Thats really weird, I can't even guess what it is...
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Thats really weird, I can't even guess what it is...
The same glass vase as above.
Doesn't look like it...But you must be right.
And again the same vase with that flower inside as seen in the first and third images on this page.
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I like that speck of light the stem is pointing to in the water. It reminds me of a jigsaw puzzle piece.
It does look a bit like that. There is no water in the vase, though.
hi everyone---am hoping this will be a good place to ask. im engaged in a project where I am looking to put both colored borders around a photo, and captions with a photo. the captions wouldn't go on the photo proper but outside the photo, along the sides or top/bottom.
I have irfanview, and have gotten some success with it, but ultimately I don't think its going to suit my purposes.
I wonder if anyone can recommend a free image editing program with the above features? I can give more information about the captioning---in some cases, it might only be a few words, in others, it might run the entire length of a page.
in irfanview, when I add commentary to the sides, it seems to run the width of the entire screen, as opposed to a few words, and then the next line below, a few words, and the next line below, etc. (it could be my lack of familiarity with the program though.) putting commentary on the bottom is easier, but sometimes I want to write more than what space will allow.
IrfanView is handy for the borders, but the captions I'd do with Paint, or possibly Word (or similar programs on Mac if you use it) if you're printing the things, although I cannot say how much the photo quality suffers from printing through that sort of software.
thanks north star...
no mac for me. wont be printing.
so far as I can tell, paint only allows me to put captions into the photo, not on the outside of it. am not seeing how word would work without hundreds of copy and pasting and formatting. part of the persnicketiness of it all is, some of the images are such that they need to be enlarged in order to read them (they are almost all newspaper scans)
Never heard of irfanview, Some form of viewer according to their home page...
Irfanview is a Swiss army knife program that I've been using for years. I've heard lots of good things about the freeware program paint.net. If you don't mind a learning curve, there's Gimp. Finally, I believe Adobe has made freely available an older version of Photoshop; check their site.
thank you calidore---I cant imagine the learning curve no matter which one of those suggestions I look into, would be too steep. borders and captioning, I think, are pretty straight forward.
Enjoying all the pics North Star, my long dormant photography itch is coming back.
Excellent, Gilliatt, and thank you.
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Your photos are making normal sights more interesting because of the way they are arranged, North Star. The viewer doesn't even have to recognize the actual objects being photographed to find them attractive. We seem to miss most of the world around us when we look at it. The photos remind us that there is more there.
Thank you very much, YesNo. You touch on an important part of what I try to achieve with my photographs.Quote:
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I have never got into photography. I had a box camera in the 1950s and now have a very outdated Casio EX-Z80, digital but I don't know how to take advantages of its potential. Pity because my interest in astronomy could also do with a decent camera, though I am too old to start to develop a completely new skill. I've thought about it a lot recently. What kind of camera have you got?
I have a Nikon D7100, Dreamwoven. You will find plenty of information online, of variable quality, on what cameras are best for astophotography, e.g. here http://soggyastronomer.com/the-best-...rophotography/
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The micro landscape of fresh snow in your last photo North Star, is very nice.
I want my camera to be good for more than just traditional astronomy, I use it for family pictures, too. Also for capturing the beautiful skies which are particularly attractive up here in Central Sweden at about 61 N. Great sunrises and sunsets especially, (you may have some of where you live in Finland). I saw one picture (early in this thread) taken in Sweden of a noctilucent cloud. I am in the process of trying to view the entire thread which was started in 2006 (!). But now I see there are other threads in the same category on pictures of all sorts. So I give up on that huge job.:)
Thanks. Well any camera that does astronomy photography ought to be able to do family pictures and landscape. You want good resolution and low noise with higher ISOs for the astronomy and family photos in particular (at least if you're shooting children or just fleeting moments and not group portraits), and they of course help with landscape as well. A couple of things that you should decide first are a) how much money do you want to invest in the camera (and possibly lenses) and b) how large can the camera be? That should help narrowing it down. I also recommend going to a store and trying the cameras out there for how they feel, and what kind of range from wide angle to telephoto the cameras / lenses have.
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Thats a good starting point, North Star. First I will take some pictures with my Casio Exilim Ex-Z80 using the zoom function to get a sharper image, but I suspect that the camera takes lousy pics at a distance. This will take me a while to do. I will let you know the result, and if possible post them here.
I like your pictures, too, North Star. These snowy ones are interesting. I love the odd shapes snow makes, and you've captured that odd, elusive quality very well. They look like little snails almost.
Thanks, qimissung.
I've abandoned my attempt to take photos and load them up to photobucket, I realise my old camera is just not up to it. I'm going to have to buy a new camera at some point.
Your last picture immediately struck me as a line of 4 soldiers, with their pikes sticking out of the snow. Opposite is a lookout post on the defensive line.
Hm, I can see how you got there.
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Now that the snow has started to shrink, I can see many of these just in our back yard. My wife tells me that they are birch trees sprouting through the snow. I had not connected them to your photos, but now I see that is what they are.
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Complex on the beach, sunset, Cayman Islands
This am a picture I took with my phone behind the royal palace in Stockholm several years ago.
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Nice, Tyrion. Hey, I was there too several years ago. Strange how I didn't recognize you...
I was the cannon standing in front of the guard. Or maybe I was the balls.Quote:
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Elephant skeleton in Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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A photo of my freezer
Those elephant skeletons remind me of the skeleton of Sue in the Field Museum in Chicago, Lemonade. I'll have to see if I can find the pictures I took of that one.
That's an interesting perspective of a freezer, tonywalt. I would have never thought of taking such a picture. Also I am surprised at how deep the blue is of the gas station machines.
Freezers are interesting. Yes, I was surprised by the blue also, then again, it's brand new.Quote:
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What y'all doing in the Cayman Islands, tony? Or were you born there? And how about some pictures of hidden off-shore bank accounts. :-0