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Ok, lets see if this image thing works...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...aster/SM-1.jpg
If it does, I´m the guy with the black t shirt. The girl is my gf, and the other guy is my ex-workmate.
Obviously we are not working....
EDIT:Works now.
Thanks Toga. ~:cheers:
Why doesn't it work? Did you type [ i m g ] [ / i m g ] from beggining to end?
Yes, I did, but I think its a hosting space problem. What do you guys use for hosting?
I've had a nice experience so far with Photobucket as an image hosting service. Here's a link: https://www.photobucket.com
Thanks Toga , updated. Works now.
This is me at the Boston Museum of Fine Art:
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/ne...90R30082A1.jpg
The picure quality is low because they screwed it up at the photo place. Oh well. At least i got the whole Sam Roberts look on.
You're welcome, Swordsmaster. :bow:
Thanks for the compliment. Byzantine Prince. A friend of my brother's took the pic. He's an adventurous, artistic type who grew up in Cali but moved to Prague because he wanted to live in Europe. Last I heard, he was making a sparse living selling his photos there. A very talented lad (albeit a bit strange; but aren't we all ...).
Oh Prague is an amazing city. If you want to see what European cities looked like before industrialization that's the place to look for sure. Yes you are right, we all are a bit strange(which I have recently discoverd makes us chic).
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/ne...90R30082A1.jpg
That's one beautiful Apulian red-figure volute kratèr (a kratèr was like a big festive bowl to mix wine and water in). I knew Boston had some, but it's great to see it online. Does this have anything to do with you, a study or hobby or something? Who's the silly youth blocking the view of the marble base reliefs? ~:cool:
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I've looked it up, it's the Death of Thersites vase and the panel on side towards us depicts a youth with a horse standing near the funerary shrine or naiskos. What a beaut.
You should check out amersfoort where I live, one of the few real medieval towns.Quote:
Originally Posted by Byzantine_Prince
http://www.honings.demon.nl/fotos/am...pelpoort4c.jpg
That is the real entrance, and one of my favorite fishing spots.
De 'Onze lieve vrouwentoren' (our dear lady's tower)
http://www.fietsen.123.nl/images/olvrouwetoren.jpg
The museum
http://www.museumflehite.nl/plaatjes...tree-frame.jpg
The old Jewish cemetary
http://www.gooieneemlander.nl/Show_I...1966411,00.jpghttp://www.honings.demon.nl/fotos/amersfoort/a04.html
Kamperpoort
http://www.honings.demon.nl/fotos/amersfoort/a04.html
This thread looks like it needs a shot in the arm.
The setup: I got my first digital camera for Christmas. My first major "project" with the camera has been taking pictures at local Rock (and Roll) shows. My daughter joined the local branch of the "Paul Green School of Rock Music". This school, which some theorize was the inspiration of the School of Rock movie, not only teaches kids (8-18 years old) how to play guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, etc. they are taught with the goal of putting on a rock concert for a paying crowd. Each show has a theme (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc) and about 40-50 kids perform about 25 songs, so there are kids coming and going on stage after each number. The shows are not like your typical piano recital - the shows feature coloured spotlights and a fog machine. These kids are talented beyond belief and the school provides a venue for them to perform for an audience - an opportunity few kids ever have. I know without the school, my daughter would have never been able to do this.
Anyway, enough talk about the school. I've posted nearly 40 pictures on a quickie website I put up. The thing I'm most pleased about the pictures is that they give you a feel for what the concerts are like visually - which can be stunning with the lights and fog.
I'll give the URL for all the pictures, but I post two teaser pictures here:
https://home.comcast.net/~gbresslr/i...05Feb12_22.JPG
https://home.comcast.net/~gbresslr/i...05Jan08_35.JPG
As you may note, if you have a dialup connection, these images will take some 15+ seconds to load and they are rather large if your display settings are below 1024x768. Sorry about that. Chopping the pictures down smaller in dimension and file size took some of the impact and clarity out of the images.
To see all the images, click on the link: https://home.comcast.net/~gbresslr/
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pictures of kids putting on a Rock 'n' Roll show!
i have numerous great pictures, but no scanner. :sad:
alas and alack. or a lass and a loch.. which ever come first.
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I have hundreds of slides/negatives, all developed, and I do have a scanner doing the job (actually I have two), but the slide/negative capable one has the worst possible software ever to be written, which doesn't really motivate me.
