I don't do photography, but I snap a whole lot of pictures on rides.

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11-28-10 by BluesDawg, on Flickr

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DSCF9388 by BluesDawg, on Flickr

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dual deer by BluesDawg, on Flickr

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fog by 112 by BluesDawg, on Flickr

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Utah;

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Lake Tahoe;

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Jasper;

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Lake Louise;

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Banff;

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Lake Louise;

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Lake Louise;

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Krakow;

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Hangzhou;

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Bend;

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Near Bend;

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Photos taken at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville, Ar

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Good photos!

Some people, I am one of them, have a B&W photographic eye, they love textures and shadows and the way light affects objects, rather then the colour of the light. These days I shoot in colour with the digital camera, then use a B&W film simulator, add whatever other effects I want to add, then it's ready for publication. I have spent hours on one image, both on film and digitally, same results, different tools.

What I would do with the second image, go back to the original colour image, invert it, so that it looks like a negative, use a colour mixer tool, set the red at 100%, green at 50% and blue at 0%, then invert it back. This is effectively the same as a deep orange filter with B&W film at camera time, you would keep the details in the trees, which are a little blocked up, and still get the dramatic sky. If you don't have Photoshop, go download GIMP, allows the same tricks of the trade as Photoshop, but since it's free, does so for a lot less money:D

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OK, I didn't actually take this photo, but I contributed to her genetic make-up.

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Long-tailed Duck, Toronto

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Hooded Warbler, Point Pelee

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Turkey Vultures, Prince Edward County, Ontario

Saw this coming last May and hurried home:

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^^

Wow. That's real Old Testament stuff.

Yosemite:

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Koi pond, Carmel, IN:

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Lighthouse, Pt Reyes, CA:

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Lake Tahoe:

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Butterfly farm in the Grand Caymans:

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Last August about 10 minutes after sunrise in a dense morning fog---

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I am not a photographer, but I am thoroughly enjoying this thread. Nice work, everyone!

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Here is one of my local Peregrine Falcons on June 18, 2011. She and her mate raised a chick last summer.

Paul

SD storm - 1995

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grandson, future rider

Magnolia Falls near Mossville, Ar.

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Amazing ice formations everywhere.

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Exactly. I would, however, like to know how you guys do it. Digital or film? Type of camera? Post-optical enhancement?

Here are a few from down below:

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Some spiders in my yard:

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Sorry that they aren't larger but they are a pain getting these off of Shutterfly in their original size.

Dudelsack -- I am so glad you and others are enjoying this thread. I have a digital camera -- a Nikon Coolpix P7000. It is a fairly small camera that I can easily take with me on my hikes and cycling trips, but has a lot of settings so I can control the outcome of my photos. I started out with a Nikon P300, a little point-and-shoot camera that took some great photos, but did not have the range of settings and options like the P7000. I do some enhancement with Photobucket. From my experience, it just takes a lot of shooting time. I shoot a lot of photos to get a couple that I am really happy with, but I love it and look at things in a very different way than I did before taking up photography. The more you see, the more you see.

Shot this in the yard a couple of years ago with a Canon A620 from about four feet away and zoomed in from ground level then let the auto settings in the camera do their thing. My wife and I met because of our common interest in photography; I'll likely have to temper my postings so as to not get carried away here.

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I use digital these days, but have over 30 years worth of film images in storage, and I will occasionally go through them, if I find something I want to play with I will put it on the scanner and scan it in. I use The GIMP for post processing the digital images, it's free and just as good as Photoshop, although like Photoshop, the learning curve is pretty steep. I think in the 4 years I have been using it, I have used maybe 5% of the features.

At one point a few years ago, while I was working from home, I spent 6 months scanning all of my (many thousands of) old negatives and slides. I used a Nikon scanner that is purpose-made for negatives and slides.

The good news:
All of my old pics are now digital, and are backed up in half a dozen places.

The bad news:
The deterioration of the negative and slide stock was interesting:
- Some were so grainy it was almost impossible to make out the pictures. A LOT of photoshopping (GIMP, Paint.net, ACDSee, and various other tools) helped me bring them back to the quality of a really bad but viewable picture.
- Others were almost as clear as a modern-day digital image.
- These had all been stored in the same container, in the same dark, cool, and dry location.
- Some of the film that deteriorated badly was bought at the same time, from the same store, and were the same make and specifications, as others that had aged well.

Weird.

But in summary - I would urge you to scann all of your old pics ASAP. Or if you don't have the time to do it (and it's a very slow process), there are labs that will do it for you. Not as well, or with the care you would apply, but you'll save those memories.