Non-quality images
 

These slides were taken with a Minolta spy camera since I didn't normally carry a camera when I traveled on business. The slides are 1/2 x 3/8 inch and not good quality.
About 6 weeks after Mt St Helen's eruption I chartered a 4 seat high wing plane to look at the mountain. The FAA would not permit flying closer than a couple miles from the crater.

The mud flow of ash and instantly melted glacier.

Another.

I was walking down a blocked off road near the base of the mountain. Mud and ash had washed across the road but I didn't realize the residue was getting deeper until I saw this sign which was probably 7 or 8 feet high.

How appropriate, a thread for images of questionable quality. I like.

Handheld (two hands!) shot. The bridge is not quite ¼-mile away. Max zoom on my camera through a itty-bitty 6 x 15 scope.

Where are xoB's images?!?!

Hey Bruce, still got those spy pics?

Died of old age maybe?

Since they were taken with a spy camera we must not have the required security clearance to view them. :3eye:

Touche'!

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Is this water or the new ground level?

I believe that's the ash and residue left after the water passed ...

Since the surgery, I've been passing a lot of water from my ash too. :o

I almost googled ASH, thinking it was an acronym.

vvvvvvvvvvv

Bruce, Thanx for the repost(s). Very interesting pics.

Right after that sign I suddenly sunk in to my knees. I don't mean like stepping on mud and sinking, I mean like stepping on water and dropping. Scared the shit out of me. :sweat:

Again, I like this thread for sharing not quite good pics.

Two Miniature Roses not good enough for the flower or neat pictures threads.

My camera is stuck in high color mode, and reds just go over the top.

I like the effect. Pretty.

Thanx. I had to alter the color balance, saturation, and exposure a lot (in two separate photo editing programs) to get them looking halfway decent. The red just killed all detail of the flowers.

Thunderbird, maybe?

US cars aren't my strongest point but I think that might be pre-Thunderbird. I'm not sure they even gave them names. The rear quarter doesn't look right to me, too modern to my eyes - could it be a kit or home-build?

...and look at those door handles.

It's a '48 Ford.

Oh it's certainly a kit of some sort, I just wasn't 100% on the vehicle that the kit was put on...

Where is xob? I'm sure he'd know something of this.

I don't like the rims/tires whatever you call them. Don't look right aesthetically.

It's surely a modern vehicle with an old front-end bolted on.

Yes, It's a newer T-Bird with an after market kit to make the front and rear look like a '49/'50 Ford.

A threefer. (Apologies if this is a repost...)

Rabirrelbit?

Meh...

There's just not enough there to make a good pic.

Shoulda waited longer, I suppose, but, I was traveling.

well, I like it.

Your my pic is better than my my pic...

heh
my pic *is* your pic.

Go toward the light.

The guy said "Who the hell stuck chewin' gum on mah building?"

I said "I got no id--that's not gum."

how fucking cool!

his motto:

Grip it and ribbit!

Ribbit for her pleasure?

shortly after Hurricane Andrew I took my parents back to their house in Fla ( just outside of Naples if you must know Brin. ) and in opening the storm shutters I was hit by a plague of frogs... they must have all gone for cover... each shutter I opened had five or six of the little buggers.

:thumb2:

Non quality image can be vastly improved in the digital editing phase. Here are 3 from a recent for fun photo shoot I did while being incredibly bored in Munster, Indiana. There was a car show one evening near my hotel so I went and shot some car detail shots.

1. original RAW file saved as a jpeg
2. retouched to improve reflections, color vibrancy and contrast as well as remove lots of little things that were distractions.
3. Posterized for the Andy Warhol look.

Not completly happy with the my attempt to remove myself from the bumper reflections but if you didn't see the original you might not notice it. Also I still have a bit of something up in the sky on the left edge...

I like the 2nd image. The reflection removed is not noticeable at all, even when you are looking for it. I'm not too keen on posterizing. I never really understood the appeal, so the 3rd image doesn't do too much for me.

Here's my non-quality image. We had a birthday party for my FIL and his twin sister on Friday night in his new home at the assisted living facility we just moved him to. It was perfect timing that we had him moved in just a couple days before their birthday. From the penthouse party room, we saw this double rainbow. It was perfect. A double rainbow for the twins' birthday party.

Shot from my cell phone.

1. save original RAW as BMP or TIFF
2. then do all the editing
3. then save the final result as jpg

That should avoid the jpg-artifacts (rectangles/steps) in the posterized version.

... and personally I wouldn't mind the original reflections in the bumper.

Thanks for the tip. PS is one big learning curve for me.

Self-portrait.

I basically just point and click, so I thought I should put my pics here. As you can see, they're not the greatest shots.

Wildwood Crest, NJ
http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/...Picture600.jpg

http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/...Picture557.jpg

Point Pleasant, NJ
http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/...Picture353.jpg

http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/...hresize501.jpg

Park near my house...
http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/..._downsize5.jpg

http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/..._downsize9.jpg

In that first one there's a boat floating through the air above the beach.

That's just crazy.

I like the lonely beach picture with the fence in the foreground. It reminds me of Lake Michigan.

That one was taken on a cold windy day in April. I love the beach all year round.

:) When the tourists aren't there? :)

Yup! Sometimes I prefer it then as well. ;)

Is the CG boat there to make sure no one tries to get out of New Jersey?

Yup, because if we leave we might give cooties to the rest of the country.:p:

Samantha: Easy, sport. I got myself outta Beirut once, I think I can get outta New Jersey.
Mitch: Yeah? Well, don't be so sure. Others have tried and failed. The entire population, in fact.

That's one mighty shiny knob yer got there pardner.

Yeah, it gets polished quite often. Too often, as a matter of fact...:p: