Flickr.com 2: Who's in again?

I continue with my love of blue sky and new buildings...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1041/966355944_cbdbbb7b39.jpg

I'm still in!
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1287/764477196_bcb0937e76.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1044/830649873_8ac97ceec3.jpg

I'm still in too - please look at my photos!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1112/954215949_fbc1f376d1.jpg

The rest of my pics

In as ever.

here is my current most interesting photo!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allyzay/519252754/

That is pretty fantastic.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1140/612527605_824c3fdf69.jpg

Here's mine.

Mine's still this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/190259131_e706848ca9.jpg

Most viewed:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/168025418_711122ae83.jpg

Most interesting?:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/78/168025506_a41f357fb7.jpg

Curious George in 1-18-08

wow jaq i love those

Wish I could remember the name of the hotel where we were standing on the balcony for those :(

the hotel NEW YORK.

slocki, I am seriously embarrassed if that is true :) Thanksgiving, 2001 btw

jk

oh unsurprisingly my most viewed is a picture of me and a friend of mine's boobs. my second most viewed is me and another friend of mine's boobs. my third most viewed:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allyzay/530720293/"; title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1089/530720293_70ba45d3c9.jpg"; width="500" height="380" alt="fountains" /></a>

oh whoops

i suck at this ilx game btw

my most commented on picture:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/215/470600712_60a8f614be.jpg

to hit all of the bases (maybe i will do this one correctly)

I seem to have forgotten how you find out what is your most viewed/interesting...

i haven't taken many pictures to be proud of this summer, but i got tons in berlin in the spring. one of my recent faves:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/507811895_3b9d59a6de.jpg

i stuck all my best europe pictures over on a net art thread, Europe (a picture thread) that a few people saw.

to get most favorited/most viewed/most interesting etc you have to go to your photos, then from the submenu across the top, click "popular"

Thanks!
My most favourited and interesting one is a postcard I found in a junk shop...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/482756230_dcdfeab5d3.jpg

Most interesting:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/251/448433390_1bf99298d7.jpg

A recent one I like (taken with a manual Zeiss telephoto through a train window - which accounts for the crazy banded, er, bokeh - and a shallow S-curve in Photoshop for a little contrast hit)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1327/964123474_0db14579ac.jpg

Most viewed is still Pam's Gocco prints for a friend's wedding - 400+ views. People go crazy for the Japanese printing machine.

This is MY favourite phot wot i've taken and to hell with everyone else. It did make the flickr explore page though.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/506524818_76db64329a.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedtrifle/506524818/

Actually I like this one as well - I rally do like blue skies, a few clouds and (on this one) portland stone. It's a great combination.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1255/863586161_492b9596ce.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedtrifle/863586161/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1422/860075122_6ffe0ff4c1.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1241/853212757_b75c46f645.jpg

wo

Those photos are all really cool. Damn.

This is my favourite of the ones I've taken lately.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1006/876251331_90ffb9ec0a.jpg

I've no idea what possessed the woman - who in their right mind goes swimming in the Firth of Forth?

DEAR MIKE, PLEASE TELL ME WHAT AN S CURVE IS COS YOU KEEP MENTIONING IT AND I R DUMB THX

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1215/977730269_f20ca1ea34.jpg

Mark C: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/photoshop-curves.htm

That's an amazing shot, treefell.

question:

if someone adds you as a contact, they can't see your "friends-only" pictures can they?

how does that work?

Stevie

You guys are making me jealous with all your beautiful pictures! I shot forty-two rolls of 35mm while traveling this summer and can't bombard ILX with anything until my new film scanner arrives... grumble grumble...

http://flickr.com/photos/15808250@N00/663585771/
http://flickr.com/photos/15808250@N00/518685760/http://flickr.com/photos/15808250@N00/494168307/

These 3 were in explore!

:(

http://flickr.com/photos/15808250@N00/518685760/

http://flickr.com/photos/15808250@N00/494168307/

http://flickr.com/photos/iiiijjjj/

WAU @ REPTILE MUSEUM

thx

most interesting:
<img src=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/230/477638627_21a9dcb747.jpg>;

most viewed:
<img src=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/300978566_f6e330fde3.jpg>;
(bc jon posted on his blog)

do you guys find that you lose a lot of color when uploading to flickr?

most interesting:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/230/477638627_21a9dcb747.jpg

most viewed:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/300978566_f6e330fde3.jpg
(bc jon posted on his blog)

do you guys find that you lose a lot of color when uploading to flickr?

damn, i caught the not-bbc code halfway through the posting :(

do you guys find that you lose a lot of color when uploading to flickr?

