ILPhoto Gallery (a thread to show off your pictures)

Nice!

Fun with fast shutter speeds and water features...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6060022055_2c4804f413_z.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/6060571152_7de198ce20_z.jpg

Both great shots.

Wondered around Media City in Salford, some nice buildings.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6065067848_d56061b850.jpg

You are good at this.

I really like that one. Much better in colour than B&W.

This one has been getting attention:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6086/6062186550_66da4277b8_z.jpg

favorited!

I'm not surprised kenan, nice work!

Nothing special, but I'm trying to get back in the game:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6070/6071019911_6341c28b15_z.jpg

Black and white week came and went so fast. I put in overtime last night, though -- until a cop kicked me out of Lincoln Park, in fact. Which has never happened before. I didn't even know they could do that.

Anyway. There's this.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6087/6079209510_aa3c8e9e3f_z.jpg

http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=14414

Took a while ago. Felt bad about it, but everyone else was there with their phones. Guy pulled out of the canal after falling in drunk.

Not that clear but was just trying to catch the moment without being morbid.

ooooh i love the dragon tortoise xxp

wow that's a morbid pic! (good on ya for capturing it tho - not something you see everyday)

Nice perspective kenan, why did you get kicked out?

Proger, strong stuff, not sure if i could bring myself to capture that.

Really like this, not sure why though. It reminds me of a film, but i don't know which...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6079991669_b57d7068ab.jpg
Islington Mill by carljgodwin, on Flickr

can almost imagine you are on the roof and those are skylights

Just realised my photo is teal & orange :(

Some good pics on here, Feel bad that I had to show a dead dude. Have some film to use up, will try and get shots this weekend, but then they'll sit in my fridge forever as I am between jobs. But you've still inspired me.

What do people think of this one? http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1514

It is the only pic I have ever taken that I have put on the wall. It was film and taken in India, I saw the man walking past and literally leapt from the taxi door to snap. Was well chuffed when it came out. But is it any good.
My nephews treat it as where's wally, (waldo) as the day before I met the guy (I presume the same guy) elsewhere and took his pic, but he asked for 50 rupees. See? http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=14012
These are up here on an india thread, but as I have three beers in me, I have the guts to ask for feedback.

Cheers

Just had a look through some of your shots Proger, nice work indeed.

Another one from the lakes, it really is a beautiful place.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6083/6085461893_c2b0b96467.jpg
Untitled by carljgodwin, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6185/6091813354_22bbc5a275.jpg
Hard luck building by dysign, on Flickr

Thank you Mr Goodwin

Was housebound due to hurricane Irene, which led to:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6085/6094773850_8b71c8a365_z.jpg

and

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6094241815_b2893a9662.jpg

I like this kid. I thought I was taking a picture of the newspaper in front of his face, but he reacted quickly and gave me this look.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6082/6094689091_a9f5980f49_z.jpg

He looks like that Napoleon Dynamite, I would paste an appropriate quote, but I don't know the movie so well

That's to your credit, IMO.

Wow, now that you mention it!

also trying to like some photos of things that are not just my friends being posers

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/319558_10150273982510829_530205828_8256494_6374102_n.jpg
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/307363_10150273982220829_530205828_8256490_3516030_n.jpg
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/306178_10150273982290829_530205828_8256491_6290035_n.jpg

love the colors in the second shot

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6189/6106596446_52cc3bfde8_z.jpg

this bird was a p stupid bird

http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=14420
Not a great pic but mad clouds that I took down a stop.

Thanks for looking

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6083/6118392606_77a0567bf7.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6114639049_0253f252da.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6208/6110661258_5153fce708.jpg

I like my photos lately!
Using my dad's old Rollei 35 he just gave me.

good shots! hey does the film advance crank swing back automatically after advancing on your rollei or do you have to nudge it

yr photos are the greatest, chinavision. meant to say so last time you posted up the kinda jeff-wall-ish pic of some bystanders looking up. am doing my usual thing of thinking i need a rollei 35!, but they're so neatly composed.

& i love your colour studies plax

Chinavision, that's great!

Coupla randoms...

Kerbside after a rainstorm, shot from the car:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6061/6107571322_f2fe82d383_z.jpg

Pillarbox in lovely evening sun:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6207/6114101108_3169352c67_z.jpg

Thanks everyone!
The Rollei is really a whole lot of fun, and I'm telling myself now that I do not need any more 35mm cameras. At. All. I think the Rollei has got to be the last one in, and I can start shedding those that I don't use much anymore.
The advance crank swings back on its own just fine. It's also one of the more pleasing advances I've used. There is a really satisfying final click when you've pulled it out all the way. It's not smooth like a Leica, but it is fun to use. Plus, left thumb!

