Night Shots

[fish]

Okay kids, it's nighttime over the entire US (actually, it's early morning in Waxyland). Wake up those cameras and let's see some dark stuff. Come on...let's see it.

[ian408]

Okay kids, it's nighttime over the entire US (actually, it's early morning in Waxyland). Wake up those cameras and let's see some dark stuff. Come on...let's see it.
http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/1915311-M.jpg

[ian408]

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/1915310-M.jpg

[fish]

no no no...go out and shoot now. You've already shot those.

cool flare, huh?

[ian408]

no no no...go out and shoot now. You've already shot those.

cool flare, huh?
Cool flair but the only thing my eyes want to see right now is the
pillow :):

Ian

[fish]

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[knary]

warm/cool (might be too dark to be readable on a windows box)

[fish]

attaboy, knary!

[knary]

silly shot 99,247

[fish]

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[wxwax]

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/2211429-M.jpg

[fish]

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[fish]

the flug filter :)

[fish]

11

[gus]

I like that one fish...

What is it the cherokee headlight ?

[fish]

I like that one fish...

What is it the cherokee headlight ?
:nod

[cmr164]

http://www.iisc.com/dgrin/1214008_s.jpg

Night riders...

[Wolf]

Very cool. This one really projects some strange feelings... Awesome.

[Richard Cabesa]

Here is one I took this evening.

http://richard-cabesa.smugmug.com/photos/2223083-M.jpg

[wxwax]

Can't be. Where's the snow? :rofl

[gus]

Every night at about 7 pm, there are a few thousand Flying Fox's going over. I dunno how to photograph them...


http://humongous.smugmug.com/photos/2225598-M.jpg

[gus]

.http://humongous.smugmug.com/photos/2225618-M.jpg

[gus]

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http://humongous.smugmug.com/photos/2225638-M.jpg

[gus]

Hmmm...think i got a 'rod' in that last shot. How about that ?

[fish]

I love those images of the FFs (:lol). Nice color work. I wish I could catch a rod in a photo.

[gus]

The little buggars eyesight is spot on & every time i hit the button....the auto focus seems to deflect them. Man can they bite !

Now i know what a rod is at least.

[gus]

Daym fish...now i am wanting a telephoto. Last time i opened my wallet...Henry Lawson put sunnies on.

Here come the lads.


http://humongous.smugmug.com/photos/2251865-M.jpg

[Seamaiden]

<note to self; search glossary - rod>

I'm still working on this stuff.. (BOY am I glad I found a place that lets the noobs be boobs!) I've only just realized the wisdom of setting my quality a bit higher (but still want a bit of compression, as I have no intention of printing anything at this point). The following views are from an area east of downtown Los Angeles, looking west by southwest. A little to the left of the frame would be the island of Catalina. The rise to the right is the Signal Hill area, just around Long Beach.

These first two are of pretty much the same area. I couldn't tell you WHAT I did to change the tone of the lights, but clearly something happened there (this is an awful lot like my cooking, rarely can I duplicate a recipe). I think I'll just submit these as more of a series.

[Seamaiden]

Oy.. alright, gotta learn to work with the system. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that one's zoomed in a bit more. Didn't think that would change the quality of the light all that much, but, c'est la vies, eh?

[GREAPER]

Toledo skyline shot. Not taken today but what the heck.

[fish]

Daym fish...now i am wanting a telephoto. Last time i opened my wallet...Henry Lawson put sunnies on.

Here come the lads.


http://humongous.smugmug.com/photos/2251865-M.jpg
Excellent shot, hummer!

[gus]

ta mate...gotta love that f1.8. It was so dark i could hardly see the fox's

[wxwax]

Seamaiden, I'm wondering if by zooming, the auto white balance decided to change? Nice shots.

greaper, nice shot of the buildings and water. Something's wrong with me - I am compelled to shoot buildings, even when the light's no good and the shots are a waste of time.

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/2893147-M.jpg

[zero-zero]

Hum, you can reduce some of that chromanoise easily by turning to LAB color mode and giving a gaussian blur to channels A and B without touching the luminance. You can go back to RGB later. Here's an example using half of your pic:

[Seamaiden]

Seamaiden, I'm wondering if by zooming, the auto white balance decided to change? Nice shots.

greaper, nice shot of the buildings and water. Something's wrong with me - I am compelled to shoot buildings, even when the light's no good and the shots are a waste of time.



Because, architecture speaks to you.

As for the night shots, you must be right about that. This is what I'm getting to like about this stuff, the unexpected results.

