what do you see like: 2012

lovely, do you have more manchester stuff?

lurker here to say thank you
you are all v talented (i mean that sincerely -- keep up the shooting, shooters)

Xpost, yep, erm lots, feel free to have a nosey through...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carljgodwin/

i added you on flickr - hope that's ok? your pictures are so beautiful!!

some really nice stuff, thanks

love all your b&w scottish mountains

am waiting on a stylus epic to come up on ebay, they're really nice. flash-bleached blossom is crazy.

I got one on eBay... and after winning the bid, then found one at the flea market the very next day. so now I've got one and my girlfriend's got one. not a bad deal.

here's another taken with that little guy:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8159/7104303267_0000ec107a.jpg

Prob best picture I've taken in months.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8164/6971872276_2dddf3e451.jpg

gbx, that SoftRelease is finally on its way. Took me a while to find which box the tiny little thing was in.

Ah awesome, thank you!

I know where i want to live...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/6978720628_0c682be120_z.jpg

where is this

are there mammoths?

trolls

Glen Coe, Scotland.
Click on the picture, there's a map.

Lovely. I was near there in 1989. It was too foggy to see anything.

what sort of animals live in those mountains?

mammoths

wolves - eradicated
deer - corralled into game reserves
capercaillie - largely eradicated
golden eagles - largely eradicated
anything else - taxidermized in scots baronial hunting lodges

insects? other? fungi?

yeah these

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_midge

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7080/7126269835_8ff90f5fb0_b.jpg
Poker by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

Really enjoying the last few!

Saw No Age this weekend:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7124751925_b4df55979e_z.jpg

i started a new ILP thread:

oh so you're a photographer

Another from Scotland.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7274/7135959397_8f5862396e_z.jpg

I'll contribute to the new thread when i've completed the essay on what's been expected of me since i bought an SLR.

Whoa. All I can say to that is, whoa.

This can't hold water to that view, but I did find it interesting.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8027/7139314695_5874da6256_c.jpg

Low ISO, long exposure, nearly invasive focal length. But just short of invasive. You can see people's wallpaper, though.

I dig this one.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7276/7004131272_5372cf4204.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8012/7150520639_1f697f23e3_b.jpg
Untitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/04/15/downtown-crossing-street-photographers-crossing-the-line/

lol America

wait I saw that linked somewhere else recently too. the article and the photographers both kind of annoy me.

I mean, just cuz those dudes seem kinda like my sorta annoying overly serious "street photography" strawman.

yeah here's a piece from one of the guys 'featured' in the story

http://thephotorecession.webs.com/

not really my cup of tea tbh

I've been on exactly one group photography outing, a flickr meet up

it was kinda weird, there was this one guy who seemed to feel like it was a competition to see who could get closest to their subject, at one point he had his nikon + 28-105 lens like inches away from somebody's mouth, just snapping away

everybody wants to prove that they could be Bruce Gilden

Internet street photographers and the hobbyists who spend thousands on lighting to take naked pics of girls from modelmayhem.com are neck and neck for photography's most disgusting savages

site is a compelling exhibit in the argument against giving titles to photos. a couple of those shoe photos are p good. but the sort of visibly conflicted, usually blurry street photography, of just chronicling strangers, is very strange.

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3176/396z.jpg

love it!

ty! from a good roll of repackaged-sensia slide film, something i don't think i can get anymore

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4638/387ok.jpg

are they scans of prints?

yeah, i've never got around to negative scanning, it explains the jaunty angles. how come?

I usually stick w superia 400 and overexpose by a stop. Smooth grain, good detail. It *can* suffer from green/magenta issues, but home scanning fixes that for me. Labs will vary.
Probably 70% of my color photos are superia. The equivalent cheap Kodak shows much more grain.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:09 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All abou the cheap films by the way. Kodak and Fuji consumer stuff can all be found for about $3/roll.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:10 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

belated TY for this, btw. i've started buying & using superia 400, you're right, it's nice/a good all rounder, &c, & i can get it cheaply.

I was asking because of the angled photos, but also because the shadow behind them seemed so precise that it almost looked like an effect or filter!
I really stand by my superia love. people knock it for its greens and magentas, but with scanning and printing there are ways around that. And it really is smooooth grained!

I feel like I'm getting dangerously close to just posting every picture of mine as they come up now, but again, I like these two:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7243/7162599382_47f8336857_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/7161652868_08cb91242e_z.jpg

Nice!

Ava in the pub on Sunday...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7092/7160820432_8a7b76d02d_z.jpg

Being a tourist in sunny DC...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8146/7002009214_8b0c1c107b_z.jpg

I went to lengths to get this shot. Even on a crappy day, Chicago can be gorgeous.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8004/7160425278_83d265a3cc_c.jpg

I was asking because of the angled photos, but also because the shadow behind them seemed so precise that it almost looked like an effect or filter!

yeah the cross-processed colours are really full on; it kinda wiped out a couple of shots by just turning them into migraine-tests. but they are as-is; they're on the right side of colourful w/o being too holga i think.

I really stand by my superia love. people knock it for its greens and magentas, but with scanning and printing there are ways around that. And it really is smooooth grained!

yes. i actually really like grain a lot, probably more with bw but sometimes with colour, too, when it's bright, when the colours are strong. the white skin tones thing has probably been a slight thing with some outdoor shots, but it's nice & holds up pretty well in electric light indoors, too. it's satisfying to have a regular thing to reflexively go for, anyway, since my hook up for various expired film lapsed i've been stuck buying expensive but interesting films, it can be a little much.

also a lot of nice greys in the above run of shots