Photography v4

keep your eye on the white dot(s) in the upper left corner of the first photo

got a medium format slr for christmas and here are some of the shots from my test roll. it's all provia 100f xpro'd in tetenal c-41.







last one is actually ektachrome e100g. a little overexposed.

What camera is it?...these look too fancy to be lomo

I have a Rolleicord III - only shot b+w on her - should try some colour sometime

it's a kiev 60 which is a russian "copy" of the pentacon 6. i like it a lot so far.

why did I ask...now I must also buy it

my recent buying binge has been a Zenit EM and a Pentax Spotmatic SP(which i love and am trying to use as much as possible)

do you home develop or get it done in a shop?

i do it all myself. i shoot mostly slide film and cross-process it c-41. for black and white, i develop using t-max or d-76 but i'm about to start experimenting with red wine and instant coffee. the reason why i do it myself is mostly for experimentation purposes.

ooooooooooooo doo tell more about the red wine / coffee?

also - how much would you estimate it would cost to buy all the chemicals and containers needed to get set up developing just a couple rolls every now and then?

been a lazy cunt lately
here's what I did a couple of days ago

A few I've taken with my new camera... still haven't entirely figured it out. I clearly need to get a tripod.

Since I have ended up having to get a new computer instead of the Canon 5D2 I was originally planning on getting around now, I'm thinking maybe of sticking with Nikon after all and holding out until I can afford the D800e. 36 mp, no AA filter. And since my new comp is gonna have 32 GB of ram I should have no problem at all working with images that large in Photoshop.

Downside is that the D800e may be as high as $5,500.

It's $3,300. Awesome. I'm totally getting this camera this summer, hopefully by June, and I will never need another camera (well, it will eventually break down, but other than that).

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/843007-REG/Nikon_25498_D_800E_SLR_Digital_Camera.html

32GB is a lot of RAM. You really need that much?
jeez, these cameras are expensive. I bet they're worth every penny though

we're thinking of buying a "go pro" camera http://gopro.com/
it looks decent and the price is great. hopefully, this summer

gopros are sweet

It's important to be able to play Skyrim at maximum settings while I work on a 12-layer 36-megapixel Photoshop image at the same time, while I have my 3-hour extended edition LotR movie paused so that I can listen to Dream Theater, and also post on 5/8 about how awesome I am.

But really, it's just forward thinking. I want the guarantee that my computer can do anything I want it to for the next 5 years.

its scary to think, but i'm sure you could have said this exact sentence 5 years ago about the top relative computer specs of the time - there's little chance a PC you got 5 years ago could handle the stuff you want it to handle now'a'days, so just imagine what'll be like in another 5 years time

Moore law is scary.

I've been working on 2GB for the last 4 years.
I'll upgrade to 8GB soon though, which is pretty much what I'd need right now to run Photoshop and After Effects decently, even though I'm pretty sure AE is gay and doesn't work perfectly on any system.

Nah... I was playing Skyrim on medium settings with a PC from 5 years ago. It was definitely above average specs but not that extreme. I remember 8 GB was the max at that time but I settled for 2. I also went with dual-core instead of quad-core that had just come out. If I had made those extra leaps, I think I would be able to run Skyrim on higher settings now even on that computer from 5 years ago.

ikr
I can't wait to go visit nice places and create trippy movies

I've been trying to find the problem with that camera, but I haven't found anything wrong about it.
The design is pretty basic, so maybe that's where the cost was reduced.

Maybe they're built somewhere in Vietnam by 8 years old children.

shit
I wonder if you order from Germany or France it will be cheaper
edit: yeah, it probably is. lol

You live in a pretty cool place.

i recently obtained this camera which had be sitting dormant in the back of a room, broken:

With the help of my friend and some major surgery to the shutter's underlying mechanics, I was able to fix it. Here are some of the photos I got from the test roll:

This is all expired Provia 100 (RDP II) cross-processed in C-41 at home.

Unfortunately, I don't live there.

i recently went to an abandoned industrial park. this place was huge and having a nuclear power plant looming off in the distance made for a really cool feel.

the roofs of all the buildings here had evergreens growing on top of them.


clear shot of the nuclear power plant. the only clouds on an otherwise cloudless day.


the inside of one of the warehouses. this one bottled and stored whiskey.


going over some files.


this is all cross-processed ektachrome. probably my favorite. i want to live in this film.

