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Ahhh, Mila Kunis likes gelato!

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Thanks guys! I'll get some more up soon. Havent been out shooting recently. Too damn hot!

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You are right it's hot. I combine shooting trips with my evening walks which really has an effect on the light,
granted it's better than midday, but wouldn't it be nice if I could shoot at 7am or so? It is still plenty hot in the
evenings here, but if I have to go and walk anyway, I now just take the camera. Of course it is all new to
me again, haven't shot film since 1980-82, and have really kept the P&S at home unless I was on vacation or
shooting boudoir. So it's like a newlywed for me lately, taking it out everytime I go outside.

Better light shot of the church, and a preset White Balance, too.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...G/IMG_8023.jpg

Funky Gum tree branches...two trees are relatively normal, but the one in the middle...

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a..._8017small.jpg

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Great shots OLS. I haven't been up to Memphis in a while. Makes me wnat to go for the weekend. Is that B&M still on Poplar?

J.W.

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I know of one on Union (Madison Tobacco) and if there is one on Poplar, you might mean Tobacco World that's got pipes, pens and cigars....kind of across the tracks from The Belmont Restaurant out on the east side of town.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis and Crowd from yesterday, July 8, 2011:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net..._3299854_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net..._3079187_n.jpg

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Out again this weekend with the camera. These will be the first adulterated photos I have posted,
a little Photoshop messing around. Trying to find the perfect series of tinkering maneuvers to
create a Pseudo-HDR look with Photoshop 6. Some success and some failure, lol.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...hdrsmall-1.jpg

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...44hdrsmall.jpg

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...6hdrcopy-1.jpg

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And one that isn't messed with, outside of Brightness and Contrast.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a.../IMG_0727c.jpg

More shots messed around with in Photoshop....

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...G/IMG_0750.jpg

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...G/IMG_0761.jpg

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And one with no adulteration whatsoever......

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...G/IMG_0742.jpg

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Haha, I looked at that MPD and MFD shot and realized you can see the bird $hi+ on the car window, lol.
Took that at a stoplight and must have decided rolling down the window was gonna take too long.

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http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...ce1/Destin.jpg

My kids on Vacation in Destin Florida June 2011

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http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...ghtningWWI.jpg

Last night I happened to have my camera with me because I was shooting pics for a Hoyo review when I drove by the WWI memorial here in KC and snapped this real quick.

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Freaking sunset doesn't kick in tol quarter to nine....just awful. And skeeters too.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...59tugboatx.jpg

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...nnycloudsx.jpg

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Worth the wait.....Should have manually focused the late sunset. The camera struggles a
bit under low light conditions to focus. But I am supposed to be the master of it, not the
other way around, lol. Second shot was one of the first I whot whil waiting hours for the
sunset, haha. Kinda "day for night". In the right corner, the "Memphis Queen"...Twain rolls
over in his grave over this boat.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...nsetonMiss.jpg

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...ayfornight.jpg

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I promise to stop with the bridges and sunsets after today.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...lker-lol-x.jpg

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...nawaytrain.jpg

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IMO this one is in a class apart from the others. :tu

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This stems from a friend of mine, used to work together in TV production and we are still both in town, both having
moved on from TV stations proper. This is his photostream, and it is excellent.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3096310...th/5360680841/

Now while I am not trying to copy his work per se, this photo and the post-processing is an homage to his work.
If you look at all his photos, a photo very much like this is in there, his is better than mine, but I was only trying
to duplicate the STYLE of his 3 bridges photo. Here is HIS photo by the way.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3096310...n/photostream/

He and I both have the career-type knowledge of photoshop, but he has always been better at actual graphic design
than me. So I look at his work and try to apply what I like to my own work. Most of what I have posted in this thread
is getting used to the camera and it's strengths and weaknesses. What I post from here on out will be more artistic
than straight photos, mostly because my super-zoom does not have the dynamic range or image quality of a good DSLR.

All that drivel said, thanks spectrr, can't believe you're missing the shack.

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It WOULD, wouldn't it......

