Photo Album

[Pseudolus]

Some of my recent snaps:

http://apotheosis.tv/files/spider%20smaller.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/leaf%20footed%20bug%20small.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/Lady%20Cardinal%20Small.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/2-lip.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/bug1.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/Fly.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/P1010097.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/spider%20eating.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/steppingstone1.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/steppingstone2.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/tree%20sillhouette.jpg

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[Elisha]

Nice pics.

[Traina]

Good job. I like the water pix best.

[Jables]

I don't see travelling elmo in them anywhere... Is this like Where's Waldo, or it is one of those hidden image pictures you need to stare at for a while? I suppose if my boss catches my staring at the RF today, I'll have a good excuse!

[glenn]

Very nice pics Psued.

[wheat66]

why do photos of running water often show the water as sort of "air-brushed"? My guess: slow film speed ==> longer exposure times => blurred moving water. I would think you'd want a more realisitic look.

[Maine-iac]

Beautiful pics. Not too fond of the insect shots, but hey, that's just a matter of taste. (I'm sure the birds would find them pretty tasty . . .)

[Pseudolus]

why do photos of running water often show the water as sort of "air-brushed"? My guess: slow film speed ==> longer exposure times => blurred moving water.

Yup. (No "film" involved in my pictures, equivalent is low ISO setting in the digicam.) I also close the aperture way down and use a polarizing filter - these reduce the total amount of light coming in through the lens and allow for longer exposures.

I would think you'd want a more realisitic look.

It's a taste/art thing. I'm experimenting with that technique, which, as you say, is pretty common. I think the silky-smooth look of the water in shots like that looks good when other, rougher-textured elements are included for contrast.

Here's a comparison. I used the same composition each time, sequentially decreasing the aperture and increasing the exposure time. Not a great picture, but it works to show the technique.

http://apotheosis.tv/files/water%20comparison.jpg


The exposure times used were: .05 s / .20 s / .62 s

[wheat66]

now that's what I call a reply. thanks.

[Pseudolus]

Can you tell I'm procrastinating on something? :D

[Ultimate Anyone?]

Um... I take it I'm the only one with lovely pictures of little red X's in a white rectangle?

[Jables]

Aren't they beautiful though? Each more amazingly distinct than the last!
<--- can see them all fine

[Pseudolus]

Um... I take it I'm the only one with lovely pictures of little red X's in a white rectangle?

Sorry. I have them stored on a free image-hosting site. Some other lusers probably use the same site to store less-than-work-safe images, so your company may be blocking it.

Here are the direct links if you want, which may or may not work:

http://apotheosis.tv/files/spider%20smaller.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/leaf%20footed%20bug%20small.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/Lady%20Cardinal%20Small.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/2-lip.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/bug1.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/Fly.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/P1010097.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/spider%20eating.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/steppingstone1.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/steppingstone2.jpg
http://apotheosis.tv/files/tree%20sillhouette.jpg

http://apotheosis.tv/files/water%20comparison.jpg

[Ultimate Anyone?]

Um... I take it I'm the only one with lovely pictures of little red X's in a white rectangle?

Sorry. I have them stored on a free image-hosting site. Some other lusers probably use the same site to store less-than-work-safe images, so your company may be blocking it.


Upon checking the independent links... yep, it's blocked. I'll check later at home.

(Must be some pretty racy stuff, with that pseudo air-bruushing and all!)

[Lee Mellon]

Nice photos, Pseu. I suggest a tripod for the longer exposures. The rock in the background gets progessively more blurry with the increase in exposure time. But very nice photos just the same.

[Hagbard Celine]

Whatever you do, do not click one of Pseud's links, then delete everything in the address back to "tv"!! :o

At least not while you're at work. That was unexpected.

BTW, great pics Pseu! :D

Wait a minute...for curiosity sake I tried it again. It must be a random image. Strange. This time it was safe for work.

[Pseudolus]

Whatever you do, do not click one of Pseud's links, then delete everything in the address back to "tv"!! :o

At least not while you're at work. That was unexpected.

Yeah. I think that page randomly loads any of the zillions of pictures that random deviants all over the internet have uploaded there. You might find a picture of a nice sunset, or... not.

BTW, great pics Pseu! :D

Thanks!

