what do you see like: 2012

I really admire you guys shooting people and crowded places, i'm far to uncomfortable with it. I've thought about it and actually headed into town to do it but couldn't bring myself to get the camera out. Maybe i'm just thinking too much about it?

I went out looking for snowy landscapes, came home with this...
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do you know this thread?

idk its kindof hard to just start taking photos of ppl tho right?

that photo is great

So, I'm trying to get better at photography.

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Sadeyes by alan.stephen, on Flickr

I wish I could put my finger on what's wrong with this.

that's a great picture!

only technical tip I have is that it's a little underexposed

raiding my Lightroom archive
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Alcatraz stairwell by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

Oh man, i wish i could get to visit places like that and get results like that. Nice work milo.

do you know this thread?

idk its kindof hard to just start taking photos of ppl tho right?

that photo is great

― judith, Sunday, 5 February 2012 12:26 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I do, thank you. Still not got me the courage though. I think i'll stick to subjects that won't frown at or assault me...

Early morning wonder, taking advantage of the fog.
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Milo Z and not_goodwin, I think I can spot yr style before I scroll down and see yr names now. Good work!

n g that is awesome.

milo too

milo, you can crosspost that to the ruins photography thread!

love that soft glow, n_g

keepin' em coming

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The last few photos posted here are intimidatingly good! I really need to get out with my camera more. Seoul is so ugly this time of year...

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Can't remember what/if I posted in the other thread. Here we go...

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Untitled by cwsmith, on Flickr

clay!

plax!

that's a little restaurant on the Oregon coast in a little town called Newport. Most of my photography these days is via iPhone. Kind of embarrassed but sign o the times.

Hello, ILP.

no its so modern!

my friend Cecilia several hours into drinking on Saturday night
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Cecilia by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

found a lost roll from bosnia
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that's great! it has the thing of being v balanced in a v unruly way

so quiet here now.

i finally organized my pics so the link upthread wont work anymore. im here now if anyone's interested: http://ihardlyknowher.com/kdfo/sets

Gr80 i know you have aloha friday but is there a place besides here that you post eg bosnia pics?

damn rent you get around! i love the goat(?) action shot under "around europe"

xpost: its funny you should ask, as i just put together a zine layout of 100% bosnia/croatia/hungary pixx

its looks awesome but overall its too many pictures of my bros just goofing off, so i'm trying to decide if i want to actually "release" it or just print a few copies for friends and then re-use a lot of the photos on my next proper zine

if i go w/ the latter, i will post the pdf here for free download

if you wanna fbook me, most of my photos are there, including my europe trip (i keep galleries public for about a week or so before switching to "just friends")

also i have a website but i haven't updated the galleries in about a year and a half

facebook makes photos look so gross but i get the most satisfaction w/ posting them there and knowing friends and strangers see them, too lazy to maintain a flickr as well... some day

ha yeah it's a sheep i think. that was in wales. ive been operating for 2.5 years in asia under this unfounded fear that i could get recalled to canada for some reason & at any moment, so have been trying to get to as many places as i can, whenever i can. it's been great, though, obviously. i used to stare at maps a lot as a kid.

i like that you use pics of your friends. me being stupid maybe but ive always kept friend photos and what felt like "photo" photos as separate categories, without ever even giving it much thought...one of a few unexamined habits im now considering thanks to ilp ppl.

anyways, cool, thanks for the links!

lol @ your cover image

Your Euro-trip photos are spectacular gr80

i like that you use pics of your friends. me being stupid maybe but ive always kept friend photos and what felt like "photo" photos as separate categories, without ever even giving it much thought...one of a few unexamined habits im now considering thanks to ilp ppl.

yes! i think about this a lot too. the emmet gowin thing in the other thread about mainly having your life to offer as photographic material changes things a lot.

been quiet because I'm finally building my website! and the website building part went surprisingly fast, with the photo selection and editing taking surprisingly long.
accidentally made a bunch of photos on flickr 'private' and then back to 'public' again, eliminating favorites etc. so now am trying to take it less seriously, no longer posting to groups etc.
the latest is this then:

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er probably should have put those side by side, sorry

those are awesome! where was all that paper coming from?

