I'm checking into if and how that might be accomplished.

Maybe do a panoramic. I know there are pano settings but, maybe do it manually and stitch together in photoshop if you have it. Might be able to get that effect.

[Francisco 2.0 32432]

Some of the girl child at my son's soccer game on Sunday.  She went off to the top of the stands to take some pictures herself.  About a month or two ago, she told me she wanted to start taking photos as well, so I dusted off a 10 year old Canon Powershot, bought a couple of new batteries for it and a strap, showed her a few basics, and turned her loose.  I'll post some of her pics another time.

 

 

 

[DougO 5257]

I've been shooting some, but I find I increasingly dread editing and tend to put it off and just forget it. I've posted a few bird pics here and there in the birding thread. Here are a few other recent to fairly recent things.

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Doug, you sumbitch. Don’t stop. If you stop, that means I should have stopped a long time ago.

[LTbear 4172]

Right over the house last night

[Your Mom 4866]

LTbear, I’m sure I’ve missed it earlier in this thread, or in some of their thread years back, but where do you live that you’re seeing all this wildlife?  
Is this a hobby for you or is it your profession?  The wolf with the elk and all the bears don’t seem like something your average joe would stumble upon. Great stuff. 

[Cajun 11760]

I think he's near Beaumont.

[Your Mom 4866]

 More snow around that area than I realized I guess.  

[LTbear 4172]

4 hours ago, Your Mom said:

LTbear, I’m sure I’ve missed it earlier in this thread, or in some of their thread years back, but where do you live that you’re seeing all this wildlife?  
Is this a hobby for you or is it your profession?  The wolf with the elk and all the bears don’t seem like something your average joe would stumble upon. Great stuff. 

I'm in Montana, and do most of my wildlife photography in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks. I'm a college professor, and the photography started as just a passionate hobby, but now it's a ide business as well (montanawildphoto.com).

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Well, in the next few weeks I am going to make the decision to abandon photoshop or not. Got a new laptop and my cracked version won’t work. I know, I know…pirates! Maybe some other gen X folks will get the reference. Anyways, downloaded the Affinity Photo 2 for a trial period. Then through the internet archive found the last free version of the Nik Collection, worked some voodoo and got that working. The interface is very similar to PS. Only edited a couple of photos so far, but I think it will work for me.

Fuck subscription services.

[DougO 5257]

Adobe waited until I actually would have payed for a newer version of photoshop to shit on us and force a bullshit subscritpion only service. Fuck that shit. So they lost me twice when they could have made back that money from using it for decades for "trial purposes."

I have Affinity Photo, but don't use it much. It has some great features, but it takes me a lot longer to edit pics than I did with oldass versions of Photoshop. I may revert back to it at some point when I'm willing to tackle the learning curve some more, but it's lacking in shortcuts and ease of use. I use GIMP most of the time, have it customized a bit with some keyboard shortcuts and have familiarized myself with it enough that it's about 80 percent as good as PS was. I can live with it. I really miss having my own custom actions to save a lot of time, but fuck Adobe.

[LTbear 4172]

[DougO 5257]

I also have the newer version of Nikon NX studio that would be fine for adjusting RAW images before JPG editing, if I ever wanted to shoot RAW.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

I also have the newer version of Nikon NX studio that would be fine for adjusting RAW images before JPG editing, if I ever wanted to shoot RAW.

Have you tried the latest version of Affinity? At least for me it seems really similar to PS 2015.

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

11 hours ago, LTbear said:

Nice marmot!

[VABuckeye 2472]

If you ever fly in to Seattle sit on the left side on the plane in a window seat.  If the weather is right you'll be treated to this view.

[DougO 5257]

22 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Have you tried the latest version of Affinity? At least for me it seems really similar to PS 2015.

No, I got kinda cheesed about not getting a better deal offered to upgrade to the new version. From what I was reading the upgrades they made weren't going to really make much of a difference for me. I'll probably try it eventually.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

31 minutes ago, DougO said:

No, I got kinda cheesed about not getting a better deal offered to upgrade to the new version. From what I was reading the upgrades they made weren't going to really make much of a difference for me. I'll probably try it eventually.

You should try the free trial.  I find the interface to remarkably similar to PS 2015.  I haven't shot much lately, so I have been messing around with some old photos.

Abandoned synagogue.  Edited for a bright screen...

 

[DougO 5257]

Do any of y'all get spam emails from some Paul Mastin thing about pictures? I googled it and couldn't find any corresponding info. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

No, can’t say that I have.

[83Horn 1651]

10 hours ago, DougO said:

Do any of y'all get spam emails from some Paul Mastin thing about pictures? I googled it and couldn't find any corresponding info. 

You should probably just click the link and see what it's about. (j/k)

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Alright, trying to get used to Affinity Photo and editing some older photos that I had not edited (or at least don't recall editing).

Home away from home in Brazil...

Sanderson last year.  Different version of the motel sign...

New Mexico...

 

[elfenix 34366]

i need to get around to printing one of these pretty large (2'x3') for the wall. leaning toward the second.  thoughts?

 

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

I agree. Nice colors and composition.

Depending on how heavy you want to get with editing, you could separate the layers and get some definition out of the clouds. Hard shot with the light and clouds.