Rincewind's Random Photo Thread!

Discussion in 'BOARDANIA' started by Rincewind, Aug 20, 2006.

  1. Rincewind Number One Doorman

    wicked mal. i love eye shots.
  2. Hsing Moderator

    ...that sounds awfully hurtful.
  3. Maljonic Administrator

    More waterness...

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  4. Buzzfloyd Spelling Bee

  5. KaptenKaries New Member

    I like your picture, Mal!

    I'm planning to buy a tripod this weekend. A tripod would enable me to take photos with longer exposures.

    One of the things I'd like to try out is photoing fountains and other running water with an exposure of several seconds. I've seen some pictures photographed like this and I love the almost smoke-like quality this gives to the water.
  6. Maljonic Administrator

    Get yourself a remote switch like this one too:
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    Then you'll get zero wobble when you want to manually hold open the shutter for varying lengths of time - in fact they're just good for any shots with a tripod, you sometimes can't help moving the camera a tiny bit when you press the button and using the timer is too much faffing. I had a mess around a while back with night shots, those cliché pictures with car headlights streaking alond the road, around corners etc. Everyone does it but it looks so cool if you hold the shutter open for 5 seconds or so, the cars totally disappear and you get these yellow and red laser beams along the street. :)
  7. Maljonic Administrator

    You've actually been there, do you recognise the place?
  8. KaptenKaries New Member

    Yeah that sounds like a good idea. So this is for bulk exposure, where you hit it once to open the shutter and once again to close it? You can't use the remote to change the shutter speed and then just click it once to take the photo?

    Thing is, I've done some reading on HDR imaging, and to produce HDR images with an 8-bit camera you need to take at least three different exposures of the same image. So, same ISO and aperture, but different shutter speeds.

    My camera does have auto bracketing (which rotates between -2EV, 0 and +2EV for each new picture you take) but if I want a bigger span of exposures I have to set the shutter speed manually for each of the pictures. And I suspect that when I am fiddling with the wheel to set shutter speed I'd probably rock the camera too. So a remote that can set shutter speed would be perfect.
  9. Maljonic Administrator

    It's just an alternative to the normal button really, so you don't have to touch the camera at all and so you avoid accidentally moving it when you take a picture.

    edit: to clarify sentence.
  10. Katcal I Aten't French !

    You should be able to set the shutter speed on the camera, and walk back a step or two before pressing the remote, mine works like that, once the settings are set, the next time you press the button it will apply them, and they reset every time.

    Also, if it's a reflex, make sure you hide the eyepiece when taking long-exposure night shots with a remote, as extra light can come in from the back and spoil the effect. My camera has a widget for that on the carrying strap.
  11. KaptenKaries New Member

    Ah, yes, I understood that bit. Thing is, for HDR imaging, you need several exposures of the same view. These images will later be combined into one HDR image. So, if you move the camera between these different shots you're screwed. But I guess I'll just have to be careful when changing the shutter speed.

    HDR is only one of the reasons I'm looking into getting a tripod. Regular long shutter speed images is another (the ones with the smokey water we talked about earlier). With these regular images the rocking-the-camera-while-changing-shutter-speed problem wouldn't apply.

    For those unfamiliar with HDR, it is a way of storing much more colour and light information into an image than is possible with the usual JPEG or RAW images. You could call it an über-negative. Some very expensive cameras can shoot directly in HDR, but with most cameras you need to combine three or more JPEG/RAW images into one HDR image to get the same result.

    This negative is then "developed" (called tone mapping) into a regular JPEG or TIFF so it can be viewed on a normal monitor or printed with a photo printer.

    Compare these images (normal camera images):
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    With the tone mapped HDR image, a combination of all three images:
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    Notice how the tone mapped HDR image have perfect definition in both the highlights and shadows of the image. With a JPEG or RAW, you would have had to choose to have definition in the highlights or shadows, but you probably wouldn't be able to get both. HDR images are often closer to how the human eye would see the scene than JPEG images are.

    Both of these images are taken without asking for permission from Ryan McGinnis excellent tutorial blog on HDR. I recommend a read if you're curious on HDR.

    I've never heard of this, but good tip, I will see if this applies to my camera aswell.
  12. Maljonic Administrator

    Oh I see, I think I read a Photoshop tutorial about that in a digital photography magazine.
  13. Buzzfloyd Spelling Bee

    Is it Leeds city centre?
  14. Katcal I Aten't French !

