I don't know what happened with Enshroud, though -- overexposure, missed focus? Portra has a certain feel to it that's coming through nicely in a lot of your shots.
oh, enshroud was the first shot off the roll. i think the exposure metered for the white-washed cloudy sky, and in addition the fully exposed sliver at the top probably threw the scan off too. but i liked the effect.
also @Baron Dirigible trees is outstanding and @Prospicience so is fall reminder. beautiful. you guys are making me really cranky that i didn't have a camera on me today on the road to canberra...
So I think I need to erase a lot of what I said earlier and I actually do need something more wide angle for full body work.
I'm thinking about this:
Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras
Which should operate at ~55-56mm? The 50mm prime lens I have is excellent, but if I want to take a full body photo I need to stand on the other side of the room. :P
Only you can tell. I certainly like it better, but thats just me.
You have a style of your own and a really good eye, so suggestions are just that. Make a change, take a look and see if you personally like it better and if it comes closer to your own vision, or tell muninn to eff off because the picture you took looks that way for a reason.
You might want to rent a few lenses. You seem to have wildly varying ideas on what you need.
I second this. I used to think that wide angle lenses were the bees knees until I got one.
Also sometimes some non optical specs of a given lens (weight, focusing, manual controls, size etc) can be quite incompatible with the way you shoot, and renting one would make sure that the lens would be something you would use on a regular basis.
So I think I need to erase a lot of what I said earlier and I actually do need something more wide angle for full body work.
I'm thinking about this:
Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras
Which should operate at ~55-56mm? The 50mm prime lens I have is excellent, but if I want to take a full body photo I need to stand on the other side of the room. :P
Depends on what you need. If you need one versatile lens for all kinds of situations, you can't go wrong with the 24-105 f/4L, but if you know most of what you'll shoot is 35mm, get that. And yes, on a crop sensor 35 is more like 55.
I just put the filed strips on a light table and take a photo with my digital camera. I am toying with the idea of making a contact sheet printing frame but I don't have enough time for this stuff right now.
Dang, can't get that link to work, keeps timing out for me.
@munin thanks man, I actually do like the wider better so thank you for the suggestion Also really love that newest one, great comp and contrast. Your black and whites are the realness.
My mom used to have this series of photos in the entry way of our house growing up called "Doors of Rhode Island" (where I was born). Been walking around my neighborhood more and that old photo inspired me to start a new "Denver Doors" series; Denver's got quite the variety of doors y'all.
We photographers do love our catch-phrases, but what do they all mean? Here’s my not-so-serious and very tongue-in-cheek run down of some of the more commonly used terms and their meanings. And yes, I’m as guilty as the next guy:
Fine Art Photography – long exposure shots of ocean piers or railway platforms in black and white. Nearly always practiced by photographers seeking to distance themselves from ‘ordinary’ photographers by the simple process of shooting mind-bogglingly dull subjects.
High Key – basically lone trees on snowy hillsides. Often attributed to shots after the fact because the photographer accidentally over-exposed an image and thinks the resulting shot looks ‘arty’.
Mono – black and white effect employed by photographers in an effort to save an otherwise seriously flawed image.
Foreground interest – bits of wood, branches, seaweed, shells and other readily available detritus that a photographer can drag from its actual resting place to a convenient spot just in front of what they’re actually photographing. Most commonly employed by coastal photographers who will cheerfully drag a six foot branch for half a kilometre if it makes their sunset composition look a bit less dull.
Glass – hipster-ish way of referring to lenses.
HDR – an image produced by combining multiple exposures in the hope of visualising a bad acid trip endured during a visit to a brutalist east German shopping centre. HDR’s reputation in the photographic community is only marginally bettter than Gary Glitter’s in the music industry. Note: 99.999% of photos labelled HDR are in fact tone-mapped images, but the label has kind of stuck now.
Boudoir – slightly over-weight ladies wearing bra and knickers, posing awkwardly on brass bedsteads. Requires soft lighting, heavy vignetting and massive post-processing to eliminate all traces of humanity from the subject. The end results are usually about as erotic as a colonoscopy.
Light-Painting – usually nothing more elaborate than a 30 second exposure of some bloke spinning some burning steel wool on the end of a piece of twine in front of a quarry or a bit of woodland. The end results looks like a long exposure shot of some bloke spinning some burning steel wool on the end of a piece of twine in front of a quarry or a bit of woodland.
Surf Photography – photos taken from inside a breaking wave. The shot in question (taken on a GoPro by someone in 2foot surf with a lot of time on their hands) is usually the only flukey keeper out of 500 exposures. The only exception to this rule is Clark Little who twats himself about in monster shore-breaks in Hawaii and deserves every bit of credit for popularising this now over-subscribed photo style.
