what do you see like: 2012

they're practically cones!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7234/7076431429_31fa1186dc_c.jpg

I wonder how many of those things get stolen, they're great.

Another one from Scotland trip.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7266/6930429268_5aa868fafc_c.jpg

up to your usual impeccable standard. you've got a knack for nailing the tone of an image.

Thank you very much.

blacks are so v tricky

^compliment of your blacks

IDK if these count or not but I've been getting bored of shooting shows lately and have been making these to make life harder for myself:

http://richardgin.blogspot.com/2012/04/work-harder.html

Re: previous tricky blacks

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7129/7077968861_943e63ea59.jpg

this one made me laugh:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7075/6933704168_eb88a19f7a_z.jpg

^dope.

jimmy mod: the mobile/iPhone view of your site is kind of screwy fyi

Great stuff on this thread. I always say that but I do mean it.

25 days in the US. I'll never have a break from work like that again in my life, so it has been thoroughly documented (well, as best I could with the kids around). Still importing photos from 40D, ZE-1 (cheapo Kodak thing I bought from Target on day 2 cos I wanted a pocket video camera), our two smartphones... It's gonna be around 4000 images.

I don't know where to start, but at the end - flying home:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/7079897737_188c322a10_z.jpg

Gaylord MCing at the Chickfactor shows (mindful of running out of memory, I started shooting a lot of ISO 1600 B&W JPGs at night - this is near-SOOC, just cropped):
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5275/7079913989_5b668cc65c_z.jpg

I know just how you feel, I'm uploading holiday photos myself and filtering down from about 2000 pictures as I go.

Maybe I should've just taken the EOS 10 + 50mm, six rolls of Fuji Superia 400, four rolls of Ilford Delta 3200, rationed myself to 15 shots per day, and let Jacobs do the rest. (Phones could've handled the blow-by-blow FB documentation).

I've taken so many similar landscape shots it's really all about trying to find the right ones. But yes, I did all the day-to-day FB shots by phone.

I backed up cards every couple of days to my wife's netbook (small and light enough to stick in our luggage) and did some tweaking of choice shots with Picasa, uploading from there (plus the occasional on-the-spot upload from a phone where we had WiFi). Those moment-of or day-of photos will have had far more impact and meaning to those involved than what I'll do on Flickr over the next week or so. But the latter is the "permanent" record, I guess.

gr8080 -- I know. I'm not terribly happy about it but I'm not 100% sure what I want to do.

RE: editing insane amounts of pics: I don't even bother going thru lightroom etc for most stuff. I open everything up in preview and slam through it as quickly as possible judging on composition before focus or content. Like, if I can make a baseline judgement about something in a fraction of a second there's very little to be gained from sitting and studying it further.

related: http://www.derekshapton.com/planet_shapton/?p=1324

1 gig is 36 shots? 27MB a file? jeez

yup

ooh baby I like it RAW

After day 3 in Florida it became clear to me that I should stop shooting everything Raw because (i) I was going to be forced to buy more cards and CF is now 4x the price of SD in high-street stores (sucks to have 2007 technology, but there we are), (ii) so many pics were ISO 100-200 in glorious light and I trust myself to get decent in-camera results in those conditions (even if my options were reduced later on) and (iii) while Picasa happily opens Canon .cr2 files...it can't exactly do a lot with them (or I couldn't make it so).

Eventually dumped that first week to a $12 8GB USB stick I got in Target and recycled the cards.

There won't be much studying of these in LR - just a lot of pick and delete, maybe 5-10/day will make the Flickr sets (and it'll be mostly family stuff).

There's no RAW support for my Fuji, so I'm having to live with JPGs for now. It feels strange to look at them without immediately going to curves, etc. but it's kind of nice.

the recent color

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/7082242267_81d39b25d5.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7109/6933750908_b32a73e7d0.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6931887652_af94b7e72c.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5464/6926263424_d45fafe5da.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7133/7069963871_90698b23d4_b.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5442/6923884906_698a404ae2_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/7086435083_2a9199298a_b.jpg

A friend asked me to photograph a group of visiting monks as they created a sand mandala at the museum where she interns - I'm not overjoyed with what I got (I was in the back of the audience for the initial ceremony and the monks didn't seem like they were in a mood to be posed beforehand) but it's serviceable for the museum to document things, I guess.

set of 13:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/celluloidpropaganda/sets/72157629850403225/with/6946342042/

kind of like:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5315/7092413643_87bc26c149_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5454/7092416521_c51d2ce444_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5240/6946348782_aed60d528b_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5316/7092422847_6fc252670b_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5455/7092426937_0f8f0e29a5_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7110/6946360264_0f31e68984_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

like the last one a lot milo, that's really nice, & serviceable is harsh but it makes for a good document

You lot a really comfortable shooting people and capturing great candid moments, i kinda hate you all.

I like thinks that don't frown at me.

Another one from the Scotland trip.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7195/6950934050_f5751cfcd5.jpg

Sister's dog Dylan, helping me out with shutter speed and dof.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7260/6948258190_d9427afc53.jpg

radical

haha wow

thinks = things btw

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4186/377es.jpg

v nice!

yeah

Oh i like that schlump.

great one! love the framing... the partially obscured head, etc.

Another from the Scotland trip. Debated and fiddled a lot with this one, still not 100% with it :/

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7267/7103478677_a4be308dc8_z.jpg

Carl, you really are posting some wild nature shots right now. We have some jarring contrasts of style in this thread and I love it.

I continue to plough through holiday snaps. Not many are worthy of inclusion here... mostly I wish I'd spent more time around freight trains...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8166/6958199318_2804451b34_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7116/7085774985_3623f8f1a0_z.jpg

We have some jarring contrasts of style in this thread and I love it.

^^

into the skies in the last three. & yes to colourful trains.

lizard picture is great. love that t-shirt!

too dark probs
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8027/7107509939_6c0924195e_b.jpg

this lady was v small
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/7107510433_5db847a982_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7097/7107510763_13813c284b_b.jpg

holy crap i just realized that the frikkin cvs cropped the last two rolls? they're all 1500x1200 while the previous were 1900x1200???

hey dudes I got a nice little writeup here:
http://www.nocultureicons.com/collective/2012/4/24/a-few-questions-with-brandon-mitchell.html

feeling probably a bit too self-satisfied now...

yeah the ratios on them are really strange, gbx. i like the sky a lot.

gbx, looks like they cropped your scans as if they were going to make 8x10 prints from them

ah that sorta makes sense

nice write up, cv!, u famous!

yup it's all downhill from here!

that was a nice, concise piece. way to go!

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5332/7112090823_34643c3441_z.jpg