Photo spam II

[Chrysophylax]

Since the old thread is kind of old and hard to trudge through, here's the new version.

Spam photos here! Spam away with what you like and if you want to recieve critique/comments on them. Please keep the largest dimension of the pic equal or smaller than 800 pixels please.

These ones are for an exercise in macrophotography. The point was to magnify the subject and deconstruct it visually, kind of creating a map for it. Whoever guesses what the subject is, gets a cookie! (Chrome, eTombotron, trebmal_ca, Beast Main Self and Aracat need not apply :bag: )






These are for an exercise to showcase music.

[Inert]

I spy a classical guitar! *glee*

[Xypher]

onion

[Tails]

Yeah, I'd guess onion...or maybe flower petal.

As for the musical instruments, I see a classical guitar, and that bottom one looks like an Oud.

[Inert]

Silly! That's a manolin. Or a mandola to be precise

[Dimension]

good stuff! I especially like the very first pic, as it looks like something really small, and like an enormous landscape looming in the mist at the same time.

Also, the guitar shot owns due to pure unadulterated art. Focus is spot on.

[Xero]

Is it a french fri?



sorry I'm hungry....

[Chrysophylax]

Lol, it's an onion, Xypher wins the cookie :P.

Close, but not quite. It's not a mandolin, it's a portuguese guitar, used to play fado. Since it's body isn't capable of handling too much string tension, it's tuned 1 and a half tones down. This produces a sombre/sad sound, coupled with the minor chords that are majorly played in fado. Comes in two variants, the Lisbon and the Coimbra. One has a sharp loud sound, the other a smoother one.

Here's a dude singing:



A few shots of the Gil Eanes, a school ship. I kinda forgot it's story right now, I'll post it when I remember.




This dude doesn't like to be shat on by seagulls :hide: :

[Dimension]

Some tomfoolery with angles and perspective




Some tomfoolery with lights and long exposure. Setting is the shanghai skyline as seen from the Top of the Barbarossa lounge btw.

special request by Chrysophylax:

[Chrysophylax]

I really like what you were going for on the first pic, but I'd have framed it different, for added effect. IMHO, the less you'd see in surroundings, the more time the viewer would spend looking at it and figuring out wtf kind of prespective that was. As it is, it's fairly simple to guess that it is a vertical pic set up horizontally.

Ah, ghostly pics. Again, I'd have pushed the azn dude a bit to the left, just for composure's sake. But it's great as it is.

The third one, I like best. A ghost amidst a group of guys! Although the position of the streetlights and it's colour (yellow/orange is always a fatal colour, immediatly draws your eyes) is distracting. Really cool.


Fishermen trying to make sense of their net:


A lamp post against the sun. The sun could be more on the post's axis, but it's kinda hard aiming your camera against the sun.

[Deionarra]

Almost all your pics are really great Chrysophylax

That lost one makes me think of a certain HG Wells novel. It's rather creepy but that might just be the interpretation of my own scared psyche. :hide:

[Artoo]

Cool stuff, gents!

The lamp post and the first guitar shot take the cookies, imho

[Chrysophylax]

Beer!

[Handarazuur]

RE: Lamp post.

"That's no meteor!"

[Riess]

[Trinity]

Took the camera as we went about today.

[No1lives4ever]

oh, nice.

Swan looks realy lonely.

[Vijil]

A place with Roses AND a place with ducks AND a place with a very cool derelict car all in the same day? Well dang.

Now I'm no photographer, but this is what I took today at a paintball tournament:


Just to put it in context: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/vijil/preeow.jpg - UK pro baller Jono Clark (left) shares a preeow moment with my frontman. It's all in the eyes.

[Chrysophylax]

Riess: Dang. Very Cool. My only gripe is that you have some framing issues there, and a composition issue on another.

Trinity: Awesome (ab)use of lighting! The swan could've used a different framing though. Love them.

You guys give me awesome ideas for photos.

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[Trinity]

I can't imagine what framing on the swan would have been better. This?

[Chrysophylax]

Yeah, I'd go for something along those lines. Or, since the image has high contrast, I'd push it into a corner, along a line of strength. That'd create a nice balance between the white swan and the dark water.

[Trinity]

I was being facetious. Regardless, isn't your suggestion what I had in the first pic? The swan in repose was in the bottom right providing a contrast to the few lighted ripples in the top left.