Street photography – homeless people and street vendors photographed without their knowledge by people with Leicas and beards.
Straight out of the camera – just enough processing so that it doesn’t immediately look like it’s an HDR (see above).
Night-sky Photography – the Milky Way.
Storm Chasing – photographs of adverse weather such as electrical storms and funny looking clouds. Seems to attract the most serious-minded individuals in what is already a fairly serious-minded past-time. Storm chasers use the term ‘core punch’ without the slightest trace of levity to describe the act of driving through the middle of a thunderstorm taking photographs as you go. I know, right?
Travel Photography – holiday snaps taken on a DSLR rather than an iPhone.
Film – edgy dudes shoot on old-fashioned cellulose in the mistaken belief that it makes their photographs somehow more worthwhile than the average iPhone snap.
Kit lens – disparaging way of referring to the lenses that are bundled with DSLRs. Owners of said lenses are made to feel that they are inferior ‘glass’ (see above) that should be drop-kicked into a rubbish bin at the first opportunity.
Drone Photography – cool way of flying $500 into a lake.
Bokeh – Japanese for ‘blurry blobs’.
Trophy Shot – this is photograph taken in a location that’s been shot thousands of times. Most photographers think they can do a better job than the other guy and so the caption for said trophy shot inevitably begins, “I know it’s been shot a thousand times, but …”
Semi-Pro – once sold a canvas print to a friend of their mum.
Pro – stay-at-home mum who bought an entry-level DSLR to stave off the boredom and keep the PND at bay and now charges $300 to photograph pregnant ladies and family pets using only kit lenses (see above).
Landscape Photographer – semi-autistic person who likes spending long periods on their own and didn’t fancy taking up fishing.
Secret Spot – geographic location jealously guarded by a photographer because they are obviously the only person worthy of recording its majesty. Said location is often revealed on social media by a local who comments, “Isn’t that Little Squiggly Dell down the end of Browns Lane?”, followed shortly after by a, “Yes, well spotted!” said through teeth so gritted they might just crack.
Instagram – place where photographers upload pictures of food taken on a DSLR while pretending they were shot on an iPhone.
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No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
Any recommendations on renting lenses in NYC? After much introspection, I desire the 35mm L-series lens. I see one for rent at some place. They say they need a credit card (have) or insurance (don't have - what kind of insurance?) to cover the lens in case it is not returned properly. Does that mean they put a hold for the full price of the lens on your card and take it off once you return it safe and sound?
I have a shoot on Sunday where I think it will come in handy along with my other two primary lenses (and it's a good opportunity to practice with it on a human subject) so I dunno. Any advice/opinion?
The type of policy you need depends on how you use your equipment. If you do not make any money through the use of your equipment, a standard homeowners or renters policy should cover against theft and fire, even when your equipment is outside your home. Typically, standard homeowners and renters policies cover you against named perils only. They also typically have deductibles. If your equipment is accidentally damaged, for example, you drop it, chances are it will not be covered under a standard homeowners or renters policy.
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If you use your equipment primarily for business purposes, you should be insured by a commercial inland marine policy. A commercial policy offers all-risk coverage for equipment, eliminates the potential of exclusions if equipment is used professionally, and offers a variety of optional floaters designed to insure against the liabilities faced by a professional (e.g., someone trips over your tripod).
The type of policy you need depends on how you use your equipment. If you do not make any money through the use of your equipment, a standard homeowners or renters policy should cover against theft and fire, even when your equipment is outside your home. Typically, standard homeowners and renters policies cover you against named perils only. They also typically have deductibles. If your equipment is accidentally damaged, for example, you drop it, chances are it will not be covered under a standard homeowners or renters policy.
...snip...
If you use your equipment primarily for business purposes, you should be insured by a commercial inland marine policy. A commercial policy offers all-risk coverage for equipment, eliminates the potential of exclusions if equipment is used professionally, and offers a variety of optional floaters designed to insure against the liabilities faced by a professional (e.g., someone trips over your tripod).
took my new camera out for a spin on the weekend and realised two things
1) i'm totally in love with it
2) it's way too good for me, I'm not ready for this shit.
I hated my last camera so much I've basically been shooting with my iphone for the last two years, which makes me pretty relaxed about post-processing. Filtering them out the wazoo and colour-correct them to hell and back, who gives a shit. Now I've got a real camera and I've suddenly developed standards.
Didn't get anything i'm particularly happy with yet, but here are some point-and-shoots I kind of liked. (I also did a lot of messing around with shutter speeds and running water and the usual guff, I'm a-learnin').
