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Ok suckers, since you claim to like my craptastic honeymoon photo, how about this one, taken in the USVI over nine years ago?
Check out those 1.3 megapixels on that FinePix 1300, woo woo wee.
I dunno. I'm exhausted and perpetually behind. I want to sleep forever. I want to catch up. I want an ice cream cone.
32/365 (God, that feels like forever ago.)
Taken the same day as the previous image (weathered wooden fencing), this is the marquee and ornate facade of the historic Wheaton Grand Theater. This downtown Wheaton landmark that has definitely seen grander and more glorious days.
First opened in 1925... it's stage showcased vaudeville acts and silent movies. These days... it's referred to as an 'architectural treasure'. From what I can see... that pretty much means it's in a state of sad disrepair and prolonged neglect. And while I hear that restoration efforts are underway (from the inside out)... it's shabby chic curb appeal has become iconic... just the way it currently stands... as it whispers of it's colorful past.
Purposefully over-processed... just having fun on a Saturday afternoon! =)
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Shorncliffe, QLD. AU.
It was about 4 months ago in this very place that my addiction to photography started. My mentor asked me to join him in a dawn photoshoot session. I thought it was cool so I agreed. I almost backed out when he said we had to start driving at 4AM. "Damn", I said to myself, "he was serious."
He taught me well. Although I wasn't new to the idea of taking photos, back then, photography to me was making sure that the subject's head and feet are all in the same frame. I think I have improved a lot in such a short time. I think I can now fly on my own.
I'm still very new to serious photography. I have made lots of oversaturated and overprocessed HDR images with halos all over them I almost wanted to puke. I have thrown away hundreds of blurry photos 'coz I did not understand shutter speed. I have discarded hundreds more because I did not understand the quantity and quality of light.
Now I have grown. I have learned to appreciate the beauty of a single exposure. HDR is now a tool to circumvent the limitations of the camera. I have even grown to love film...the retro look, the grainy texture, the excitement of the surprise that come with each roll developed.
But I have a lot to learn still. I have technically outgrown my equipment. *Technically*, because my skills are not yet good enough to warrant the purchase of my dream camera and I'm sure that a true expert can produce better photos with a disposable 35mm. My style and technique are still changing at breakneck speed. Who knows that someday it may develop into something only I would appreciate.
If you have read this far, then this series is dedicated to you, my friend. Thanks for your time. I invite you to join me in this journey...Come, dream with me.
Saturday night. Exhausted from rocking out at a Rock Band party last night. No desire to lug the Nikon out of its hiding place, and I left the point-and-shoot at the party, so I shoot my 365 w/ my Blackberry and promise to over-process the shit out of it come uploading time.
Promise fulfilled!
307:365
adam alexander senior pics...all of the edits - if there is an action name in the file name it's a my four hens photography action :D
i don't like processed/overprocessed photos - but he does.
So, it turns out that it's one thing to simply find "crop circles" in the snow, and quite another to actually get legible photos of them, especially the next day after another inch or two of snow has fallen to obscure the pattern, and without a way to climb up and get a vantage point that throws them into sharper relief.
I had to mess with the levels in iPhoto to try to get some of the detail to come out, but it really didn't work — if I got anywhere close to something legible in the circle's details, the rest of the photo started looking like ghastly overprocessed HDR noise, and the colors would all fall apart as well.
Oh well, you'll have to take my word for it: some bright young person had the idea to tramp out on the frozen river here and carve a crop circle maybe 100 feet around. If they continue to maintain or expand it — we're due to get another foot of snow tomorrow, so the circle will be covered up again — I'll take another crack at getting a photo of it another time.
Last month's theme competition for the camera club was 'looking up or looking down'.
I had quite a few ideas and took quite a number of shots on varying tangents including looking up through trees, at monuments. worm's eye views through flowers, church ceilings and I even managed a shot looking down on some canoodling lovers on a beach from a cliff, but none floated my boat, as it were.
I just couldn't get out of my head the picures I'd seen in the past looking up amongst the skyscrapers of New York but where could I achieve similar? I couldn't justify the time and expense of going into London but Manchester is only an hour away so I contacted my good friend Andrew Yu, awhyu , who lives in Salford. He quicly put me right, guiding me to both Beetham Tower and to Spinningfields.
The Mrs preferred my Beetham Tower and I leaned towards Springfields so I asked Andrew and another friend Piotr, Pigon , for their opinion and the concensus was for Spinningfields. So cheers to Andrew and Piotr because I took another first place with this one.
