The Photography Thread

[laurence]

my friends are back!







i only had my 18-55 lens with me, but managed to get close enough as they were enjoying the sunshine

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I decided to go for a bit of a walk in Wednesday at midnight in the hope of getting a couple of nice misty photos of the castle.... seemed like every man and his dog had the same idea. Nothing jumped out at me as a worthy photo so came back with nothing.

But these are from about 10 years ago....
and this i had as my desktop wallpaper for years... it's looking down the canal the other way from said bridge, mirrored and inverted.
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love the bottom one...

I have a couple from years ago as well... but I will show you what the rest of the world saw that day first...
55mm zoom...

and then there is what I saw (300mm zoom).

There is a story behind the photos are well.. I had just gotten out of the bath, so had wet hair, bare feet and was in a dressing down only... standing in bare feet on a balcony taking photos... needless to say the rest of the world thought I was totally mad, even my OH was challenged to see what I was photo-ing until I processed the pictures afterwards...

Same place, almost the same balcony, but last year instead of 7 or 8 years ago...

I'm back there tomorrow for a week!

 

[welsh dragon]

love the bottom one...

I have a couple from years ago as well... but I will show you what the rest of the world saw that day first...
55mm zoom...
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and then there is what I saw (300mm zoom).

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There is a story behind the photos are well.. I had just gotten out of the bath, so had wet hair, bare feet and was in a dressing down only... standing in bare feet on a balcony taking photos... needless to say the rest of the world thought I was totally mad, even my OH was challenged to see what I was photo-ing until I processed the pictures afterwards...

Same place, almost the same balcony, but last year instead of 7 or 8 years ago...

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I'm back there tomorrow for a week!

Wow. Fantastic photos. Many thanks for showing them.

 

[Cyclist33]

Cheshire Raccoon

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Excellent photo!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Excellent photo!

Hopefully my last picture of snow this year! Next up, thunderstorms.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Digging through a bunch of old photographs yesterday and I found this one, you can't take this picture from the same place any more.

 

[coffeejo]

Digging through a bunch of old photographs yesterday and I found this one, you can't take this picture from the same place any more.

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Very poignant.

 

[laurence]

some coloured film shots...

purple 120 film...




and redscale 120...




i keep forgetting the redscale is only 100iso and underexpose it as the cameras are usually set for 400 or 200. i'm still not 100% convinced with coloured film, but it makes for some interesting effects and adds to my fun of playing with the film cameres. i've just got a box of purple 35mm film now, so i can try some in the panorama sprocket hole camera!

 

[Doseone]

My first crack at black and white.

Its from my walk this morning.

 

[welsh dragon]

My first crack at black and white.

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beautiful.

 

[Doseone]

beautiful.

Thank you
[QUOTE 2991961, member: 9609"]Great picture but with 8672 different colours in it (including greyscale) , it aint black n white
Or do you mean it is just a regular picture that sort of looks nearly b&w ?[/QUOTE]
It's a conversion from the original colour one I took this morning. Rather than taking the picture on the black and white setting of my camera I took the picture in colour. It didn't turn out that colourful so I thought it would lend itself to a b&w conversion. To convert it I desturated the existing colours by varying amounts rather than just click the b&w convert button. I thought it looked better that way, punchier, rather than a straightforward conversion which looked a bit washed out and disappointing.

 

[mcshroom]

Stonehaven Harbour on Friday

 

[Doseone]

[QUOTE 2992091, member: 9609"]my original post looks a bit prattish when I re-read it,[/QUOTE]
It wasn't taken that way

[QUOTE 2992091, member: 9609"]but I was curious as to what you had done as I quite liked those heay blues in the sky

You do get days in the hills, i remember many days in the NW highlands in nov / dec with grey leaden skies and all the colour washed out of the landscape, it can be like a day walking in a b&w landscape.[/QUOTE]
I did darken the top part of the sky when I was converting to b&w - a bit too much actually but I couldn't be arsed to start again on it, but the sky was pretty dark in the original because I spot metered for the snow which darkened everything else and it actually was pretty dark anyway because of the incoming rain/snow.