ILPhoto Gallery (a thread to show off your pictures)

I owe this thread three pictures... They're not very interesting...

Brick Lane, 7:44pm, Oct 22
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1217/5108322712_21ef21d51c.jpg

V&A Museum, 4:36pm, Aug 29
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4998932883_cc124c337b.jpg

New Brighton beach, 8:10pm, Jun 13
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4704178267_4b504503d2.jpg

love that first one, salsa shark!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5116487138_877f4dd275_z.jpg

Michael, would you mind detailing what camera you used for the Brighton and V&A pics?

Click through and you can see the full EXIF data on Flickr - but it was a Canon EOS 40D, using 28mm (V&A) and 12-24mm lenses (New Brighton).

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1339/5142246848_b9bb0d6e1f_z.jpg

Great cityscape Thermo.
Red Wharf Bay in Wales, was hoping for some spectacular sunset on the beach shots, but weather was dire all week :(
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1177/5127893243_f1f459ccd1.jpg

Great photo not_goodwin.

Here's one of mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80259710@N00/4961483377/in/photostream/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1094/5147685540_7f494f9a6d_b.jpg
P1000326.jpg by skowlyfield, on Flickr

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uh the focus is slightly 'off' on the first one... ;)

love the colors/composition on the second!

yeah the AF went for maggie's torso and not her wrist :/

finally ponied up for lr3 and "released" a bunch of wedding photos from this summer

gettin back in the game imo

thx!

also tried out setting the tone curve/desaturation/white balance to be uniform across the batch, to make it seem more like they'd all been shot on the same roll of film

valid strategy? MJ: do you basically use the same tone curve for everything and then tweak? all yr pics are so characteristically "yours"

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4858755238_7fa33f731e_b.jpg
kickball! by skowlyfield, on Flickr

really just the best wedding ever

'Fuck you' is great. Where were those taken?

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.

'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

thanks! those last few were all taken at my friends' wedding in rural new mexico. most in attendance were current or former dirtbags.

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.jpg
all city by skowlyfield, on Flickr

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.jpg
At the Rivington by Altair Nouveau, on Flickr

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!

yeah I really loved my canonet for the two months it worked :-/

lol I dropped my canonet and it stopped working. sold it on ebay for parts

i tried advancing the film

On a happier note, I couldn't be more pleased with my recent batch of Olympus RCs.

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

niice

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

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

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:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1363/5111408295_a63daf4820_z.jpg
At the Rivington by Altair Nouveau, on Flickr

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.

Whoops, sorry

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2704/4538276025_c333d83eb3_z.jpg
Untitled by Altair Nouveau, on Flickr

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!

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?

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.

sorry for dumping, i haven't had LR for a while

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friends by skowlyfield, on Flickr

I've now got an Aperture 3 preset called 'Michael Jones', works a treat!

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...

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.

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

Right, I'm three weeks behind, though I've little to show for it...

Duke Street St James's, Fiat 600, Fri Nov 12
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5172569545_06c746baff.jpg

An old poor-man's-macro (£6 extension tube and a 50/1.8), May 2008
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/2532417386_40efb7a085.jpg

Ferry Cross The Mersey, Sun Nov 7
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1088/5159828794_884efebf5b.jpg

love yr pic not_goodwin, and MJ that macro is coooool

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5193014859_9e2abf6baf_b.jpg
P1000034.jpg by skowlyfield, on Flickr

nice!

thx, i like the shadow/reflection interplay

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>

sorry, try again:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5194269964_5f16984e4f.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5192614843_0de236cb41_z.jpg
Untitled by Altair Nouveau, on Flickr

Lucky day!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/lake.jpg

that's where you store the dead bodies, eh

where is that?

What I saw walking out of the train station this morning:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/5216911297_6151ec7c8c.jpg
Edinburgh castle in snow by treefell, on Flickr

xp local lake, central co mayo.

lough conn?

very ~atmospheric~ innit

boring old ross lake, i'm afraid. just a rain filed hole in a field most days