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Apr 30, 2024 23:33:30   #
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Senior Games Win
dmeyer wrote:
Delighted to win first place in Silver Arts/Photography at our local Annual Senior Games/but tickled pink to also win Best-of-Show in all categories! This is the Ocean Springs Depot, MS, at daybreak.


Really nice picture but needs the train. I would clone one in in the far distance for a long term picture to place on the wall. Boris
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Apr 26, 2024 21:20:47   #
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Now this is how you pose!
BAchme wrote:
When I first returned to photography and began working with my squirrels, I questioned my choice. I asked who would want to look at squirrels. So I jumped on YouTube and discovered the wildlife photographer Dani Connor Wild. Her red squirrels are beautiful. She discusses that squirrels are a good starting place for the beginning wildlife photographer. After working with them for nearly a year, I understand this comment. After a bit of a frustrating day at the creek with the geese and ducks, I returned and worked with my guys. Finishing up for the day, I discovered this little one casually munching away on a nut I had earlier left. Comfortable with my presence, he continued to enjoy his treat. I can say he was a perfect way to end a day.

As said previously, I am having some issues with the color, so any input would be appreciated. I'm not sure about some of them!

As always, I hope you enjoy!
When I first returned to photography and began wor... (show quote)


Only trouble with color is that the pictures are in a sequence and there is an expectation from one shot to the next. I have noted the variations as the sun slides in and out of cloud cover. I stopped worrying about it after the point was made that we all have different monitors.
Your subject is fun to watch.
Boris
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Apr 26, 2024 21:04:13   #
(General Chit-Chat (non-photography talk))
Some People Need to Find a Hobby
RKastner wrote:
Please excuse my rant....but I'm really getting fed up with some people (okay...more than some) can't seem to contribute anything helpful. Maybe that's why I like coming to the UHH. For the most part everyone is as helpful as they can and when it warrants or in Chit Chat..funny.

While we were in the moving process and after we moved to Florida I was in some groups about moving to Florida. I put up with the negativity then because I was looking for information. Now that we've moved I'm there to help those looking to move to Florida. Unfortunately, there are a number of nabobs of negativity who have to complain about how bad they have it in Florida, be it traffic, the heat, bugs, or whatever. Then telling people not to move to Florida for whatever reason they have.

I've already left a few of them because of this....but it still frustrates me. Yeah...I know I'm old and this is what the inter webs has become.

Please resume your normal programming.
Please excuse my rant....but I'm really getting fe... (show quote)


Florida sucks! I've been there.
Boris
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Apr 25, 2024 22:41:27   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
Time for Photographers to be Scared? (Editorial)
terryMc wrote:
So you see these as equally AI generated even though one had only a rope leading the horse removed and the other is created by a computer from a typed two-sentence prompt?

Are they both to be considered photographs now? Or does the one originally from a camera lose its photograph status after one alteration?

Doesn't posting the AI image in a photographic topic imply it is, or should be, considered a photograph, even if it has a disclaimer?


Mother would buy 10 copies of a fake that good! It's a commercial success, so who cares if it is a photograph!
Boris
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Apr 24, 2024 22:58:04   #
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Feast fit for a king
Basil_O wrote:
I saw this on the side of the road when I paid a visit to a local wildlife sanctuary. Don't view before breakfast. LOL
and yes...I could have posted this in the "Bird" subcategory, but I wanted to put it here.



Boris
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Apr 24, 2024 22:52:47   #
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Orchid
topcat wrote:
That sounds interesting, how did you do that?


I bought flower art as a transparency that I thought that I would hang in front of a window. I could not find a window with a satisfactory bland background, so I built a simple frame about 3" deep out of white surface wood paneling, with another piece of white surface board behind the picture. Being lazy I jammed the shoddy construction into the top panel of the double hung window where I wanted to display the picture. Basically tape construction, hidden by curtains, but building a real shallow frame would be easy.
Then the magic. I experimented with light sources and stumbled on a string of LED lights, laid across the bottom of the frame. The lights are hidden by a curtain fringe. Even though the lighting is weaker at the top, it works with this picture. (I experimented with lights strips on the sides, etc., but preferred the bottom illumination.) This was an experimental construction I put up about 5 years ago, and has endured since I never open that window.
In the spirit of my Lava Lamps.
Boris
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Apr 24, 2024 21:05:25   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
Type of camera to buy
Mb22346 wrote:
I am looking to buy a camera and I wanted to know three things first of all. What brand would you buy?
Second, what type would you buy i.e. mirror less or DSLR
And finally, would you ever buy a camera that has been refurbished?


I would not pay new price for a camera; I would buy refurbished or used (know your seller).
The first two questions make no sense without a purpose for the camera = a cell phone.
Boris
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Apr 23, 2024 22:08:26   #
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A dog walk without any flowers
UTMike wrote:
Our HOA has commissioned various displays. Although I am not sure why we would need this, this set shows an interesting dragon fashioned out of old Utah license plates.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.


