Photo-Graphy, it's pretty neat. (NSF56k)

Artreus

Hey, so I really like photography. The AC has a photo thread, but we deserve one of our own. Some people like looking at pictures other people have taken, other people like taking their own photos. Some people like both!

This is a thread for posting either photos that you think look really good from other place or just posting your own.

The Boston Big Picture is a really awesome thing with pictures. I really hope to some day be a photographer on par with some of the stuff they do.





Astronomy picture of the day is also a cool website for pictures of stars and junk.



For now I am still working on improving my own stuff. Here's a few things I did recently.









So yeah, post your own photos or photos you like. I may use this as a place to get some criticisms on my own stuff if people are down for that, as things get kind of buried/ignored in the ac thread.

Photography is rad.

Brolo

cue sheri

Tossrock

Rolo wrote: »

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this is my picture



i call it "Globalism 2"

George Fornby Grill

I got a T2i last week, been having a lot of fun with it.


not the fingers not the fingers oh god not the fingers by ItsCrawford, on Flickr


_MG_0107.jpg by ItsCrawford, on Flickr


_MG_0139.jpg by ItsCrawford, on Flickr

Only have a 50mm 1.8 and the kit lens right now. The weather has been shitty so I haven't really been able to go outside and take pictures of shit

e: quote plz :V

#pipe

Here are a couple of links that I've totally dug recently

http://www.calebcharland.com/
Dude specialises in light painting and multiple exposures/comps. My favourite project is in the side menu under "Demonstrations" in which scientific experiments are photographed



http://mattrainwaters.com/work/projects/beardfolio/
This is a series of HDR portraits of contestants at the World Beard and Moustache championships.


This guy's name is Toot Joslin

Darmak

I only have my cellphone camera, but it takes pretty decent pictures for a cellphone. I pretty much only take pictures of trees and flowers and shit so it's not that interesting. I would like a decent camera though but I don't know shit about photography and the cameras and lenses are expensive so I just make do with what I have.

Vann Diras

i like photography! here are some i took last semester









and a bit more experimental



all of these are with my pentax k1000 on black and white film, a restriction of the class i was in.

edit: few of these seem to be cropped a little oddly. hm. gonna have to check the files on my external

#pipe

It's not perfect, but I really like this photo I took of my view on my morning run

ASimPerson

Tossrock wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

cue sheri

this is my picture



i call it "Globalism 2"

I am writing this post to make it clear I understand this reference and heartily approve.

Macera

from http://half-scientific.deviantart.com/

#pipe

Here are some of my best ones

Brolo

Tossrock wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

cue sheri

this is my picture



i call it "Globalism 2"

damn my hubris

Sheri

Pfft

Photography is for suckers

redfenix

i took this

i'm proud of this picture, if only for the impeccable timing

DHS Odium

Photography is fun. I don't do it as much as I'd like, but here are a few shots that came out pretty good.















I think all of these were posted in the AC thread, but oh well. As a sidenote, I think I need a better solution than Flickr, with the free account it's limiting me to 200 pictures or something. Perhaps my Dropbox would work better...

Sheri

Flickr Pro is only $25 a year

It's pretty rad, even if I don't really use it anymore.

mensch-o-matic

I really love this one a lot

Grey Ghost

Photography is a thing I think is cool and would like to be more into, but I just have this dinky little digital camera

I've been telling myself I should carry it around more and just snap photos of everything but I haven't been hardly anywhere but home and work lately

ThreadbareSock

I like Igor Siwanowicz

(url'd for bigguns)

some sort of caterpillar

mantis being pretty

mantis eating a fly

whipscorpion

here is a whole page of rad stuff

Sheri

Eeeew bugs!

YoSoyTheWalrus

I have this pretty decent Nikon from high school

and I literally cannot find a place that will develop film, when did that happen

ThreadbareSock

Grey Ghost

YoSoyTheWalrus wrote: »

I have this pretty decent Nikon from high school

and I literally cannot find a place that will develop film, when did that happen

What?
CVS, Rite-Aid, fucking... Wal-Mart, maybe?

