Lostine Photography

gone Flickring

2009-07-25T16:39:00.000-07:00

So I used to have a Flickr account. But then I deleted it, because I wasn't happy that people could only see 1024x768 max resolution. Okay, I relent. And now that I found out that the originals are still stored on the server when you have Flickr free and can be accessed if you upgrade to Flickr Pro. Okey dokey. And I reasoned that I like the photostream idea better. I don't have to group pictures into blog posts this way. So, yeah, consider this abandoned until I post again. You can check out my Flickr if you want.

2009-07-06T15:46:00.001-07:00

This is a barn in Lostine. I don't know whose it is or anything else about it... it just turned out to be fairly photogenic.

This second picture looks somewhat like something I'd see in a local gallery or something. Of course, you'd need to up the image quality to SLR range and maybe make the composition a bit more dynamic. Anyway, just my thoughts.

Oh, by the way, these are from around mid-June.

2009-07-05T18:20:00.000-07:00

This is the local Presbyterian church. I have had my PowerShot set on Vivid colors for a while now, but I don't think it's working out. It's more likely to give me colors that are just... gaudy. I wanted to get some pop and make my photos look more real. But like I just said, it's not working out. So, I'm switching to using no color control or Neutral. The above photos were taken with Vivid on, I believe, but I used Picasa to desaturate them somewhat, giving them a sort of faded look, much more appealing to me. Also, maybe I was just trying to fool myself into the effect, but with more subtle coloring, it seems easier to focus on the crossing shapes in the second photo.

Attack of the Miscellaneous Images

2009-06-25T11:45:00.000-07:00

This is pretty much a purge of my to blog album in Picasa. Which is a good thing, because I'm going to be posting the very best shots (IMHO) from our vacation (mostly in Utah). So, here is what was sitting around waiting to be posted.

This one is from family vacation in Idaho last year. It's right by the pool at Three Rivers Motel, if you can't tell.

This is one of our mugs sitting on our dining room table. It's a mug my dad won at an Inland Northwest Musicians concert, for the curious of you.

And this is another mug sitting on our dining room table. If I remember right, this is a cup of tea I had during a weekend home alone. I think I had the most tea that weekend I had had in a long time. I did the color isolation effect with the GIMP (our table isn't gray). What do you think?

Flowers (probably weeds) in our yard.

The White Tree

2009-05-23T16:03:00.001-07:00

One of our apple trees out front is really quite white with blossoms at the moment. I thought this would look good in black and white, and it turned out well, so here it is.

Edited with Picasa.

first (somewhat) successful HDR

2009-05-22T10:14:00.000-07:00

So it looks a little... unnatural, but I wanted to get a shot with a higher dynamic range because part of the photo was washed out from the sun. I took two shots, hand held, and then ran them through Qtpfsgui.

May 6 2009

2009-05-13T16:23:00.000-07:00

Cool light that day. And those (top) trees - I've noticed them for a while, but this is probably my best capture of what they look like to me.
First two edited with the GIMP: sharpness, contrast, brightness, I believe.

tools on... a wall

2009-05-07T21:11:00.000-07:00

This is from 2007 -- it's the side of a building that is part of our town antique shop (open only in summer).

Note: 1600x1200 was the original size of the photo, so of course I didn't resize it, because, well, it was already there. So, enjoy with knowledge. And be sure to point out any problems.

a fading birthday bouquet

2009-04-24T12:41:00.000-07:00

Dad bought these for Mom on her birthday (the ninth). They're still alive, it seems. These are from yesterday afternoon; I noticed the late afternoon light on them. Color balance, brightness, and contrast tweaked with the GIMP.

March Fourth Mushrooms

2009-04-19T15:01:00.000-07:00

Happened to spot these on the neighbor's side of this tree.

posting again

2009-04-19T14:56:00.000-07:00

I have been rather discouraged to post here for two reasons: (1) I haven't been all that happy about my photography, and (2) I like to upload full size to my blog so people can use them, but the upload speed of a dial-up internet connection is painfully slow.