Because it was a bright day I knew I was going to have trouble exposing for the sky and building so I set the camera on continuous shooting for bracketed exposures selecting the first exposure through Av mode. Although hand-held I managed to combine two exposures for the final photo giving it that typical, though I hope not overprocessed, hdr look.
No invites please.
Unfortunate mistake. Farmers' Market Ogden Utah Aug 27, 2022. I shot thison a great day - Kodacolor 400 from 1983. I shot it at EI 200 and then, mistakenly, thought I should adjust again in development and added 20 seconds ... ? The roll was extremely overdeveloped which was extremely disappointing because of the great shots. The negatives were impenetrable. Since I did bleach bypass I went back and washed the film, bleached with potassium ferricyanide for 8 minutes and then fixed again for 8 minutes. The negative came out much clearer, but as you can see with MUCH loss of detail and extremely flat. If my life was at stake, I guess we could say it worked, but most of the interesting stuff is gone.
However after seeing these results and some others, both mine and other folks' I think I'm arriving at with expired color film - adjust the light and compensate for age, etc. And then develop normally. We'll see what I do next.
Unfortunate mistake. Farmers' Market Ogden Utah Aug 27, 2022. I shot thison a great day - Kodacolor 400 from 1983. I shot it at EI 200 and then, mistakenly, thought I should adjust again in development and added 20 seconds ... ? The roll was extremely overdeveloped which was extremely disappointing because of the great shots. The negatives were impenetrable. Since I did bleach bypass I went back and washed the film, bleached with potassium ferricyanide for 8 minutes and then fixed again for 8 minutes. The negative came out much clearer, but as you can see with MUCH loss of detail and extremely flat. If my life was at stake, I guess we could say it worked, but most of the interesting stuff is gone.
However after seeing these results and some others, both mine and other folks' I think I'm arriving at with expired color film - adjust the light and compensate for age, etc. And then develop normally. We'll see what I do next.
Unfortunate mistake. Farmers' Market Ogden Utah Aug 27, 2022. I shot thison a great day - Kodacolor 400 from 1983. I shot it at EI 200 and then, mistakenly, thought I should adjust again in development and added 20 seconds ... ? The roll was extremely overdeveloped which was extremely disappointing because of the great shots. The negatives were impenetrable. Since I did bleach bypass I went back and washed the film, bleached with potassium ferricyanide for 8 minutes and then fixed again for 8 minutes. The negative came out much clearer, but as you can see with MUCH loss of detail and extremely flat. If my life was at stake, I guess we could say it worked, but most of the interesting stuff is gone.
However after seeing these results and some others, both mine and other folks' I think I'm arriving at with expired color film - adjust the light and compensate for age, etc. And then develop normally. We'll see what I do next.
Rollei Digibase C-41 Developer Kit
stand development for 45min @30°C
quite overprocessed, but I like the tame colors
So, it turns out that it's one thing to simply find "crop circles" in the snow, and quite another to actually get legible photos of them, especially the next day after another inch or two of snow has fallen to obscure the pattern, and without a way to climb up and get a vantage point that throws them into sharper relief.
I had to mess with the levels in iPhoto to try to get some of the detail to come out, but it really didn't work — if I got anywhere close to something legible in the circle's details, the rest of the photo started looking like ghastly overprocessed HDR noise, and the colors would all fall apart as well.
Oh well, you'll have to take my word for it: some bright young person had the idea to tramp out on the frozen river here and carve a crop circle maybe 100 feet around. If they continue to maintain or expand it — we're due to get another foot of snow tomorrow, so the circle will be covered up again — I'll take another crack at getting a photo of it another time.
Unfortunate mistake. Farmers' Market Ogden Utah Aug 27, 2022. I shot thison a great day - Kodacolor 400 from 1983. I shot it at EI 200 and then, mistakenly, thought I should adjust again in development and added 20 seconds ... ? The roll was extremely overdeveloped which was extremely disappointing because of the great shots. The negatives were impenetrable. Since I did bleach bypass I went back and washed the film, bleached with potassium ferricyanide for 8 minutes and then fixed again for 8 minutes. The negative came out much clearer, but as you can see with MUCH loss of detail and extremely flat. If my life was at stake, I guess we could say it worked, but most of the interesting stuff is gone.
However after seeing these results and some others, both mine and other folks' I think I'm arriving at with expired color film - adjust the light and compensate for age, etc. And then develop normally. We'll see what I do next.
This is completely over processed... as was, and as currently is (if that makes sense) is my brain... Like I've mentioned before, I have 1,022 photo to edit and go through from my SPain trip... 453 are from my dslr, which will be mostly for the sake of flickr... but I've still got to worry about the others as I have to put them on other sites so that my family can view them... Basically, I was editing in this photo, and thought it would be best suited for what was consuming my thoughts that day ;)
Day .24.
