Your latest artsy pics

[Gabe]

Post up the latest non-auto or just plain fancy artsy-fartsy picture(s) you may have taken.
I take shots of all kinds of things, not just the Mustangs, and like to share, as some of you know.

I snapped these 2 pics this morning, behind the house. We had freezing rain all day yesterday, everything's a sheet of ice around here this morning:

 

[CammedS197]

Wow those are really nice Gabe! Do you do photo editing? I want to edit but was curious if there's any good free photo editing things out there? I have a nice gaming laptop that I do CAD for fun on. I'm going to at some point get photoshop. It will mostly be for my wife. I got her the Rebel T6 package for a steal for her birthday last year. Been taking pictures of the house in stages as it's getting built.

 

[Gabe]

Wow those are really nice Gabe! Do you do photo editing? I want to edit but was curious if there's any good free photo editing things out there? I have a nice gaming laptop that I do CAD for fun on. I'm going to at some point get photoshop. It will mostly be for my wife. I got her the Rebel T6 package for a steal for her birthday last year. Been taking pictures of the house in stages as it's getting built.

I do some editing, yeah, I touch up sharpness/noise, brightness/contrast, things like that, and then final cropping. I usually use Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 which is pretty old at this point, but still does most of what I need/want.
I also have Photoshop CC, the new cloud-based Photoshop which requires a monthly subscription, but because of the subscription I only had it for a short time.
For camera, I use a point-and-shoot camera for now, until I can afford to go for a "nice" camera.
Funny you mention house pictures, I have a full renovation thread on here about my house: http://www.s197forum.com/threads/new-house-new-renovation-project.118992/ (if you're interested in that kinda thing, haha)

 

[CammedS197]

I do some editing, yeah, I touch up sharpness/noise, brightness/contrast, things like that, and then final cropping. I usually use Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 which is pretty old at this point, but still does most of what I need/want.
I also have Photoshop CC, the new cloud-based Photoshop which requires a monthly subscription, but because of the subscription I only had it for a short time.
For camera, I use a point-and-shoot camera for now, until I can afford to go for a "nice" camera.
Funny you mention house pictures, I have a full renovation thread on here about my house: http://www.s197forum.com/threads/new-house-new-renovation-project.118992/ (if you're interested in that kinda thing, haha)

Haha I actually followed this awhile ago. Really great work on the house.

Okay thanks. I want to take more pictures of some somewhat nicer places where I live. But the wife and I like to go places take pictures but normally on crap phone camera. She does a little editing but nothing crazy. Just the little things on the phone lol. But I wanted to learn some of the ropes and practice on my car with some pictures. Maybe shoot some of the wife and car.

 

[Gabe]

A few more pictures I've taken over the last couple of years:

My wife and I were out hiking and I notice this floating leaf as we were walking by:

A backyard toad:

A winter-time reflection taken on the way to Vermont about 3 years ago:

Zakim Bridge in Boston. Pic taken in heavy traffic:

A little critter on a high-rise building window, about 20+ floors up:

 

[CammedS197]

A few more pictures I've taken over the last couple of years:

My wife and I were out hiking and I notice this floating leaf as we were walking by:

A backyard toad:

A winter-time reflection taken on the way to Vermont about 3 years ago:

Zakim Bridge in Boston. Pic taken in heavy traffic:

A little critter on a high-rise building window, about 20+ floors up:

Wow those are really nice! I really like the picture of the flower and the one of the lake! Those really jump at me. So crisp and clear. I do not want to be that grasshopper lol.

 

[CammedS197]

Not very familiar with cameras so here is a dumb question. What is a point and shoot camera lol? Cause all those pictures are stunning even with your I guess not nice camera lol. What camera are you looking to get when you get a "nice" one?

 

[stkjock]

\/ great shot Gabe

 

[Gabe]

\/ great shot Gabe

Thanks dude.

Not very familiar with cameras so here is a dumb question. What is a point and shoot camera lol? Cause all those pictures are stunning even with your I guess not nice camera lol. What camera are you looking to get when you get a "nice" one?

I'm using a small Canon camera, the SX700HS, for a lot of the nicer pics I take:

I'd like a digital SLR with removable zoom lenses, something in the $500-$1,000 range, but that's not in the budget right now.
I've taken a bunch of pics with my phone, a Motorola Droid Turbo, and some of them come out pretty damn nice.
The grasshoper pic above was taken with my phone, and so was the Zakim bridge pic and the pic of the toad.
Also took the pics below this morning with my phone, and as usual I edited them using the software I mentioned above.

We've had a lot of freezing rain lately, the firewood pile out back looked especially prime for some pics this morning:

 

[CammedS197]

Wow those are all just stunning. Really great pictures! You definitely have a great skill! I like seeing all of these. I'm going to look at the editor you mentioned ad try it on some pictures.

 

[Gabe]

Wow those are all just stunning. Really great pictures! You definitely have a great skill! I like seeing all of these. I'm going to look at the editor you mentioned ad try it on some pictures.

Thank you!


Went back through some of my pics and found this one that I took August '17 when my wife and I were in North Carolina, this was during a trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway, we pulled over for some reason and I noticed this little guy:

 

[redfirepearlgt]

The first photo is a night shot on 12 second exposure setting.
The second and third simple photo shots.
Minor cropping and straightening on the third, no editing on the other two.

 

[Coosawjack]

 

[redfirepearlgt]

great eye Gabe. You definitely have the knack to see beyond the shot.

 

[oldVOR]

November sunset - Taken during a three day hike along the Appalachian Trail in southwestern VA

 

[oldVOR]

Hood of the Mustang as a light dew was just freezing

 

[EBABlacknChrome]

Hood of the Mustang as a light dew was just freezing

That's sweet. In all the frost I have seen over the years, I have never seen it quite do that.

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[Gabe]

Some really nice photos popping in, thanks guys for posting them!
Keep them coming!

great eye Gabe. You definitely have the knack to see beyond the shot.

Thanks dude!

 

[EBABlacknChrome]

wife took on our honey moon in Jamaica A dam in Arkansas The aqurium in Chattanooga TN

 

[EBABlacknChrome]

Shot both of these at a job site of mine within 5 minute of each other. Lake Michigan in Aug. Did it with my phone and no filters or editing.