ILPhoto Gallery (a thread to show off your pictures)

$400 is a really great price for a m2! yeah there is a theory with equipment buying, that you might as well buy what's top of the line, so that way you can never convince yourself that it's your equipment that's the limiting factor, not you.

My eBay standard operating procedure served me well on that one, which is: find what the *lowest* an object I'd like has ever gone for (in decent condition) and then just keep bidding again and again with that amount as my max (usually entering it 5 minutes or so before ending).
And as for not buying the Canon rangefinder, I'd already spent more than enough money on compact fixed-lens rangefinders, or Soviet stuff, or point and shoots, etc., and realized that the Canon would be more of the same. Better to wait a little longer and get the real deal.

Oh and I love and use all my compact rangefinders, point-and-shoots, Soviet cameras, etc., but how many do I really need?

Didn't realize Canon Ps were that cheap. I didn't need to know that.
Pretty much all of my bookshelves have an old, cheap camera on them - Agfa Clicks and Clacks, a Canonet, a Rolleicord that I haven't dared test since it went flying during a panic stop five years ago. I restrict that collection to 120 and 35mm, so I could theoretically use them if I got a scanner.

I have a Click, a Clack, an Isola and an Isola II. I need to figure out what else I need to be an Agfa completist

so bummed my canonet broek :(

manually might prevent photorrhea on my part.

Not if you really want to take pictures. Because if you really want to take pictures, you will, and lots of them. The framing and focus may be more carefully considered, but some will be slightly out of focus and unusable, just like with autofocus or point and shoot, where many of your shots are badly framed, and just as bad as if they were all fuzzy. You'll spend more time on each shot, maybe, and maybe some of your shots will be better, and maybe you'll learn more about how your lenses work than you knew before. But don't expect a dramatic drop in the number of shots you take unless you just stop caring to take pictures as much as you used to. Manually focusing and framing a shot does not take that much more effort than merely manually framing a shot.

*iirc HCB liked to shoot at f/8, 1/125, with focus set at 5 meters, whenever he was outside. his printer had to deal with the rest. must be nice, not having to print!

ha, this is fascinating dayo. i think my furtive explorations of how great photographers actually took their shots always run into just vagueness or obfuscation, like you never get hard replicable facts in the books i've read.

Didn't realize Canon Ps were that cheap. I didn't need to know that.

^^^

They're still damn fine, too.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6174/6172091756_bcb58759fb_z.jpg

Out of the the window of the train home. I didn't think anything of this picture at the time, and assumed I had just snapped a big pile of uselessness. But I got all the photos home, and this one jumped at me. In a nice way.

One thing I have definitely learned: never use a 3" screen to judge the aesthetic value of the photos you have taken. It happens A LOT that I see something that I had no idea was there, once I have it on a desktop screen in front of me.

haha, kenan, i meant manually ~uploading~ pictures to tumblr vs just dragging them to my photostream in LR. that extra step might make me more likely to reconsider which photos i ~really~ want to put out there. i'll still take a bunch of whack pictures, i just won't "publish" all of them

I should consider reading even photo threads before posting to them.

it's cool bro

Not put anything up here in a while. This is from the alpine garden at the Royal Botanics in Edinburgh.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6176/6171322547_941e6dbb56.jpg
Alpine, Edinburgh Botanics by treefell, on Flickr

I deleted my tumblr, I am joining this new IHKH revolution: 10 pictures from shanghai

http://ihardlyknowher.com/idiotcervantes/big

my only complaint is that it doesn't deal well with verticals at all

dude

dude! those are wonderful!

and you are right about the verticals

thanks dude! and yeah I think I'm just not gonna include verticals for now

yeah I was thinking about acing the one I have

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6160/6175459934_04a119bc83.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6162/6176764638_39748ef1b0_z.jpg

Grabbed on the beach between jobs
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=14438&g2_imageViewsIndex=1
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=14435&g2_imageViewsIndex=1

hey - you use a D80 too!

yes, it is looking a bit battered up these days, but is usually in my bag. This time I would have tried to get a better pic but was comfortable sitting with my beer and seafood stir-fry.

