Cool Nature Photos

[snymat68]

...any help to get rid of the flash other than retaking the picture without a flash?

I have both Lightroom and Photoshop on my PC at home (I'm at work now so I can't mess around with it). Unfortunately, even with powerful photo editing tools such as those, it would be really difficult and take a lot of effort to remove that flash reflection from that image. That section of the image has been blown out to 100% white, meaning there's effectively no image remaining in that area. It would have to be recreated manually in software. Not impossible, just quite difficult. Also, the camera was not held square to the photo when taking the shot, so there's the keystoning (tilt)to be taken care of too. If it's possible, I would retake the image without flash, and with the camera square to the photo. Or better yet, scan it if you have access to a scanner.

I wonder how much each of those logs weigh. They're huge.

 

[drivesitfar]

Buckeye: i'm not familiar with Google drive, but just guessing I'd say it's kinda like the CLOUD? sounds like you have got it figured out for you and if you'd like to post full size I'd say you have the skills and you just are choosing to post thumbnails. yes?

Syn: thanks for the detailed and excellent post and help. since the picture is at my 87 year old parents that I usually am at weekly or a few times a month i'll try to take another picture (or two or more) of some of the cool old logging pictures that my Gramps took with his poloroid and i'll post up that picture again. I'd say HEAVY is a good answer for a WET old growth fir log (or it could have been cedar or redwood I guess), but he mostly logged fir trees. there was certainly a lot of heavy, noisy and powerful equipment up at the job site in the mountains where Gramps would take me when I was 4 thru 10 the weeks i'd stay with him during the summers while my mom and dad was working. I could have stayed at my Grandma's with my twin sisters, but he'd say if i was up and ready I could go with him which I usually did. I drove on his lap on a D9 like this many many times while he cut new roads in the mountains. if i only had a cell phone and camera for those pics.

I haven't driven a tractor for maybe 50 years, but if we move i'm gonna find out which one is the best for me and it might be my first purchase seeing as how handy they are for all of you.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Buckeye: i'm not familiar with Google drive, but just guessing I'd say it's kinda like the CLOUD? sounds like you have got it figured out for you and if you'd like to post full size I'd say you have the skills and you just are choosing to post thumbnails. yes?

Google drive is cloud. It’s the easiest way I’ve found to copy pics from my windows pc to my iPhone.

I highly recommend IrFanView (free) for resizing and working with pics. I use it’s rename capability to rename my pictures in yyyymmdd_hhmmss_ format. It pulls the info from the metadata. I then go thru and add state and other info about the picture. Just a way I like.

I post full sized pictures from the tbn phone app and it handles making thumbnails. I don’t make the thumbnails, but that’s what you see if using a browser, then you click to see full size.

This is how your pics show up on the app.

 

[drivesitfar]

Buckeye: thanks for letting me (us) know about more options. I like to post just from my laptop cause it seems easier, but since i do have a fairly new Iphone i could learn to use it for more than just a phone, text, emails and looking at threads. just an FYI cause I posted the D9 and the drive thru Redwood in thumbnail and i didn't enlarge or resize them.

ALL: my bride and I don't go to Downtown Seattle much cause we hate paying for parking and the crowds, but we do tend to try to make it to the FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW every year to see what's new. here's a landscaper showing off just a piece of his skills that he set up in a few days, monitored for a couple weeks and then took down again.

 

[Alien]

Wow! how beautiful! Love the Dragon.

I also have Photoshop but rarely use it. Paint is just so easy.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

sunrise today

 

[goeduck]

sunrise today

Beautiful !

 

[drivesitfar]

Alien: that dragon was pretty cool especially for something that had to be moved in a few days.

Buckeye: great picture.

ALL: anybody else remember hearing red sky at night sailors delight and red sky in morning sailors take warning?

here's a couple pics I saved of a tornado on the Oregon Coast that happened while we were down close to there in 2016. we don't get these very often, but we are getting them and we had one in Port Orchard, Wa about 30 miles from my home a couple years ago.

 

[dalola]

ALL: anybody else remember hearing red sky at night sailors delight and red sky in morning sailors take warning?

Absolutely! And it's right more times than not as well! (meaning, nice day after a red night sky, and bad weather coming after a red morning.)

 

[Alien]

We say .. Red sky at night, Shepherds delight. Red sky in the morning Shepherds warning. Bit of a deviation there.