what do you see like: 2012

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8034/8064426923_56654320be_b.jpg

i should rescan these

oh man that's a great roll. this & this partic. i love the too-dark shot of the guy reading a menu. it makes me sound overly literal but the first bunch are so filmic!

you wanna rescan for tonal reasons or something?

v nice! the shot you posted reminds me a little of robert adams summer nights maybe?

this shot is very stately: http://www.flickr.com/photos/giboyeux/8064427701/in/set-72157631715494678/

general tip: looks like you're underexposing in general. you can either meter off of darker areas in the scene, or set your light meter to a lower iso than you're shooting (i.e. if you're shooting 400 speed film, set it to 200 or even 100), or change the battery!

I basically just take pictures of my kids.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8176/8063895513_a1c1254e9f_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8178/8068337439_795625cd48_z.jpg

Michael, your stuff is really distinctive. So sharp but really natural...that you know what you're doing is obvious in every shot. Love the (lack of/tiny bit of) colour in the last one.

small dump of some fav recent stuff

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8455/8072444442_963ac1caba_c.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8318/8072442843_c059414f7e_c.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8029/8072432600_99d010b5f4_c.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8450/8072426096_1393a8ddf5_c.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8033/8072422644_8c11e02edb_c.jpg

those are all wonderful, rent

thanks!

i uploaded a bunch of new stuff this morning if you're interested: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdfo/

thread is so humbling and amazing

gr80 are the shirts in 2nd from bottom 'fun shirts'

one on the right probably would fit in "fun shirts"

pretty sure you know which thread the one of the left goes in to

wow i missed lurker bizzaro gazarra's post upthread-- beautiful stuff!!

Thank you, rent! I love the second shot of yours in particular; stuff that I wouldn't think about with my (too conventional) ideas about composition - the bin is naturally my focus but I really like the great expanse of floor and garage door. All too often I crop really satisfying bits of mysterious space or texture or shadow out of my photos out of some misguided notion of symmetry or balance.

I'm revisiting the neglected corners of my Lightroom catalog now; that photo of Lulu is from Jan 2011 but I didn't do anything with it at the time. The desaturated "300" look is probably a terrible cliche in amateur digital circles but I can't help myself. The punctum in that photo, from a personal PoV, comes from the fact that Lulu has grown out of every item of clothing you can see in the 21 months since. The chill of passing time.

Thanks gr8080 - always look forward to seeing your stuff on this thread!

Rent, your supermarket picture is great - love the leading lines of the overhead lights and the contrast between the sickly green light and the patches of red/orange.

Love your processing, Michael. Desaturation can be a horrible cliche but not when it's done right! Your processing is really distinctive.

Here's a few more from my beloved X100:

http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/73f45a60f52cefe4023c483e6f1f46f3_zps0f9f53f9.jpeg
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/5139bf444dc473a15f4d190fe4b990b4_zps90c5b05c.jpeg
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/e18795625e1bdb7330c19bea8cf45ced_zpsff1af50e.jpeg
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/bb8a5f07ced77cd96ccf9b07252c57b6_zps62595974.jpeg

uggggh I think I really need one of those cameras, those are beautiful shots, especially the diner and the paddleboats.

most recent highlights from continuing finland archi-barrage:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8317/8065087944_ced4aa6888_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8172/8036761412_50e6bf0902_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8312/8058290127_4ff3d6a21e.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8461/8058259319_2d4f65bb6c_z.jpg

All credit to Alvar Aalto, really.

xp Thanks! The X100 is pretty amazing, despite its many odd quirks.

Love the pool shot - the greens are fantastic, and the edge of the pool snaking in and out of the frame is wonderful.

Thanks! It's a substantial crop of a shot that was probably trying to be more about the space/architecture but my eye was drawn to exactly those things.

Ooh, bricks, leather, wood. Love it. And a wonderful sequence from the X100 above.

wonderful stuff, both of you-- bizarro where were those shot?

