Random Photos You Took - Page 53

Upward · #**1041** Posted **Mar 11, 2007, 9:04 PM**

Urban Sky · #**1042** Posted **Mar 11, 2007, 9:34 PM**

The "Monday Night Car Club" meets on Tuesday night across the street from my house.

OOOO, Baracuda!

The Star of India - Downtown San Diego @ The Embarcadero.

Derek · #**1043** Posted **Mar 11, 2007, 9:39 PM**

no way! ive seen that 'Cuda before on the 163

Urban Sky · #**1044** Posted **Mar 11, 2007, 9:41 PM**

Yeah, I dont think he lives by me, i think he just drives out that way. They usually all drive together. Sometimes with a shit load of PT Cruisers that are all modified. Old people...hha

Derek · #**1045** Posted **Mar 11, 2007, 9:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urban Sky

Yeah, I dont think he lives by me, i think he just drives out that way. They usually all drive together. Sometimes with a shit load of PT Cruisers that are all modified. Old people...hha

yeah he was in 8 east lane...

funny stuff

Goody · #**1046** Posted **Mar 12, 2007, 5:02 AM**

NH for life

Urban Sky · #**1047** Posted **Mar 12, 2007, 5:48 AM**

noisy

Derek · #**1048** Posted **Mar 12, 2007, 5:49 AM**

noisy??

Urban Sky · #**1049** Posted **Mar 12, 2007, 6:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by Derek loves SD

noisy??

the picture looks kinda speckly..or is it just my computer?

svast · #**1050** Posted **Mar 12, 2007, 8:53 PM**

I think it's a vibrant photo from Goody.

HomeInMyShoes · #**1051** Posted **Mar 12, 2007, 10:37 PM**

What is it with St. Louis and early 80s Pontiacs?. Yes, I think there's a line with after-processing that I crossed, but the unscaled version works really well for a desktop background.

Urban Sky · #**1052** Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 12:28 AM**

San Diego, Ca sunset - 03-11-07
I believe that is venus in the upper right corner of the shot.

Goody · #**1053** Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 4:23 AM**

^ dude that is tight

KevinFromTexas · #**1054** Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 8:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

What is it with St. Louis and early 80s Pontiacs?. Yes, I think there's a line with after-processing that I crossed, but the unscaled version works really well for a desktop background.

Heh. My sister-in-law still has her grandmother's '86 Pontiac Bonneville. We all call it the "Green Latrine". That car is a tank! I have no idea where that latrine part of the name came from.

HomeInMyShoes · #**1055** Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 12:49 PM**

My friend had one and I remember driving around in high school and university in a blue one. Probably explains why I think the photo is cooler than it actually is. Good times.

Derek · #**1056** Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 1:31 PM**

Urban Sky: nice sunset

HomeInMyShoes: nice bird poop

KevinFromTexas · #**1057** Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 2:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

My friend had one and I remember driving around in high school and university in a blue one. Probably explains why I think the photo is cooler than it actually is. Good times.

I'm partial to the color blue. I like it, too.

There are still a few of those old Bonneville's around. I live in South Austin an area notorius for old American tanks right along side Toyotas and Nissans. It's funny actually.

Here are some shots of the moon I took early last fall. They didn't come out as good as I had hoped. For a few of these I actually had the camera looking through our telescope. The view through the telescope was way better than this. I think the camera was having trouble focusing on it through the view finder. Still you can make out the craters.

And this was a shot I took from down at my old high school at about 3 in the morning.

HomeInMyShoes · #**1058** Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 2:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Derek loves SD

Urban Sky: nice sunset

HomeInMyShoes: nice bird poop

It's not my car so I'm not cleaning it. I'm more partial to the crack straight through the whole tail-light piece showing that that it's obviously not chrome.

That last moon shot is nice. Did you try manually focusing through the telescope viewfinder KevinFromTexas?

KevinFromTexas · #**1059** Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 3:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

That last moon shot is nice. Did you try manually focusing through the telescope viewfinder KevinFromTexas?

Yes. But that wasn't really the problem. The telescope was focused properly, I think it was just that the camera was going back and forth between focusing on the moon and the inside of the telescope. Would fiddling with the metering mode help with this? I got the idea from a page at space.com which says you can use this method for taking pictures of the moon. It didn't work too well, and incidently the pic that did come out the best, the last one, was done without the telescope. Without a mega lens this is the best I could do.

It's also a bit hard to do this since you have to keep the moon in the view finder since it orbits the earth. The moon actually disappears from the view about every 15 seconds or so, so you have to keep readjusting to keep it there. That's a trick to do with a telescope set up and a camera directly behind it on a tripod.

HomeInMyShoes · #**1060** Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 4:53 PM**

^You misunderstood. I was suggesting manually focusing the camera after focusing the telescope, but the 15 second thing would mean you'd have to work reasonably quick.