Photography Thread

masjer

Low thick cloud with a clear horizon. On the sand, there's a stream running into the sea, giving those patterns.
I'm sure this looking into sun isn't too good for my peepers. Welding googles next time.

pblakeney

Excellent sunset shots masjer!

masjer

pblakeney said:

Excellent sunset shots masjer!

Thanks Pb. It was a cracking evening! No wind and still some warmth.

briantrumpet

Just the phone camera today.

Ben6899

Does anyone want to buy a Canon EOS 500N (35mm film), body only? £100ono...

briantrumpet

The roundabout ride home from work.

pinno

Ben6899 said:

Does anyone want to buy a Canon EOS 500N (35mm film), body only? £100ono...

If it's not good enough for you, it's not good enough for me.

pblakeney

Make it an FM3A and I might be interested. 😉

briantrumpet

Time for some more macro...

eric_draven

following nights dinner

eric_draven

masjer

The enchanted mossy woods. The unicorn must have shed its horn

masjer

Anyone else see a giant sun this evening? Most peculiar.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

Anyone else see a giant sun this evening? Most peculiar.

Didn't go out to look, as the sky was too boring, and haven't got the shapes like you have to make it interesting.

masjer

I didn't go looking, just driving somewhere. I think it might be because of (unexplained) wildfires on the hills miles away. Smoke.

Ben6899

Took this the other night, p1ssed walking home. Just found it on my phone!

briantrumpet

Ben6899 said:

Took this the other night, p1ssed walking home. Just found it on my phone!

Nice.

I guess you didn't fall in.

Pross

As Brian said, rubbish hazy sky today so this was the best I could manage

pblakeney

Out walking with the wife so a bit rushed and no tripod.
Compromises have to be made and adapted for. Resting on available rocks.

Ben6899

briantrumpet said:

Nice.

I guess you didn't fall in.

Stayed dry. Wouldn’t fancy it, in the Regent’s canal!

briantrumpet

pblakeney said:

Out walking with the wife so a bit rushed and no tripod.
Compromises have to be made and adapted for. Resting on available rocks.

That's something I often do. Rest on available rocks, that is.

Nice photo.

briantrumpet

Pross said:

As Brian said, rubbish hazy sky today so this was the best I could manage

Hope you don't mind, but a little bit of adjustment (quite a bit less contrast, and lowered the gamma a bit too), and I think it's a bit better/more realistic (though of course I wasn't there)...



It's one reason I use Irfanview for really quick tweaks on the laptop... it's a tiny program, with quick shortcuts: you can adjust colours & resample in just a few seconds, and often it restores what I think I perceived on site/sight, before the camera turned it into a jpg file.

Ben6899

pblakeney said:

Out walking with the wife so a bit rushed and no tripod.
Compromises have to be made and adapted for. Resting on available rocks.

Did you use a filter to keep light out on the long exposure? Or was it dark?

pblakeney

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

Out walking with the wife so a bit rushed and no tripod.
Compromises have to be made and adapted for. Resting on available rocks.

That's something I often do. Rest on available rocks, that is.

Nice photo.

Thanks. I'd have liked a higher point of view with more water and less of the highlights in the top left but you make do. PS - Sunset was a non-event.

briantrumpet

There's a Facebook group for Brixham photos, and it's turned into an absolute joke, with the most 'likes' going to photos which have had the saturation turned up to the extent it makes Brixham look like it's radioactive, and sunsets that suggest that the end of the world is nigh. Anything artful or understated is ignored. A friend of mine tongue-in-cheekily posted one so way over the top he thought he'd get called out on it, and it got something crazy like 250 likes. Thoroughly depressing. But then, it is Facebook...

TheBigBean

Ben6899 said:

Took this the other night, p1ssed walking home. Just found it on my phone!

Continuing to play my game. That's Regent's canal from Camden Road.

I hadn't realised that google streetview has recorded the towpaths. Pretty creepy because it is done at walking pace so follows behind the same people.

Pross

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

As Brian said, rubbish hazy sky today so this was the best I could manage

Hope you don't mind, but a little bit of adjustment (quite a bit less contrast, and lowered the gamma a bit too), and I think it's a bit better/more realistic (though of course I wasn't there)...



It's one reason I use Irfanview for really quick tweaks on the laptop... it's a tiny program, with quick shortcuts: you can adjust colours & resample in just a few seconds, and often it restores what I think I perceived on site/sight, before the camera turned it into a jpg file.

I did tweak it in my phone camera software. This one was massively improved but I'm still trying to understand the impact different changes and combinations of changes make

briantrumpet

PS, re adjustments...

I'm terrible at judging them on the phone screen. Phone screens tend to be calibrated to give a 'vibrant' balance (higher saturation and contrast than 'neutral/natural'), and often I've posted photos online only to see them later on the laptop and they look really flat.

And, TBH, unless you've got quite an expensive laptop with good screen/graphics, and all carefully calibrated (or you have learnt how to manage with whatever you've got), it can be a bit hit & miss even then.

Rather annoyingly, on the two cheap laptops I have (one in school, one in France), the Windows colour calibration keeps on returning to hyper-blue settings., so I'm making best guesses a lot of the time on those.

masjer

My Chromebook monitor is very sensitive to viewing angle. Looking from slightly above, everything appears over exposed.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

My Chromebook monitor is very sensitive to viewing angle. Looking from slightly above, everything appears over exposed.

Yes, that's exactly the sort of thing to watch out for.