However, I decided I'm not going to let that get in my way so much. I'm going to start uploading photos resized to 1600x1200 pixels (or widescreen variants). This will let me get it out more easily and often, so you can critique it. Yay! I'm going to put these photos under the tag 1600x1200 for reference.

And, if you so please, you may keep up through my blog feed, or email and the like.

Oh yeah, I sort of won a photo contest

2009-03-11T17:01:00.001-07:00

I should have posted about it here earlier, but... seeing as I already made a post at a broken mold, I'll just link you to it.

surreal salad

2009-03-01T15:37:00.000-08:00

I seriously would love to do a stint as a food photographer...
The parents made a getaway this weekend and Elliot went to stay with a friend (home alone, hooray!). They got back today, and so it was Chef Salad for lunch! They made some on their minivacation, so we had the ingredients and Dad whipped it up pretty quick.

See also, last time.

the Pacific in December

2009-01-01T18:18:00.000-08:00

These are from a stop at the Oregon beach on Christmas vacation. I love that place!
Also, here's an awesome wallpaper on the Oregon coast, at or near Pacific City, I think. Highly recommended.

Lostine Cemetery - a few full size photos

2008-12-27T16:32:00.000-08:00

Here are a few full sized pics from my earlier post in May. The first one is a flower at the cemetery, the second a snapshot of Ashley and versions of it. Enjoy.

December 12

2008-12-26T20:05:00.000-08:00

breakfast becomes an afternoon snack

2008-12-11T18:03:00.000-08:00

My brother's afternoon snack, actually. This is a piece of stuffed blueberry French toast that my mom madea little while back... so good!

New License

2008-12-11T17:31:00.000-08:00

Edit January 23, 2009: I have changed the license coverage so that it no longer covers my pictures linked from the blog. Any photos you've grabbed before today from those links are still released to you under those terms; otherwise they no longer apply. Of course, they might be available to you without this licensing, but this is the legal stuff here, just letting you know. So, it just applies to my photos here now. Cheers!

Previously I had licensed the work published here under the Free Art License, and before that, I didn't have anything. And now I've switched to the CC Attribution 3.0 Unported. As this change should not affect really affect anything anybody might have done with my work, I am hereby making this license retroactive-- all photos previously published on my blog are released under the CC Attribution 3.0 Unported and are no longer licensed under the Free Art License. Not to say I don't like the Free Art License, it's good, but I just decided to go Creative Commons. Plus other conditions for anybody else's stuff published here.

Here is my previous pos t about licensing. It doesn't apply now; I've edited it to say so.

The official bit under here is now at the bottom of my blog. I made it with Creative Common's handy dandy license chooser and made some modifications and additions.

Photos by Nathaniel posted here are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Works of others posted here are licensed under any terms they give or otherwise are assumed to be copyrighted.

I'm sorry...

2008-12-07T18:17:00.000-08:00

I really got apathetic there for a while. I was wrong think that my camera limitations are a block to creativity and hard work.

I'm coming back. Expect some photos soon.

Quiet Death

2008-11-11T20:28:00.000-08:00

That is the month of November...

Finale 1.0

2008-10-25T22:04:00.000-07:00

Wow, I'm lazy... never uploaded the improved version yet... until now. Here's the previous post.

2008-10-10T19:29:00.000-07:00

Shot on the homestead.

a leaf... in dirt... yeah

2008-10-02T17:13:00.000-07:00

Yes, I know, I didn't knock out one single post in September. So it's time to blog here now. And I give you... a leaf! This one is actually from August, the seventh to be precise.

those 4th of July pics...

2008-08-30T18:13:00.001-07:00

Okay, I said I would post some, so here you are. A little late, yes... sorry.

And... more.

Edge of the Mind

2008-07-18T18:30:00.000-07:00

Rebels

2008-07-18T18:14:00.000-07:00

Enjoy.

2008-07-18T17:59:00.000-07:00

Vacation Photos

2008-07-02T14:59:00.000-07:00

Here you are... yes, finally. :p

some more on Facebook if you want to look at them...

city

2008-06-29T18:02:00.000-07:00

not yet...

