Forum: Photography

Subject: Ummm....

PunkClown opened this issue on Dec 25, 2001 ยท 11 posts

PunkClown posted Tue, 25 December 2001 at 6:45 PM

Happy Halloween!! Here is my Pumpkin picture, hope I'm not too late....hehehe! ;-)>

billglaw posted Tue, 25 December 2001 at 7:04 PM

Some people just can't keep up with the times! My son has one of these in his front yard two feet in diameter with a big hole in one side. He says the squirrels really appreciate the food source.

Michelle A. posted Tue, 25 December 2001 at 10:34 PM

That's a strange looking pumpkin! Cool close-up!

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Finder posted Wed, 26 December 2001 at 1:04 AM

What a high-definition image! There are so many middle and darker tones, yet still looks very 'detailed'. Would you provide some statistics on the image? Is it all digital? I thought that studying an RGB bit plane separation was interesting. ..And See? -- Each plane has beautiful, smooth shades. What all did you use to record this image?

PunkClown posted Wed, 26 December 2001 at 5:10 AM

Hi everyone! Finder: pic taken with a simple Agfa CL34 1.3 megapix camera, which just goes to show you what you can do with a low-res digital (just don't blow up you're images too much!). This camera does have a basic macro setting, and for once, focusing with the LCD gave me a sharp final image. Initially a 1024 by 768, 187.5 kb file, I crunched & shrunk it a bit so it didn't take to long to load. Thanks for your interest (and for taking the time to separate & squash my pumpkin!!). Some of the photos I take are with a Ricoh SLR (usually with 50mm lens), some with the digital. Film and processing can be quite expensive, but taking shots with the digital costs me nothing, unless I decide to print. Since participating in the forum, I have been inspired to take up my SLR more often, but eventually I want to get a bigger & better digital to explore the boundaries of this new and interesting development photography has taken. Given that I love macro, does anyone have any suggestions.... :-)>

PunkClown posted Wed, 26 December 2001 at 5:14 AM

P.S. There was no post processing (apart from shrink and crunch, which would have lost some detail) to the image...thanks and wishing everyone a Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a good Christmas,I for one ate WAY too much...

bevchiron posted Wed, 26 December 2001 at 12:01 PM

You bored with christmas already? I think Alpha is right you're way ahead of us & early, what's the time difference in Australia... Great pic. I love this close up texture stuff.

elusive.chaos

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star...." (Nietzsche)

Syyd posted Thu, 27 December 2001 at 10:53 AM

Wow did you win some kind of contest with this baby?????

PunkClown posted Thu, 27 December 2001 at 6:11 PM

LOL, no Sydd, didn't win anything, my Pa-In-Law grew it! (I was quite pleased to have it for a willing subject, however...I had only taken about 10 shots with my new camera when I took this, so I was fairly happy with the result)

Antoonio posted Fri, 28 December 2001 at 5:26 AM

Awww, thats one ugly pumpkin. But one beautiful pic. Happy new year for you too. .n

JordyArt posted Fri, 28 December 2001 at 2:23 PM

Know just where you're coming from with the 1.3 meg thing, Punksie....My Fuji was that and it gave very nice results if, as you say, you didn't blow the image up. Gorra agree with Niko tho' that's one UGLY pumpkin!! Even a Fairy Godmother could only turn it into a !!! Cheers for the v. early greetings........ (",)