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[Bombastinator]

On 8/1/2021 at 9:06 AM, Bingbear said:

Nice shot! I think lifting the red details would make it even better! 

This one is from a subway station in Kyoto last year. 

Looks a lot like an entryway in the matrix1 in which a huge gunfight takes place. Apparently they had to make enough props to effectively rebuild it several times with various explosives under thin veneers of stone that of course destroyed the object when triggered.

[Bombastinator]

41 minutes ago, sub68 said:

yeah, thats what I get when I set phone flash to on cause I forgot.

first what camera?

also second the bee in the second photo is out of focus.

Canon 70D

ISO 1600

1/30 f/2.8 50mm

 

 

I like this.  Dunno why, but I like it

[Bombastinator]

56 minutes ago, adarw said:

how did you do this

 

ngl that flash ruined it..... looks cool tho. 7/10

 

 

its not a stock photo... i promise anyways i  took a few pics around my neighbourhood. 

Too one doesn’t look like a stock photo to me because composition isn’t a bit sideways. Stock photos tend to leave a lot of room around the edges for art directors to crop on. The bee one is right in there though. Maybe sell it to a stock book company.

[Bombastinator]

On 8/10/2021 at 10:06 AM, sub68 said:

Nice Ford focus.

I love the focus of the light.

https://youtu.be/qsrZmQ5oTDs 

Here is my new camera.

By my phone which I forgot my flash was on.

Flash may be happy accident.  Gives it a washed out old ektochrome look with the blue bag throwing color onto things. 

Edited August 17, 2021 by Bombastinator

[sub68]

Just now, Bombastinator said:

I like this.  Dunno why, but I like it

I can hold my camera pretty stable so I know 1/30 I can hold.

I had a UV filter that was a mistake to do to lights.

for example this picture.

Spoiler

but I think the haze makes it better in that situation.

 

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, sub68 said:

I can hold my camera pretty stable so I know 1/30 I can hold.

I had a UV filter that was a mistake to do to lights.

for example this picture.

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but I think the haze makes it better in that situation.

 

I always resorted to tripods at night.  Slow film maybe. It’s really hard to brace for more than 1/30th.  Isnt easy even at 1/30th. Got to have a camera strap and do weird things with it. 

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

I always resorted to tripods at night.  Slow film maybe. It’s really hard to brace for more than 1/30th.  Isnt easy even at 1/30th. Got to have a camera strap and do weird things with it. 

I was bracing my arm on a car door iirc

[sub68]

16 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Flash may be happy accident.  Gives it a washed out old ektochrome look with the blue bag throwing color onto things. 

Thanks I will do that when the power comes back on.

I am happy my PC has a UPS as I was reorganizing a drive.

[Haro]

I've only recently gotten into photography, in mid May or so, and these are some of my more recent shots. 

 

 

 

 

Shot with a Canon EOS 2000D, using the kit 18-55. 

First one was shot at 1/200, ISO200 at F3.5. 

Second was shot at at the same exact settings coincidentally. 

Third was shot at 1/320, ISO100 at F4.5. 

[RockSolid1106]

1 hour ago, sub68 said:

yeah, cause my phone is junk cam.

 

I rate that image 9/10 colors seem dull.

Same place but different angle.

 

Wow, that seems pretty good! I'd give it an 8.5 because most of the parts of the shot are out of focus.

 

59 minutes ago, adarw said:

yea im still trying out the camera its all auto settings right now since idk much about camera stuff lol. 

I'll rate this a 6/10, for the lack of a real subject. No flower is really centered, or at least partly centered, which would've made it more like a focus on the flower. rn it seems like a weird crop of some image. (IMO pls)

 

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So I recently went on a trip a month ago and really wanted to post some butterfly pics that I shot here, but held back because I thought @NinJake's photo was too good to be rated by me(a dumb person who knows nothing), So I thought I'd leave it for someone more experienced to rate it better considering how good it was.

So here's mine:

Nikon D3500, ISO 250, f6.3, 300mm

 

PS: 

15 minutes ago, Haro said:

I've only recently gotten into photography, in mid May or so, and these are some of my more recent shots. 

Yet you seem better than me lol

I'd give the first two of your shots a solid 10/10.

1st one: Dont know but some part of me really likes the soil.

2nd one: The blurred trees look pretty good! The lower part seems a bit empty though.

 

The bokeh effect seems perfect and I really like it!

For the third shot though, the fur near the cat's ears seem to have messed up a bit.. IDK, but they look weird to me. I'd give that one a 9.5.

[adarw]

13 minutes ago, Haro said:

I've only recently gotten into photography, in mid May or so, and these are some of my more recent shots. 

 

 

Shot with a Canon EOS 2000D, using the kit 18-55. 

First one was shot at 1/200, ISO200 at F3.5. 

Second was shot at at the same exact settings coincidentally. 

Third was shot at 1/320, ISO100 at F4.5. 

wow! these pics are as beautiful as your cat  10/10

 

[sub68]

17 minutes ago, RockSolid1106 said:

Wow, that seems pretty good! I'd give it an 8.5 because most of the parts of the shot are out of focus.

Well the focus was on the neon sign.

And @f2.8 that image makes other parts out of focus.

[adarw]

well heres another pic for yall.