It's web color vs. "real" color so yeah, that happens.

oic. not really a photog or webby person. is there a way to compensate in editing so that when you upload to web it will look approximately like it does when you first import? that is probably for another thread...

Eh? web colour is just an outdated guideline for website colour schemes. There shouldn't be any colour loss when uploading to flickr. xpost...

Is there not color compression anymore?

Well gifs are still around and they're limited to 256 colours, but photos are jpgs which don't have that limitation.

I presume flickr recompresses the photos when it resizes, which would lead to a slight drop in quality, but not one that I can make out, and certainly not one that would particularly affect the colours.

This is my most interesting, and it's just as colourful as the version on my hard drive:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/334444469_1e84a793fd.jpg

<i>Well gifs are still around and they're limited to 256 colours, but photos are jpgs which don't have that limitation.</i>

Word.

<i>I presume flickr recompresses the photos when it resizes, which would lead to a slight drop in quality, but not one that I can make out, and certainly not one that would particularly affect the colours.</i>

Compression would affect the density of the image which could allow for some quality loss. Since Flickr is also an archive site, any compression would be for display purposes only...

i find the same thing uploading pics to say, myspace, or any other picture sharing site. for instance, that cherry blossom pic was much pinker in my photo viewer than online. i even looked at it at work to make sure it wasn't just my computer screen playing tricks on me, and it seemed faded there. hmm.

Hope I was patronising enough for ya there Jimmy.

xpost - That's INEXPLICABLE. hmm.

Always in!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/962293204_49da891cdd.jpg

dudes i've had the same thing and my feeling now is that it is FIREFOX not FLICKR what conks out your colours.

hmmmmm. fwiw work browser is ie.

macs?

My most favourited and most 'interesting' photos aren't very good.

However, this is one of my favourite photos I've taken in the last couple of months.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1168/824705329_8235860dc8.jpg

i like this one that i took today the best of the batch
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1038/980867715_594893c777.jpg

but i have a feeling this will be more popular
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1249/981676620_309bfded95.jpg

Still there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/

For some reason my most interesting and favorited photo is my picture for the "What's In Your Bag" pool:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/411771479_101c2ecd38.jpg

#2 is the alien autopsy exhibit at the Roswell UFO museum:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/34729601_9664185261.jpg

i find the same thing uploading pics to say, myspace, or any other picture sharing site. for instance, that cherry blossom pic was much pinker in my photo viewer than online. i even looked at it at work to make sure it wasn't just my computer screen playing tricks on me, and it seemed faded there. hmm.

sRGB vs AdobeRGB? Browser settings?

I use Firefox at home, IE6 at work and I don't see any difference in colours between something in Image Viewer/Photoshop/Gimp and its Flickr version. I do, unfortunately, have to use 16-bit colour a lot of the time at work (some of my video apps don't run in 24-bit) so have to put up with bad artefacting on JPEGs.

On a related note, what about changing colour space for printing purposes? Recommended? The same JPEGs I upload to Flickr, I upload to Photobox for prints and they look OK, I guess. Darker, inevitably - sometimes oversaturated too. I just wonder, aside from brightening everything, is there any step I could be taking to render my image better for paper?

Me too

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/508032664_f297c463dc.jpg

Here's an interesting article on Colo(ur) Management and most browsers' lack of it:

http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page2/

(In IE6 at work, all the images the author has embedded with the Color Space Profile look wildly different - which means IE6 has no colour management at all).

Ha, (u) not (ur). Ur-color.

Very germane bit on page 3 of the above article:

It's a common refrain on photography forums: “My image's colors look washed out on the web.” Invariably, this is because their camera was set to use the Adobe RGB color space, and they blindly put the images on the web. However, it's only because they also viewed the images with a Color Smart application like Photoshop that they later noticed the washed-out effects viewing in the browser.

Ok, I'll shut up about this now.

