Any Photographers out there?

[brendy]

Following on from Tomo's post in the hobbies thread,
I Have had a Fujifilm S9500 for over a year now and although Ive taken hundreds if not thousands of images, I am still a total novice, virtually 99% of my images are still experiments using backdrops, sopt and aperture settings. C&C welcome, these pics were virtually all unmolested also bar the odd crop.
A few of the older pics were taken with my old point and shoot Konica Minolta Z3.

 

[Basher]

Love the water type photos brendy, most unusual.

 

[big_russ]

Used to do quite a bit a few years ago. Mostly motorsport related but they are all prints and i have no digital copies. Will try and get some scanned and post them.

 

[viscount17]

I'd like to think so, but in reality I'm not doing much more than point and shoot at the moment. It's mostly a time thing.
We've almost gone down the same route with cameras, Konica Minolta Z3 then when the ccd went I got the Fuji S100FS as the nearest thing to an SLR without changeable lenses (plus it's got about the biggest chip outside an SLR).

Maybe you can help with this, images invariably print up a good bit darker than I feel they should; it was the same with the Konica. I've got a halfway decent photoprinter, Canon iP3000 but even doing the cmyk conversion still leaves them dark.

these I love for the colours (Konica)

at the moment this is where I'm at but you've given me some ideas (Fuji)

 

[brendy]

Cheers Basher, Im thinking of building a smallish white box for those kind of shots as im basically using sheets and sheets of white paper for backgrounds to give contrast (using a single source of lighting too at the moment hence the shadows)
Viscount, ive noticed that crt,lcd and laptop screen panels vary vastly when comparing. It could be your screen is not calibrated, I think the best ways cost a few quid but there are some free ways using colour scales and contrast bars. it could well be that your pics are a little dark and your camera preview screen and pc screen are artificially light. Its harder to detect this way rather than images that are too light as blown areas lose their detail where dark images are the lesser of two evils.
Id love to go to a full on slr, in fact a house sale is on the cards right now so you never know, maybe a little christmas pressie once I have cleared my credit cards etc.

Big Russ, I went to trackdays to take pics too, most of them are stored away on dvds but might hoke some out and see if any are worth posting up, most of them were taken with the z3. It was a cracking little camera with a high speed continuous shooting mode and its colours were brilliant and vivid.

 

[RGuk]

Very good! I used to be into photography (Minolta SLR) but have only used compacts for years. I just bought (on Thursday) a "bridge" camera (Fuji S5800) which has some manual functions and a whopping 10x optical/5x digital zoom....I reckon it's more powerful on the zoom than the old 80-200 I had on my Minolta. Only thing I need to learn is how to play with the aperture settings, the old SLR was amazing on close-ups, leaving "arty" out-of-focus backgrounds....one of my specialities.

 

[shanker]

I'm not sure from his post whether Viscount is showing some photos that he likes and then some of his own attempts. Or did he take them all? The tiger photo is excellent and the parrot, too.
Wish I was as good.

 

[Sam]

Canon man here (5D,20D & G9) - done a few weddings but found it far too much like hard work. Am moderator and Beta Tester for an international image management software company; hate the modern trend to over-saturated and 'doctored' images; loved Brendy's Oil Lamp

 

[Tommo21]

I should get back into this. Anyway, here is some of my work.

 

[Cernunnos]

Used to do a lot of photography before the birth of digital cameras. Mostly Landscape & Historical arcutecture. Not gone into digital photography in any detail, to do anything specialist in this new side of the art seems a bit too technical as far as computers are concerned.

There were some great shots in the above posts. The various SLR's I have at home... hey ho.

Recently bought an Olympus E510, though not gotten around to loading up the software on the laptop as of yet.

 

[Smiffy]

I've recently purchased a Sony A200 DSLR after years of compact point 'n shoots.
Had great fun on ebay buying various lenses for it as the old Minolta range of autofocus lenses all fit.
I'd like to get back into photography as I used to do quite a bit before I got married in the 80's but time unfortunately doesnt apppear to be on my side...work has now taken over my life.

 

[MVP]

I should get back into this. Anyway, here is some of my work.

i like these shots there fantastic.....i wanted to get a nikon d80 for xmas but money is tight now so may have to wait... but i wanna get into landscape photography!!

are all these images edited on a photosuite software ?

 

[John_Findlay]

Harvey, these are excellent! Very professional. Love the black and white. Very Ansell Adams.

 

[John_Findlay]

A pal sent me this link the other day. Some amazing aerial photos of London by night. Worth a look;-

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/london_from_above_at_night.html

 

[TonyN]

Wow, some trulley amazing pics there. I especially like number 13 the motorway Junction!

17 is no good though

 

[brendy]

I love those aerial pictures, they really give a sense of size to cities that you just can see from ground level.
Does anyone use photoshop? Ive been playing with it for a while and the effects you can get from stock photos is amazing,
Heres a quick example, one of the pics produced on that site

Can be made to look more like a model scene

 

[Tommo21]

MVP, the colour shots are untouched apart from cropping. The black and white are genuine darkroom products, real hard work that took me years to master and now you can do it on photoshop………….with very little reward.

When I first got into photography some criticised the fact I was only into motorsport. So I went out of my way to prove them wrong. I love this grainy shot of young Mark. It’s printed from a colour negative on a high contrast B&W paper.

The eerie seascape shot was taken on Fuji slide film. The exposure was around 1 minute. That’s why it looks all misty, in fact the sea was rough and the waves were rolling up in front of me. Film cannot record the waves on a slow exposure as it was almost dark………..it was also bloody freezing.

 

[brendy]

Water shots with long exposures look amazing, they soften the waves and are a mean average of the actual waves so as you say in the dark you can get a good pic of a wave but I think the results are brilliant.
I only recently bought a tripod as most of my practice has been with motorsport, family pics or landscapes. They open up a whole new world of long exposures too.

 

[MVP]

MVP, the colour shots are untouched apart from cropping. The black and white are genuine darkroom products, real hard work that took me years to master and now you can do it on photoshop………….with very little reward.

When I first got into photography some criticised the fact I was only into motorsport. So I went out of my way to prove them wrong. I love this grainy shot of young Mark. It’s printed from a colour negative on a high contrast B&W paper.

The eerie seascape shot was taken on Fuji slide film. The exposure was around 1 minute. That’s why it looks all misty, in fact the sea was rough and the waves were rolling up in front of me. Film cannot record the waves on a slow exposure as it was almost dark………..it was also bloody freezing.

its very clever stuff.! thats for sure.
Have you any tips for landscape photography? do u use a digital slr now?

 

[Herbie]

I love great photos, I have aseries of spectacular ones from my old olympus om10, used to be photo mad and really got to know how to get the best out of my camera and various film. Even had a couple of my pics in paper and one company bought a couple of night pics from me.

As time passes along comes digital and Im still getting used to the workings of digital cameras lol. I get the odd great shot but more luck than judgement, got another in the paper a couple of yrs ago though lol..