Photography Thread

Tashman

Playing with the panorama feature whilst sat on the boundary at the weekend.

rjsterry

St Mary Woolnoth again - trying it from a different angle coming out of the underpass. The LU obelisk doesn't stand out against the greyer stone of the church as much as I remember.
Bottom one is just a bit of Morden station - the painted steelwork contrasting with the red brickwork behind and the abstract shapes caught my eye. Not sure it's really worked - maybe I need to try it in low evening sun to get more colour in the brick.

pblakeney

"Street" photography at best, but it did make me laugh.

briantrumpet

Back to Macroville:

rjsterry

Better second attempt, I think.

briantrumpet

rjsterry said:

Better second attempt, I think.

Yes - better with the whole sign and the shadows on the platform.

Tashman

Quantum leaping...
Reminded of this from a few years ago at my lads sports day. Sometimes the limitations of a camera phone actually make the picture.

mrb123

briantrumpet

Weather: a wave caught just at the right moment at Budleigh, then two views in different directions at Exmouth, taken one after the other.

briantrumpet

I'm passing the time between graduations (ten done so far, four today) by taking photos of the campus 'n' stuff.

briantrumpet

Cornish cheese

wilberforce

Walk in Bushy Park yesterday

briantrumpet

Reasonably pleased with trying to capture the feel of Truro Cathedral today... first time I've tried a panoramic mode to get the tower lantern and two transepts... will have to try the nave & choir from the same spot next year, though it's quite challenging to move the camera round a smooth arc so that the resultant image doesn't get lumpy bits.

Charlie_Croker

^ Very nice tones and balance

briantrumpet

Charlie_Croker said:

^ Very nice tones and balance

They've installed decent lighting, which makes it easy.

rjsterry

Like the one of the crossing very much. I normally prefer all my verticals to be vertical, but I doubt you have a shift lens and I think the perspective on the other two helps emphasise the height more.

briantrumpet

One from the phone... I just pressed the 'high contrast B&W' effect to see how it would come out.

briantrumpet

Back to the cheap Sony camera, and one that more or less worked out as envisaged when I snapped. Framing slightly wrong (I'm annoyed I clipped the top petal), but the colour and focus worked out.

Pross

Classic River Usk muddy low tide in Newport

briantrumpet

Slightly annoyed that I didn't get top and bottom lines of the 'frame' parallel, but I quite like the perspective and different layers.

rjsterry

briantrumpet said:

Slightly annoyed that I didn't get top and bottom lines of the 'frame' parallel, but I quite like the perspective and different layers.

Nice. Surely you can straighten that up with a bit of software.

briantrumpet

rjsterry said:

briantrumpet said:

Slightly annoyed that I didn't get top and bottom lines of the 'frame' parallel, but I quite like the perspective and different layers.

Nice. Surely you can straighten that up with a bit of software.

I probably could, but I'll leave as is as a reminder of my incompetence, and try to do better next time.

Actually, I know why it ended up slightly skew... I was focused on the three trains and the station sign, and overlooked the parallelness of top & bottom horizontals.

rjsterry

briantrumpet said:

rjsterry said:

briantrumpet said:

Slightly annoyed that I didn't get top and bottom lines of the 'frame' parallel, but I quite like the perspective and different layers.

Nice. Surely you can straighten that up with a bit of software.

I probably could, but I'll leave as is as a reminder of my incompetence, and try to do better next time.

Actually, I know why it ended up slightly skew... I was focused on the three trains and the station sign, and overlooked the parallelness of top & bottom horizontals.

briantrumpet

rjsterry said:

briantrumpet said:

rjsterry said:

briantrumpet said:

Slightly annoyed that I didn't get top and bottom lines of the 'frame' parallel, but I quite like the perspective and different layers.

Nice. Surely you can straighten that up with a bit of software.

I probably could, but I'll leave as is as a reminder of my incompetence, and try to do better next time.

Actually, I know why it ended up slightly skew... I was focused on the three trains and the station sign, and overlooked the parallelness of top & bottom horizontals.

Thanks - nicely done RJS. The better perspective correction I have is in an app on my phone, and the basic image app on my laptop (IrfanView) has a rubbish plug-in, in comparison.

rjsterry

Yeah, that was on Google Photos on my phone. For the 'perfect' shot you needed to move another 6' to your left. And ask the train driver to do the same.😀

briantrumpet

Going for the clichéd lavender shot...

briantrumpet

Self-timer effort for one of my favourite views... I think Châtillon-en-Diois has the highest AC vineyard in France.

rjsterry

A slight Wes Anderson vibe about my local station this evening.

briantrumpet

Using evening light yesterday...

briantrumpet

My food photography ain't up to much (it's a specialist skill, I reckon), but quite like this one, as the composition works, and gets in the food, bike, and bakery... it's the same angle as in the 'cheer you up' thread, but taken with the camera, rather than the phone. Maybe a little underexposed, but the depth of field is to my liking.