Not as sharp as I'd like....
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The farm beneath the mountain
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Bent by the wind, but as yet unbroken.
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Unfurled
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Wish I had an eye for a good photo! This is the best I can do with my peanut brain -
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This is the best I can do with my peanut brain -
I guess you're not being ironic with that post and just need some help knowing how to link pictures to the forum right? 😀
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Commute home
I wouldn't say I was especially 'proud' of this picture; it's OK I aguess in an abstract sort of way, but it makes for an interesting 'can you guess where this is' game.
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Autumn Sky
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Condensation:
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My first star trail photo
[b]kiwijohn[/b] ooft!
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love the autumn sky kiwijohn
went back to Venice to experience the place when not getting wet from head down and from feet up.
took a few pics, here are a couple of them
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(I would've preferred it without people but that would have involved getting up waaaaay too early for me in holiday mode)
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I like the people in it John.
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I like the people in it John.
Yep, me also. I really do like that image and the colouring on the Venice shot is also unusual and appealing. It has a 'painterly' quality to it.
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Crappy photographer with a Samsung S5
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Recent scans Scotland trip.
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A few cars from the Targa Tasmania...
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This Datsun was 1st in the classics & 9th overall against the Porsche drivers.
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Loving the pics kiwijohn.
yum to all those cars!
some nice motors...I'll take the shelby Daytona coupe please.. 😀
Love the red sky picture. Stunning that.
Not much artistic merit....I was just impressed by the fact it was landing on a local beach.
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First test roll of cheap colour film back from my new M6 with the 35mm lens. Not bad for a really cheap film and fast scan!
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that's not a Nokton is is Greg? Would love an M6, enjoy it!
think these all scrape in under the last month rule, though maybe developed/scanned rather than strictly taken ;). Hosted on IG hence weird squareness.
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that's not a Nokton is is Greg? Would love an M6, enjoy it!
Well spotted 🙂 It's a dream so far. Have a few rolls of B&W negatives that should be on my doorstep when I get home.
Hand held, 1/4 second exposure.
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I must say, the image stabilisation of the Fuji 18-135mm is very impressive
My project exploring life on Brighton Beach between the hours of sunrise (which was at 5.05am this morning and required a 4am alarm call!) and 9am continues.
Naturally a lot of the people you meet are just finishing their saturday night rather than starting their Sunday morning and given Brighton has something of an 'alternative' culture, you do tend to see a lot of chemically induced behaviour. That's probably not something I would choose for myself but I firmly believe in letting people live the life they want to live.
Tom was pretty wired. He was coherent and so able to give consent to a photograph, but he was unable to string more than a few words together. He was sitting as part of a group of individuals, many of who I've met and photographed before. They were all just hanging out on the pebbled front, relaxing around sunrise. Tom was sat opposite me and just staring intently at me, or perhaps past me, right towards where the sun had risen over the horizon about 20 minutes before. I just love the wild staring eyes. So intense!
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Nothing clever, posed or well executed. But it is press day back at the office and it is the major pressure deadline around now so I needed an image just to enrage those back working hard in the newsroom. Judging by the three emails I've already had it has hit the spot. 😈
I'll spare you the gratuitous Thatchers Gold and Asian Seafood Broth shot.
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Our kelpie just off the beach.
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Lyme Bay from Langdon Woods/Golden Cap
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Completely wild - but not really dangerous:
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Messing about by the river. Beautiful Demoiselles are canny flies, it took me about an hour to get this male to trust me enough to get within an inch away. Also saw a female Scarce Chaser buzz right in front of my face, hover awhile in front of my nose only to fly away before I could even attempt to snap it. Better than big game hunting IMO.
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Leaf Beetle (Donacia thalassina?)
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Bowness-on-Windermere last night
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Water and hills. You win. I really need to revisit the lakes.
I'm working half an hour down the road, so would have been rude not to 😉
13th bivi a month in a row, 5 out of 5 for 2017
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View from my bivi
This was taken at the same fair I had my little 'incident' at!
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What is with us and beach huts?
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Wedding #3 (#2 hasn't made it online yet...). At the start of the year, I would've totally fluffed this shot, but knowing my camera and my abilities really paid off with this one. Fave of the day.
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Friday afternoon fun.
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Like this Bob, Greg may and GT
esp "Tom on beach", Sari lady, and the young lad with the ball infant of caravan.
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Finding shade on a sunny day.
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Last Nights Moon
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Bit a depature from my usual 'aesthetic'; I decided I wanted to develop my style with the use of studio strobes. I'm not sure about them - I kind of like them as they're very striking, but I'm not sure if they don't look, well, kind of catalogue-esque.
