[Nico]

for a change
anyway, you may have L33t skills and tools, but you don't have my reflexes:

what do you mean I'm cheating?

[Setekh]

Reflexes? You call those reflexes? The least you could do is get close to the action

[Fineus]

That's not close, this is close:

[Ghostavo]

Try to take a photo of your new camera with your new camera!!

The second photo... the rose... oh man... very very cool!!

[Ashrak]

ROFLMAO


yeah i can edit stuff in PS too

[Stryke 9]

... Man, you suck. Stealin' my thunder.

And where the HELL did you get those lights? They ain't studio flashes, but like hell you just had 'em lying around...

[Kazan]

Steak nice lightning photoshop


PS: the best lightning shots are middle length exposure (1/24s < x < 1sec) - taken on a camera on a tripod with a thumb clicker - from LP (Low Precipitation) storms



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If i hadn't learned to program I would have been a field research meterologist (laymens: a storm chaser with a PhD)

[Fineus]

Storm chasing kicks ass... though I have a tainted view of it (Twister anyone?)

Stryke.. I think that lighting setup could be bought for about 40 pounds in a good hardware store? Just looks like a few lamps with clamps on metal stands...

[Stryke 9]

Thunder: Uhm, I'm guessing not. Standard tungsten lightbulbs make most photos very yellow, and compensating generally takes a lot of color saturation out of the image. The picture is neither yellow nor desaturated. Unless his camera has some fancy color balancing functions, in which case he sucks that much more.

[Stealth]

those lights look very common to some i've seen in homes over here.  a 5 foot high stand, with three or four lights coming off it, which can be rotated around.  they light up a room really nice.  the guy i used to work for, he used to use it to take pictures of stuff too, by just focusing all the lights at whatever he wanted to take pictures of

Nico and Setekh:  I think you guys should have a photoshop render battle

[Sandwich]

Now _I_ wanna get a tripod (.com)!

[pyro-manic]

You utter, utter bastard.

I need money. Lots of money. Or better shoplifting skills.....

Some nice piccies there. Looks like you're having fun.

[Jiggyhound]

tripods............  good. mmmmm

nice camera too

[Setekh]

Stryke and Kal/Stealth, you're half right. Yes, Stealth, those are ordinary stands, which I actually did pick up from my local hardware store.  However, as Stryke notes, those are not ordinary lightbulbs. I garnered the lights from school, though, when I left last year, from our photography department - which is closing down for lack of students picking the subject. We just used to call them "hot lights", but if I remember right, they were 600-watt quartz halogen flood lamps. Damn, damn bright, but more importantly, their colour temperature is close to daylight, something like 5500K. That's why there are hardly any noticeable colour casts.

Sandwich: Inside joke acknowledged.

Here's another shot. I almost walked into this wolf spider, scared the living daylights out of me. Warning, it's the size of my desktop.

[Nico]

cute, but you should have taken the other side, coz the eyes man, we can't see the eyes.
Spider eyes are scary.

[Setekh]

Yikes, you're not getting us into that again. You're absolutely right, they're terrifying.

Actually, now that you mention it different angles, I'm not sure if I like this one better:

[Stunaep]

And now it's the size of my desktop. Go figure

[Fineus]

Very impressive... though I wouldn't want to go to near it... how big are those things (in real life)?

[TopAce]

That spider looks as it were designed by the Shivans.
Its shape and those tentacles.

[Janos]

Jesus Christ, I was just listening to OST of 28 Days Later.

I will  now officially freak out,