Well, sort of guitars.

1. Portrait of the musician with his guitar.
2. Okay, she has a mandolin.
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That's a real nice one with the mandolin, SoyMac!

And now, for tonight's cavalcade of cabbages...

Wow those are some nice guitars! I'm going to have to shine up some of my collection and start taking shots of them .. but most of the axes I have that are worth photographing are basses (I'm primarily a bassist, go figure).

Nice macros too.

Beautiful colours ScanMan! They really pop!

Ditto on the eye-popping floral shots ScanMan, and that beauty of a shot of the mando gal, SoyMac.

Right arm, as we used to say.

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/natural_files/snow%20stump.jpg

Nice work, Doug! What are we looking at, exactly? Looks like a macro shot, but this kind of image plays with scale and you can almost imagine it as an aerial shot of an arctic canyon.

That's a real nice one with the mandolin, SoyMac!

And now, for tonight's cavalcade of cabbages...

Love the middle one ScanMan... that would probably translate really well to B&W as well.

Okay, here's an Agile 3100, an LP copy made in Korea with a spalted maple top, binding up the wazoo and abalone inlays. Fantastic guitar, no longer in my possession.


That is one gorgeous guitar Max... too bad it is no longer yours.

It was indeed a very cool guitar screature, but the neck width by the nut was simply too slim for my long fingers - I tended to cramp up when playing it, so I traded it away. I'd love another spalted maple top model... maybe one day. I like playing the odds on Craigslist, just waiting for a cool catch to come along. Money's tight right now, so I just make trade offers. I enjoy the randomness of it all; you never know what might be around the corner.

Here's a detail of the back of an old outbuilding out in the Trent Hills area.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/Facade.jpg

I recently took a series of photos of shadows of the fall leaves against the side of my house with the intention of using them as a spring board for some abstract paintings.

Just to get the ball rolling I did some mucking about in Photoshop to get the creative juices flowing. Here is the original and a heavily processed version a la "abstract painting". No "ready made" plugins were used just lots and lots of layers and blending options.

Note: You can click on them to see them larger.


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^ Me. I'm still liking the first one – post #2956. I can see where the sky's the limit on a series like this. Nice idea.

ScanMan: The Cabbage Patch Trio would make a nice grouping!

I'm guessing Doug's awesome macro shot is snow on slate. I can see the Artic canyon too Max.

Gorgeous shot of the Lady and the Mandolin Soymac!
Here's the Girl and the Guitar:

^ Me. I'm still liking the first one – post #2956. I can see where the sky's the limit on a series like this. Nice idea.

Thanks ScanMan... yes the possibilities are pretty much endless... which means I may be working on it forever... ;)

What are we looking at, exactly?

2 cm of snow on a sopping wet maple stump. Close up but not quite macro. I think I could have done a better job with it but I ain't going back.

And now, for tonight's cavalcade of cabbages...

Gorgeous pics!

Wow, some amasing images. Nice to see some "people" shots. Soy, love the 2nd pic, KC --wonderful portrait and Scanman the cabbages are pure gold.

ScanMan: The Cabbage Patch Trio would make a nice grouping!

I'm guessing Doug's awesome macro shot is snow on slate. I can see the Artic canyon too Max.

Gorgeous shot of the Lady and the Mandolin Soymac!
Here's the Girl and the Guitar:

Nice KC4... Is that "the resident teen"?

People, eh? OK! Musical ghouls jamming up a storm. Distillery district, yesterday afternoon.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/MusicalGhouls.jpg

Nice KC4... Is that "the resident teen"?
Thanks Screature (and kps)! Yes, the one and only.

Max. I love the shadow play in the musical ghouls image. Notice how the shadow on the floor even has a skull shape? (Or maybe that was planned)

Hadn't noticed that, KC4, but yeah, I can see it! Here's another shot from the same afternoon, then the view from outside as the day shaded into night.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/GhoulGallery.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/EasternStump.jpg

Yeah, like the shadows on b&w image, but the drummer and the lizard on the stump make it for me.

Interesting crops on the later two. Also like the treatment on the gallery shot.

...Distillery district, yesterday afternoon.]

Musta just missed each other – this car should be familiar.

Thanks for the comments on my cabbages, everyone! Nice mood in your "Girl and the guitar", KC4.

Flowers, eh?

http://idisk.mac.com/plmnice/Public/P8090043.JPG

http://idisk.mac.com/plmnice/Public/lil22.jpg

Musta just missed each other – this car should be familiar.

.... Nice mood in your "Girl and the guitar", KC4.

Thanks. Cool shot of that grill. Been a while since that Dodge burned rubber.

Both shots are nice ones SINC. I especially like the top one with the clouds in the sky and the fence line disappearing into the distance.

Musta just missed each other – this car should be familiar.

Thanks for the comments on my cabbages, everyone! Nice mood in your "Girl and the guitar", KC4.

ScanMan: intimately acquainted with the Distillery and I've shot that very set of wheels in your fine photo - as have hundreds of people, no doubt!

A few years ago we had studio space on Mill St... I painted out of a garage bay in an old truck terminal for several years before they tore it down to make way for the park/condo complex that's going in just east of Cherry St.

Max's Mill street circa 1976 when G&W was a working distillery. Try and find a parking spot on Mill St. today.:lmao:

http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_G&W_Mill.jpg

Max's Mill street circa 1976 when G&W was a working distillery. Try and find a parking spot on Mill St. today.:lmao:

http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_G&W_Mill.jpg

I just drove along there not 1/2 an hour ago. I forgot how different it was then!

I just drove along there not 1/2 an hour ago. I forgot how different it was then!

Well allow me remind you some more....;)

Right down to the tossed old tire and barbed wire fence.
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http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_G&W_1.jpg

Love that first shot, Kps. Great range of tones there.

First time I ever got down there I was working on a commercial... must have been the early 90s and I was painting a set in one of the old buildings. Don't even remember what the commercial was for, but that had been the first time I'd even been aware of the complex. I'd wander around into the adjacent buildings on my breaks, fascinated by their sturdiness, the sheer thickness of the support beams, the beautiful stonework. For a suburban kid who grew up in 'modern' homes made from far more modest timbers and drywall slapped together, it was something of a revelation. So much history resonating in those spaces. A little less so now perhaps, since it's been so gussied up and manicured since then. But it's still a very cool site.

Nice shots, kps. Tough to shoot wide on this location these days – too many shops, signs...and shoppers. As Max says, "gussied up". That's where I shot the cabbages. Still, there are plenty of nice features if you look around.

Sinc: that second floral is fantastic. Great vermillion hue and the curviness of the subject really gives it some zing.

ScanMan: yessssssssss, very damn nice. Sometimes modernism has me despairing, as it so often eschews rich ornamentation. Something has been lost.

Here's another distillery detail, this one from 2003.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/DistilleryDetail-2003.jpg

Love that first shot, Kps. Great range of tones there.

First time I ever got down there I was working on a commercial... must have been the early 90s and I was painting a set in one of the old buildings. Don't even remember what the commercial was for, but that had been the first time I'd even been aware of the complex. I'd wander around into the adjacent buildings on my breaks, fascinated by their sturdiness, the sheer thickness of the support beams, the beautiful stonework. For a suburban kid who grew up in 'modern' homes made from far more modest timbers and drywall slapped together, it was something of a revelation. So much history resonating in those spaces. A little less so now perhaps, since it's been so gussied up and manicured since then. But it's still a very cool site.

I guess we should all be glad that someone with some foresight decided to save that area rather than put the wrecking ball to it.

Here's a huge file I've posted before, but in any case I'll link to it again. It's huge in order that you can see the details. It's a shot I took from the top of the TD Centre about a year before the CN tower was ever built. Torontonians will be shocked to see what the core looked like in the 70's. A city of parking lots instead of condos. LOL

Look in the upper centre right and you'll recognise the 'distillery' and check out the Esplanade..back then a wide boulevard with a railway running in the middle.

Linky: http://www.ikarl.com/pics/images/tor01.jpg

Well allow me remind you some more....;)

Right down to the tossed old tire and barbed wire fence.
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http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_G&W_1.jpg

Ah yes, I remember it well. Thanks Kps.