Taken at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Ga
I was going for a more complex version of the abstract compositional form that I have been working out, the first two are pretty straightforward, one a highly overprocessed image of a concrete retaining wall, the other a faily straghtforward shot of a bit of the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis. With this one I tried to fit the curved elvements (there are almost no straight lines in this image) harmoniously in the compositional space, with very basic colors. The rotation of this image was tough to get where I wanted it. None of my compositional works have been all that popular, I guess they are very minimal and difficult to grasp, though they do look good as thumbs.
We dubbed this one the 'Tractor Tire Galaxy', because it's easy to overprocess this image and make the galaxy look like a tractor tire.
A little series of Dogwood blooms. The flowers are the yellowy greeny bits in the centre. The white "petals" are actually bracts. I love dogwood. Our Darling Daughter "saved " them for us so we could see them on our recent trip to visit her. The Redbuds were still pretty too but too high up for me to photograph easily! These are perhaps a BIT overprocessed but I was doing them so I could try to paint some and wanted to really see details. Anyway, enjoy a touch of the southland! We had a BALL with our babes but a WRETCHED drive home in a blizzard ALL the way home- 1280 km - one way! We were on the road 18 hours yesterday. Today...!!!!!
1. taste of tea, 2. Violista II, 3. Untitled, 4. typhoon is hitting town, 5. time to go, 6. Три сестры, 7. Untitled, 8. Untitled, 9. Only, speak, 10. Last Dance, 11. non-futab babies, 12. Put On Your Dancing Shoes, 13. break time, 14. Untitled, 15. Afternoon, 16. Syrupy Goodness From My Uncle's Tree, 17. dtl, 18. wishing for you, 19. True Love (13/365), 20. Untitled, 21. Sweet little things dancing to the wind, 22. Front door., 23. is it love?, 24. V-Dub, 25. 000007, 26. waiting for lunch, 27. let me build a bridge, 28. a bunch of dogs, 29. Untitled, 30. Outside Tosca's, 31. Cindy, 32. Bus shooting, 33. Day 240 - Lost in Transylvania, 34. Bar glow, 35. #356 / new ears, 36. Overprocessed
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I'm going to get you this time :-) !!
Yes,I know I missed part of his wing tips.But with how fast these guys come at you,the zooming in and out as fast as you can and people in your way,you can't always get the perfect shot...but it sure was a memorable one for me.
This is the reason I call my group Not So Picture Perfect...it doesn't have to be perfect,just in good taste,half decent would help,and not so overprocessed that you are not quite sure what you are looking at. And that is why I started the group in the first place...for photographers of all kind to be able to show their pics just for the enjoyment they had in taking them and hopefully others will see that and if they don't and are more critical rather then saying...good job or nice shot....that is a pity for them.We amatuer photographers are in this for the pure pleasure of taking the type of pics that we like.And another reason I started it was to be able to enjoy the type of pics that I like to see..and boy,have I been lucky with the wonderful photos that the group members do take,whether perfect or not .Just good taste is all I ask for and that you,above anyone else,are satisfied with the shot you got and say,"Well,the next time I will do it a different way to get a better shot".
This is the best place to learn about photography and how to improve. I love my Flickr Friends,you all make this journey through pictures so much fun !!!
SLIDER SATURDAY 9/52
There are times that I find extensive post processing evokes a very different feel or mood from an image and sometimes I like the result.
Being more of a purist with photography, I seldom post these overprocessed images but I decided for 2012, I would post those images on what I have termed "Slider Saturday". These will be images that I have extensively moved the sliders in post processing.
A Spirit Airlines Airbus A319 on final to Chicago's O'hare International Airport. A bit overprocessed in HDR. It's just like SXM, but 3x HIGHER!!
So, it turns out that it's one thing to simply find "crop circles" in the snow, and quite another to actually get legible photos of them, especially the next day after another inch or two of snow has fallen to obscure the pattern, and without a way to climb up and get a vantage point that throws them into sharper relief.
I had to mess with the levels in iPhoto to try to get some of the detail to come out, but it really didn't work — if I got anywhere close to something legible in the circle's details, the rest of the photo started looking like ghastly overprocessed HDR noise, and the colors would all fall apart as well.
Oh well, you'll have to take my word for it: some bright young person had the idea to tramp out on the frozen river here and carve a crop circle maybe 100 feet around. If they continue to maintain or expand it — we're due to get another foot of snow tomorrow, so the circle will be covered up again — I'll take another crack at getting a photo of it another time.