Share your favorite photo(s) at the moment

[Sidoh]

Shangri La - Dorris Duke's mansion in Honolulu


View from Makapu'u Lighthouse

[while1]

Are people allowed to swim in that pool?  Or is it only for show?

[CrAz3D]

the moment? which moment?

pretty pics.

[Sidoh]

Are people allowed to swim in that pool?  Or is it only for show?

They herd you like sheep when you visit Shangri La. There are probably two dozen Doris Duke foundation employees that make sure you're not doing anything they don't like.

They host events there (usually art related). I've been twice: once for some lecture on the history of Shangri La, and another time for a screening of a documentary about Rumi. Both events were sinfully boring, but the venue is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.

In short: definitely not. I think they should host pool parties for fancy people there, though -- they could probably get away with charging >= $1K general admission just for the pool area.

There is, however, a public saltwater pool below the house (it's right below the rock wall you see in the picture). You can swim to it from the beach across the way. Each time I've been, there are a bunch of locals hanging out down there.

the moment? which moment?

pretty pics.

sorry, meant 'at the moment'. updated it :)

[dark_drake]

An immature picture from a few years ago.

[iago]

Took this one two days ago:


It's an abandoned incinerator in Montreal.

[Sidoh]

That's really cool looking!

For the record - the [img] tag takes a width=<# of pixels> parameter.

[while1]

iago, maybe because it's been scaled down in size from such a high resolution... but the photo's colors and just overall look almost looks like it's fake, like it's a computer generated/ animated scene from a video game... probably has to do with the way the lighting from the weather.  I concur, it's a really cool, surreal looking photo.

[iago]

That's really cool looking!

For the record - the [img] tag takes a width=<# of pixels> parameter.

Ahh, cool. I was having trouble with imgur, too, nothing was working!

iago, maybe because it's been scaled down in size from such a high resolution... but the photo's colors and just overall look almost looks like it's fake, like it's a computer generated/ animated scene from a video game... probably has to do with the way the lighting from the weather.  I concur, it's a really cool, surreal looking photo.

That's intentional - it's high saturation and high contrast. I like the fake video game look. :)

[iago]

Here's a less overdone picture of the incinerator - I can't get completely realistic, the lighting just wasn't there:


And here's a picture of downtown Montreal from a trail I was walking down:

[iago]

Last one for now.. you happened to post this thread while I was on vacation with my new camera. :)



I took that one two or three days ago. My friends were exploring a sewer, and I didn't have hip waders so I hung out by the river (see the picture from the previous post). I got bored and started throwing rocks at towards pigeons to make them fly, and taking pictures of the flight. This one turned out exceptionally well.

[Sidoh]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

What camera are you using for these? Are the lovely colors a setting on the camera, or is it a post-processing step that makes them look like that?

[iago]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

What camera are you using for these? Are the lovely colors a setting on the camera, or is it a post-processing step that makes them look like that?

That's a Canon 7d with a 15-85 lens. I get the colours by shooting in Raw format then turning up the saturation. The bird and the bridge have minimal post-processing (just saturation + contrast + cropping), but the incinerator has more (the sky is separate, I shifted the colours towards red, and I forget what else).

For reference, here's the original .jpg off the camera, totally unmodified (this is exactly how the camera saved them):
http://www.javaop.com/~ron/tmp/img_7d_1457.JPG
http://www.javaop.com/~ron/tmp/img_7d_1599.JPG
http://www.javaop.com/~ron/tmp/img_7d_1531.JPG

[deadly7]

No offense to your post processing but I like the originals a lot more. I've never been a fan of oversaturated colors.

I have a few pics but nowhere to put them.. just stuff from a trip I took last year on what is, to date, the most scenic coastline I've been on.

[iago]

No offense to your post processing but I like the originals a lot more. I've never been a fan of oversaturated colors.

I had a feeling somebody would say that. :)

Personally, I love oversaturated colours. Even when I paint, everything tends to be bright colours and high contrast.

And incidentally, I lied a bit in my previous post. They aren't unmodified off the camera, I resized them before I uploaded. I was connecting through cellular tethering and only have so much bandwidth each month. :)