Love the images that pop up here.
Slightly over the month but I liked this one..it looks 'urban wasteland' but that's far from the truth. It's part of an abandoned conveyor belt that carried coal several miles from open cast to railhead here in the rural hills of East Ayrshire.
@johndoh you mean Ivan or the lighting in my composition? 😂 thank you though that's a hell of a compliment ❤️
I am a bit of a fan of chiaroscuro lighting so this often features in my work.
^ That reminds me of the artist Vermeer.
Never seen a pic of Vermeer with a beard, perhaps you mean Van Gogh? 😉
Since I'm here.
Coincidentally, this image is a direct interpretation of 'Girl with a Pearl Earing', albeit a playful interpretation!
This is another of my friend Ivan, whom I've been photographing for about two years. We started the project together at the commencement of lock down and in response to that. He is vulnerable (so no laws were broken) and we partly conceived the project to enable him to have a human connection with someone (as otherwise he would have been completely isolated and that would most likely not have turned out well for him!)
Homage to Henri Cartier-Bresson - Dunnerdale not Paris
Oh trés bien mon ami!
Dirty and nasty even by my own low standards, but love the feeling of this.
One from last week from Birchen Edge in the Peak District. Lovely greeny blue light just before the sun rose and mist swirling around everywhere.
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And this one I tried to link to Insta on previous page - Big Moor in late November on my phone. Pretty much the only snow we've had this year which is a real contrast to last winter:
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Last weekend discovered some fen in Gloucs while riding home before dark.
West Wittering - shot on film. I'm not remotely a landscape photographer (I'm almost exclusively a portrait photographer) and I guess this otherwise dull images demonstrates that but I do like the textures and the painterly quality and it's a useful exercise in learning how film records the light on the landscape.
I was out shooting sunrise last week on digital 5 mins from home. Another chap turned up who’d driven over an hour and was shooting on large format film. Tenner a pop to get developed!
Struck me that I was very much the fast food, instant gratification end of things!! Oh, and also that I hugely missed that anticipation of the box of slides being delivered by the postie a week later!!
Struck me that I was very much the fast food, instant gratification end of things!!
Potentially but you can still shoot digital using an analogue process, which is how I used to approach shooting portraits with my digital camera before I moved back to film. I used to use the smallest storage cards I could find (a 2GB compact flash cards would hold no more than 30 images on my camera, so it was like shooting 3 rolls of 120), tripod mount the camera, use a cable release and a light meter with full manual exposure but always shot at ISO 400. The analogue process really worked well but it lacked the 'craft' feel that true film offers.
I shoot 120 now on a 6x7 format (so ten frames per roll and a more moderate £2.20 per frame). Large format is a whole other ball game of patience, chance, error and surprises. I know a few (world renowned) portrait photographers who have tried to move from 120 to large format and found it a very challenging and deeply frustrating experience. For portraiture, I think 120 is a good compromise.
Of course, if you've ever seen the work of Richard Learoyd on his room size camera obscura and direct to positive print paper that measures in the metre square range, you'll also know that especially for portraiture, bigger is most definitely better!
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there you go scruff
Cheers - how did you manage that? Witchcraft?
Have a look at the work of Nicholas J R White - he's a large format landscape photographer with a beautiful portfolio.
His Black Dots project was excellent: Black Dots
And Dust and the Vein is mesmerising: Dust and the Vein
But really all his work is sublime and worth enjoying
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Don't really get the film vs digital thing. I learnt my 'craft' on film and still shoot 120/35/Instax from time to time, but digital gives me more freedom and lets me try out more stuff more quickly. I don't ever feel one is more 'real' or 'authentic' than the other, and think that anyone who claims that isn't really thinking straight. They're just different.
But then I embrace a lot of the nasty side of digital imaging and processing.
Having said that, I do quite often shoot digital without an SD card in the camera to play on that old fear of running out of film.
I don’t ever feel one is more ‘real’ or ‘authentic’ than the other
I think it’s the process that is authentic but as I said, you can shoot an analogue like process on digital and so yes, one is not more real or more authentic.
I think the main reason people still shooting film are doing so is because they find it aesthetically more pleasing.
No argument on that. Again though, I find that view fascinating. I've come to a point where I've got interested in the 'beauty' of digital images when they get pushed to their limits with processing and artifacts start to appear. I guess a lot of others try to avoid those, but quite often I go hunting them out now. I think my Fine Art background is to blame.
