ILPhoto Gallery (a thread to show off your pictures)

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)

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.

well, kind of.

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.

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.

following the trend of brightly lit things at night

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lextm6c1Tp1qbw37po1_500.jpg

That's really good.

oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh

O_O omg

dang

I've taken a shot of the sky for a change...
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5001/5376489578_73c13b5de1.jpg

Wow, that is one busy sky! Great lines.

Christ! The exposure is perfect.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

would love to see that large on a wall

great street grab!

I've been shooting color w/ my Olympus XA2 - it's a change

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!

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.

welcome to the problems of photography, it's funny that you know what's going on in that woman's life

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

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.

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.

And I really do stand by the 42mm (or 40mm) focal length!

Great Diana photos too! Very nice color on those.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

also finally feeling more confident shooting at night w/o flash

2nd one is brilliant (and looks familiar for some reason)

its trafalgar square? p sure ppl have shot it from every angle so its prolly been done. totally flukey it came out as well as it did

ah that's why

Funnily enough, practically the only photo I've uploaded to Flickr recently that wasn't band shoot/kids' party/crafty stuff was Trafalgar Sq...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5426189420_f9ce1446d0.jpg

down home over the weekend, as usual not exactly technically brilliant or anything

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/achillbeg.jpg

love both traf sq pics

love this thread -please keep posting everyone.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5213/5475146564_16d18cb83b_z.jpg

witch house!

lol

Here's the latest from the new camera, which I am very please with.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5212/5472196455_c15c27f79b.jpg

"pleased" wow I look illiterate

omg that is kickass

that's the leica?

are they super easy to focus. i dont really understand rangefinders.

they don't really look like 'pro' cameras so ppl feel more at ease around them, also they are more quiet, not really any easier/harder to focus than an SLR...they are much easier to focus at nighttime

at least that's why I use one nowadays

leica FOC'S