One of these days, I'll bite the bullet and scan them though. You will sure notice that day! ~;)
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as some of you may know, i've been doing some re-mastering work with photos. i may even start a business with it. so, along those lines, i bought a new toy. i already have a scanner and a good printer, but i couldnt scan photo negatives. a normal scanner just wont do it. so, i bought a negative scanner.
this thing is a bit tricky and it took a while to get any sort of decent result. the negative i scanned is also quite old, maybe 35 to 40 years or so and it was quite dusty and scratchy. it took hours to get the scanned image near enough to correct and then a few more hours to clean all the dust and scratches out digitally. this is a photo i took all those years ago and resulting scanned and cleaned up result. it's not exactly as i remember the original, but it's close enough for a first attempt:
http://mizus.com/kraellin/rose-1-k-2.bmp
K.
What website allows me to post my pictures? I tried some of them but I end up getting an ad to appear when I post them here.
Krae, can you show us a "before" (i.e., the initial scan) of that picture? I'm just curious to see what an expert can do with software. I've messed a little bit with PaintShopPro, but I've not even scratched the surface of its capabilities.
BTW, is the negative scanner a dedicated negative scanner, or a scanner with an attachment? My dad has been talking of getting something to his negatives, so any feedback you have would be welcome.
This si from about 7 pages back, but i have to postQuote:
Originally Posted by RisingSun
Burnside was way worse then mcclellan
greg,
it's a dedicated, stand-alone, usb, slide/negative scanner. you can get them as part of a normal scanner (i think as an attachment of sorts), but i already have a normal scanner. i ordered it through Staples, $129.
this is the first attempt at this negative:
http://mizus.com/kraellin/scan1001-01a.bmp this is a bit misrepresented, however. it's not the scan i actually used to get the final result, for color reasons. you can see the scratches and dust marks, however. i also had to resize it quite a bit smaller (40% of original), and change it to .bmp. the original came out in .tif, which paint shop pro can handle.
and yes, that's what i used for editing after the save, psp.
there is also software that comes with the scanner which allows you to preview and change how the scan will come out. this is a sort of film type adjustment pre-step to the editing in psp. i do a pre-scan, which loads the scan up in the scanner software and then adjust the look using that. i then take another scan to save to file and that's how it will look when i call it up in psp. so, this shot i'm posting is the first attempt at saving the pre-setup.
this negative scanner is quite a bit more involved than a normal scanner. gettting the negative image over to a positive image that looks like a real photo is the trick. when i did this first blusih picture and loaded it up into psp, i thought i'd just be able to do a reverse image from negative to positive, but it looked horrible color wise. i then did a few others but with adjusting the colors in the pre-scan and that's how i ended up with something i could work with in psp. i then adjusted color and contrast and so on a bit in psp and edited out the streaks and dust dots to get the final image. it's not how the original actually looked, the original photograph. i still had trouble with the color adjustments (i'm missing some greens) and i'll be spending some time learning and tweaking on this thing some more.
all in all, i'm generally pleased, but i was hoping for a bit better first results without all this color adjustment and tweaking. so, if you go this route, try to get a demo in the store first. i bought this blind, with no demo or working model in the store to actually look at and play with. this is also the low-end model of this company. they have at least two more. i'll also be looking at their web site to see if they have got some updates or other editing software.
i shld also mention that i had trouble getting this thing going. it was made in taiwan and the 'manual', such as it is, was a bit spartan. there is also a problem with some computers not being able to run with two scanners on the same machine and i had to disconnect one of my printers and my flatbed scanner to get this thing to work. after doing that, however, it worked fine.
the brand name is 'prime film 1800u and the company is pacificimage electronics. their web page is www.scanace.com .
i'll prolly be posting some more of these as i do more, hopefully closer to the original photograph's specs :)
K.
Thanks for the abundant (as always) info Krae.
Funny that a "negative" isn't a negative as far as software is concerned. What you are going through is my problem with digital editing. You can do lots of stuff, but unless the image is a special one to you, is it worth spending hours tweaking it? Maybe it goes a lot quicker when you get familiar with the software and techniques. Nice job on that negative BTW, but I can see where you have some more work to do yet. Good luck with it.
well, i'm beginning to think that something may be wrong with the software used in the scanner. i can set the pre-scan to give me a very close to the original type image, but when i scan it to save it, i get something quite different. in fact, it's quite close (the saved file) to the one i posted above, the bluish one.
so, after i got the pre-scan setup how i wanted it, i simply did a print screen of it and saved it in psp. i then cleaned it up with psp and this is how it looks:
http://mizus.com/kraellin/rose-3-k-1a.bmp
so, i'm not quite sure what's going on yet. it could be me and something i dont understand yet, or it could be the scanner software... not sure. it's a bit weird to me yet. i'll prolly have to send some stuff to the manufacturer or update drivers or software or something. but as maxwell smart used to say, 'missed it by that much.'. :)
K.
