cant help but wonder why there are no stars in the background and how come all of europe is green...
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cant help but wonder why there are no stars in the background and how come all of europe is green...
Satellite was focused on a near object (earth), I don't think far objects (stars) would show up.Quote:
Originally Posted by [b
Not a lot of desert in Europe.
You did notice the one area that actually did have cloud concentration: Merry olde .....
Isn`t it beautiful? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by [b
Since i cant host pics ill just post a link to a forum where you can see my actual desktop.
KY's Desktop scroll down a bit.
It's taken 100 years ago http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by [b
There is too much of a brightness difference between the Earth and the stars. To adjust the exposure enough to pick up the stars, the Earth would be so over-exposed that it would be unrecognizable white blob - in fact I'd be willing to bet the Earth light would bleed to cover the whole picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by [b
As promised on a previous thread some pics from the week end in Barcelona (hope the link works)
Some nuns on sightseeing in Parc Güell
http://db1.fotocommunity.de/neu/pic/7/711507.jpg
http://home.fotocommunity.de/tt/inde...36791&d=711507
Edit: It seems the link does not work ... bugger http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/frown.gif (or can anybody see a picture?)
Negative. Cant see it unless I copy paste the link location into my address bar. then it becomes available.
Looks nice.
Errr which one of the nuns is you ? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/confused.gif
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by [b
Actually that's me (the lady wife was struggling with the camera, that's why my facial expression looks slightly pinched - I could not maintain a happy face for more than 30 seconds):
http://home.fotocommunity.de/tt/inde...36791&d=711632
The nuns were actually quite funny - they asked a guy to take a group picture, but at least half of them had a camera and each wanted a separate picture with her own camera, so the guy took about 5-6 pictures with different cameras
And as a last one for today of course the Sagrada Familia - the cathedral is really impressive (and it is not even halfway finished, yet).
http://home.fotocommunity.de/tt/inde...36791&d=711610
BTW, thanks Sinan for confirming that the picture could not be seen - as long as I am not able to figure out what the problem is I post just the links (hoping that these work)
EDIT: Funny - it seems it is not possible to get the pictures by clicking on the link - the URL has to be copied and pasted http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/confused.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/confused.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/confused.gif
EDIT #2: The new links should work...
this is in glasgow
http://www.funprox.com/log/cheerup2.jpg
http://www.funprox.com/log/cheerup1.jpg
too bad about those sig rules
http://solypsist.homestead.com/files/Alizee_dance.gif
Just as an addendum to the picture of the Sagrada Familia in a previous post, I found a picture of how the cathedral is supposed to look like when it is finished:
http://members.lycos.nl/gaudiworks/images/sagrad2.jpg
So far two of the facades, each with four of the "smaller" spires are finished - and these are already very impressing. The huge spires in the center are still missing - I wonder if I will live to see this monument finished...
Is this taken from the American corner?... I remember spending some time there in 92-93.Quote:
Originally Posted by [b
Wow, that's 10 years ago...
Try posting that twice, side by side, and stare at it without blinking for.... about.... thirty..... seconds...... or soooooo..........
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/smokin.gif
WOW That's going to be incredible when it's finished http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by [b
Whats she saying?
My name over and over and.... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/tongue.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by [b
Here Cat, take a look...
Click here
PS, stand a little back from the screen... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif
"Ive got a big brown stain on my back" http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gifQuote:
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How'd ya do that ? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif
testing my poor flash and the limits of the board - gah wont fit - whats this about replacing an avatar with a .swf file? In the control panel it says 160x240 but the avatars arent nearly that size and the limit for a post flash movie is 500x150...what gives?
BTW isnt there centering tag for iB code?
will it work?
