Photography Club.

[nodnarb1978]

ok I just thought you were callin me out, so I thought I would explain

[nodnarb1978]

The lake

[moldylogic]

Beast: Nice pic of the baby Amanita muscaria.
Did ya eat the bolete, or was it too old?

[chimp]

I played around with a couple pics in photoshop

[Beastmaster]

I ate the bolete and the hedgehog, prepared Japanese tempura style. MMMM DELICIOUS!!!! THE best way to prepare mushrooms, imho.

The amanita pic I call 'Amanita Rising' I'm quite proud of it, took a bit of work with photoshop of combining two pics, one with flash one with long exposure. I guess its my first successful attempt at using photoshop to improve a photo, pro style. Thanks for the compliment, moldylogic.

[shroom_seeker]

Some damn fine pics so far all - thx for pointing this out oib. Neat photoshop effects in those last few.

[apear]

Pre Canoe trip.

[shroom_seeker]

Thats the look of a dog who's ready to get out and give it hell!

[wildburr]

Love the spring blooms I get every year in my Yard.

My Pear tree.




My Tulips.




And my Dafodils.

[apear]

tulips rock

[Mermaidia]

Cute little dog. That pic made me smile.

[MycoChondria]

Wow...never seen a pic of a pear tree before...that's awesome!

[TastyBeverage]

Love the red of those tulips, very vibrant! You need to pull that dandelion though, heh.

Good stuff in this thread, lets see more!

[moldylogic]

Slightly off topic, but if you have many dandelions, in soil where you can easily pull up the roots.
Try chopping 'em up roasting and brew like coffee. Its quite tasty (similar to chicory) , and a powerful diuretic

[nodnarb1978]

Here is one my wife took today!

[gtieken]

Enjoy

[twoguysupnorth]

what is that nod? a lupine? the rest are nice pics too.

[apear]

mornin shot

[apear]

Turtle

[twoguysupnorth]

its still early spring here.

[the_chosen_one]

salvia divinorum flower

[milkman]

These pictures were taken with a Cannon SD1000
The first one is just a picture I took when I was bored. The second one is a picture in the park the other night. It turned out realy odd and creepy.

edit:
btw, that is not a moon in that picture. It was cloudy that night. I am not sure what happened or why that spot is there.

[the_chosen_one]

dogwood

oregon grape

black huckleberry

[elijah36608]

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...cle3938717.ece
A device that lets a camera take pictures with 100 times the resolution of the most advanced models on the market is poised to revolutionise amateur photography.
The Gigapan allows people to take pictures which are more than a gigapixel - or 1,000 megapixels - in size, effectively turning a single photograph into a panoramic experience, around which the viewer can navigate on a computer.
Yet the actual camera used is no more specialised than a regular digital model.
The Gigapan uses a robot mounted on a tripod to command a normal camera to take several hundred separate photographs of a single scene - each at a slightly different angle.




The individual photographs are then stitched together by software on the owner's computer - much as amateurs have attempted to do for years by after taking several pictures of a wide landscape, only with more impressive results.
In this photograph of the South Bank in London, the viewer can zoom in on different parts of the same photo to reveal the number of people in one of the pods on the London Eye, or the time shown by Big Ben - 7.24pm - even though each is hundreds of metres away.
By bringing together more than 350 separate, highly zoomed-in photographs in a single image, the GigaPan allows viewers to zoom in and out of different parts of the same image, creating the impression of a 3D environment.
The device, which derives its name from the fact that each of its composite images contains more than a billion pixels, is in effect doing for amateur photographs what Google Earth does for satellite imagery.
In a demonstration of the device given to Times Online, the Gigapan took 360 images of San Francisco bay over a period of about ten minutes - 36 across and 10 in each column.
The overall period of exposure is longer than with a traditional panoramic camera - which presents problems if moving objects enter the frame, as these ghostly images of torsos without legs show. By the time the camera tilts itself down several degrees after taking an picture which included a man's upper body, his legs are out of shot.
The viewing experience once the composite image is loaded onto a PC is remarkable. A typical image taken by a ten-megapixel camera, which would contain ten million pixels, becomes more fuzzy as you zoom in on it. The Gigapan's, by comparison, retains its sharpness across its full breadth and width.
The Gigapan was created by a group of academics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the aim of allowing people to learn about foreign countries and culture by providing them with rich imagery of unfamiliar places.
"Our goal is to bring the world closer together by making it possible for anybody to take these panoramas and show them to people across the world," Randy Sargent, chief architect of the project at Carnegie Mellon, said.
The camera, one of several initiatives of the Global Connection Project (GCP), which is backed by Nasa, Google and National Geographic, is still being tested, but will likely cost "in the order of several hundred dollars" when released, according to a person involved with the trials.
The GCP has not given any pricing details, or a release date for the Gigapan.
Digital cameras which take high resolution panoramic images have been around for several years, but are expensive. One, made by PanoScan, costs $37,000.







The following link is to a site that features a few of these panoramas.
http://www.gigapan.org/. I thought everyone might get a kick out of these.

