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Post by souphound on Jun 3, 2021 15:00:29 GMT
I love beautiful pictures, especially those depicting nature in some way. But I suck at photography. The pic above is this year's winner for Nature TLL. Glad I'm not stoned looking at it. It would probably be bewildering. Other beautiful pics in this BBC article I know that we have at least a couple of professional or semi-professional photo clickers here. Care to share? How about you amateurs (get in line please)? Any thoughts? Stories of successes and failures welcome.
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Post by rayge on Jun 3, 2021 15:41:59 GMT
Hi Norm, that is a great picture - saw it this morning on the BBBC website. As you may know from my thread in My Way on bcb, I take a lot of photos, and for 50 years have carried cameras whenever I went out for a walk, although I was never really a pro (pretended to be for a while so that I could charge film, cameras and accessories as business expenses). I have got more than 50,000 of the fuckers in my photobucket account, but resisted putting them on here in the same intensity and regularity as I do on bcb and a couple of other forums, partly because I don't think I have the audience for it, partly because of the bandwith, but I have started some photo threads in R&R. Anyway, I love looking at photos, so will be thrilled to see whatever anyone puts up. It doesn't have to be art, or any more than halfway competent. There were some good threads on bcb before I joined in which people set others photographic challenges, such as one photo a day about their lives, or documenting the place they lived, that sort of thing. I was fascinated by what people came up with. I also like to know what people look like. Anyway, here's half a dozen I took quite recently.
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Post by souphound on Jun 3, 2021 19:15:25 GMT
WOW! Those are spectacular!
I do vaguely remember some of those old threads. Always enjoyed them too. And yes, I agree, it's always fun to see what others look like. It somehow adds "context" (not the right word, but you get my drift) to their posts and online personae, sometimes.
I will see what I can put up myself but it might take a little while. I'm not as technologically savvy as I used to be in my youth.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jun 3, 2021 20:03:27 GMT
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Post by tory on Jun 4, 2021 7:32:15 GMT
I went through a load of old photos that I'd kept from the 90s of nights out etc recently and it had me thinking "there are no shit photos anymore" - our ability to see the image we've taken and to edit/delete it removes that cultural artefact from us.
You know the ones - photos taken at night with flash of things in the distance so all you get is massive blurred exposure of the things immediately in front of you, or half the image comes out white with someone's leg and an upside down field or similar. It had me thinking that perhaps we need a depository of shit photos to keep their memory alive.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 4, 2021 8:22:12 GMT
A couple of recent ones from Southport in the evening:
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 4, 2021 8:25:18 GMT
And some even less interesting pics from the waste ground where I generally take the dog for his morning walk:
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jun 4, 2021 12:02:25 GMT
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Post by rayge on Jun 4, 2021 12:51:07 GMT
i was quite a keen snapper 10 years ago, but have lost interest. i much prefer photos of people so since most of what i consider to be my best photos are of family and friends, i can't really post them.here are a few i took back in the day that i still like. Great stuff, skope, really like those, very similar aesthetic to mine. Could you elaborate on the bit I italicised? Is it you, or the people in the photos, who want to retain privacy? I don't take many portraits these days because, well, I very really see people in the pandemic, but in the recent and long-ago past I've tacitly assumed that unless anyone specifically asks otherwise (and I like them enough to agree any picture I take of them is fair game, especially on a restricted site like this one - bit more circumspect on facebook.
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Post by souphound on Jun 4, 2021 12:54:09 GMT
Some beautiful stuff here. Just wonderful. I am so envious of that talent.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jun 4, 2021 14:16:23 GMT
Some beautiful stuff here. Just wonderful. I am so envious of that talent. i think that's one of the reasons i lost interest. there are so many talented photographers out there, that i felt i was wasting my time. you can get bogged down with all the gear too. my main camera is only 6mp, but it's the lenses which are the most important accessories. the really good ones cost stupid money.
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Post by rayge on Jun 4, 2021 14:58:04 GMT
I've never been one for fancy kit: if you want to make real superstar stuff, or blow it up huge, of course you'd want top quality lenses, but all my film pictures were taken with second-hand pentax SLRs and all the digital (since 2010) with a succesion of Lumix pocket compacts
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Post by fonz on Jun 4, 2021 15:38:27 GMT
I was super-keen 10-15 years ago...
I would say that camera-phones are so good now. My iPhone fakes bokeh in a way that makes me think I’ll probably not buy another SLR. It’s always in my pocket, and it’s a doddle to do basic edits.
I’d like to post some pics. Is IMGUR still a good option?
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jun 4, 2021 15:51:49 GMT
I would say that camera-phones are so good now. My iPhone fakes bokeh in a way that makes me think I’ll probably not buy another SLR. It’s always in my pocket, and it’s a doddle to do basic edits. I hate carrying a bunch of stuff when I'm walking around, so I generally only have my phone with me which I use for the majority of my shots. The only time I break out the SLR is when I want to do time-controlled exposures, or to get sharper focus. The raw image files are great for editing, too, but like you say, editing phone pics is a cinch, too.
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Post by souphound on Jun 4, 2021 21:39:32 GMT
I can smell that field. Smells great.
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