Here's a shot from our old studio... one of the last days we were there. Everyone had to leave at the same time, so bins were being filled like nobody's business. The guy managing the place was a technician who specialized in painting helicopters, motorcycles and high end cars for the film business, and he tended to rent out the bays to scenic artists, props and set dec people. All of these types usually need large amounts of storage for their kit. I was one of the few people who actually actively worked out of the space whenever I could; winters were pretty chilly but I managed. The top image shows the former trucking terminal in relation to the immediate area. We got five years out of that space and it was dirt cheap rent. Did a lot of work there and it was a handy location. Pretty grotty part of town back then but I didn't mind one bit. Now of course it's a different story. In another twenty years several tens of thousands more people will be living in the immediate vicinity. Nothing will be cheap, that's for sure!

I'd love to see pics of this now-vanished area in its heyday, when it was a working shipping terminal. By the time we showed up it was low-rent storage and parking for people's wheeled junk.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/StudioEvac2005.jpg

Off topic, geographically, but this nostalgia thing made me root though a couple of old chromes. From the roof of my Apt building (Plaza 100) Jarvis & Wellesley, looking south...the CBC tower, the Gardens near the centre...I'm guessing '72, '73. Yeah, a lot of parking lots back them. Ahh, to send Google streetview back in time...

Small world. I lived at Jarvis and Maitland, a decade later. I wasn't shooting back then, but I went back to the scene of the crime this past summer and shot the faded old twin building complex I lived in for three insane years. Lots of hookers on Jarvis back then, I expect? Sure was a lot when that was my neighbourhood.

Curious to look south and not see the CN tower, among other landmarks.

Off topic, geographically, but this nostalgia thing made me root though a couple of old chromes. From the roof of my Apt building (Plaza 100) Jarvis & Wellesley, looking south...the CBC tower, the Gardens near the centre...I'm guessing '72, '73. Yeah, a lot of parking lots back them. Ahh, to send Google streetview back in time...

Disorienting, where the heck is the CN Tower? Oh, it started in '73. Great shot of Toronto's history.

Smaller still...moved out of Plaza 100 into the 3-storey building directly south of it on Maitland . 3rd floor 1-bdrm apt, last year at Ryerson. Extremely fun times. Perhaps too much fun...

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/artis%202_files/1225.jpg

How weird is that...was just posting this when yours popped up. Another distillery door.

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/artis%202_files/red%20curve.jpg

Dunno WTF the problem is just off the left of the red curved wall. The original on my Mac doesn't have the faint line, whatever the hell it is. :mad:

Ha! Got me there...those are both great, TD! Love the texture on the 2nd one, it almost feels like suede.

OK, from the distillery, with some red on 'er.

^ Love it!

My old eyes are having a hard time seeing any lines, there TD. Like I say, it looks extremely smooth to me. You almost want to run your hand over the wall. Maybe throw up a screen grab of the annoying area...

There's a vertical line a couple of millimeters to the left of the red wall - I see it in Safari and in Camino too. Might be some kind of sharpening artifact but it's not visible when I open the original on my Mac. I'll re-do the image tomorrow and will use unsharp mask instead of luminance sharpening.

Anyway, one more before before I hit the hay.

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/artis%202_files/spiral%20staircase.jpg

^Wow, that's nice. A lot of detail in the shadows interesting reflections and nicely crisp. You can go nite, nite now.

Yeah maybe I can see a very (very) faint line in the previous shot, up in the shadows. like you say a couple of mm off the red wall. The processing IMO is super...me, I'd just clone it out of there. Easier still, I'd forget about it and hope it didn't print.

Wow, this last batch of photos are gorgeous... eye-popping hues and stunning compositions. Doug, that last one's a standout. It reminds me of a shot I took in Montreal several weeks back. Not as clean and pure as yours however, but there's certainly a shared take - looking up at some sexy curves.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/MontrealUnderground.jpg

Wow, where's that? Usually when I'm in one of the downtown complexes I'm not thinking imagery, but trying to get things done quickly & getting out even quicker.

TD, forgot to say, what I really like about your #1225 doorway shot, is the atmosphere created by soft light that's on between the doors.

Thanks. I pass by the doorway on the way to the office every morning and I'm rather fond of it but I can't say why. I took the shot fairly early in the morning and the image came out really blue due to UV scatter - to make things worse the awning is blue to begin with, and the door & stonework are bluish-grey. The unprocessed file was totally flat and blue enough to make my eyes hurt. I had to tinker a lot get the image to (more or less) match what I see in my mind's eye. But that's what it's all about sometimes, no?

Now - got any more shots with a lot of red in 'em? :)

Doug, damned if I know. It was within 5-10 minutes' walk of the train station; that's all I can tell you. I can get lost in the Montreal underground just as easily as the Toronto one. Like you, I try to avoid the damned things whenever possible. I always feel like I am among the lemmings when I'm down in the commercial bowels. We were on the hunt for a particular label of wine Coppola Estates makes - we wanted to score a bottle before jumping on the train back home - which led us to this amazing multi-floor liquor store (you guys have a much better selection of wines than all but the very biggest Ontario LCBO outlets - colour me envious!) that was right by this spot where I took the photo. I just looked up and saw this dizzying oval weirdness. It all felt very Bladerunner somehow.

Not sure I'm satisfied with this one, but it's done.

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/artis%202_files/damage.jpg

I like the composition and subject matter Doug, but I find the image a little over-processed. Was this a RAW shot processed in LightRoom? It looks like you went for a little ride with the clarity slider.

Here's something I shot today. The side facade of a local dry cleaning establishment.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/DryCleaner.jpg

Was this a RAW shot processed in LightRoom? It looks like you went for a little ride with the clarity slider.

RAW + the GraphicConverter "gloom" filter (what else) plus other adjustments. Might tinker some more & consider leaving it the real colour - which is damn ugly. The composition is what bugs me most though.

I like the dry cleaner pic - post more eh?

I reprocessed the red wall pic a few times and now it's even worse. I still don't see the distortion line when I open the original on my Mac. I'll probably restore the previous version to my website tomorrow then give up. :ptptptptp

Personally, I think the image has tons of power as a black and white. Composition-wise, it's pretty there already, although I might be tempted to try cropping at the top to the top right of the eavestrough, see if that makes a difference.

I expect the Gloom and Clarity functions are essentially similar and differ only in nomenclature.

Sure, I'll post another - but someone else has to first! I have to crash early tonight - adios until tomorrow.

First couple of shots with the new Lumix DMC-FH20
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20, FH3 and FH1 (http://www.digitalreview.ca/content/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-FH20-FH3-FH1.shtml)

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m269/macdoc/Picture374.jpg

does a nice job picking up the detail of the gold embedded in the piece....

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m269/macdoc/Picture378.jpg

Uncertain yet over the FX3 in some aspects...HD movies will be better and access to the larger faster memory.

Macro looks to be much better - not sure yet about low light behaviour.
ah for $140 tax in with a 4 gig card - why complain - controls are nice...not sure the zoom is going to useful much past 6x.
Stick to the Canon for that I guess.

Musta just missed each other – this car should be familiar.

Thanks for the comments on my cabbages, everyone! Nice mood in your "Girl and the guitar", KC4.

http://www.ehmac.ca/attachments/photos/16679d1288586252t-photography-anyone-grille-cheese.jpg

Really Like this one ScanMan.... almost looks like an old "Storm Troopers " helmet or some sort of military head gear. Very cool!

At the risk of sounding anal... could people who want to post large photos make use of the upload function? That way if people want to see the image larger they just click on the image to see it larger. When images are simply linked to of very large images it can mean you have to scroll horizontally back and forth to see the whole image, and then back again to see the thread "normally" again. I just find it interrupts the flow of looking at the images and reduces the pleasure of the browsing experience.

Just my opinion and 2 cents. :)

Am I one of the guilty parties? I just figure most of us are on wider screens so I make them 900 pixels on the longest edge... as for the upload function, didn't know it existed. Where do I find it?

