Faces of the 2006 Shootout

Nikolai · May 30, 2006

I created a little collage using the photomerge techniques Marc showed us in ZIon:

The actual pictures (with the 8mp "originals" enabled ) with all the shootout portraits or somehow people-involved shots are here: http://nik.smugmug.com/gallery/1510402. It is a rather large one, so be aware:-)

If for some reason you think *your* picture should *not* be there - just send me pm/email and the link and I'll gladly remove it. And if you want RAW file(s) of yourself - again, email me and I'll be glad to oblige.

Enjoy shooting your fellow dgrinners! :1drink

Andy · May 30, 2006

Bravo, Nik!

Nikolai · May 30, 2006

Well, thank you, Andy!

Andy wrote:

Bravo, Nik!

My thanks back to you: the whole thing would not happen without you

ehughes · May 30, 2006

Very cool Nik..

davev · May 30, 2006

Very nice Nik.

Nikolai · May 30, 2006

Thanks, Ed!

ehughes wrote:

Very cool Nik..

Glad you liked it! That picture of your daughter is very cute, mho:-)

Cheers!

Nikolai · May 30, 2006

Dave,

davev wrote:

Very nice Nik.

Thanks for posing..

Cheers!

David_S85 · May 30, 2006

Hey Nik, that's pretty cool!
Why do I look so sunburned?

gluwater · May 31, 2006

Very nice Nik. I've got a cool shot of you from Angels Landing that I haven't processed yet, I'll try to post it tonight. You did a great job of including everyone in your shots.

gluwater · May 31, 2006

Alright, I just looked through your gallery of people and I have to say that this shot is just awesome Nik.

aero-nut · May 31, 2006

Ahhh.. I like it. Very creative. Lot of red hats...I wonder why....

D

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

Hey David,

David_S85 wrote:

Hey Nik, that's pretty cool!
Why do I look so sunburned?

Thanks!

Hmm, lemme think...

Because you were?

Cheers!

aero-nut · May 31, 2006

So, Andy got a close up:

Nik strikes again, huh Andy?

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

Nick,

gluwater wrote:

Very nice Nik. I've got a cool shot of you from Angels Landing that I haven't processed yet, I'll try to post it tonight. You did a great job of including everyone in your shots.

Thanks, I tried.. Sometimes it helps to be less shy

Did you like your shot on top of the AL?

Cheers!

gluwater · May 31, 2006

Nikolai wrote:

Thanks, I tried.. Sometimes it helps to be less shy

Did you like your shot on top of the AL?
Cheers!

I like it very much Nik, thanks. Now I actually have proof I was there.

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

That was Skippy

gluwater wrote:

Alright, I just looked through your gallery of people and I have to say that this shot is just awesome Nik.

Thanks!

This was in fact an awesome place. Called Island In The Sky, Green River view, in Canyonlands, next to Moab, UT.
We were shooting sunset there. Skippy and I broke away from the pack and wandered over here:

See a little fella on the top of the drop-off on the very right? We were there. And, unlike AL, there was absolutely nothing there that would keep you away from a dozen or so seconds of a free fall...

Thanks for checking out!

Cheers!

David_S85 · May 31, 2006

Awesome shots, Nik. Keep 'em coming!

Ann McRae · May 31, 2006

Nik
Fabulous!!!!!
It was such a delight to meet you; you were a most gracious host.

Sigh, too bad I'm so well ummmmmm unphotogenic these days.

My new tag line is going to be

"I'm still hot, it just comes in flashes these days!"

Again, Nik, it was a real pleasure to meet you. I hope I have the opportunity to do so again.

ann

dancinkate · May 31, 2006

Great images!

Flyinggina · May 31, 2006

Fabulous photograph, Nikolai! I'm not sure my current computer would be up to making such a big collage, but I am inspired to try as soon as I get the super powerful machine that I hope to acquire one of these days...

Since I seem to have upheld the tradition established in both my high school and college class photos by not appearing in this one either, I would like to go on record as saying that I was there. Really.

And it was a truly extraordinary experience.

Virginia

CatOne · May 31, 2006

Ah, so this montage was put together by who?

