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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 27, 2024 16:36:48 GMT
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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 27, 2024 17:59:32 GMT
I have no idea what that means. Ah, the KISS principle. Keep It Simple Silly. I have one of those lamps and they are amazing. I think Helen, just wanted to keep it simple. Just BTW, the cactus flower photos I posted last night in Show Your Work were super simple, just using ambient light and watching backgrounds. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 27, 2024 18:04:37 GMT
Tried to get the dredger on the water tonight. It is a night photo so the effect works. If the dredger is moving that affects the technique. At the distance, you could likely go down to perhaps ½ second but the camera should be on a tripod. You could try various shutter speeds. The onshore spotlight (?) is somewhat distracting but can easily be toned down or removed. |
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Post by hmca on Feb 28, 2024 0:20:13 GMT
Had the opportunity to try that water tower again today. Tried a few different edits but right now I think I like B/W best. 
When I first posted this picture, BuckSkin asked me about the history of it. It was called the Aeromarine-Klemm Aircraft Company. Starting at 7:43 min. this youtube video tells about the history of the company and gives interior views of the work that was done here in the production of both sea planes and regular planes as well. Not the best night, as it's rainy, but did try a dredger shot again.....definitely better than last night's attempt.  |
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Post by jackscrap on Feb 28, 2024 7:31:18 GMT
I love those derelict buildings and overgrown shrubs in the foreground .
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Post by pontiac1940 on Mar 1, 2024 5:39:35 GMT
Ring-necked pheasant in the river valley. The snowless ground will soon be white again. All good.   |
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 1, 2024 6:10:34 GMT
Ring-necked pheasant in the river valley.
We were in about the seventh grade and myself and two friends pooled our meager resources and signed up for those taxidermy lessons as advertised in the back of comic books; you know the ads, right there between the X-Ray glasses that allowed you to see through women's clothes and the sea-horse farms where you mail in your 75-cents and receive a family of live sea-horses, complete with a little plastic castle home.
Our plan was to make ourselves millionaires by stuffing and mounting all those Lake Cumberland trophy fish.
For about the third lesson we received a little envelope of eyes that look exactly like the eye on that bird, plus an assortment of various needles and a small spool of thread.
Not many days ago, I was in a drawer, hunting something that I never did find, and I came across that little envelope of eyes; you never know, I may need them for something someday.
You know, it ain't nearly so easy to skin and stuff a fish as one would think, nor a deer's head either.
A much better and more viable solution is to scout flea markets and yard sales and dumpsters and latch onto every mounted fish and stuffed deer's head that you find; with a large enough assortment at hand, you are sure to have one that you can pass off as the prized trophy a customer has left and you said you would have it fixed up in a couple weeks.
Match that dude up with one from your collection, clean it up and put a coat of lacquer on the plaque and nobody will ever be the wiser. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Mar 1, 2024 6:50:56 GMT
That's hilarious and you're not alone. At about age 14 my older brother had the same idea. Circa, 1960. Comic book taxidermy and he tried a pheasant head and quit.
In 1981 or 82, I took taxidermy classes and they were great. I did some good things and three mounts are still in the garage.Never tried a fish.
You are right, the glass pheasant eyes look just like the real thing. Gee I stuffed a few pheasants .. they came out nice.
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Post by jackscrap on Mar 1, 2024 21:34:50 GMT
Snobs Falls Eildon  |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Mar 1, 2024 22:50:35 GMT
Lovely falls. Interesting name. |
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Post by Jim on Mar 2, 2024 0:12:23 GMT
brings back memories of my days as a professional taxidermist. We were in about the seventh grade and myself and two friends pooled our meager resources and signed up for those taxidermy lessons as advertised in the back of comic books; y I remember those ads well, buckskin. When I was about 13-15 yrs. old, my best friend and I sent away for those lessons. We stuffed/mounted a pigeon and a turtle (neither one came out very good). But then I caught a 3 1/2 lb. Large Mouth Bass early one morning with a "hula hopper" lure at my Dad's cottage on a small lake which was a huge thrill for me at the time and the largest fish I'd ever caught in my life. Later my buddy and I prepared and mounted it and hung it on our cottage wall. I don't know what happened to it after I moved away from home but at least I still have a B & W photo of that pre-mounted fish.   |
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 2, 2024 6:51:10 GMT
at least I still have a B & W photo of that pre-mounted fish
In 1968, my grand-father caught the Kentucky state record Rainbow Trout below and within sight of Wolf Creek Dam.
He always used a Zebco 202 and fished from the bank using treble hooks and Kraft Garlic Cheese as bait with a rubber-core sinker and big red-and-white floater; I would be very surprised if he were using anything different when he caught that fish.
I know all the purists and elitists will preach that no respectable trout is going to take a non-live or looks-alive bait and will ignore something hanging still and lifeless underneath a big red and white bobber, such as my grandfather's Garlic Cheese; however, like anyone else, a trout ain't going to get huge by being such a picky eater.
That record fish is a long way from being the only trout he ever caught on his Kraft Garlic Cheese.
In that day and time, any hunting or fishing license holder received at no extra charge a monthly magazine, The Happy Hunting Ground.
His photo holding that big trout was on the front cover of that magazine and there was a lengthy article inside.
My grandfather was a short guy, barely five feet, and he made that fish look much bigger than it really was.
Four years later, 1972, 19-yr-old tire salesman Jim Mattingly of Somerset topped grandpa's record by a fraction of an ounce and holds the record to this day.
Currently and historically, all state record trout of all breeds have been caught in the ice-cold tailwaters immediately below and in the shadow of Wolf Creek Dam.
I have searched and searched for a copy of the magazine or the front page photo of my grandfather.
For years and years, we managed to keep our copy of the magazine and then my father married the second wickedest woman alive; and, one day when home alone, having one of her jealous fits of rage, she burned every photo and keepsake we had stored in a big old flap-top desk, including that magazine. |
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Post by Jim on Mar 2, 2024 8:26:17 GMT
the second wickedest woman alive; and, one day when home alone, having one of her jealous fits of rage, she burned every photo and keepsake we had stored in a big old flap-top desk, including that magazine. How sad!  |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Mar 2, 2024 18:57:35 GMT
I caught a 3 1/2 lb. Large Mouth Bass early one morning with a "hula hopper" lure at my Dad's cottage on a small lake Lovely bass Jim. That record fish is a long way from being the only trout he ever caught on his Kraft Garlic Cheese. Great story. Unfortunate about the photos. |
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Post by jackscrap on Mar 2, 2024 21:43:04 GMT
Some wildlife Sulphur crested cockatoo Praying mantis   |
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