what do you see like: 2012

450 rolls!?

we salute you, sir

these are so great! the couple eating are breaking my heart. & i can't believe this isn't happening on central park west. grain & tone so beautiful throughout, they're such good sets.

BG's carnival shots are great too. It's a good time for posting stuff right now I guess. I think I'm in more-or-less hiatus mode again until winter break, I have tons and tons of material to work on but it really isn't the best use of my time. (Obviously, that's ILX...)

ty! btw the couple were eating at a subway. xp

which probably explains the sad look

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8207/8195409488_45017c91c9_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8346/8177896059_b62f4b6156_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8479/8184308312_4baac2c951_c.jpg

probably my favorite shots i've recently posted - - - just a buncha buildings though folks, nothin to see here

Love the first one there - the light is fantastic. That is one weird-lookin' building.

yeah the carnival shots are great - pretty impressed with how the highlights were handled!

herr doktor, straight on full frontal photography of cool architecture is a joy by itself

apropos of nothing, also on my bucket list is to live in a building with a hole in it before I die, perhaps I will be dining on the patio one day when perchance there is a high speed fighter jet chase where both planes fly through the hole and my glass of '64 grand cru is irretreivably knocked over

http://i.imgur.com/rz1kj.gif

^ lost JG Ballard novel

you need to tether all of the shots to the subway narrative. this becomes Man reflects on sandwich, ext. HK Subway Sandwich Co.; this is called Trying To Forget: One Hour After Subway Meal Deal, Subway Open Air Concourse, HK.

lol

http://i.imgur.com/ypZiA.jpg
http://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

does anyone else use dopiaza to generate Flickr sets?

for some reason when I make a set of 500, only 390~410 are publicly viewable, despite all my photos being set to public.

I've tried everything and it's driving me crazy.

I should probably worry about more important things.

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:54 AM (6 hours ago)

FYI y'all i finally got to the bottom of this-- i had a few hundred photos set as "moderate" instead of "safe," so they weren't being seen unless you were logged in to flickr.

thank god because i was losing my mind.

haah because they showed scantily clad partygoers

lol I think that might have been why I tagged them as such 3 years ago, yes

thanks y'all. The crazy building in my first shot is Waterside Plaza in NYC.

re: bldgs with a hole - - amazing if this hasn't been done as an action-movie set-piece yet!

Daniel, those HK photos are great.

Bizarro, really like the two you've posted too.

shoot I want to go to Hawaii. I can't believe it's actually part of the same country I live in.

ayo gr80 who's the bro w/ the polaroid land camera

ty mchael!

which one are you talking about?

there was one on a beach and one of the dude shad a polaroid land

oh the one that my shirt and arm are in?

that is my dude r1cky. he has had moderate success w/ that camera :-\

after sweating so much over all my older photos not being included in the "random" set, i decided i hated about half of them and deleted them hahahah. i guess thats what time will do.

also i am kind of loling at how many of "my photos" are of me

i didnt want to say anything...

^_^

guys i just won a Nikon FM2 on ebay!! i'm really stoked!

ive never had an SLR and am ready to learn.

suggestions on lenses, please.

what kinda lens does it come with?

I feel like u are all about the wides so get the cheapest 24mm or 21mm

it doesn't come w/ one, that's why i need suggestions!

xpost thanks.

but is there something that i should look at that will let me explore the world of manual focus better?

My gut says any decent cheapish 50mm, which is 'normal' to 35mm film and so things will look as they do to your eye (though heavily cropped relative to your field of vision) - - - kind of low-level photo-class stuff, and you seem to know your stuff, so apologies if you already know this! But if you're just trying to get comfortable in manual-focus-land I feel like that's kind of the traditional way to get rolling?

no i am totally clueless about this stuff so i appreciate any advice i can get w/ you guys, especially cause you see how i like to shoot with auto/point and shoot cameras

Ok, first thing to check is this:
http://www.nikonians.org/nikon/slr-lens.html

The Nikon F-mount has been around since 1959 but not *every* Nikon lens works fully on every generation of bodies (obv, auto-focus and digital has really confused the issue, and you don't have to worry about that). No pre-AI or G-series lenses for you, by the look of it.

As the good Doctor says, cheap 50 to start... like this Nikkor AI-S 50/1.8:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Nikkor-50mm-1-1-8-ais-Lens-/160928678499?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item257818c263

This wide one looks good...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Nikkor-24mm-2-8-AIS-Great-shape-/290820433700?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item43b63fa724

but is there something that i should look at that will let me explore the world of manual focus better?

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah a cheap 50mm 1.8 will do ya

http://www.keh.com/Camera/format-35mm/system-Nikon-Manual-Focus/category-Fixed-Focal-Length-Lenses?s=1&bcode=NK&ccode=6&cc=81136&r=WG&f

nikon lenses are kinda expensive tho for some reason???

feel like if u wanna do this for cheap maybe pick up an olympus or konica or pentax or some other system where the lenses aren't all expensive because people are still buying them to put on their modern nikon digital bodies

Yeah, that sounds like sound advice to me. Old Nikon lenses do seem to hold on to their value for a surprisingly long time. Cosign also on a 50mm prime being a good first SLR lens - the field of view just feels 'right' to me for a walkaround lens.

I think Doctor Casino's building pictures upthread must have inspired this shot I took yesterday:

http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/Rossfbarker_2012-11-28.jpg

haha, awesome!

and look, there's a hole in that structure

thanks everyone for the advice on lenses. i am v v stoked.

btw i posted briefly about this on the famous ppl thread, but i went to a lecture/dialogue w/ daido moriyama last nite. when someone asked what his best advice is for young photographers is, he said something about how there is so much potential in photography and you should never give up on it, then he said "quantity is quality"

i stood in line to meet him and gave him a few copies of my zines and had a brief conversation with him (translated by his handlers), he gave me some very cool words of encouragement for being a self-publisher. totally awesome experience.

aw man that is super cool!

did not purchase a $140 copy of his book Hawaii 2004-2007

:-(

Nice story! It's groovy when people you admire turn out to be totally down to earth and nice and encouraging.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8069/8229374329_7f026c5787_c.jpg

not gonna let myself post too much photo-wise for the next bit, got papers coming up due soon, but I couldn't resist just putting one up while my tea was sinking in this morning.

(i really am loving my new home city if y'all couldn't tell)

i like that one

Thanks!

Yeah, that's great. I'm a sucker for leading lines and lots of repeating shapes. Great light, too. Where are these taken?