Am I one of the guilty parties? I just figure most of us are on wider screens so I make them 900 pixels on the longest edge... as for the upload function, didn't know it existed. Where do I find it?

Even on a wide screen I don't always have my browser open all the way and with the upload function it scales the image to initially display within the width bounds of the posting area and then if you click on the image it opens up the image to full size as an overlay and then just click on it to get rid of it. It works really well actually and keeps things looking neat and tidy, one of the improvements ehMax came up with a while back.

Here is a screen capture of where you go to do it. It is really easy and you can actually manage your images from the upload window. Once you have uploaded your image(s) you simply click on the same button to choose which image(s) you want to attach.

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Really Like this one ScanMan.... almost looks like an old "Storm Troopers " helmet or some sort of military head gear. Very cool!

Like Max says, I've seen takes on this pickup truck in several places, in several ways, so there are other interesting opportunities here. But at the time I was pretty much chained to the Missus on a boutique crawl, and only "allowed" a quick shot or two. The grille immediately poked me in the eye, and that was it – a quick step out of rank, crouch, click and catch up to the Lady. Apparently I'd already spent far too much time on cabbages just 5 minutes earlier...

I can see what you mean - glad you like it.

Couple of odd ones for a grey November day.

Couple of odd ones for a grey November day.
Wow. Beautiful. :clap:

Even on a wide screen I don't always have my browser open all the way and with the upload function it scales the image to initially display within the width bounds of the posting area and then if you click on the image it opens up the image to full size as an overlay and then just click on it to get rid of it. It works really well actually and keeps things looking neat and tidy, one of the improvements ehMax came up with a while back.

It's good when it works. It works about 25% of the time for me ... just so if others try and it fails you know that you're not alone.

It's good when it works. It works about 25% of the time for me ... just so if others try and it fails you know that you're not alone.

Oh really? Hmmm, has never failed once for me...

Couple of odd ones for a grey November day.

Those are cool. Where is the house of many colours?

I'll give it a go, but if it doesn't work very well it's back to the routine for me. After all, if you have a wide screen but only choose to have your browser appear as a slit of a window, that's your choice.

The other thing is, how many files can I upload before I hit the ceiling? I'm not a paying member... there must be a cap, yes?

Here's one as a test.

Those are cool. Where is the house of many colours?

Both shots from Binghampton, N.Y. We love to hit small towns along the way and just drive about aimlessly. There's a LOT of WTF stuff in Binghampton, a town that's had a steadily declining population since 1960. If you're into tasty 1900 era corporate architecture that's all hoarded, boarded, and abandoned, the downtown core is da place.

(edit) OK, maybe the whole town isn't shuttered, but there isn't much going on...

I'll give it a go, but if it doesn't work very well it's back to the routine for me. After all, if you have a wide screen but only choose to have your browser appear as a slit of a window, that's your choice.

The other thing is, how many files can I upload before I hit the ceiling? I'm not a paying member... there must be a cap, yes?

Here's one as a test.

Worked well Max. I think there is a limit but is fairly high and then all you have to do is delete the oldest ones...

If it doesn't work for you fine... no worries, but ehMax added the feature for a reason... it keeps things clean looking and easy to navigate. I don't know about you but I hate having to scroll horizontally. :)

I don't know about you but I hate having to scroll horizontally. :)

Here's a compromise - I'll keep linking my images as usual instead of uploading them to the site's servers, and you keep hating having to scroll horizontally.

Here's a compromise - I'll keep linking my images as usual instead of uploading them to the site's servers, and you keep hating having to scroll horizontally.

You are free to do what ever you wish... As I stated it was just a friendly suggestion. :) If people choose to do otherwise that is their right. It was merely a suggestion based on a feature of ehMac that ehMax went to the trouble of implementing that made sense to me and I thought was an improvement of the forum.

Please by all means carry on as you choose. It was merely meant as a suggestion to improve viewer enjoyment but at little trouble to the poster (admittedly my personal enjoyment in particular as I don't like having to scroll horizontally as I think it messes up the layout of the web page... that's my website dev part of me showing... but others have seem to have understood the use of the feature). Personally I have made use of the upload feature ever since it was deployed and have found it to be very easy and useful. If others feel differently so be it.... :)

Sorry if offence was taken as none was intended. :)

Let's see more great photos....

Love those Binghampton images, ScanMan. I used to travel through there several times a week in the mid 80's on my way to and from New York. Used to stop at "Country Bob's" for a beer or two on some trips. Never made it too far off the interstate though, no idea what I was missing.

Here's a compromise - I'll keep linking my images as usual instead of uploading them to the site's servers, and you keep hating having to scroll horizontally.

Ha, ha, ha, Doug FTW!

I make mine 750px on the long side and they reside (and will continue to reside) on my server. I think that size is reasonable.

When posting multiple images you can not annotate individual images using the upload/attachment method, they all show at the end of any text.

Ha, ha, ha, Doug FTW!

I make mine 750px on the long side and they reside (and will continue to reside) on my server. I think that size is reasonable.

When posting multiple images you can not annotate individual images using the upload/attachment method, they all show at the end of any text.

Like I said just a friendly suggestion.. sorry to have upset the balance... carry on like I never posted anything... Geesh... Didn't expect this kind of reaction you would think I was wearing a KKK costume at a Legion Halloween party or something....

Love those Binghampton images, ScanMan. I used to travel through there several times a week in the mid 80's on my way to and from New York. Used to stop at "Country Bob's" for a beer or two on some trips. Never made it too far off the interstate though, no idea what I was missing.

Thanks. Yup, like you, on our way to NYC. We stayed at a Marriott on the outskirts, and when I asked the desk what there was to see in town, I remember getting a blank stare with a few mumbled words that didn't encourage a visit. Glad we did, though.

It's one of those towns where you punch-in "local attractions" on the GPS and wind up parked in front of some lonely neighbourhood ball diamond or civil war epitaph. Not a lot shakin', but some cool surprises if you take the time to roll around. For some reason, my Wife loves this kind of travelling, and that suits the picture snapper in me!

Like I said just a friendly suggestion.. sorry to have upset the balance... carry on like I never posted anything... Geesh... Didn't expect this kind of reaction you would think I was wearing a KKK costume at a Legion Halloween party or something....

Don't take it too seriously or personally, Screature. I just found Doug's comment funny, my subsequent comment wasn't a shot at you. Just say'n that I think the images I post should not be too problematic for those viewing in smaller rez or on smaller displays.

Thanks. Yup, like you, on our way to NYC. We stayed at a Marriott on the outskirts, and when I asked the desk what there was to see in town, I remember getting a blank stare with a few mumbled words that didn't encourage a visit. Glad we did, though.

It's one of those towns where you punch-in "local attractions" on the GPS and wind up parked in front of some lonely neighbourhood ball diamond or civil war epitaph. Not a lot shakin', but some cool surprises is you take the time to roll around. For some reason, my Wife loves this kind of travelling, and that suits the picture snapper in me!

Did you take State 17 through Corning and Horse Heads or come down 81 from Gananoque? We always went 90-390-17-81-380-80, but always loved continuing on 17 to 87 through the Adirondacks.

I will compromise and shave them down to 750 wide, as per Kps' custom. The uploading to Ehmac doesn't sit well with me but I appreciate we all have different viewing habits.

I've sorta been following this uploading discussion, but not tooooo closely. Me, I've always just clicked on the "manage attachments" button under "additional options".

This of course opens the file-selector thingie and the rest is pretty intuitive. I've never understood how you guys who post the 1000px wide shots actually get them to show at 1000px right here in the thread, without having to click on them to expand them. To each his own, I don't give a hoot, myself.

FWIW, I usually post at 800-900px wide and using my routine, you have to click on them to reveal their actual size. Whatever.

Did you take State 17 through Corning and Horse Heads or come down 81 from Gananoque? We always went 90-390-17-81-380-80, but always loved continuing on 17 to 87 through the Adirondacks.

That trip, 90-81-380-80 sounds familiar. Going across 17 looks interesting.