Ah, yeah, that guy.

The same Nik who saw Marc scrabble up for a shot:

And thus had to go check it out himself:

digital_gopher · May 31, 2006

Flyinggina wrote:

Fabulous photograph, Nikolai! I'm not sure my current computer would be up to making such a big collage, but I am inspired to try as soon as I get the super powerful machine that I hope to acquire one of these days...

Since I seem to have upheld the tradition established in both my high school and college class photos by not appearing in this one either, I would like to go on record as saying that I was there. Really. And it was a truly extraordinary experience.

Virginia

Yes you were really there.

Nik does go all over for the shot.

Rest of my people pictures from the trip. http://www.digitalgopher.net/gallery/1484814

Jeremy

Flyinggina · May 31, 2006

Hey, Jeremy!!

Thanks for the proof. This will save me a lot of explaining to my husband about what I was doing for 8 days without him.

Of course, there are the 1300 plus photos as corroborative evidence ....

Take care,

Virginia

gluwater · May 31, 2006

Nik goes IR before the final ascent to Angels Landing. I think this is one of my favorite people pics from the trip.

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

Thanks, David!

David_S85 wrote:

Awesome shots, Nik. Keep 'em coming!

I'll try to keep up my processing speed as long as I can:-)

Cheers!

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

Ann,

Ann McRae wrote:

Nik
Fabulous!!!!!

Thank you very much, appreciate it!

Ann McRae wrote:

It was such a delight to meet you; you were a most gracious host.

It was a pleasure to have you with us :-)

Ann McRae wrote:

Sigh, too bad I'm so well ummmmmm unphotogenic these days.

It's not your fault, it's mine. I was simply too much concentrated of taking landscape picture that I didn't put enough attention to personal ones, especialy of our few rare females. I sincerely apologize for that.

Ann McRae wrote:

My new tag line is going to be
"I'm still hot, it just comes in flashes these days!"

ROTFLMAOL!

You're soo funny!

Ann McRae wrote:

Again, Nik, it was a real pleasure to meet you. I hope I have the opportunity to do so again.

ann

You can rest assured the pleasure was mutual

.
I definitely plan to attend the next "outing", hope you will be able to make it, too!

Cheers!

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

Thanks, Kate!

dancinkate wrote:

Great images!

I'll try to keep the rest on par or better:-)

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

Virginia,

Flyinggina wrote:

Fabulous photograph, Nikolai! I'm not sure my current computer would be up to making such a big collage, but I am inspired to try as soon as I get the super powerful machine that I hope to acquire one of these days...

Since I seem to have upheld the tradition established in both my high school and college class photos by not appearing in this one either, I would like to go on record as saying that I was there. Really. And it was a truly extraordinary experience.

Virginia

Thanks for looking! It's a shame I didn't take any closeups on you! Please make sure you attending the next shootout, so we can fix this little mistake of mine

As to the collage - you don't have to have an Alienware to create such a thing. After I have selected the pictures that would go for it I kinda calculated the desired size for each picture and ran an image processor with the 240x240 box and 6 image quality. Each file became just a dozen Kb or so, so Photomerge swallowed them withought a hitch.

And in fact you are on some of those pictures (I found at least 3).

Hope to see you next year!

Cheers!

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

Thanks, CatOne!

CatOne wrote:

Ah, so this montage was put together by who?
Ah, yeah, that guy.
The same Nik who saw Marc scrabble up for a shot:
And thus had to go check it out himself:

Thanks for sharing! It nice to have pic or two of myself, at least for my parents and such:-)

Cheers!

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

Thanks, Jeremy!

digital_gopher wrote:

Nik does go all over for the shot.
Rest of my people pictures from the trip. http://www.digitalgopher.net/gallery/1484814
Jeremy

I'm glad that my epic water walk went on record

Cheers!

Nikolai · May 31, 2006

Thanks, Nick!

gluwater wrote:

Nik goes IR before the final ascent to Angels Landing. I think this is one of my favorite people pics from the trip.

I would have never guessed it's me, so thanks for warning!

:
Cheers!

Faces of the 2006 Shootout

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