what do you see like: 2012

lol i took this photo and i think the photo ref that occurred to me first was chinavision

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6978054203_cf9ce24787_z.jpg

haha rule #2 of photography: always photograph construction materials, cones, bars, etc.
nice dual rows of cones/posts, complete with diagonal shadows!

Here's a glimpse of home: Caton Avenue, where I live (sort of; really where the back entrance to my building is)

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testing 500px embed

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Made in China II by Matt Powell

hey, salsa, what was your link? the site can't find the info, unless you were publicising a gallery show from 1899

How odd, they seem to have removed the page and other mentions of the exhibition. They're supposed to be doing an 'international photography 1960s/1970s' thing (IIRC) starting in September. It seemed really interesting so I hope it hasn't completely dropped off the program.

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Untitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

love it!

getting negs back today

Randomly walked up a back alley and caught the whole process of someone painting a graffiti mural. This is near the end of the process (obv). The only downside was that they got me so stoned, by the time they were finishing it up, I almost forgot how to operate my camera.

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i'm shooting here all weekend again:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=87283#unread

ILX?

its on 77-- post a request for access here: Request Access to 77 Borad

(i will vouch for you, as i am sure the rest of ILP crew will)

gotcha. sent in my app.

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cones!

can't let cones go ever

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Concert in the Park by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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Cat-hair 'stache by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

haha

what are those shot w/ milo?

My old D700 and a 50mm lens.

Love both of those. Love.

in the spirit of rule #2 of photography (sadly lacking cones)

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Drizzly day around the shabby industrial wasteland where I grew up... encouraged me to shoot B&W JPGs but, of course, I now wish they were all Raw and I could undo some of the damage of careless in-camera settings (sharpening, chiefly):

(United Molasses tanks at the bottom of my old road; I remember the day in the mid-'80s one of these blew up, or blew its top at least):
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6845141992_2861dd326a_z.jpg

(I think this freight line used to serve Bidston docks and the Mobil Oil terminal, both of which are effectively gone; definitely in regular use in the early '90s...not now)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6845136052_aa561a1602_z.jpg

(Level crossing in the same place as the above; colour Raw, this time...)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6846671198_75e20f63c6_z.jpg

I got suckered into attending a baby shower so I could drink Everclear Punch and keep the father and and grandfather entertained.

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he loves it when you call him Big Poppa by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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Rumplemom by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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Why don't I have one? by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

They're great, Milo.

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St. Patrick's Day. Damn, girl, damn girl, damn girl, damn.

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it's just unfair.

she sold me some corn right outside work today, with a discount for being handsome :)

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I'd be extremely happy just taking photographs of Korean street sellers.

here you guys go

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when that came up on my "new images from yr contacts" stream I zoomed all the way in to read it

I'm sure everyone is tired of seeing this picture, but I keep monkeying with it because a) I'm no good at color and b) it's really easy to work on

Downloaded a free Mac RAW processor called Raw Photo Processor - it's not fully-featured, but it does most things and will export as a TIFF to go back into Photoshop or Aperture or w/e. There's also a plugin available for Lightroom if you donate, which I'm going to do. Most importantly, it's the only software that gets the Kodachrome look right, IMO - everyone else makes it garish, like a orange Velvia on steroids. In my mind, Kodachrome has solid, neutral colors, but it's rarely harsh.

So:
LR4 into Color Efex Pro, trying to keep it from being too contrasty but it's still too warm:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/6861475322_6e9abfa71c.jpg
LR4 into Color Efex Pro by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

RAW file opened with RPP, I let it adjust exposure, etc. and applied the K64 profile plus 20 saturation. Gets much closer to what I've been trying to get out of color files - not too saturated, but the colors are good (when you just lower contrast in LR4 it looks like a fog is being dropped over everything IMO).
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7099/7007590671_b19e391269_c.jpg
RPP K64 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

and then: above RAW file imported to LR4 and out to Color Efex Pro, to monkey with contrast and warm it up a little. Very, very close now to what I've been trying to get out of color people photography, I think. But kind of an enormous pain in the ass. At least I get to sit in a lighted room listening to music rather than fumbling in a darkroom, I guess.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7258/7007589057_d8cabf0cf8_c.jpg
RPP K64 + Color Efex Pro 4 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://i.imgur.com/YSAWC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JwqHh.jpg

i don't know why imgur is only loading one of those and not the other :(

imgur is having some problems

dope imo, light leaks look p cool in black and white. what camera?

i shot it with this, which started giving me problems mid-day, including coming open before rewinding (hence light leaks).

most of the roll was ruined but it made some kind of boring shots look cooler

hey now the 2nd one is loading :)

the light leaks work pretty fantastically well on those!

figured it was time to jump on IHKH: ihardlyknowher.com/davejm

looks good! I think a lot of your pictures in particular benefit from the large display size.

momus!

right, three recent favorites:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/7033375481_cbf4f40a68.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7271/6882277548_5d02c3e979.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/6876463522_c509383db1.jpg

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/the-hottest-live-photos-of-2012-20120111/no-age-0783724

^ me /braggin

nice one!

very cool! I'll see no age here in seoul soon, actually :)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/6896601586_06b1a4f8fa_b.jpg

(Cool thread, guys)

cool pic, admrl ;)

thanks!