ILPhoto Gallery (a thread to show off your pictures)

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Found this one from my trip to SF last February. I was on the point of Alcatraz looking back, and thought what I was seeing at a distance was a fog bank rolling in.

Instead it was Noah's flood, soaked me to the bone, destroyed my umbrella - but did nothing to my Nikon thank God.

photo would be good, I guess:

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/celluloidpropaganda/4744319175/sizes/o/ - original size, more detail

I love that.

Borrowed an ultra-wide zoom for a trip back to my old hometown recently (ostensibly to document the interior of the house where I grew up - I handed the keys back to the landlord that weekend) but any outdoor shots were hampered by relentless greyness and drizzle... But if Milo Z can cope with a SF storm...

(Pier Head, Liverpool)
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(New Brighton beach)
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(Standing Stones, Stenness, Orkney)

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I really like that.

Canada Day yesterday in Trafalgar Square, Richie Hawtin DJ set, mini-hockey, etc - but the real entertainment was provided, pretty much unbidden and surely unpaid, by this woman:

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A Panorama:

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Earl's Palace, Birsay, Orkney, taken with 400iso Ilford 5 film on my Pentax MZ-50

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I'm going to try and post something every week to this thread, not necessarily new stuff (or even good stuff) but, y'know, to keep it ticking over and encourage others to contribute.

Parsley growing in our garden (f/2.8, bounce card on external flash):

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I'm going to try and post something every week to this thread, not necessarily new stuff (or even good stuff) but, y'know, to keep it ticking over and encourage others to contribute.

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thirded

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when I get my life more orderly, I'm going to work on doing a project 365, so, um, fourthed.

365?

good luck with that, you'll be surprise how many people start that and give up.

Would not be surprised at all about the giving up! It will be extra hard for me, because even when I'm shooting I tend to wait a month or more before I start editing (unless I absolutely have to get on it). Will have to get in the habit of shooting RAW+JPEG for the times when I can't put in a lot of editing work.
On the positive side, new iPhone camera is a vast improvement over any camera phone I've had before.

speak not of telephone on photography thread!

i hope you do it, it takes a lot. are you shooting specific subjects or just capturing something that catches you eye on a daily basis.

think I'm gonna settle for weekly

365 too hard and I am waaaaay too lazy

there's loads of self portrait 365's on flickr, i don't know how they do it. taking a new random picture everyday can be time consuming, but to have to think about it, shoot and edit everyday must be a full time job?

been so busy working on my website i have only made it 7 more pics into my set from Egypt.

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that looks like a model!

re: 365, one time i took a photo an hour for a week. not exactly riveting tbh:
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thinking about it, could be a project better suited to a holiday, than a normal hum-drum week.

yeah, maybe a 24 hour journey or something?
tis a good idea, but needs the right setting...

Still going through old stuff that's just turning up. Alcatraz viewed from Pier 39 IIRC. Not very good small, since The Rock blends into Marin County, works a little bit better printed large.

I should totally pirate CS5 and use their new reality altering feature to make Sausalito disappear.

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love the water in that

this seems garish in comparison, but

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that would make a great album cover

thx bro!

maybe j0hn d will put out a bluegrass album

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I've borrowed an 85L and a 17-55/2.8IS this last week and shot a wedding, so I've a huge stockpile of images now...but none I can put here. So here's one from the first day I took the 85L out last week...

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ooooh

hi dudes... i'm just getting into snapping again so hopfully be posting on the regular. here are a few from this week:

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tips, comments, suggestions for improvement etc all welcomed.

Really digging Michael Jones' images.

whoops! that last one was meant to be:

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Great set of shots Schmidt, love the light in the couple on bench shot
an old shot, but i like it.
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Schmidt - i love the first one - almost looks like a painting!

Great work, everyone. Schmidt - is that last one prep for a wedding?

This from back in May - tourists in evening light, Leicester Square...also cropped square, perhaps as some kind of joke, I don't remember...

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Another one from my trip to the Orkneys, and another taken using B&W film. Part of the neolithic Ring of Brodgar

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not really the ~best~ picture but it was a pretty dope weekend imo

Here is a link to the album of a ridiculously long walk I took through London - it's all-access

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2390616&id=36910239

And here's one of the photos, as a teaser:

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Thnks for the kind words folks! The last one is just a makeover session - not a wedding.

I read some of the other ILP wedding photography threads - useful warnings within - am toying with pitching for offering to shoot a friend of a friends wedding late summer.

Will try and post some new ones later this week.

My solo wedding shoot went OK, I think. I'd give myself 6.5/10.

Stuff I messed up: first dance (was totally in wrong position, using wrong lens - but got other bride'n'groom dance shots later where, with careful cropping, it looks like they're on their own), family groups (it was never part of the brief to do these but, inevitably, other guests started to get groups to form for their shots, which I tagged onto and, not being 6'4" or prepared to elbow people out of the way, my piggybacked efforts are kinda lousy). A lot of casual portraits are quite poorly framed too; mindful of retaining 3x2 aspect for printing, my crops are ending up very contrived.

Stuff I nearly messed up: the kiss; shooting the ceremony with available light with the 17-55/2.8IS, suddenly realised the metering on the last few was messed up by strong wall lights behind the couple, starting fiddling with the Speedlite settings and..."you may now kiss..." Just got it with flash.

Stuff I'm kinda proud of: all the unposed portraits with the 85L, especially those after about 8:30pm, when the light on the patio was magical. But I was only pointing and shooting - f/1.2 does the rest! The later Elvis impersonator/dancing shots - from either up on a chair or low down on the dancefloor itself, 17mm, flash and bounce card. Ceiling was mirrored, so there are crazy patterns on everything which may be ruinous but I kinda like it.

Of course, I can't post any of these here!

31C, wearing a suit, 9-hour day. Loved it.

well done. i'm doing photos for friends in august as their wedding gift, so any advice is appreciated - bear in mind i don't think i've ever even seen a complete wedding album so i'm not sure what's expected!

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hmm should probably take out a lot of foreground there?

I shot this one a couple of weeks ago. The lighting was a bit of a fluke, but don't tell anyone.

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right now, my favourite one from this week's effort is:

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No lie: actual Pavlovian saliva reaction here :-)

Getting into B&W at the moment, it's not as easy as it looks.
Here's my latest attempt at it...
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