2008-06-26T20:34:00.000-07:00

...but here's a couple pics to hold you over :p

I will post!

2008-06-21T22:39:00.000-07:00

Alright. It's been a while since I posted. But, I just got back from vacation. So, it's time for me to get busy with Picasa and GIMP. I shall try to give you something cool. Or somethings that are cool.

Later.

Lostine Cemetery

2008-05-30T19:44:00.000-07:00

This album is on Facebook. It was much easier to upload once I got the Picasa Facebook plugin installed (even though I had to install it manually). So... I went up to the Lostine Cemetery with Ashley yesterday. Here's some photos.

[link to Facebook album]

2008-05-26T20:21:00.000-07:00

Taken in Wallowa at the park across from the Deals' home.

Finale Beta

2008-05-19T20:46:00.000-07:00

Prepare yourself to see Joella as you have never known her before.
This is a joint effort between Joella, LeeAnna, and I. Joella modeled, LeeAnna took the pictures, and I did the photoshop work (with the GIMP, of course).

Here's a widescreen (16:10) version.

from today

2008-05-09T15:26:00.000-07:00

These two are at the lake not too long ago, but not today. It was actually after the Youth Arts Festival. The Deals, my mom, and I were up at the Lake after that.

And here is Joella playing piano after the Patriot's Ball.

Pandemonium

2008-04-27T17:01:00.000-07:00

2008-04-25T16:09:00.001-07:00

I have more pictures I really should upload, but, dial-up... meh.

2008-04-07T16:55:00.000-07:00

I took out a pipe on the building the farthest back - the one with the blue roof - using The GIMP.

Black Grass

2008-04-02T17:09:00.000-07:00

Taken with my parents camera. Edited.

Old Lostine

2008-03-24T21:12:00.000-07:00

How does it look?

2008-03-09T18:34:00.000-07:00

Tell me your thoughts.

By the way, this is a shot of private property, so I'm not all sure what I'm allowed to do with it, even though I shot it from public property.

salad

2008-03-09T18:25:00.001-07:00

This is my lunch from two Sundays ago (Febuary 24th).

2008-02-16T18:33:00.000-08:00

This is from a family vacation in June of 2006. I took it with my parents camera. And it's a small 1024x768. Oh well.

This is at a place called Fort Rock in Oregon, by the way.

2008-02-14T19:45:00.000-08:00

These were taken in our yard in August of last year. Tell me what you think.

Shoes

2008-02-07T18:16:00.000-08:00

I like the lighting on this shot. It was taken in the gazebo in the Lostine City Park (Niel Park I think it's called... not sure of that's spelled right). And yes, these are my shoes ;)

Photo Contest - Let the Voting Begin!

2008-02-02T17:02:00.001-08:00

So... voting is finally open on the Wallowa County Chieftan 2008 Photo Contest. Check it out here. And I have to say there is some good competition. So, we'll see. Maybe I'll get to hang a shiny medal on my blog... maybe not.

If you want to know, my pics are s1-s5 here. This is in the student category. I might get ran over if I was in the adult, lawlzy.

a little snowy

2008-01-28T11:35:00.000-08:00

This is from today on our property.

last time wasn't good enough

2008-01-20T17:40:00.000-08:00

Here some alternate versions of the mountains and clouds. These are all lightened versions, but they were lightened in Picasa2 after cropping in GIMP, so they're not guaranteed to be exactly the same!!

The peels: Photoshop trick I learned from Popular Photography. Open image, duplicate layer, invert duplicate layer colors, then change layers mode to Colors. I'm not yet sure if this changes the mode for all layers or just that one, though. Anyway...

Peels

2008-01-11T16:11:00.001-08:00

Well, at approximately 11:15 this morning, my camera was delivered. Pretty quick considering it was shipped on the 9th. So, it's back. And it is indeed fixed.

The orange peels (peelings?) are a shot I took with my camera today.

The mountains and clouds are around Joseph, I think. But I'm not sure... it was a shot from Mr. Boyd's car coming back from a cast and crew party for a play. This is cropped and tweaked.

