Photos you have taken in the last month of which you are proud?

Father and daughter stick wrestling .

Shot in August, processed today.

Agata by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

Went to the new Skelf Bike Park that’s opening in Edinburgh to get some night shots.

Liked this Tron style one of the pump track

Caught a great sunset too:

fisha thanks for the suggestions, its amazing how hard it is to lose details when you want to do it on purpose lol

yourguitarhero I was literally just looking at those photos on the Skelf FB page and wondering who took them 😀

Yeah, I finally got round to getting a tripod so thought I’d try it out.
Don’t suppose you were planning on coming to our opening event? Trying to figure out what to do about getting some pictures. I’d do it myself but I’m doing the BBQ and playing with my band.
Don’t suppose you fancy taking some pics in return for food and drink?

I was thinking about it, aye! Been a long while since I photographed any mountainbikes 😀

Want to drop me an email? Kit@KitCarruthersPhotography.com

DSC00160.jpg by Greg.May[/url], on Flickr

DSC00184.jpg by Greg.May[/url], on Flickr

Mikkel it’s too dark. Old photos don’t have true blacks. You need to lighten up the darker areas all round. Also old photos don’t have perfect details so if your losing some of the detail y lightening it don’t worry.

Depends on the old photo, I’ve got a copy of a group photo of the staff at a paper mill, with my great-granddad in, probably taken in the twenties, likely on a plate camera, and the detail is extraordinary! I scanned the print on a drum scanner at a resolution of 600dpi, and while retouching some damage I noticed a spot on the blazer worn by the son of one of the staff; when I zoomed in, I noticed it was a Boy Scout badge, turned upside down!
I’ve got another of a group of Victorian cyclists, and again the detail is astonishing, but some parts are blurred due to people moving during the long exposures.
Can’t post them at the mo’, my scans are Photoshop .eps files, and I no longer have a copy of Ps that’ll work on my Mac Mini, so I’m going to have to find the DVD I put copies on and get a friend to convert them to JPEG’s sometime.

and for St David’s day

Southport Lagoon, Tasmania.

Philip by Greg Turner[/url], on Flickr

Took this a few evenings ago about 3 miles from home…

The light was changing minute by minute and I got stuck in traffic approaching the spot, so was quite pleased I arrived in time.

Fenland Sunset – Nine Bridges… by STW stumpy01[/url], on Flickr

Greg – another great shot. What I am actually in awe of is how you got the horrid-looking yoot(*) to co-operate. I guess you have a better bedside manner than me 🙂

(*) Apols if its actually your brother, or something 🙂

Greg – another great shot. What I am actually in awe of is how you got the horrid-looking yoot(*) to co-operate. I guess you have a better bedside manner than me

(*) Apols if its actually your brother, or something

You’re very kind DrJ, thankyou. Actually this is a really good example of why I do what I do and why I love it so much and the message I’m trying to explore and communicate.

This guy was super nice; very mildly spoken, very engaged and emotionally aware. He’s also Spanish, not that it makes any difference I don’t think.

The point of the project (the one I call ‘The Politics of Experience’ on my website), is about exploring identity; how we see ourselves, how the world sees us and how we really are. Approaching the person in the street that you might not otherwise assume would be willing to cooperate or be receptive is part of that process. Sometimes I approach the person I think is the least likely to say yes and the most likely to take it the wrong way. And then they go and agree to be photographed. This chap is perhaps the best example of that (I’ve posted him before but he illustrates my point):

Nick by Greg Turner[/url], on Flickr

P1400709 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

Great shots geetee, I’m sure it’s tougher approaching these people than you make it sound, but that’s part of what gives the images their power…they’re not easy to get and they then give us a record that wouldn’t exist otherwise.

I’m sure it’s tougher approaching these people than you make it sound,

The first few times you do it, yes it is but that’s more to do with self doubt than anything else. I did, and still do to some degree, get all kinds of negative thougths running through my head at the start of a day of photographing people. I am always thinking ‘why does anyone care, what’s the point, you’re kidding yourself, you’re being pretentious, it’s just a mid life crisis’. And you know what all of that is probably true as well but what’s also true is that the process is cathartic and rewarding and it’s about life and sometimes I get something like this:

Newtrament by Greg Turner[/url], on Flickr

..and I think ‘yeah, this kind of works’. Basically the photographs are more just a by product of wandering around and talking to random people and the camera is just an excuse that makes that a teensy bit less weird.

