Here's my Flickr site > http://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/albums
The old website is long-gone. I'll clean up those links one day.
Most are marked Creative Commons, and only require attribution...feel free to use them where and how you like. Basically, they're all up for grabs, as long as you say I took the picture. You can also let me know where they're being used, but that's not required.
Also, there's not a lot of rhyme or reason - travel is effectively random - so try the Flickr search to find what you need.
Check your link for Ohio. It's the same as California's.
Thanks!
Link now fixed for Ohio...they're all now divided into separate states.
A few sign pics from North Central Florida in late-January and early-February:
Old US 301 with a CR 200A shield...The "Old" tab is unusual, as is the dual US and CR shields on the same post.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6794843192_b7f71c88aa_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bmrm9Q)
A "modern" S-225 shield with a County sticker. Posted in 1978.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6940956221_3393ca791b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bzmdsZ)
A Keys S-225 shield with a County sticker. Posted in 1975.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6940956187_105dbf653b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bzmdsp)
Oddball "End Of" designation inside the CR 227 pentagon.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6940956169_b7f28ee91b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bzmds6)
Another "modern" SR shield, now downgraded to CR 18. Sign mounted in 1978.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6940956129_d38fe50f66_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bzmdrp)
Keys shield, dating from 1973. Missed getting its "county" stickers...off the beaten path!
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7194/6940956093_fc8be81d36_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bzmdqM)
Old C-229 shield (then patched) from 1978. Arrow below has reflective sheeting, is from 1993, for comparison.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7206/6940955959_5fd2fdee47_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bzmdot)
Normal CR 229 shield, with the label scars of "225-A" behind it...
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8435/29035204895_4da37608e6_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LeK1QX)
A weather-beaten S-229A Keys shield; patched, but Florida is barely visible. On private property, didn't inspect sign further.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6794842934_4045f2edb1_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bmrm5o)
This one was from 1973, arrow below from 1969. Originally, this shield had a date of 1966 on it, probably re-painted.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7208/6794842952_166e0886f8_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bmrm5G)
An "alligator-skinned" old Keys shield, dated from 1969...
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/6794842966_0ef23e7e70_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bmrm5W)
...same route, other direction.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6794842988_35a39dc6bb_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bmrm6j)
"Floating" SR 230 sign.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8261/28414515494_f6fa1030fe_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KhTPvy)
Button copy, typically only found on Farmer's Market signs in Florida.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.formulanone.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FStarkeFarmersMarketSign.jpg&hash=08596eafe31ce7cc7c9379502a0c3eeb6279af23)
Old buttoned porcelain railroad crossing sign, with a piece of rail as the sign post.
Alongside someone's home, but owner was nice enough and not at all bothered by me taking photos of it!
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6846989909_1d1116efd4_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/br3Bya)
Quote from: formulanone on February 24, 2012, 11:31:01 AM
A weather-beaten S-229A Keys shield; patched, but Florida is barely visible. On private property, didn't inspect sign further.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.formulanone.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FCS-229A-SignKeys.jpg&hash=ee5f8828ba67cb75cd7d3d5ff125cbc35cbee618)
Snapped a pic of this one 01-18-10, it is date stamped 7-12-66.
A couple Flickr updates from the Northwest Arkansas area:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/ssT220
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6975214863_48ddbd80e8_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bCnNne)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6829089216_4c297aa14c_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bpsSiw)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6829089810_3b68328957_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bpsStL)
Nice pictures you've got there my friend! Particularly the last sunset one. Very nice.
Though I do have one question about the county route shields. Why are the numerals so small?
Quote from: CentralCAroadgeek on April 07, 2012, 12:10:34 AM
Nice pictures you've got there my friend! Particularly the last sunset one. Very nice.
Though I do have one question about the county route shields. Why are the numerals so small?
Sorry, missed this one. Thought that CR 233 was a bit of an oddity with the shrunken numbers.
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Was in Cleveland (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/1BZ2De) for work; it rained a fair bit, and my camera was acting up, expensively. :(
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7510/15307964843_0ff04f629c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pjHjCk)
It's like kids fighting over what part of the room is theirs...too much of this silliness in the area:
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7432/27182266763_7ababa87d7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Hq1dTM)
Rusty 'ol Dead Man's Curve:
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7474/27718240431_6e34a48b88_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Jenec6)
I did not know they were posting secondaries as late as 1978 in Florida. good to know! the only "modern" style secondary shield I've seen was an April '77. I believe I've seen a '76 dated keys shield.
