Author Topic: the photography thread. (Read 716299 times)

natenola forever · « **Reply #300 on:** December 31, 2008, 10:51:05 AM »

Quote from: n0torious on December 31, 2008, 08:03:56 AM

Christmas present. I know it's a mid level SLR but for the price I'm stoked. Any tips and tricks from someone with experience is appreciated.

shoot a ton of stuff and remeber what u did
don't use the automode ever, learn to shoot totally manual or using aperture proirity. During the day u can pretty much lock it sat 5.6 or 8 and let the camera auto shutter. just try to pay attention to what it shoots at in all kinds of situations. the great thing about digital is it'll attach all your settings to the photo so you can go back and figure stuff out.
Really the best way to understand everything is find 70s-early 80's fully manual Slr with an internal meter so that u have to make adjustments on your own. you can usually find them for cheap i got a really cool pentax for $30 on craigslist, and old metal cameras have the best results.

Fongstarr. · « **Reply #301 on:** December 31, 2008, 11:35:23 AM »

^^^Very well said. Always shoot manual and never automatic. Whole point of a DSLR is getting used it's settings and shoot every photo different according to what you see. Best advice is just shoot and learn from trial and error. That is the beauty of digital......you are never wasting film or anything so it is so affordable to learn how to capture images that you want. Also just ask questions to other photographers and just read up stuff on mags, internet and even youtube videos.

Matze · « **Reply #302 on:** January 04, 2009, 02:39:26 AM »

since sebastian toombs did the internet suicide its to us to keep this topic alive.

i think i have new stuff to post in two weeks, shot 3-4 films in the last weeks. it's pretty fucked to go outside for 1.5 hours to shot, when it's minus 5°c/plus 23°f. i still did. horrrray.

loophole · « **Reply #303 on:** January 04, 2009, 02:45:07 AM »

Quote from: Matze on January 04, 2009, 02:39:26 AM

since sebastian toombs did the internet suicide its to us to keep this topic alive.

i think i have new stuff to post in two weeks, shot 3-4 films in the last weeks. it's pretty fucked to go outside for 1.5 hours to shot, when it's minus 5°c/plus 23°f. i still did. horrrray.

same, in a week or two i'll hopefully have developed 10 rolls. i'll be sure to post up some stuff!

Mooley · « **Reply #304 on:** January 04, 2009, 05:34:01 PM »

I froze my fucking fingers off shooting a roll of snowboarding stuff without gloves when it was a nice breezy -15 in Calgary. Hopefully I'll get that roll back pretty quick and post something up.

alienlurkshop · « **Reply #305 on:** January 04, 2009, 07:20:33 PM »

just scanned some black and white prints and made a flickr thing
peep them if you want
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-b/

here are some of the ones i like most

frisco · « **Reply #306 on:** January 04, 2009, 08:10:32 PM »

Quote from: alienlurkshop on January 04, 2009, 07:20:33 PM

just scanned some black and white prints and made a flickr thing
peep them if you want
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-b/

here are some of the ones i like most

these ones are rad, I really like black and white prints, I have about 10 of mine on my walls

professional · « **Reply #307 on:** January 04, 2009, 11:47:34 PM »

my friend aaron

channel street, san pedro.

my friend aaron

*whoever suggested buying a Bronica was right. They're cheap and produce sharp images, bottom line.

Randozzi · « **Reply #308 on:** January 05, 2009, 12:07:48 AM »

Quote from: alienlurkshop on January 04, 2009, 07:20:33 PM

just scanned some black and white prints and made a flickr thing
peep them if you want
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-b/

here are some of the ones i like most

rad stuff!

Matze · « **Reply #309 on:** January 05, 2009, 12:32:25 AM »

the first black and whit portrait makes me want to go out and shot ... eh? yeah, it's a real beauty.

rest of the stuff from alienlurk and professional is good looking too.

edit: lurkshop, what kind of camera do you have? which film? i'm not in a single photography forum or there is somebody around me who can show me stuff, so don't matter if i ask stupid questions. gnars all around.

crackrazor · « **Reply #310 on:** January 05, 2009, 01:15:49 AM »

Dropping my very first roll off tomorrow. It's pretty exciting

alienlurkshop · « **Reply #311 on:** January 05, 2009, 03:37:44 AM »

Quote from: Matze on January 05, 2009, 12:32:25 AM

the first black and whit portrait makes me want to go out and shot ... eh? yeah, it's a real beauty.

rest of the stuff from alienlurk and professional is good looking too.

edit: lurkshop, what kind of camera do you have? which film? i'm not in a single photography forum or there is somebody around me who can show me stuff, so don't matter if i ask stupid questions. gnars all around.

i use a canon t70. its a 35mm from the 80s i think. for film i usually just use kodak 400 tx i think

ige · « **Reply #312 on:** January 05, 2009, 05:04:28 AM »

Some new ones...