Not wanting to start a separate thread, but can I ask what people are using to process their pics?

I’m way behind the technological curve here and I’m moving stuff from a memory card to my phone. My PC is ancient and will need replaced but I do like the ease of the phone, so a tablet* might be the answer. I’d like to process RAW images too (which neither my PC or phone can do).

I have a Kindle HD but the Amazon photo editing selection is terrible. And I know there is a hack(to run Google Play stuff) but haven’t tried it yet.

I hope I can help here.

Processing a RAW file is, as far as I know, a software issue rather than a hardware issue. That’s not to say that hardware doesn’t play a role, for instance, the iPad Pro version of Lightroom can’t process RAW files. That might be a limitation of the iPad’s architecture I don’t know, but PCs have had software that allowed RAW conversion going back more than a decade. Is your PC really that old?

I personally use Capture One, which is an equivalent product to Lightroom, which is itself known generally as a RAW converter. There are other RAW converters around, Apple’s Aperture was one (though it’s not been disconitnued) and its current product, whatever it’s called (I think it’s Photos) will also convert RAW files for basic manipulation. DXO provides another popular package and most Nikon and Canon cameras ship with proprietary pacakges.

The differences between them all tend to be along two spectrums. The degree of sophistication in editing information within the RAW files (e.g. recovering information in shadows and highlights, changing tone curves etc) is one spectrum and then storing, organising, managing and exporting is the other.

Capture One and Lightroom are pricey because they do both really well. Proprietary software (with cameras) is free because they do both very basically. Apple’s Photos does a good job of managing your pictures but is extremely limited in terms of editing.

There are also some hybrid packages, like DxO Film Pack, that combine RAW conersion with some degree of editing but also film simulations, a bit like Instagram does with filters.

If you have a PC that is so old it won’t run any package that can offer RAW conversion, I would suggest your best option is to buy something that does. For example, you could get a Mac Mini G4 off eBay for something like £40. With your existing keyboard, mouse and monitor and the software that comes bundled with the Mac (it will likely be iPhoto which is fine as a starter package) you’ll be able to edit just fine.

Hey Greg Lightroom works fine with RAW on the iPad Pro. There was an update in 2016.

I did wonder whether that had happened; I should have checked or at least said ‘the last time I checked’.

Have you tried editing 20-30MB RAW files on one and if so how was it. And how do you get the media onto the iPad?

USB to Lightning adapter from Apple. Straight from the camera to iPad. They import straight to Photos and Lightroom can access the RAW files on import from Camera Roll. Simples.
The files edited really well as it tends to work with lower res preview mode, but the export can take a bit of time if you are exporting at full size.

http://imgur.com/a/j7ZWg

Both taken whilst waiting for the weekend rain to stop.

Not a perfect photo by any means, but I don’t care: he’s perfect to me.

And similarly, much room for improvement but I think this one captures the character of my ‘oh so bored’ dog whilst it was pouring outside.

Untitled by Polarisandy[/url], on Flickr

Untitled by Polarisandy[/url], on Flickr

Low cloud at Afan last friday. Didn’t even notice these as we snaked down the Blade trail!

The day after Afan, still found some energy to dash out for a quick spin between rain showers. Note the trail fix to keep the forks bouncy…

Hey Andy where’ve you been? Nice to have you back.

First roll from the M4 back. Results mixed.

James Vans by Greg Turner[/url], on Flickr

Hello GT!

good to be back, been busy with work, fam and Mountain rescue duties..
Hope to have more time for cameras.

Liking all the portraits and good to catch up on the tread in general!

cheers

Andy

Untitled by Polarisandy[/url], on Flickr

DSC00068-2 by davetheblade[/url], on Flickr

I’m not normally a fan of colour highlights, but that works brilliantly! Lovely pic

Thanks cp – no, I wouldn’t normally do colour highlights, but it just seemed the right thing to do here

Untitled by Polarisandy[/url], on Flickr

A couple of Glentress during Storm Doris