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They don't look quite right to me, Greg, possibly for two reasons: harsh strobe (unmodified? or with a snoot or reflector?) and underexposed background. If that's the aesthetic you were going for, then you've achieved it, but I'm not sure it works for these types of shots/your style, IMO.
edit: easy to criticise though, eh? 😆
A few from this weeks camping trip with small hachurch.
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harsh strobe (unmodified? or with a snoot or reflector?) and underexposed background.
Yeah the underexposed background was very deliberate; that is what I was trying to achieve but I'm not sure I like it either. It's an interesting step in a direction I would like to take and it is the first time I've used a proper stuido strobe, so it's a learning experience.
I hate with a passion the HDR look, at least when you have that as a result of post proessing and while this is not done that way, and the background is also under exposed, it still has that HDR look. The subjects pop though.
I used a beauty dish, but it's only 60cm so the lighting will be harsh (larger the source relative to the subject, the softer the effect and vice versa).
Put some diffusion over the beauty dish and bring it closer (so bigger)
Or get a bigger deeper box with a grid, I got a cheap walimex one which works well, eleinchrom want a fortune for theirs and I just don't do enough of that kind of work to warrant buying one.
Best thing is an assistant who will be a boom/stand holder 😆
Put some diffusion over the beauty dish and bring it closer (so bigger)
I was SO hoping you would comment! Thanks MrSmith. The dish does actually have a diffuser, so I will use it tomorrow. As for an assistant, I think I need to be one before I have one.
On that point, if you ever need one on a weekend, I would jump at the shot to be yours for free; I would probably learn more from that than anything else I can think of.
Dammit, thought I'd typed out a reply. Was going to say something along the lines of MrSmith, like maybe a strip softbox with a grid?
Anyway, I was going to put up an example of a recent shot using just a speedlight, no modifier. Not really your style, Greg, but I think it works with this style. Otherwise, I tend to use a shoot through brolly with a speedlight. Can't be arsed carrying around anything larger, if I'm honest.
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(this was a brolly shot)
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I like that picture of Hollie; t hat's great.
This is what I was thinking of for today's work:
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I love Rineke's work, I think it's wonderful. I just can't bring myself to start shooting large format film!
I'm trying to work out if that's a single light, or two. Anyway, much more diffuse than what you were trying but I can see the similarities.
It is much more diffuse. I'll try the diffuser and then get a bigger softbox and grid if need be.
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Much better results from MrSmith's advice.
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I don't make a habbit of asking the homeless to be subjects in my project; I'm not sure it's fair or right even if they are willing (and they almost always are, because the taking of a photograph is an affirmation of identity) but I've made a few exceptions mostly because they are people in my home town I've got to know.
In this instance, I didn't twig he was homeless until after I stoped him to talk. He told me his story, about how his wife had cheated on him with his best friend and he hadn't been able to cope with that and had been forced to leave.
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Chapeau GT!
developed/scanned recently, if not strictly taken quite within the last month!
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Quality page, especially like John Climbers stuff, that toad is superb. Kit's wedding shot, stevie D's fun in the afternoon: all really engaging shots. Just dug out my camera after a fallow period, this is really motivating me....thanks to everyone who contributes...
trail of destruction: That is John Rylands Library Deansgate Manchester and I claim my £10.
One of the most beautiful libraries in tbe world.Visited it for the first time three weeks ago, having passed it hundreds of times. I especially like the way the modern extension works with the Victoria original. There is a great little historical Mission for Street Children on the side street next to it, which I only discovered as there was a 'real' fire alarm when I was there.
Points to Lotsroad. It is a lovely building, and if anyone hasn't been before it's well worth a visit when you're next in Manchester.
Welcome to the thread by the way. I'm slowly getting better at photography, despite working with cameras and camera equipment for 20 years ! This old dog is still trying to learn some new tricks.
Nothing to post at the moment as I've been a bit busy with other things, but finding some more time now, and I have a couple of trips planned, so I'll be back later on with my efforts.
After the last cup game of the season. Chuffed with this shot - just wish my son had been one of the lads caught, then it would've been on my wall!
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(Open in new window looks much better)
developed/scanned recently, if not strictly taken quite within the last month!
Great light in both but the second image on the beach is particularly well structured.
A rather random moment in Brighton Beach early on Sunday morning (and yes this is exactly how I found her):
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Chilli plant on the balcony:)
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Chilli plant on the balcony:)
So put it inside then!
I'll get my coat.
First roll back from the new M6 - am excited. Scanning away now.
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Hattie
Headstone Tunnel, Monsal Head. Sony A77ii, Sigma EX 10-20mm @ 20mm, f3.5, ISO50, 3.2s
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I had to embargo these until the subjects had said they were OK with me publishing them. But they are fun!
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Out exploring again after too long a break:
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