What a bummer. Dragons should fly.
Boris
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Apr 23, 2024 22:05:33   #
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More Illusions And mystery To The Old Mountain Home
black mamba wrote:
This is the side of the home not seen in the other picture. The illusions continue. Draw a straight line from top to bottom that bisects that window at the bottom left ....that a completely flat surface. Draw another straight line that runs left to right and and that bisects that window at the top right of the picture. That's a flat, continuous surface the whole way.

I have idea why the overhang is there. Apparently the wood planking on the overhang didn't provide for relief from the rain, or light, and he settled on another solution. There is a small window under the overhang. There's a very small room that I could see, with only a commode in evidence.
This is the side of the home not seen in the other... (show quote)


Cool! Wish I was there.
Boris
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Apr 23, 2024 22:01:19   #
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Orchid
topcat wrote:
A little fooling around. Hope that you like it.


Made for a light backed transparency view. Could be very nice as a soft hall light.
I have a flower related panel I turn on some evenings as a room light for a special thrill in the same old house.
Boris
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Apr 23, 2024 21:55:35   #
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Warning, warning a squirrel post!
BAchme wrote:
While I have been trying to expand the type of images I post, I continue to work with my guys. They have become my happy place, and they are helping me write a book.

I realize squirrels aren't everyone's cup of tea, especially when I have had posts about squirrel stew, shooting them, and collecting their tails! So, understanding that I have limited my posts, hence the "warning"

It's been an interesting journey with these guys, as some will pose for me with no peanuts involved. You will also see some will do encore performances, as with the fungus shoot. I have found them to be very intelligent and quite comical, as you can see when they try and take multiple nuts! In addition, I continue to follow the babies as they are growing up quickly. As a thank you I continue to leave a peanut in their tree hole, and each time I come back, it's gone

So, for those who enjoy the cute squirrels, here are a few!
While I have been trying to expand the type of ima... (show quote)


So where's the posts?
Boris
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Apr 23, 2024 21:20:23   #
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New lens arrived
BAchme wrote:
Well, I "purchased" a refurbished lens from Amazon to expand beyond my squirrel stuff.

Canon 18 -135 f/3.5- 5.6, Image Stabilization, USM. I realize it's not the best; however, this is within the budget at this stage. I have 30 days to try it, as it's a free return.

So I took it out for a spin to the nearby place where I did the signs. It's a nice place with beautiful trees, which I like photographing. While it was great to have a lens I could use to get these shots, I missed my other lens when I saw a bird and, yes, a squirrel! I confess when I played enough, I did switch back to my other, and yes, I got several pleasing squirrel shots.

I included the Robin, which was taken with the new lens because I liked that he had something in his mouth. Nice surprise when I discovered it when I edited it.

So here's what I did. I don't have much experience with this type of photography, so I gave it a try! Please feel free to comment.
Well, I "purchased" a refurbished lens f... (show quote)


Nice shots; might be spiced up a bit with color enhancement.
Do NOT put all the subjects in the center!!
Do not fall into the pixel peep trap.
Do revert when it feels good.
Boris
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Apr 22, 2024 21:33:29   #
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An Abandoned Home's Mind-Bending Illusion
black mamba wrote:
I first posted a portion of this image that was used to highlight an illusion that existed in that initial post. A member ( boris77 ) asked if I had a shot that showed the entire building. This is the image from which I extracted the picture in the initial post.

The entire home was built at the same time. Both ends of the home and the entire back of the home are all finished with the combination of diagonal and horizontal siding as shown in the image of the front. The paved road was not there when the home was built. When the man who built the home died ( I was told that he was quite an eccentric person ), his heirs sold enough of the property to the State so the road could be built. Obviously, that land sale did not include the homesite. I wouldn't know any of this history were it not for a kindly older lady who worked at a true old-time country store.
I first posted a portion of this image that was us... (show quote)


Thank you. It is great to see the whole building, although disturbing that a road is built that close to a house!
I guess no one plans to inhabit the house. As good as your post picture was, there should more to photograph there.
Boris
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Apr 22, 2024 00:41:06   #
(General Chit-Chat (non-photography talk))
Bettie Mae Page, Monday April 22nd
Timmers wrote:
It is Bettie Page's Birthday. One of the three great iconic persons of the mid 20th century, The King (Elvis), Marilyn Monroe and Bettie.


Cool.
I will have to check the old pin up cards tucked away in my history file.
Boris
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Apr 22, 2024 00:30:33   #
(Sub-Gallery: Birds)
Spoon Bill
cfhelz45 wrote:
Used Smart Photo Editor


It worked.
Boris
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