ILPhoto Gallery (a thread to show off your pictures)

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Delta Delta Delta by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

where do UK people get B/W film developed these days? i just finished my last roll, but apparently since i last shot one (2005?) snappy snaps went bust.

You mean yr local branch of Snappy Snaps? Cos they're still going strong. Expensive though - I've only had a couple of B&W rolls developed there and thankfully someone else was paying...

I'm fortunate to have branches of Jessops and Jacobs close to where I work, so I just use them. Expect to pay £10+ though for non-C41 B&W dev/print/scan. You can probably send away and have it done better/cheaper - check the back pages of Amateur Photographer.

Nothin' special, but just trying to dig something good out of opportunistic snaps of late; if the kids won't cooperate for the camera, grab a detail while they're distracted, etc...

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where do UK people get B/W film developed these days? i just finished my last roll, but apparently since i last shot one (2005?) snappy snaps went bust.

― caek, Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:18 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

mail it to me, I'll develop and scan it for free

(serious, though!)

(I should point out that the kids were not involved in the shot of fabric scissors! I'm not that irresponsible.)

Dayo: REALLY?

yeah sure!

ilxmail me (should work) if interested

Not sure I've got any non-C41 film loaded in any cameras right now but I'd definitely be interested next time around (prob a few weeks at the rate at which I shoot film). Thanks!

haha dayo, i will try jessops but if they are charging crazy money then i might take you up on that!

tbh a bit baffled about what's actually on the roll (hp5). it came from old camera that's been in storage for like 5 years. there is a photo of me taking a picture of my baby brother with it. he is now 5 and i assume that picture is on the roll, but apart from the that and the ~5 i shot at a wedding last weekend i have no idea. ha. film!

I've just inherited a 1959 Ilford Sportsman II from a friend - it had a roll of (12 exp!) Kodakcolor 100 in it, so who knows what's on that. The lens looks very fogged so I'll run a 24exp roll of Agfa Vista 200 through it (which seemed to be the free roll of choice back when I was shooting only film, I've got loads of it - probably from Welwyn branch of PhotoOptix, circa 2000-01) and see what - if anything - I get.

Nice work everyone.
Here's another to keep the thread going
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Lichen by carljgodwin, on Flickr

looks like a giant red mountain, lovely

Oh, my! Amazing colours.

I have decided to raid my hard-drive archives bung one photo per month (starting from Jan 2007) each day on my Facebook wall. No kids, no friends (those photos aren't Public on Flickr so they probably shouldn't be on FB at all). Trying to avoid stuff that I know is already on Flickr (but mostly failing so far). This is partly because Lightroom 3.x comes with Publish To Facebook and I couldn't resist using it for *something* (despite the dreadful FB compression).

Something a little different for me,
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Untitled by carljgodwin, on Flickr

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Nothing special about this (and apologies for the fake borders), but I finally dusted off the Bronica SQ-A the other night. Finished off a roll of Provia 400F and then fiddled with the Polaroid back for about 5min, trying to remember how I was supposed to set up the camera to use. Wasted one print, got this on the second attempt:

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These are couple of photos made with my new killer camera/lens/budget developer/scanner combo... I've got a system!

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rah

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That's interesting RR, it looks like Birch Bark.

Thanks! And, yes, it's birch bark (though I made the colors brighter than they really are).

Don't usually put photos of the kids on this board, but this one is a bit different. Mostly I'm posting it cos I almost wiped it - lost in the masses of recent kids' party pictures, I hadn't noticed that this card had undownloaded pix on it...

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Very clever and nice focusing Mr Jones.
Raided the archives for this one.
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Wheat by carljgodwin, on Flickr

This is disorienting in person, as well:

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A very lovely whippet of my acquaintance...

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maybe this is the right thread.

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I really like that!

Me too. Was the Last Supper look intentional?

Maybe it was - perhaps that was the idea behind it all.

It's a room in the primate house in Berlin Zoo.

L-R: Gorilla, Bonobo, Chimpanzee

or is it

Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Bonobo.

A fellow outside insisted on giving an account of the Bonobo species and chastening those who confuse them with the Chimpanzee.

Glad that others like the image too.

This is just sort of shameless, since I like this photo but it isn't getting much attention on flickr:

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What can I say? I liked the way all of these people were standing! But it isn't getting the views that I'd hoped for (increasing flickr traffic might be another topic, although maybe that's a bit boring and sad?).

I love the primate kitchen photo, by the way.

I finally hunkered down and got a flickr account in order, but pictures are going up at a trickle. I've always like this one:

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Thank you Chinavision. I like the angles of gazing and the people in your picture. It is helped, anchored perhaps, by the US flag.