Tollefson-Leithart Wedding

2008-01-05T18:38:00.000-08:00

I posted some pics on the Providence Academy News blog from the wedding of Jon Tollefson and Lindsay Leithart. Not the greatest.

2007-12-26T20:05:00.001-08:00

You might have seen this here already.

2007-12-23T12:19:00.000-08:00

Distant

2007-12-21T16:07:00.000-08:00

Like it? View full version. I think you'll better appreciate it.

2007-12-09T16:53:00.000-08:00

Sorry it's small.

Download

2007-11-30T13:51:00.000-08:00

So, do any of you ever download any of my photos?

To download them, I wouldn't advise just right clicking on the pictures on the blog and saving them there. They are just smaller versions generated by Blogger for the web page. However, clicking on a picture will take you to the original size version, which is what you probably want to download (right click, save image as). Or, you can right click on the picture on the blog and choose save link as. That should save the original image.

Candle

2007-11-30T13:36:00.000-08:00

This is Sheri Swindell (is that spelled right?) and Hunter Ellis at their wedding this August.

Here's Things

2007-11-29T18:16:00.000-08:00

No, it's not a picture. Sorry. ;-)

It was beautiful day here in Lostine. We have approximately six to seven inches of snow. It's snowing lightly right now.

My camera was sent to Canon today for repair since it developed a hot pixel(s). It should be back before we leave in our Christmas trip, so I can take photos on vacation! Yay! I might take my laptop with me, so I could post on vacation...

Thanks for your comments, friends. They make photography funner.

Domain Remix

2007-11-29T18:08:00.001-08:00

Grass

2007-11-24T18:36:00.000-08:00

This was taken at the Joseph Canyon Overlook.

Here is the 16:10 widescreen crop.

Tell me what you think. And, you might download one of them (probably the aspect ratio correct for your screen ;-) and set it as your background. I think it looks pretty good there. How about you?

the lamppost

2007-11-16T12:31:00.000-08:00

This was taken on Febuary 10, 2007 at the Hurleys'.

to be wide or not to be wide

2007-11-05T15:50:00.001-08:00

As you can see, the pictures are different ratios today. One is in the traditional 4:3 ratio (the top one) and the other is in 16:10 widescreen, a favored ratio for widescreen computer displays.

I have to credit the user Express at this thread on Neowin Forums for this stuff, although I changed the formula around to convert from widescreen to 4:3.

So, here we go:

Converting 4:3 to 16:10 widescreen

your widescreen screen height (for instance, mine is 800 pixels) times the width of the 4:3 photo
now divide that number (the product) by your widescreen screen width (mine is 1280 pixels)
this number is what the new height of the photo needs to be to be to correct aspect ratio.
The widescreen ratio we're talking about is 16:10, or 1.6. Fire up your favorite editor that will allow you to do this precisely (I use the GIMP for this) and crop the height to the number you got. Your editor may show you the ratio you're getting as you crop it. However, I advise using this as a second reference and going for precise pixel values.

Converting widescreen to 4:3

I did this with a 16:9 widescreen photo my camera took (Dworshak Dock), but I think it would work for 16:10 images too.

your 4:3 screen height (for instance 1024 pixels) times the width of the widescreen photo
now divide that number (the product) by your 4:3 screen width (say 768 pixels)
this number is what the new height of the photo needs to be to be to correct aspect ratio.

Feel free to ask questions.

Flowers from the past

2007-11-01T16:57:00.001-07:00

These are my mom's sunflowers from this summer. I used a Filtered Black and White effect in Picasa2.

License

2007-11-01T16:27:00.000-07:00

December 11, 2008: This post is now not applicable. I have switched over to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Details posted here.

Simply put, my work is available under the Free Art License.

Therefore, feel free to use my work. Please do not claim it as you own, though. If you do use it, you don't have to notify me, but I would be thrilled to know someone was using my work. =^)

A small note, however. Sometimes stuff from other people is posted here. This stuff is not released under the Free Art License unless it is so stated.