I had thought the Great Downgrading to county routes had taken place in Oct '77?
A couple from West Virginia, also some Kentucky and Ohio...in the Tri-States Area. Sorry for some of the varying photo quality, used an old 2MP camera from 2002 in some of these shots:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/w3u837
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7339/27211762883_7bfc2233f7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/HsBp4z)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/27211773003_d08fec937a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/HsBs54)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/27823307405_e2dac85441_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JoDHWD)
Around San Diego County:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/840rct
Ventura and Los Angeles County, California:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/9F3kVP
interesting. a shield with a black button copy border. California generally uses white. they must've gotten the wrong batch out of AGA and didn't notice.
I was in Pine Bluff, Arkansas for two weeks, a few odds and ends...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/3dV25p
A couple more I've uploaded to Wikimedia Commons...
Two in Greensboro, NC along I-73:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F5%2F50%2FInterstate73-USroute421sign.jpg%2F800px-Interstate73-USroute421sign.jpg&hash=a738505bf203b2351bf76427ef8474f96823097e)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Ff%2Ffd%2FFutureInterstates73-840signGreensboro.jpg%2F800px-FutureInterstates73-840signGreensboro.jpg&hash=b46fc03429b344049cbbfe13c6f84a1cb7c02a2c)
I-75 just south of Gainesville, Florida:
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SR 826 in North Miami Beach, after sunset:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fc%2Fcf%2FFL826-Sign-NorthMiamiBeach.jpg%2F800px-FL826-Sign-NorthMiamiBeach.jpg&hash=43577a3aa4669e4d88e873ff63dde33c671fba8e)
County Road F26 in Ogemaw County, Michigan:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F0%2F07%2FOgemawCountyF26-RoadSign.jpg%2F800px-OgemawCountyF26-RoadSign.jpg&hash=f06c3f9b0a8fa5906ebf7ed02e59887571c25723)
Nice photos! :clap:
Recently came back from Seattle, uploaded these two to Wikimedia Commons, since they didn't seem to have any of "that US 99 overhead BGS in Seattle". Didn't get many photos, as the weather wasn't my thing. After two other abortive attempts to go downtown, 4:15am was about the only time it didn't rain, and I had a 6:00am flight that morning.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fc%2Fcf%2FSouthboundUS99signLights-DowntownSeattle.jpg%2F800px-SouthboundUS99signLights-DowntownSeattle.jpg&hash=b5f281bfe5673b5eed02d435e51db335a69e2862)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SouthboundUS99signLights-DowntownSeattle.jpg
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Ff%2Ff1%2FSouthboundUS99signDark-DowntownSeattle.jpg%2F800px-SouthboundUS99signDark-DowntownSeattle.jpg&hash=fc622a2b5e73c6ffe4d3f9ff1b190a549cb08fba)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SouthboundUS99signDark-DowntownSeattle.jpg
Also found a state-named shield along the way...
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.formulanone.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F10%2FInt5WA-SouthGreenSign800.jpg&hash=991ec4f79fff35a2602f3e9b66e10215cfffd26b)
A lick of the Cincinnati area (roads, signs, skies, food, foliage, aircraft, and other oddities):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/z3R8r8
Quote from: formulanone on November 08, 2012, 12:07:18 AM
On that note, it's time to fly home alongside a shiny wing and a vapor trail.
and a sundog.
Quote from: formulanone on November 08, 2012, 12:07:18 AM
A lick of the Cincinnati area (roads, signs, skies, food, foliage, aircraft, and other oddities):
http://www.formulanone.org/2012/10/cincinnati-area/
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.formulanone.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F11%2FFlorenceWaterTower-Int75-71nRoad800.jpg&hash=b5fa952cc3bf871613574e2e1cfba33138cb34d7)
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(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.formulanone.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F11%2FManySigns-KY338atUS42-800.jpg&hash=a65d930ada3bd6f447ca977c1282189e9fe9b595)
I love that water tower. It's a 15 minute walk from my house.
It's also distinctive enough to be seen from an airplane window, when landing into CVG from the south.
