Photography Thread

[Wretched]

I thought this thread was being shut down?! Good to see it hasn't!

Some non-automotive stuff. Really just textures that I've shot at the beach near my new house that I post to my Flickr account as free high-res stock/texture images. But I like 'em... All natural light with my 100mm f2.8L Macro lens:

Note the water spout!

 

[Tang]

Nice to see you back, man!

calf by nrrfed, on Flickr

shadow figures by nrrfed, on Flickr

diagonals by nrrfed, on Flickr

3-4-5 by nrrfed, on Flickr

 

[Philligan]

So we were walking, and saw a bunch of guys in yarmulkes outside smoking. We got closer, and of course it's B&H. That store is pretty terrifyingly huge. It took all my willpower to not look at the film cameras, or film.

Picked up this for Dawn's Rebel SL1/100D today.



Similar focal length, drastically different size and price compared to the 23 1.4. That lens is a miracle. Perfect field of view, super sharp, and the ability for some focus falloff while still having some workable depth of field.

This is wide open in Times Square.

 

[Skyblue]

I really don't get a chance to shoot anything lately, I'm kind of stuck in the same sleep-eat-work routine which is a bit annoying.

Also, I really want to upgrade my phone to something with a better camera. Thinking of going for the LG G3, as I'm not an iPhone fan.

Those were taken with my phone (Galaxy s2) and processed in VSCO app.

 

[soliloquy]

humm...circular ND filter, or linear ND filter...

i've been told that the cheaper the filter, the worse the quality. yet most of the videos i've seen of people using ND filters (for videos or photography) are using linear filters rather than circular filters. and looking around, linear filters are MUCH MUCH cheaper than circular filters. plus, linear can be slapped in numerous lenses without step up/down rings...

downside to linear filters is that they are a bit on the bigger side as they have their own lens mounts and stuff...

 

[Wretched]

A few recent car shots:

Light painted Commodore

Light painted Golf

Light painted Commodore... going for a more subdued look

Another Commodore

Bike shot using flashes

 

[ThePhilosopher]

I really dig that third shot with the "subdued look".

 

[UnderTheSign]

First actual camera since my 3 megapixel digital shooter ten years ago (and my dads old Pentax analogs before that). Samsung NX300. Got this one because it was on sale and €150-200 cheaper than anything by Sony and Fuji this way and came with a free copy of Lightroom 5. Otherwise I might've gone for a Fuji but looking at the image samples I don't know if there's a massive difference in quality considering what I'll be using it for.

Still, them Fujis looked awfully neat...

Did some test shots simply to get the hang of it again. What else to shoot than the garden spawn of Satan? Could've used some more background blur, this was shot at f5 but hey, just testing stuff here. All I can say is shooting RAW after many years of low quality JPG is awesome.
(click attachment for 1024x resolution)

 

[Philligan]

We're hopefully nearing the end of a very long and delayed train ride home. I'm super bored, so here are some photos from the ride.

 

[Tang]

In Atlanta for a music festival. So far I've seen (in order of my favorites) Mastodon, Brand New, Manchester Orchestra, and Klutch. The rest of the time I've been taking pics downtown.

 

[Tang]

So I have to vent because I'm not happy. At all.

I just shot a whole day with my phone in 6 megapixel mode. Seriously. My favorite shots from the last 2 days and I do something that dumb.



Maybe I'll feel better when I wake up tomorrow and will share the shots.

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Unless you're printing them, that's plenty large enough. Although I've made some 24x36" prints from my Olympus E-1 when I had it.

 

[Tang]

Yeah man, I'm totally over it. I overreacted in the moment, but I still love the shots.

And here they are. Hopefully Samsung will roll out RAW support to the S6 soon. That would make an awesome camera even better.

 

[Philligan]

And I officially have a honeymoon photo album on Flickr. JPG FTW.

Going forward, I'd probably shoot medium, or maybe large JPGs. The smalls are around 1mb each IIRC, and it doesn't take too much zooming to start seeing pixels on my laptop screen. I believe larges are 16MP, mediums are 8MP, and smalls are 4MP, so at least I can show them on a tv still.

There were definitely a handful of shots (I don't think more than 10) that I wish I'd shot in raw, but shooting the whole trip in jpg was a really good thing for me to do. At first, I'd still touch up a couple on my phone, but after that I just stopped and would pick whichever sim I liked best and post it SOOC. I thought I'd rarely use Velvia, but I actually preferred it to Classic Chrome in a lot of bright daylight situations, even for people photos. An album of all Classic Chrome would look fine, but when you compare it to Velvia on a sunny day, CC can look so desaturated. Pretty much every low light photo looked better in CC, though. I didn't use B&W a tonne, pretty much only when the colours were awkward with interior lighting.

Thankfully now I can go back to shooting raw and doing jpg conversions in-camera when I want them, but I have way more faith in the Fuji jpgs now. I'm probably gonna stop running them through VSCO or Photogene unless I really feel like a photo needs something, like vignetting or grain. Super happy with how these photos turned out. Having a choice between three colour profiles made me forget what I was missing out on with raw - I started looking for the good in each profile instead of thinking about what I could change.

/rant. Sorry for the huge novel, it's the English major in me. Here are a few of my favourites. I've got 50 or so of the ones I really like in a Flickr album, and I'll probably end up throwing around 100 up on Facebook. I probably shot around 1000-1200 in total, not counting multiples from the jpg bracketing.

Album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/philbabbey/sets/72157650259788703/

DSCF0010 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF0095 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF0189 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF0373 by philbabbey, on Flickr

First shot with the 23mm:

DSCF0480 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF0715 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF0721 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF0822 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF0887 by philbabbey, on Flickr

Bored while Dawn looks at makeup.

DSCF0987 by philbabbey, on Flickr

Awesome food truck:

DSCF1013 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF1033 by philbabbey, on Flickr

Our Central Park tour guide, Martin, and his horse Luke.

DSCF1256 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF1278 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF1298 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF1361 by philbabbey, on Flickr

With the electronic shutter on the X-T1 I can shoot wide open pretty much whenever. Even at 23mm there's practically no depth of field at 1.4.

DSCF1461 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF1508 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF1520 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF1571 by philbabbey, on Flickr

DSCF1637 by philbabbey, on Flickr

Back of the seat in front of me on the train ride home.

DSCF1804 by philbabbey, on Flickr

 

[Tang]

At that focal length you've gotta get way close to get any appreciable DOF. It's a cool effect, though. I wish Pentax had a super fast 35mm equiv!

 

[Joe Harvatt]

Recently got back from a 16 date European tour supporting Prong. Didn't get my camera out as often as I had planned to, but here's a couple of shots I'm happy with.

 

[Wretched]

Pretty excited to have my first cover shoot for Street Commodores. I've written plenty of cover stories over the years and used to be its editor, but this is my first photographic cover... light painted inside his shed south of Sydney. Phil and his wagon are icons of the Commodore scene and the burnout fraternity here in Aus.

Here's the cover:

This is my favourite shot from the shoot:

 

[Philligan]

I always dig your stuff, man. I've really been meaning to try that sometime. I partly haven't really had to time to drag a car somewhere cool and shoot it, and I'm partly nervous it'll turn out really bad.

 

[Wretched]

Just jump in and try it! Failing shouldn't stop anyone!

 

[spilla]

Yeah, thats really cool. Looked up a couple of tutorials on ytube today. Will be giving it a try (smaller scale) myself.