Photography Thread

[Philligan]

My buddy's doing a Year Beard and is at the halfway point. He wanted some photos. I like how these look a bit grimy, but I wish I could have gotten a little more punch out of them. I couldn't punch contrast because his beard turned all black. I wish I could have balanced the salad bowl beauty dish with the ambient light a bit better, too, but we had a pretty tight space to work with with an immediate overhead light.

Josh by philbabbey, on Flickr

Josh by philbabbey, on Flickr

 

[Tang]

let's get weird. I got caught in a rainstorm while I was out shooting after work and I wasn't about to make a run for my car, so I set up shop under a local resteraunt awning and started messing with reflections. The first shot was manually focused in Live View because I wanted to get the stick in focus (thus leaving the reflection itself in a bokeh haze) and I got as close as I could, time allowing. I only had one chance so I had to make it work! Second shot was a bit easier, but the composition is very intentional. I knew it would look awesome flipped vertically.

stormy by nrrfed, on Flickr

puddle, please by nrrfed, on Flickr

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Phil, post those up in RAW challenge-I'll get them to pop.

 

[Philligan]

On my way.

 

[Joe Harvatt]

What's the raw challenge thread called? I can't find it.

 

[Philligan]

SS.org RAW challenge thread. (Go figure ) It's the second thread in the art sub forum, it's not stickied

 

[ThePhilosopher]

All this macro talk got me thinking, I should shoot a little something...
Click for larger view:

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Updated my homepage to not have as much text: D.Bartkowiak Photography: Houston Portraiture

I'm also toying around with the idea of having a projects page, it's only populated with a single idea as I didn't want to build the whole thing and scrap it: http://www.bartkophoto.com/projects.html

Thoughts?

 

[Philligan]

That's pretty cool man. I only saw two photos of eyes, but you should definitely keep going with that idea.

 

[ThePhilosopher]

That's pretty cool man. I only saw two photos of eyes, but you should definitely keep going with that idea.

For right now it's a placeholder in the design, the thing with the eyes is still evolving and ongoing.

 

[Philligan]

I just found out about this. The company's called Konost, and they're making an all-digital true rangefinder with a full frame sensor. It apparently uses a secondary sensor and algorithms to replace the mirrors and prisms of an analog rangefinder, so they say you don't need to worry about calibration or CLAs. Apparently the digital system keeps the cost down, too.

I'm still scared to see how much it costs, but if it's under $2k I'd probably look at this instead of a film rangefinder, and since it looks like it's an M mount, I could adapt the glass to my Fuji easily, too.

Konost |

 

[Tang]

New lens day! Details soon

EDIT: ok, firstly.. here are some recent shots.. all taken with the 35mm 2.4

glorious, glorious light:

the bux by nrrfed, on Flickr

awesome coworker that gives me free reign to take portraits, during down times:

lunch break #5 by nrrfed, on Flickr

I love espresso:

espresso by nrrfed, on Flickr

 

[Wretched]

A shot from a recently published shoot on an insane 1000hp GTR Skyline. Made cover

Both shots are light painted.

 

[Tang]

nice, Whammy!

Ok, here we go. Introducing the 70mm f/2.4. It's tiny. It's really freaking small. Obviously they made a design choice to sacrifice aperture to keep the size small and I have no complaints.. for most of what I shoot f/2.4 is more than fast enough.. most of the time all metal everything so even though it's DAMN SMALL it feels quite solid on the camera.

pic of lens:

and of course the first shot I take with it has to be of a pet:

meow? by nrrfed, on Flickr

 

[ThePhilosopher]

A little more macro.

 

[Decreate]

Trying out the Canon 50mm f1.2 LTM lens...

 

[Philligan]

Here's a dump of "mobile" photos from the last month or so. These all got wifi'd to my phone from the X-T1 and processed there - I didn't post them because I never got on the computer to work on them.

Before, I'd pretty much always use the Classic Chrome sim, and touch them up in Photogene. I find Photogene can look a bit artificially smooth when you play with the tone curve, and there's no option for grain that I can find, so I've started using VSCO. I usually use the the T1, I think it is, or a B&W sim. I typically use those presets around the half power setting, then I'll go in and touch them up a bit more, usually just to add a bit of grain to high ISO stuff. If I want vignetting, I'll pop it in Photogene after, because VSCO's vignetting is insanely feathered, and I haven't found it useable yet.

Josh by philbabbey, on Flickr

Odie by philbabbey, on Flickr

Boats by philbabbey, on Flickr

Dawn by philbabbey, on Flickr

Dawn by philbabbey, on Flickr

Dawn by philbabbey, on Flickr

Dawn by philbabbey, on Flickr

 

[Negav]

So I just pulled the trigger on my first DSLR , Nikon D5200! I'm hyped af, will be here in about a week. Excited to be able to learn on a decent camera for once.

I will be starting with the kit lens, but plan to get a 35mm 1.8 some time.

Any recommendations in lens, software, etc?

 

[Joe Harvatt]

So I just pulled the trigger on my first DSLR , Nikon D5200! I'm hyped af, will be here in about a week. Excited to be able to learn on a decent camera for once.

I will be starting with the kit lens, but plan to get a 35mm 1.8 some time.

Any recommendations in lens, software, etc?

D5200 with 35mm f1.8 will be excellent. Software-wise get yourself a copy of Adobe Lightroom.

 

[Tang]

Sa forum news is sad