UnoMOTOs Photos(post 35) The best photo I have ever taken?!?!

[UnoMOTO]

I've had enough of these threads that I will begin to log them into one rather then create a new thread everytime I want to share some adventure with ya'll. I'm really trying to figure out how my camera works and If you see good, bad and the ugly, just let me know what I can do to improve my shots.

This adventure starts with a train ride in the mountains of Colorado. The Golden color of the Aspens make for some great backdrops.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Not much love with that first post, but here goes again anyway.

 

[Perfect Balance]

I missed the thread the first time around. Anyway, awesome scenery and awesome bike, it looks like you had fun.👍

 

[TB]

The yellow/green is ridiculously gorgeous. I notice a shortage of red foliage, though.

I should take the boys on a drive around the park. Hopefully it's not past it's prime. Edit: Apparently late September to early October is best. Perilously close, me thinks.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

I missed the first post too. Great pictures there, especially the forest and river ones 👍

Bikes shots are also nice 👍

 

[UnoMOTO]

yeah...we don't get much red at all in colorado.

The red on my bike makes up for it.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Your composition and metering is really good, but none of the shots in the first post are really sharp. The bike shots are better in that respect.

If you're keen on photography you're good enough at it that you should be using a dSLR. Your ability appears to be outstripping that of your kit.

 

[UnoMOTO]

I think the resizing and the compression I did made them not as sharp as the originals.

I really need to take a class to learn how to use the camera that I currently have before I jump in to dSLR land. So far there are so many auto settings that make it easy to get a good shot. With understanding my manual settings I think I could really do wonders with this camera.

DSC-H9 specifications

Sensor
• 1/2.5 " Type CCD
• 8.1 million effective pixels

Image sizes
• 3264 x 2448
• 2592 x 1944
• 2048 x 1536
• 640 x 480
• 3264 x 2176 (3:2)
• 1920 x 1080 (16:9)

Movie clips
• MPEG VX Fine / Standard
(640 x 480 @ 30 / 16 fps MPEG-1 with audio)

File formats
• Still: JPEG
• Movie: MPEG VX (MPEG-1)
Lens
• Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar
• 31-465mm (35mm equiv)
• 15x optical zoom
• F2.7-4.5

Image stabilization Super SteadyShot®
Conversion lenses Yes
Digital zoom
• 2x (24x total)
• Up to 30x Smart Zoom (dependent on selected resolution)
Focus
• Auto
• Macro
• Single
• Monitoring

AF area modes
• 9 Area Multi-Point AF
• Center AF
• Flexible spot AF
• Contrast detect
AF assist lamp Yes
Focus distance
• Normal: 50cm (19.7 in) minimum (W), 120cm (47.25 in) minimum (T)
• Macro: 1cm (0.4 in) wide only
Metering
• Multi-pattern (49 zone)
• Center weighted
• Spot
ISO sensitivity
• Auto
• ISO 80
• ISO 100
• ISO 200
• ISO 400
• ISO 800
• ISO 1600
• ISO 3200
Exposure compensation
• +/-2EV
• 1/3 EV steps
Exposure bracketing +/- 0.3, 0.7, 1.0 EV
Shutter speed
• Auto: 1/4-1/4000sec
• P: 1"-1/4000sec
• S: 30"-1/4000sec
• A: 8"-1/2000sec
• M: 30"-1/4000sec

Aperture F2.7-5.6 (w) F4.5-8 (t)
Modes
• Program
• Aperture priority
• Shutter priority
• Manual
• 9-preset select scene modes

 

[kikie]

All I can say is: 👍

Very nice bike, by the way!

 

[UnoMOTO]

Snow capped rockies leaving home



Touching down in LV



View from the room



View of the very nice room...bow chica wow wow



I love these things in the lobby







The spaceship has landed!



YOU'RE FIRED!



My #1 fan!



No...here is my #1 fan



Home sweet home for the four days



Built it and they will come



And again...



ooooo....perdy



ahhhhhh....



Rain in the desert....only if its from LED lights.



Double trouble



Rooms Rooms and more Rooms




Now that I have time to reflect on how much fun this city is...



My reflecting sometimes puts my head in the clouds...



Mmmmmm.....taco's



Gettin all hyped up for the Blue Guy people



I see something else through the trees



High above the strip we stand



At least they put all our money to good use



Two that look like one from here



ohhhh....ahhhhhh....



More more more



MMMMM....never to be left empty handed



When in Vegas....



You've been a good friend, take care and I will see you soon!

 

[Sureboss]

Cracking photos Brian, both of Vegas and the earlier ones.

 

[FoolKiller]

I see that I am not the only person who breaks the no electronic items during take off and landing on a plane rule.


And um, is Pink Taco a restaurant or....something....uh....else?

 

[UnoMOTO]

Cracking photos Brian, both of Vegas and the earlier ones.

Stanks 👍

I see that I am not the only person who breaks the no electronic items during take off and landing on a plane rule.

I have 30 or so of us in flight of many things along the way. I hate getting stuck be hind those engines and the jet wash messin up mah pictures. I do it though on almost every flight I take and have never been asked to put the camera away.

And um, is Pink Taco a restaurant or....something....uh....else?

Yeah...you can defiantly eat there.

