the photography thread.

[loophole]

i really dig this one. it feels like he can walking the tree, like the ship in space odyssey 2001.


at the met


these next two go together

[Matze]

i really like this thread, so many good ideas

here's some stuff from the last weeks

[sebastian toombs]

that first picture is totally metal...



last night i tried to stitch up my first pano, using a program called 'hugin'.  this is the dump in trail, bc, where my brother works...

[artichoke]

How does hugin work?  I've been pretty frustrated with trying to do panos on CS2 lately.

[sebastian toombs]

im still playing with it, going thru the tutorials, but it seems pretty straightforward (plus its free, and theres an OSX version).

- feed in the images you want, in the order you want

- enter EXIF info, or just guess-timate the angle of view of each picture

- set an anchor point (usually the centre image) and horizon point

- identify 4 - 6 match points from each picture to the next

- 'optimize' ie: computer magic

- 'stitch' ie: more computer magic

- save as a file, then crop as you like in PS or whatever

im going to try again tonight with the same pictures, but instead of using little jpegs ill probably convert my raw files to something bigger, in an effort to retain more detail.

[artichoke]

Nice, i'm downloading it and will give a try in a bit.

[hubbard]

[rfox]

How does hugin work?  I've been pretty frustrated with trying to do panos on CS2 lately.

CS3's pano is about a thousand times better than CS2's I was pretty impressed with the advance

[frisco]

always liked this shot, skating last year with my homie, damn im gonna miss uvic

[Matze]

auschwitz, concentration camp - death camp



(no photoshop in here)

[feed me with your kiss]

[chuck d]

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2779284922_7467ed799c_o.jpg">

[chuck d]

How does hugin work?  I've been pretty frustrated with trying to do panos on CS2 lately.

CS3's pano is about a thousand times better than CS2's I was pretty impressed with the advance

yeah, it's pretty amazing.  chose the shots, hit enter, crop.

180º
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2616832447_f9afa505fd_b.jpg">

[numnut2]

[sebastian toombs]

last shot on the last roll of 35mm film i may shoot.  no editing...   glad i kept the zeiss lenses

[feed me with your kiss]

[loophole]

ive decided that im making little series of every 10 rolls i shoot with my point and shoot. here's a few from my first ten!


assorted places in holland. bottom right is our new place, it's the first land we've owned since before i was born.


more places around our new neighbourhood in the hague. and my hand.


more hague


friends in new york and this awesome stewardess.


back in holland. a dog in a windowsill.


blurry pictures of two friends and myself in singapore. (me on the left)


random photos from singapore.


last friday in singapore.

if you have me on fakebook theres more on there

[sebastian toombs]

wait, so are you done in singapore now, and moved back to europe?

[loophole]

wait, so are you done in singapore now, and moved back to europe?

nah. my parents just got an apartment there, even though they're in vietnam most of the time. i'll still be in singapore for another year!

[Matze]

what kind of film and kamera did you both -ben and loophole- use?

i could post one pic per day right now, i never shot as much as in this year. well here are two recent ones

wroclaw



concentration camp buchenwald

[sebastian toombs]

zeiss planar 1.4 on contax RTS, fuji reala 100

[loophole]

those last ones were on some vivid provia film, don't really remember, on a canon af 35 ml:

[sebastian toombs]

today artichoke and i checked out some photo books at one of toronto's better bookstores.  there were some pretty good books there that i hadnt seen before, including:

andrew bush's driving portraits"
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300136487

rachel papo's work on women soldiers in the IDF:
http://www.serialno3817131.com/index.html

and, finally, i picked up pieter hugo's book on the hyena men:
http://prestel.txt.de/cgi-bin/WebObjects/TXTSVPrestel2.woa/40/wo/n8PszpXbT30M3FlYncOqNao1Bdo/2.0.25.1.5.1.5.5.1.0.1.0

[Matze]

those last ones were on some vivid provia film, don't really remember, on a canon af 35 ml:

i like this camera. i'm shooting very often with a minolta af-c these days, doesn't seem as good as yours technical wise but maybe i step up or something. i had a holga and this mini minolta on my latest trip with and i didn't even miss my regular slr

[Randozzi]

saving up for a Contax G2 right now. looking to spend around $1000 on a full set up with 28mm lens and flash.

[sebastian toombs]

issac, look into the konica hexar before you leap into contax G.

for example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/KONICA-HEXAR-AF-BLACK-LEICA-35MM-M-SUMMICRON-KILLER_W0QQitemZ110283352742QQihZ001QQcategoryZ15234QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Randozzi]

thanks much, looks like something i'd be into as well.

[erik.]

goood stuff loophole.

[erik.]

yeah double post.

can anyone recomend a good point and shoot 35mm? i've been wanting something lighter then my bronica to take around.

[frisco]