Photography.

[facthunter]

It's something of an eyesight  test, If you have done a few of these things it becomes easier. You are unconsciously looking for a black one. Nev

[spacesailor]

Not m

I saw the fourth one , because I looked for 8 eyes . I like those 3D pictures with hidden objects in them .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Watch out for Spiders.   Nev

[nomadpete]

I spent yesterday planespotting. The downwash (air, not so much water) sends down any loose branches.

 

[Marty_d]

You must have been at the Lymington fire?  Those 2 passed right over us heading down.  Noisy buggers with those massive 2-bladed rotors.

[spacesailor]

And I thought you were ' watering ' your garden. LoL

spacesailor

[nomadpete]

The colour of the drop tells you how low all the local dams are. There were two big whirlybirds running all day. This is the second Lymington fire starting from one property in a couple of days. Police are investigating - fires don't usually ignite from a 50 metre straight line. I'm going out again tonight, hopefully we will be on top of it.

[onetrack]

Pete, be thankful you've still got dam water! Our water supplies in the S.W. of W.A. are in a pretty desperate state, thanks to virtually no rain since Oct 2023 (2 light showers have been the grand total in 6 mths) - and when we had a substantial fire near Pearce airbase, the choppers picked up firefighting water from a sewerage plant holding pond!

 

Whether it was done by accident or on purpose, no-one seems to know - but fortunately, the sewerage pond water wasn't dropped on buildings or people!

 

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/firefighting-water-bombers-drop-sewage-on-homes/wg46mijmr

[nomadpete]

It's  ok. I keep my mouth shut when the choppers are dropping 'water' anyway.

[nomadpete]

Further aurora sightings

 

The purple pic (on the anti-gripes thread) was taken in our yard, visible to the naked eye, and it lit up the reds of our autumn leaves on the deciduous trees. Last night I went down to the river and took a picture of Franklin town.

 

[red750]

I've been doing a few more photo restorations and colourising.

 

  

 

 

 

 

[spacesailor]

Excellent 

I tried it when " paint " ,  came to " windows ( 95 ) .

spacesailor

 

[red750]

On 14/05/2024 at 2:07 PM, spacesailor said:

I tried it when " paint " ,  came to " windows ( 95 ) .

You really need photo editing software. I use PhotoScape (not PhotoShop).

 

A link to the colourising system is here.. You upload the image to the website, select a couple of options and click "Start". A few seconds later, the process is finished (you don't see it happen), then a "Download" button appears and you save the coloured version to your hard drive. Note: colourisation in some photos is barely noticable. I guess it depends on what information is in the original for the algorithm to work on.

 

 

[red750]

Here's another restoration example.

 

[willedoo]

3 hours ago, red750 said:

You really need photo editing software. I use PhotoScape (not PhotoShop).

 

A link to the colourising system is here.. You upload the image to the website, select a couple of options and click "Start". A few seconds later, the process is finished (you don't see it happen), then a "Download" button appears and you save the coloured version to your hard drive. Note: colourisation in some photos is barely noticable. I guess it depends on what information is in the original for the algorithm to work on.

 

 

Peter, do you know where that photo was taken?

[red750]

No willie. From memory, the tall ships were downloaded from the web. I didn't record any details, it was just an old photo to practice on.

[red750]

Here is an interesting view of Melbourne at night from a great height. Almost like a street directory. Note the bright green spots across the image. Sporting grounds lit for night practice. Note also the grid pattern of streets, unlike the spaghetti in other cities.

 

[spacesailor]

Canberra would be different, as. It it said ' designed by an  American architect 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Ruined a fairly good Paddock and it's off the Beaten track. Too cold in winter and too hot in summer.  Nev

[willedoo]

I found some old photos and this one here is a phone camera copy of the original printed photo. I don't remember the format but it was the square photo type. My memory seems to be telling me it was an instamatic camera.

 

The original photo was taken in 1984 just north of Lake Eyre and shows a Cat D7G dozer ploughing explosive redcord into the ground. It would plough in 2x strands together and the top two rolls of cord are spare, so that when the bottom two rolls run out, the top two are used. The cord was ploughed in 100 metre strips the depth of the ripper and then a 50 metre gap, then another 100 metre strip etc.. It required an offsider to walk along behind the machine (that's him in the pilot's seat having a play).

 

His job was fairly basic: at the start of every 100 metre plough, he would stand on the tail of the cord protruding from the cord feeding pipe welded to the ripper. Once the ripper was at depth the weight of the soil would hold the cords in place so he could stop standing on them. Fairly simple - if the rolls are spinning around, the cord is successfully feeding into the ground. At the 50 metre mark the machine would stop and lift the ripper which would pull the cords out of the ground. The offsider would place a stick crossways on the ground so that when the ripper dug in again, there was a loop of redcord protruding from the ground and held up in place by the stick. That was the mid point at which the preloader would later attach the detonators. At the end of the 100 metre plough, the offsider would cut the cords with a pair of secateurs. A very technical job with the main requirements being don't lose the secateurs and always have plenty of sticks.

 

I don't remember how many 100 metre sections they would blow at the same time. It was used on 2D prospects and they haven't used the cord for that purpose since the early to mid 1980's as vibrators are the standard source of energy for a long time now. There was also a green cord, much thicker and twice the bang. If my memory is right they used to call it geoflex.

 

 

[rgmwa]

16 minutes ago, willedoo said:

My memory seems to be telling me it was an instamatic camera.

Yes they used 126 format film cartridges. The image was nominally 26mm square.

[willedoo]

It's amazing how far digital photography has come since those early days of low res, grainy digital photos. I've got a Canon EOS 700D which is about ten years old and it takes photos as good as I'd ever require. I'm sure there's a lot better these days. Digital photography seemed to struggle with quality in the early days but seemed to all of a sudden hit a point where it was comparable to film and hasn't looked back since.

[pmccarthy]

This was a photo I took with my digital camera phone in 2005. That was the quality, and just having a camera in your phone seemed a miracle.

[red750]

Even phone camera pics are good. I took this on my old iPhone 6 at a mates funeral. Click to enlarge.

 

[red750]

Willie, I tried out just one option on that photo enhancement link you sent me. It was a photo of the oldest member of our Men's Shed, Norm. He turned 93 a few weeks ago. I got rid of the cluttered background.

 

Original background

 

 

Plain background

 

 

Beach background

 

 

There were about a dozen alternative backgrounds to choose from.