Photography Thread

Wheelspinner

Pinno wrote:

You walked 60 yds backwards for the second!

Nope, didn't move the tripod an inch. Thing with a fish eye is you get a vast field of view, something like 150 degrees whereas the other lens hardly catches half that.

From the exact same spot, I took this with either a 135 or 200mm telephoto, can't remember which... both 40 year old Zeiss lenses at that.. awesome quality glass, although on this pic I missed the focus by a tiny tiny bit... manual lens focussing with my cr@p eyesight is a bit of a lottery at night.

pinno

What's the camera body? Does it fit traditional bayonet/screw fit lenses?

dabber

Conduche at the confluence of the River Lot and River Célé in southwest France where I spend a lot (excuse the pun) of time riding.
The old abandoned railway line and tunnel.

Wheelspinner

Pinno wrote:

What's the camera body? Does it fit traditional bayonet/screw fit lenses?

Sony bodies, current model A 6000, using their "E Mount" lens, a form of bayonet type. You can get adaptors to fit a range of other lenses to them, although since the sensor is APS-C size, using a full frame type lens means you lose FoV and effective aperture speed a bit, but they still work superbly.

andy9964

Taken at a camp site in Fusina, sunrise over Venice

Ben6899

Her face! Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel by Ben H, on Flickr

The White House - Southbank by Ben H, on Flickr

Ben6899

Low Passenger Occupancy - Waterloo Bridge by Ben H, on Flickr

BMX Bandit by Ben H, on Flickr

eric_draven

Mont Blanc ridge from Le Brevent side "other side" of the Chamonix valley,love going here as it's really stunning

Wheelspinner

Sydney Harbour Bridge on the way home from the beach, roof down, top day. 8)

Ben6899

That's ace!

pinno

What were you trying to do with the side of the building Ben, sharp geometric, B&W, uniform...?

Very good shot WS. Who was driving ?

Wheelspinner

Pinno wrote:

What were you trying to do with the side of the building Ben, sharp geometric, B&W, uniform...?

Very good shot WS. Who was driving ?

Not me guv, I was just the ballast in the passenger seat that day.

Ben6899

Pinno wrote:

What were you trying to do with the side of the building Ben, sharp geometric, B&W, uniform...?

Just trying to see things differently. For me, a lot of photography isn't what you're looking at but it's what you're seeing.

narbs

eric draven wrote:

Mont Blanc ridge from Le Brevent side "other side" of the Chamonix valley,love going here as it's really stunning

Saw my only live marmotte whilst looking from pretty much exactly the same spot!

pinno

Ben6899 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

What were you trying to do with the side of the building Ben, sharp geometric, B&W, uniform...?

Just trying to see things differently. For me, a lot of photography isn't what you're looking at but it's what you're seeing.

It's true.

What I find with a lot of modern photography is (apart from photoshopping) is the over use of gloss, colour and filters. This makes a lot of images surreal - almost contrived. I like the use of B&W. It gives the picture an earthy, real feel to it.

I was simply curious not critical. I'm not in a position to be critical.

Ben6899

Pinno wrote:

It's true.

What I find with a lot of modern photography is (apart from photoshopping) is the over use of gloss, colour and filters. This makes a lot of images surreal - almost contrived. I like the use of B&W. It gives the picture an earthy, real feel to it.

I was simply curious not critical. I'm not in a position to be critical.

I didn't imagine for a minute that you were being critical.

And your observation re modern photography... this is why I don't necessarily default to the lowest ISO (the usual convention) the camera offers. For me, a photo can look very artificial, very quickly if you're not careful.

narbs

Pinno wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

What were you trying to do with the side of the building Ben, sharp geometric, B&W, uniform...?

Just trying to see things differently. For me, a lot of photography isn't what you're looking at but it's what you're seeing.

It's true.

What I find with a lot of modern photography is (apart from photoshopping) is the over use of gloss, colour and filters. This makes a lot of images surreal - almost contrived. I like the use of B&W. It gives the picture an earthy, real feel to it.

I was simply curious not critical. I'm not in a position to be critical.

I follow a couple of photography groups on Facebook and over half of the images posted are still HDR processed. Hideous to my eyes.

narbs

Imperial College, London by Jon, on Flickr

Ben6899

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Ben6899

Dabber wrote:

Conduche at the confluence of the River Lot and River Célé in southwest France where I spend a lot (excuse the pun) of time riding.
The old abandoned railway line and tunnel.

I missed this one, somehow. It's really nice.

pinno

Is there a basic editing function on Pinterest? I took some shots early this morning catching some interesting light. I rotated the image on the file manager - Windows 8 but when I uploaded the image, it was the wrong way around. I then rotated it on the camera itself but it was the wrong way around after uploading. Bother.

pblakeney

My guess -
Pinterest only loads files as they are, and Windows only rotated the view, not the file.
You need to use a photo editing program to edit, and then save the file.
There are plenty of good free ones out there, and your PC probably has one installed already.

pinno

PBlakeney wrote:

My guess... and your PC probably has one installed already.

Your guess is probably good. What would the photo editing file be called in Windows 8, there's sooo many programs and apps, it's a minefield?

pblakeney

Pinno wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

My guess... and your PC probably has one installed already.

Your guess is probably good. What would the photo editing file be called in Windows 8, there's sooo many programs and apps, it's a minefield?

Bought a Win 8 laptop for my parents as they wanted value for money, don't have it, so don't know. (I don't want to enter THAT debate). Try Google. Much more reliable then anyone on here.

pinno

Here's the rub. Found Cyber link on the laptop. Rotated image > saved. Tried to download to PInterest. Wouldn't do it.

Ho hum. Might download some simple photo edit software...

andy9964

Pinno wrote:

Here's the rub. Found Cyber link on the laptop. Rotated image > saved. Tried to download to PInterest. Wouldn't do it.

Ho hum. Might download some simple photo edit software...

You might find that Cyberlink saves edited photo's in some bizarre format or file extension as default. There might be a drop down menu that gives you options for the format when you click save

Ben6899

We went to Budapest...

Across the Danube to Buda Castle by Ben H, on Flickr

Across the Danube to St Stephen's by Ben H, on Flickr

Silhouette by Ben H, on Flickr

Ben6899

Speed skaters by Ben H, on Flickr

Outside Parlament by Ben H, on Flickr

Tunnel Vision by Ben H, on Flickr

pinno

I do like B&W. Nice picture of the skaters.

narbs

Been shooting a lot more film recently.

Boating, Baie de Somme by Jon, on Flickr

Baie de Somme, Saint-Valery by Jon, on Flickr