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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 4) Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-05-2011 04:28 PM                        I don't visit Flicker because I hate the site mainly due to the spinning red and blue circles, but people probably see a thumbnail of a girl in a bikini and click on it hoping for hotness. Likely they are disappointed. Any photo can be black and white.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-05-2011 08:23 PM                     Glad you like the birds pic, Aaron. That one has 17 hits and a "interestingness" score of 3 and it's only been up for a little over two weeks. Subtract the horndog pictures and the ones that got hits from people who are actually in the pictures and it's at the top of the list. Joe, it is pretty hard to make a color print negative into black and white because of the orange mask. Even with a #5 contrast filter or 100% blue/cyan (in a color enlarger) you still can't restore all the contrast. I suppose you could scan the negative and run it through Photoshop but, then, you have to color balance the image twice. Once to scan and reverse the color. A second time to filter the color to black and white. Black and white film does not respond to all colors equally. That's one reason why people like the "look" of black and white film. Yeah, yeah, you can tinker with the color to B/W conversion but it's probably easier just to shoot the damn picture with film in the first place.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-05-2011 10:06 PM                     In old school analog photography, the kind of photography I learned in art school, black and white works exactly opposite of how you shoot color. With black and white you expose for the darkest areas in the image. You must protect the blackest regions to keep them dark as possible. With color you expose for the highlights. This is one of the fundamental reasons why colorizing black and white images doesn't work at all. Other additional reasons apply as well. But the exposure method is a big part of it. It's certainly possible for someone to fake good quality black and white imagery with RGB-based color digital cameras. The main area where you start is by protecting the darkest regions. That's the source of all the contrast. If your highlights or the overall tone of the image isn't high enough try blowing up the image into 16-bit per channel mode and playing with levels or curves there. Get into masking certain parts of the image and doing other tricks if you want to get more exact about things.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-07-2011 06:50 PM                         |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-10-2011 07:41 PM                     *sniff* ------------------------  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 08-12-2011 10:43 AM                     D'oh!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-13-2011 03:14 PM                     Give 'em a break. That's a hard word to speel. Look at this result from Google Shopping for Amazon. No wait, look CLOSER! The item weighs 2 pounds.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-18-2011 09:25 PM                        My longest flight delay ever: 36 hours. This was in 1994, from Boston to Rome. As you can see in the picture, they are fixing the center engine. This was after we had taken off, flown for a half hour, and then turned around and landed at Boston again, due to mechanical issues. We finally departed the next day.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-21-2011 04:21 PM                        I had something similar happen to me, also on a DC-10. It was on a flight from Memphis to Amsterdam in 2005. About 3-4 hours into the flight all the lights in the cabin suddenly went out, apart from the emergency Tivoli-type lighting strips on the floor. Shouting at the top of her voice (because the PA system had also lost power), a flight attendant told us that the captain had told her that there was "some sort of an electrical problem" (no ... really?!), and that we were diverting to an airport in Greenland, the name of which I couldn't pronounce at the time and can't remember now. After landing, some of the pasengers were booked onto the spare capacity of an Air Greenland flight to Copenhagen the following morning, but the rest of us (of which I was one) had to wait until Northwest engineers had flown in with spare parts to fix the DC-10. We never were told exactly what that fault was, though we were assured that no safety-critical systems were ever in danger. There again, they would tell us that, wouldn't they? I eventually got home about 26-27 hours later than I should have done. If the problem had been with the tail-mounted engine it would have been a very big problem in somewhere like Greenland, I would have thought, because unless trijets visited there regularly and thus they had the gantries and scaffolding needed to gain access to that engine, they'd have needed to ship them in, probably using surface transportation given the size of the objects involved.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Kane Film Handler Posts: 74 From: corpus christi, tx Registered: Jun 2011 posted 08-26-2011 11:53 AM                     Would've been Kangerlussuaq/Sonde Stromfjord. Only airport in Greenland that can handle widebody traffic. What on earth did they do with you in the meantime???  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-30-2011 06:34 PM                         |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-11-2011 10:22 PM                         |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-13-2011 10:59 AM                        quote: Jeff Kane Would've been Kangerlussuaq/Sonde Stromfjord. Only airport in Greenland that can handle widebody traffic. What on earth did they do with you in the meantime??? We landed around midnight local time and had to stay on board the plane for about an hour after that. At that point they took us off and into an airside departure lounge, where we waited until engineers had flown in and fixed our plane, which took until around 5-6pm the following day. Around mid-morning they made a call for anyone who only had carry-on baggage on the DC-10 who would like to transfer to the other Copenhagen flight, and I would guess around 20-30 people went. We were eventually on our way again late the following evening. They did arrange coffee/tea/sandwiches etc. during the day, but would not let us out of the departure lounge because of immigration formalities. The airport staff seemed pretty well organised, given that 300 or so people suddenly dropped in on them at virtually no notice; but if the delay had dragged on past second night they would have had to try to find accommodation for us in nearby hotels, I would have guessed. That having been said, there may well not have been 300 spare hotel rooms sitting empty anywhere near the airport in somewhere like that. It's not as if Greenland is a buzzing centre of tourism or business travel! To bring this post back on topic, here is the aircraft in question, shortly before departure from Memphis (original photo taken on Kodachrome 64 with a polarising filter):  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-13-2011 12:14 PM                      |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-13-2011 02:15 PM                        As Deep Throat would say, follow the money!  |  IP: Logged

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