Wow! Nice job! That looks great.
Don't ya just love it when you have to "fight" the software/hardware?
thanks greg :)
yeah, i read a readme that came with this stuff that talks about two methods for fixing a scan when the pre-scan and scan to file dont match up, but i cant find some of the things they're referencing.
i also found a new driver, which i've downloaded, but not installed yet. been working on this all morning, so i'll fool with the driver update later. gonna take a break now :)
K.
ok, i'm getting the hang of this now. seems that there are 3 parts of software that came with this thing. i was only using one. i could still prolly get away with using just the one, but i'd have to adjust some settings in psp to do it and not quite sure what those are. they list what you have to change in photoshop for this, but not psp and psp doesnt translate out the same way, i think. at any rate, i've got the pre-scan and the scan matching up now.
so, here's the next set, before and after editing:
http://mizus.com/kraellin/blueflowers-1-k-0a.bmp
http://mizus.com/kraellin/blueflowers-1-k-1c.bmp
K.
Beautiful damn beautiful Krae...
Damn greg...I knew I've been living in the wrong country doing the wrong type of music....the best I've ever managed is the Royal Albert Hall along with the rest of a choir and an enitre Symphony orchestra the LSO in fact...Let's just say I won't be forgetting that for a while...
thanks, ah dut :)
hmmm, they're not loading. mizus may be down. i've also had trouble before with these img things getting erased, so dunno.
well, it turns out that the apoth guy (me) did any number of things wrong when setting up the new negative scanner. i plead innocent (mostly) based on the taiwanese translation ;) first, it turns out this thing wont work with another scanner hooked up on the usb. yup, so had to take my flatbed off. but, i'd already installed the software and apparently that screwed things up the first time. thinking it was something else, i got the updated drivers from offline. again, this got screwed up beause i didnt understand something and i put the old drivers back on. lol. this went on for a few days like this. finally, after reading and reading the readmes, the manual, the online faq, and the online driver installation, i got the new drivers installed correctly and all seems fine now :)
in fact, i've been going through quite a few of my old negatives. this thing is quite interesting (now that it's giving the correct results). you load the software, then the negative, then do a 'prescan', which shows you the pic in their software in a positive image. you can then edit that prescan and do a final scan to get the actual result. the result comes out as a file in your choice of locations, or you can use their software to capture it for further editing. since i'm using psp, i just capture it as a file i use in psp.
the prescan and prescan edit are quite handy. you've quite a few options to change the original scan and get a better one. there is color alteration in several methods, brigthness and contrast control, flipping, rotating, and mirroring, and a number of other features. this makes it quite easy to do one prescan, edit it, scan it to a file, revert all your settings back, edit it again for another look and do another scan as another file. thus, you can get any number of final looks to a pic off the same prescan. i did this to one picture in particular and i'll prolly post those results after i've done some more editing.
on the final result file, i load it into psp and usually do a couple of minor automated processes, then start edting by hand. i could do more automated stuff in psp, but the overall quality of the pic suffers often by the automation processes, especially if you're doing a lot of them. so, i minimize those.
i'm having a ball with this thing. pictures i took 35 years ago are coming out remarkably better than i'd hoped. they are a bit faded and dusty, but with the software i've got, i can restore them fairly well. and, in some cases, even get them better than the originals. add in the prescan edit capabilities for changing the look of the originals and i'm now glad i bought this (whereas a couple of days ago i wasnt so sure :)
K.
As a "best I've even managed", that ranks as a pretty impressive accomplishment just about any way you look at it ah_dut. That is something to be proud of.Quote:
Originally Posted by ah_dut
But it was so damn boring I nearly fell asleep in all those hours of rehearsal then nearly died from the heat in the concert hall...it soundsd like a life experiance but all I seem to have got from it is an overwhelming desire not to be a musician when I grow up...I couldn't even get a coke afterwards because of the ludicrously overpriced canteen hall...damn itQuote:
Originally Posted by Gregoshi
Oh well, BBC in White City is much better, cheap food and much nicer people
Watermellon art:
http://www.funlol.com/content/img/watermelon-art.jpg
Best sandcastle ever:
http://www.funlol.com/content/img/best-sandcastle.jpg
Strange, worked for me at first.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
Was the idea to display an image with black lettering and a yellow background that says "This image was stolen from www.FunLOL.com. Go to www.FunLOL.com to see a working image."? That's all I see. Anyone else?