[Chrysophylax]

Somewhat. It is standing on a line, but it is too fat for it. It may sound strange, but it looks good and looks odd at the same time (for me at least). The last one you posted looks better due to that.

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This particular subject placement rule dictates that everything either falls into lines or into where they intersect (the points). Of course, they have to be lines themselves, but for simplicity's sake, anything that has a general orientation the same as the line may fall there. Tricky are the points. One must make the subject as close to a point as possible (diminish it's general radius if possible (ex wide angle lens)).

An example of a line would be someone standing up on that line, or lying down. The horizon works too. A point would be a football, small from the point of view, placed on the point, but not being much bigger that it goes a 1/3rd longer than a line.

Sorry if this is condescending, but I realized that I might not be making myself understood. English is not my first language. :lonely:

[deadguy]

Commonly referred to as the "Rule of Thirds."

[Trinity]

Some photos are more interesting if there is tension in the composition.

[Chrysophylax]

Absolutely. If I'd framed that scene as I suggested, perhaps it wouldn't look as good.

[Trinity]

I actually did try several other croppings and couldn't find one that more fully respected the "rule of thirds" and was visually appealing. I had the same issue with this one:

[nyyti]

At last I can spam piccies somewhere , ok here's some stuff:


From tenerife, somekinda black sand there.


A lizard we accidentally saw at tenerife.


Can this be defined as artsy? :P


Here's an interesting thing for all you dentists .

[Trinity]

From work and on the way home today...

[Guelph]

@ Trinity - Is that the Snowbirds practicing ?

Great pictures all.

G.

[Trinity]

That is the Snowbirds performing their acceptance show for the Chief of the Air Staff. The acceptance show represents the final step in a long process of approval for the set of manoeuvres and choreography that will be performed at airshows across North America this year.

[deadguy]

Great photos Trin

[Trinity]

I am surprised no one mentioned the sky.

[Chrysophylax]

Trinity: what is your camera and lens?
Great photos all around especially that formation ones. Dynamic lines ftw.

[Khabbi]

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[Chrysophylax]

Just generally messing around with my tele lens:



Experimenting with circles of confusion. Not exactly definitive, but these two helped me understand the concept (and learn the limitation of said tele lens)

At 3 meters:


At Infinity:


Vanity shot:


I'd have framed this differently, but my camera's photometer is severely limited for night shots and I can't afford a decent one



Out of 36 possible pics, these are the ones I could show off. Damn shitty film I bought coupled with me not remembering that colour negative film is tricky = wasted pics (due to noise when underexposed. bah :yech: ) .

[deadguy]

Slide film is much, much more touchy.

[Trinity]

Maxxum 7D w/100-300 Zoom

[Artoo]

Nice stuff all round. I especially like those surfer shots by Chrys.

[Trinity]

[Artoo]

Nice one, Trin... I'd leave a bit more room to the right of the girl. I guess, that's personal taste, tho

Camera question. How's the 7D's performance at high ISO doing? I mean noise-wise. I'm an enemy of noise

[Trinity]

Nothing but dead space to the right of my 4 year old in that pic. I cut it away.

As to the 7D, I'll let you know when I use anything other than 100.

[Sword_Monkey]

Sorry tis sideways...again.

Most are from an expedition in southern Europe, Alps ansd all that, then there is that one shoddy Eiffel tower shot. Okay got rid of that one

Oh and the dude swearing.. He thought he was a gangster, apologies, the lighting was just so nice though.

[Benjamin]

Great photos guys, likeing it.

This was taken at an old reservoir in Istanbull



This was just messing around with a keyboard...nothing special.


This one, I posted before, but it's realy pritty. *ahem*

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[Sword_Monkey]

Last Macro one reminds me of water droplet photos, they always look good, anyone got any? (Just a single droplet or a few, with an interesting reflection or light effect).

[Chrysophylax]

That macro pic is amazing.

[Chrysophylax]

Shooting around on the beach today, amazing light, textured sky, the works.

Image copyright Luís Costa (used with permission):

Yours truly in a deep-thought pose

This one's mine:


The things one can do with a thermocolourmeter (sp?) on the machine...

[Fiirks]

During a hike today:

[Rafta]

snapshots of my cat, unfortunately i shaked the second one.

[Artoo]

From my Minolta Z3, taken sometime in early March.



Recent shot from my Zenit TTL.