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I swear on whatever deity you like, my Nick Tahou’s shot is 6 seconds of exposure… I honestly didn’t realize it would be so different from ALL the others…

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So, I decided to see how usable of a normal image I could make within the contest rules. It is’t exactly sharp, but it’s better than I expected. Of course this is the sharpest from like 10 frames though….

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8193/8118138484_f93f623e48_o.jpg

Not bad at all!

One of mine for tonight is kind of similar in that it’s supposed to be what it is, with a filter-achieved “look” as opposed to the other 2 which are more artsy, and definitely smeared.

FWIW, I found I achieved best results for “clarity” over the 5 seconds if I held the camera down around waist level. Less stress from holding it up, I guess.

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Yeah, I kinda figured I’d be in the minority. My opinion most often is (those emails I get stating otherwise are lies). I’ll have pics, anyways.

Sad; Halloween used to be my favorite holiday.

//carry on then.

I have to admit that I don’t really enjoy Halloween either. I guess being an adult with no kids takes most of the fun out of it.

It would be more fun in my neighborhood if it were our neighborhood kids who came to the door. Unfortunately, greater than 50% of the kids are brought to our neighborhood in van loads because it’s both safer, and more generous than their own neighborhoods. Even that would be OK if it weren’t for the fact that a huge percent of those are either kids who don’t dress up at all or adults with 0-2 year olds in strollers also begging for candy.

If it were still kids 4-16 all dressed up in costumes, then I’d feel a little different. (I’ve actually asked “What are you supposed to be?” to costume-less kids, and when they answer “nothing” my response is “Well, that’s what you get” and then close the door on their shocked faces…). Even the one year I went out as a freshman in college I dressed up. Based on my usual clothes, doing Alice Cooper ain’t hard, but at least I made the effort.

Wow… that got long…

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Thanx… I’ve got a couple weeks still, so I’ve got a chance to find something

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Given my dearth of “Halloween” pics, are graveyard shots acceptable? Are graveyard shots acceptable if I can fake a ghost? Let’s say I get the urge, are pumpkins and gourds OK?

I have no kids and my social life doesn’t include any dress-up/costume events. Also, this year, I’m teaching that evening, and probably will be until close to 9.

I would be the rare person to be on ravnostic‘s side. However, it IS a bit too late to change anything. If I gotta skip that week, I’ll survive.

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Can’t decide if this one that just came across the transom is subby’s or a web find (I’ve got my suspicions, but I’ve been burned before):

http://www.fark.com/comments/7387224?togglenv=1#c80095927

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My Bs (I could NOT decide, because I had zero luck specifically shooting for this theme, they were all archive dives)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8469/8095689143_f136560f3e_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8095694660_3fe446b52e_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8464/8095689431_46000124f7_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8048/8095694874_1dc62c223b_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8191/8095689659_be1c0cda92_b.jpg

[Yugoboy]

Wow…

Really great stuff… really.

Now I have something for my Christmas list when my ma asks next month…

[Yugoboy]

I guess you and I have different ideas of what qualifies as “good,” Yugoboy. I’m certainly liking more than 1/50 of my shots.

By “Good” I’m thinking of shots that will give me an outside shot to place well in a Farktography contest. There’s plenty of shots that are interesting, and some that I even like, but I also know the vast vast vast majority of them have zero zilch nada chance of placing anywhere near the top in a contest where U-Man, orionid, kestrana, Mopsy, and at least a half dozen others are just consistently awesome.

A good week for me is when I get one in the top ten. On one occasion I even had the fleeting joy of checking voting at about 6:30 in the morning and being in the lead. That ended right quick, but for those precious few minutes I was quite happy.

Don’t get me wrong, the level of competition here is pushing me to look at things differently and to try to shoot and process not just for me, but for a broader audience as well. My photography has improved dramatically in ways it never would have were the competition less daunting. I’m not shooting and processing any shots I don’t like or am not happy with just because I think they’d do well, so I’m not saying that either.

One thing I’ve spent the last 2 Wednesdays doing is holding my camera in one hand and shooting out the car window on my 40+ minute commute to and from the college I work at. The results are interesting, to say the very least. And I’ll be doing it again this week as well.

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Have I mentioned how much bloody fun this theme has been? I’m still looking for more stuff to do, and the nature of the beast means that for every 50 or 75 shots, you get 1 good one, but the feeling I get when that good one pops up on my monitor is the whole reason this hobby’s so fun… absolute satisfaction in a job well done.
Also… lots of happy accidents.

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nice shots, looks like a great place to go get lost in for a while

It would be… if you could get lost. The path is crafted out of the glen walls with a stone barrier on one side and many dozens of feet of cliff going up on the other.

(There is one shot on the blog where I climbed over the fence and into the creek bed. I managed to dryly get close enough to take really good shots of the falls. One my way back to climb out, I noticed that a part of the route I took was on about 3 inches of slanted rock, which slanted into a clear pool about 8 feet deep. Had I seen that on the way in, I’d never have made it.)

You can, however, get lost on the roads if you don’t have a map or good sense of direction (and stray off the numbered routes).

We managed to get married at a time of year where the leaves are turning almost every year, and it’s always a nice time to take a drive… when it isn’t raining.

Thanx everyone for the compliments. I suppose I should have shot some higher speed shots, but I really like the calm of long-shutter shots.

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Yeah there’s no prohibition about photography on bases in general, just certain parts of the bases.

And thank God for that… a few years ago we visited Fort Monroe, which is still an active military facility as well as being a historical site of some importance. I’ve got a whole bunch of photos from that trip, and no one gave me a second look. Later, we were on the outer banks, trying to take photos of lighthouses and there’s one at the north end of the outer banks that’s on a military installation. While I, as a long-haired civilian with generally Mediterranean features in the first couple years ofter 9/11 was nervous about the guard’s reaction, he gave me no weird looks or anything, just let us on base after careful scrutiny of the drivers’ licenses.
Every year when we go to the Adirondacks, we drive right past Fort Drum. There’s some really neat abandoned buildings behind the fence right off the road, and every year I threaten to stop the car and go shoot ’em. And every year my wife (former AF brat) warns me about the MPs. She makes it sound like a Turkish prison system.

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Muchas gracias!

FWIW, the quotes around “urban” in that picture’s a joke of sorts. Anybody who lives in or near a “real” city (one with buildings more than 10 stories high) would be amused at the thought of calling Geneva a “city”.

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I screwed up and forgot to enable voting on the middle one of mine.
http://www.fark.com/comments/7375307/79934787#c79934787

Please enable

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Damn damn damn… the one I wanted to use it turn out I already used in Straight Out of Camera….
And now I don’t have the time to re-shoot it…
Damn.

It’s this one if you care:

A couple bigger versions at my Flickr stream.[/img]

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