 

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, sub68 said:

I was bracing my arm on a car door iirc

If you’re stuck with no car handy there’s a method using a camera strap wrapped around the camera and one’s body that isn’t so different from very old school sniper rifle stuff using a gunsling. There’s one for abound neck and shoulder and one for around neck.  They’re somewhat different elbows are involved iirc.  They have names.  Should be photos of it around somewhere.  One of the reasons camera straps seem so unnecessarily adjustable is so these can be employed.

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[Bombastinator]

20 minutes ago, adarw said:

well heres another pic for yall.

 

Birb has the crest and it knows it. And of course with those peach cheeks it can electrocute people.

 

[Bombastinator]

42 minutes ago, RockSolid1106 said:

Wow, that seems pretty good! I'd give it an 8.5 because most of the parts of the shot are out of focus.

 

I'll rate this a 6/10, for the lack of a real subject. No flower is really centered, or at least partly centered, which would've made it more like a focus on the flower. rn it seems like a weird crop of some image. (IMO pls)

 

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So I recently went on a trip a month ago and really wanted to post some butterfly pics that I shot here, but held back because I thought @NinJake's photo was too good to be rated by me(a dumb person who knows nothing), So I thought I'd leave it for someone more experienced to rate it better considering how good it was.

So here's mine:

Nikon D3500, ISO 250, f6.3, 300mm

 

PS: 

Yet you seem better than me lol

I'd give the first two of your shots a solid 10/10.

1st one: Dont know but some part of me really likes the soil.

2nd one: The blurred trees look pretty good! The lower part seems a bit empty though.

 

The bokeh effect seems perfect and I really like it!

For the third shot though, the fur near the cat's ears seem to have messed up a bit.. IDK, but they look weird to me. I'd give that one a 9.5.

Could be depth of field issue.  The bigger the lens opening (the lower the f-stop) the shorter the possible depth of field.  There was a thing called “the f-64 club” which is more or less pinhole.  Frequently infinite depth of field there.  Not a lot of light though so long exposures even in the daytime.

[The Blackhat]

One of my favorite cameras I have ever used, the Nikon FE is just a beautiful piece of equipment. Can’t wait to go take some shots with Portra 400.

[Bombastinator]

4 minutes ago, The Blackhat said:

One of my favorite cameras I have ever used, the Nikon FE is just a beautiful piece of equipment. Can’t wait to go take some shots with Portra 400.

Dulling spray!  I haven’t seen dulling spray used in a loooong time.  Box is more than dulling spray could handle. ‘Shopped most likely.  Gears could be dulling spray though.  Whole thing is ‘shopped most likely.  Dulling spray may have just died.

[The Blackhat]

9 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

Dulling spray!  I haven’t seen dulling spray used in a loooong time.  Box is more than dulling spray could handle. ‘Shopped most likely.  Gears could be dulling spray though.  Whole thing is ‘shopped most likely.  Dulling spray may have just died.

I have never used dulling spray nor do I know what it is. I assume based on the name and context, it removes shine from glossy materials. Well, I just use really well diffused light to reach that effect. I don’t use Photoshop, just some lighting or color adjustments in Lightroom.

[adarw]

10 hours ago, The Blackhat said:

One of my favorite cameras I have ever used, the Nikon FE is just a beautiful piece of equipment. Can’t wait to go take some shots with Portra 400.

thats realy cool! i dont think that the box realy fits as its much more vibrant or colorful than everything else and that not that great since i think the foucus should be the camera itself. 8/10

 

[Bombastinator]

22 minutes ago, The Blackhat said:

I have never used dulling spray nor do I know what it is. I assume based on the name and context, it removes shine from glossy materials. Well, I just use really well diffused light to reach that effect. I don’t use Photoshop, just some lighting or color adjustments in Lightroom.

Lightroom can do photoshop things.  You have dulling spray about right. Stuff was oily and could make a mess.  Needed to be cleaned up quickly.  Have to have some really good diffusion to not have shine on those. Occurs to me all the objects are flat so angles could be messed with a bit.  Dulling spray may be gone entirely as a material. It had limitations.  There wasn’t as much ability to manipulate images as there is now so one had to manipulate the subject itself. 

[The Blackhat]

25 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Lightroom can do photoshop things.  You have dulling spray about right. Stuff was oily and could make a mess.  Needed to be cleaned up quickly.  Have to have some really good diffusion to not have shine on those. Occurs to me all the objects are flat so angles could be messed with a bit.  Dulling spray may be gone entirely as a material. It had limitations.  There wasn’t as much ability to manipulate images as there is now so one had to manipulate the subject itself. 

Yes I know LR can do PS type stuff, I just don’t use it for that. And yeah, I have a bare bulb flash shot through a circular (I forget what it’s called) beam former essentially, that shoots through two layers of diffusing plastic, then up to a white ceiling where it bounces off that onto the subject.

[The Blackhat]

Got a punching bag and some gloves and wraps.

Not my typical style.

[adarw]

6 hours ago, The Blackhat said:

Got a punching bag and some gloves and wraps.

Not my typical style.

this is awesome!!!! what are they hanging on? did you do any photoshop?

[adarw]

6 hours ago, The Blackhat said:

 

forgot to say 10/10 

ik its not that great its misty so cant get it to focus much