The Hub Photo Club

Anonymous

Medium format cameras have sensors, or film size, around 6 times the size of a 35mm film SLR camera. Most digital slrs don't actually have a sensor as large as 35mm, only the very top end models do. Medium format digital cameras from the likes of Hasselblad, can cost tens of thousands of beer tokens.

spongtastic

Took this last Thursday with the iphone, been trying to get something of similar effect with the colours for the last 11 years we've lived by the sea.

Anonymous

You mean sillouhettes, and a faded, miscoloured exposure? (or, old photo, or cross-processed film)?

spongtastic

yeehaamcgee wrote:

You mean sillouhettes, and a faded, miscoloured exposure? (or, old photo, or cross-processed film)?

most of the above, I've got one of the same view circa 1950, with different buildings that was stuck behind the bricks blocking our open fire.

I've tried using 35mm, polaroid, the other half's twin lens which I think is 120 and various digital compacts and photoshop/gimp. Nothing seemed to come out right, bloody apple and the Hipstamatic worked though.

sheepsteeth

wife re has a hipstamatic app and she is taking fotos ales uber the gaff, i think they look really good.

Anonymous

I know a few people use really crappy little plastic lenses for similar effects, or even make pinhole lenses from cardboard.

If you have an SLR, and want to try out some crazy effects, sontrollably (sort of), check out the lensbaby range of weird and wonderful optics.

http://www.lensbaby.com/gallery-photo.php

Arkady001

spongtastic wrote:

...bloody apple and the Hipstamatic worked though.

It's very 'in vogue' right now - give it six months and it'll be old-hat again, just as HDR was all the rage for a while and eventually died a much-deserved death...

Anonymous

Arkady001 wrote:

spongtastic wrote:

...bloody apple and the Hipstamatic worked though.

It's very 'in vogue' right now - give it six months and it'll be old-hat again, just as HDR was all the rage for a while and eventually died a much-deserved death...

HDR is still in use, but is being used subtly again. Until we get camera makers that increaseing dynamic range is more imporant than MEGAPIXELZZZORZ! then it will be used.
Same as how grad filters are used.

MountainMonster

Some of you guys have some amazing photos on here! The best quality I can ever get is the quality in the pic of my bike. I'm terrible.

phz

jon87uk wrote:

pHz wrote:

That reminds me of some of the work Richard Long does. Pretty cool.

It does look a bit like some of Long's stone works - a little bit older than them (by about 3500 years IIRC). Don't get me started on this stuff though - I'm a Fine Art graduate and spent my final year working in a Long/Goldsworthy style and studying the relationship between art and the landscape. Also a bit of an archaeology geek and I actually think there's way more in common between our stone circles and Long's art than meets the eye.

I've been to Swinside before but never in the fog & mist like it was the day of that photo - very atmospheric and a little bit spooky.

slainte rob

Anonymous

MountainMonster wrote:

Some of you guys have some amazing photos on here! The best quality I can ever get is the quality in the pic of my bike. I'm terrible.

Is it a cameraphone pic? It's not even focused :?

supersonic

While it might not be technically brilliant, this is my favourite shot I took last year. These buggers don't stay still, and it was very windy, but patience rewarded me in the end.

Peacock butterfly on a thistle:

Anonymous

I reckon this is my favourite photo I've ever taken. And it's even made me some money

Northwind

I like this one, just because it's an arm's length snap on a crap old Kodak that came out mysteriously good

Anonymous

supersonic wrote:

Peacock butterfly on a thistle:

I love that. Perfect place, perfect time, great depth of field, good composition.

jon87uk

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Hang on, you cant afford a DSLR, but you fancy getting a medium format? Get your priorities right!

I would love one but no I can't afford one

Anonymous

I've seen a few full-res Hasselblad medium format shots, and to be honest, they appear to lack sharpness. Now obviously that may be down to the photographer, but I'd have expected that anyone playing with something like that would know what they were doing.
I actually prefer the images from Nikkon DSLRs, they are just bitingly crisp.
Of course, they're also about a quarter of the megapixels

Arkady001

yeehaamcgee wrote:

...HDR is still in use, but is being used subtly again. Until we get camera makers that increaseing dynamic range is more imporant than MEGAPIXELZZZORZ! then it will be used.
Same as how grad filters are used.

I should have added a caveat: 'bad' HDR has died a well-deserved death...done well it can enhance an image, but you seldom see it done well IMO...
Just as everyone went mad with Cokin 'effects' Filters back in the 80's, it was the Big Thing until recently, just as colour 'popping'/selective colour, which I also totally hate...

Medium Format cameras take a bit of skill to use, but the same principles apply.
Film MF bodies are stupidly cheap right now even though film is enjoying a bit of a renaissance of late - I put my 'Blad 500c kit and Pentax 6x7 kit up for sale a couple of years ago and I was getting offers of £200 for the lot, so I decided to keep them along with all my 35mm kit. I occasionally put a roll of film through all of them to keep the shutters working, though I never produce anything worthwhile as my heart isn't really in it any more.

Since going digital in 2001 I haven''t looked back to be honest - for press work even though the IQ wasn't all that great with the earlier models, the speed of getting the images out meant film effectively died that year for most Pros.

I've not had the opportunity yet to try out a Hasselblad digital back which I can now get to fit the 500-series bodies I still have, but to be perfectly honest, the Nikon D3x I use for studio and portraiture gets me images just as good as I was producing back then - if you control the light then the lack of high-iso performance isn't an issue.
For the times that it is an issue, the D3 bodies I use for general purpose, events, PR and sports cover all the bases.

supersonic

yeehaamcgee wrote:

supersonic wrote:

Peacock butterfly on a thistle:

I love that. Perfect place, perfect time, great depth of field, good composition.

Cheers

Photobucket seems to have compressed it a little, are a few artifacts in the background, the original looks a bit crisper I think.

supersonic

These are a few more from that day:

Arkady001

One from yesterday: lighting and lens test for a series of commissioned portraits starting next week.
I know nothing about Golf, so I needed to see what worked and what didn't.



D3x and 17-35 f/2.8 @ 24mm.
Three SB900 speedlights triggered by another SB900 as commander.
Two low camera-left, one camera right on a tripod above and behind subject, all firing on 0.0EV (1:1 in manual-speak), the one on-camera firing at -1.5EV

mtbgus

Some really great shots on here, lots of talented people.

I won't post some of mine up because I have that many, follow the link below to my website to see my mtb photos...

wilfus

Heres a couple of mine. Click the picture for a bigger version



This was taken last year on a sweet pepper plant



This is my sisters camper van taken when we went to Magna which is the building behind.

Raymondavalon

These were taken with a Fuji FinePix camera a few years back in Bloubergstrand. Cape Town

Raymondavalon

And some of my son Tyler having some fun with the wakeboard
These taken with a 12MP Fuji Finepix EX200 camera

toby_winkler

This is probably my favourite picture I have taken:



I think that's classed as fail.

This is one of my actual favourite pictures from Goodwood last year, I'm sure it could be made a lot better with some editing etc but meh I'm not very good at that!



I also like this one as well:



All taken with my pretty old and battered Fujifilm FinePix S5600.

jon87uk

One from New York.

Arkady001

A nice sunny day, so i cleaned the bikes...

AndyBeast

Sorry about the size of these, will take em down if they're too big!! Some from summer holiday in Devon last year, only sunny day that week so there's lots of flowers (ghey) and a curious penguin!!

Anonymous

Took this on the way back from Snowboarding in Aviemore.



Great end to a great day.