My most recent upload:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1062/984184550_48f87c5926.jpg
homepage

Great link! Bookmarked so I can check it out when I have some free time. xpost.

(Colleague in GFX dept here was able to see those embedded-profile images as intended with Safari on his Mac, btw.)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1128/945215588_447900ace3.jpg

My photos are mainly crap, but I was wondering how many people here use photoshop as a matter of course to brighten up their photos? I very rarely get shots that are as nice and bright and sharp as most of the ones upthread - is that purely a trait of my unutterable shitness? (It may also have to do with the fact that I normally take photos of people inside, rather than inanimate objects outside, but ignore that for the moment.)

I edit pretty much everything I show the outside world with photoshop.

Who is HOTT grrl/Ragged Robin in emil.y pic? Enquiring minds want to know.

question:

if someone adds you as a contact, they can't see your "friends-only" pictures can they?

how does that work?

Stevie

-- Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 22:29 (Yesterday) Link

I think only you can make someone a friend?

(xpost) Doesn't photoshop cost hundreds of pounds? I'd love to use it. I can edit things a bit with the software that came with the camera, but usually I don't bother (apart from cropping). When I do edit, I normally go overboard and just massively bung up the contrast and saturation so that the pictures don't look remotely realistic:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/401827435_7bd0a87429_m.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/466485765_59a1592b1b_m.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/194/488111042_d8cf6e1c92_m.jpg

Who is HOTT grrl/Ragged Robin in emil.y pic? Enquiring minds want to know.

The band is the Bobby McGees. The girl is called Eleanor.

Photoshop is, er, free if you know the right people...

Photoshop Elements 3.0 was free with my camera (which, considering it was secondhand on eBay, was rather nice of the vendor to include). Initially I used to mess with brightness and contrast until I discovered the power of Levels (you see a histogram of all the RGB values in the pic and drag/click to redistribute them so that the brightest pixel is white and the darkest is black; you can also move the midpoint). Now, thanks to Stet, I'm playing with Curves (see my link upthread); a much more powerful tool which can redistribute contrast more subtly than Levels and can operate in different colour spaces.

I don't really play with masks or layers or try to alter the content of photos - I just fix the RGB distribution for richer contrast. It's not cheating, it's just like darkroom processing really.

Oh, and I think that pic's pretty good, emil.y.

Heh, it's one of the few that I'm happy with. I've only just started playing around with the setting on my camera (was always just 'auto, flash, click' until I realised how rubbish and annoying that was, especially for small, quiet gigs), so I guess I shouldn't be too frustrated, but I want to get better...

from previous thread,

IR filter or Red 25 Filter?

an IR filter, one of those Kood R72 filters.

so i have photoshop but have never been able to sort out how to make it USEFUL. should i just be messing around with it, or is there something that anyone recommends i read?

my flickr

Things I use a lot:

Curves (for contrast adjustments)
Colour Balance
Shadows/Highlights
Hue/Saturation (saturation part mostly just to dilute my colours)
Canvas Size - to add borders/simple frames

I bought this book when I upgraded to a DSLR and CS2.
I only use a fraction of the techniques in it with most photos, but it really opened my eyes to the power of what you could do with digital photos in photoshop. Not cheap though.

i don't own photoshop

Free alternatives to Photoshop:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.NET

Gimp takes an age to load on my work PC, mind.

i use levels more than curves.

The free Curves plug-in I downloaded for Photoshop Elements is actually a bit more useful than Curves in Photoshop 7 in that it shows a "live" histogram as you fiddle with the curve (I imagine PS CSx versions do this). If there's unused dynamic range I drag the top/bottom point in to expand the histogram (akin to an AutoLevels adjustment) before I get curvy. Curves in LAB mode rather than RGB produces interesting results too - good if you want to avoid oversaturated colour tones accompanying your contrast changes.

In Gimp 2.2, Curves shows the original histogram but doesn't update it as you change the slope.

Mike, I read that link but seriously, if you can explain in words of one or fewer syllables I'd be very grateful.

I don't use Photoshop on my photos at all! (I have it, I should note.) Or any other graphics programs. I know there's more I can/should do but I tend to believe in the point/click approach, and my colors generally turn out pretty great.

oh, and the 'crop' tool is useful.

ALLY WHERES YR PIC OF MORBS GOING ALL "YAY" ?