Quote from: formulanone on November 30, 2012, 05:43:40 AM
It's also distinctive enough to be seen from an airplane window, when landing into CVG from the south.
Definitely. If you don't know the story of "Florence Y'all", here's one from our local paper:
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/04/07/loc_water_towers_loom.html
Quote from: JMoses24 on December 09, 2012, 10:48:33 PM
Quote from: formulanone on November 30, 2012, 05:43:40 AM
It's also distinctive enough to be seen from an airplane window, when landing into CVG from the south.
Definitely. If you don't know the story of "Florence Y'all", here's one from our local paper:
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/04/07/loc_water_towers_loom.html
Great story! :) I'll have to mention that one later...
Part 1: From Tallahassee to Dothan (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/3rNK69)
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You have captured some of the extensive reconstruction and expansion of Interstate 595 very well. :clap:
Quote from: xcellntbuy on March 27, 2013, 10:53:32 PM
You have captured some of the extensive reconstruction and expansion of Interstate 595 very well. :clap:
Thanks!
I have a bunch of ground-level I-595/SR 84 construction shots from October 2011 that I've never gone through. Wish I had the time to post them, although I'm not sure how relevant they are anymore. Last I traveled on 595 a month ago, it was still a mess.
Part II: Just what the Dothan ordered? (That was bad...)
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/8hi21B
Quote from: formulanone on March 27, 2013, 10:20:52 PM
Part 1: From Tallahassee to the Alabama/Florida State Line (http://www.formulanone.org/2013/01/florida-big-bend-and-panhandle/)
(I posted some of these already; I'm kind of backed up on photos/work.)
Did you see the faded (formerly yellow) US 231 shields in Alford? FWIW, There are a few more reverse black/white US 98 shields that you passed by between Apalachicola and Port St. Joe.
Missed any the yellow shields :( , but saw a couple of US 98 black shields along the way. That was the only up-close one. I was technically on my way to work...
Part III: Wiregrass Parkway of Georgia, and Return to Florida.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/621fpm
Constables! Goats! More refuse cotton! Enjoy...
Chief of Whigham, Georgia:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/729/22495897693_6f7cd36c1b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/AgTmD4)
Wiregrass Parkway sign:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/656/23103272992_6f8f68361e_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Bcyj9Y)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7517/15828638272_c8fef17841_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q7HUGq)
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Still catching up with January's photos...here's the first leg of my journey from Pittsburgh, going into WV and OH for a few moments, then back across US 22 and I-376 to the Turnpike:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/d17XaB
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Excellent photos! The West Virginia sign, in particular, is just perfect button copy. :clap:
Quote from: xcellntbuy on April 02, 2013, 05:04:37 PM
Excellent photos! The West Virginia sign, in particular, is just perfect button copy. :clap:
Thanks! I think it was one of those days where the lighting was nearly perfect (neither too bright nor too dim).
Turnpike until US 220/I-99 (Bedford) photos -- https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/aw783p
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Here's Interstate 99; I picked up the little section (on a lunch break) south of US 220 Business.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/5Uq0RE
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Great photos from I-99! They capture the area quite nicely :D :nod:
Quote from: formulanone on May 03, 2013, 09:23:00 AM
[Bud Shister Highway]
you're shitting me. he even
named it after himself??
It seemed to have been "officially named" after his death. Anything else would have been worthy of one of my rare bouts of WTF-ism! But when I passed the sign (there's two), I just chuckled.
http://www.pahighways.com/interstates/I99.html
Quote from: formulanone on May 03, 2013, 01:02:33 PM
It seemed to have been "officially named" after his death.
But he's still alive, isn't he?
Quote from: Molandfreak on May 03, 2013, 05:17:16 PM
Quote from: formulanone on May 03, 2013, 01:02:33 PM
It seemed to have been "officially named" after his death.
But he's still alive, isn't he?
I guess I should learn to read. Derp.
Rounding it out with I-80 and I-79 back to Pittsburgh:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/14vJfu
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7362/27597423882_4cafc34f82_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/J3G1D9)
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Some Maine state road signs with the LeHay font. Visited the Bangor area (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/yw60h9) and then the Portland-Augusta areas (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/13o8u9) the following week. Scooped up the 15 remaining counties, too.
