felt like sharing my handgun collection

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in addition to long guns, I'd say I'm off to a decent start. Got a new camera and had to pop a few pics. Hope to get out when the weather is good and I can find a photogenic area











 
is photography a hobby of yours? you seem to have a knack for it.

I don't know much about your guns but they sure are pretty.
 
heck i might as well share mine too, everyone like pic threads! btw that is a gergeous gp100. that pic will probally cause me to go out and buy one, i don't have a wheel gun, what better excuse to get one!
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Great pics! Your shots are beautifully composed and lighted, with the area of interest nicely defined.

I just saw an interesting article about a technique called "focus bracketing" for close up pics. It's probably more useful for illustration type shots than general interest shots, but I'm going to give it a try, with the help of a photoshop guru.

The idea is that you compose a shot with the closest part of the subject in focus and take a shot, then adjust the focus down so that the far edge of the depth of field of the first shot is in focus, rinse, repeat, until the background is in focus. One of those little circular Kodak depth of field calculators will come in handy.

In photoshop, you select the portion of the first image that is in focus, then layer it with the portion of the next image that is in focus. You also have to keep slightly magnifying each successive image, as the in focus area is a bit farther away from the lens. Eventually you end up with an image that is optically impossible, but striking.

Lucky for me, I have a friend who makes a very nice living doing just this kind of thing, and is intrigued by the concept..
 
Thank you all for the kind words. Photography is a little side hobby.
possum- you have a nice collection yourself! (and to others feel free to share your pics)
Jubjub- I'm a bit of a photoshop fan myself and might have to take a shot at that sometime next week!
edit: from what I gathered from your post, this is what I believe you are talking about, correct? Obviously on a much grander scale but you can get the picture. Did I grasp the point?
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The concept of 'exposure bracketing' (the term when I got bit by the photo bug) was referring to either 1) with the same shutter speed, expose at -1, 0 and +1 aperture (f-stop) or 2) with the same aperture (f-stop), expose at -1, 0 and +1 on the shutter speed (to freeze/blur action). The smaller the f-stop, the greater the amount of the subject matter will be in focus (depth of field). The longer your aperture is open, the more light is admitted, and the subject can be blurred (like water over rocks, as an example). More than that, I gotta review my photography books.

I think you have the basics. Now practice, shoot up some film.
 
Sharing?

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Umm... if I walk up to you with a bag of cookies and tell you I feel like sharing, you're gonna expect some freakin' cookies, right?

Okay, so in the interest you keeping good to your word, I'm going to let you send me one or two of those goodies.

And then I'll thank you for sharing. Honest I will.







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hmm, since this is a pic related thread. I'll post this one... it's a 686 I've shown before, but not since about.. at least 10 to 15 work hours of hand polishing. I know these pictures are cruddy, but Ive only got a cheesy camera to work with at the moment. What you see that looks like scratches on the barrel in the first picture is actually a reflection, that's how ridiculously polished this gun is ! If you look closely near the muzzle you can see the reflection of my hand with the camera, and the other stuff is trees behind me. The front of the barrel lug and the space under the front sight mount have also are also polished, and only the circle surrounding the muzzle was left with its orig bead blasted look. Notice the crystal clear reflection of the trigger guard in the second pic. The whole gun is like that I assure you. It's a mirror basically. I wish I could manage some better pictures, but this was the best I could get right now. No tools were used at all, just mother's mag, mother's billet, polishing rags and time.

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Edit: By the way, my thanks to fellow THR member Jeff (Gunkwazy) for his suggestions on this project.

Now to start working on this 66....
 
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