Nothing to be embarrassed about treefell, that shot has great lighting, and as AA said, great to practice on too.
― not_goodwin, Monday, 13 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
c'mon Mr Jones, you started this thread.
Taken on Christmas Evehttp://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5303519027_20f901f09d.jpg
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh gosh. I'm letting the side down here, aren't I? Barely took the 40D out this month, even for Snowpocalypse Part Deux.
Still, I have a new toy - Lensbaby 3G...http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5301486043_7a6ebd5888.jpg
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
love that sky xp
i miss the sky
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5286/5316135342_3e5f1e1b58_z.jpgTimes Square by Altair Nouveau, on Flickr
Love this guy.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 2 January 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
girl on the left makes that pic!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 2 January 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Great shot, it's like a still from a film!
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 2 January 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks. Like with so many people shots, I just got very lucky.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 2 January 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
graet pic!
― dayo, Sunday, 2 January 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
some good photos posted recently.
michael, what is your most recent photo of?
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5090/5340337410_edb164bbe7_z.jpg
― RR, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I like that, RR.Should we start a new thread for 2011? It's probably about time for one.
Here are a few pictures I took during xmas hols. I only took about 20 photos the entire 17 days I was away visiting family. I intended to take more, but... it's too cold to be outside for long in Edmonton in December and my dog will only pose for so long.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5347637180_48c0a5e0c9.jpghttp://farm6.static.flickr.com/5166/5347636898_9831a8af1b.jpghttp://farm6.static.flickr.com/5242/5347637040_88cda87a61.jpg
Does anyone have any tips/tricks for dealing with light pollution? Usually the sky in my nighttime photos comes out DARK RED. I have figured out how to kind of sort of maybe fix this in LR/Photoshop but is there a way of dealing with light pollution when taking the actual photo?
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.houstonmagic.com/Photos_files/image054.jpg
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
sup
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Usually the sky in my nighttime photos comes out DARK RED.
not sure i have any useful tips here. i'm 99% shop and 1% shot.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
which reminds me - some new T dot night images:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5164/5331606738_c94bbbffe6_z.jpg
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
salsa shark lives near Tron.Great shots, what & where are those btw?
Also the light pollution thing, could be white balance, but you can alter that in Lr, so i er dunno.
agree on the new thread, tis time.
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
what a moving photo, meisenfek
not_goodwin, the buildings comprise Edmonton's Muttart Conservatory. Each pyramid houses a different 'zone' of plants (desert, tropical, temperate, and a changing exhibit). It's a super place.
I did find that adjusting the w/b in LR helped with the light pollution (tbh was too cold to stand around fiddling with it while taking the photos). Though looking through other flickr photos tagged with Muttart Conservatory, I saw a couple nighttime shots that made interesting use of light pollution (here and here)
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
In post, aside from adjusting white balance, you could try working with the color sliders in LR - drop the red and see how that affects the rest of the image, etc.?
AFAIK, there's no in-camera/exposure solution - that's why astrophotographers basically have to be in the middle of nowhere.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
well, kind of.
― caek, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Yup I did the colour sliders thing too, so it looks like I was mostly on track in my own attempts to combat light pollution. Good to know. I think I'm just hesitant to use too much photoshop/LR so I always assume I'm overdoing it. I don't know. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions various people.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm just hesitant to use too much photoshop/LR
This is me also, I want my shots to look as close to what I've seen as possible, the most I ever do to a shot is sharpen and saturate a little.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
following the trend of brightly lit things at night
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lextm6c1Tp1qbw37po1_500.jpg
― dayo, Monday, 17 January 2011 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
That's really good.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 17 January 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh
― ENBB, Monday, 17 January 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
O_O omg
― Solid Gold Danzas (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 January 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
dang
― ullr saves (gbx), Monday, 17 January 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I've taken a shot of the sky for a change...http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5001/5376489578_73c13b5de1.jpg
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 22 January 2011 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, that is one busy sky! Great lines.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Saturday, 22 January 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Christ! The exposure is perfect.
― Balls is significantly to the left of Brown (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 22 January 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
not_goodwin doesn't update his Flickr stream very often but, my goodness, when he does... Incredibly high quality threshold.