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No signage, but I found some old (November 2009) photos I'd forgotten about...at the old Bicentennial Park Circuit in Miami. Some of the "roads" are impassible now due to construction, but it gave me a little nostalgia boost from all the races (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/albums/72157609578878130) I'd visited down there from 1987 to 1992.
Bring or make your own race-car noises, I won't tell anyone. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/3Vp75s)
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Traipsing around Birmingham and Interstate 22 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/53084e), recently. Thanks to Alps for suggesting these photos!
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nice photos, thanks for the update!
I do appreciate it when all your pictures taken from a moving car have been post processed to correct the rotation and aqua colored tint from the windshield.
Quote from: Truvelo on March 05, 2014, 04:59:46 PM
I do appreciate it when all your pictures taken from a moving car have been post processed to correct the rotation and aqua colored tint from the windshield.
Or sometimes, I used the wrong white balance: Many of the I-22 photos were into the blinding sun, and I'd had it on "shade" with too much overexposure. So the skies are all wrong-ish and minty green.
Dusting off this thread...these are just Flickr updates.
Visited Vancouver back in February (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/albums/72157678414816493):
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New photos from last week's adventures from Allentown to Harrisburg, then onto Breezewood and back.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/8hi21B
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A couple of old photos from November 2003: getting lost (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/1dANz0) throughout Golden Gate Estates (now the Picayune Strand State Forest). Much of this land was turned over or donated the state as a preserve around 2008-2010, so some of these roads have been destroyed.
The roads had no street blades...the names of the street were painted onto the center of the intersections:
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Janes Memorial Scenic Drive though the Fakahatchee State Preserve took you to that complex of roads:
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It was dry for most of the month and not so bad, but I've heard it's in terrible shape for a car after it rains; during the summer, you'd better have some ground clearance.
Great photos....do you crop your pics that are on here? Or add filters?
Quote from: formulanone on July 27, 2017, 03:14:47 PM
Testing out "Flickr Shares" with 54 new photos from last week's adventures from Allentown to Breezewood (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/2N45A1):
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40 seems a bit high for that curve.
Quote from: Mergingtraffic on August 02, 2017, 03:49:16 PM
Great photos....do you crop your pics that are on here? Or add filters?
I try to avoid cropping more than 15-20% of the photo, but there's a few "close-ups" that just seemed interesting to me. I also try to stabilize the angle of the shot. I push color curves and levels, play with hues, sometimes try to clean up color noise.
I use a polarizer filter in most cases, to remove glare. It's not necessary at night, since it would make the shots even darker.
However, it's undesirable to use a polarizer for shots from an airplane window or a car's tinted windows; it cases a Moiré effect and/or color distortion:
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Delta N663DN - With Polarizer (https://flic.kr/p/JSNv6f) by formulanone (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/), on Flickr
Quote from: formulanone on August 02, 2017, 05:48:12 PM
Quote from: Mergingtraffic on August 02, 2017, 03:49:16 PM
Great photos....do you crop your pics that are on here? Or add filters?
I try to avoid cropping more than 15-20% of the photo, but there's a few "close-ups" that just seemed interesting to me. I also try to stabilize the angle of the shot. I push color curves and levels, play with hues, sometimes try to clean up color noise.
I use a polarizer filter in most cases, to remove glare. It's not necessary at night, since it would make the shots even darker.
It's also undesirable in the shots from an airplane window or tinted windows; it cases a Moiré effect and/or color distortion.
I was guessing you cropped the Florida I-95 mileage distance button copy sign.
Quote from: Mergingtraffic on August 02, 2017, 06:35:22 PM
Quote from: formulanone on August 02, 2017, 05:48:12 PM
Quote from: Mergingtraffic on August 02, 2017, 03:49:16 PM
Great photos....do you crop your pics that are on here? Or add filters?
I try to avoid cropping more than 15-20% of the photo, but there's a few "close-ups" that just seemed interesting to me. I also try to stabilize the angle of the shot. I push color curves and levels, play with hues, sometimes try to clean up color noise.
I use a polarizer filter in most cases, to remove glare. It's not necessary at night, since it would make the shots even darker.
It's also undesirable in the shots from an airplane window or tinted windows; it cases a Moiré effect and/or color distortion.
I was guessing you cropped the Florida I-95 mileage distance button copy sign.