 

[ceiling_fan]

Great pictures, especially the ones with repetition (circles and umbrellas for example)

Hopefully the pink taco restaurant passed all the sanitation requirements.

And this thread mauled my awesome laptop w/ 192MB RAM.

 

[Casio]

Either you got a killer net connection or you got way to much uploading time on your hands.

Vegas seems the place to be, I'll have to hit it up some time.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Sorry about that guys...I'll do some compressing next time to help the size out.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Soooo....every summer, a little group in Boulder Colorado like to saddle up for a good cause. This is a regular even for my girlfriend but for me this is a virgin year.

Big wheels baby!!!....and look at my duct tape paint job I come up with.

My turn....this is oh sooo much fun...but this turns to.....

THIS....which turns to....

THIS....RUT ROH!!!

I've been catching some natural fireworks....

and some man made ones too

How about some man made thunder...

Not enough to keep my son awake

My crew rolled up on some indoor sky diving

and some flowers just because they make me feel pretty

Thanks for the travels...life is fun

 

[bergauk]

Whats the name of that event with the tricycles? It looks very similar to something we have over here called Bike Party, and Critical Mass. Except they're with bikes. Looks to be in the same sort of spirit though. Website for it?

 

[UnoMOTO]

http://bigwheelrally.com/

And wouldn't you know it....

 

[bergauk]

Thats pretty cool. I like the idea of making it for a charity.

Heres the event I attended on last friday.

www.sjbikeparty.org

And they have a flickr pool which captures the even fairly well.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/san_jose_bike_party/pool/

I can't be sure that every image in the pool is safe for work but just glancing through the first couple pages it appears to be fine.

 

[UnoMOTO]

It's crazy to think about all the little fun things that go on in this world that we never know happens.

 

[UnoMOTO]

What does a guy with a truck do when the Truck Fest comes to town?

He takes his baby to the track to see what she's got of course!


Long lines of trucks at 7:30 am already. 623 trucks was the total from what I hear

Picking out a good pit spot for the mighty Ram was very important.

Just Chillin before I get to put in some time trials

This truck runs low 10's at about 130mph. Hot damn thats fast!

A sampling of anything and eveything that ran during the day.

If you have ever wondered why I bought a yellow truck then this picture says it all.

This is me lined up for my second time trial. I ran a 17.822 at 79.43 mph on the first.

"Imma givin her all shes got captn"

hummm...not bad. I ran about a tenth faster then the first go round.

Now its time for the real deal...ELIMINATIONS!!! The temp was cooling off and there was a slight tail wind so I pick 17.50 as my dial in. I was hoping to run a 17.6xxx and I added some slight breathing room.

I'm lined up next to a suv with a supercharged 427 and has a dial in of 12.90! Holy five second head start.

I feel like I hit a good light which turned out to be a .258 for those keeping track at home. It's hooking up nicely but I see him gaining on me fast.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! This guy runs a 12.91 on a 12.90! And to make things worse he cuts a light of .013, nearly purfect! I'd been watching hillbilly rednecks break out and run 2 seconds slower then there dial in time and my first round has to be against MR PURFECT?! I really thought I had a chance to do well because I only had 2 tenths between my fastest and slowest run of the day. Oh well, It was a great day and loads of fun to be out on the track.

 

[Omnis]

Woah.

 

[McLaren]

Sucks to hear they gave you an uneven opponent, bro. Those SRT8 Jeeps are flippin' QTR mile monsters & unsurprisingly, it sounds to me that you were put against someone whose had a lot of track time with his.

But, it's a fun experience, never the less. 👍

 

[bergauk]

How often is Truckfest? Sounds like a good way to get my brothers ass in gear on his van. Looks like you had fun too. Your Ram is bone stock right?

 

[FoolKiller]

That's a hard loss. At least you looked good doing it though.

Judging from your pics I would say you were just there for fun, and if you had fun then you achieved your goal.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Sucks to hear they gave you an uneven opponent, bro. Those SRT8 Jeeps are flippin' QTR mile monsters & unsurprisingly, it sounds to me that you were put against someone whose had a lot of track time with his.

But, it's a fun experience, never the less. 👍

Yeah...that thing was a beast as it roared by me. There isn't anything to matching people up other then the order you line up in the staging area. Its that simple, they don't look at times or anything.

How often is Truckfest? Sounds like a good way to get my brothers ass in gear on his van. Looks like you had fun too. Your Ram is bone stock right?

Once a year here in Denver but it would seem like other tracks might have something similar. There was a van or two out there having fun.

Yep...bone stock for now but after yesterday.....

That's a hard loss. At least you looked good doing it though.

Judging from your pics I would say you were just there for fun, and if you had fun then you achieved your goal.

Yeah...My bastard opponent was all suited up in racing attire and a helmet. I on the other had was cutting .258 lights in flip-flops. BOOYAH!


Oh yeah...you could run a car if it had a diesel engine. This is all that youtube has to offer from yesterday.

 

[Omnis]

LMAO @ 56mph trap.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Highway on ramps must be a very stressful situation for him.

 

[homeforsummer]

In this photo:

Is that just dirt on the arches or are they as battered as they look?

Cool pics though, I've not spotted this thread before today and you've been to some great places. Loved the Vegas photos, makes me want to go back there.