[davenotdead]

 

 

 

[terminal pharmacy]

nice shot of the SOH

Originally Posted by davenotdead

 

[static-harmony]

Originally Posted by terminal pharmacy

trying out some light painting this morning... this is gonna take a butt load of practice to get good at...

 

 

I wanna try this, how do you do this?

[static-harmony]

I posted these in the "post a picture of yourself" thread. However this is doing something more than a regular pose.

 

 

[terminal pharmacy]

Originally Posted by static-harmony

I wanna try this, how do you do this?

to start with night time is easier i did these during the day so my settings are a bit different to what they would be at night. f22 with my polariser (2 stops equiv) and nd filters (about 6 equivalent) so theoretically approx f30. was a 30 second exposure and i used my little 3 led work torch beam pointing towards the lens. there is some fucking increible stuff on flickr with light painting such as this from http://www.flickr.com/people/jannepaint/ :

 

light stenciling is something i really wanna try... on a side note if anyone has the sy stencils that used to be up on the website but no longer are i would really love them so i can try and do this kind of thing with them.

[_slavo_]

This was not taken by myself, however I post it here because of the colours and all.
This is the city I live in.

 

[Bertrand]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

 

I really dig this one!

Originally Posted by gmku

For Porkie and the rest who take a lot of photographs, how many would you say are "good" out of everything you take? I remember when I used to shoot a lot I'd find maybe 1 out of every 40 things I tried was at all interesting. What kind of ratio roughly are you used to dealing with here?

On a good day it would be 1/30.
On a regular day 1/40.

I might do the ones I like the best straight away, then take other clichés under slightly different angles, just to make sure there will be something nice in the end.

I liked your picture of the lonely tiny house on post 2506, for its frame.

Originally Posted by gmku

West Asheville

 

Your shots seem a bit blinded though, colours lose their power.

To be honest, I cheat a bit and add a bit more this and a bit more that with Digital Photo Professionnal, and started with Picasa2 (free).

[terminal pharmacy]

Originally Posted by Bertrand

I really dig this one!



On a good day it would be 1/30.
On a regular day 1/40.

I might do the ones I like the best straight away, then take other clichés under slightly different angles, just to make sure there will be something nice in the end.

I liked your picture of the lonely tiny house on post 2506, for its frame.



Your shots seem a bit blinded though, colours lose their power.

To be honest, I cheat a bit and add a bit more this and a bit more that with Digital Photo Professionnal, and started with Picasa2 (free).

the loss of colours in porky's stuff might be how the cam in his phone meters. I generally use spot metering and meter for mid tones so i get fairly even exposure through the whole frame, unless i wanna specifically over or under expose something.

a mate of mine who is a great photographer in tokyo gave me some good advice about shooting; he said pick a topic each time and stick to shooting only 24 or 36 frames, this focuses your brain a bit more while shooting. then after shooting those frames just go shoot whatever captures your eye.

[ploesj]

Originally Posted by gmku

For Porkie and the rest who take a lot of photographs, how many would you say are "good" out of everything you take? I remember when I used to shoot a lot I'd find maybe 1 out of every 40 things I tried was at all interesting. What kind of ratio roughly are you used to dealing with here?

i take LOADS of photos at concerts, average of 700 in two hours. after selecting and processing, i keep about ten or twenty of them. if i have ten photos i can say are really good, it's been a great night.

the first thing i thought when seeing your photos was that you might have to be a bit more selecive in what you keep. three really good shots a re a lot more memorable than twenty seven average ones with three good shots hidden between them.

also, i think some of these photos might work better if there was more contrast in them, or if you'd take smaller details. maybe its because of the small size, but now some of them just have too many details and small things in them. focusing on one thing often ends up as a way stronger image.

i hope this helps you somehow :-)

[ploesj]

and by the way, i managed to get around twenty ok shots at the andrew bird concert on saturday (security made all photograpers stop after two songs, does anyone know why you only get two or three songs at concerts sometimes? mr. bird himself looked very surprised when i told him afterwards, he didn't understand it either, it doesn't bother at all as long as we don't use flash.)

anyway, photos can be seen here: weblog
or here: flickr

[terminal pharmacy]

mmmm a honey log i had today after a german feast

 

[ploesj]

yum!

[nicfit]

 

 

[Mrs. Butcher]

here are some of my photos:

 

 

 

 

[summer]

Here are some pictures I took myself. I dunno if they're actually any good, I just like them.

 

 

[terminal pharmacy]

this would be

Originally Posted by nicfit

 

a great album cover

[terminal pharmacy]

great shot

Originally Posted by Mrs. Butcher

here are some of my photos:

 

 

 

 

[terminal pharmacy]

both nice photos

Originally Posted by summer

Here are some pictures I took myself. I dunno if they're actually any good, I just like them.

 

 

[nicfit]

Originally Posted by terminal pharmacy

this would be
a great album cover

he! Thanks (I guess that's a sort of compliment) , that was my idea, still not 100% sure about using it...
btw, that doll is 100 years old this year

Originally Posted by nicfit

 

 

these are great, especially the second one.