Real life photography/photo editing

[Rikki Tikki Tavi 0]

Never posted an image before, so let me apologize in advance to the mods. These are from our trip to England.

Some place at Camridge: http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8599/cambridgeennui519zi.jpg

Church near Bath: http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3493/churchonamonday330rz.jpg

Looking out of Bath's Bath: http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1562/viewfromacesspool846tw.jpg

Houses outside the British Museum: http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/54/middleclass68qa.jpg

[Ironsight 1]

Slowly becoming a better photographer:

[Supah 0]

Slowly becoming a better photographer:

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Hmm Ironsight what was your intention with this picture? It looks to me like you could have improved it a lot by changing the composition. Do you know the rule of thirds? Its really helpfull in setting up your composition.

[Ironsight 1]

Slowly becoming a better photographer:

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[Supah 0]

Slowly becoming a better photographer:

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check out this article which explains the rule of thirds amongst other composition tools.

[earl 0]

edit: supah beat me to it and bumped me to a new page.  

ironsight - offset the subject to make the whole scene a bit more interesting: http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/compose_expose/thirds.html

iNeo - awesome photos!  I had no idea that place existed, very interesting place (and history).

[Ironsight 1]

Ahhh thanks for explaining guys

[GoOB 0]

Some Lensbaby macros.

[verbal 0]

nice photos, GoOB. ive allways loved macros. heres one of mine:

and heres my mousepad ive just finished creating. a friend of mine just told me ive won a bottle of aple berenzen for "the most unusual mousepad he ever saw". well, maybe its just excuse to get drunk

[killagee 0]

Real nice goob!! I am thinking about getting a lens baby...

[killagee 0]

Here are a few from the SoundSplash festival in Raglan I worked at last weekend. I wish i could have spent more time getting'people' shots here, but i was working and only had a few minutes over the three days to take photo's...

These are the first photo's edited on my laptop. How do the colours look to you?

Cheers

[raedor 8]

Nice pics, looks like a very cool festival (its "position" is brilliant).

The colors are a bit mat, if you ask me.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Nice pics, looks like a very cool festival (its "position" is brilliant).

The colors are a bit mat, if you ask me.

no, your screen is just cheap!

[Tovarish 0]

I think some of the first pictures I posted here were the ice statues at Winterlude 2004. Winterlude 2006 is just about to wind down...it's been a mild winter (great for me, not so great for the sculptures :P) but some of e'm do look pretty damn good:

[goyim 0]

Very nice and professional style there killagee

thanks for sharing

[raedor 8]

@Tov: very cool, yes.

[j w 0]

lol.. ineo, i knew you was alot "go sweden, only sweden".. but didnt know you was so swedish that you actually travel to Gran Canaria...  

Klockrent

@Ineo: If you take much naturepics like you do, should you have a camera with big megapixel, or doesnt that matter?

What's important for you?

//JW

Nice pics everyone

[f-olk-e 0]

Repair Shop...

1. http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8919/3fc84technik1tunetec0xe.jpg

2. http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6465/004e7technik4tunetec0bm.jpg

3. http://img97.imageshack.us/my.php?image=6bba3technik0tunetec7ta.jpg

4. http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=709c6technik25tunetec5jh.jpg

5. http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=e0eactechnik3tunetec3ck.jpg

[raedor 8]

Looks like somebody is skilled with his non-virtual tools

[hellfish6 7]

I'm going overseas this spring. I have a digital camera but it sucks batteries like nothing. Since I'm going to be roughing it for three weeks in mountains and jungles, I don't want to carry dozens of batteries with me and then not be able to easily and safely dispose of them when they're gone.

Can anyone recommend a cheap and simple film camera (not a disposable - I'd like to take lots of pics and enough of those little cameras can take up a lot of room)?

Thanks

[GoOB 0]

Personally I'd go for a used SLR instead of a compact. Simply because they can handle tougher enviroments, and that they most often don't use up alot of batteries, and the batteries they do use up are tiny and weigh next to nothing.

Although they do cost their part... A NikonF2 should go for 200 bucks, and a CanonF1 for 130. And then another 50 for a used lens. But in my mind, definiatley worth it for a trip like that. Oh yeah, one good compact is the Olympus Stylus Epic QD. Takes great "everyday" pictures, and that for just above 600 SEK! Like, 80 dollars or something.

EDIT: Great pics everyone! Especially killagees one of the kids running down the hill... Damn, I want summer so bad. -11 and snow just doesn't cut it.

[earl 0]

Nice photo goob!  I've been really lazy about photography lately, but I haven't really been out anywhere interesting.

Here's a few from "winterlude" even though the weather here sucks and it's much like a proper winter at all.  I'd love to have a dependable -11 and some of new york's snow.  Instead it keeps rising above freezing and making a mess.

http://www.baconbomb.com/photos/winterlude/01.jpg

http://www.baconbomb.com/photos/winterlude/05.jpg

Interestingly, the "eternal flame" in front of parliament was out, and the area smelled like raw natural gas, so I didn't stick around.

[earl 0]

Hellfish, I guess you will probably want a simple APS rather than an SLR, even with their exit from the current market a good film SLRs is still relatively expensive.  You could get a clunker manual focus SLR for pretty cheap - the least battery dependent camera you can find, but manual focus and exposure settings means you could lose some nice chances to take a photo when speed counts.

For a good compact film camera, have a look into the Canon Sure Shot series like 130, 150 or Z180. Get something with 3x zoom or better. Haven't used one, but it's hard to go wrong with canon, and you should be able to find one for pretty cheap these days. I wouldn't want to pay more than $50 US for one.

[MI_Fred 0]

Lovely tones Earl and Goob. If I'd have objects or subjects like that I could justify b&w... but even the snow on the 2nd up there would loose it's powderlike quality. I still haven't shot a single picture without power lines, grr.

[berghoff 11]

My first pic with my first digicam =) and my first picture I've taken in a long while, just a quick test;

Bird in our backyard:

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