[Jables]

Er yeah, I think I'm the one who started using the upload.apotheosis.tv (http://upload.apotheosis.tv/)site to store images, and I've seen a few other people on here use it since then... great for storing and referring to your own pictures (the links are rarely if ever broken), but there are a lot of people that use it, so going to apotheosis.tv (without the upload) takes you to a random image from those uploaded, and there's more NSFW images in the rotation than you need to think about... However, from the safety of home, you can find some interesting stuff circling through the images that are stored there. :)

[Gandalf]

However, from the safety of home, you can find some interesting stuff circling through the images that are stored there. :)With the pictures Buffy has sent me, there's no reason to look elsewhere. But if you don't have her best ones, that site may be the best you can do.

[Jables]

However, from the safety of home, you can find some interesting stuff circling through the images that are stored there. :)With the pictures Buffy has sent me, there's no reason to look elsewhere. But if you don't have her best ones, that site may be the best you can do.

Those pictures are soooo last week... have you seen the videos? Yeah, I didn't think so! :wink:

[Pseudolus]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/P6060626Monochromesillhouette-shrunktosend.jpg

From the lava fields of Oregon.

(Some digital alteration - upped contrast to make the sillhoutte totally dark, made the originally grey bg a little more blue - but most of this was done in-camera by intentional underexposure.)

[Traci]

Awesome shot!

I thought of you a week or so ago Pseud -- I saw a HUGE caterpillar on one of the bushes in my front garden -- it was green and blue and yellow and about 4 inches long.

I looked him up -- turns out he was a cecropia moth caterpillar.

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5479/

4-6 inch wingspan on the little guy! That's a BIRD!

I was going to put him in our "butterfly habitat" and watch him emerge -- supposed to be pretty cool -- but then I kept reading and discovered he will only live for about 2 weeks -- because he can't eat.

His only purpose in his short life is to mate --- so I said, "you GO little guy!" :D

[glenn]

Pseud - very cool stuff. Any good resources/books for someone who has a digital cam and wants to know just enough about how to take pics so that I don't take the top of someone's head off?

[Traci]

Any good resources/books for someone who has a digital cam and wants to know just enough about how to take pics so that I don't take the top of someone's head off?

Well -- that's the beauty of the digital cam -- you look at the little screen - instead of through the viewfinder -- and then after you snap the pic, you flash it back on the screen and make sure you got what you wanted.

[Pseudolus]

sparkly -

I don't really have any books to suggest. My method has been trial and error, and error, and error.... Take a lot of exposures, varying everything you can think of, and then see what looks best when you get back to your computer.

My best tips have come from photo magazines - Peterson's Photographic and Outdoor Photographer - more the second than the first, given the kinds of pictures I like to take.

Traci -

Very cool. I've never seen that kind of a moth (or its caterpillar), but I'll keep an eye out. It turns out that having a no-eat/sex-only adult form is fairly common in the insect world. Seems pretty weird, but I guess it works for them.

[Maine-iac]

The latest pic is excellent. Makes a lovely avatar. :tup:

[Traci]

Very cool. I've never seen that kind of a moth (or its caterpillar), but I'll keep an eye out. It turns out that having a no-eat/sex-only adult form is fairly common in the insect world. Seems pretty weird, but I guess it works for them.

The other thing I read about the cecropia is that they never become a pest because they have so many predators and so few defenses. (a lot of that in the insect world too I guess)

But that was another reason I didn't want to risk killing it by keeping it contained.

[Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.]

i am still waiting for the pics of the nude women on the strip to be posted.

[PK]

Any good resources/books for someone who has a digital cam and wants to know just enough about how to take pics so that I don't take the top of someone's head off?

Well -- that's the beauty of the digital cam -- you look at the little screen - instead of through the viewfinder -- and then after you snap the pic, you flash it back on the screen and make sure you got what you wanted.I hate taking pictures by looking at the screen. I think I am the only person in america still looking through the view finder on the camera. But, the trick is that you don't need to crop the picture when you take it. Make sure you are far enough back so that everything is in the picture, and then crop it later when you can see exactly where their head is.

[J.T.]

Any good resources/books for someone who has a digital cam and wants to know just enough about how to take pics so that I don't take the top of someone's head off?