I also think that most photographers love the 'process' and are not just in it for the outcome - how you achieve that outcome is important to us, and that for me is where film wins out slightly. But there is an analogous process to embrace in digital too if you want to.
These days I don't have the time or facilities (nor all the skills in terms of darkroom work) to do in film what I can in digital...
Anyway, back to photos.
I've dug out my 'proper' camera in the last few weeks to drag myself away from the convenience of just shooting on my phone. Might return to film at some point, but the convenience of digital wins out at the moment.
These are from a selection of devices (and possibly over a month old, sorry) ...
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Isle of May
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These days I don’t have the time or facilities (nor all the skills in terms of darkroom work) to do in film what I can in digital…
This is where I have to confess that I process my negatives digitally (sort of obvious really as otherwise I wouldn't be able to share them here, though I guess I could be scanning a hand made print). Most fine art photographers I know and follow, with a few notable exceptions, do the same. I would love to have the time and skill to create true, craft like handmade prints but also recognise that this is a skill set so deserving of special attention that most past masters of the photographic art (Avedon immediately springs to mind) would work with someone dedicated in this area rather than do it themselves (again there are exceptions, Don McCullin being a very obvious one).
BTW Colournoise, your username now has added meaning!
Snapped this, this morning when pup was sat on chair with the sun right on her.
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That is lovely Mikkel!
BTW Colournoise, your username now has added meaning!
Heh! Hadn't considered that. It actually comes from something else (quite closely related though).
Couple of trees from today.
The Eiger last week
What with working long hours, and generally not being able to get out at weekends so much at the moment, I’ve taken relatively few photos worth bothering with, but I took a bunch at the Big Thief gig on Sunday, and I’m pretty pleased with how many of them came out.
I like this one just because of the interaction between the band members.
I’ve posted this one already in the gigs thread, but I like this one as much just because I’ve got the whole band, which was a bit awkward because of the way they’re spread across the stage, Adrianne, the singer, was on the far right most of the time, but towards the end she wasn’t singing so moved across where I could get her in frame with the rest of the band.
Jarvis at the Octagon (a bit longer than a month ago, maybe Nov 21). Opportunistic burst on an IPhone 12.
Not a particularly great photo, but the BBC chose one of my riding selfies as one of their 'on two wheels' viewer images last week.
Bit cheesy but was my first time visiting the area and always thought the images of the limestone pavements and Norber Erratics looked cool.
Nice
first time flying the DJI Mavic 2 pro...
A couple of very different ones from this mornings wanderings
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From the ongoing project with my friend (which I've been working on now since the week lock down started!)
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Nothing fancy, but we have a year old Collie. She is lovely but for some reason whenever I try to take a picture of her she ends up looking evil. But I was out on the hills with her yesterday and was playing with an old manual 50mm chinon lens and managed to grab this which I quite like. Straight out of camera (Fuji XT10) with no edits but I thought it got the mood.
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Ivan - The Divided Self: The view From Within
At night, sometimes I can smell sweet blossom in my room even though there are no trees near by
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Looking over the Clyde from up behind my house, over to Rothesay.
Went to the beach today.
The colours in that last photo are amazing
How do you achieve that?
How do you achieve that?
By cheating!
If you've seen any of my other photography you'll know I do a fair bit of post processing for various reasons. That one's pretty subdued by my standards.
Started with a decent 'raw' image - the North Norfolk light was awesome yesterday so that helped. The processing wasn't complex - I'm not into exposure or focus stacking so no layers or anything. Basically pushed the saturation a bit and overused the dehaze tool to get everything popping a bit. Then a case of highlight/shadow/exposure tinkering until it looks 'right'. Finally, I played with the saturation on individual colours (my processing app has a cool HSL per channel tool for this) to accentuate the clichéd cyan/orange thing while suppressing most other colour.
Been playing with a cheapo macro lens for one of my old phones (have modded the case a bit to avoid using the clip on mount these things have, and in the process seem to have unwittingly created a swappable lens camera phone).
A few kingfisher shots from Friday:
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Erm.....Wow!!!!
*throws camera in the bin/
Those Kingfisher pictures are amazing! 👌👏
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(Taken on my Phone)
Channeling my inner Magritte, I took this last night out with the dog on the Long Walk. Might print it out. Aside from setting the exposure level, it is a completely unmolested image from an iPhone 11.
