Author Topic: Have you been out with your camera today? (Read 247739 times)

billplumtree · « **Reply #1051 on:** 13 June, 2015, 09:27:52 pm »

Thanks all. Bivvying out on the fells with a camera has been on my ToDo list for ages, so I'm glad I struck lucky with the sunrise when I finally got around to it. Alpkit Hunka bivvy bag FTW

Quote from: Ruthie on 13 June, 2015, 11:30:14 am

Have you filtered those pictures Bill?

Nope, no filters involved. That's pretty much how it was at the time. Yeah, I know, I know.

billplumtree · « **Reply #1052 on:** 13 June, 2015, 09:42:33 pm »

While I'm on a roll, I had a wee trip over to Swaledale on Wednesday an'all...

Swaledale field barn by billplumtree, on Flickr


Swaledale barn door by billplumtree, on Flickr	Swaledale barn window by billplumtree, on Flickr

More at https://flic.kr/s/aHskdvcV2U

clarion · « **Reply #1053 on:** 13 June, 2015, 09:47:30 pm »

It's hard to hate such a great person as you, billplumtree, but you ain't alf pushing it!

billplumtree · « **Reply #1054 on:** 13 June, 2015, 09:51:08 pm »

My name is billplumtree, and I am a git...

Tewdric · « **Reply #1055 on:** 13 June, 2015, 10:48:25 pm »

I trust you've approached Alpkit to flog them that sunrise?

LEE · « **Reply #1056 on:** 14 June, 2015, 03:12:21 pm »

Bigger

Taken with my 2010, £49 Canon A495.

It's now held together with rubber bands and lives it's life in the sweaty rear pocket of a cycling jersey but it's documented much of my cycling over the previous 5 years.

It's no good having a good camera if it's left at home.

T42 · « **Reply #1057 on:** 14 June, 2015, 04:38:52 pm »

Canon make/made some great wee cheap cameras. I had an A490IS a few years ago that did great service before I gave it away.

Charlotte · « **Reply #1058 on:** 14 June, 2015, 08:56:56 pm »

Shot in the studio last week - I've been busy recently and finally catching up with editing some personal work this weekend:

Shot with a lovely crisp 135mm portrait lens and a stonking great big Elinchrom Octa for some seriously gorgeous beauty light

T42 · « **Reply #1059 on:** 15 June, 2015, 07:27:18 am »

From yesterday's ride, one of my favourite views:

LEE · « **Reply #1060 on:** 17 June, 2015, 11:11:58 pm »

I went out to photograph a field of poppies but the farmer seems to have mowed them all down.

On my way back I noticed the sun was just breaking through an otherwise cloudy sky and bagged a few photos. Ideally I'd have gone into the field but I couldn't spot a gap in the barbed wire so I took the wimps option and zoomed in instead.

Fullerton, Hampshire. Looking towards Andover.

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Woofage · « **Reply #1061 on:** 19 June, 2015, 11:10:25 am »

^ crackin' photo that. Did you convert to B&W from raw?

LEE · « **Reply #1062 on:** 19 June, 2015, 01:56:04 pm »

Quote from: Woofage on 19 June, 2015, 11:10:25 am

^ crackin' photo that. Did you convert to B&W from raw?

I shoot everything in Canon RAW now (sometimes RAW + JPEG). Apart from slowing down the frames/sec rate there's no reason not to shoot in RAW, you just lose too much potential if you don't.

Then I tweaked everything in Camera Raw app (Canon supplied) then I tweaked it a bit more as a Photoshop Jpeg.

Original (pretty "Meh" isn't it?).

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Someone is bound to say that it's cheating HOWEVER ........

1) I don't care

2) Cameras just can't capture what the human eye sees. It's technically impossible. All you can do is use the available tools to try to recreate what it felt like.

Trust me the actual scene I saw was a lot less "Meh" than the resultant original image and a lot more "Wow" like the final "cheating" version.

3) Every classic photo you ever saw, by any of the greats, was "shopped", either digitally or using darkroom techniques, to some extent.

Kim · « **Reply #1063 on:** 19 June, 2015, 02:09:59 pm »

You could probably design a camera to capture what the human eye sees, but the pictures would be fairly rubbish. It's all in the processing.

LEE · « **Reply #1064 on:** 19 June, 2015, 02:50:31 pm »

Quote from: Charlotte on 14 June, 2015, 08:56:56 pm

Shot in the studio last week - I've been busy recently and finally catching up with editing some personal work this weekend:

Shot with a lovely crisp 135mm portrait lens and a stonking great big Elinchrom Octa for some seriously gorgeous beauty light

Very nice but, try as I might, I just can't seem to spot her telephone number in the image !!!!

Very "Jessie J".

T42 · « **Reply #1065 on:** 20 June, 2015, 05:37:49 pm »

From today's ride:

This is Cleebourg. It sits in the middle of vineyards that stretch a couple of km up the road. Used to belong to the Swedish crown.

Nasty showers all day, but not where I was.

Woofage · « **Reply #1066 on:** 22 June, 2015, 09:30:02 am »

Local car show yesterday. You don't see many of these:

P1010017_bw by pencyclist, on Flickr

T42 · « **Reply #1067 on:** 22 June, 2015, 09:52:28 am »

Too true. I can remember the clusterfuck in Norn Iron when he folded. My bro-in-law worked for the firm that built the DMC works.

Woofage · « **Reply #1068 on:** 22 June, 2015, 09:55:18 am »

I still remember Barry Norman's comment when he reviewed Back to the Future: "The car that sniffs up the white lines from the middle of the road".

LEE · « **Reply #1069 on:** 22 June, 2015, 09:28:35 pm »

An evening walk near St Mary Bourne, Hampshire.

Old Barn.

Bee on a flower

davelodwig · « **Reply #1070 on:** 23 June, 2015, 09:04:12 am »

Only catching up with what I took in May, and even then i'm just copying them off memory cards.

The rest of the trip here (i hope).

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/je3i3ihnww6qy3w/AAANoZuTNjWeSFZsNKUcIWYca

T42 · « **Reply #1071 on:** 23 June, 2015, 11:05:20 am »

Quote from: LEE on 22 June, 2015, 09:28:35 pm

An evening walk near St Mary Bourne, Hampshire.

Old Barn.

Looks useful for getting rid of hawkers.

Woofage · « **Reply #1072 on:** 23 June, 2015, 10:07:29 pm »

Fiddling with a bit of RAW-ness.

P1010024 by pencyclist, on Flickr

LEE · « **Reply #1073 on:** 24 June, 2015, 02:30:36 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 23 June, 2015, 11:05:20 am

Quote from: LEE on 22 June, 2015, 09:28:35 pm
An evening walk near St Mary Bourne, Hampshire.

Old Barn.

Looks useful for getting rid of hawkers.

Now you mention it it does look like something from "Home Alone" or the "Road Runner" cartoons.

May be worth donning a hard hat before sliding open the barn door.

Jaded · « **Reply #1074 on:** 25 June, 2015, 12:54:22 am »

Had a 2 hour walk home and got back just before midnight.

Other photos appear in other threads, but there was a glove thing going on.

It was late and I was full of beer.