First Landscape [C&C]

PopeBuckfastXVI

Horizons slightly off, went with a B&W conversion cause there was a weird reddish colour cast over the whole image sooc...


** just a bit of fun **

frozenfrozen

you chose a pretty boring scene, why didn't you get out and actually photograph something interesting? :pac:

amdgilmore

Focus is very soft.

Terrible composition.

Boring locale. Why not hop on a bus and find something interesting to photograph?

No points of interest. What am I supposed to be looking at here?

Lack of cropping and straightening are symptomatic of the lack of effort that went into getting this photo.

1/10.

And I'm only giving you that one point because it's not a HDR.

Splinters

Yeah its ok, nothing special though. Just hope you didnt have to travel too far to take it.

pullandbang

Not bad for a first attempt. Reckon though you could have sat down and waited for the light to change, and have a Mars bar while you're waiting.......

trooney

With use of the timer you might have gotten a snazzy self portrait. Had you thought of it.

artyeva

those shadows are really distracting. next time you're back there maybe get out of the car and have a wander around a bit.

AnCatDubh

Instagram it god damn it. That red you speak of probably comes from the film you used being expired. Use non expired film :pac:

kensutz

Any swans or rainbows?

keps

whah bleedin' planeh are you from popey?

Professey Chin

Anybody else think the right of the shadow looks like some kinda mutant praying mantis?
......anyone?

jonniebgood1

You need to invest more in your camera.
Cant get a proper shot with those disposable's.

Rainbowsend

All joking aside, I think it is disgusting the amount of wasted money
that is spent on this, how can it be justified? Billions of dollars for what
exactly?

DaireQuinlan

Rainbowsend wrote: »

All joking aside, I think it is disgusting the amount of wasted money that is spent on this, how can it be justified? Billions of dollars for what exactly?

They landed a semi-autonomous robotic probe on a different planet using an astonishing rube-goldberg like landing sequence. They will now proceed to fulfil the scientific aims of the mission. You can read more about it here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

Does that answer your question ? Or is it more one of those asinine "WHAT ABOUT THE STARVING CHILDREN ?!?!?!?" questions ?

zero19

Rainbowsend wrote: »

All joking aside, I think it is disgusting the amount of wasted money
that is spent on this, how can it be justified? Billions of dollars for what
exactly?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=80119479&postcount=7078

sunny2004

Ignore the negative comments, I think its out of this world

AnCatDubh

sunny2004 wrote: »

Ignore the negative comments, I think its out of this world

negative? I thought it was developed. :pac: I shudda gone to specsavers methinks.

keps

I suppose we have to acknowledge that by landing Curiosity on Mars - the Americans have really raised the bar:P

Cabaal

Rainbowsend wrote: »

All joking aside, I think it is disgusting the amount of wasted money
that is spent on this, how can it be justified? Billions of dollars for what
exactly?

I know,
I mean its awful and they only sent one...had they used the Olympic budget they could have sent five of them to mars and then at least we could have raced them across the surface of the planet.

Come on.......think of the viewing figures!

Cabaal

keps wrote: »

I suppose we have to acknowledge that by landing Curiosity on Mars - the Americans have really raised the bar:P

Its all about one up-man-ship

keps

Cabaal wrote: »

Its all about one up-man-ship

You mean one-up-man-spaceship

:pac::pac:

Rainbowsend

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

They landed a semi-autonomous robotic probe on a different planet using an astonishing rube-goldberg like landing sequence. They will now proceed to fulfil the scientific aims of the mission. You can read more about it here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

Does that answer your question ? Or is it more one of those asinine "WHAT ABOUT THE STARVING CHILDREN ?!?!?!?" questions ?

No it doesnt..........money could be better spent on the planet we all live on,
just who does it benefit?

DaireQuinlan

Rainbowsend wrote: »

No it doesnt..........money could be better spent on the planet we all live on,

so it IS an asinine WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN comment. As regards the money being spent on the planet we all live on, what do you think happened ? Curiosity landed on mars with several large briefcases of neatly stacked dollar bills ? Where do you THINK the money was spent ?

gerk86

Careful now...

Back to the pic, just out of curiosity what were your settings..?

OldGoat

I understand Howard Wolowitz is claiming ownership the photograph and reprinting it here is a breach of copyright. :eek:

Rainbowsend

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

so it IS an asinine WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN comment. As regards the money being spent on the planet we all live on, what do you think happened ? Curiosity landed on mars with several large briefcases of neatly stacked dollar bills ? Where do you THINK the money was spent ?

Muscular Dystrophy, Cancer, Arthritis, Parkinsons, to name but a few that would benefit from a money injection, and if you think it is "asinine" to think of children in need, well shame on you!

DaireQuinlan

Rainbowsend wrote: »

Muscular Dystrophy, Cancer, Arthritis, Parkinsons, to name but a few that would benefit from a money injection, and if you think it is "asinine" to think of children in need, well shame on you!

You know what will eventually cure or ameliorate all of the above ? Science. You know who benefits in a myriad of ways both directly and indirectly from putting probes onto another planet ? The scientific community. Your notion that 1. there's no connection between the two in terms of reward and 2. that somehow if that money weren't spent on astronomical research it would somehow magically be used to build a cancer research institute is what's asinine, not to mention breath-takingly ignorant.

Here's a comparison as valid as the one you're touting above. Why don't you sell all your camera equipment and donate the cash toward children in need. What ? You don't want to ? well Shame on you !

Gregor Samsa

Rainbowsend wrote: »

No it doesnt..........money could be better spent on the planet we all live on, just who does it benefit?

Mars may well be the planet we* live on some day.

As Brion Gysin said of the purpose of life; we're here to go. The entirety of human history - and in a sense, that of pretty much every other life form on earth - has been about movement, migration, exploration and expansion. Space exploration is some of the best use of money I can think of. The more we know about the universe, the better we can make our own small corner of it. It will benefit us all and generations upon generations to come.

*not you and me, but our decedents.

AnCatDubh

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

** just a bit of fun **

Rainbowsend

Daire, you dont know me or what I do for charity and you may find
me ignorant and asinine, fair enough. I will leave this conversation
now.

amdgilmore

Rainbowsend wrote: »

Daire, you dont know me or what I do for charity and you may find
me ignorant and asinine, fair enough. I will leave this conversation
now.

Just before you go - and I mean this in the friendliest way possible - I don't think you understand the extent to which the world has been shaped by these NASA projects. In the process of building these missions they patent somewhere in the region of 1000 inventions per year. Everything from medical technology to food production to computers to green energy to water filtration has been shaped by NASA.

They invented the digital imaging technology upon which MRI machines are based (while researching the moon mission, btw). They invented the tech that allows doctors to send cameras into arteries to check for arteriosclerosis. Their technology to monitor astronauts' health was the precursor to the insulin pump. It was a hearing-impaired NASA engineer who invented the cochlear implant... and there are dozens - if not hundreds - more examples like this.

It's not an exaggeration to say that millions of lives have been saved or improved drastically as a result of NASA technology.

I think we tend to think of the world in terms of direct transactions (pay money -> receive goods or services) but it's better to think of these projects as more of a long-term investment. Some obscure NASA invention might save your life some day