Mark P Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 I coppied the below from http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/... thought it was interesting. Halloween's origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a day halfway between an equinox (equal day / equal night) and a solstice (minimum day / maximum night in the northern hemisphere). With a modern calendar, however, the real cross-quarter day will occur next week. Another cross-quarter day is Groundhog's Day. Halloween's modern celebration retains historic roots in dressing to scare away the spirits of the dead.
kurt Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 Kibbel doesn't normally share pictures of his abode. Looks like you've been fixin' the place up lately; good work!
Marc Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 Thanks for the new desktop wallpaper Bill. Is there a larger image available? If not, it's fine. Marc
Terence McCann Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 Wow. Commercial grade - very nice.
Erby Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 Kids were standing in the pumpkin patch to have their pictures taken. Click to Enlarge 93.69 KB Note: Not my creativity, but my wife's mixed with some plywood and paint.
Inspectorjoe Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 I really splurged on the costume this year. Click to Enlarge 41.55 KB
gtblum Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 I tried to be nice this year. Last year I passed out candy onions. You know, a stick, wrapper, the whole nine yards. Whatever the hell that means. Parents didn't think it was funny. This year I handed out slices of bread. No sugar. I thought it was a great Idea. They got mad again.
Tom Raymond Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 It's a wonder your place doesn't get TP'd[:-ghost]
Chad Fabry Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 Am I the only one that wants to fix the house in the pic Bill posted?
Marc Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 My dream is to make a house like Bill's my next dwelling and to spend my retirement repairing and updating it. Marc
gtblum Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 Am I the only one that wants to fix the house in the pic Bill posted? That depends on what you mean by fix.
kurt Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 Am I the only one that wants to fix the house in the pic Bill posted? I'm in, if Kibble will move out when we're working.
Tom Raymond Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 Are you sure? I mean there will be plenty of jobs that would require a poop boy.[:-dev3]
Jim Morrison Posted November 1, 2010 Report Posted November 1, 2010 Am I the only one that wants to fix the house in the pic Bill posted? Dawg, You need to spend a little less time in other people's houses and a little more time outside. You got enough firewood to feed that oak-munching hunk of boiler you got outside this season? If not, it's time you tuned the Stihl up and started making some sawdust. Jimmy
hausdok Posted March 8, 2014 Report Posted March 8, 2014 Bill or Mike Lamb, What is the technique used to get those photos jumping off the page like that one in the OP? What is the technique used that makes a digital picture look almost like a painting or color sketch? OT - OF!!!
Bill Kibbel Posted March 8, 2014 Author Report Posted March 8, 2014 HDR imaging. (high dynamic range) At the most basic level, it's layering several photos of the same scene that were taken with different exposure levels. Using software, the photos are blended together to form a single image that shows a wide range of detail found in real scenes. Greater detail can be seen in the areas in direct sunlight and in the deep shadows. Check out Trey Ratcliff's stuff. he does it for a living. http://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/
Mike Lamb Posted March 8, 2014 Report Posted March 8, 2014 Professional photographers and serious hobbyists have nice cameras, tripods, and most importantly, time to execute great stuff. For people like me with cheap cameras and not a lot of time to shoot pictures a good software program goes a long way. I use Corel PSP X2 which is a power packed photo software program which doesn't cost a lot of money. About 100 bucks I think. It has sharpening tools and hundreds of nuances you can use to produce and modify images. Some sharpening tools are as simple as pressing a button once, twice, etc. I also use Photoshop Elements which is also powerful but does not provide the nuances that Corel does. I pasted this from the help section of my Corel program. Most digital photos need some level of sharpening because of the softness introduced in the capturing process of digital cameras. Camera movement at the moment of capture can also produce photos in need of sharpening, and digital cameras are more prone than film cameras to producing slightly out-of-focus photos. In most cases, this problem is easy to fix. Color, tonal, and resizing corrections tend to soften your photo, so it is best to apply any necessary sharpening before you print, share, or archive your photos. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo provides sharpening commands that improve blurry photos by increasing the contrast of adjacent pixels. The following sharpening commands can be applied to a selection, a layer, or the entire photo: ? You can sharpen high-frequency details, such as edges, while ignoring low-frequency details, such as large structures, gradients, and background colors. ? You can improve image focus and clarity by increasing the contrast between adjacent pixels, particularly along edges in the photo. ? You can sharpen the mid- to high-contrast edges in the image without enhancing noise, as is often done with professional color correction.
Mike Lamb Posted March 8, 2014 Report Posted March 8, 2014 Corel PSP X2 screen. Click to Enlarge 26.3 KB
hausdok Posted March 9, 2014 Report Posted March 9, 2014 OK, Thanks, not sure that's what I'm looking at. I'm trying to figure out what special effects were used on this photo. Both photos are of the same car. The first photo is obviously taken using normal exposure, etc., the second has had something done to it. I thought it was pretty interesting the way it make it look like it was hand drawn/painted. Click to Enlarge 62.07 KB Click to Enlarge 94.93 KB ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike
John Kogel Posted March 9, 2014 Report Posted March 9, 2014 The Studey went for a ride on a flatdeck trailer for the 2nd pic, where Gypsies turned it into a digital painting. No, I don't know either.
Bill Kibbel Posted March 9, 2014 Author Report Posted March 9, 2014 The second image might have started as HDR but then was heavily tone mapped. In my opinion, most tone mapped images are over-processed. They become over-textured and the colors excessively saturated. The pure HDR folks call it "burnt".
Marc Posted March 9, 2014 Report Posted March 9, 2014 2nd photo looks a lot like a painting based on that first photo. Marc
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