It's pretty much as easy as your method, ScanMan. Kps has got his own method working for him; I'm merely hosting from a DropBox site. I size them the way I want, then copy them over to my DropBox server, then copy the public link to said file and then embed that information in my newest post. Bam, it shows up right there - no attachie, no clickie.

Boardwalk, down by the lake, a few days ago.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/BeachBoardwalk.jpg

Forest Floor, north of Stouffeville.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/ForestFloor2.jpg

Two more from today: Glass palace, Dundas West and Golden Avenue, and an interior auto detail.

Screature, I can see the advantage of viewing 'em this way. I decided I prefer to keep 'em larger as they're generally better appreciated that way. Thanks for the tip; guess I never saw it because my default posting window was kept simple, not the one offering the advance options. Going to change that in my prefs next.

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/artis%202_files/diagonals.jpg

Nice shot The Doug. Love the subtlety.

Great composition and nice toning job The Doug... really nice. :)

Blue and green.

Great shot, Doug. The purple cast to it rocks.

Mrjimmy: the house roof is glorious and just a tad surreal, like a Magritte painting. I dunno why but it makes me think of sinister things.

Mrjimmy: the house roof is glorious and just a tad surreal, like a Magritte painting.

Ditto - I love the roof shot. Excellent.

Thanks guys. The roof was shot in Cheticamp N.S. The pool, an old motel in Hamilton ON. Both of those are digital, shot on my relatively ancient Canon G3.

That G series had its ups and downs but it's mostly been a great line for Canon. My wife has a G6 that served her well, although the wide glass we got for it wasn't as nice as we'd hoped - it was soft and mushy. Can't believe we're up to - what, the G12 or some such? Glad to see they returned the articulating LCD that had been absent for a couple of iterations.

That pool shot - maybe it's the colour sense, but it fills me with poignant nostalgia. Something faded 50s about it.

Here's one from Mexico last March.

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The local beer store... literally a stones throw away from our Casa... talk about convenience. :)

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Love the graffiti in the boat shot... particularly the black and white frowny. Where in Mexico, Screature?

Love the graffiti in the boat shot... particularly the black and white frowny. Where in Mexico, Screature?

We were in Platanitos in the state of Nayarit which is along the west coast a couple of hours north of Puerto Vallarta. Beautiful area.

More from Mexico...

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Another one...

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Some more blue and green.

Oh what the hell... here's another...

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Max, can't put my finger on it, but something about that forest floor shot I really like.

Doug, must agree with everyone about that railing. Nicely done.

Mr.J, nice as usual, although I think I've seen the California/Nevada shots.

Screature, that last shot rocks! Also like the mexican boat shot.

Another forest floor shot...with a little fake tilt-shift for effect:
http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_2013.jpg


...and since we're nearing November 11 a little Remembrance Day image...any movie title references notwithstanding.

http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_1283.jpg

Mr.J, nice as usual, although I think I've seen the California/Nevada shots.



Thanks. It's nice to be remembered. ;)

Here is my November 11th offering.

Love the tilt shift even if it is fake. One of these years I'm going to get myself a real tilt shift lens and sit down with it for a week!

Here is my November 11th offering.

Am I seeing things or was that shot on infra-red?

Love the tilt shift even if it is fake. One of these years I'm going to get myself a real tilt shift lens and sit down with it for a week!

At $2500 a pop, I think it'll be a while before I'll get to play with one. Unless of course I can rent one.

I'm seeing wedding photographers all over that these days. Cool effect, but it'll probably become just another gimmick eventually.

Am I seeing things or was that shot on infra-red?

You are not seeing things.

Typically, when infrared film existed of course, I used a 25 filter and set the ASA for 100. I'd bracket a little but always got good results.

That's the Cenotaph in Charlottetown PEI. Early 1990s.

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/imageBank/cache/l/lowresinfrared_e_4dec3d24fd3badbe3d4d520e435f511c. jpg
(http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/imageBank/cache/l/lowresinfrared_e_4dec3d24fd3badbe3d4d520e435f511c. jpg)

Shadows.

You are not seeing things.

Typically, when infrared film existed of course, I used a 25 filter and set the ASA for 100. I'd bracket a little but always got good results.

That's the Cenotaph in Charlottetown PEI. Early 1990s.



Only experimented with IR film once, back in the 70's with a 50's vintage camera which belonged to my dad. I'll see if I can dig something up.

http://www.ikarl.com/pics/images/zeiss04.jpg

Shadows.

The top one is absolutely fantastic...love it.

One dark and stormy prairie...

http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_1505.jpg
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Misty Mountain Hop...
http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_0918.jpg

...Screature, that last shot rocks! Also like the mexican boat shot.

Another forest floor shot...with a little fake tilt-shift for effect:


Thanks kps... really like the forest floor shot and the toning... very nice.

The top one is absolutely fantastic...love it.

Thanks Kps. That was shot on the roof of my friend's building in NYC.

Love the dark and stormy prairie shot. The tones are wonderful.

Love the dark and stormy prairie shot. The tones are wonderful.

Ditto. :)

In a Mexican frame of mind right now.... time for some more colour....

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Some more Mexican colour.

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http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/artis%202_files/staircase%20curve.jpg

Nice abstract composition TD.

At $2500 a pop, I think it'll be a while before I'll get to play with one. Unless of course I can rent one.

I'm seeing wedding photographers all over that these days. Cool effect, but it'll probably become just another gimmick eventually.

Yep they are pricey ... but with the advent of the new Canon one I'm starting to see the older models go used for a bit less.

I agree that it might be a fad for the wedding photographer aspect of it all, but for architectural and landscape stuff you can do some amazing things ...

At the end of the day it's all still a LOT cheaper than even the least expensive technical cameras!! (I'd love to go there too but that would indeed be dreaming)

Kps... that sepia forest shot with the sinewy tendrils is stunning. Absolutely fantastic. The dark and stormy prairie is right up my alley, too.

Great shots gents, all of 'em. Been away for the weekend but I'll see if I can post anything from the past 48.

An oldie. Shot with Kodak Recording Film. 1000 A.S.A. I still have a few rolls left.

Thanks, Max.

Another good one mrjimmy, like your compositions.

Field, somewhere east.

Buddy surveying his property, a few hours ago.

As an aside, I tried to upload this as an attachment, three times in a row. Nothing happened - just got hung, I guess. It kept asking me to wait for the image to upload, but that message never went away. Hmmmm... I had just done the earlier post's attachment successfully. Wondering what's up.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/Surveying.jpg

Wow, go away for a day and all hell breaks loose. The juices are really flowing, here. I had to take notes. And in no particular order...

screature I dig those two B&Ws 3099 and 3102 (my fave), and the colour in 3116 is amazing. I'd love to live in a place where it was cool to paint up your casa like that.

kps, I like the ashen look of the storm shot 3112, but like others I'm drawn to your root thing at 3103. It's intense. Nice going for the deep tone. That's a beauty.

mrjimmy - yeah, I've seen the pool shot before, and like kps, find it unforgettable! :lmao: I've put a star next to 3109 and I really, really like the edgy crop on 3123. You always take it where I never want to go. Nice ones.

Max, that forest floor a couple of pages back is nice and juicy and the sharpening on the leaves is primo. You've nicely extracted the experience of being there at that moment. It's tough to bring home "the feeling of the forest". How many duds have I worked over that just don't put the experience, onto the screen?!

Very nice stuff people!

(edit) Arrrggghh, See...I forgot you, TD. Like a few from mrjimmy, I like it lots when someone pulls the trigger on totally black elements. I find myself mincing about and holding back, and when I see something like the black arcs in your 3119 shot, I just go "Damn, that looks nice, why am I such a chickensh#t?!"

Nice capture, I especially like how some of the plant elements mirror each other.

Kps, hadn't noticed that, but you're right. My eye was drawn to the three on the right side that looked as if they had been elegantly drawn by a pen.

Thanks ScanMan... and in honour of your juicy Binghamton series (you make me recall my early 80s drives down to NYC with some long-forgotten friends), here's a shot from Winnipeg's Exchange District, back in 2002.

