Another Photography Thread

[Ispriluc]

 

cloudy night at the camp site (this was taken by a friend):

 

auuuuuuuuuu!!!

[osnofian]

@NeelsK: Fantastic stuff! thanks for sharing! Your macro shots are wonderful!

 

@Sonia: I usually love your pics, and I think you have a great knack for getting B/W contrast right when you convert them. Nevertheless I think this pictures are "too busy". I love the symmetry of the last one though

 

@lovemy51: Rather nice I'm not an experienced photographer at all myself. Just keep on trying and some will come out like this! Beautiful!

[alvarez57]

 

@Sonia: I usually love your pics, and I think you have a great knack for getting B/W contrast right when you convert them. Nevertheless I think this pictures are "too busy". I love the symmetry of the last one though

 

 

Yeah, they are very busy...but I like them . I'll tone them down nevertheless. Thanks for the input!

[jon]

I'm enjoying all these new contributions (& contributors!). Sonia, I always like your stuff, but that next-to-last one is very nice! Love the Merced River picture, Neels' are great, especially that last one (and the pigeons!) So many good ones! I've slowed down some lately with staying busy elsewhere, and inside a lot for cold weather... Need to get back to it.

[alvarez57]

Mardi Gras is starting soon, so I will set up the atmosphere here in FPN

These were taken last year at the Orpheus Krewe parade. These guys are called "Flambeaux" or flame carriers. Because in the late 1800's there was still no public street lighting, these guys would carry the torchs and gas tanks that would light the parade and the floats...a pretty risky job. It is a family tradition handed down over the years.

One one picture was processed. No HDR, just handling that explosion of reds..

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6457899963_901671c5c8_b.jpg

 

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6457902447_06e9da5fb4_b.jpg

 

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6457941799_1588a04fe2_o.jpg

 

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6463296773_afdae363d0_b.jpg

 

 

Not too many ladies participate in this.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6475671751_7ebc9164a0_b.jpg

Edited January 24, 2012 by alvarez57

[Skyppere]

My dining room/writing table:

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r315/skyppere/DSC_0865-1-1.jpg

[jon]

Nice effect, Skyppere!

 

Sonia, great Mardi Gras pictures! Especially love the second & third ones. I would love to make it down there for that some year...

[NeelsK]

wowie Neels didn't think anything could energize me today! Great shots.

Me too - going to peek at you pics!

Heh, thanks

 

Can't make my mind up, so I photograph everything I haven't been as active with my photography as I would like and the rest of this year will probably be slow too. Projects, deadline, work. GRRRR.

[NeelsK]

My dining room/writing table:

 

Nice!!

[NeelsK]

No problem. Just dont ask me anything about yer HS pen

 

Promise I won't!

 

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6735139747_1d79996b1f_b.jpg

 

That is a lovely old bridge pillar. Pity it is being taken over by the new concrete stuff.

[alvarez57]

Nice effect, Skyppere!

 

Sonia, great Mardi Gras pictures! Especially love the second & third ones. I would love to make it down there for that some year...

 

There are parades for the drunk and rowdy and those for the family and kids...it depends on time and location; the closer to the FQ or the Convention Center, the drunker the people are.

 

Skyppere, love that color accent. The incident light is just gorgeous in you r shot. ha! looks like my desk on a busy day at the office .

 

Neels, any photo is welcomed here, no matter how recent or late, especially if they are good.

[ethernautrix]

WOW! I haven't checked this thread in a while. You guys rock! Neils K -- I LOVE your macro shots of flowers especially (I mean, what great shots you posted)!

 

Sonia -- Great B&Ws! I really like the color shots of the parade, too -- I love the motion in them.

 

Here's one of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco I took the other night with a Canon P&S, manual settings:

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6768382525_85f3c76fd7.jpg

Palace of Fine Arts by ethernautrix, on Flickr

[ethernautrix]

Deirdre, you got Paul McCartney in Liverpool (that must have been a [words fail me] concert)!