You have no idea how much I itch to mangle these in Snapseed, you guys. Seriously.
Didn't get anything i'm particularly happy with yet, but here are some point-and-shoots I kind of liked. (I also did a lot of messing around with shutter speeds and running water and the usual guff, I'm a-learnin').
Don't know what you're talking about, those black and white shots are amazing. Love the fourth in particular. Post your Flickr! (if you've sigged it, n/m, I'm on my phone and can't see it).
Anyway, glad you're happy with the camera, and look forward to seeing more!
Have a look at this for some B&W conversion knowledge. With digital, you can simulate the process of using coloured filters for B&W film which will emphasize or subdue certain colours depending on the filter. The process is really easy in stuff like Lightroom or whatever you're using for post processing.
flickr's so good for getting an audience and getting motivated. get your photos up to the right groups - for your camera, lens, processing style, film, subjects, whatever - and you'll find yourself really quickly pushing to get better shots up.
i have a couple of film rolls going but for now i suppose i should share some digital shots, since i've taken a few
I once sold a picture very similar to this for about $400 when I worked in high end retail. There is a huge market for door pictures, especially interesting industrial-looking ones.
I once sold a picture very similar to this for about $400 when I worked in high end retail. There is a huge market for door pictures, especially interesting industrial-looking ones.
Or you could sell it to Shutterstock for $10! I might be working for them here in the near future if this next software interview goes well
No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
I once sold a picture very similar to this for about $400 when I worked in high end retail. There is a huge market for door pictures, especially interesting industrial-looking ones.
Well then I am sitting on an untapped goldmine of door photographs.
Thats pretty interesting though, never thought of high end retail as an outlet for this kind of stuff. I always imagined it dominated by Peter Lik over saturated landscapes.
I once sold a picture very similar to this for about $400 when I worked in high end retail. There is a huge market for door pictures, especially interesting industrial-looking ones.
Or you could sell it to Shutterstock for $10! I might be working for them here in the near future if this next software interview goes well
I once sold a picture very similar to this for about $400 when I worked in high end retail. There is a huge market for door pictures, especially interesting industrial-looking ones.
Holy shit, really? I know what I'm taking pictures of next time I'm on a trip. Where do you go specifically to sell photos at those kinds of prices?
I once sold a picture very similar to this for about $400 when I worked in high end retail. There is a huge market for door pictures, especially interesting industrial-looking ones.
Holy shit, really? I know what I'm taking pictures of next time I'm on a trip. Where do you go specifically to sell photos at those kinds of prices?
Honestly the best thing to break in is go direct to the source. Find a small (private) high end interiors store and go there directly as a customer first, see what they sell and for how much, and assume art has about a x2.5->x3 markup. Then make sure your portfolio lines up with what they sell and ask to speak with the purchaser. Show your portfolio and lowball the markup.
Or you can try to get a stall or a share at a stall at one of the interiors Market conventions (the biggest interiors one is in Highpoint, NC each year, with smaller ones across the country). Most interior design firms send a buyer to market looking for the smallest and most unique groups to buy from because they don't want their product reproducible by competition, which is how a lot of art gets sold.
Landscapes and such always have a market in high end design, but less and less each year. The last 20-30 years have moved away from them since they are associated with stuffy, old manor homes rather then the more bohemian aesthetic that is booming right now.
I remember one of my family mmbers (an interior designer herself one of the owners for our store)went on a trip of Greece and Italy and just took pictures of doors and alleys the whole time. Ended up getting about 17 pictures printed and framed and sold them all for $200-$600. Paid for the trip with a bit left over.
I once sold a picture very similar to this for about $400 when I worked in high end retail. There is a huge market for door pictures, especially interesting industrial-looking ones.
Holy shit, really? I know what I'm taking pictures of next time I'm on a trip. Where do you go specifically to sell photos at those kinds of prices?
Honestly the best thing to break in is go direct to the source. Find a small (private) high end interiors store and go there directly as a customer first, see what they sell and for how much, and assume art has about a x2.5->x3 markup. Then make sure your portfolio lines up with what they sell and ask to speak with the purchaser. Show your portfolio and lowball the markup.
Or you can try to get a stall or a share at a stall at one of the interiors Market conventions (the biggest interiors one is in Highpoint, NC each year, with smaller ones across the country). Most interior design firms send a buyer to market looking for the smallest and most unique groups to buy from because they don't want their product reproducible by competition, which is how a lot of art gets sold.
Landscapes and such always have a market in high end design, but less and less each year. The last 20-30 years have moved away from them since they are associated with stuffy, old manor homes rather then the more bohemian aesthetic that is booming right now.