^ Exchange? NYC? Here's the most fun I've gotten out of the latest 2-year bull market. Please note: forcing myself to go to black on some areas...

mrjimmy - yeah, I've seen the pool shot before, and like kps, find it unforgettable! :lmao: I've put a star next to 3109 and I really, really like the edgy crop on 3123. You always take it where I never want to go. Nice ones.


Thanks SM and as I said to Kps, it's nice to be remembered!

The best part of the edgy crop is that it's all in camera. I only print/ post full frame. I sometimes take awhile planning and setting up a shot.

ps. I like your triptych and that ain't no bull.

This place is rock'n on a Sunday Nite...

It's been a nice diversion as I've spent my whole day setting up my wife's new Mac Mini and transferring all her stuff from the 11 yr old G4 she has been using.

That'll teach you for going away SM. Nice Wall St. shots, great b&w processing as usual.

Did someone mention Nu Yawk?

Should mention, these were originally colour slides taken mid-70's.

http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_nyny2.jpg
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http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_nyny3.jpg

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Kind of going for a bit of a palladium print feel with this one.

...screature I dig those two B&Ws 3099 and 3102 (my fave), and the colour in 3116 is amazing. I'd love to live in a place where it was cool to paint up your casa like that...



Thanks ScanMan... I really like the Wall Street bull shots... very fun!

This place is rock'n on a Sunday Nite...

It's been a nice diversion as I've spent my whole day setting up my wife's new Mac Mini and transferring all her stuff from the 11 yr old G4 she has been using.

That'll teach you for going away SM. Nice Wall St. shots, great b&w processing as usual.

Did someone mention Nu Yawk?

Should mention, these were originally colour slides taken mid-70's.

NIce black and white translations kps... really nice.

NIce black and white translations kps... really nice.

Thanks. Good comp on the stair case. The duotone works.

A question for all:

You guys digging the dark edges/vignettes? Sometimes I think I over do it. What say ye?
Give it to me straight...I can take it.:D

Reverse angle of the previous staircase shot.

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Reverse angle of the previous staircase shot.



Even better, very nice. Looks like your flash fired or is that post?

You guys digging the dark edges/vignettes? Sometimes I think I over do it. What say ye? Give it to me straight...I can take it.:D

Yeah, it's tough. With vignetting, IMO, you're either going to stick it on so that it clearly shows, or leave it off entirely. Once you start over-fussing it, you're doomed.

I don't think it helps all the time. As my sister-in-law would say " It can be just too much of a muchness".

Again, IMO, it has to be instantly appropriate for a particular shot. If you're second-guessing, then you might be forcing it onto the image. Your Panam bldg shot above really wants it, so that's a gimme. In portraiture, it's de rigueur (whoa, cool rhyme).

If the overall IQ is gritty, you expect some fall off around the edges; old camera/lens, fast film, low light, old image. The whole thing has to work. But if the image is new, rich and crisp, and the corners, for no natural reason, are getting dark...you know someone is diddling with it.

For greatest enjoyment, and less fear of "Oh my god, it's becoming MY LOOK!"
1. Use it where it's a natural fit, and if not
2. Diddle with care.

Yeah, I would agree that it depends on the image, but I incorporated it into many of my standard LR presets due to my attraction to that "look".

Kind of silly considering the money we spend on good lenses to get rid of it in the first place. :lmao:

I agree with it being image dependent. Like anything, it either works or it doesn't. Trust your gut. The shots that rebel against it will let you know.

Even better, very nice. Looks like your flash fired or is that post?

Thanks kps...

The wonders of Lightroom ;) and a good exposure to being with. I find it provides for great creative possibilities to be able to take an image in whatever direction you want to take it.

Seem to be a split tone frame of mind....

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screature, I use Mitch's PS actions, and he's got similar offerings for LR, in case you might be interested. His stuff is very cool...and free.

Adobe Lightroom Presets | The Light's Right (http://www.thelightsright.com/view/LRPresets)

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screature, I use Mitch's PS actions, and he's got similar offerings for LR, in case you might be interested. His stuff is very cool...and free.

Adobe Lightroom Presets | The Light's Right (http://www.thelightsright.com/view/LRPresets)

Thanks ScanMan I will check it out... right now it is off to beddy by for me... thanks guys its been a fun day of posting and seeing other people's work.

Buddy surveying his property, a few hours ago.

As an aside, I tried to upload this as an attachment, three times in a row. Nothing happened - just got hung, I guess. It kept asking me to wait for the image to upload, but that message never went away. Hmmmm... I had just done the earlier post's attachment successfully. Wondering what's up.



That's the same issues I've had as well. Just hangs indefinitely. :mad:

Yeah, I see what you mean. Are you on the latest Safari? 'cos that's what I'm using. Works most of the time but the indefinite hang thing is really annoying.

That's the same issues I've had as well. Just hangs indefinitely. :mad:

Yeah, that happens to me too. Many times when I click UPLOAD a second time, it's like a click in the butt to the system and it will finally finish uploading it. If the second "kick" doesn't work, you'll soon receive a generic upload error message, perhaps because the file size is too large.

Great images the last few days guys - I am very impressed and completely humbled.

Trying it again for the halibut.... collecting kindling.

No kindling there. The ground's too juicy.

Another fellow night-owl! I'm sitting here, plucking away on an Godin unplugged, just dawdling. This has been one helluva good run for this thread, no?

^ I like to control the light, so my day usually ends 3-4 am. Just running a batch of slides, listening right now to Big Sugar – a live club thing, fooling with some NYC shots from the spring.

You've done some road trips it seems. I've saved a couple of screenshots from directions you gave in another thread a few months back, about some trips around our province. They sound swell. I'm always looking for places to go...

I am a backroads kinda guy. I like to get lost... deliberately, accidentally, whatever. I've travelled between here, Ottawa and Montreal so many times it's made me irritated if I stay on the main drags for too long. It's as simple as that. Plus there's the fact that the Canadian Shield and many parts of rural Ontario have some sort of grip on me I really don't care to shake. Often it feels eerily like traveling back in time. I only wish I had done more exploring locally in years past, and that I had the time to check out the country further north - where there are even less people (but more ghost traces of their presence) and even more rugged and startlingly beautiful landscapes.

Yeah, I see what you mean. Are you on the latest Safari? 'cos that's what I'm using. Works most of the time but the indefinite hang thing is really annoying.

Maybe Safari is the issue as I have never had it hang on upload... ever, it literally always just takes seconds for me. I use FireFox.

Could be. I suspect that's it. Might try logging in via Chrome for a few days, see how that works.

Could be the size, I believe there's a limit per attachment. I've never had an issue when I do use it, but it's rarely.

Nope! I've been careful to keep it well under the limit. So it's something else. Ironic on a Mac forum that Safari might be the culprit, but then again it wouldn't be the first time.

For me, Safari almost always hangs during file attachment / upload, so I usually use Camino or Firefox instead.

OK, so I'm trying it out of Chrome now. Lessee. OK, that went fine. Veddy interestink.

OK, so I'm trying it out of Chrome now. Lessee. OK, that went fine. Veddy interestink.

Nice Max... is it just my monitor at work or is there slight bit of bluish toning going on there?

Prolly an authentic bluish tone, sir. You see, I downloaded all those free LR presets ScanMan kindly mentioned last night and used one of the conversion ones to get into the ballpark, and then further tweaking. The black and white presets are great; the colour ones are pretty extreme for my tastes - sort of more suited to 60s Pop art sensibilities. Cool for a very short while. Still, nice to have them in the arsenal. Might come in handy at work for replicating an old film look in a 50s or 60s magazine.

^In Photoshop, the B&W Toning and the Colour Overlay Action sets are super.

Glad you've found some use. That Mitch guy is one hard working dude.

I've found his overlays best for recreating a worn, unevenly faded look where I've had to neutralize an image to rebalance it, then take it back in time when done. It's a look you wouldn't use everyday.

The B&W toning set OTOH, is daily fare. The main selections are quite comprehensive. Just slide the opacity around on a tone that's close, and you'll get what you want.

Roger that. I still do a fair amount of work in Photoshop; I should download his presets for that, like you say.