Almost embarrassed to post this in comparison...but we went to Clacton-on-Sea to see a man about a car and the sun came out...http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5243/5379291344_dcc5eec36f.jpg
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 23 January 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
not_goodwin doesn't update his Flickr stream very often
I really need to make an effort to get out more with the camera, had a bit of a dry spell since before Christmas.
Mike, that's a gorgeous shot, nothing to be embarrassed about. To be honest, I've learn't a lot from your stream, having a nosey at peoples Exif data is quite helpful.
Thanks for the compliment btw.
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
OK here's a new one (not yet on flickr):
http://www.altairnouveau.com/grimace_small.jpg
I knew that I got this one right after I hit the shutter! Been feeling bold lately.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Also I continue to be in looooove with the Olympus 35 RC. It's a great little camera, and the 42mm focal length is pretty ideal most of the time.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
But I played with a Petri Color 35 today and was a little jealous... aperture and shutter speed on separate dials on the top of the camera! Focus on a 3rd dial! You can use the whole thing with just your right hand.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
would love to see that large on a wall
― dirty man haw (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
great street grab!
I've been shooting color w/ my Olympus XA2 - it's a change
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Sunday, 30 January 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw the XA2 is one of my favorites. Sometimes I think I'd like an XA, but then I figure if I'm gonna use a point and shoot I might as well use the one that doesn't demand focusing.And thanks!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 30 January 2011 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
it is funny to imagine that something really awful has happened to the woman in that photo above, and the reaction from you all is "the 42mm focal length is pretty ideal" and "great street grab!" and "would love to see that large on a wall"... i mean, obviously we hope nothing bad has happened, but it's kind of entertaining to read the last few posts as if they were written by cold misanthropic androids.
― Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 30 January 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome to the problems of photography, it's funny that you know what's going on in that woman's life
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Sunday, 30 January 2011 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I got a little Diana camera for Christmas. First time I've used real film in over ten years.
First roll, still a little rusty:
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/beatsrainbow.jpg
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/toycarsnow.jpg
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/chand.jpg
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/pyedoor.jpg
Not much to this one except it's cool because I took it at two o'clock in the morning!
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/2amsky.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 30 January 2011 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I think that was actually more of a grimace in the sunlight than anything else (the look she made was really brief) but yeah, if you take pictures of strangers then you never know what they're doing or thinking. And if you've decided to take pictures of strangers then you're probably also inclined to take pictures of them when they're making unusual gestures, expressions, or just seem to be doing weird/different things or standing in a strange way or holding something unusual, etc. And then when all is said and done you end up with a photograph and are then ready to talk about "photographic" things, like the focal length of the lens, or whether or not you think a picture is "successful." Any narrative you imagine at that point is really going to be something of your own invention.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 30 January 2011 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Like it's significant that a picture is of something that actually *happened* in a real place, but in the end it's still just a picture without time or context. It usually doesn't tell a story, but just shows the way things looked for an instant once from a certain perspective, inside a rectangle.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 30 January 2011 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
And I really do stand by the 42mm (or 40mm) focal length!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 30 January 2011 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Great Diana photos too! Very nice color on those.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 30 January 2011 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah love that look PP! I sent a roll for x-processing the other day, getting it back tomorrow.
chinavision otm, also 42mm is a boss focal length.
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Sunday, 30 January 2011 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I wasn't criticising the voyeurism of street photography or anything like that! I just meant it was actually funny (for me) to pretend the woman was suffering, and then to read the comments in that context. When you squint, the comments could be read as if written by amoral technicians, enthusiastically dissecting the capture of human misery, or something. I understand full well that this was not the case! But, as I said, it was funny, and easy, to pretend it was.
I enjoy this thread, and there is a lot of great stuff in it!
― Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 30 January 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
an old one - but i saw people getting nailed with a water cannon on the news the other day in almost the same spot this shot was taken.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/5115958721_32ea382d6f_z.jpg
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 30 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Oy, yeah... I don't mean to be combative or anything. If anything I think it's nice to be challenged from time to time so you can give a little more thought to what you're doing.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 31 January 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5455109758_aa576d402a_b.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5454497621_a12d5707d0_b.jpg
playing w/ my camera on the way to work. the way to work is p nice btw.
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link
also finally feeling more confident shooting at night w/o flash
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 10:58 (thirteen years ago) link