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But..... Will It Blend???

Just thinking of the most ridiculous person to play Higgins - just like Matthew "Never Wears A Shirt" McConaughey for Magnum! Or, instead of Chan, how about William Shatner?

+1 on the 1911 Of course, I think my favorite is still the SOSF

Oh dear.....so who's going to play Higgin's? Jackie Chan?

Nice! Any other pics??

Wow! That bracelet finish is superb!!! That is such a beautiful piece Freddy. I am very, very jealous!! That is by far my ultimate Holy Grail watch!

So we've had an A-Team movie, Hawaii 5 - 0 is coming back to TV. My question is: when are we going to see a Magnum P.I. Movie? Mr. Selleck was really good in the movie "The Killers"

If you don't fill it up with Watches, you can always fill it up with watch makers tools

Agreed chrgod - I miss my Santos greatly. I think I will probably pick up another one, and this one definitely seems like a good candidate

Wow! It looks pretty good actually! I'd like to see it in some real pictures though!

That is truly a work of art Freddy! Very impressive!!!

One of the many reasons I upgraded to the D90

My best friend went to Vegas for his honeymoon. They had a great time, but they did bring something back with them. She got pregnant!

From Wikipedia: There are several types, but the most common are Exposure Bracketing and White Balance Bracketing. There is also Focus Bracketing & Flash Bracketing. Check it out. Not sure if you have the exact same manual as me, but check the index in the back about Bracketing.

As far as I know, there are no rules stating that the Bachelor party can't be a month long

Ok so this particular effect seems to work best on nicely lit, outdoor shots. Of course, as DB2 pointed out, if I actually shot with bracketing on, this would probably be better still. Anyways, here's a nice shot of the downtown core. Original: HDR Version:

Thanks Ubi! Here's another one. A little more exaggerated now, so some of the noise has been increased. Of course, I could always remove some of the noise using some filters, but for the sake of speed, this is just playing around Original: HDR Version:

Yeah, I didn't think of that until afterwards, but I figured this was a good starting point to see how it works

Here's another quick example. This was taken at night and it is the interior atrium of the Hyatt Regency. Original: HDR Version:

Hi guys, Went to San Francisco this past weekend and I thought I would try my hand on some HDR editing. HDR, or High Dynamic Range photography is a post processing effect which takes multiple images and stacks and combines them using the highest contrast elements from each photograph. You can either bracket shots in a sequence, align them and then process them. In my case, I just shot everything RAW and then using Capture NX2 I made three different exposures to make an HDR image. I took the original image, and then made one copy that was set to -2 EV and then another copy that was set to +2 EV. I then loaded the three images into Photomatix Pro and with a little tone mapping, created a very, very quick HDR image. For those of you interested in finding out more about this process, Trey Ratcliff from Stuck in Customs has an excellent tutorial which you can find here. Here is the original RAW photograph that I took of the Port of San Francisco. Nothing special really. It was shot from the 12th floor of the Hyatt Regency thru a tinted window. The only editing I did to this photo was convert it to a JPG and make it smaller for the purpose of posting here. Here is the exact same image after processing it with Photomatix Pro: Please note, I literally spent 5 minutes doing this. This was my first experiment in this area, but I am pleased with the outcome so far. I am sure if I followed Trey's tutorial using Photoshop masking and layering, I could make this even more impressive Thoughts, comments??

Congrats Gran! So the Bachelor party is on July 31st???

Wow Freddy! Just wow!!! I love the white dial (as you may have guess from my posting a while back!!!) Nice find there for sure! Looking forward to the finished product!

Very very nice! I really like it a lot. It's very different from the typical Omega's and that's what sets it apart from the others. Definitely a keeper! And, if not a keeper, then I know someone who will gladly take it off your hands

That dial is stunning Freddy! No complaints here at all. I think that will finish off your phase II project very, very nicely!

R! I would definitely stick with the Macbook Pro 15". However, I would think she will be fine with the base model. You can always upgrade the RAM and stuff later. The base model i5 is fast! I think she will do just fine with that one