What Do You Guys Do When Not Detecting?

[Jim in Idaho]

I'm always working on new methods of gold prospecting. I just finished up a dry sluice that works with neither water, or a blower. Completely non-dusty. It also recovers gems. I'm also working on geo-physical methods, mostly Resistivity. On the detecting end I'm developing methods using Tim Williams-designed Arc Data-Logger with a two-box setup using either dual coils with a standard detector, or using a Discovery TF-1200 that has the dual coils built-in. Gotta stay busy...LOL

Jim

[GotAU?]

20 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I own Topaz Photo AI and it is amazing with old photos for sure. I’ve used it for a few old mining photos I’ve posted. My texture work is done with a combination of Topaz Gigapixel AI for the most part with some supplemental hand editing work done in Paint.NET

The latest versions of Gigapixel AI 8 really took it up another notch over version 7 and earlier. Before it was basically just intelligent upscaling. Now it adds an additional recovery and creative components that can produce truly stunning results.

Thanks Steve, I’ll try out Gigapixel a bit and will compare to what I’m getting with Photo AI.  I do landscape and wildlife photography for fun, and invested in some bargain lenses that used to cost more than what a GPX cost when they first came out, but now these old style manual focus long lenses are considered obsolete by most pros even though they have better glass in them than the new lenses. Only drawback to them is the focus is only as sharp as my eyes are, and that’s getting softer! 😆

Some of my favorites while working in the mountains above Los Angeles- big horn sheep, spotted owls, a fog shrouded valley with the last of the sun illuminating a thunderhead, and a view from the Angeles Mountains of Long Beach harbor and Catalina Island with the ocean beyond it over 80 miles away.

 

I’m currently playing with trying to mix historic photos with current ones taken in the same locations, one of them that I need to use AI to sharpen up, add realistic shadows and then later colorize is this combined image that was taken during WWII of these German officers and a old gentleman standing at the exact same places at this subway entrance as it still appears today in modern day Paris:

 

 

[Steve Herschbach]

40 minutes ago, GotAU? said:

Thanks Steve, I’ll try out Gigapixel a bit and will compare to what I’m getting with Photo AI.  I do landscape and wildlife photography for fun, and invested in some bargain lenses that used to cost more than what a GPX cost when they first came out, but now these old style manual focus long lenses are considered obsolete by most pros even though they have better glass in them than the new lenses. Only drawback to them is the focus is only as sharp as my eyes are, and that’s getting softer! 😆

Some of my favorites while working in the mountains above Los Angeles- big horn sheep, spotted owls, a fog shrouded valley with the last of the sun illuminating a thunderhead, and a view from the Angeles Mountains of Long Beach harbor and Catalina Island with the ocean beyond it over 80 miles away.

Very nice work!

[colonel lindsey]

very cool knives! Great handiwork and skill. And isn't it a great feeling to create something in your mind and then bring it into existence with your hands?!

[colonel lindsey]

very cool knives! Great handiwork and skill. And isn't it a great feeling to create something in your mind and then bring it into existence with your hands?! When not detecting, I dream of detecting and any other type of treasure hunting/finding! For the longest time, I have dreamed of visiting Australia to hunt nuggets. I'm retired now so that is a possibility, but in the meantime, I enjoy reading about the great finds from friends there that I haven't met yet.

[mn90403]

I travel.  I'm ending a trip now from California to Florida and back!

[grumpy]

Blacksmithing, but due to a change with work commitments last year 

the blacksmithing is now mainly a hobby 

working with gem stones and rocks ,mainly agates and geodes ,cutting and grinding and polishing

[MikMak]

Family, flying, hunting and anything in the outdoors. I rebuilt a little tube and fabric Piper Pa-14 and love to explore new places with it. 

[mn90403]

17 hours ago, grumpy said:

Blacksmithing, but due to a change with work commitments last year 

the blacksmithing is now mainly a hobby 

working with gem stones and rocks ,mainly agates and geodes ,cutting and grinding and polishing

I want to do that with some Saffordites and geodes.