Good workhorse of a camera, I have had a few repairs done, but they were my own fault. Once dropped when buying a sausage, once fell off a motorbike the carpark of a brothel (we were only turning round I assure you) and many more bumps and scrapes along the way,

I wish I were better at color in Lightroom.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6162/6179029970_e57cd8a941_b.jpg
DSCF1168.jpg by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

I still love to mess around with my APS-format EOS IX7 (six quid on eBay - the batteries cost me more); it amuses me to stick an £800 hired lens on the front of it...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6177/6178501493_2ef393f480_z.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6154/6193781278_26eb286bed_z.jpg

I'm late for saying so, but dayo, those Shanghai photos are all truly, enviably fantastic.

aw, thanks kenan!

I took this while laughing. Poor bastard thought he could just drop a few Cheetos on the ground. He had no idea that the pigeons are freakin' mercenary around here.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6130/6196694574_52a9a304fd_z.jpg

Some people you are required to photograph:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6156/6199341172_ddca6aa74a_z.jpg

Aw man, that poor bird guy!

both great shots!

ha, it's funny that you're close enough to be visible in that shot & yet still unnoticed. was looking at yr flickr, chinavision, & really dug a string of shots that look like they were maybe taken in similar spots, like a cartoonish suited guy with an expression of haughty disdain, etc. really great.

A lot of the shots are from the Financial District in Lower Manhattan, since that's where I work (I try to religiously give myself a lunch photo-hour every day). It means a.) I'm tired of taking photos in that neighborhood but also b.) I have a pretty good idea of where to go for good light and interesting people! And thanks!

PS I do not work in finance.

ha, yeah i thought it was downtown. going to assume that you wear the camera around your neck all day long, as an arty totem separating you from your vampiric finance peers

You know the funny thing is after walking around taking photos in that area for a year or so, I really start to see people again and again that I've photographed. I get to feel like a real creep! "You might not know me.... but I *sure* know you."

ha, people loved you on the internet, i showed them!

Man, some of the stuff in this thread is really fabulous. I'm also v. glad to know about IHKH -- Yahoo's neglect of Flickr is really starting to piss me off, but there's nothing better yet.

Have been attempting to stop being so persnickety about the technicalities of photography recently, which sometimes results in pics I like:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5019/5641942552_084d7f2b51_z.jpg

that's amazing, stet. there is totally a new york times story about some confused, delillo-esque facet this century for which that is the masthead pic

great shot stet! some of the best photographs are beautiful mistakes.

Seconded. The muted color palette is really nice.

americansuburbx is a good website, been reading a few of the john szarkovski articles and interviews this weekend.

Yeah I always check in there to see what's changing. They've got quite a few great essays that are wonderful to find online.
Before heading out to Baltimore for a few days, one more:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6173/6201245209_b0018401a9_z.jpg

the lady is a tree!

speaking of happy accidents, my camera but sadly i'm the subject not the photographer in this first one:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6152/6207861437_1b956ec3b9.jpg

less accidental:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6071/6207864859_28d8cec1f2.jpg

downloaded the Nik Color Efex 4 demo to see what it is - 99% of the filters are useless and the vignette takes some work, but the film modules are quite nice (if you eliminate the fake grain). Not worth $200, but if the student discount gets it down to $70ish, I might buy it.

random photos picked to try different variations
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6213398866_fb6332eb08_z.jpg
DSCF1131-Edit-2.jpg by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6113/6213400618_6061bee4b1_z.jpg
DSC_1108-Edit-2.jpg by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6212883203_1f18226a60_z.jpg
DSC_0343-Edit-2.jpg by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

i can't remember if this was the thread we were talking about ways of displaying your photos online in, but, just to revive: so many nice sites are made with indexexhibit, & i've never got around to trying it because i'm kinda satisfied with what i've got. but just in case anyone's still looking. this is a neat example: http://k3rstijanw3rdal.com/project/family/ (i googleproofed, es for 3s)