Well -- that's the beauty of the digital cam -- you look at the little screen - instead of through the viewfinder -- and then after you snap the pic, you flash it back on the screen and make sure you got what you wanted.I hate taking pictures by looking at the screen. I think I am the only person in america still looking through the view finder on the camera. But, the trick is that you don't need to crop the picture when you take it. Make sure you are far enough back so that everything is in the picture, and then crop it later when you can see exactly where their head is.

I still look through the viewfinder. The main reason for that is so I don't have camera jiggle. It's much too difficult to get a non-blurred picture holding the camera away from your body.

[Pseudolus]

Bracing is a good way to make your pictures sharper. I prefer using a nearby tree, wall, rock etc. rather than my noggin. Relatively few of my pictures are taken from standard "eye level", and often putting my head in the space behind where I want the camera to be would be... ungainly, to say the least.

[Pseudolus]

I'm guessing that the part she's not telling us is that she then stepped on the bug, cackling with glee.

[Pseudolus]

You folks in Oregon sure do have a lot of moss.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/mossanddroplets.jpg

[Pseudolus]

What, more moss?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/mossuptree.jpg

Even for the less moss-centric, though, you Oregonians do have some nice scenery,

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/ORCoast.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/lavaandflowers.jpg

and some nice birds.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/Avocets.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/Peli.jpg

[Guest]

I could have done without the spider pics :o but Pseud, these are gorgeous shots! :clap:

[Pseudolus]

Thanks! All future spider pix will be sequestered in "Bug Chat". :)

[Pseudolus]

Outside my window five minutes ago:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/P2212777_shrink.jpg

[Pseudolus]

I guess he didn't like the way his portrait came out, 'cause he came back and posed again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/P2212782_shrink.jpg

Better, sir?

[Kaput Shakur]

Nice pictures, Pseud, but you've made a beginning photog's mistake: It looks like there are branches growing out of his head. Have him pose in front of a neutral background.

[Pseudolus]

Ran around yesterday with my camera. Here's one of the fruits of that. NE winters stink, but NE autumns have their charms.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/P1010080AutumnWatchemocket.jpg

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Also, I sold some of my pictures for the first time today. Okay, not "sold" in the sense that I personally got any money for them, but "sold" in the sense that I donated them to my church bazaar and they got some money for them. I'm told they sold pretty quickly, too. (One happened to be that cardinal above, paired in a frame with a shot of a female cardinal. Another was one of the "falls" pix that was seen in this thread until the apotheosis free-image-server conked out.) I'm just tickled that people I don't even know will now have my pictures hanging in their houses.

[Listerine]

When might we expect shots of the tree frog, light of my life???

[Pseudolus]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/SmlP7310741.jpg

[foghorn]

Great pics pseud. Not to hijack a thread, but it seemed the most appropriate of the threads my search found. I am just getting into some amateur photography. I bought a new digital camera last week. My question; where's a good online site to share my pics with friends and family? I see the apothesis one in this thread. I would like some security and control over who views these pics, at least at first for my own peace of mind. Any suggestions?

[ShakeNBakes]

Great pics pseud. Not to hijack a thread, but it seemed the most appropriate of the threads my search found. I am just getting into some amateur photography. I bought a new digital camera last week. My question; where's a good online site to share my pics with friends and family? I see the apothesis one in this thread. I would like some security and control over who views these pics, at least at first for my own peace of mind. Any suggestions?www.photomax.com is pretty sweet. You can store your pics there (first 5GB is free), and then you "share" the pics you want with who you want. And then there's the cool part. People you share the photos with can then purchase prints of the pics they want (if they live continental US) directly from the website. There's other cool stuff too. If you reference someone who's already a member (ie. me, PM for email address) you get 15 free 4x6 prints from them.

[foghorn]

www.photomax.com (http://www.photomax.com) is pretty sweet. You can store your pics there (first 5GB is free), and then you "share" the pics you want with who you want. And then there's the cool part. People you share the photos with can then purchase prints of the pics they want (if they live continental US) directly from the website. There's other cool stuff too. If you reference someone who's already a member (ie. me, PM for email address) you get 15 free 4x6 prints from them.

Thanks, that sounds a lot like what I want. I'll check it out tonight.

[Pseudolus]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/pseudolus/RFPix/P1200036Adj.jpg

The bird's better than the photo, but still, not bad.