The 2nd official Random Discussion For TPBM Photo's and Photographers Thread (2)

Mike, great shots of Christopher.

Quite quiet in here today. Very easy to catch up.

Nice job on the baby shots Mike. You will cherish them and they will get passed down in history. Pictures are so cool. We all started posting old scans here one night of years gone by.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #3796576
OK, shots from today's Art and Air Fest:
The rest are HERE

Great stuff, Dan Has anyone suggested framing and hanging

daves-not-here wrote in post #3798645
Nothing to add...just subscribing to the thread.

Hi Dave! Sounds like you'll fit right in

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #3799386
Love the shot, Pete. Here are some little nit-picky things you might've missed:

- I zoomed in on the cat at around 750%, and right there, on the ear to my left, is a hair that just, I don't know, it looks wonky. Just that one hair. It crosses over another hair and it sorta bothers me. I would definitely clone that one out.

-Is it me, or is the right eye .00083% greener than the left? That was strikingly obvious to me. I know it's not my monitor, I calibrate it every five minutes.

-The fungus on the end of the log is the poisonous Myskinrotus offadaboneus. Not something I would want on my photos. Try to spend some time in PS to change it into something less lethal. It should only take six or seven hours to do.

-If you count the leave from the top right, go over 73, then down another 15, there's a spider. It's distracting and draws my eye. I'd clone that out, too.

-There are dark fields of fur over the collar bones of the cat. The one on my left is slightly thicker than the one on the right. I don't know if you're leaving that imbalance there on purpose, but it gives too much weight to one side of your apparent goal of symmetry. That would be something I would fix right away.

-The cat doesn't look angry enough for me. It might work for a few others, but really, I want a cat with more emotion. In PS, under "Filters", click the one marked, "Ticked Off". Move the anger slider to the right until the effect is right.

Outside of that, it's a great photo.

Can you tell I've been lurking over at the Wedding Forum lately?

ROFLMAO!!

short5 wrote in post #3800345
Me

Love the gun belt

Pete: Wonderful zoo shots; my fav is the proud dad.

Mike: Christopher is getting soooo big! Give him a squinch for me.

Cat, Zane, Lonnie: Awwwwwwwwwwwwww to the furkid shots!

@ the talk of Tips!

G'mae.

short5 wrote in post #3801810
MMMMMMM, shrimp appetizer, lamb loin chops, and steamed asparagus. A little tab of dark chocolate for desert. I needed that I have had carry out cwap or bad restaurant food for a week.

Boy, when you say you are going shopping for dinner, you MEAN it.

Sounds great.

We had baked chipotle chicken, corn on the cob, and an italian baguette.

cfpackerfan wrote in post #3801806
Only 6 months? My baby is 10 years old.

Damn you are crusty

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #3801831
Quite quiet in here today. Very easy to catch up.

Hi Jim I was just speaking of you:p:p

cfpackerfan wrote in post #3801778
Looks like he's starting to get a little lip-quiver in the 7th one.

These are so great Mike. What I would have given to have shots of my kids like this.

Yep, managed to catch a good frown on him just before he launched into another lovely bawl-o-rama.

wakko wrote in post #3801793
The lighting is great Mike. What was your setup? And wasn't Christopher so behaved? *grin*

Cat: Does look like a lip-quiver eh?!!! daaaaw... my kid's 6 months + now, and I'm already getting clucky over younger ones...

2 Umbrella'd Sunpak 383's one camera-right as high as I could get it at 1/2 power. Pretty typical 45° setup. Other was Camera-left, a little lower and at 1/8 power (fill). I use shoot-through umbrellas, so the tines are less obvious in the catch lights.

And thanks guys

short5 wrote in post #3801810
MMMMMMM, shrimp appetizer, lamb loin chops, and steamed asparagus. A little tab of dark chocolate for desert. I needed that I have had carry out cwap or bad restaurant food for a week.

Sounds very yummy Zane, all foods that are loved in our household. We started buying whole lambs from a farmer we know who does his own butchering. I would rather heat up a meat pie and throw together a quick salad before eating fast food. I just don't enjoy it like I used to (which is a good thing).

Supper tonight for us was stuffed zucchinis, all the veggies outta our garden. Very yummy.

short5 wrote in post #3801845
Hi Jim I was just speaking of you:p:p

I sure hope it was all good.

Zane, My parents spent the night here last night, and this morning (after I left) they were looking through the POTN book with Wade.

When my dad got to your signature Macro shot, he said "Oh yeah! I remember Cathy telling me about this one." And my mom said... "Isn't this the one that was taken by the guy that got squished by a horse and was held together with velcro?"

I think I must talk about you guys a whole lot.

Stuffed zucchini? Do tell.

I keep saying I need to go to the store for food ..haha been home now how long and still nothing here to eat ..lol
My only excuse has been jet lag and Hot out

It's the drinks that matter right folks? lol

MRaiford wrote in post #3801859
2 Umbrella'd Sunpak 383's one camera-right as high as I could get it at 1/2 power. Pretty typical 45° setup. Other was Camera-left, a little lower and at 1/8 power (fill). I use shoot-through umbrellas, so the tines are less obvious in the catch lights.

And thanks guys

Good god. I just read what I wrote, and that has no place here. That kind of rhetoric belongs in the wedding forum for sure. Let me rephrase:

I was out in the jungle observing these people waving orange sticks. All of the sudden a huge beast would land, open its belly and drop crates on the ground.

Later I attempted the same thing. Never could summon the large winged beast.

(IOW, I succumbed to the cargo cult)

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #3801869
We started buying whole lambs from a farmer we know who does his own butchering. I would rather heat up a meat pie and throw together a quick salad before eating fast food. Supper tonight for us was stuffed zucchinis, all the veggies outta our garden. Very yummy.

Sounds really nice,I bought a few fresh butchered natural raised chickens last year, YUM.