The Hub Photo Club
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Phase One of the studio-build almost complete. Good enough for private work, anyway.
Still to do: burn the tar-spills off the floor prior to painting with industrial grey workshop paint; new windows; paint the remainder of the walls and ceiling; build and paint the walls and partitions around the toilet/changing room and complete the kitchenette/brew area.
Ths looks utterly pathetic considering all the graft that's gone into the place - after much sweeping and swearing, the floor had to be pressure-washed as it was about an inch deep in industrial grime and pigeon-shi'ite.
Looks a bit tiny in the photo, but that's standard 2.75m-width paper hanging on a 3.66m tube; the hooks are 3m above the floor and the space between the ceiling supports is 4m.
Behind where I'm standing is the daylight studio area and the customer 'chill-out' area: sofas, coffee table etc.
This is what it used to look like:
Phase two area: then...
and now:
Notice the new leak under the toilet... From the top of the soil-pipe where it comes through the ceiling. Previous leaks have been fixed last month, but the roofer must have bodged this bit when he put a new cap on the top of the pipe.
I was overjoyed to discover that this afternoon following a heavy downpour...0 -
Today's test shoot: trying out my new 1.8m Octabox...
GF Jules with daughter Katy...
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Excellent lighting, setup is working well.0
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i hope to see more photos from you soon. nice setup, keep it up
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Dammit, I've been following the discussion about focusing so much that I've lost track (focus? duuuh) of the thread!
There's some great pictures here, I love that robin, by Mancunianfightingcat. Great angle, and amazing to capture one that well.
Right, time for another unashamed "here's my pic" moment.
I mentioned a few weeks ago on the forum that I was heading up a mountain for the sunrise, well this is it (erm, have I posted it already in this thread? not sure).
It was the morning the clocks went forwards. I knew there was a chance of some hill fog, so I climbed pretty high up, hoping that I would be above the blanket of mist, and could capture it from above, with the sunrise illuminating it. Unfortunately, as the temperature slowly climbed as the sun started to rise, all the moisture in the valley, and the lake, no doubt, started to rise. Still, it gave an interesting effect, even if it's not what I was actually after. The mist ended up being quite high, causing this foggy view. Sadly, that massive cloud rolling over the pass in the distance (Llanberis pass) was totally obscured later on, so there was no opportunity to get a good capture of that, either.
Within a few minutes of the picture being taken, visibility was very bad, so I made my way off the mountain as quick as possible. Which isn't all that quick (without a mountain bike), since there's no easy way to get here, it's a 2-hour ish walk back to the car along treachorous cliff edges.0 -
I quite like that, McG...
Despite it not being what you'd hoped-for it worked out OK...
I know the pain of thinking "oh that's good - I'll come back tomorrow, next week/month etc and photograph it".
It's never the same again - ever.
All my "wow' sunrises have been as a result of 'just happened to be there while doing something else' (and usually without a camera handy...lol) - never as a result of planning and getting up early...
Sitting on a cold, wet and windy hilltop thinking "I got up at 03.00 for this...?" sucks the enthusiasm out of you sometimes, which is why I just don't shoot landscapes any more (a bit like my time-trialling epiphany - driving in the pre-dawn darkness through howling rain in order to ride up and down a dual-carriageway in a grotty part of Essex, I thought "WTF am I doing...?" Stopped for a fry-up at a transport cafe, turned round, sold the TT bike that week and bought another ATB..).
Anyway - photography: People I can beat into submission - mother nature is more resilient...0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:Excellent lighting, setup is working well.
The light's good, but it's the nuts and bolts that still need working on.
We've had to revise the floor-painting schedule - like: I'm doing it today.
So much dirt was tracked onto the background-paper by the client's two kids that three metres was ruined before we even fired a shot. At 75€ per 12m roll that's not good enough (only costs £35 in the UK but we pay more tax on stuff like this).
I thought we could 'get away' with the raw concrete for another month, but it was wishful thinking.
Off today to buy some cheap linoleum for placing under where the paper will sit (to stop the paper ripping as it's moved slightly on the floor by people's feet) and the 2-part epoxy floor paint is on order from a UK supplier who'll do 20 litres for £100 (a third of the price it would cost me here, even counting the shipping costs).
The black 'flags' to manage extraneous light should be done by the end of next week so the light bleed on the background that I had to photoshop out of yesterdays' images won't recur again.0 -
Another shot from yesterday:
D3x and DC-Nikkor 135mm f/2 @ f/8
1.8m octabox key with umbrella hair-light - both Bowens 500c monoblocs.
RAW file mono conversion in ACR, tweaked levels, converted to tritone, selective sharpening on eyes, saved as RGB JPEG.
