March 2011 Photo & Captions Comment Thread

[Stefan-A]

I have a 3.6 Mp camera in my cell phone and it takes far worse pictures than my 2 Mp camera from 2001. It's simple physics, you can't make a camera that small without it severely reducing its capabilities. They're pretty much optimized for taking pictures of human-sized objects at distances in the range of 1-10 meters and they work about as well as cameras, as they do as hammers.

[ConcinusMan]

oh I hear you, megapixel rating doesn't mean jack if the optics and image processing are crap. (sensitivity to light, color depth, etc.)

[mustang]

ill try my best to get a pic uploaded by this weekend....but naturally being a teenager EVERYTHING I DO GETS ME IN TROUBLE!!!!!! (and my new camera is STILL busted!)

[ConcinusMan]

You did great. Love the photo.

[mustang]

gracias...tis was an old one i dusted off the photobucket shelvs...one of the most recent ones before camera met fine fine sand ad busted.

[Jeff B]

Did you ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?

From Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman

[Stefan-A]

Panasonic FZ5. No editing apart from cropping and resizing. No preparation beyond using a tripod for stability, and it was not a calm snake.



Taken with a Panasonic FX3. No editing apart from cropping and resizing. No preparation apart from feeding.




And this is a thumbnail created automatically by the FX3 for a video clip. Not edited, cropped or resized. That's what the camera saved when I pushed the record button. Obviously no preparation involved, pure luck.





The Thamnophis poster features one photo of mine taken with a 2.0 Mp Fuji Finepix 2600 and another taken with the 5 Mp Panasonic FZ5.

I completely forgot, my winning picture in the July 2009 contest was actually a screencap from a video shot with the FX3.

[RedSidedSPR]

Dang. I can't trust my wild-caught snake yet to sit on any plain surfaces without freaking out. How plain does it have to be?

[guidofatherof5]

Great birthing photo, Stefan.

[infernalis]

I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to ***ing amuse you? How the *** am I funny?! What the *** is so funny about me?!"

Why am I not surprised at all?