Matze · « **Reply #313 on:** January 06, 2009, 10:51:11 AM »

found out today, that there were still 2 developed rolls at the shop that i didn't catch before the holidays. holga and minolta afc, just stuff the cameras i always have in my bag on a regular base. point and shoot.

edit: lurkshop, i've seen these canon t cameras on ebay before, but thought they were some bullshit cheap cameras. but they got the better fd lenses and the t90 has even a x-sync of 250, which is pretty amazing for a canon.

Mooley · « **Reply #314 on:** January 06, 2009, 12:51:44 PM »

That snowman's face is nightmarish

GhostBusters · « **Reply #315 on:** January 06, 2009, 08:26:18 PM »

Hahaha yeah it is creepy as fuck.

oldcasual · « **Reply #316 on:** January 06, 2009, 09:07:09 PM »

Quote from: Matze on January 06, 2009, 10:51:11 AM

i really like that, here's some random shit i've shot, looking through this thread makes me wanna take more photos..

danker peaches · « **Reply #317 on:** January 07, 2009, 09:57:19 AM »

This thread makes me wish i could take photos.

crackrazor · « **Reply #318 on:** January 08, 2009, 06:50:08 PM »

I got my first roll back and I'm pretty psyched on them.

I bought a roll of color and I'm wondering if there's anything I should take into consideration or adjust before I start shooting?

Matze · « **Reply #319 on:** January 09, 2009, 11:05:43 AM »

take yourself time to make a picture. look trough the viewfinder and if doesn't look good to you, just don't shoot.

other question: if i buy myself a flash meter (like sekonic), can this piece of plastic meter the available light to?

crackrazor · « **Reply #320 on:** January 09, 2009, 12:59:07 PM »

Quote from: Matze on January 06, 2009, 10:51:11 AM

found out today, that there were still 2 developed rolls at the shop that i didn't catch before the holidays. holga and minolta afc, just stuff the cameras i always have in my bag on a regular base. point and shoot.

edit: lurkshop, i've seen these canon t cameras on ebay before, but thought they were some bullshit cheap cameras. but they got the better fd lenses and the t90 has even a x-sync of 250, which is pretty amazing for a canon.

That snowman picture is so tight. Wanna trade a print for one of mine?

loophole · « **Reply #321 on:** January 13, 2009, 06:13:01 AM »

some little printys. this is the third time i've shot ten rolls before developing, so a couple of these are surprises to me.

and early roll on my yashica, i'm still trying it out. haven't gotten a lightmeter yet, so it's all guesses. explains the blue. the bottom right is me, actually

a friend's animaltastic birthday brunch party

more, but from my point and shoot

this was at least two months back. when i picked up these prints i'd completely forgotten about them. thats a girl that i had a short but extremely wonderful thing with, i kinda really miss her. this was probably the best day of my life. that's me top left.

a bunch of the next ones are from getting wasted at a local food court. we do this a bit too often.

more from the above. i really like this camera.

more wastedness. we like tiger beer.

more coming

loophole · « **Reply #322 on:** January 13, 2009, 07:14:33 AM »

drunks

last of those

entourage, i'm e

and onto a different party

a good friend's 18th party

more to come in a week or less

gordon bombay · « **Reply #323 on:** January 13, 2009, 08:22:27 AM »

cool stuff loophole. i'll post some once i update my flickr

Matze · « **Reply #324 on:** January 13, 2009, 10:59:32 AM »

these are beauties, only this mystirious blue lookes kinda awfull in my eyes.
and that composition with the blonde girl along with your subtitle makes me want to cry. i can definitly relate to have a perfect day AND having lovely looking pictures as memories.

as i told ... 3 rolls of film, 90% bullshit. i tried to do long time expores with a b/w film. maybe in my next life.

pictures can pretty much lie. it was minus 10°C that day.

normally i don't really like to make pictures of planes, it's kinda cheesy.

same building as above. i'm fascinated from the socialist/bauhaus style of buildings.

quite sharp for a holga.