^oh snap, is that a North Carolina Meth Lab?

-ZiP!-

7/20/2006 10:55:40 PM

7/20/2006 10:58:38 PM

^^ haha - that's what happens when you fall asleep while reheating some leftover vegetable beef soup.
otherwise i'd be behind bars like ^

7/20/2006 11:04:00 PM

Smith Mountain Lake, VA this past weekend...








Forgot to add this one...

[Edited on July 20, 2006 at 11:57 PM. Reason : v Flash is exactly what I should have done... still learning. Thanks!]

7/20/2006 11:42:02 PM

^next time try to use the flash in daylight. it will "fill" in the shadows.

7/20/2006 11:47:39 PM

so nikon is coming out with a new camera.

10.2mp. and thats all they say. 19 days... blasted teaser trailers... this ain't a movie!

7/22/2006 2:02:27 PM

bttt

I'll hopefully have an update done tonight, depending on whether or not I can get my wireless card installed and working before I pass out from exhaustion.

7/23/2006 9:23:52 AM

finally installed photoshop CS2:

before --------> after

-ZiP!-

7/23/2006 1:07:16 PM

Look'n good there ZiP!

7/23/2006 6:54:32 PM

What did you do for the post processing?

7/23/2006 7:00:41 PM

We need to start a new page.

7/23/2006 7:01:22 PM

1) curves/colors to get the colors less reddish (i tend to always shoot sorta red in cases like this, if i set the white balance to "shade"
2) lens distortion correction to get the buildings to be straight (filter->distort->lens correction)
3) unsharp mask

its the barrel distortion that i didn't really have a great way of handling before finally making the upgrade to CS2. i don't yet understand the vanishing point option, but perhaps soon.

-ZiP!-

[Edited on July 23, 2006 at 7:30 PM. Reason : ]

7/23/2006 7:28:41 PM

TAKE THAT SHIT, FAGS

7/24/2006 8:08:57 PM

okay

7/24/2006 8:28:16 PM

tentacle monsters!

7/24/2006 9:18:51 PM

Take at the trails in Fuquay.

7/25/2006 10:22:26 AM

I took this with a regular digital camera, but I think it is a neat picture.

7/25/2006 10:29:53 AM

REGULAR!?!?

WHAT?

GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT PEASENT EQUIPMENT!!!





nah just kidding. cool pictures from ^ and ^^
there are alot of people in here that use point and shoot digital cameras.
feel free to add more

7/25/2006 10:32:54 AM

i know i do

but it's a NICE p&s!

7/25/2006 10:33:35 AM

i feel silly cuz i had a 2 mega pixel coolpix 2500 before my D50.

and some of the pictures i took with that camera i'm like... wow...

maybe i like it because it was back in the day... i dunno

7/25/2006 10:38:56 AM

i had a 3.1mp kodak before i stepped up to the 8mp fz30...i took some awesome outdoor shots with the kodak, but it was horrible for indoor shots...now i couldn't imagine using a camera without manual settings...it was just...barbaric

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 10:41 AM. Reason : .]

7/25/2006 10:41:10 AM

Quote :

"now i couldn't imagine using a camera without manual settings...it was just...barbaric"

7/25/2006 2:18:33 PM

Now that I am unsuspended, I will make an update in a few hours when I get home.

7/25/2006 2:32:16 PM

g'damn they got some nice shots here.
http://news.yahoo.com/page/week_in_photos

7/25/2006 3:06:53 PM

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 3:56 PM. Reason : *]

7/25/2006 3:45:06 PM

Tww is murdering these pics but I dont really have any other place to host them so fuck it.... These were from my uncle flower farm.

7/25/2006 4:09:07 PM

I'm diggin' the latern and chess photos.

7/25/2006 5:17:01 PM

7/25/2006 7:17:33 PM

Since I haven't posted anything in a while....