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...irrabridge.jpg

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Doctored up

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I like it!

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Brad, is that a 5 1/4 or a 8 inch floppy?

BTW, I love it. Especially "Backup" being written on it.

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It was one of the smaller ones, but nonetheless, a REAL floppy. I'd say half of the people that post
here never even saw one before, lol. When I shot it I was just shooting an old style disc in the street.
When I got home and looked at the shot and saw "Backup" on it I bout lost it. I also notice it says CC, haha.

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Wow ... great HDR ... where is this???

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Anna Maria Island just west of Bradenton Fl. It sure was fun that night.

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Nice! Looks awesome ... the wife and I will have to head down there. :)

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Bad-a55 car down the street.

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Cool HDR. ^

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You say that like it's a bad thing! :sl

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Thats past some of our FOG's bed time ;)

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Shot my first wedding. IT was pretty fun and relatively stress free.

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2895114_n.jpg

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Wow, another two bite the dust. Congratulations on a relatively stress-free gig. My mother used to say,
"You should really be doing wedding videos". I told her it's all fun and games til you miss the garter toss, or the
smushed cake or whatever it ends up being. No thanks, lol.

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Gotta get that "moneyshot"

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Disclaimer: I did not take this. My sister took it, she is quite the artist. I just loved the photo so much I had to share

It is a picture of my son at Pine Knoll Shores, NC last week

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g..._5705144_n.jpg

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Great capture!!

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It's funny, I used to go out walking every night or at least every other night, but til I got a nicer camera,
I never thought, "Hey, take your camera out with you". Well tonight I was out hoping to see the ducks
that hang out in this creek. Tonight they were there, and so I took the settings to continuous shooting,
and shot the ducks. As the lens sags and rises, the shots are all over the place, especially on the slow
shutter speed I had to use near dusk. So sometimes the ducks were not even in the shot. So I was
deleting the crap and something caught my eye. Good thing I had the polarizer on so I could see through
the water easily. Right as I am hitting "delete", I see a pattern.....can YOU?

The duck must have because those shots are consecutive at about a half second a pop. It only took the
duck a half a second to leave the frame.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a.../IMG_1509x.jpg

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a.../IMG_1510x.jpg

That's a Brown banded Water Snake..................

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That reminds me of my girlfriend's friend's wedding pictures. The photographer did not even get a picture of the kiss during the ceremony. Wtf? Seriously? Lol It was terrible and the shots were not framed properly at all. A lot of empty space and way zoomed out shots. :td Wedding photography seems too important and stressful for me.

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That snake is comming up in stealth mode ready to strike. Video of that would be sweet. Nature at work kill or be killed that is the cycle of life in the wild...

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a.../IMG_1509x.jpg

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Those are non-venomous -- Brad may know different, but a duck is WAY too big a meal for that snake.

Very cool shot though

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Great pic Al.

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That snake pulled up short for good reason. That's a nice sized snake, but a duck would love nothing more
than to kill that snake deader than dead. One that size, might end up in a draw, but I still give the edge
to the duck.

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I like to call this one "huh, wtf?"

http://i.imgur.com/ie1LVl.jpg

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http://i.imgur.com/2mANwl.jpg



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http://i.imgur.com/CtTYcl.jpg



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Congrats! Glad it went well. I was shooting a wedding in Lancaster PA last weekend in the ridiculous heat. It was steamy, and not in the good way!!

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http://i537.photobucket.com/albums/f...s/a26a0d29.jpg

http://i537.photobucket.com/albums/f...s/51002e30.jpg

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Some shots from vacation.............
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/...003dc77137.jpg
Dawn doe in Cades Cove by MemphisBrad, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6065/...0e91cc012a.jpg
Cades Cove deer feeding on clover 2 by MemphisBrad, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/...7188835d80.jpg
Cades Cove Bucks by MemphisBrad, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/...20de1ed933.jpg
Alum Cave Trail Salamander by MemphisBrad, on Flickr

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I just picked up Canon t3i... So we will see. Took pictures of my ceiling fan, and the moon.



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