I remember one of my family mmbers (an interior designer herself one of the owners for our store)went on a trip of Greece and Italy and just took pictures of doors and alleys the whole time. Ended up getting about 17 pictures printed and framed and sold them all for $200-$600. Paid for the trip with a bit left over.
Interesting, thanks for the tips. I've never even been to an interior design store.. I'm in San Diego so maybe there's some around.
I once sold a picture very similar to this for about $400 when I worked in high end retail. There is a huge market for door pictures, especially interesting industrial-looking ones.
Holy shit, really? I know what I'm taking pictures of next time I'm on a trip. Where do you go specifically to sell photos at those kinds of prices?
Honestly the best thing to break in is go direct to the source. Find a small (private) high end interiors store and go there directly as a customer first, see what they sell and for how much, and assume art has about a x2.5->x3 markup. Then make sure your portfolio lines up with what they sell and ask to speak with the purchaser. Show your portfolio and lowball the markup.
Or you can try to get a stall or a share at a stall at one of the interiors Market conventions (the biggest interiors one is in Highpoint, NC each year, with smaller ones across the country). Most interior design firms send a buyer to market looking for the smallest and most unique groups to buy from because they don't want their product reproducible by competition, which is how a lot of art gets sold.
Landscapes and such always have a market in high end design, but less and less each year. The last 20-30 years have moved away from them since they are associated with stuffy, old manor homes rather then the more bohemian aesthetic that is booming right now.
I remember one of my family mmbers (an interior designer herself one of the owners for our store)went on a trip of Greece and Italy and just took pictures of doors and alleys the whole time. Ended up getting about 17 pictures printed and framed and sold them all for $200-$600. Paid for the trip with a bit left over.
Interesting, thanks for the tips. I've never even been to an interior design store.. I'm in San Diego so maybe there's some around.
Yeah, that's some great info to have and much appreciated Enc.
I somehow deleted my personal folder on my work computer, contains a lot of stuff I shoot on the road from appointment to appointment... that's a huge bummer. I think I have a decent amount of it backed up but there's some stuff in the last couple weeks I've shot that's gone. Bummer dude.
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Would something like Dropbox be able to hold your stuff effectively? Photos can get pretty big, But I think you can get about 15 gigs free for temp storage.
Would something like Dropbox be able to hold your stuff effectively? Photos can get pretty big, But I think you can get about 15 gigs free for temp storage.
It would, I actually have a friend with a huge ass server where I have 500gb of storage where I put all my stuff. The problem being I had a folder on my work computer I only backup every few weeks and work has been so crazy I just hadn't gotten around to it. I'm still perplexed as to how I deleted it, I must have accidentally dragged it to the recycling bin at some point in the last 24 hours and just not noticed. The part that has me the most bummed was all the Denver Doors I'd taken photos of (around 20). Most of them I took in the same day because the lighting was incredible with a slight overcast. Guess I'll just have to go at it again or maybe find better doors.
Anyways here's a few since I've been doing a lot of writing and not a lot of posting lately.
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Love this one. Wish it was slightly wider, but then again I am a man of peculiar taste.
oh, enshroud was the first shot off the roll. i think the exposure metered for the white-washed cloudy sky, and in addition the fully exposed sliver at the top probably threw the scan off too. but i liked the effect.
also @Baron Dirigible trees is outstanding and @Prospicience so is fall reminder. beautiful. you guys are making me really cranky that i didn't have a camera on me today on the road to canberra...
Thanks guys, and thanks for the recommendation, not sure why I didn't have it wider to begin with! This better?
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I'm thinking about this:
Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras
Which should operate at ~55-56mm? The 50mm prime lens I have is excellent, but if I want to take a full body photo I need to stand on the other side of the room. :P
Only you can tell. I certainly like it better, but thats just me.
You have a style of your own and a really good eye, so suggestions are just that. Make a change, take a look and see if you personally like it better and if it comes closer to your own vision, or tell muninn to eff off because the picture you took looks that way for a reason.
I second this. I used to think that wide angle lenses were the bees knees until I got one.
Also sometimes some non optical specs of a given lens (weight, focusing, manual controls, size etc) can be quite incompatible with the way you shoot, and renting one would make sure that the lens would be something you would use on a regular basis.
Depends on what you need. If you need one versatile lens for all kinds of situations, you can't go wrong with the 24-105 f/4L, but if you know most of what you'll shoot is 35mm, get that. And yes, on a crop sensor 35 is more like 55.
@muninn, that looks fantastic. 11, 21 and 25 are my current picks. How are you making your contact sheets?
