Loving the colours and contrast on the last bunch of pix on here.
gbx: yeah, I reflexively do more or the less the same thing to images except when I'm really stuck and I resort to a more extreme treatment. S-curve, deepen the blacks, clarity and vibrance boosts, pop out faces with adjustment brushes, gradient skies. Can't help meself.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 5 November 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
'Fuck you' is great. Where were those taken?― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Friday, November 5, 2010 11:57 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Friday, November 5, 2010 11:57 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
thanks! those last few were all taken at my friends' wedding in rural new mexico. most in attendance were current or former dirtbags.
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 8 November 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, really loving just using a preset first-pass development scheme (curve, desat, etc). great for treating snaps i don't really plan on working over too much.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5158168135_50dc20b740_b.jpgall city by skowlyfield, on Flickr
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 8 November 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's a recent one that I'm very proud of, from a camera I no longer use (Canonet... the rangefinder is way off, there are some scratches on the rear element, etc.):
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1363/5111408295_a63daf4820_z.jpgAt the Rivington by Altair Nouveau, on Flickr
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Like, that photo looks pretty good, but seriously half of the shots I ever got back from that camera were out of focus (and I think that it wasn't only the rangefinder mechanism, but maybe event the focus ring/lens barrel itself). I knew this when using it but kept it up just cuz I liked the feel so much!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I really loved my canonet for the two months it worked :-/
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
lol I dropped my canonet and it stopped working. sold it on ebay for parts
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i tried advancing the film
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
On a happier note, I couldn't be more pleased with my recent batch of Olympus RCs.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
people who follow my tumblr seemed to like this one
http://dyao.tumblr.com/photo/1280/1520730669/1/tumblr_lblgfqnhK41qbw37p
this couple is swagged the fuck out
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
niice
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool couple and nicely capture dayo. I'm not comfortable shooting strangers, how do others feel about it?anyway, here's another sunset, i really need to find something else to shoot!http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/5161006988_8af99206d6.jpg
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
great shot dayao. that dude is too cool.
I normally drift towards taking photographs of buildings, so am really pleased with how well this one turned out.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/5165581928_ab6fc2f1aa_z.jpg
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Thursday, 11 November 2010 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't find it very natural or easy to take photos of people myself, but I keep trying to make an effort of it. The boldest I've gotten was maybe in the following (and a few others like it) where I decided I was going to take flash photos of people on the street:
It helps me to have a camera like the Olympus XA2 though, since it's very very unobtrusive and there is no time spent focusing or adjusting aperture and exposure time. And I just try to look like a confused tourist.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoops, sorry
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2704/4538276025_c333d83eb3_z.jpgUntitled by Altair Nouveau, on Flickr
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
S-curve, deepen the blacks, clarity and vibrance boosts, pop out faces with adjustment brushes, gradient skies.
I've now got an Aperture 3 preset called 'Michael Jones', works a treat!
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not comfortable shooting strangers, how do others feel about it?
I pretty much only take pictures of strangers now and it doesn't get any easier!
great street pics though, you and chinavision! chinavision, were you going for a bruce gilden look?
― swagl (dayo), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Not really, although I kinda love the video of him walking around sticking his flash in people's faces. I just realized that I liked strong fill flash and was feeling a bit emboldened. Helps to have a tiny camera.I definitely still get kinda nervous taking photos of people on the street, and have occasionally had people get pretty pissed off. Many people really do seem to believe that you are breaking a law if you photograph them.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 12 November 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry for dumping, i haven't had LR for a while
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/5147068969_82351c16be_z.jpgfriends by skowlyfield, on Flickr
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Friday, 12 November 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Donations to my PayPal account gladly accepted!
Funnily enough, I've never created a preset for what I (almost always) do in LR; I just react to each picture individually, but I end up doing more or less the same thing to each one (the areas of greatest variability are usually midtone brightness and the bottom end, especially if I'm shooting in low light and deliberately underexposing by 1 to 1 2/3 stops.)
Owe the thread some more pix but it's all been kids' parties and friends lately and I can't put those here. Will take the 40D out today. Otherwise, it's raiding the archives...
― Michael Jones, Friday, 12 November 2010 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i would love to take more photos of random people, always produces interesting pics. i just can't bring myself to be that confident though.
need to get out with cam this winter.
― F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Shot from the hip after my sisters dog chased them, not the sharpest of photo's, but not bad seeing as it was from the hip!http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1404/5183605455_2bbf8614ff.jpg
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Right, I'm three weeks behind, though I've little to show for it...
Duke Street St James's, Fiat 600, Fri Nov 12http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5172569545_06c746baff.jpg
An old poor-man's-macro (£6 extension tube and a 50/1.8), May 2008http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/2532417386_40efb7a085.jpg
Ferry Cross The Mersey, Sun Nov 7http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1088/5159828794_884efebf5b.jpg
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
love yr pic not_goodwin, and MJ that macro is coooool
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5193014859_9e2abf6baf_b.jpgP1000034.jpg by skowlyfield, on Flickr
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Sunday, 21 November 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
nice!
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
thx, i like the shadow/reflection interplay
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Sunday, 21 November 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
good photos michael, not_goodwin and big muffin.
cityscape:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/80259710@N00/5194269964/" title="Cityscape by Laurent Jacquinot, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5194269964_5f16984e4f.jpg" width="500" height="109" alt="Cityscape" /></a>
― RR, Sunday, 21 November 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, try again:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5194269964_5f16984e4f.jpg
― RR, Sunday, 21 November 2010 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5192614843_0de236cb41_z.jpgUntitled by Altair Nouveau, on Flickr
Lucky day!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 26 November 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/lake.jpg
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 November 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
that's where you store the dead bodies, eh
― .\ /. (dayo), Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
where is that?
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
What I saw walking out of the train station this morning:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/5216911297_6151ec7c8c.jpgEdinburgh castle in snow by treefell, on Flickr
― treefell, Monday, 29 November 2010 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
xp local lake, central co mayo.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Monday, 29 November 2010 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
lough conn?
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
very ~atmospheric~ innit
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
boring old ross lake, i'm afraid. just a rain filed hole in a field most days
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Monday, 29 November 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the Ross Lake pic.
Huge icicles (now 15-20 inches long) hanging off our guttering outside the girls' bedroom window...http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5281/5226848749_e5c37319dc.jpg
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
good icicles photo, michael.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/5227902822_53a472781d.jpg
― RR, Friday, 3 December 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dyao.tumblr.com/photo/1280/1685518527/1/tumblr_lcgupp7LJn1qbw37p
could also be crossposted in wdyll
― .\ /. (dayo), Friday, 3 December 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
nice pics btw, RR and MJ
boss
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Friday, 3 December 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice work Mr Jones and RR, Dayo, your shots really are something else!
Foggy day today.http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5234813286_f29b6fb759.jpg
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 5 December 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks dayo and not_goodwin, and good photos both of you.
― RR, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5207/5236197457_5829d72020_z.jpg
― kanellos (gbx), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
nice photo gbx.where did you take it?
― RR, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
western wisconsin, on thanksgiving.
fact: it has long been a dream of a mine to write a picaresque novel that somehow tied into the tunguska event
― kanellos (gbx), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Another one to keep the thread ticking over...http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5041/5240951346_82c202b315.jpg
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, where's that??
― steendriver DUMB BIG, his HOOS got HOOS (dayo), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link