[Seamaiden]

Here's a shot I took at dusk. I see the noise, but haven't had the noive to mess about with it more than a serious cropping and reduction for posting (here and on my home sites). I'm still researching The Gimp, there are so many tools, but maybe not being at all familiar with any photo-messing proggies is leaving me at a disadvantage. :dunno

[Seamaiden]

And the previous shot (I have this thing about saving best for last).

[gus]

sea maiden are these taken on auto ?

[gus]

Hum, you can reduce some of that chromanoise easily by turning to LAB color mode and giving a gaussian blur to channels A and B without touching the luminance. You can go back to RGB later. Here's an example using half of your pic:
:huh thanks mate....a little too advanced for me...i cant even see what you did.

[Seamaiden]

Semi-auto settings. I'm pretty bad at taking notes, or even remembering to take notes. This is why I can never truly duplicate anything I cook - I look in the cupboard/kitchen/planting area and see what we have. I get what looks good, may or may not use it.
IIRC, I messed about with the white balance and saturation, and the Oly C-740 has a nighttime auto setting, which I think I used. :dunno

Btw, I can see the difference in what zero did, on the bottom half of the piccie I can clearly see halftones/dots that are in color (I see magenta and cyan, a wee bit o' yellow). The top half they're removed/manipulated so it appears to be that they're almost all b&w, or at least that the screen size of the dots isn't so large. (Sorry for the terminology, I don't think it matches, but I view it with a paste-up artist's eye/training.)

Oh yes! That first link you gave me is exceedingly helpful. Many thanks to that which is Humungus.. :bow

[gus]

Mad curry cooker myself, i should have been an indian...no 2 are ever the same.

Does your camera have BKT (bracket function) on it any where ? This is a function that takes up to 5 photos of the same shot at different settings...its how i am teaching myself...i look at the best shot for that light & try to remember it. If not then over come by sheer volume....take lots of shots at different settings, its free after all.

Now i can also see 00's findings...it was 5.30am when i 1st looked & now its 4.30 pm so things are a little clearer.

[wxwax]

'nuther half-hour they'll be blurry again. :1drink

[gus]

'nuther half-hour they'll be blurry again. :1drink
already there mate....:thumb

[wxwax]

Hic... is it that tea again?

[gus]

Hic... is it that tea again?What ? you blokes dont drink tea ?

The ingredients that give kava kava its kick are kawain, dihydrokawain, methysticin, dihydromethysticin, yangonin, and dihydroyangonin.

and quite legal i might add

[wxwax]

:yikes

Traditional kava use at frequent high doses causes a reversible dermatological condition known as kava dermopathy (Dentali, 1997). Kava dermopathy is an acquired reversible ichthyosis or scaly skin eruption. It arises after prolonged and excessive kava consumption and appears as a generalized, shiny, scaly skin resembling a cracked porcelain glaze (Norton, 1998). Kava dermopathy is believed to be related to interference with cholesterol metabolism (Ruze, 1990; Dentali, 1997).

Heavy consumption of kava has been reported to lead to adverse health effects in some Australian Aborigines (Cawte, 1986, 1988). Mathews and coworkers (1988) conducted a pilot health survey of 39 kava users and 34 non-users in an Aboriginal community. Twenty respondents were very heavy users of kava (mean consumption 440 g/week), 15 were heavy users (310 g/week) and 4 were occasional users (100 g/week). The study found that in addition to causing acute intoxication, sedation and relaxation, a rash, and weight loss in long-term users, kava may also cause liver and renal dysfunction, hematological abnormalities, and possibly pulmonary hypertension. The conclusion that kava affects the liver was based on the markedly-elevated plasma levels of g -glutamyl transferase observed in kava users. At the time of this study, some Aborigines were consuming levels of kava that were up to 100-times higher than those usually consumed in traditional kava societies (Cawte, 1988).

[gus]

No worries...just like booze/smokes...everything in moderation. Some native fijians/aboriginals drink the stuff 12 hours a day 7 days a week so there are bound to be a health probs at that rate. There are massive booze probs here with aboriginal communities...they are trying to get them on to kava in one case. You will never see anyone getting violent with kava.

[wxwax]

Isn't that interesting? Alcohol is a major problem for the native populations in the lower 48, and Alaska, as well.

[MainFragger]

http://mainfragger.smugmug.com/gallery/95450/4/3356115
http://mainfragger.smugmug.com/gallery/95450/4/3356116

These are two different night shots taken from the back lot of a business in an industrial complex at night. To human eyes, the building's back lighting extends to about 10-15 feet off of the back wall of the building.

MainFragger