The Photography Thread

[funkydan]

Aw bless:



Bubblicious!:



I'll have some more live music shots for ya soon!

[Magnakai]

Ooh, those ripples are lovely.
Thanks for the comments guys. I think I'll do as Spock says and play with them a bit more.

Marty, any particular reason you got that Olympus? Is it just to have a portable photographic tool? It's quite old, but a F1.8 lens on a digicam is not to be sniffed at, and the review at dpreview.com is quite complimentary.

Edit: Dan posted as I was typing. That cat shot is great. Full of character. I like the concept and composition of that bubble shot, but it's a tad too subtle for me and my possibly too-bright monitor.

Edit 2: Yup, it was on a gamma of 1.8. Adjusted it to 2.2 and it's much better now.

[Ish]

Love the cat shot. Nice and grainy - it really suits the black and white and texture of the cat fur.

[MartyG]

Marty, any particular reason you got that Olympus? Is it just to have a portable photographic tool? It's quite old, but a F1.8 lens on a digicam is not to be sniffed at, and the review at dpreview.com is quite complimentary.

Because I'm daft and end up bidding on stuff on eBay that I really shouldn't.

[Ish]

Thats why I try and stay away from the accursed ebay

[Gareth C]

Thats why I try and stay away from the accursed ebay

Yep, I popped on there today and bought a new (old) 90mm lens and lots of other crap I probably won't want when it arrives!

[Ish]

An effort from this evening. Not quite right. It was shot using a small maglight for the lighting - I'm wandering if a second might help me even it out a bit.

[MartyG]

I tried getting some shots of the meteors this evening, and despite the odd one or two coming across the frame, I totally managed to capture zero of them. The stary sky seems to have come out okay, I'll post one up later. But meteorite capture = total failure



Edit-actually, looking a bit more carefully, I did manage to capture one, but it's so faint it barely registers in the frame ( not in the above shot though )

[Magnakai]

Lovely still life, Ish. A maglite, eh? I expect their eBay value to skyrocket. :P


Apologies if it's getting samey, but I'm really pleased with how these two came out:


And on black.


And on black. (recommended)

I nearly bought a Voightlander Vito CLR today on eBay. Beautiful little 60s rangefinder with a lovely Color-Skolar lens. But it went for a bit more than I fancied spending on it. Probably for the best, but boy are those cameras pretty.

[Ish]

I could barely see the meteorites - just too much street lighting where I live. My mum rang me up she was so excited - she had a crystal clear view of them. But then she does live in the back of beyond and its proper pitch black at night there.

I particualrly like the second one magnakai. Nice.

[funkydan]

Ish: love the chess piece dude - looks like the front cover of a PD James novel

Magnakai: I like the second one too

[funkydan]

Can I draw your attention to this image that I found on flickr - just stunning:

http://flickr.com/photos/ddfic/722634166/

Lost for words really!

[Alastair]

I'll raise you with this one:

http://flickr.com/photos/24567725@N00/1066895279

Some great shots as always recently guys. I took quite a few over the w/e but as we were away I wasn't able to process them yet, will take a look tomorrow and see if anything is worth adding to Flickr.

[charlesr]

Snail on my window:





Sorry about the poor quality pics - it was at night on the outside of a the window, so the flash was causing havoc.

I've never seen the underneath of a snail before so was trying to figure out how it moved. My deduction was that there are no moving parts and it actually uses magic.

[Spagoli]

Can I draw your attention to this image that I found on flickr - just stunning:

http://flickr.com/photos/ddfic/722634166/

Lost for words really!

How did they get an exposure slow enough to blur the car lights but fast enough to get the lightning?

OK looked in the properties and see how.