    Brace yourselves...





    We went to eat in a restaurant not far from my (now ex) office to celebrate my leaving today, and when the dessert came along, what did they give us to eat it with ?





    Yup.



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    SPORKS !!!!
  15. Maljonic Administrator

    Yes, opposite the train station.
  16. Electric_Man Templar

    I took this around the same time as my photo-comp entry, I just liked the water-distorted tree. In case anyone is worried, I was parked up at the time, rather than driving without wiping my windscreen.

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  17. Buzzfloyd Spelling Bee

  18. Electric_Man Templar

    I've just been fixing my tags and stuff and would like to say that your comment is still befuddling!
  19. Katcal I Aten't French !

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    This one could have been for the Colours competition, but it only arrived today (the badge, that is) so it'll just be to make Doors so jealous he'll DIE.
  20. Orrdos God

    I hate you.
  21. Katcal I Aten't French !

    I know... But if the badge means what I think it means, you may just like me again one day... **smiles a mysterious smile**
  22. Orrdos God

    Mysterious!
  23. Delphine New Member

    Nice picture Ben. I bet you were glad to be in a car with rain like that.
  24. Rincewind Number One Doorman

    Nice pics! What is the goeff show?


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  25. Buzzfloyd Spelling Bee

  26. Katcal I Aten't French !

    Yikes !

    The Geoff Show is an evening show on Virgin Radio, and it ROCKS.
  27. KaptenKaries New Member

    I love those snouts Ben! Dead, alive or fake pigs?

    Here's a picture of a heron I took yesterday, at a lake near my home. He was very much alive and took off a couple of seconds later.

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  28. Electric_Man Templar

    You are going to die a thousand deaths for that!
  29. OmKranti Yogi Wench

  30. Buzzfloyd Spelling Bee

    The heron, with those trees, looks almost like one of those traditional Japanese watercolours.
  31. KaptenKaries New Member

    Ooops hehe Rinso I mean, Rinso! Sorry. :)
  32. KaptenKaries New Member

    It does, now that you mention it. To continue on the Japanese theme:

    Here's a picture of a tree/shrubbery I took the same day. I'd say the tree is about five foot high if I remember correctly, but to me it is curiously shaped like a bonsai. I only saw this once Lipi pointed it out.

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  33. Roman_K New Member


    I agree. Very good photo, Kapten. :)
  34. Hsing Moderator

    Beautiful pictures!
  35. Buzzfloyd Spelling Bee

    You always take such beautiful pictures, KK.
  36. KaptenKaries New Member

    Thank you all, it warms my heart to hear you like them. :)
  37. Katcal I Aten't French !

    I usually warm a cold swede by chopping it up and throwing it in a pot of boiling water, but, hey, if compliments are your thing, KK, they are pretty pictures...
  38. Hsing Moderator

    I went through this thread and fixed the codes - in two cases though, the pictures just dissapeared after the link had been edited. It happened to one pic from Plaid, and one from Sampanna. Also, wherever there were more than four photos embedded, I had to edit the surplus ones into links because more than four - or was it five?- isn't allowed. (That includes smilies, by the way.)
  39. Rincewind Number One Doorman

    lovely pics kk!

    the snout in my photo had indeed gone to piggy heaven.
  40. Katcal I Aten't French !

    Yeah, I went through and did mine before that, the 4 pics per post is a bit annoying, but then it doesn't happen often...
  41. Hsing Moderator

    Plus, from now on, if we want to show more than four photos, we can still split posts.
    It does undermine people going hyper with the emoticons though, which is why I think it should remain that way. ;)
  42. TamyraMcG Active Member

    When I lived on Deer Lake we had a big Jackpine down by the lakeshore, one day a heron was in the tree and I ran to find my camera but I missed the chance and the heron flew away, about two days later the tree toppled into the lake! It had been such a big part of my view and all of a sudden it was just gone,never to host a heron again. It's funny how things happen like that. I have the picture in my mind still so clear like I took it and it was in my photo album but I didn't get it and I never can.

    Take as many beautiful pictures as you can, you will never regret them.
  43. Rincewind Number One Doorman

    This thread was cloe to falling off the first page. So I thought I'd bump it back with some pictures I took of a tramp.