Yeah, I see what you mean. Are you on the latest Safari? 'cos that's what I'm using. Works most of the time but the indefinite hang thing is really annoying.

I've had this happen randomly for about the last 8 months or so, since the last forum software update and have been using a couple of safari version since then. Hard to pin down .. that's why I've taken to just linking to flickr or somewhere else when I post now, not worth the hassle of it maybe working or not.

A shot from a series taken a couple of years ago called "Midsummer Nocturne". A single 30 sec exposure.

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On the subject of long exposures ... here's a couple of shots I did a few years ago, playing with some light painting.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1261/590526462_830db40543.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/590526462/)
_MG_0840.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/590526462/) by dalrealgerk (http://www.flickr.com/people/studiogerk/), on Flickr

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1325/590525898_b999aa5caf.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/590525898/)
_MG_0819.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/590525898/) by dalrealgerk (http://www.flickr.com/people/studiogerk/), on Flickr

Really like the second one for its subtlety. The deep warm grain in the BG is a fine touch. Only thing that bugs me about it is the wonky angle where the chair rail / top of the paneling meets the wall.

Smart little Chevy pickup, Parkdale, this afternoon.

Really like the second one for its subtlety. The deep warm grain in the BG is a fine touch. Only thing that bugs me about it is the wonky angle where the chair rail / top of the paneling meets the wall.

Thanks! Yes I'm not partial to the angle there either but it wasn't noticed until much later in the game. Weren't sure that those shots would even turn out. You don't want to know how many times it took me to spell "Gerk" with the mag lite! (it was all done with a mag lite with the top lens off of it).

Nonetheless, it's a fine image. What kind of stuff are you doing with a seven string, I wonder? I want to try one out for some out there stuff but a metalhead I am not. I imagine you can dredge up some very nice lower key chord voicings. Nice headstock by the way. They make great guitars, I hear, but including "guitar research" in your company name always struck me as just a tad pretentious.

My wife and I were walking along the "boardwalk" in Puuerto Vallarta on our last night in Mexico last March when we happened along a clown performing... I noticed him and he noticed me and the follow ensued....

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Still rock'n...

Here's one especially for Max, taken today with my iphone....

http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_phone_0195.jpg

Ahhh! You've been lurking around there too, I see. LOL

First time I was there I was driving to Ottawa with my two younger brothers, back in the mid-80s... I was driving my second youngest brother's car while he slept off a crazy party the night before. Got real tired of the 401 and suddenly got off at the next exit. Of course, in no time at all I was on some roads I'd never before seen and we ended up pulling over to look at a map. Well, we hadn't realized it but we had parked within a hundred yards of the Warkworth penal facility and in short order a couple of guys in a Suburban rolled up to us and began asking a lot of questions about what the hell we were doing there. Real nice, toasty reception. Oh-oh, time to go! Minutes later we passed through the sleepy little hamlet of Warkworth, en route to hitting seven further north. Little did I know that I was to spend a great deal of time in that area in years to come. My introduction to it was less than stellar, but let's just say that the area has since grown on me.

Death Valley (crappy scans).

After your exchange with ScanMan earlier this morning I could not help but pull the rig over to snap that picture while on my appointed rounds. lol

I'm through there several times a week on my way from Belleville to Peterborough. A journey which is a lot more interesting and relaxing than the 401, but sadly no time for pictures or exploring.

Nonetheless, it's a fine image. What kind of stuff are you doing with a seven string, I wonder? I want to try one out for some out there stuff but a metalhead I am not. I imagine you can dredge up some very nice lower key chord voicings. Nice headstock by the way. They make great guitars, I hear, but including "guitar research" in your company name always struck me as just a tad pretentious.

That guitar was actually my old room mates. You can do a surprising amount of stuff with the added lower string (that doesn't involve metal). It really changes the way you think about chord voicings for sure. It made my brain hurt for the first little while jamming on it, but once I got used to it I found it came pretty naturally... but I'm primarily a bassist these days and also play a lot of 5-string bass so I just had to sort of "convert" the thought process. Of course you don't do a lot of chord voicings on bass!

It is a nice guitar for sure, but I agree about the "guitar research" on the headstock .. sounds like something a marketing person came up with to me :/ The neck on it feels fantastic and the pickups are nice and clean.

My main ax these days is an Ernie Ball Music Man - Steve Morse Y2D model (de-Purple Burst, hard tail). Looks pretty much just like this one (I'll take some pics of mine and post soon!) And yay, the upload attach worked this time!

Nice... I have a couple of basses but I tend to play and pluck at them like I would a guitar, so a bassist I'm not... but I'm working at it. Used to be in a garage band where we had a drummer and one other fellow... he and I exchanged bass and guitar duties all the time, depending on the song. I don't have much subtlety on the bass but I'm better than the old days, where I'd charge recklessly forward and hope no one noticed that my timing was wretched. Now I'm finding I really, really dig bass.

I hear great things about Music Mans. Never picked one up and strummed one though. Funny little stub of a headstock- reminds me of a Samick Blues Saraceno I once had - but I like the pickup config and I always liked their take on a pickguard shape. Certainly looks like it would be a comfortable, Stratty type guitar.

So apart from Schecter, what's a good name in 7 strings? One of these days I'm going to pull a Craigslist or Kijiji trade for one.

And now back to the thread. Field, somewhere north-west of Warkworth.

Death Valley (crappy scans).

Still... nice skies mr. j

still... Nice skies mr. J
+1.

Thanks guys.

Those were taken just prior to sunrise, near Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley. It was amazing being out there.

screature, I keep going back to your recent 30 sec exposure, conjuring up a different story in my head each time. Nice execution.

I hear great things about Music Mans. Never picked one up and strummed one though. Funny little stub of a headstock- reminds me of a Samick Blues Saraceno I once had - but I like the pickup config and I always liked their take on a pickguard shape. Certainly looks like it would be a comfortable, Stratty type guitar.

So apart from Schecter, what's a good name in 7 strings? One of these days I'm going to pull a Craigslist or Kijiji trade for one.

Music Man axes are all great, basses and guitars alike. Very well built and very good sounding/playing. Hard to go wrong with any of them.

For 7 strings I'd stick with Schecter ... there are a few others out there, but not in the affordable range (Ibanez had one for a while, a steve vai model) and none of the more expensive ones I've tried were worth it to be honest and any of the other cheaper ones I've seen were total metal-head axes and built super cheap ... there's a lot of schecter 7 strings out there so you'll probably have the best luck finding some of them used.

screature, I keep going back to your recent 30 sec exposure, conjuring up a different story in my head each time. Nice execution.

Thanks so much ScanMan. The intent was to make it a psychological piece. :)

mguertin, I have a possible trade lined up for a Jackson 7 string. But I also see a Schecter Black Jack C-7 on the Toronto Craigslist, although it's six bills and the ad doesn't specify trades being acceptable. We'll see. If nothing else, I can trade away a 7 stringer if I find I'm simply not using it.

mguertin, I have a possible trade lined up for a Jackson 7 string. But I also see a Schecter Black Jack C-7 on the Toronto Craigslist, although it's six bills and the ad doesn't specify trades being acceptable. We'll see. If nothing else, I can trade away a 7 stringer if I find I'm simply not using it.

You move fast Max! Next time I've got G.A.S. I'll have to contact you, maybe we can just trade back and forth for a while to keep each other's gear needs in check :D

Fine by me! I will post a pic to keep true to the thread, but the deal I have potentially lined up is a choice between two 7 strings - one a Dean with a rounded, bean-shaped, Ernie Ball-ish headstock, the other a Jackson with a pointy headstock (alder body as opposed to the Dean's basswood). In exchange I'm trading an Epiphone G-400 Vintage Faded, with nice neck binding and a classy, almost austere look. I think I'm going to visit the dude and A/B his two 7 strings and go with whatever neck feels most comfortable.

Budding guitarist.

Budding guitarist.

Great shot Max! I love it and I appreciate your efforts to move the thread back on track. But can you guys either move this to a PM exchange or another thread as it is kind of derailing this one. :)

Glad to see you guys share such a passion for guitars... :)

Screature: Oy.