7/25/2006 7:22:20 PM

River Thames, London

7/25/2006 7:40:32 PM

london... photogenic??

now I've seen everything

7/25/2006 7:41:54 PM

nm.

-ZiP!-

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 7:59 PM. Reason : already been posted]

7/25/2006 7:48:17 PM

it's just an ugly, dirty looking city. ONE MAN'S OPINION!

7/25/2006 7:49:22 PM

It's a fun place to shoot, there's a bunch of randomness to it which makes it fun.

^ Have you been to Paris?

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 7:50 PM. Reason : slow interweb]

7/25/2006 7:49:49 PM

nm.

-ZiP!-

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 7:59 PM. Reason : already been posted]

7/25/2006 7:53:16 PM

i really like the closeup leaf pics, Ronny

7/25/2006 7:55:58 PM

-ZiP!-

7/25/2006 11:33:52 PM

Are you on this season of the real world?



Also matt you are gay.

7/25/2006 11:43:13 PM

i was an airplane photographer today apparently.

pictures will be up around this weekend

7/26/2006 9:02:09 PM

^^^ I vote ZiP for the "Most Self Portrait Shots" award.

7/26/2006 9:14:42 PM

what a great thread.. i'm in the market for a DSLR, not sure which one yet, leaning towards the rebel though...

these were all taken with a Fuji S-5000, and for most of them I had no clue what i was doing, I was just trying to take some neat pictures I guess...

Please give me some feedback on them I would appreciate it greatly... I'm still new to this whole photo thing but am very interested in it as a hobby.

Thanks

http://community.webshots.com/album/552595619sycoVE

7/26/2006 10:35:28 PM

^nice man - i like the fountain shot (with water droplets), the spiderweb, and the barnacles on the rocks.

i'm beginning to think its hard to make flowers look decent in shots, though we all try to. perhaps you need a point of reference, like the size of the spider on Ronny's leaf was nice.

^^guilty as charged

-ZiP!-

7/26/2006 10:49:10 PM

I don't like cats, but this one was pretty photogenic.


A barn, some cows, snow; West Virginia at it's finest.


Falls Lake Dam. The police came while I was taking these and I got the terrist treatment. OMF A DUDE WITH A CAMERA!


Downtown Raleigh.

[Edited on July 26, 2006 at 11:26 PM. Reason : l]

7/26/2006 11:22:31 PM

great shots man.

here are 2 i took today, unfortunately they turned out crappy:

the view from my desk:


the view from my table at dinner:


-ZiP!-

[Edited on July 26, 2006 at 11:31 PM. Reason : great contrast on the trainyard, skack]

7/26/2006 11:30:45 PM

so i know this isn't exactly on topic, but i got a fuji (?) camera over a year ago, for christmas. at that time, my laptop was basically in the shitter. now i can't find the cd the software is on, so i can upload pics i take onto my laptop. i've tried just downloading the correct drivers from the website but it's still not enough to get it to work. is there something else I can do? i'd love to use this camera more, but i just don't b/c i can't get em on my computer.

7/26/2006 11:34:03 PM

^i'd recommend getting a really inexpensive USB card reader to transfer the images onto your machine. the memory card will show up just like a drive, and you'll be able to drag and drop, no software needed.

-ZiP!-

7/26/2006 11:35:26 PM

ooh thanks. my parents are tired of asking me why i don't use my camera more. like why i didn't have it at my brother's graduation.

7/26/2006 11:36:39 PM

I really wish I didn't drop my camera

7/26/2006 11:38:09 PM

so i'm excited. i saw that i can get a reader for about $8 online. once i get some money, i'm excited to take this thing for a spin. it's a fujifilm finepix s3000...seems really nice, but i've never been able to see what my pictures look like on the computer.

just excited.

7/27/2006 11:39:58 PM

skack i love that pic of the water tower

for some reason i find industrial yards like that very enchanting in photographs

7/27/2006 11:46:44 PM