ILPhoto Gallery (a thread to show off your pictures)

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!
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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:

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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

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

Duke Street St James's, Fiat 600, Fri Nov 12
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An old poor-man's-macro (£6 extension tube and a 50/1.8), May 2008
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Ferry Cross The Mersey, Sun Nov 7
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love yr pic not_goodwin, and MJ that macro is coooool

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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:

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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:

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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

Love the Ross Lake pic.

Huge icicles (now 15-20 inches long) hanging off our guttering outside the girls' bedroom window...
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good icicles photo, michael.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/5227902822_53a472781d.jpg

http://dyao.tumblr.com/photo/1280/1685518527/1/tumblr_lcgupp7LJn1qbw37p

could also be crossposted in wdyll

nice pics btw, RR and MJ

boss

Nice work Mr Jones and RR, Dayo, your shots really are something else!

Foggy day today.
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thanks dayo and not_goodwin, and good photos both of you.

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nice photo gbx.
where did you take it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

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

Another one to keep the thread ticking over...
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wow, where's that??

daaaaaaaang

nice!

great photo not_goodwin.

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Thanks guys, it's a nice little place east of Manchester (UK) called Dovestone.

RR is that you upside down?

ha, only a certain kinda english person will describe a deserted reservoir in the hills in the coldest winter in decades as 'a nice little place'

nice photo tho

Please to describe, I'm intrigued :)

a very english english person!

I guess I'm that then.
Not the worst thing I've been called.

i guess a very northern english person

was the reservoir frozen?

RR is that you upside down?