 

Here's SF Sketchfest's Tribute to Eddie Izzard (in conversation with Greg Proops). Greg had asked Eddie about his role as Long John Silver in Treasure Island (not yet released), and after some discussion, Eddie said that he had the trailer, but, essentially, it was useless cos it was on his phone. Greg insisted on watching it, told the audience "too bad!" The audience thought it was hilarious.

 

So here's the conversation interrupted so that Greg could watch the trailer for Treasure Island (shot in B&W, SOOC):

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6764567043_17ec34bf71.jpg

Greg Proops and Eddie Izzard by ethernautrix, on Flickr

 

P.S. This was at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre the night before last.

Edited January 27, 2012 by ethernautrix

[ethernautrix]

One not-so-natural world shot in color (the "miniaturizing" effect, a setting on the Canon P&S) of the Bixby Creek Bridge on Highway 1 (aka the Pacific Coast Highway):

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7165/6644613383_70a3c6f827.jpg

Bixby Creek Bridge by ethernautrix, on Flickr

Edited January 27, 2012 by ethernautrix

[ethernautrix]

Very nice photos here. Thought I'd share a couple of my own.

 

Flowers

 

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5097/5439507226_74591a1c70_b.jpg

Curvey Leaves by Neels Kriek, on Flickr

 

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5092/5436403657_3b2ba1e518_b.jpg

Bleached by Neels Kriek, on Flickr

 

 

 

The top one looks like an expertly drawn illustration, and the bottom one... I love the light on the tips of the stamen. Well done!

[Skyppere]

WOW! I haven't checked this thread in a while. You guys rock! Neils K -- I LOVE your macro shots of flowers especially (I mean, what great shots you posted)!

 

Sonia -- Great B&Ws! I really like the color shots of the parade, too -- I love the motion in them.

 

Here's one of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco I took the other night with a Canon P&S, manual settings:

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6768382525_85f3c76fd7.jpg

Palace of Fine Arts by ethernautrix, on Flickr

 

 

That is beautiful! It's one of my touch-stones that I visit EVERY time when I come out there. What a time that must have been for the Pan Pacific Exhibition...

skyppere

[NeelsK]

The top one looks like an expertly drawn illustration, and the bottom one... I love the light on the tips of the stamen. Well done!

 

Thanks Glad you like them. I've been doing some extreme macro for a while too. The problem is that there is just so MUCH detail that you get lost in the photos. This is probably one that I liked the most:

 

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/5438391654_3b38a219be_b.jpg

Stacked by Neels Kriek, on Flickr

 

I don't want to post the full sized version here, but you can see it on flickr. Believe it or not, that is a closeup of this:

 

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4153/5437014064_794d58c384_b.jpg

Full by Neels Kriek, on Flickr

[ethernautrix]

That is beautiful! It's one of my touch-stones that I visit EVERY time when I come out there. What a time that must have been for the Pan Pacific Exhibition...

skyppere

 

Thanks, Skip! I know what you mean about touch-stones. San Francisco is filled with them for me (probably for you as well). I would LOVE to have been at the Pan Pacific Exhibition. It's a shame this is the only structure left, but thank goodness for it!

[ethernautrix]

Thanks Glad you like them. I've been doing some extreme macro for a while too. The problem is that there is just so MUCH detail that you get lost in the photos. This is probably one that I liked the most:

 

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/5438391654_3b38a219be_b.jpg

Stacked by Neels Kriek, on Flickr

 

WOW! That is gorgeous! And the full version is lovely, too, but WOW! That is a flavor explosion for the eyes!

[alvarez57]

WOW! I haven't checked this thread in a while. You guys rock! Neils K -- I LOVE your macro shots of flowers especially (I mean, what great shots you posted)!

 

Sonia -- Great B&Ws! I really like the color shots of the parade, too -- I love the motion in them.

 

Here's one of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco I took the other night with a Canon P&S, manual settings:

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6768382525_85f3c76fd7.jpg

Palace of Fine Arts by ethernautrix, on Flickr

 

Welcome back!!!!!