Any of these places should be able to develop

Macera

Sheri wrote: »

Eeeew bugs!

yaaay bugs!

more from Siwanowicz:

George Fornby Grill

Grey Ghost wrote: »

YoSoyTheWalrus wrote: »

I have this pretty decent Nikon from high school

and I literally cannot find a place that will develop film, when did that happen

What?
CVS, Rite-Aid, fucking... Wal-Mart, maybe?

Any of these places should be able to develop

Not if he has Kodachrome :V

VoproSTEIN

Last month I got a T2i for filming, but I use it for photos as well. I have a tumblr where I took pictures of my friends building a computer to test it out.

Only other thing I've done with it so far is take these pictures of my group making a recruitment video for our school.

Crashmo

Is this where we post that national geographic cover of the girl with the colorful eyes?

George Fornby Grill

VoproSTEIN wrote: »

Last month I got a T2i for filming, but I use it for photos as well. I have a tumblr where I took pictures of my friends building a computer to test it out.

Only other thing I've done with it so far is take these pictures of my group making a recruitment video for our school.

T2i seriously owns for video stuff. I need to do more of it for fun.

Staleghoti

YoSoyTheWalrus

Grey Ghost wrote: »

YoSoyTheWalrus wrote: »

I have this pretty decent Nikon from high school

and I literally cannot find a place that will develop film, when did that happen

What?
CVS, Rite-Aid, fucking... Wal-Mart, maybe?

Any of these places should be able to develop

You would think so

Daric

Seriously?

There's a CVS, Walgreens, Target, and 2 Wal-Marts within 10 minutes of my house that all develop film.

Where the hell do you live?

Artreus

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Photography is a thing I think is cool and would like to be more into, but I just have this dinky little digital camera

I've been telling myself I should carry it around more and just snap photos of everything but I haven't been hardly anywhere but home and work lately

You definitely should. Fancy cameras help but you can still do good things with a point and shoot.

I am mildly jealous of those of you with the T2i. I have the T1i, but it is still doing me well, though it got a little roughed up over my camping trip. I need to replace some things I lost from it and for some reason everything is a little bit blurry when I look through the view-finder. Pictures turn out fine though. It is either because it fell or because some moisture got all up in it. I can't really afford to get it fixed so I am going to let it slide until it fixes itself.

Also I love that Bill Murray pic staleg.

Also I am going to post more pictures. Those of you who follow my tumblr/twitter will probably have seen them.

Projeck

artreus, there should be a little dial next to your view finder, look through it and turn the dial until the picture is crisp

mensch-o-matic

Besides bugs I think architectural photos are my favorite

Grey Ghost

Art that first one is spooky!

#pipe

Projeck wrote: »

artreus, there should be a little dial next to your view finder, look through it and turn the dial until the picture is crisp

Yeah you might have bumped the diopter. Alternatly the viewfinder or the reflex mirror might be dirty or smudged or foggy. Slide the eyepiece off and give the viewfinder a clean, then take the lens off and give the mirror a clean.

Artreus

Projeck wrote: »

artreus, there should be a little dial next to your view finder, look through it and turn the dial until the picture is crisp

Augh I'm so dumb. I guess I messed with that without realizing it. Thanks a bunch.

Also I can find the Auto Exposure Bracketing function but I'm not sure how to.. make it do it. I guess I can manually set the exposure stuff, but there should be a way to do it without having to do it manually.

Artreus

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Art that first one is spooky!

It is a bike path I take all the time, I enjoy photographing it. That one was after an ice storm

#pipe

In case anyone's interested, I wrote a quick beginner's tutorial a while ago on figuring out what all the little symbols and acronyms on DSLRs mean and do.

Some people seem to have found it useful.

The Otaku Suppository

Pfft, photography. Didn't even have to create anything, just took a picture of something already created for you. Musicians. Now those people are pretty neat.

Artreus

That is useful. I've had my camera for a year or two at this point and I'm still trying to figure out how to consistently use aperture settings to get a good depth of field effect. For the most part I shoot on the shutter speed setting and work around that.

edit: Also yeah I have an artist friend who was pretty condescending about me and photography because his art is real art because he had to work so hard at it and photographers just take a bunch of pictures and a couple of them always turn out good. (I do need to work on my ratio of good pictures to bad pictures though. It is still heavily weighted to the latter)