Thanks gr8080 and Michael. gr8080, All the stuff I've posted if from in and around Glasgow.

some of my most important work to date:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8031/8069501221_b40d658278_n.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8040/8069495584_64b7ba6c18_n.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8038/8069500865_423575288d_n.jpg

i'd wear those on a tee shirt

hey you got ketchup on your shirt

Not been all that happy with much I've taken recently, but here's a couple from the opening night of a joint exhibition I'm currently holding with a friend - his screen printed gig posters alongside some of my gig photos.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8336/8080703555_83b13c4176_c.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8325/8080706197_45055ef66b_c.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8053/8080701071_e417e4ecd0_c.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8051/8080700024_09fd7354bb_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8046/8092683848_81b3cd3906.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8195/8092677921_592be76eb1.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8054/8092677789_4134a755b4.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8092677663_6759bef4d9.jpg

Great sky over Manchester on Sunday, went for a bike ride to get some "grittier" shots.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8195/8090809141_72894ee1ab_c.jpg

Still digging this random little bit of abstraction.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8463/8077974503_0120d59002_c.jpg

http://distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com/a7b3777815d911e2b9d422000a1fa429_7.jpg

http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws.com/73c9a2ac150c11e28ad722000a9f1498_7.jpg

dope!

v nice!

alright sorry guys, one more series:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8473/8095262338_f442ae730c_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8186/8095257623_059c12d91b_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8475/8095257427_6875da1388_z.jpg

Love the light in the first one, and the gentle transition between light and shadow. Colours in all of them are A+.

fuji superia! and lots of reflected light.

Ahh, Superia. One of my favourite presets for processing X100 files in Color Efx, although I confess I've never shot a single proper frame of film with it :(

yeah that's so awesome, china - the minute pivots & steps of everyone else in the picture are so satisfying to see split into frames. i tend to blame my camera but i have trouble shooting scenes w/the aperture at 16 & getting nice results, things looking sharp. but everything looks so pronounced and bold there.

I have a feeling that might have been shot at f/8. prob 1/250th with 400 iso film. if that helps at all. I tend to overexpose a bit. last shot even looks like it could have been f/5.6 but I can't really remember.
that's the trouble, when I get back some shots and go "aha yeah that's the way I need to expose in that kind of light!" and then can't really remember how I did it.

that helps. idk, i always hear that once you're at that end of the spectrum, the glass matters less, but i think there's a flatness to some of my shots like that; having some kind of evident depth of field is a sort of easy way to like 'phrase' a scene so i tend to go that way. the environment in the run you posted is so overwhelming.

some phots:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fcs6p7lDk5M/UHwrV5uiAuI/AAAAAAAABIo/ziHj3uid0t4/s900/1088.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-umtNYHnER5A/UG-k3HVogzI/AAAAAAAAA8I/OIBtG6Xf8CI/s900/977.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hmyNpMvq56I/UHeZ4tFPV5I/AAAAAAAABD4/tOi41Bk0rsU/s900/1022.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZA2udzlRPfc/UGego_FviBI/AAAAAAAAAyc/PcNkKKHabNE/s900/919.jpg

those are stellar
loove the 2nd and 3rd especially

so much gorgeousness in this thread

love 1 and 2

love the flowers!

1 is great

Yeah, I just keep loving everything on this thread. Currently much love to kenan's water and plants, and not_goodwin's sky.

Good stuff guys, i'm trying to get a way from pretty shots change.

Nothing pretty about an underpass in Salford i can tell you.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8465/8103657393_a94ecf9249_c.jpg

it's not scenic landscape beauty but it's no worse than this
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8191/8098581162_459dd59dc6.jpg

That's the walk to one campus; this is the break room of another

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8196/8086205123_fce97e4cf1.jpg

i mean talk about bleak

more Alvar Aalto spam - - - this house, man. It was one of those days where the clouds would swoop in and out and you sort of had to stand where you knew the photo would be, and wait. Got lucky I think.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8468/8106908874_95fa5b4881_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8106935666_59f5f2b011_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8473/8106925440_67ca1011dd.jpg

really great lighting!