Photo-of-the-day Thread. Contribute your best!

[ratfrink]

I've only had the internet connected for two hours and already an ebay impulse buy - I bought one of those old Polaroid cameras they use for taking passport photos. Four exposures on one sheet - and it takes Fuji FP instant film which is really good quality (and reasonably cheap at £6 a pack).

Incidentally I've also got a Polaroid 600 - the only film available is made by a company called Impossible Projects, and it's fucking awful. I had two packs (b&w and colour) and on both, only about 1/3 of the exposures actually had a discernible image on them... the rest just being blue/orange shapes and weird crystal structures.

[Auschwitz Nazi Disneyland]

Originally Posted by ratfrink

Ten points to the first person who can figure out what's going on in this photo:

Escalator


The colours in those last three photos are brilliant

PS also the focus on the very last

[007GoldenShower]

Have a complimentary Korean footballer flykicking an opponent in a brawl during a semi final yesterday

[ratfrink]

Originally Posted by Auschwitz Nazi Disneyland

Escalator

Naw. It is a photo of a common people-mover though. Thanks for the comments. This thread needs more photos in it.

[ratfrink]

Ricoh GRD2, composite image

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Frinks, of course, it's a bicycle.

[Auschwitz Nazi Disneyland]

Originally Posted by ratfrink

Ricoh GRD2, composite image

Composite as in photoshop-edited?



Edited contrast in GIMP

BONURS:

[-SpectraL]

[ratfrink]

Originally Posted by Auschwitz Nazi Disneyland

Composite as in photoshop-edited?

Well it's made up of a dozen or so macro shots of the watch, then put together in photoshop. The full-scale RAW version is ridiculously detailed. The prime lens on the GRD2 is really sharp, so you could probably print it at something like 40" square and not notice any loss in detail.

Originally Posted by Auschwitz Nazi Disneyland

That's really good, looks a little bit HDR'ey

[-SpectraL]

[ratfrink]

Did you take those yourself?

[ratfrink]

At the start of the summer I bought a 1920s Ensign box camera for £2 at a car boot sale, and bodged some 35mm into it:



Unfortunately the film scanner at uni is broken so this is just a photo of the neg (you can see the reflection of the camera, reversed of course). Looks promising though. I was a bit over-cautious with the winding so I only got 8 exposures on a roll - I could get 12 on if I wound it a bit less.

It's quite good for a cheap box camera in that it has two shutter speeds (1/30ish and B) and three apertures (don't know what they are).

[Ed Lister]

[ratfrink]

The TV at the side of the road looks like it was taken on film. Or is it modified digital?

First one is great.

[kinc]

first decent shot recently

[ratfrink]

Put my GRD2 on a tripod today. Moved so that my shadow wouldn't be in the shot. Freak gust of wind. One smashed lens.

[Auschwitz Nazi Disneyland]

Originally Posted by kinc

first decent shot recently

I like that. Contrast is nice, focus seems a little off though

[HampTheToker]

My pets. Taken on a 5mp smartphone camera.

[HampTheToker]

[ratfrink]

Retired my Zenit-E and bought an Olympus OM-20 with 55mm and 24mm lenses. I bought it because my Zenit can't take multiple exposures. Also it's nice not to have to use manual control all the time.

[Agathokakological]

Here's a few to contribute. Criticism welcome.

[HampTheToker]

Nice pictures, but it's easy to get good shots of something so beautiful.

[Duke Zion]

[Michael Scott]

Originally Posted by Agathokakological

Crap

Originally Posted by Agathokakological

Crap

Originally Posted by Agathokakological

Mega Crap

[Agathokakological]

Originally Posted by Michael Scott

Crap



Crap



Mega Crap

Want to give feedback on why you feel this way?

[Agathokakological]

Originally Posted by HampTheToker

Nice pictures, but it's easy to get good shots of something so beautiful.

It was my first time playing around with ISO, I had previously just set it on automatic and never looked much into it.

I'll have to post some pictures that are a bit more difficult eventually.

[FrY]

Originally Posted by Michael Scott

Crap



Crap



Mega Crap

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[Agathokakological]

Well, here's 3 more. I have a lot of photos if anyone has suggestions, or may even go in search of it.

[benny vader]

Originally Posted by Agathokakological

It was my first time playing around with ISO, I had previously just set it on automatic and never looked much into it.

I'll have to post some pictures that are a bit more difficult eventually.

FACEPALMS. ISO *IS* the second thing you play after toying with shutter speed and before aperture on the 1st day you get your hands on a DSLR.

[sexually vulnerable CPR dummy]

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[Auschwitz Nazi Disneyland]

Originally Posted by Agathokakological

Well, here's 3 more. I have a lot of photos if anyone has suggestions, or may even go in search of it.

first is good, focus is too far off on the other two though. also I assume iso was messed up in the last, it looks rather grainy

[Agathokakological]

Well, here's a bump for a few more.

[Agathokakological]

Originally Posted by ratfrink

Did you take those yourself?

Doesn't look like it.

http://www.tineye.com/search/9ae2f4b...7ba7b7f1da423/

[ratfrink]

Good to see this thread is back. I made a pinhole polaroid camera; I'll scan and upload when I find the photos again...

[Agathokakological]

Originally Posted by ratfrink

Good to see this thread is back. I made a pinhole polaroid camera; I'll scan and upload when I find the photos again...

I tried keeping it alive; will post more if I get any feedback on my previous pics, whether it's good or bad.

[ratfrink]

They're a bit boring, IMO. The one of the sunrise/set is pretty cool, but the others don't tell a story and are pretty mundane in terms of the aesthetics. To my mind (and bear in mind that I know next to nothing about photography) a photo should either show something happening or look spectacular; I don't think these photos do either.

I couldn't comment on the technical details because I don't know anything about technical details.

I really need to send off my films. I have three cans sitting in a drawer; one has been there for so long that I can't remember what's on it.