Increasing Flickr traffic feels like a good idea (and my traffic is probably tiny next to others here) - but is it? I always like it when people look at a picture - but then, I don't know these people, I don't get anything much from their attention, and maybe it is best to stay tucked away. I feel that increased traffic may be a false value. I suppose the truth is that I want a certain relatively small number of people to see them and be interested in them. But I understand the appeal of a bigger number.

ps / if you do want to get more people looking at that picture, I notice it doesn't have any tags. Have you considered starting with 'hot Asian babe'?

You know, I used to tag heavily but for some reason stopped doing so AND deleted most of my old tags about a year ago. Something about it just bugged me (among other things, probably the fact that my dad was such a relentless tagger that all of his photos would have things like "photography" "color" "mountain" "hill" "blue" "california" "united states" "landscape" etc.). I think seeing tags next to a picture seemed too literal and clunky! This is why only some pictures get titles too. I was also envious of people who seemed to get high viewing rates but not only had untagged photos, but had un-grouped photos.
I can tell myself that flickr stats are pretty useless, except that I do nothing with my pictures *except* put them on flickr. So that is really my only payoff. I don't anticipate ever making money from photography, so I'd at least like as many people as possible to see and enjoy a picture that I make, if it's any good.

Nearly binned this as i was messing about at the time, it's kinda grown on me
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Untitled by carljgodwin, on Flickr

But it isn't getting the views that I'd hoped for

Do you comment on other people's photo's much? I found once i started looking around and commenting on what i liked, people returned the compliment.

I have to admit that I don't comment as much as I probably could or should. I lack words too often and just end up saying things like "nice!" or "wow!" so instead I tend to favorite pictures relentlessly.

hey chinavision:

- is that a dan paterson (that might not be his name) piece? it's amazing

- & your picture at the crossing is ace. it has this drama of like jeff wall or something.

(oh, no, it's this guy; i thought it was this

Yeah the Madison Square Park piece is pretty nice! It is surprisingly disorienting to look at since that sort of spatial distortion is so completely associated with 2d pictures.
And thank you about the crossing photo! I was really into the way that woman was holding the camera. When I got the photos back I was pretty surprised at how posed everyone looked to me.

I must admit I used to be quite addicted to the Flickr stats page - I'd like the photostream as a whole to get 100+ hits each day. If the graph dropped down to low double figures and I didn't have anything new to share I'd usually freshen things up a bit by blogging an old picture or uploading something random from the archives. (When I've just uploaded a load of kids' party pics and sent out Guest Passes, the hit count goes through the roof).

Well, now, it doesn't seem like I have to do anything to get those 100+ hits - mostly due to "unknown source" referrals. Not entirely what they are - ppl blogging my pictures? Accessing them via a phone app? Stuff like Tumblr does actually show up, so it's not necessarily that. 70% of all my traffic on a quiet day (no new content for a while) comes from these unknown sources. Any ideas?

I don't publicise my flickr acct much or do much tagging so when I get comments it's always kind of amazing to me. This one dude even wrote an entire POEM abt one of my pictures. That's what he does, apparently, leaves poems on pictures that 'inspire' him.

Another guy complimented my photo album full of Arshavin photoshops: "I love this series of shrugging Arshavin"

From what I've read, unknown source hits can include blogs etc. that block referral data, but also from direct hits, like from a bookmark or an email etc. I also wonder if sites like flickriver have something to do with it.

Hmmm. I was curious because, on quiet days when I've not uploaded anything new for a while and there's no compelling reason for friends to be ploughing through my photos, instead of a total daily hit-count of around 60 (search engine hits for stuff within and without Flickr, usually), I now get a hit-count of around 150 and it's overwhelmingly "unknown source" making up the difference.

For example, yesterday (having not uploaded anything since Jun 2):
136 views - 41 within Flickr, 20 Google/Yahoo image search, 1 Facebook, 1 ohdeedoh, 73 unknown source.

Occasionally, I'll get a big spike on one image - 55 views in a day, all unknown source.

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I'm still very pleased with the lower-contrast look I can get with the new lens and scanner. This is around Bowling Green after work the other day.

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Modest and pleasant.

I liked this one, when I had cropped the top
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An older one, that I am not too bothered about, but my dad likes so I don't feel so bad about him chipping in to mend my lens
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This, as I had such a hellish weekend trying to get an article about boring restaurants and tourists, that it was so nice to find that the monks alms giving was not a tourist trap for this pious little fella
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Bless him

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1st one I've posted for a month, I need to get shooting more.
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Chips by carljgodwin, on Flickr

Another,
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Justice by carljgodwin, on Flickr