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    So sad they'd make Phil Collins shit tears.
  44. Electric_Man Templar

    Your tramp fetish is disturbing, yet conducive to good photos.

    Some more from me:

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  45. Maljonic Administrator

    That's an ace picture of a swan with water dripping of its bill.

    I don't know why, but when I saw Rinso's first tramp picture at a glance I thought it was a gorilla.
  46. Hsing Moderator

    Rinso - I am tired of repeating myself when it comes to your pictures.

    ...so sad... I hated Phill Collins for those lyrics by the way.

    Ben, I know where you took the last pictures! It looks so much like my photos of that very elevator that I thought, "Hey! He stole one of my Prague pictures!" :pirate:
  47. Rincewind Number One Doorman

    Lovely pictures ben, swan one is classic
  48. spiky Bar Wench

    Not one of mine but this was in the SMH and I thought it was too cool not to share...

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  49. Electric_Man Templar

    You obviously pre-emptively stole my idea... Though it was a really neat elevator shaft, my more philistinian friends wondered why on earth I was taking pictures of it. N.B. The other ones were in Prague too.

    Hmm, I'm not sure whether to thank you for your praise or be nervous considering your obvious blind spot from Rinso's picture...

    I'd thank Rinso, but he smells.
  50. OmKranti Yogi Wench

    Great pictures, guys!
  51. Perdita New Member

    On the off chance Ben were you in Prague last week?

    Not wanting to sound like a stalker or anything (although I do sound a little bit weird on re- reading this post), I thought I seen someone who I thought looked like you walking through wenceslas square last week. As I had been looking at photos on this site on Monday before I left, I was seeing 'familiar' faces everywhere I went.

    Anyway, if that wasn't the case - you have a lookalike of unknown English origin wandering around Prague at the moment!

    Congratulations on the Photos by the way - I love the one of the Swan - it's really beautiful!
  52. Electric_Man Templar

    Yeah, I was in Prague from Thursday to Sunday for a stag weekend... that's real spooky that you were there too.

    What were you doing in Prague? Apart from stalking me of course...
  53. chrisjordan New Member

    Be correct, damn you!
  54. Perdita New Member

    That is a bit spooky ... I was there from Wednesday to Saturday. My family bought the trip for myself and my twin as our 30th birthday/Christmas present!

    Obviously you didn't recognise me…having never met, and because I don't have any pictures of myself on the net however the day I seen you, you were wearing a red t-shirt and had a backpack on your back, walking near the top of the square (on the right hand side if your facing the museum.....)

    Just before I pulled a pair of binoculars out from underneath my trench coat to take a better look.....

    Hah, how much like a stalker do I sound like now?

    I’ve got people watching you right now


    Chris don't annoy Ben by correcting him- he was typing his post in an different accent, attempting subterfuge and to try and throw me off his trail.



    I'd better log off now as I'll get into big trouble for loging into messageboards from work.....
  55. Electric_Man Templar

    Ok, now I'm real real spooked as I don't have a red t-shirt and the only time I was wearing a backpack was when I was in the airport and moving my things from the taxi in to/out of the hotel...

    So it seems that I am a twin too and my twin also chose that moment to go to Prague. My parents had better have some decent answers for all this...

    edit: and you're also stalking my twin, where is he now and what is his phone number?
  56. chrisjordan New Member

    And why would he need to do that in private MSN conversations with me, too? Eh? Eh?

    Ah well. I suppose Ben can look like an awful big fool if he so wishes.
  57. missy New Member

    We went to West Midlands Safari Park last week as we really needed a time out. Friday we went to see all the animals........

    Here is a bug eyed monster feeding a goat!

    (lol i love him really.)

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  58. missy New Member

    I thought a stripy horse would be fun to show you as well.

    They got rid of the monkeys but there is a Hippo that looks very much like me! The white Lions were magnificent, the white Wallabies were cute and the Sea Lions were amazing! If you are ever near Bewdley i would recommend going here, they even give you a free return pass! its so cool!

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  59. Katcal I Aten't French !

    So you finally told Dave about your goat thing eh... How did he react ? :lol:
  60. missy New Member

    He was ok, he admitted his thing for Hippo's. Just knowing he likes me (as a hippo look-a-like) has really boosted my confidence.

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