The First Gravestone

2007-10-23T20:42:00.000-07:00

This is the gravestone of the first person ever buried in the Lostine cemetery. He died in the 1870's, I think. His name was J.S. Sherwood, I believe.

Art Poster

2007-10-23T20:20:00.002-07:00

I made this for art class at our school. I used Picasa for making the grid, and then cropped, cut, and resized the grid with The GIMP. Check here for Matthew's poster. I recommend viewing at full size for the best look, I guess.

2007-10-15T16:32:00.001-07:00

This is from a photo shoot in Lostine on the 13th. I will probably post some more later, so check back sometime...
I still have lots of Wallowa Lake photos I could post... sometime.

Flashback From 2005

2007-10-13T13:14:00.000-07:00

These are some pictures I took back in 2005 with my parents' Nikon Coolpix 2500. Small (1024x768), but cool.

And yes, this is a color camera. I shot these in black and white, however.

Lake Art

2007-10-12T13:17:00.000-07:00

Wallowa Lake

2007-10-09T16:25:00.000-07:00

These are just three of the many ;-)

Enjoy, I will post more later!

By the way, should I post the photos centered or to the left, like I've been doing? What do you think?

Breakfast

2007-10-02T16:29:00.000-07:00

Is Modern Okay?

2007-09-27T18:03:00.000-07:00

converted from 4:3 ratio to 16:10 ratio
sometime I'll do a post dealing with aspect ratio conversions... sometime

got this picture from Matthew, converted to widesrceen, did some effects, and ta-da!

from left to right: Nathaniel, Elliot, Matthew

it happens every day

2007-09-23T16:51:00.000-07:00

But it's still amazing, huh? Praise God for creating things like this!

The last picture is of Joseph Tollefson. All of the photos in this post we're taken on the Barretos' property in Union County yesterday. There was a birthday party there for Mrs. Bakker and Mrs. Barreto, who are both to turn 50 shortly.

Rise

2007-09-18T15:54:00.000-07:00

I took this one this morning. It's a bit blurry, but still looks cool, I guess.

This one was taken yesterday. I liked the colors and the contrast, the fall look.

macro anybody?

2007-09-16T19:44:00.000-07:00

This one was taken this summer (it's still summer, ya?).

Alas, off to another week of school. Toodles!

Wedding Retouch

2007-09-10T17:03:00.000-07:00

Here is the photo that one user requested lighted up a bit. I just used the Picasa fill light tool, so please tell me how it looks.

Wedding in Black and White

2007-09-09T18:01:00.001-07:00

Spirit of the Bike Trip

2007-09-08T16:36:00.000-07:00

Some of you readers may know of Trinity Bible Church's annual Bike Trip. I took this photo on the Bike Trip this year, and I really like it.

I chose that title because that's what it made me think of. I'm not sure exactly how it symbolized servanthood, learning, and fellowship, but it still looks cool.

Spigot

2007-09-07T17:04:00.000-07:00

I converted it to black and white and put a film grain effect on it all using Picasa2.

Looks better at full size, I think.

Bales

2007-09-06T16:45:00.000-07:00

Though you might like this one.

Close To Home

2007-09-05T17:01:00.000-07:00

Hannah said she wanted recent pictures. So here's one.

It was taken near Lostine (definition: beyond city limits but still close).

And, I wanted to show off this image, although it's not from a camera. I made it myself though.

Dworshack Dock

2007-09-04T16:34:00.001-07:00

The Next Photo

2007-08-30T15:40:00.000-07:00

Hello again, folks.

You're probably all wondering where that last picture is from. Here it goes: My father, brother, and I were going to hike up to Ruby Peak. That picture is from before the hike, near or at the lime quarry up there.

Now see this. This picture actually wasn't taken by me. My mom took it on our property. Pretty cool looking (and the effect gets better if you turn up the saturation).

Well, I'll try to put some more stuff on this blog, because right now it's kind of... well, plain. So, Why not spiff it up a bit? It's really a snap with Blogger.

First Photo

2007-08-27T15:14:00.000-07:00

Well, time to get started.

Here you go.

The first photo posted here.