The Photography Thread

[merf]

is it just my ultra suspicious trust nobody mind or does that flckr lightning photo not look quite right, a touch of post processing ?

[MartyG]

It's a long exposure ( 16 seconds ) - virtually the only way to capture lightning given its randomness. A short exposure would struggle to capture lightning, it's very fast so not in the frame for long - hence why it works as a long exposure.

[Gareth C]

My deduction was that there are no moving parts and it actually uses magic.

Correct


Oh, and they NEVER STOP CRAPPING. EVER...

[Magnakai]

Those lightning pics are amazing.
Check out this one.

By the way, guess what I bagged today?


*dance*
I haven't got any decent pics to post up from it yet, but hopefully I'll acquire some shortly. I just have the kit lens and the 50mm 1.8 so far.

Next job: find a case, a 35mm lens, a flash, a practical good quality zoom, another bundle of batteries and a good tripod. Oh, and some money. Lots and lots of money. Enough to build boats out of. Boats made of money.

[Ish]

Welcome to the slippery slope that is DSLR ownership Magnakai

[Gareth C]

Just got round to using my new (old) lens today. Its a Canon 50mm f1.2. 40+ years old and a beast of a lens, short but VERY wide and heavy too. I think I have tracked down an f0.95 too! Should be fun!

Haven't had time to process any actual shots with it yet, will have to wait until after my holidays.

[Alastair]

Good stuff guys, always great to get new gear.

I've dug out and cleaned the old girl (Pentax ME Super with a 50mm f1.7)! Anyone have suggestions for the best 35mm B&W film to buy? I used to be an Ilford man but maybe there is better out there.

[MartyG]

Depends whether you're processing it yourself. Trying to find places that will develop proper B&W film are becoming hard to find around here.

You might want to take a look at Fuji NEOPAN 400CN which can be C41 processed ( standard colour processing ) if you don't plan on using your own dark room.

Linky: http://www.fujifilm.co.uk/profession...opan400cn.html

[Alastair]

Thanks Marty. I'm lucky in that I have a professional film lab 20 seconds from the office so processing is no problem at all.

NEOPAN rings a bell from something my photo teacher mentioned, maybe I'll try the standard NEOPAN 400?

[MartyG]

If you've got a lab near you then yeah, give that a try. You might want to try pushing a roll the film by a couple of stops too.

Kodak TRI-X and Ilford HP5 are worth a look as well.

[Alastair]

You might want to try pushing a roll the film by a couple of stops too.

I know HP5 and it's results well so will be using that also to compare.

What do you mean push it by a couple of stops (which way?) and why?

[MartyG]

Pushing film, i.e., setting the ISO setting on the camera over that of the film's rating, so on the NEOPAN 400, set it to 1600.

The resulting pictures will be a little grainier and more contrasty, depending on the film. Some B&W film can be pushed more than others ( make sure to tell the developers it's a pushed film too, because it affects processing time ).

[Alastair]

Thanks for the info Marty, I'll hopefully try it out and see what happens soon.

I'm not one for taking macros but with the wide angle adaptor I bought came a little macro screw on thing. This was with the lens around 1cm from the bee hence the emphasised depth of field.


I'm aware there isn't really a point of interest in this shot except the sky but boy do I love the way it came out, 2 'exposures' from one shot blended together using layer masks.

Think it's much better large.

[funkydan]

My photos of a local band 'Kobrakai':











Out of these five photos, I like the first and last pics the most

The rest from this set can be found here

I don't think these are my best quality photos (the stage light was a bit bright in the venue and the band were leaping around all over the place!) but there are some good moments captured I think

[Alastair]

Obviously a hard shoot Dan, still looking good enough. What ISO are they at? Especially the bottom two. They are very noisy. Is it true that Nikon isn't as good at low noise high ISO then?!