It works, looks nice http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif.
i finally got my camcorder working, too
http://solypsist.homestead.com/files/hitlerbar.jpg
I was working just to the left of there and up a bit not so long ago. West Nile Street to be precise, nice city centre in Glasgow http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gifQuote:
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Here's a shot I took day before yesterday with my new digital. This place is only a few blocks from where I live, and is aptly named "The Old Mill"
[img]ftp://robertwhite29:12345678@upload.comcast.net/old_mill_030a.jpg[/img]
You may not know it, but many of you have seen this mill before. It was built as a focal point for a early sub-division built around a lake in the 1930's. It is full size, and the water wheel turns, but it was never a real working mill. The North Little Rock parks commission keeps it in repair and the local botanical association plants flowers and does all the landscaping
Anyway, it is a very famous (local) landmark since it was used in the opening scenes of the movie Gone With the Wind. Check it out next time you happen to watch the movie.
Cheers
nice, and good picture taking. what kind of digital?
K.
found this one on the web ;)
http://mizus.com/kraellin/mexicantanlines1.gif
K.
Krae:Quote:
Originally Posted by [b
Thanks. I am still experimenting, since digitals have a few more things to remember than 35mm's do. Stuff like white balance, compression, and resolution.
The camera is a Canon Powershot G3 digital. My old 18 year old Canon 35mm SLR finally gave up the ghost after being refurbished twice. I just couldn' justify putting anymore money in it, so I decided to go digital.
Canon has just discontinued the G3's this year in favor of newer model called the G5. The newer G5 is 5 megapixels while the G3's are 4 megs. The newer camera comes in black while the older one comes in silver. Otherwise the cameras are identical. Here's what my camera looks like. The little black card is a wireless remote.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/G3/ZREMOTE.JPG
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PROD...CDOPENBACK.JPG
The G3 actually got slightly better reviews than the G5, so it seemed like a good buy. Camera shops are closing out the G3's to stock the newer model, so the G3's are bargain priced right now. You can find a G3 on line in the $350 price range as opposed to the $800 price tag on the newer G5.
I guess these cameras would be considered one step below a digital SLR. I would have much preferred a digital SLR, but I couldn't justify the 4 digit price tags.
By the way, Canon is just hitting the market with the first digital SLR priced just under $1,000 that includes a lens.
Still too much money for my photographic needs, but maybe someday.
Cheers
nice.
yeah, i saw a thing on tech tv about the new slr digitals. looked good.
i bought a digital when they first came out, so mine is only a 640 x 480 type. i hardly use it cause of the low quality. i've still got my old 35mm canon F1 when i really want to get a decent pic, but it's been a while since i used that also.
any more, i seem to be on the editing side of photography :) care to post a picture of yourself? ;)
K.
wow, love the picture F.O http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif
I bumped into this site this evening and it might be interesting to some of you It has a lot of Photoshop contests and thus also a lot of pictures
Also there are some very nice tutorials for Photoshop Check it out http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/smokin.gif
Catiline and a friend...
http://www.binnes.com/t1_ff15.jpg
lol, din :)
K.
Krae, do you know of any other sites with photoshop tutorials? I am also experimenting with it. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif
apache,
actually, no. well, maybe... i work with paint shop pro, the cheap man's photoshop, so the tutorial site i know is for that and that's just JASC's site, the maker of paint shop pro.
however, i do know that tech tv has p-shop artists on from time to time and there are some good p-shop folks on there and they always link to their sites. so, try www.thescreensavers.com and look for articles on p-shop and then the links to the p-shop sites from there. and of course our own soly is pretty damn handy with p-shop; you could always ask him.
K.
Cataline and his friends having a BBQ...
bbq
I found a good sight for those interested in seeing the capabilities of air brushing. Just move your cursor over the picture to see the original. There are arrows over the picture that allow you to progress through more images from the same set or return to the main page and choose from other selections. I started with the most... appropriate image. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif
Greg's Digital Archive
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Originally Posted by [b
Teh Old
I posted this way back on page 14
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/smokin.gif
And I posted it on page 13.Quote:
Originally Posted by [b
At times it seems as though the world dislike America, atleast the aliens making crop circles don't... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif
http://www.binnes.com/t6_f20.jpg
The sig here is a photoshoped digital photo of mysesf that I first used in Baulders Gate and now us as my sig.
btw, i saw a preview of photoshop 8.0. lots of new stuff. or is it out already? might have been a re-run show. i could sure use some of those features though.
