what do you see like: 2012

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:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8192/8117704382_00988c6a7e_c.jpg

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!

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-gNTaijs-TXQ/UJCRlU8fmNI/AAAAAAAABfg/u5XQA7Q5XPw/s800/1214.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-YkKEsEJqf5w/UJCSM2qNBEI/AAAAAAAABgc/t1r3vKeBz44/s800/1221.jpg

"...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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real good shit michael

I like that last one a lot

it reminds me of a sandcrawler from star wars

Another from a cold foggy morning.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8199/8162207097_55643ed5ac_c.jpg
It's nice and grim.

That's seriously lovely.

Gorgeous!

That's great. Love how the top half and bottom half are these totally different worlds but equally complete in terms of tonal range and interest. Could have some fun with crops on that one.

that is amazing!

I was really bored while my internet was out at home so I went through my (relatively few) color shots and turned up the saturation to 11 on all of them

gross I know, but w/e

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/pphotos/D020-023.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/pphotos/D005-038.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/pphotos/D008-017.jpg

I like those! I've been trying to be a little less timid with the saturation slider...I'm too worried about overdoing it and don't realize when I'm really doing the photo a disservice by underdoing it, especially when shooting RAW.

3rd one is particularly nice.

orange/yellow walls, green floor <3 !!

in other words, my vote for #2

awesome. totally not gross.

I ignored the signs that said there could be a $1000 fine for jumping over the big concrete flower container and walking on the roof itself. Yeah, like they're really paying that much attention. And besides, some pictures might be worth $1000, even if not that many words.

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orange/yellow walls, green floor <3 !!

in other words, my vote for #2

Yep.

Also, not_goodwin, this place where you take nature photos (like the last one -- the castles are clearly countryside) is that a national park or a local/municipal park or magical dreamscape or other?

ty guys - you all are too kind! the rest are on my facebook

kenan that is some v impressively detailed pics - is that just using a single exposure?

Kenan that's the library! Where were YOU?!

I have packed up my scanner and will not use it for at least three months, so I can actually focus on some important things like making music and, uh finally getting a better paying job.
meanwhile I'm making photo dumps directly to facebook: http://www.facebook.com/altairnouveau/photos_stream
hoping that what comes out of this is a better, fresher view of my pictures when I finally get around to looking at them down the road. not gonna slow down taking them by any means.

omg the saturation up to 11 ones hurt my eyes but they're also GREAT and I love them

DAYO ARE THOSE KODACHROME

lol no - kodak slides and negs

I think everybody should just live in really colorful cities why do Americans hate color

awesome. totally not gross.

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^^^!

they remind me of i guess MF or fine grain shots, where the colour is super thorough & vibrant. & they're really nicely framed; afaict the only downside is their uncomfortable aesthetic kinship w/the last gaspar noe film

http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/enter-the-void-poster1.jpg

thought that was a crop of Playstation cover art for a second

another from a while ago from crosby beach, it's nice to turn your back on a sunset sometimes.
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