All in a days work

[caryr]

I went over and helped some friends work on their house Monday. It took about ten hours to go from first log off the truck to last log placed. We didn't work that hard and took a couple breaks. I spent most of the day setting tongs on the trailers. In the upper photo you may notice those are skidding tongs and not lifting tongs. I mentioned that to the people running the assembly and they didn't seem to care. There was a pair of lifting tongs on the crane, so I don't know why they didn't use them. Since I'm sure someone will ask, it was an 18 ton crane. I have more photos that I took during the break times if anyone is interested.

Cary

 

[Zac]

All in a day? Nice work!

Here's a picture of our project from last summer

 

[Zac]

side view

 

[Zac]

stair case....

 

[caryr]

Zac,

Here is your front of the house picture fixed up a bit to show more detail.

Cary

 

[caryr]

And the same for the stairs.

 

[Colin]

That house is so awesome, geez!

It's gonna look great landscaped out, and all.

 

[glens]

Hi Cary.

I have konqueror set to display out-of-page images using display. For images such as these I'll usually hit F6 [enter] to sharpen them by the default for that function amount of radius=0, sd=1 and if they're too dark, I'll hit shift+g [enter] for the default gamma adjustment of 1.6.

In the case of these three, -gamma 1.5 worked well-enough on the command line, though it might be a bit light for the side-view image.

Here's the staircase at -sharpen 0x1 -gamma 1.5

Sharpening web-sourced images almost always seems necessary for these middle-aged eyes...

Glen

 

[Zac]

I thought the light from the sunset would help hide all the places where we said "this isn't a church, that's good enough!"

 

[glens]

I might make more of a living at carpentry/construction than at treework, sometimes, and what I say about something less critical is "it ain't kitchen cabinets" or, in general, lately, "I'm starting to care less and less about more and more" (in terms of fine detail).

Here's the sunset-lit front sharpened a bit. Much better detail evident over the fuzzy (softened) original.

Glen

 

[caryr]

Glen,

I know what you mean about aging eyes.

I like your versions of the photos better. I guess I need to install ImageMagick on our Internet machine so I can automate these things as well. I just did a quick and dirty expansion of the shadows with the gimp to pull out a few more details and called it good.

I also like to apply the “better is the enemy of good enough” axiom from time to time.

Zac,

Don't worry about any blemishes. There are plenty of marks from the tongs and a few missing pieces on my friends logs as well. I can even find a bunch of “good enoughs” and a few “unacceptables” in my own home, which most people find quite spectacular.

Cary