Re: Oct 2009 Groom Lake photographs

In article <3e938dc0-e430-463a-8073-
fe9e885700eb@b25g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, miso@sushi.com says...

On Oct 14, 11:53�pm, Desert Shadow <rch49...@cox.net> wrote:

On Oct 14, 11:41�pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:

On Oct 14, 11:30�pm, Desert Shadow <rch49...@cox.net> wrote:

On Oct 14, 11:07�pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:

<http://www.lazygranch.com/images/a51pan/oct2009/newhanger.jpg>
<http://www.lazygranch.com/images/a51pan/oct2009/tower.jpg>

Viewing conditions were crap, so I'm not going to bother making a
panorama. Not only was the haze thick, but the wind was brutal.

Absolutely great photos again. �Thanks for sharing. �Your photos are
always the great. �I wish I had the equipment, but I bet mine still
wouldn't turn out so good. �Would you allow these photos to be used on
other sites, blogs or forums, with the proper link to your site. �Damn
good photos. �Thanks for sharing again!

I will eventually put links to the photos on my panorama page. These
photos are mostly a product of significant image processing rather
than good photography, at least for this session. The blue channel is
killed, red and green are combined, then converted to grayscale. The
blue channel has the most haze. The image was run though wavelet
enhancement using an old version of PixInsight. Contrast was cranked
up by a combination of moving the sliders in the histogram and some
nonlinear tweaking by bending the curve.


What about using them on other blogs or forums, to get some more
discussion going?


Clearly I don't want my photographs uploaded to other sites. Placing a
link is acceptable, but not embedding the photograph. Of course,
placing a link to my photos could get you kicked off of a certain
forum. ;-)

You have to understand that quite a bit of physical effort goes into
Tikaboo shots. Money is money, but pain and suffering is something
else, not to mention surviving on Cliff bars and jerky when your body
is screaming for a good steak. Thus I don't like my photographs to be
pirated. The interesting thing about photography is when you take the
photograph, it is essentially already copyrighted. There is nothing to
file.

I recently came across a new site that pirated one of my photos. Quite
by accident, when I first photographed the warning signs, I did so at
wide aperture. Thus you get the warning signs being sharp, and the
background blurry. A good technique for photographing a supermodel,
but kind of dumb for just photographing the signs. However, the shot
is unique enough that I can easily spot when the shot is stolen.

<http://www.lazygranch.com/images/fg/fgsg1a.jpg>
is the shot that gets pirated all the time. As you know, the shot
isn't even current since the signs have changed. But the people that
pirate this stuff don't know that. ;-)


I have been out of town so I am a little late to the table but I would 
like to add my thanks for sharing the images and let you know at least 
one more person appreciates them.

As far as unauthorized use of your images, you might try using 
www.tineye.com to do a search for where your pictures might be used.  I 
tried it with your fgsg1a.jpg image and it indicated it was on 10 
different web sites.  If you are not familiar with TinEye their FAQ 
makes interesting reading.

I also have a question.  Have you ever thought of taking pictures from 
your various locations with IR or near IR?  I wonder if it might reveal 
different information - perhaps even a record of a past event where the 
heat lingers.  I am not up on all the technical aspects so there might 
be reasons why it is not practical, but it is food for thought.

Thanks again for your work.