Heres the house that got hit by a car.
First Picture is the view from the road, he bounced off two trees, jumped the front two steps, and the front masonary wall.
HO liked the load bearing wall being gone so much that they wanted the beams installed to do the job instead.
You don't have to sacrifice historical elements of a house in the name of energy efficiency.
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It looks like I already have my beer goggles on!
I guess I have to put down the mug and step away from the keg already today.....
You aren't kiddding. I didn't realize they were that blurry.
My hands shake nonstop so taking pics is tough. Sorry
All Right!!!!!!!!! So it isnt me..........
now....where did i put that mug.....
Definitely not you man, I could take a 100 pictures and maybe 4 would turn out good.
I have to out my arm and camera against a wall to steady it for pictures.
Have fun with the keg.
I think there are cameras out now that digitally stabilize the shot for you.One stepson has that hand problem - some affliction with a big name I can't remember
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I'll have to check and see if my camera has this. I really could use it.
I haven't got a clue why my hands do it either.
Embarrassing it is when you can't hold your hand steady shaking a customers hand.
The affliction is known as notripodis ;-)
"notripodis"
I thought he was the guy who had all the visions of the future???!!!
I tried finding that on google and no luck is there another name?
Google might not be the right spot to look either.
I learned in the Navy that to hold binocs still you hold as per normal but brace the index fingers up on yer fore head. Much better visoun without the coffee shakes blur. You may want to try an approach like that with yer camera.
Also, my Sony is horrible for a delay from button press to shutter operation, I got a new Kodak last winter and it is FAST. A whole lot less blur.
And, I see folks all the time holding the damm camera at arms length ( since the advent of digi screenz) and guess what? That is the most common cause of movement. Triangulate the camera with yer eye, yer hands and it, brace against the forehead, use the real viewfinder, and viola...yer a whole lot better.
Nice work BTW.
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Thanks for the tips Sphere, I'll give the finger on the forehead a try.
I just got a new casio camera with a digital screen and haven't gotten used to it.
I've got a Fuji camera with image stabilization ("anti shake" feature). In the past 6 months since I've had it I've taken more good (non-blurry) pictures than I've been able to manage in the rest of my life, in spite of my tremor getting worse. Only have trouble in really dim light, or when I accidentally have the feature turned off.Even pulled off some pretty amazing telephoto shots, without anything bracing the camera.I think most cameras above about $400 now come with this feature.
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(Another feature that Fuji camera has is a pseudo-SLR viewfinder, so that I can hold the camera to my eye in the conventional fashion when taking the picture. A lot easier to hold it steady that way than when looking at the screen on the back.)
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Some one finally got me. I am the one who jokes around all the time. It's about time. :)
Roar! That was pretty good.
And ya fooled the fooler with it!
be scoring extra points
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Edited 8/16/2006 8:42 pm ET by rez
Got me too..LOL
Mommy van is headed at ya...
Uh..can I have all yer tools ...cuz you be not tha same after this trip.
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I gotta pack yet.
Maybe I should take them with me, aye?
oops. this is not a hijack.
We can imagine something that only exists in our heads, in a form that has no measureable, tangible reality, and make it actually occur in the real world. Where there was nothing, now there is something.Forrest - makin' magic every day
Edited 8/16/2006 8:48 pm ET by rez
Hey this isn't JLC hijack away man, I am guilty of this more than anyone. The pics are terrible and there isn't much to talk about.
Just kind of an odd job with how much stuff this car hit and still made almost all the way through the house.
He be flying.
What else ya got cooking in there? Wrap the post(s)?
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Those posts are the final ones, you might be able to see the post base and caps already on them. Ready for the HO choice in paint.
That house had sagged 3-1/2" over the 30' span by the time I had gotten there. Had to get out the railroad jacks, got it dead on.
And not one plaster crack in the second story, yet.
Ok, I re-looked. My baddage.
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"Enjoyning the finite of matter, in an infinite realm of possibilities...
Not your fault, pics suck. Hard to see much detail.
They columns are fiber cement tapered columns, inside are 4x4 posts.
The leader in cameras that can handle the shakes is Cannon, and the technology is called Image Stabilization. Their cameras with that feature include IS somewhere in the name. Here's one of them:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0602/06022110canonsd700is.asp
Gunner has the tinfoil, Grant has the moonshine and copper...Mark has the Bactine...they got sumpthin up thier collective sleeves.
Be packing either ether or Iodine or both..
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Anyone else having trouble with the forum?
All the threads I have read still keep popping up, instead of new ones.
ya, same here.
And I gotta ride in that van?
This is getting serious.
be I, presently being of a clear and unclouded mind, do declare all my tools and various pieces of humdrum existence to Sphere, in the event of my departure by unfortunate design.
We can imagine something that only exists in our heads, in a form that has no measureable, tangible reality, and make it actually occur in the real world. Where there was nothing, now there is something.Forrest - makin' magic every day
LOL..Honestly and truely...yer in good hands with Gman driving...heeheheheh that means Gunner is the main groper, you gropee you...pack mace, the redpepper spray just makes him giddy.
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"Enjoyning the finite of matter, in an infinite realm of possibilities...
Same here..see my post in the tavern...
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"Enjoyning the finite of matter, in an infinite realm of possibilities...
Digital cameras have much longer exposure times than film(at least the cheap digitals) and are much more prone to blur. Especially in low light. If it is somewhat dim and you are taking pictures of nearby objects, then forcing the flash forces a fast exposure time and reduces blur.
splat
I was thinking yo were taking the pics from inside the car as it was doing its thing <G>