And for those interested, here is the inspiration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_of_Light
@tlr - It is one of my ambitions to photograph a Kingfisher. There are a couple that must nest close to me on one of my regular kayak haunts but they are so bloody quick!! Your pics must have taken some patience and are incredible.
@eskay - thanks, they are quick buggers for sure. These were taken at 4000th of a second, I was very lucky with the light. And some decent equipment too, always makes me smile when people ask if I took it on my iPhone.
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Full Member@eskay – thanks, they are quick buggers for sure. These were taken at 4000th of a second, I was very lucky with the light. And some decent equipment too
And a tank full of minnows in the river too??? 😉😉
Excellent kingfisher photos, we’re lucky in that near us is probably the tamest kingfisher in the Uk, will happily perch and fish about 10’ away, sometimes there are 20 people watching it!
Only got good perching shots, it’s hard work getting the fishing shots!
A few from the Bristol harbourside.
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@vmgscot - I love the photo above with the old fenceposts across the dry grass, I like taking similar simple photos using a diminishing perspective.
The kingfisher photos are stunning!
Here’s a couple I took while out for a walk around Biddestone last week, when I took some bluebells I’ve just posted on the bluebell thread, but I also spotted this little fella, and I was able to get close enough to get a couple of photos, before it flew off - it’s tricky using a mobile phone, but I put it onto 2x zoom, which helped; the phone was still less than seven or eight inches away, though!
I don’t often take mono photos, but I’ve taken quite a few of this part of the lane where I took the butterfly and bluebells photos, and with the clouds it looked like it might be worth a go - I’ve just tweaked it a bit, upped the contrast, brightness and so on a wee bit, but nothing much.
Evening stroll around Cambridge.
The Jesmond library sits nice with all the ancient buildings...
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So the project that I've posted a few images of on here - Ivan: The Divided Self - has had some recognition via the online magazine Lens Culture. I thoughtl, vainly I suppose, I would share here. Maybe the wider project is of interest to others here.
The images I submitted into this competition are only a small fraction of the total project, which is likely around 60 images now that I would regard as keepers (probably three times that in images that just won't ever see the light of day).
I really need to make a selection from that 60 to curate a finished project set that will go on my website, but I just don't appear to be finished yet! Perhaps I need to publish this project in volumes!
Lens Culture Portrait Awards
My neighbour, Obert, originally a son of Zimbabwe, taken on the anniversary of that country's independence.
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Had my first play with a (cheap) ND filter while cycling along the Southern Upland Way - Old Bridge of Minnoch (aka Roman Bridge)
Not up there with the great and the good of this thread but I was happy with the composition and results from a simple point and click camera phone.
From atop Farley Mount in Hampshire
Few from a week's holiday in Croatia, mostly just phone pics but the best camera is still the one you've got with you.
A day at Bempton Cliffs:
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Phone box with a bit of character
Dodging the rain this morning I cycled overt to a cemetary I'd ridden past since a child, but never entered. This angel really stood out in an area of overgrown graves.
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Harris Hawk launch. Taken on my Samsung A50.
@hopster - that Angel statue is lovely, the blurring of the foreground grass works really well.
Here’s a couple I took a couple of weeks or so ago, quite unexpectedly. I was walking back to the workshop at around 7am, and something white blowing around caught my eye, then as I was looking around to see what it was, I felt something on my arm…
This is what it was, it happily sat there while I fished my phone out of my left pocket, and managed to open the camera one-handed, get it focused and take this photo. Then it flew off, but came back and landed on my arm again; I managed to get another shot, slightly closer, but not quite as crisp.
It’s a Swallowtail moth, apparently rarely seen, because they’re strictly nocturnal!
Beautiful creature, lovely subtle colours, and a privilege to share it’s world for a couple of minutes.
Not necessarily proud of these as such - nothing special beyond 'test' snaps on a dog walk, but having fun playing around with an old Japanese lens I found in the bottom of a box the other day. Was given to me years ago and totally forgotten about. Plugged into a new (to me) Lumix MFT body via an M42 adapter. My eBay purchase history this week already suggests that modern kit plus old lens might be a bit of a new obsession...
Loving the fact that old lenses won't speak to the camera body so I'm having to try and remember how to take proper photographs again rather than just pointing and clicking and letting the software do it all.
I love watching bumblebees burrowing into thistle flowers, difficult to get a symmetrical photo usually, but this one’s close-ish.
Osprey with a catch
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Turns out I like silly cheap modern Chinese lenses less than old free Japanese ones...
(waits impatiently for eBay deliveries)
