Low light long exposure shot I took in a drainage tunnel over the holiday break. It was much, much darker than this. To think homeless people sleep inside these things, amazing really.
Taken at: 12/31/2011, 2:18:11 PM
Exposure Mode: Manual
Lens: EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM
f/5.6, ISO 400, Tv 20 seconds, AWB
Looking back up the tunnel to the surface.
Taken at: 12/31/2011, 2:19:19 PM
Exposure Mode: Auto
Lens: EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM
f/2.8, ISO 400, Tv 1/4 of a second, AWB
Amazing photo. But yeah, what the heck are you doing in a drainage tunnel?
My son and his friend like to shoot airsoft guns, because they look pretty real I and the other kids dad take them out to the edge of town (which is pretty much the desert) that doesn't get a lot of foot traffic. Flash flooding is a problem in the desert because when it rains the ground is too hard to absorb the water and it create short lived rivers that wash out whatever is in it's path. At the base of where we shoot airsoft are two huge water drain tunnels, we usually setup camp next to them especially in the summer to keep out of the sun. Eventually the two boys just had to go through the tunnel, I bring my camera for something to do and there you have why I was creeping around in a drainage tunnel.
Wouldn't it be fun if there was a dude creeping around down at the end.
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Second image is a lot more interesting. How well do you wield photoshop?
Yeah we actually traveled all the way through to other side under a freeway a few months ago and thought what if we come across someone, a dead person, rattle snake, scorpions, etc. It got pitch black, the tunnel is about a 1/2 mile long. It is pretty creepy down there. I'm pretty good with Photoshop, I did tech support for Adobe way back in the early 1990's, but I do my best to do as little post-production as possible to photo's I shoot.
Sometimes I'm after a specific artistic effect such as the Half-life logo in one of the shots in the animated gif below of that creepy trip back then. I was using a Canon G12 camera at the time. Most photo edit's I do involve enhancing clarity, gamma correction, noise reduction, cleanup but that's about it. With my new camera I haven't had to touch photo's nearly as much.
Both of those light shots are shweet! I'll have to go get a glow stick or something. Yes I did add the HL2 Gordon Freeman logo via Photoshop, I couldn't resist. The thing I'm playing with at the moment is my wireless remote flash, I'm enjoying that wild new (well new to me anyways) feature of technology.
In this shot I placed it behind a vase of a dozen roses I bought for my wife a week ago, the roses were on their last leg entering into Adam's family dead flower territory. So I went for a Gothic look and it was pure luck the cat jumped up when he did.
Nice! I think it would be perfect if the vase was just next to the cat (a bit to the right) without covering it. It's kinda hard to tell the cat that though
Cool photo nonetheless!
In January you receive an anonymous letter, which says that a specific stock, let's say Royal Dutch Shell, is going to go up by the end of this month. You dismiss it as nonsense even after checking that Shell did go up that month.
In February you receive another letter, this time stating that some specific named stock is going to go down. Once again, you dismiss it as nothing even while it was right.
These letters keep coming, month after month, each time predicting correctly how a specific stock will perform that month. By start of June you are quite mind-boggled by this mysterious Nostradamus sending you letters.
Later in the same month you get instructions to invest a sum of money, say $10 000 into a foreign bank account coupled with a convincing background story of some investor mastermind being forced to act in secrecy by lesser-performing, but powerful, big investment banks. You never see that money again.
Tip: after getting scammed, you talk with a friend, who tells you that, yes, he got the same January letter as well, but in February the letter said that the stock would go up (when it didn't) and the letters stopped coming after that point.
The trick is this: pick 10 000 numbers from a phone book, send 5 000 a letter saying that Shell stock price goes up and 5 000 a letter saying it goes down. The following month pick another random stock, and send the 5 000 that in retrospect got the correct answer last month, a new letter. In 2 500 you say that the new stock goes up and in 2 500 that it goes down. Continue this until by June you have 625 people with whom you have a 5 in 5 correct track record. A couple hundred will take the bait and an investment of some thousand dollars in stamps will turn into millions. Of course, all this is very illegal.
This scam is enabled by a potent logical bias called the survivorship bias In essence, because the 9375 people that got erroneous investment tips are not immediately visible, a naive probabilistic estimation would lead us to think that the chance in getting 5 stock prices right in a row is about six percent and attribute this to the superior prediction skills of our anonymous friend -- while in reality it is simply the result of pure randomness.
This kind of a bias makes hindsight probabilistic estimations extremely fallacious. Since the non-surviving sample paths are not immediately visible we easily attribute the random result into something non-random. These kind of biases exist wherever luck has any role to play and make hindsight evaluations extremely dangerous.
Further reading (& idea stolen from): Fooled by Randomness, by N.N. Taleb.
Pretty awesome, I think I might have to look into that book, seems like a great read.
Vegas rage is on chips.
JaundiceBunny is on crackers and dip.
NUUUUUHHH is bringing sweet rolls.
Hpnot1Q can bring sausage rolls.
And you just show up to eat and drink all the shit we brought?!?!
We did Japanese food for this new years outing.
In an earlier post I said I'm bringing soft drinks and cups!!!!
Taken at: 12/31/2011, 2:18:11 PM
Exposure Mode: Manual
Lens: EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM
f/5.6, ISO 400, Tv 20 seconds, AWB
Looking back up the tunnel to the surface.
Taken at: 12/31/2011, 2:19:19 PM
Exposure Mode: Auto
Lens: EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM
f/2.8, ISO 400, Tv 1/4 of a second, AWB
Amazing photo. But yeah, what the heck are you doing in a drainage tunnel?
My son and his friend like to shoot airsoft guns, because they look pretty real I and the other kids dad take them out to the edge of town (which is pretty much the desert) that doesn't get a lot of foot traffic. Flash flooding is a problem in the desert because when it rains the ground is too hard to absorb the water and it create short lived rivers that wash out whatever is in it's path. At the base of where we shoot airsoft are two huge water drain tunnels, we usually setup camp next to them especially in the summer to keep out of the sun. Eventually the two boys just had to go through the tunnel, I bring my camera for something to do and there you have why I was creeping around in a drainage tunnel.
Yeah we actually traveled all the way through to other side under a freeway a few months ago and thought what if we come across someone, a dead person, rattle snake, scorpions, etc. It got pitch black, the tunnel is about a 1/2 mile long. It is pretty creepy down there. I'm pretty good with Photoshop, I did tech support for Adobe way back in the early 1990's, but I do my best to do as little post-production as possible to photo's I shoot.
Sometimes I'm after a specific artistic effect such as the Half-life logo in one of the shots in the animated gif below of that creepy trip back then. I was using a Canon G12 camera at the time. Most photo edit's I do involve enhancing clarity, gamma correction, noise reduction, cleanup but that's about it. With my new camera I haven't had to touch photo's nearly as much.
This is one of my favorites in that fashion:
http://kil1k.deviantart.com/art/Source-12130654?q=favby%3Aelrufa%2F2948744&qo=23
In this shot I placed it behind a vase of a dozen roses I bought for my wife a week ago, the roses were on their last leg entering into Adam's family dead flower territory. So I went for a Gothic look and it was pure luck the cat jumped up when he did.
Cool photo nonetheless!
Pretty awesome, I think I might have to look into that book, seems like a great read.
Everyone knows scams are run by email! The trick is that they used letters!