Actually, I took a photo of my driver's side mirror, cropped that, and reversed it.
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^ What kind of experience have you had with a polarizing filter? I have read on the internet, that for the best results with a polarizing filter should be adjusted based on the varying light levels of the day. Do you just leave the same filter on your lens all the time, or do you make adjustments throughout the day?
Quote from: AsphaltPlanet on August 02, 2017, 10:16:53 PM
^ What kind of experience have you had with a polarizing filter? I have read on the internet, that for the best results with a polarizing filter should be adjusted based on the varying light levels of the day. Do you just leave the same filter on your lens all the time?
If it's anything other than midday, you pretty much have to rotate it when you change direction. It also depends on how harsh the light is, or the angle of the sun. Sometimes you need to move it about an equal number of degrees as you've turned the vehicle. Other times, half as many degrees for each turn. It varies. And there's times I mess it all up and you have 100-200 photos which were too dark or still had too much glare, although an SLR will essentially give you the WYSIWYG effect unless you ignore over/under-exposure warnings.
You might not need one if you're directly opposite from a setting/rising sun, or if it's very cloudy.
Obviously, this isn't practical on a winding road, but about a quarter-turn for each 90 degrees of directional change does the trick. It's tempting to totally darken the skies, but at the expense of losing most detail below the horizon. It's also possible to darken the skies so much that glare on the bottom-third of the windshield re-appears, so you have to find a happy medium.
There's also the annoyance of too much brightwork on automotive interior trim; I sometimes wonder if a few interior automotive designers have actually driven a car on a sunny day before.
^ Interesting, thanks for the information.
I use a haze filter on my camera, which does offer a small amount of polarization, but not so much that it needs to be adjusted depending upon the direction of the sun.
I also use a black towel on the front of my dash which helps to correct a lot of (though admittedly not all) of the reflections from the interior of the car.
Quote from: AsphaltPlanet on August 02, 2017, 10:29:57 PM
^ Interesting, thanks for the information.
I use a haze filter on my camera, which does offer a small amount of polarization, but not so much that it needs to be adjusted depending upon the direction of the sun.
One other thing about a circular polarizer, is that it usually seems to underexpose by about 1 to 1 1/3, roughly the equivalent of a single increase ISO sensitivity level...from 100 to 200, or 400 to 800. You don't really have to do this when standing still, because you just need to compensate by standing (or setting the camera) that much more still, but to preserve shutter speed in a moving vehicle, it's necessary or a lot of post-poduction finger crossing is needed.
Do you shoot in raw, or in jpeg? In the digital era I've always read that a photographer should expose the highlights and then recover the shadows. While I agree with that advice in principle, I find that I take too many photos to shoot raw as I'll fill up my memory cards way too quickly.
Quote from: AsphaltPlanet on August 02, 2017, 10:44:49 PM
Do you shoot in raw, or in jpeg? In the digital era I've always read that a photographer should expose the highlights and then recover the shadows. While I agree with that advice in principle, I find that I take too many photos to shoot raw as I'll fill up my memory cards way too quickly.
Same here.
And to be honest, I can't say I've really made the photos look any better in RAW with post-production improvements, possibly since I'm using a lower-end DSLR (or, perhaps that I don't know what I'm really doing). At roughly 10-15MB per shot, that fills up too quickly for general photography on the measure of 50,000 shots a year. I will make exceptions for family photography for special events, but usually, that's maybe twice a year. The rest are just grab the camera and go, because that's the pace of life, and kids just do their thing
right now and probably not later.
I understand that in some circles, shooting JPEG-only is a venial sin on the level of buying puppies from breeders instead of shelters, but we're not all prefect. :paranoid:
Also, there's some times I'll actually de-contrast shots...prime examples are when there's already too much direct sunlight late the day; guide signs with major reflectivity do some strange things in those conditions. Cameras sometimes tend to pick a focus point and over-do it at times. Or I'd left the wrong setting(s) on after shooting at night or from a plane.
A few photos from 2018.
Dallas to the Red River (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/818a1W)
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Chicagoland (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/6o05E8)
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Toronto - Brampton (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/Kq368m)
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I forget to update this thread...
Usually I batch out 50-100 at a time, but here's 470 photos of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska from this January.
