■ The Photography Megathread ■

[Soukuw]

None of these are very "Artsy" or very well done at all (I just couldn't take pictures worth stuff that night) but I still kinda like them.

Town hall

Scary ladder

Sunrise (Smeared like forget with a "denoser" already.)

All blurry or noisy :(

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[Sirrus]

This is the first creative thing I've done with digital photography in a long, long time. A self portrait, this effect was accomplished entirely without post processing (besides the removal of two small specks in the outside black area and conversion to B&W)

[Harm94]

I was bored.

[Fredulus]

sirrus i like that portrait

one where you're a little closer to the camera might be interesting. actually, one where your face takes up most/all of the frame would be really cool

[King of losers]

-2spooky-
Scary ladder

I'm not sure why, but I'm quite fond of this picture in particular. The angle and lighting look really nice, but the quality of the photo is kind of meh.
Then again, I don't know jack stuff when it comes to photography, so I can't really give you more than an opinion.

[Sirrus]

sirrus i like that portrait

one where you're a little closer to the camera might be interesting. actually, one where your face takes up most/all of the frame would be really cool

God that would be a pain in the ass to do with the mirror set up I had for that picture. I actually am not entirely sure how to do that, I'm sure I could do it if I worked on it for a bit, but no solution jumps out at me.

I'm working on a somewhat similar idea, I took a portrait with a medium format camera and set the enlarger at my school up as high as it could go- enlarging my face from the small area it took up on the 6x6cm film to this, which is... about 18x25" if memory serves correctly.



I traced the main features of my face and set out small strips of enlarging paper over most of it, such that they didn't overlap and didn't cover every part of my face and were arranged irregularly. I plan on going in tomorrow and setting everything out under the enlarger again, turning it on and re-aligning and mounting the strips to the paper, the end result will be a portrait of me with a lot of negative space, a kind of disjointed look.

[Fredulus]

sounds pretty cool, keep me updated :o i love unique self-portraits

i haven't printed in a darkroom for ages, maybe ill find myself a film slr and shoot a roll. still good friends with my highschool photo teacher so i could use his darkroom

[Brickman]

I wasn't sure if this is the topic to post this in, but I don't see why it wouldn't be.
Anyways, I just bought 3 35mm film cameras off eBay. 1 is an SLR and 2 are rangefinders.
(Picture not mine) Left is a Bolsey 35 model B I believe, middle is a Kodak Retina IIIc and right is a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex.
I can't wait to use these

Apparently the Bolsey is around 65 years old.

[Ace2343]

Picture I took at Thunder Valley, Bristol Dragway. I like this photo because of how the auto-focus caught the dragster and blured the background.

[Soukuw]

I'm not sure why, but I'm quite fond of this picture in particular. The angle and lighting look really nice, but the quality of the photo is kind of meh.
Then again, I don't know jack stuff when it comes to photography, so I can't really give you more than an opinion.

I assure you the quality is awful.

It's not some kind of hipster statement about the grim gritty look on scary big ladders.

[Sirrus]

First "digital enlargement"; film scanned and then processed in the computer. Thoughts?


catharsis by n.roberts, on Flickr

[Fredulus]

cool :o i absolutely love that sky. though the highlights (mainly the paper) are a bit too bright, kindof annoying.

[Sirrus]

cool :o i absolutely love that sky. though the highlights (mainly the paper) are a bit too bright, kindof annoying.

Ahhh, I love the paper. I'm of the school of thought that any good B&W should have swaths that are black and swaths that are white.

[Fredulus]

well yes, agreed, it's just the fact that it's so bright it hurts your eyes a bit to look at. you need a full tonal range, just not pure black and not pure white. everything in between. i'd like it a lot more if i could see a little detail in the paper, a little texture, instead of just a white blotch

[Sirrus]

well yes, agreed, it's just the fact that it's so bright it hurts your eyes a bit to look at. you need a full tonal range, just not pure black and not pure white. everything in between. i'd like it a lot more if i could see a little detail in the paper, a little texture, instead of just a white blotch

Ah

There actually was no detail on the paper to show, since it was blank. I was considering waiting until after I was done with my drawing to take a picture, but there was something I liked ideologically about having a blank piece of paper. Plus I didn't want the picture to be diminished if my drawing turned out stuffty.