what do you see like: 2012

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

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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.

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really great lighting!

back to digital

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ok, wth is going on with the sunny D orgy?

Heavy fog on the Mersey today, provoking a tantrum from my ferry-loving 7yo...

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Across the river is Wallasey, where I grew up. I never see it better...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8331/8110541063_5b6c707e88_z.jpg

I've never seen it better. GAH.

WOW is that fog shot great.

michael jones on some harrowing-single-frames-from-bela-tarr-movies shit

Michael, that first shot is extraordinary!

Thanks! Need to take more photos when my kids are upset and running away from me.

Regret converting the sea shot to B&W. Kind of a reflexive thing to go for medium-to-high contrast monochrome when taking such a "colourless" shot but I suppose the point about how heavy fog bleaches colour and contrast from a landscape is that it doesn't do it completely. I should have left it as graduated colour, all milky midtones.

Kilchurn Castle Scotland.
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Wow, that's gorgeous. The placement of the rocks in the bottom corner balances the composition perfectly. Gorgeous processing.

Seconded, that's classic work right there.

good lord

michael jones on some harrowing-single-frames-from-bela-tarr-movies shit

― *buffs lens* (schlump), Sunday, October 21, 2012 6:36 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It has taken me since April this year to put this up as i wasn't sure about it. Funny how critical you can be of your own work.

on another note, has anyone received an invite from Getty Images on flickr, and is it worth bothering with them?

yo dayo do you still put pictures on the internet? or not at all anymore?

^ twenty first century, ilp equivalent of robert frank stopping publishing to walk around making movies instead

lol I am almost all caught up on my backlog ... might happen within the year

but yeah it's kind of strange - finding out that my tastes are ~continually changing~ and so what I might have wanted to put up half a year ago I don't really want to anymore. so I'll have to go back and see what new sets I wanna make. feel like I'm starting to finally see past/outside of winogrand

at this point I can't even imagine having the self control to sit on *anything* for a year. would probably be a healthy exercise.

Went for a walk with my Fuji X10 near the office this lunchtime. These are a mixture of SOOC and RAW files I've fiddled with in Lightroom to try and match the in camera processing, however in most situations I think I prefer what the camera came up with. Still persevering with trying to recreate the processing, if only to help my own understanding.

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took a cue from that TOP endorsement, tried some Ilford XP2 and it's beauuuutiful stuff:

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Yeah, it's a nice film.

Still playing around with crops, keep spotting nice-looking square images hiding in 2x3 shots...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8324/8123206913_f898be2d22.jpg

Taken from this shot. Still feels weirdly like cheating after my years of loyalty to pure "compose through the lens" thinking.

i know that feeling!!

I think crops are definitely an area where it's like, if there's not a rule, how can I even BEGIN to make a decision? So the square and the 2x3 are both attempts to grab at a rule even though they come from entirely different directions: on the one hand, authenticity of what it looked like through the viewfinder (or, alternately, NOT that but at least the same proportions), ie fealty to the material/technical properties of the device...and on the other hand, arbitrary geometric contraints derived from Plato or whoever. I guess I could also imagine that they're for hypothetical 12" covers or something, so there's a "reality" to the dimension there too. If LightRoom had a "golden rectangle" preset I'd probably start fucking around with that too though.

With film and my DSLR I stick to the native 3:2 ratio.

With the X10 I've set it to shoot 3:2, which is the ratio it shows on screen and crops the jpegs to and looks fine...until I look at the RAW files which are always the native 4:3. When I crop the RAW files down to 3:2 in Lightroom (to keep in line with all my other photos) they never look quite as right as they did in camera - like I'm maybe losing out by removing the top and bottom bands of the image that I was never even aware of when composing at the time.

Human eyesight visual angle 155°h x 120°v: 1.301, which probably influenced the original 35mm silent film ratio of 4:3 = 1.33. The still photography standard of 3:2 simply turned the cinema film sideways used two cinema frames (8 perforations rather than 4). Still not quite the Golden Ratio of 1.618, but close enough for government work.

I do think the 4:3 of my OM-D is fairly nice for alternate cropping, as one can go considerably wider in apparent focal length with the diagonal vs. the 3:2 format.

Didn't know that about the connection to OG cinema frames!

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"...Without chemicals, he points."

One for tealandorange.xls:

http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/Rossfbarker_2012-10-24.jpg

One for my "to do" list, getting a shot of lightning.
Not that easy in the UK, our storms consist of a little rumble and one weedy flash of lightning.

Yeah, that was taken right on the coast of Cyprus last week. We had a night of thunder and lightning followed by another night of seeing lightning flash over the hills and out over the sea. Never seen anything like at home in Blighty :(

No lightning, just cold.

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very nice tones !

On the Parenting board, Tallulah would be in focus. Here, it is the sparkler.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7107/8153383958_a18ac06485_z.jpg

Nice! I've just been trying to take sparkler photos too!

Consistently great stuff from Mr Jones.
Wasn't sure about this (as with the majority of my shots), but i was advised ok.
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