chit chat thread

[HipMF]

Jdesign said:

If you want to find some really good stuff, you need to look for trains and underpasses.

Only one spot I know of that has stuff like that:

[suspenceful]

Last two pics are my favorite.

[GunMetalGrey]

I kept checking this morning to see what new photos you posted. 
10/10 wasn't disappointed.

[HipMF]

Thanks. I've been spending a lot of time with the camera lately. I took a bunch of pictures at a show where my co-workers band was playing on Saturday, but most of them turned out like crap. It was a challenge because the place looks kind of crappy in general and the "stage lighting" is a bit obnoxious. Autofocus was also giving me a hard time because it was so dark. On top of that, bands aren't just standing around waiting for you to line up a good shot (and neither is the audience for that matter...). It's a lot more difficult than any of the other stuff I've taken pictures of. I had a good time though. Drank too much (big surprise).

[GB-335xiCoupe]

Someone kindly translate the overpass ones? I can make out some of the letters, but not really making sense to me.

SLICK ROSE? Maybe...

[straight6pwr]

mike, did you crank the ISO and shoot wide open? the weakspot of lower end DSLRs is low light, but you can overcome it a little with some manual focus shooting. two options for manual that could help:

1)try 'bracketing' your focus, i.e. take a series of shots while slightly turning the focus ring. its hard as hell to see the focus in dim light through those viewfinders. i use this often because my right eye is nearsighted and so I can't see the focus at all sometimes. 

2)set the manual focus to a certain distance then move yourself closer or away from the subject in small increments (probably hard in a scenario like shooting a live show) 

another tip: aim your focus point on the edge of something of high contrast. for instance on that last photo, where the back of the metal chair and the stage meet. if the focus point is in an area of all dark or an area of all bright, it will tend to search back and forth.

[HipMF]

Also, was downtown earlier Saturday. Surprised to see everything still pretty much as it was. i guess the police investigation is still on-going...

El Primo: we miss you q_q

[straight6pwr]

is that all-aluminum f150 rusting?

[m42b32]

straight6pwr said:

is that all-aluminum f150 rusting? 

It sure does look like it, steel roof panel maybe?

[HipMF]

GB-335xiCoupe said:

Someone kindly translate the overpass ones? I can make out some of the letters, but not really making sense to me.

SLICK ROSE? Maybe...

Vile-E and Rose? Two separate artists? I have no clue. Once the letters start overlapping it gets near impossible to decipher. In videos I've seen "writers" trace the letters with their hands to "feel" what was being written, but they obviously have a lot of experience with this...

The "tags" that are next to the piece also tell you who put it there, and would give you a clue if you were up on these things...

Edit: Spent more time looking at it and realized the first three pics are all the same pair, third pic is in the opposite order. Still can't say for certain what either of them says...

[Jdesign]

GB-335xiCoupe said:

Someone kindly translate the overpass ones? I can make out some of the letters, but not really making sense to me.

SLICK ROSE? Maybe...

This is what I see:

Vitial / Vitel (more likely an "a" due to his signature)

RUE - Pretty easy to read

Spar___ I cant see the whole thing

Separate artist working together at the same time is the case in the first 3. This is pretty common because you can get more color down faster. Both artists will most likely have pre-drawn examples of what they are going to paint before hand and just copy it to the wall. Both will likely layout their own outlines, but will work together to do fills, shadows, and highlights.

[SteelBlue]

HipMF said:

Also, was downtown earlier Saturday. Surprised to see everything still pretty much as it was. i guess the police investigation is still on-going...

El Primo: we miss you q_q

Where is this that it looks like a bomb went off?

[HipMF]

SteelBlue said:

Where is this that it looks like a bomb went off?

Downtown Sun Prairie. It was a natural gas explosion.

[Ryan...]

Very "lucky" that only 1 person died in that explosion. The other firefighter that was near the building when it exploded very nearly died as well. Everyone involved did a great job at containment and evacuating people.

[straight6pwr]

m42b32 said:

It sure does look like it, steel roof panel maybe? 

i dug for a second, i think its an f350 pre dating the aluminum switch

the aluminum trucks have aluminum roofs

[jc43089]

Well it's a big day today.  I'm putting in my two weeks notice at Hormel Foods.  I'm taking a job back in Wisconsin!  Nine years ago I graduated from Northcentral Technical College in Wausau with an AAS in Electromechanical Technology and went to work for Hormel Foods in Dubuque, IA.  Through that time I was a Maintenance Electrician, then an Instrumentation Technician, then moved to their Engineering R&D group near Austin, MN as a Programming Technician, basically an hourly Controls Engineer.

I will be going back to NTC as an instructor in the Electromechanical Technology department.  Hormel is a great company to work for it's mostly about being closer to family.  Both my family and my wife's family live near Wausau.

So this is pretty exciting but also happening pretty fast.  Yikes.

[Earl]

Congrats to you=) So you'll have to sell your house with the dream barn and hopefully find something up this way?

[jc43089]

Earl said:

Congrats to you=) So you'll have to sell your house with the dream barn and hopefully find something up this way?

Thanks, yea it isn't finished but it's a good start for whatever somebody else wants it to be.  I just trenched in a 100A feeder and installed a breaker box out there last weekend.

[YoungCR]

Congrats! You'll be a great instructor.

[Jdesign]

Congrats!