Well-intentioned smileys aside, dig this: it's just text. Squint your eyes and it turns to a grey smudge.

Here's a counter suggestion: feel free to ignore any text you deem somehow incorrect or unsuitable. Concentrate on the pictures instead. Plenty of cool pix to look at.

Screature: Oy.

Well-intentioned smileys aside, dig this: it's just text. Squint your eyes and it turns to a grey smudge.

Here's a counter suggestion: feel free to ignore any text you deem somehow incorrect or unsuitable. Concentrate on the pictures instead. Plenty of cool pix to look at.

Here's a counter, counter suggestion, focus real hard and you will see this thread is about photography, not guitars... just given like you shot back after a perfectly friendly post... ;)

No need for the tude dude... it was just a comment and a suggestion... "squint your eyes and it turns to a grey smudge." :)

This page needs more pics. lol

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http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_2197.jpg

This page needs more pics. lol


That's a gorgeous shot kps. Beautiful tonalities. Out of Lightroom?

Thanks. Yup, processed in LR3, resizing, border and stamp done with a CS5 action I made then saved for the web.

Minimal.

Minimal.

Really nice mr.j. Those scanned film or digital? I really love the palm shot... I am beginning to recognize a personal style coming through in what you have been posting.... Nice! :)

Really nice mr.j. Those scanned film or digital? I really love the palm shot... I am beginning to recognize a personal style coming through in what you have been posting.... Nice! :)

Thanks screature. Those are 35mm infrared film scans. The palm is in New Orleans and the pole, hedge and trucks are close to Virgil ON.

Screature, I'll lay off you if you lay off trying to play forum cop, doling out smilies like cheap cigars with every persnickety suggestion. Deal?

Max, that's wicked...did you stuff a guitar into an air duct? lol

mrjimmy, nice ir images. I believe I was to dig some of my old ir stuff up. Well here are two crappy ones from that experimental roll.

This first one was taken at the Yonge St. pedestrian mall in probably '74 or '75. Some pretty snazzy dressers in that shot. LOL
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http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_IR_0111.jpg
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This is just a shot in the hood.
http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_IR_0222.jpg

Kps: love that Yonge St. shot. Wonderful sense of time stopped. The second shot... is that around Annette or is it further west?

Yeah, I stuffed a little traveler guitar down a vent... I was looking for weird ways to shoot the thing.

OK, gotta run. Meeting up with a buddy to explore our old stomping grounds in west Mississauga, from 30-odd years ago. Should be a hoot.

Screature: post something, dagnabbit.

Screature, I'll lay off you if you lay off trying to play forum cop, doling out smilies like cheap cigars with every persnickety suggestion. Deal?

Fair enough... :lmao: Yeah I thought about it last night and I apologize... I'll put my persnickety suggestions away with my "thread cop badge". ;) :)

A few more cheap stogies for ya.

Max, that's wicked...did you stuff a guitar into an air duct? lol

mrjimmy, nice ir images. I believe I was to dig some of my old ir stuff up. Well here are two crappy ones from that experimental roll.

This first one was taken at the Yonge St. pedestrian mall in probably '74 or '75. Some pretty snazzy dressers in that shot. LOL

I don't think either are crappy kps, I quite like them both.

Creature, yer a good egg and an excellent shooter. Just so it's out in the open.

Here is a fellow I encountered earlier today. I call the shot How The Mighty.

Creature, yer a good egg and an excellent shooter. Just so it's out in the open.

Here is a fellow I encountered earlier today. I call the shot How The Mighty.


Thanks Max... feeling's mutual.

What the heck is that... looks like a VooDoo doll.

Crushed child's toy figurine on a street.

I don't think either are crappy kps, I quite like them both.

I agree.

Just to keep the greyscale / duo-toned mood going

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/2383627238_6241cea452_z.jpg?zz=1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/2383627238/)
Old Roots (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/2383627238/) by dalrealgerk (http://www.flickr.com/people/studiogerk/), on Flickr

Just to keep the greyscale / duo-toned mood going



Nice...

The soil must be very shallow there with the roots right on the surface like that. It almost looks like rivulets of water flowing.

It was a very very old tree right beside the sidewalk in Seville, Spain. The soil was probably very shallow there, was right in front of an embassy as well (don't remember which one).

Looks like the top of a human hand. A very veiny hand.

And in both the music and greyscale veins ... My trusty soundboard (Tascam DM24)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1050/590171619_a54a92891b_z.jpg?zz=1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/590171619/)
_MG_0150.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/590171619/) by dalrealgerk (http://www.flickr.com/people/studiogerk/), on Flickr

Nice narrow field of focus there. Cool.

OK, sifted through the past couple of weeks in LR. Tossed some utterly forgettable stuff, found some stuff I didn't know I might still be able to rescue.

OK, sifted through the past couple of weeks in LR. Tossed some utterly forgettable stuff, found some stuff I didn't know I might still be able to rescue.

Wow Max I really like #s 2 to 4 (number 1 doesn't do anything for me personally... there is no accounting for taste).

#2 Speaks to me of the mysteries of the earth and it's formation... as a once Geology major I appreciate this one... not to mention the tonalities are really nice.

#3 reminds me of Lynne Cohen's work. An old prof of mine back in my Ottawa U days getting my BFA. Don't know if you know her but her work is very stark, no people at all... that is one of the reasons why I like her so much... She documents the "work" of human beings without ever showing a human being... So that is my only criticism of this one, although it isn't really a criticism so much as a comment that I actually think it would be more powerful (for me), if there were no people in the image at all... a la Lynne Cohen.

This is Lynne, older know than when I knew her...

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/CF98CA5E-8F83-4FBC-9B3E-83C8BFEF9420/0/cohen_lg.jpg

Some of her work:

http://www.takegreatpictures.com/app/webroot/content/2010_images/2007/09/23/lyn_cohen.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aZO31jsDBlY/RtFyf-FEgVI/AAAAAAAACkg/larvW36gbZg/s400/ADS_image_create.jpg

http://www.lcstatic.com/assets/escapeintolife.com/content/uploads/2010/02/1_28.jpg

http://www.lcstatic.com/assets/escapeintolife.com/content/uploads/2010/02/2_19.jpg


#4 Love the toning... fantastic sky... great that you got down so low to take the shot.... and too bad about the van on the left, it just bothers me aesthetically. Otherwise a terrific shot.

Glad you guys liked the old IR shots, I must have been all of 16 or 17 when I took those...such a long time ago now. Looking at the old negs, it's amazing how much of the perforated edge ended up fogged.

Max, the second shot was down somewhere around Bloor and Dovercourt/Ossington area, that's where I lived back then.

That shot of the toy is great, just enough to be a touch disturbing. Love that kind of stuff.

Nice root shot mguertin. Did you consider making one with a bit more contrast?

Oh Screature, I'd be right at home in that room with all the targets

Okay, to keep it rock'n, here's a wagon for y'all.

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http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_2347.jpg

... Okay, to keep it rock'n, here's a wagon for y'all.


Nice shot kps. Once again nice tonalities. Is this a "personal" wagon or a "found" one.

Nice shot kps. Once again nice tonalities. Is this a "personal" wagon or a "found" one.

Sister-in-law and her hubby have a working farm, it's theirs. They operate a produce stand during the summer and they put it out for the ambiance. LOL

Taken from a moving car... I thought the juxtaposition of the human made and the "natural" in this one was rather humorous... I admit I have a penchant towards "dry" humour.

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Love that one, Screature. Great angles and toning. Love the fact that the sign, though monumental and central to the composition, is blank.

No, I don't know Cohen. But I sure like her work. That empty dance hall gives me chills.

Kps: another perspective on the wretched, run over figurine. And I dig your wagon, although that blurry bit of leafiness on the left is regrettable - not unlike that van of mine on the left of the yawning, vacant mall lot shot. Well, we don't always get quite the shot we wanted, do we?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634123/HowTheMighty2.jpg

Love that one, Screature. Great angles and toning. Love the fact that the sign, though monumental and central to the composition, is blank.

No, I don't know Cohen. But I sure like her work. That empty dance hall gives me chills...