I haven't posted anything in here in a while for some reason... keep forgetting about this thread. Here's a few shots I've done since the last time I posted. I haven't been anywhere awesome in a while, but sometimes the stuff near home is cool, too.

i tookk ders perctuers wen i riding mer bike

Those were all taken very near or right on Summit Road/Skyline Boulevard, which both run the entire length of the Santa Cruz mountains. The large body of water in the second to last photo is the view of Monterey Bay from Summit Road (which at that point isn't really a road as much as it is an unpaved gravel-laden dirth path - a complete joy to ride on a road bike with 23mm tires ):

Anyone into concert photography? I'm still pretty new to it all, but I think I've managed to get some pretty good stuff. Any feedback is appreciated. I'm shooting with a T3i, 70-200mm f2.8.

Chicago -




Pavlo and Luke McMaster -




Our Lady Peace -

One thing that I don't like is when someone's legs are cut off just above the feet. Probably more just my personal preference though. Nice shots overall Someone with way better eyes could come along and totally disagree with me though - I'm at the low end of photography knowledge/talent level compared to most others that post in this thread.


Concerts are my favorite things to photograph. I don't really know how I'll ever be able to do any with my dslr though. Most venues I ever go to don't allow anything more than a point & shoot.

I'm lucky enough to work at a theatre, so getting clearance to shoot the first 3 songs usually isn't a problem. But, because I'm still fairly new to dslr photography, I usually waste the first song or two getting used to the lighting and adjusting settings, leaving me one song to really shoot. That's something that I'm sure I'll get better at with time, though.

A few more, with and without feet.

The Pink Floyd Experience

Looks pretty good to me. I would think the higher ISOs of the newer DSLRs would be pretty handy for this kind of photography.

animalize3 here are some of my concert photos

hate that light - bad timing

I also notice now that none of the people in mine have legs either, and I'm totally annoyed

I did a ton of photos today for my cousin's senior portraits. Nothing too exceptionally creative, just the basics. We intend to take a few in each season of the year, so I'll have plenty of time to do more. This was our first time out. I used a reflector to help with lighting to prevent shadows on some of the close-ups. I'd never done this before and was pretty happy with how much it actually helped. My reflector was one of those silver car windshield shades. Folds up nicely and is quite portable. I'm not terribly useful with photoshop, so the only things I've adjusted on these are white balance, saturation, brightness, contrast. I think I only used Crop on two out of all of the 50+ photos I saved.

Here are a few that have problems -I'm not sure what caused them though, so if anyone has suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Especially the third one, wtf? I do know one problem right off, which was that it was a bright, sunny day and we started at about 2 in the afternoon.

weird dot/reflection to the left of her face


there's a rainbow sorta thing across the bottom of the photo

The sky is white instead of blue, and the entire photo is washed out in brightness

Here are a few of the ones I liked:

Annnnd, the first time I've ever (intentionally) accomplished something by adjusting my shutter speed!

All the others are on my flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michelle_2064/

Do you use a UV filter? That will sometimes cause issues with light refractions.

The washed out sky has to do with dynamic range. Shoot RAW and you can recover some of that. If you're worried about the sky in a shot like that the best thing to do is to have your own powerful lighting so you can overpower the sun. That's what a pro would do. You brighten the subject against the bright sky so you can back down the exposure and get color in the sky again.

Yeah, I have a UV filter.

I did shoot RAW today (Photoshop did work with them, btw) and that third one is actually after I adjusted the brightness and changed the white balance. " class= I tried using the "recovery" setting, but it didn't really do anything as far as I could tell.

Yeah in a case like that the sky is probably so blown out there is nothing you can do. You could always photoshop the sky.

Depending on the light (need sun at a 90 degree angle) a polarization filter can do wonders for a blue sky.

I was in the Lake District (UK) last week and am selecting/editing photos now... unfortunately we had very boring/grey/cloudy weather, so a lot of the skies are quite boring and grey.. oh well, here are some:

inhabitants





Our hostel (best hostel I've ever been in)

Wow. That hostel is gorgeous. I feel like it should be the setting of a Victorian novel or something.

I shot another concert last week. I'm definitely getting better at adjusting to the lighting and house conditions on the fly ... the more time I can spend shooting, and not tinkering with settings, the better.

Johnny Reid

Don't know the guy (he looks a bit homo) but the photos are crisp and colourful .