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wow, those eyes are fantastic!
i reckon even the gucciest software would have a hard time sharpening up my milky bloodshot half closed eyeballs!0 -
Arkady001, is there any clever reason you went as high as f8 for that portrait?0
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yeehaamcgee wrote:Arkady001, is there any clever reason you went as high as f8 for that portrait?
At this distance with this lens, you get more of both eyes in focus (the furthest is still slightly sofer - as it should be: always focus on the closest eye).
Also, because I use Bowens 500c monoblocs, it's about the widest you can go at 100iso with the lights at the correct distance from the sitter.
I could move them further away (inverse square law and all that), but the whole point of softboxes and octaboxes is that they're meant to be used very close to the subject in order to 'wrap' the light around them - otherwise you may as well just use an umbrella...0 -
Ah, I see. Thanks for being educaitonal as usual.0
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That's too effin' creepy...Like a 'something' from an old Dr Who episode...0
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Meh may as well post these up, they're just a few photos I've got rotating as my background on the laptop at the moment. Nothing brilliant, I think I probably like them because of the memories they bring back.
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Is that you being worshipped as a god in the last pic?
Photography is often considered as the art form, but I think the aspect of capturing memories is ultimately, more important in a way.0 -
purple flower by 77ric, on Flickr
Amongst Winter's Debris, Spring's New Life by 77ric, on Flickr
tight crop stepping stones by 77ric, on Flickr
White Cart Winter Black and White by 77ric, on Flickr
Boltan Abbey-ELCv2-ilford PAN f plus 50 by 77ric, on FlickrFancy a brew?0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:Is that you being worshipped as a god in the last pic?
Photography is often considered as the art form, but I think the aspect of capturing memories is ultimately, more important in a way.
Sadly not, I'm the sucker with the camera :roll: Anyway if I were a god they wouldn't be worshipping me like that, they'd be quaking with fear, grovelling at my feet :twisted:
We'd just walked 15 miles across a plateau I say "plateau". The first day we'd climbed from about 20-30 m above sea level to around 2000m. The ground levelled out and there was just a mountain range spread about on top of it, it all seemed so vast you could forget where you were, then after 2 days you'd get to another edge of the plateau and look at the near vertical gradients down and the clouds below you.
This photo is of a small group of us that having set up camp decided we wanted to climb a peak we could see in the distance. The photo was near the summit of that, glad we did, from there we could see for so far it was unreal, not quite as unreal as the view from the highest peak in the range. We were in Malawi, we waited around until the middle of the day when the sky was clearest before we summitted. We could see right across Mozabique to the pacific.
There were some trails there that would have been so beautiful to ride on a decent full bouncy mountain bike but it wasn't an option
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Arkady001 wrote:That's too effin' creepy...Like a 'something' from an old Dr Who episode...
Scared the crap out of me every time I turned round and seen it in the corner of my eye. There was something very menacing about the posture..0 -
Was it always the same distance behind you, regardless of how far you'd ridden? :shock:0
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If it was, I wouldn't be here now. I'd have given myself a cardiac cycling so fast...0
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Erm, I don't mean to freak you out, so I'd suggest you do not look in the hallway right now, there's definitely no creepy scarecrow monster there :shock:0
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No creepy scarecrows in the hallway.. 0
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first go at a sunset.
taken with my epl1 and olympus 17mm pancake
f/3.5
1/60 sec
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Nothing quite as special as any of you guys! Gonna dig through my collections tomorrow, sure i have some alright pictures lying around, still nothing special though.
Auschvitz from years ago. Looks like its been edited slightly but can't find the original. No idea what camera it was, just some point and shoot pocket digital majobby! I like it cos of the sense of the conditions in which they had to survive in.0 -
Taken leaving Agadir harbour on a cruise last easter
Only edited to give a B&W background taken at Knockhill June 2009
Katie Green taken at a Nikon showcase at Manchester Velodrome
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kaiser83 wrote:
Taken using my Olympus ELP1 with a 50mm OM lens and adapter kit
f1.8
nice kit. i have the same body but only have the 14-42 kit lense and the 17mm pancake. i fancy the 40-150 next but keep putting it off.0 -
taken last week at a day out in broadstairs with an epl1 with 14-42mm kit zoom
iso100
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sheepsteeth wrote:kaiser83 wrote:
Taken using my Olympus ELP1 with a 50mm OM lens and adapter kit
f1.8
nice kit. i have the same body but only have the 14-42 kit lense and the 17mm pancake. i fancy the 40-150 next but keep putting it off.
mate have a look at getting one of these
adapter
i opens up a whole world of options on lenses and i find the older zuiko lenses a bit better quality
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