Thanks Max... That was indeed the "joke" for me.

Lynne is great, she has a few books of her work, David Byrne wrote the intro to the one that she put out when I knew her (shameless name dropping) but just to give some context... I think she is a great artist and a really interesting/nice person..but that is my very personal take.

Indeed we don't... that is why it is sooo hard to get the "perfect" pic...

Kps: another perspective on the wretched, run over figurine.


Personally I prefer this one Max... the other one was more "documentary"... this one feels more "artistic"... whatever that means... just a personal feeling.

Max: I hear you on the "blob". Definitely distracting, but like you say...we can't always get what we want.

By adding colour and expanding the view on your "run over toy" shot, it gives the second image a different feel, but none the less a cool image.

Here's a glass on glass....on glass shot.

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http://www.ikarl.com/pics/ehmac/2010/kps_2267.jpg

That glass shot is smooooooooooth, kps.

Max, I also like #3 and have to agree with screature about those pesky bipedal interlopers. Great shot nonetheless.

Screature, I like your shot of the sign but the top crop leaves me wanting. I also really enjoyed the work of your old prof. I wonder if she shoots her locations 'as is' or if she employs a little Jeff Wall scene manipulation.

Kps. Lovely rich tones and composition as always.

Here's a glass on glass....on glass shot.

Nice work!

That glass shot is smooooooooooth, kps.

LOL. You've seen this one before, but what the hay...

Glasses:
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http://www.ikarl.com/pics/magic/kps_glasses.jpg

Here's a triptych of the old Cherry Street restaurant at the corner of Cherry and Unwin south of the Distillery District in TO. I believe it's been transformed as of late.

These are digital, shot on the ancient G3.

Nice work!

Thank you, mrjimmy.

Here's a triptych of the old Cherry Street restaurant at the corner of Cherry and Unwin south of the Distillery District in TO. I believe it's been transformed as of late.

These are digital, shot on the ancient G3.

Oh, I know that place. Is it still there? I've eaten lunch there many times in the 80's when we had a trailer yard down there. Great shots, really capture the place.

That resto has indeed been made over... really grungy place back in the day, as was the Canary, its kissing cousin over on Cherry. When I was working on a series pilot at Pinewood a couple of months back, the PA once went out to fetch sandwiches from the Cherry St. resto... not bad but nothing to write home about. Haven't been inside yet; but the interior certainly looks nicely upgraded.

That is one area which will undergo a massive transformation over the next two decades. A weird mix of old industry and new - and tens of thousands of new inhabitants, living where once there was nothing but toxic brownfields and landfill.

Diggin the gents' room signage downstairs.

Oh, I know that place. Is it still there? I've eaten lunch there many times in the 80's when we had a trailer yard down there. Great shots, really capture the place.

The building's still there but it looks to be all fancied up. With the film studio and the T&T supermarket, it seems that Cherry Street is no longer strictly a place for cops to beat the tar out of people. ;)

Oh what the heck. B&W version of a shot I took a few years ago. Look Ma, I didn't use the Gloom Filter on this one.

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/artis%202_files/copbikes.jpg

I don't think it's the Canary, Max. It's further down Cherry south of the Lake Shore and the canal bridge. Had great tall windows and a huge ceiling.

EDIT: Never mind...just re-read your post.

Oh what the heck. B&W version of a shot I took a few years ago. Look Ma, I didn't use the Gloom Filter on this one.



Nice shot, Doug.

Beemer bikes? Who's got them?

Kps, I said it has the same feel as the Canary, not that it is the Canary. Similar vintage, similar location in an obsolete industrial wasteland, both located in the Portlands district. But you're right, the tall ceiling is different from the Canary - a splendid building in its own right, but with different dimensions. More of a sprawl to that one.

Screature, I like your shot of the sign but the top crop leaves me wanting. I also really enjoyed the work of your old prof. I wonder if she shoots her locations 'as is' or if she employs a little Jeff Wall scene manipulation....


Fair enough, the "crop" was as shot... thanks for the feed back... maybe I will play with it some now. :)

No her work definitely was not purely "documentary". There was a certain degree of "staging" involved, some more so than in others.

The building's still there but it looks to be all fancied up. With the film studio and the T&T supermarket, it seems that Cherry Street is no longer strictly a place for cops to beat the tar out of people. ;)

Too bad Loblaws bought out T&T. Means the prices are going to go up. Sigh. Great store, though. Fantastic placement on the waterfront, and it offers killer views of the city.

Doug: nice shot. I think your gloom filter is the same basic operation as LR's clarity slider... to get the 'gloom' or 'misty' factor, you slide the notch all the way to the left - go the opposite and it ups the resonance of the whatever contrast is already there.... throws things in sharper relief, if you will. Kind of like sharpening by other means.... at least, that's how I see it.

Chunk 'o metal, buddy's back 40.

Just to keep the greyscale / duo-toned mood going

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/2383627238_6241cea452_z.jpg?zz=1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/2383627238/)
Old Roots (http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiogerk/2383627238/) by dalrealgerk (http://www.flickr.com/people/studiogerk/), on Flickr

Great shot - it looks like it's coming for the viewer....



Here are some, just for fun. It is the kind of stuff that happens on long road trips:
Self portrait at 110 km/h
( I can sense kps's eyeballs rolling and head shaking from here)
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Rear view sunset:
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Here are some, just for fun. It is the kind of stuff that happens on long road trips:
Self portrait at 110 km/h
( I can sense kps's eyeballs rolling and head shaking from here)


LOL, no head shaking and eye rolling here. Great shots, both of 'em.

Kps, I said it has the same feel as the Canary, not that it is the Canary. Similar vintage, similar location in an obsolete industrial wasteland, both located in the Portlands district. But you're right, the tall ceiling is different from the Canary - a splendid building in its own right, but with different dimensions. More of a sprawl to that one.

Yeah, caught it, threw in the edit, but I guess I wasn't fast enough. Still, I loved going to both places even though the food was never anything to rave about. Places like that have a certain je ne sais quoi but only due to their historical and architectural significance and perhaps their surroundings. In our case it was location and the availability of "no hassle" parking of our rigs.

What's T&T? I remember there was a Knob Hill Farms there at one point.

...Diggin the gents' room signage downstairs.

+1 Me too mr.j I find this one humorous against the pink wall and with the arrow pointing down... like I said I have a penchant for dry humour... or maybe I just am a little twisted that way.

...Here are some, just for fun. It is the kind of stuff that happens on long road trips:
Self portrait at 110 km/h
( I can sense kps's eyeballs rolling and head shaking from here)

Nice Kim... I have a soft spot for shots from moving vehicles... I love to take em as well. The van reflection right in the middle of the big rig wheel is great!

Yeah, caught it, threw in the edit, but I guess I wasn't fast enough. Still, I loved going to both places even though the food was never anything to rave about. Places like that have a certain je ne sais quoi but only due to their historical and architectural significance and perhaps their surroundings. In our case it was location and the availability of "no hassle" parking of our rigs.

What's T&T? I remember there was a Knob Hill Farms there at one point.

Same location. They tore down the old building and put up a fresh one... zero character, unlike the two restos we've been referencing. Yeah, agreed - the food was nothing special - edible but certainly not the draw. It was the ambience and sense of history. Both places hearkened back to an earlier, rawer port vibe.

The Canary building, taken from the south, in 2002.

I don't have any shots of canaries.... but here are a couple of canards...

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Couple of snaps from Remembrance Day, downtown Ottawa.

http://bit.ly/9d4buT

http://bit.ly/9uBBty

Bravo Polywog - I hope you have more shots to post.

I don't have any shots of canaries.... but here are a couple of canards...

I'll see your canards and raise you one Bouffant and one Cygnus.

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/quack_files/Duck%20Portrait.jpg

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/quack_files/One%20Swan.jpg

Bravo Polywog - I hope you have more shots to post.



I'll see your canards and raise you one Bouffant and one Cygnus.

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/quack_files/Duck%20Portrait.jpg

Love the hairdo!

On a ducky day...

http://web.me.com/dougcg/iWeb/Site/quack_files/Two%20Ducks.jpg