Dayo, I'm curious: are you not posting to flickr anymore? I know you're on to developing and making prints now. Do your pictures no longer enter a computer?

flickr was never my main publishing station - I have a tumblr but I am thinking about deleting it. my goal is to set up a website but I'm not sure how I'll go about doing that.

my tastes towards my own work are also changing, right now I am slowly going through all the stuff I shot last year, selecting new photos I missed and scratching photos that I don't like anymore. it's an involving process! I still scan everything I develop... it's just not stored online

some nice stuff y'all

Yeah gotcha... I liked your photostream so was just wondering! Can I ask where the tumblr is?
I still have nothing but flickr. Keep trying to start a website but am apparently too lazy or distracted.

i started scanning photos recently, never having wanted to expend the effort before, & have been so pleased with having digital copies of everything; i include one when i e-mail a friend, etc, it is nice. i put some things on flickr & though i think it's super-neat and ergonomic there was something i didn't really like about it - i think maybe i felt bad for the ones that didn't get looked at?, or were better at full size? - so i made a website in html that is just a long white page with the photos, at about-screen-size, fairly well spaced (kinda inspired by unchanging window <3 <3 <3).

mentioning all this because though i think there are some really neat & effective presentations of work online (like for example), it's hard to compute what is actually best for the photographs, & it feels like it's still being figured out, a little (i think i've heard that the history is a little more complicated, but isn't there that thing about the americans being the first photobook to frame shots in abundant white space, rather than trying to just cram as much onto the page as possible?; sorta like that). but it is nice just to have things visible online in the first place.

yeah the question of how to present one's work is pretty tricky.

most photographers default to something flash based. I happen to like the nytime's lens blog flash site because it's quick and snappy and has a full screen mode. most other flash websites piss me off.

I am wondering what the best way to go is with designing an online website. I am tending towards giving the viewer as little choice as possible. why give them a table of thumbnails where the picture is hardly visible? bigger is generally better, pictures change dramatically as they are sized up. I like the websites that are just simple HTML sites where you have to scroll down - feels like the photographer has more control over how you see her photos.

I am bugged by websites that use horizontal scrolling, like alec soth's website. I am not convinced that that is a more natural way of paging through photographs than the vertical scroll. maybe they think that it better approximates a photobook? I don't think, as computer users, we have a built in sense of space for horizontal scrolling - vertical feels much more natural.

a simple html based layout is also nice because you naturally know where pictures fall in the series, can scroll back anytime you want to. you cannae do that w/ most flash based websites

I think editing and presentation is the hardest part of the whole process of photography. less is more

why give them a table of thumbnails where the picture is hardly visible? bigger is generally better, pictures change dramatically as they are sized up. I like the websites that are just simple HTML sites where you have to scroll down - feels like the photographer has more control over how you see her photos.

yeah i think what's good & appealing, & feels attuned to your viewing process, about flickr, eg, is the way in which you navigate between different groups of photos, rather than the actual consumption of content; being able to seamlessly flow between the thing you started looking at, someone else's similar set, something shot on the same film, the taste of someone whose shots you like. it isn't good for a, maybe not necessarily 'narrative', but kind of intentionally impact-ing group of pictures you want to order and display & phrase in a certain way, it can just seem like a kinda facebook assemblage or travelogue. limiting choices otm! & yeah seeing things big is huge. most of the things i've got around to scanning are just the kind of fetishistic explorations of grain i have from using velvia or w/e, because it's texturally interesting to look at on screen, feels sort of different to me than seeing well presented, clear shots.

i think i agree about the innate unnaturalness of horizontal scrolling but i can still handle it, i know a few sites that work well that way. btw i was just flicking through the ruinista site i linked above, from a leica user, the pictures are great, that neat combo of making you want both someone's camera + life.

another plus about relatively unadorned, html sites is that i think there's something to utterly decontextualising your photos, like what was good about 9eyes or, maybe w/slightly more info, unchanging window. not having the affiliated acknowledgement of how they should be received or who you 'are' or what you're aiming for. this is a weird + not very good photo but it is cool for the fact that it is elliptical, i think, and i think things being visible without too much baggage aids their impact.

I don't consider flickr to be an ideal venue for my pictures, by any means, but I just use it because it is sooo easy and it also gives me an opportunity to throw some pictures up and just kinda see what hits. Knowing that what hits on flickr is affected by the nature of the website. Like, if I have a photo with an attractive subject centered in the frame and close to the camera, it will do a lot better than a photo that is loosely composed of many small details. I wish that flickr defaulted to a larger normal viewing size, and I wish that they'd allow some more of the interface to disappear, but that's not really what it's about I suppose.
I think that when I do finally get around to doing a website, I will do something simple and scrolling. Large images yes, but maybe not so much white space between them. I like the way that on, say, tumblr, each image is kind of enhanced by the images that surround it. I like the mass of pictures.
I'm finding editing to be very difficult, but also very fun! Like, I've got a lot of pictures that I'm not that thrilled with on flickr but feel kind of bad about deleting (especially if they've been favorited). But if I make a website I get to include the best of the best and that is very satisfying.

Also: do not like flash-based albums! No page-turning metaphors please! I don't want to have to click each and every time I want to see a new picture.

I wish that flickr defaulted to a larger normal viewing size, and I wish that they'd allow some more of the interface to disappear, but that's not really what it's about I suppose.

oh!: should've mentioned this, which a friend uses: http://ihardlyknowher.com/
you end up with a short url that, provided it's suffixed with /big, i think, gives you the kind of minimal, large-framed set of images i was talking about. i am pro- the customisation of html but it's pretty much the thing i was shooting for, it might be a good fit for you?

flickr "OH THE CRISPNESS OF FIELD IN THIS NUDE IS EXQUISITE" letches are maybe a good argument against it, also.

yeah eg: http://ihardlyknowher.com/chromogenic/big

OK I like this!

I really like that, too. It's not really too different from the tumblr theme I've been using for the past few months: http://millsner.tumblr.com/

OK I like this!

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, September 8, 2011 9:42 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

ditto! i haven't been doing much photography lately due to cares, but yeah, the "see what hits" part of flickr is p nice. sort of surprised that they haven't made it easier for ppl to customize how their photos are presented, though? i mean, you can do slideshow, i guess.