The Photography Thread

[Pavey]

Have you tried Calumet?

Or even better B&H in NY?

[ThoseOfTheUnlight]

Yeah still quite expensive on most sites.

On ebay they are going for about ?350 or so with the Kit Lens, but I dont really like buying cameras off ebay!

[Pavey]

?368 new for the body from B&H,plus shipping.

[t-dog]

Great photographs from both Pete and Gareth!
Keep'em coming..

[PeteJ]

Cheers for the comments. I appreciate the feedback, I've always been my own worst critic and I'm usually the one to put me off new hobbies! The reason I'm pretty negative is because in my mind I see what I want to shoot and it never quite works out that way. I see photos from others and I just want to throw myself off the nearest cliff because I just cannot acheive the same results.



When I say I've hit a wall, I'm not even sure if it is a lack of ideas or a lack of knowledge. I see Garath's shot of the building on tilt and it works so well; if I tried that it'd just make me look drunk!

Gareth, I shoot straight to black & white. Feel it gives better tones and more depth.

[Magnakai]

Pete, just out of interest what camera are you using?
Do you shoot digitally or to film and then scan it in?

D'oh, just reread your first post.

Well, that's a damn fine camera.

I'd recommend shooting in colour, though, as the sensors read it in colour anyway and then just convert it to B&W while processing it.

If you're having trouble with inspiration, just go out and wander around and force yourself to take pictures of things that you wouldn't normally photograph.

There's a fantastic tutorial for converting to B&W on this page: http://www.designbyfire.com/000100.html
Scroll about halfway down and you'll get to it.

Also, try this Ask Metafilter thread for some tips/links: http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/20951

And last but not least, from an excellent site (read everything else on there too): http://luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-10-06.shtml

Here are some good photoblogs (and some of my fave photos from them): http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archi...1851_clean.php

http://www.tozzer.net/mt/archives/000259.html

http://flickr.com/photos/special/10773325/

http://flickr.com/photos/gaspi/9353293/

http://flickr.com/photos/jodi/ *barf* (needs updating)

Hope some of this helps!

[marcus]

95% of the pictures I take are of my cat and I wont bore any of you with more of those, but one I quite like is the one below I took whilst on holiday in Cyprus, I saw a white dove through an alcove on the floor when I visited a castle there, so I lay on the floor with my camera and snapped this. I just like it a lot, its not brilliant or anything

[Ish]

I saw a white dove through an alcove on the floor when I visited a castle there

Very Ico

[Ginger Tosser]

A few of mine

http://www.scphoto.co.uk/pages/pennplasa.html

http://www.scphoto.co.uk/pages/photo7.html

http://www.scphoto.co.uk/pages/passing.html

http://www.scphoto.co.uk/pages/timesq3.html

http://www.scphoto.co.uk/pages/cornsurf2.html

http://www.scphoto.co.uk/pages/timesq.html

I must get round to doing some more. Keep up the good work Pete. I'm too critical of my own work, but it's nice to hear others talk good about it. I tend to revisit my negs/slides every now and then just to see if i've missed something.

[Rsdio]

I started getting into photography about a year ago, even got a darkroom set up in a little outhouse we've got (although all the light-blocking gaffer tape fell apart in some bad weather a few weeks ago).

Trouble is I don't do it often enough - I want to learn to judge the exposure myself without relying on the camera but taking pictures of the same old village time after time gets boring, so it's kind of like two steps forward and one back. It's frustrating actually, because the landscape around here is fantastic and some people would have a field day, but that sort of photography isn't of much interest to me

[Baseley09]

Wow, recently ive been bang into it, here's some wildlife

MILF accross the road, sneaking a peek

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/baseley09/milf.jpg

Said MILF's daughter, not sure if yet legal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/baseley09/PIC_0026.jpg

My mate in cockneckingwolf drag after night out

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/baseley09/eddlong.jpg

And my statement about you could look really gay without anyone noticing in the 80's

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/baseley09/gowest.jpg

[Magnakai]

That's some really nice some, GT.
I love the strong contrast you're bringing out in your images.

The Cornish Surfers one is beautiful. Silhouettes and fairly low ISOs are two of my favourite things.

[Ginger Tosser]

Thanks for the feedback, its nice to hear. The scan of the Surfers could be better, but its done at a lower res as my servers upload is only 256k. I'm trying to do more photography atm, just need the time (and cash).

[icarus0]

I had been wanting to get into photograhy for quite a long time so bought my first digital camera last year (a Canon A80). Its by no means the best digi camera on the market, but I'm certainly very happy with it and like the option to fiddle with the various manual settings. Besides, anything better would be completely wasted on my lack of talent.

I'm exactly like Pete in that I feel that the end result is never quite how I pictured the scene to begin with. I've now stopped comparing the quality of my pictures with other peoples as this can be counter-productive.

So anyway, attached are a few of mine. Any comments would be much appreciated.

[Gareth C]

Number 2 and 4 work particularly well due to the tones and the composition.

It's worth doing some web research on composition (golden section etc) as this helps a lot.