K.
omg http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif .....Quote:
Originally Posted by [b
On another forum, we were talking about Civil War infantry battles recently
Later, it got me to thinking about an old tintype I have of one of my ancestors who fought for the CSA., so I dug it up an took a shot of it with my digital.
Here's a picture of my great, great uncle--Robert F. White.
[img]ftp://robertwhite29:12345678@upload.comcast.net/myfilelocker/great_uncle_002a.jpg[/img]
Robert and two other of my great grandfather's brothers all fought at Shiloh. (My great grandpa was too young to go at the time) Robert was the only brother to survive the battle, and died shortly after the war.
He is wearing a Mexican War type forage cap, but I have no information about whether he fought in the Mexican War or not. Actually he appears to be a naval officer, but according to family history this was not the case.
You can't see it very well in the my photo, but there are two revolvers (probably Colt Navies) tucked into his belt although one could be large enough to be a Colt dragoon.
Also the double button jacket would seem to indicate that he was an officer, and I seem to remember my grandpa saying he was a captain. My grandpa (paternal) died in 1957 so it's been a long time since I last heard all of the stories.
l won't bother you with the cock and bull story about Robert's and his brother's exploits at Shiloh because it sounds like the kind of bogus family legends that develop after a story gets retold so many times over the years.
Just thought it might be of interest.
Cheers
cool. thanks f.o.
my dad's into geneaology a bit and has family tree maker on his computer. interesting stuff, and my mother has a bunch of old photos she got from her mother. also kind of interesting. i'm not into it a lot, but fun finding out you had relatives in the civil war or revolutionary war and even going back to the 'old' countries.
K.
Very nice picture FO. Your great, great uncle looks familiar (and young). Are there other pictures of him you know of that might have been used in Civil War shows?
Thanks for sharing a bit of your family history.
Observer, The revolver looks like a Colt Walker. It was a Mexican war era weapon and would go with the uniform. If you had one today it would be worth a LOT of money. I do a lot of family research and I personally like to find the horse thieves and bandits in my genealogy. They are harder to find because they didn't want to be found even when they were alive.
I have studied that photo quite a bit, but really haven't taken the time to show it to any knowledgeable experts.Quote:
Originally Posted by [b
The enlarged photo I took with my digital camera kind of washed some of the detail, and it makes the pistol appear ro be larger than it is.
I am pretty sure that the gun is not a Walker for a couple of reasons. Walkers had huge elongated cylinders to take a heavy powder charge. They are reputed to be one of the most powerful hand guns ever made including Dirty Harry's 44 magnum.
They also had square back trigger guards and the loading lever handle flared out slightly to a bulbous end. Since there was no lever catch on the barrel, a common fault of the Walker was that the spring held loading lever would flop when the gun was fired. This was later corrected in the Dragoon models.
Anyhow, the gun in the picture has a round trigger guard, a normally proportioned cylinder, and the loading lever does not appear to flare.
I think some of the later improved Dragoons also had round trigger guards, so a Dragoon is not out of the question. It all a matter of scale. If the gun is a Colt Navy then my great, great uncle was a bit of a shrimp.
One other thing. I was wrong in stating that this is a tintype. I finally had the nerve to take the frame apart, and discovered that this picture is actually an ambrotype. Ambrotypes were done on glass instead of metal plates as tintypes were. Tintypes were more common since they were less fragile to deal with, especially for the itinerant traveling photographers of the day.
Still, Walker or not, I wish at least one of those weapons had survived, and been passed down in the family. Even though not as rare as the Walkers, the Dragoons are pretty scarce.
The last couple of Dragoons I saw at a gun show were each priced in the $15,000 range, and that was several years ago. You could probably retire on sale of a previously undiscovered Walker.
Cheers
P.S. I did inherit my grandpa's 1873 Winchester rifle. It's in a 38-40 caliber with an octagon barrel, and is still in shooting condition today. The serial number places it in the early 1880's production. I bagged my first deer with it in the 1960's. I was about 16 years old at the time and the gun was about 80 Man, that old rifle put a lot food on my family's table over the years.
The horse thieves were all on my grandma's side of the family. She was 1/4 Cherokee by the way.
