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Darth-Apple's photography thread - Darth-Apple - June 9th, 2013
I'm not exactly the world's greatest photographer, and being limited to a 2MP phone camera doesn't help, but it's still something I've really enjoyed. Picasa has also been of great help in repairing the colors that my camera messes up.
![[Image: image11112012134907.jpg]](http://imageshack.us/a/img209/5442/image11112012134907.jpg)
A small tourist town in Tennessee. It's actually at the top of a skylift on a mountain, so the view is quite nice.
![[Image: image11112012173730.jpg]](http://imageshack.us/a/img28/362/image11112012173730.jpg)
From the same town.
![[Image: image08142012104814.jpg]](http://imageshack.us/a/img545/9115/image08142012104814.jpg)
This one is on the shore of a north carolina sound.
![[Image: image08122012192454.jpg]](http://imageshack.us/a/img842/1816/image08122012192454.jpg)
Once again Picasa is used to recover some of the color the camera couldn't capture.
![[Image: image08122012185033.jpg]](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/image08122012185033.jpg/)
![[Image: image08122012182253.jpg]](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/844/image08122012182253.jpg/)
![[Image: sunsetedit2.jpg]](http://imageshack.us/a/img442/950/sunsetedit2.jpg)
This is one of the few pictures I've edited for the intense effect. I think it looks pretty nice, but is quite unrealistic for sure.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Acko - June 9th, 2013
Nice pics! But the last one I think is a bit overedited. (1100[sup]th[/sup] post!)
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Darth-Apple - June 9th, 2013
If you had seen the original picture before it was edited, you'd have been blown away. It looks more like a pit of lava now. Just goes to show the power of even simple photo editing utilities.
Also, congrats on catching the 1100th post!
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Acko - June 10th, 2013
By the way, do you happen to know the name of the town in Tennessee?
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Darth-Apple - June 10th, 2013
I actually forgot what it's name was. It was taken a while back, but I'll see if I can find it somewhere. It was a pretty small tourist town.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - simlink - June 10th, 2013
Love that town, especially those apartments nestled next to the hill. Nice place!
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Darth-Apple - June 10th, 2013
I actually think it would be a nice place to live if it wasn't for all of the tourism. It was a nice place.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - simlink - June 10th, 2013
We have a fair stream of tourists end up where I am. partly tourist country, partly on the way to other different "tourist conutries" - so we get tourists and people looking for directions. Summer is a busy time.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Darth-Apple - June 10th, 2013
I actually don't mind mild to moderate tourism, but if it's too heavy, it takes a lot away from the beauty of a place as a place to live. Where I live doesn't have much tourist traffic, thankfully.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - simlink - June 10th, 2013
Summer traffic tends to ruin it. If the highway backs up people use the local roads, so we as locals get stuck. And many people who do this are just "passing through" and don't actually spend money, which is unfortunate. We do have tourists, obviously. Otherwise there'd be no B&B's, hotels, etc.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Acko - June 10th, 2013
Where I lived in TN, we had 5000 people but the Main Street was constantly backed up every day during the summer D:
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Darth-Apple - June 10th, 2013
Traffic is the worst part. Especially on the interstates... I really hate merging into really busy highways when the merge lanes are so freaking short. It's a part of life I suppose.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Gmdykfuiygh66476 - June 10th, 2013
Short merge lanes is bad, but short exit ramps are bad too. And rural merge lanes.. those are... eh
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - simlink - June 10th, 2013
Mhm, that it is. Especially one of our exits in town... some drunk person designed it. You have to cross oncoming traffic to get on the highway, it's an awkward angle, and if there's traffic the service road backs up. But anyways, nice pics. The last one may be a bit too saturated, but it still looks nice.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Darth-Apple - June 10th, 2013
I don't mind merging if there isn't a whole lot of traffic, but merging into high traffic highways is a pain. It's one of those things I have to do quite frequently, and I hate it.
And then of course there are the merge lanes that are really really short. Those aren't fun either.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Darth-Apple - July 9th, 2013
I just got a legit camera, and I'll also be headed to NYC pretty soon. Looking forward to being able to take better pictures.
Re: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Acko - July 10th, 2013
Can't wait to see
. (I've never even been to NY myself... closest I've gotten is Philadelphia
RE: Darth-Apple's photography thread - Darth-Apple - July 22nd, 2013
Fictional countries? Sounds interesting. Nice sign