Mostly road photos, a few others of the Black Hills Region.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/3a59o3
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298 road photos from February in Wisconsin: Appleton, Green Bay, Fond du Lac, New Holstein, and more. Two bonus plane photos at ATW airport, so it's an even 300!
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/z9E73n
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528 photos to and from home and Cairo, Illinois...through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, featuring daily jaunts to Sikeston and Paducah.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/k172H0
Cairo has lots of old and decaying stuff, Superman wears a mask, loads of bridges, and lots of roads and signs for you pleasure.
Here's 444 Florida Gulf Coast area photos!
This includes Tampa, Saint Pete, Wesley Chapel, Land 'O Lakes, Spring Hill, Nature Coast, Perry, Tallahassee, and a few from Lakeland. Finished a lot of clinches (yay, it took me 30 years to complete US 27 in Florida) and some places I haven't seen in over 25 years.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/rDnm3e > Find the dinosaur for bonus points!
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182 photos from the eastern and central parts of South Dakota:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/hn0Jc5
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What's new this month?
66 photos from a trip from O'Hare to Madison, up to Baraboo, and back to the airport. Includes six shots of that ancient concrete sign for Wis 33 and US 12 (then Wis 12) in Baraboo.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/K2kKwa
53 photos from around the Laurel, Maryland; including Columbia, and some shots around Baltimore.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/7xt04a
130 late-autumn photos from Huntsville to Tuscaloosa, taking the long way there and back. Popped into Columbus, Mississippi to say hi to US 82.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/9m5p49
Finally some 83 photos from November 2017; two trips to Winston-Salem, once flying into GSO and the other week into RDU. Hope you don't mind a few airplane photos, but there's a rare Antonov in there.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/p6fJK2
Most recent updates:
90 photos of I-70 in Colorado from E-470 to CO 9, with a little diversion on US 6 to claim a county... (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/6j9mH2hj3P)
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106 photos in August from Portland to Rockland, Maine. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/sH1s15EZh3)
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Later in October/November, I visited the other famous Portland in Oregon. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/153g1H8Sg4) It rained a lot so I didn't get as much exploring in as I'd hoped. But there's a mix of 175 photos from Portland to Hillsboro with a few dozen of the Rockies from my airplane window...until it got cloudy again...
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From Portland to Portland! I love it. Thanks for sharing, you take the best road photos.
Quote from: paulthemapguy on December 08, 2022, 07:13:08 PM
From Portland to Portland! I love it. Thanks for sharing, you take the best road photos.
Thanks, I appreciate the remarks!
What's new over the last few months?
83 Photos from Rapid City, poking into Wyoming and Montana for a moment. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/72pG3tU40e)
Visited one of the center-points of the US, but also mired in December storms. Wound up getting a flight back to Memphis and visiting a shoe tree on the way home..
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Philadelphia to the NE suburbs, then Lehigh Valley to Scranton (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/60Q0wF20Z2)
Two different trips back in January, thanks to some rather mild weather.
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140 from the Detroit area and suburbs (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/5Dv56792e6)
Spent three weeks between Ferndale and Farmington Hills but picked up lots of mileage throughout Wayne County...
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Just a few photos from Louisiana and Mississippi. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/A73r6eQ217)
Didn't get out that much with my camera...
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DC and Maryland (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/78m2c59a73)
Remind me never to commute from DC to the northern Baltimore suburbs at 5pm in the rain...
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Some more shots around Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, and Miami Beach (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/612t82869R)
Yeah, another couple of visits to shake off the cold weather...nothing new for me, but shared a few interesting shots.
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Lastly, a bunch from 2014 that I thought were lost (put one folder mistakenly in another), which features a lot of button copy on I-405, I-605, in the LA area (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/B2475LN06j)
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Remember all the road shots are licensed Creative Commons, as per the info on each shot in Flickr. Just let me know where you want to re-post them. :D
Been a while and have some updates...lots of time in California last year.
San Diego and Carlsbad/Oceanside et al - January 2022 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/0z8721q7G4)
Toured Old US Route 101 from San Diego up and down to Oceanside, California. CA 76, CA 78, with some sections of I-15 and I-5.
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Los Angeles stuff, mostly near Encino. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/0ar256Q3G0)
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San Jose bits and pieces; CA85 and CA87 and lots of button copy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/formulanone/shares/07oP553AXV)
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