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- Thread starter SeagullSongs
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Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
A Banquesy?
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
seagull_special
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Taybha
Whalewhine
Sat in the bush just behind the poxy butterfly is the world's rarest bird,The 3 spotted snattertwot, you'll just have to take my word for it.
theonesmith
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- Oct 27, 2008
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Might be a stupid question, but how do you get such consistent detail, color and clarity across each photo? These are beautiful
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
That first picture is beautiful!
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Not easy, but you've managed to do it. Click on the jpgs and the images are really clear.
Good on you. I have also had that ongoing mission. Would you like to see my hundreds of photos of slightly out of focus flowers where the bee had been a moment ago??
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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Thank you that mean a lot. I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos and like the colourful saturated style (I am often concerned that I over saturate).
I really like the vivid colour style and changed my camera to the settings suggested in the video.
I also took a lot of advice in light room from this video. Especially the colour picker bit, finding a colour theme in the picture and making them more vivid (I went a bit far on the red tree one).
And of course you have the sun! Unlike our dreary greyness.....
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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Yes the sun does help, especially this time of year when it isn't too bright and all consuming.
I was over there in the early 1990s with a film point and shoot. Obviously with only 36 pictures a roll, and being on a tight backpackers budget, we were careful what we took photos of. I have wondered since what it would have been like with a digital camera. Frightening probably! Instead of playing chess and chatting in hostels, I would have been weeding out thousands of pictures on my tablet or whatever.
Is Steve Parish still going - I brought home a wonderful 'coffee table' book of his.
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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I have just checked him out and he is still going strong. His wildlife is amazing.
Conversely I wonder what it would have been like learning in the pre digital age, my thinking is it would have taken far longer and require far more skill and knowledge.
Yeah, I probably should have mentioned the taking shit loads of photos and trying different stuff is also my 'technique'.
I get together with 3-4 'older' guys every month or so in the pub, and we set a theme for our next meeting. They often lose me, as they started out with darkrooms and home development and the like. Fascinating, but not sure I'd want to go there - all sounds far too much effort.
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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That's a great idea.
I think I read that there has been a resergence of film photography recently, it seems a logical thin for the hipster types to get into along side their vinyl and craft beer brewing. (right up my street
).As much as it all sound like too much of a ball ache, those old cameras look and sounds amazing. If I had the time, money and space I could see myself getting involved. Maybe when I retire.
I have discovered a local camera club which I am going to try and get involved with. Some advice from older fellas will surely go a long way.
Yes it would have. In the old days 'pre digital' you had to know what you were doing especially with regard to how various lighting conditions affected the film that you were using. I used to do a lot of travel and hotel photography for tour operators and we had to use transparency (slide) film and you only had a half stop latitude either side to get the exposure right, so get the exposure wrong and the pic would be ruined. There weren't many of us that could work consistently to those standards and as a consequence it was very well paid and it kept out a large percentage of would be photographers who didn't have the confidence in their abilities. The old adage 'you're only as good as your last job' was always on your mind.
Then digital came along and very soon everything changed, you had the ability to delete your image and photograph the subject again and again until you got it right. I switched over entirely to digital in 2003 and I love it, Ive probably taken around 1.5 million 'digital' pics over the last 20 odd years and ive a lightroom catalogue of around 400,000 pics. But, as Bodian has alluded to, I also loved the darkroom as well, I specialised in black and white printing when I did my photography degree and afterwards I converted a room in my house into a darkroom. I spent many nights in there when everyone had gone to bed often working until the sun came up. Great times, unfortunately the enlarger and various acoutrements were sold many years ago and my old darkroom is now a store cupboard. Now I'm getting on a bit, I would love to teach GCSE or A level students how to use and process film, black and white printing and the various darkroom techniques etc. Don't tell the local colleges, but I'd probably do it for free.
Anyhow, here's a few pics from the Palio in Siena, Italy taken in July. I have photographed many Palios over the last 30 odd years but after a 16 year Hiatus the town council remembered me and gave me a press pass. The Palio is a spectacular event and some of these pics as well as others taken over the years will be included in a photo book that I am planning. I shall be there again for the July and August Palios (the palio is run twice a year). If you're in the area it's a must see, it goes on for 4 days and culminates in a 90 second (3 lap) race around the Piazza. Unfortunately I missed the race this year as I had to fly home on the 4th July, the race is on 2nd July, but was cancelled for two successive days due to the bad weather. This hasnt happened for decades and caught me and alot of the other
photographers out