[ShroomGuerilla]

[joystik]

Nice, Think i saw about the 1000 megapixel done somewhere else, too.

[twoguysupnorth]

does anyone happen to know what this is? i found it in the woods today and havnt ever seen another one around here. it looks alot like holly or mistletoe to me.

[s0mer4ndom1diot]

i like how the part of my hand you cant see casts a shadow on the wall...

[apear]

Frog what you lookin at?

[al-cabar]

Oriental cherry

[the_chosen_one]

Originally Posted by twoguysupnorth

does anyone happen to know what this is? i found it in the woods today and havnt ever seen another one around here. it looks alot like holly or mistletoe to me.
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oregon grape (mahonia aquifolium) i also posted a pic three posts back but you can't really see the leaves those flowers will turn to berries soon. it also has medicinal properties..

quote -
Oregon Grape, Tall (Mahonia aquifolium)
Family: Berberidaceae
Perennial evergreen shrub. Native to the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The leaves resemble holly, and in the spring the bright yellow, compound flowers emit delightful fragrance, and soak up the dew like a sponge. Oregon Grape has a bitter and cold energy, serving as a gentle stimulant to liver function while it controls excessive secretions of the mucous membranes. It has thus been used to good effect for treating psoriasis, poor appetite, indigestion, oral herpes and bronchitis. Good for treating questionable water when travelling. Contains berberine and is therefore used as a Golden seal substitute. Rhizomes yield a golden dye. Cultivation: Extra care. Cold soil germinator. Sow outdoors in fall or early spring. Allow seedlings to grow for a year or more in nursery beds or in pots, then transplant to permanent location, 4 feet apart. Grows to 6 feet.

here's a few pics from yesterdays canoe trip. a most beautiful beach with a small lagoon. water access only. heh, almost lost the canoe when the tide came back in. forgot to tie it down the first time

[twoguysupnorth]

sweet TCO, that is good to know. i live in the midwest so that sort of explains why i havnt ever seen one. it was growing along a nature preserve path near here. it is quite a large bush, spreading many feet along the ground. the smell is sweet like dandylions and/or buttercups. i'll have to research it some and see if i can propigate it. much appreciated.

[the_chosen_one]

Originally Posted by twoguysupnorth

sweet TCO, that is good to know. i live in the midwest so that sort of explains why i havnt ever seen one. it was growing along a nature preserve path near here. it is quite a large bush, spreading many feet along the ground. the smell is sweet like dandylions and/or buttercups. i'll have to research it some and see if i can propigate it. much appreciated.

my pleasure! they grow like weeds here. larger patches are very fragrant. good luck!

some rhodies..

[wildburr]

The return of old friends



And the new addition to our family, Jenny (Shes a rescue)

[Looky]

I'm about to go get a memory card. The prices vary a lot. I can get 2 X 2GB Kodac cards for $25 at W*****T. There are also cards as much as $50 for a 2GB card. Does it really make a difference? I just want to be able to store more than 8 pictures on my camera. I do want the pictures to be high quality, but I would think that would have more to do with the camera and not the card. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[TastyBeverage]

A 2 gb card should do you ok unless you take hundreds of pics at one go. I just got an 8 MP camera and my 2 gb card will hold almost 1000 pics at highest resolution.

[Looky]

Thanks. I am only going to get the 2 GB card. I guess the difference between a $12.50 2GB card and a $50 2 GB card is the speed that it will upload. I will probably just go with the $20 scandisk, I think that should suit me fine.

[TastyBeverage]

Post some pics here after you try out the new card!

[AKcoast]

I have wanted to post something to this thread for a long time. I walked down to the Chilkat river this morning and got a few pix. I thought this one should be good enough to post...

[cactusveda]

A CARPENTER BEE .........

[joystik]

Cactus, those are great shots. What setup have u got? Gotta love the detail.

[omentheduck]

I must say there are some awesome pics in this thread!

[joystik]

A few pics from a recent trip... Were taken in complete darkness. The light on the first one is city lights reflected on the clouds. The second one is self explanatory....I hope.

Taken with nikon d300 18-55mm vr lens and a tripod. 15 sec exposure.

[AKcoast]

I took this one a few weeks ago, down at the river.

[weeeeeee]

damn cactus those pics are amazing thank you

[twoguysupnorth]

nice everybody

[Looky]

This is just a picture of my girl. Sorry, is posting a picture of my pet alright in this thread? She was smiling so I had to snap a shot. Her eyes didn't come out well in the picture though. I have a great picture in mind to take and will take it in the next couple of evenings (it's really beautiful).

[Looky]

Not the best picture. I was trying to hurry and find my camera and take a picture before they all disappeared. I was also still trying to figure out how to use my new camera. You can only see about half of them, the other half already disappeared into the woods. There were over 20 deer.

[omentheduck]

heres a few I fond on my sd card.

[chimp]

I picked up this hitchhiker in the windshield of my car the other day and got a few shots before it jumped out at it's final destination.