Your Euro-trip photos are spectacular gr80

― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:21 AM (7 hours ago)

thanks! we spent most of our time driving/riding or drunk so i was really limited in what i could shoot. i was the photographer friend on a motorcycle trip, really want to go back and have the ability to stop and take pictures of whatever i want.

that was the giants super bowl victory parade. paper coming from office windows

cough up the website, dude!

oh man I think it's going to take me a little while. i haven't spent any time putting pictures 'together' before so I'm starting from scratch on that, and discovering that what I thought would be coherent sets of images don't mesh as well as i would have expected. a lot of rethinking going on.

thanks! we spent most of our time driving/riding or drunk so i was really limited in what i could shoot. i was the photographer friend on a motorcycle trip, really want to go back and have the ability to stop and take pictures of whatever i want.

― ⚓ (gr8080), donderdag 16 februari 2012 19:54 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The driving, being drunk and party elements are quite present, yes :-)

But there is something very particular and personal, or unique, in nearly all your photos. I can't put my finger on it and I'm horrible at describing an aesthetic image that pleases my eye or touches me in words, but you have the ability to single out moments that many other people wouldn't. The photos really feel like you frame a single moment, a 1000th of a second, yet they breathe and suggest so much motion and life - the seconds before and after the shot linger in it, somehow. Stirring a very particular melancholy, or nostalgic "i wish I was there" feeling within me.

Sorry if that is total gibberish, but they appeal to me in a big way. I need to cough up some dough for those Aloha Friday mags :-)

Did you change film for the black and whites or is it all digital and reworked into b 'n w afterwards?

dude thanks LBI, i'm glad you appreciate them-- add me on fbook i have shitloads more albums... or are we already friends? i forget.

Did you change film for the black and whites or is it all digital and reworked into b 'n w afterwards?

yeah most of europe was shot on kodak bw400cn. there might have been a roll of tmax in the mix. aside from a few shots that were on an expired roll of gold200, the color stuff is all portra160, the xpro stuff is a mix of provia400 and elite chrome (kind of bummed about how the xpro stuff came out-- have had way better results with both of these in the past)

i dont really edit anything color wise or crop anything, except for when the lab fucks up my scans i might 'shop out some scratches/lines or color-correct to a truer black & white

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is that from the valerian tumblr? I'm hooked on tokyo camera style right now: http://tokyocamerastyle.com/
just pure equipment lust but I don't shy away from it

this is such standard-issue camera-desire-101 that it doesn't necessarily even qualify as equipment lust, but the clicking around i did on http://www.ibarelyremember.com yesterday was such a oh man leicas thing. like the conversation here recently regarding the potential of cameras - small cameras, cheap cameras, etc - is very reassuring and true to me, but i like having the idea of there being an out of reach camera, which would obviously up my game, &c

the couple of mentions/fridgefuls of t-max on there are interesting. i'm still waiting for my first real roll of that to come back from developing; i shot one once that got eaten up. curious to see what it's like, i can't imagine it being any nicer than tri-x

also basic: could someone testify to the purpose/effectiveness of the kinda extended 'collar' kind things on most of those lenses, pictured at china's link? is it a light thing or?

you know tmax's rep as far as I can tell is that it is extremely fine-grained and gives good mid values. but as someone who loves fine-grained mid values, I never really got along with it. I think tri-x has advanced so much over the years that it is pretty smooth itself, and if you really are after that smoothness, then some ilford films really take you there. fp4 is what I'm thinking of maybe?
you're talking about the lens hood on those cameras. it's used to cut out light hitting the lens surface at an angle, which causes a loss of contrast (say you're pointed towards the sun, and although it's out of frame its rays still strike the glass and cause contrast loss... basically the hood throws a shadow over the glass). I went without one for a long time, but then started taking more pictures facing south in the winter in nyc and realized why one could be helpful. the added benefit is that it makes it harder for an object to bump into your lens.

speaking of small cameras, I came across two olympus stylus epics recently, and they are now my new 'going out' cameras. pretty good 35mm lens point and shoots.

it seems i'm mainly seeing B&W in 2012
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