http://www.notrespassing.ru/photos.html 

http://www.yuccamountain.org/photo.htm

We need a pipeline-esque index for all these. URL, two lines of description, and perhaps a thumbnail of the best or most characteristic pic on the site. 

Does anyone know offhand a good source for crazy-ass underground mines and stuff? Like big caverns and tunnels with all sorts of funky mining machinery etc. I tried my hand at the google lottery but it's been a bit slow to find decent pics 

I have shitloads of pics of that sort of stuff but no URL's handy I am afraid... If you give me the ok I can email you a zip with lots of pics in for ya... 

Daz: any possibility of me getting a copy of that as well? adambailey AT mapsbytron.com is my new address. 

I had this bookmarked
http://www.pro-bergbau.de/bilder/bilderwahl.html

and this on my hdd: http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/6121/lwalshr1vt.jpg 

Kinn and whoever "Ooohhh" is post 519 =)

Its a 10.1mb rar btw 

Daz: cheers, that would be awesome :D

bdwooding -AT- gmail -DOT- com

Spirit: rockage - i will have a look through that as well :) 

omg beaten ;} 

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/07/gallery-of-fantastic-creatures/

http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/room.htm?no=1 

Dragons exist !! Really !!!??? OMG, and nobody told me !!!! 

I pasted this in irc ages ago but here it goes.
http://skynet.campus.luth.se/~chosen/bam/gtc_telescope_sg011203-02p.jpg 

Some heavy machinery for you
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=2591&start=1
check page 2 too.

This has been quite quiet lately. :/ 

"and a place turned bad" onwards

look great 

http://www.nps.gov/yell/slidefile/fire/wildfire88/crownfire/Images/12156.jpg
http://www.nps.gov/yell/slidefile/fire/wildfire88/crownfire/Images/13744.jpg
http://www.nps.gov/yell/slidefile/fire/wildfire88/crownfire/Images/12155.jpg

More at: http://www.nps.gov/yell/slidefile/fire/wildfire88/index.htm 

http://www.funmansion.com/html/Underground-City.html

There's a link posted earlier by Jago with some, but not all of these pics it seems. 

of course they can all be found here:

http://russos.livejournal.com 

Stop taking "HDR" photos. They look like shit. Bracketing your exposures and then photoshopping them together to crush the exposure range into 0-255 not only isn't HDR, it drains your image of depth and color, puts ugly haloes around things, and is a moronic amount of effort for a result that looks indistinguishable from a quick Filter->Other->High Pass in Photoshop.

Knock it off. Please. 

You're just jealous. 

HRD destroys all the shadows making pics all fullbright. and we all know how we hate fullbright, right? hdr looks sharp but synthetic and lifeless... 

I assumed that they HAD simply done a high-pass filter. It's pretty ugly in some of those photos. 

One probably needs better, calibrated displays and dark rooms for the viewers too so photographing can advance, so that it can show realistic bright and shadowy stuff. These hacks are not good.

Interesting idea though, use all the bracket photos, since the CCD dynamic range isn't as good as film. It's just done somehow very wrong here. 

There was a siggraph paper that talked about taking two photos, one with a flash and one without, to get a crisp photo with accurate lighting.

Basically it used the flash photo for all the crisp, in-focus details, but used the no-flash photo for the color and brightness of the ambient lighting. Not a pro-quality solution, but this is software that the average dude with a cheap camera can use.

http://research.microsoft.com/projects/FlashNoFlash/ 

I nowadays never use flash. It just destroys everything about the original setting and atmosphere. I'm planning on moving to a F 1.9 seventies Canonet and 800 or 1600 film for dark environments (tested it a few years ago, there is some noise but the photos have atmosphere too). I don't really like B&W either. doh. How limited technology still is today. 

I really hate flashes, but I'm no photographer, and holding my camera still for a couple of seconds to get a long exposure of a dark scene is a pain in the ass and prone to blurry results. When it works, the results are way better though.