Some men like a lot.
okay here's my choice for animated gif avatar if they were standard for this forum:
http://solypsist.homestead.com/files...ardcat_eng.gif
hehehe, good one :)
K.
figure out which of these is me
http://solypsist.homestead.com/files/storm_troopers.jpg
The one on the right the other one looks dead(just look at his legs who can stand like that?) http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif
Eskimo Nebula photographed from the Hubble:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...skimo2_hst.jpg
Today I just felt the urge to post some Toothpaste for Dinner comics. Please find a way to forgive me.
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/0...sh-wake-up.gif http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/033003/paint.gif
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/0...-the-mouse.gif
postwhore time
http://solypsist.homestead.com/files/bicycle.jpg
okay and finally two pics of the Story/PBM moderators club.
http://solypsist.homestead.com/files/yellowbird.jpg
http://solypsist.homestead.com/files/yellowbird2.jpg
some comments on this:Quote:
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Kukri Khan looks like a Hapsburg
Catiline looks like a constipated guy
Rob the Bastard actually looks normal http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif
Hosakawa looks like a girl staring at Kukri's big Hapsburg jaw.
Is that a unibrow on Mithrandir?
Why doesn't Kraellin have any teeth??
Shiro looks... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/shock.gif
Gregoshi is smiling..*shudders*
Erado looks sad about something http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/frown.gif
Tosa looks like he's going to throw up http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gif
Barocca said something witty and Lord Krazy is laughing it up
Tootee looks normal too
I do know these are not the real mod crew http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/pat.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wave.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gif
..........or are they?? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/santa.gif
I like that the lawnmower has a stereo system.
what do you mean it was photoshopped ???
I of course would always refer to manipulating a picture using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
Actually. Someone in their legal department had to be having a laugh.
http://www.rome-total-war.com/JOIN%20SPQR%202.JPG . http://www.rome-total-war.com/JOIN%20SPQR%203.JPG
http://www.rome-total-war.com/JOIN%20SPQR%204.JPG . http://www.rome-total-war.com/JOIN%20SPQR%205.JPG
http://www.rome-total-war.com/JOIN%20SPQR%207.JPG . http://www.rome-total-war.com/JOIN%20SPQR%206.JPG
I see. So the mods all go to the same international school for slow children then? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif
You're lucky if that doesn't get this thread closed. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/tongue.gif
it's been a while since i've posted anything in here, but i found this cute little program for doing this stuff and thought i'd do a simple one and post it here. if this works right, just click on the link and it shld be played by windows media player.
http://mizus.com/kraellin/tosa_croc1.avi
ok, let's see if this works :)
it's a big file, so it may take a while to load. 56k'ers beware
K.
here's another one. it's a simple morph and looks more like a standard .gif animation, but the morph program just makes things easier because it does all the intermediary frames.
this is from one of Dimeolas's art works. i altered his original to give me the darker one and then applied both to the morph program. fun stuff.
Dimeolas is a patron here on the .org and has a nice site up with some of his art work. i forget the url for it, so if someone knows it, why feel free to post it.
and dimeolas, if you object to my use of your work, please, just pm me and i'll take the thing down.
http://mizus.com/kraellin/dimeolasmorph1a.gif
K.
edit: the best way to run this is, prolly to click on the link once and let it load all the way through. then kill that page and click it again so you're running from the cached version you now have. this one is only 3.7 megs or so, so not nearly as long as that last one.
K.
Works fine http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/bigthumb.gifQuote:
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Didn't know that Tosa had a shapeshifter as pet, though ...
For Jacque and the rest of you space/astronomy fans, NASA just released the "Hubble Ultra Deep Field" image. This image contains over 10,000 galaxies. It is a 1 million second exposure collected over a 4 month period of time and 400 orbits. You've probably seen the teeny picture release to the web news services. However, you can view the picture in all its glory - that would be a 6200x6200 image available in an 80mb jpg or a 100mb tiff.
Go to this page and select one of the mirrors - demand has been high for the image.
I'm in the middle of downloading it right now. It has been downloading for about 30 minutes now and I only have half the image, and this is on a cablemodem. It is taking a long time but the image is spectacular so far http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif
wow. that was pretty amazing.
K.