From the archives:
Private Parking by rstop bstop, on Flickr
Here is something that still needs a bit of work:
@munin thanks man, I actually do like the wider better so thank you for the suggestion
My mom used to have this series of photos in the entry way of our house growing up called "Doors of Rhode Island" (where I was born). Been walking around my neighborhood more and that old photo inspired me to start a new "Denver Doors" series; Denver's got quite the variety of doors y'all.
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I have a shoot on Sunday where I think it will come in handy along with my other two primary lenses (and it's a good opportunity to practice with it on a human subject) so I dunno. Any advice/opinion?
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Fuck ektar. I will use it the way I want to.
now I'm going to have to justify the cost by learning how to use it properly and taking way more photos
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Thanks!
1) i'm totally in love with it
2) it's way too good for me, I'm not ready for this shit.
I hated my last camera so much I've basically been shooting with my iphone for the last two years, which makes me pretty relaxed about post-processing. Filtering them out the wazoo and colour-correct them to hell and back, who gives a shit. Now I've got a real camera and I've suddenly developed standards.
Didn't get anything i'm particularly happy with yet, but here are some point-and-shoots I kind of liked. (I also did a lot of messing around with shutter speeds and running water and the usual guff, I'm a-learnin').
You have no idea how much I itch to mangle these in Snapseed, you guys. Seriously.
Anyway, glad you're happy with the camera, and look forward to seeing more!
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/digital_black_and_white.html
i have a couple of film rolls going but for now i suppose i should share some digital shots, since i've taken a few
Digital Connections by jeremy-o, on Flickr
Railroad by jeremy-o, on Flickr
Creek Thoughts by jeremy-o, on Flickr
I once sold a picture very similar to this for about $400 when I worked in high end retail. There is a huge market for door pictures, especially interesting industrial-looking ones.
Or you could sell it to Shutterstock for $10!
I might be working for them here in the near future if this next software interview goes well
Well then I am sitting on an untapped goldmine of door photographs.
Thats pretty interesting though, never thought of high end retail as an outlet for this kind of stuff. I always imagined it dominated by Peter Lik over saturated landscapes.
No sale, but good luck on your interview!
Holy shit, really? I know what I'm taking pictures of next time I'm on a trip. Where do you go specifically to sell photos at those kinds of prices?
Honestly the best thing to break in is go direct to the source. Find a small (private) high end interiors store and go there directly as a customer first, see what they sell and for how much, and assume art has about a x2.5->x3 markup. Then make sure your portfolio lines up with what they sell and ask to speak with the purchaser. Show your portfolio and lowball the markup.
Or you can try to get a stall or a share at a stall at one of the interiors Market conventions (the biggest interiors one is in Highpoint, NC each year, with smaller ones across the country). Most interior design firms send a buyer to market looking for the smallest and most unique groups to buy from because they don't want their product reproducible by competition, which is how a lot of art gets sold.
Landscapes and such always have a market in high end design, but less and less each year. The last 20-30 years have moved away from them since they are associated with stuffy, old manor homes rather then the more bohemian aesthetic that is booming right now.
I remember one of my family mmbers (an interior designer herself one of the owners for our store)went on a trip of Greece and Italy and just took pictures of doors and alleys the whole time. Ended up getting about 17 pictures printed and framed and sold them all for $200-$600. Paid for the trip with a bit left over.
Interesting, thanks for the tips. I've never even been to an interior design store.. I'm in San Diego so maybe there's some around.
Yeah, that's some great info to have and much appreciated Enc.
I somehow deleted my personal folder on my work computer, contains a lot of stuff I shoot on the road from appointment to appointment... that's a huge bummer. I think I have a decent amount of it backed up but there's some stuff in the last couple weeks I've shot that's gone. Bummer dude.
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It would, I actually have a friend with a huge ass server where I have 500gb of storage where I put all my stuff. The problem being I had a folder on my work computer I only backup every few weeks and work has been so crazy I just hadn't gotten around to it. I'm still perplexed as to how I deleted it, I must have accidentally dragged it to the recycling bin at some point in the last 24 hours and just not noticed. The part that has me the most bummed was all the Denver Doors I'd taken photos of (around 20). Most of them I took in the same day because the lighting was incredible with a slight overcast. Guess I'll just have to go at it again or maybe find better doors.
Anyways here's a few since I've been doing a lot of writing and not a lot of posting lately.
@tynic great first set! I like all those B&W, especially the second and third. Really great compositions.
Munnin you're killing those industrial doors :^:
Baron, really like that last one with the tracks going into ze mountains.
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I really like your Power Up shot, though I wish more of the foreground was in focus. The very bottom of the frame feels a bit distracting.
Non-blurry less blurry non-landscapes
edit: size, fuck.