Yeah, I thought all my pictures looked fine until one day I processed a slightly washed-out pic with AutoLevels and I was hooked from that point on...

jhosh, that's jimmy the mod's picture!
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgin/780657469/";><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1235/780657469_b2327ea07c.jpg";></a> -- from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/richardgin/";>richardgin.org</a> - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/topic/66672/";>(?)</a>

oh fuck me
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1235/780657469_b2327ea07c.jpg -- from richardgin.org - (?)

thx ally! thx jimmy!

i'm in like flynn.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/420749391_fe0315b8a1_o.jpg

in ur wondering: where is dr morbius?

I just stumbled on this set explaining what this fellow does to get to his finished photo. I think his photos are amazing but what a lot of faffing about!

I photoshop the living shit out of everything and usually use selective colour to get the looks i want.

my attempt at wildlife photography this weekend

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1311/990469694_fe84309092.jpg

let me say i have almost 50 photos of blanks stretches of water, trying to capture that sucker

I don't have much up yet, but this was one of my better ones. No color change on this, btw -- right out of the camera like this.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1050/990287347_032ee51733.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1220/753120882_b4cbb9d803.jpg

Crappy holiday photos ahoy!
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1321/1018762913_47dce9c3d1.jpg

I almost never use Photoshop just because I'm too lazy. It takes me an hour or two to do a picture the way I like it, and that's too much like work. When it is work, I'm all about curves and wildly feathered selections.

so i have photoshop but have never been able to sort out how to make it USEFUL. should i just be messing around with it, or is there something that anyone recommends i read?

Curves/Hue/ColorBalance/Contrast/Sharpen(sometimes) seem to be the p-shop options I use the most for my Flickr pics. Sometimes I'll throw in the shadow/highlight option if something is totally dark; otherwise, curves does a good job brightening things up. Sometimes I take a look at my finished product and think, "You fucking dolt you didn't need to spend twenty minutes adjusting the curves-- you've washed it the fuck out." Eh.

Here are a few from mine (some of the pics in this thead are fucking great, btw-- they make me wish that I'd take more non-people pics).

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1306/542614568_ff7c36dba0.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1282/616256623_2aa60855a3.jpg?v=0

fer ser-- that s1ocki pic, near the top, is *really* amazing.

wau @ teeth things

Par-for-course for the 2007 Mermaid Parade @ Coney Island, which *had* to be the most photographed event in NYC this year. I swear some people had three cameras on them.

Yeah it's usually pretty gross @ coney island...

auto-contrast is all i use on my photos now, most of the time. wish the camera would just do this itself.

I've got a pretty crappy camera, so I usually do some levels work, auto-color, and use the shadow and highlight tool to bring out some details.

This little moth was so big I thought it was a hummingbird. My wife got a REALLY good picture with her camera, but this was the best I could do:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1205/1022423143_83f490eb0e.jpg?v=0

Does shadow/highlight work well w/ well-lit pics? I've only used it on the darker pics b/c the don't have enough definition. Plus, you have to push the levels way back-- pshop tends to give you a big gray mess if you don't.

+ do people have a lot of luck w/ the "auto" pshop features?f I've always assumed that they don't do the job, but I could def be wrong.

Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. you'll know right away which one it is!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1132/1020109419_5383af9d55.jpg

^^^ Skylark breeding grounds with Pen Ponds in the background, Richmond Park

You guys are making me jealous with all your beautiful pictures! I shot forty-two rolls of 35mm while traveling this summer and can't bombard ILX with anything until my new film scanner arrives... grumble grumble...

Bombard away, Doc - your new Flickr sets are a wonder.

mine are all shit.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1097/1038666965_76be26d30b.jpg

Mark C, that reminds me of a CD cover I like:

http://www.steadycamrecords.com.au/mapinhand12ksml.jpg

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/IMG_0102_opt_webready.jpg

S-, I reckon it also looks a bit like this one:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/413TR7M9KQL._AA240_.jpg

Most interesting:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/45622244_9cc3a9ffdc.jpg

Most viewed (why my friend Rebecca's office, I have no idea):
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/25034417_110f279255.jpg

Bombard away, Doc - your new Flickr sets are a wonder.

Thanks! I'm already bombarding the "10+ architects" thread with the bulk of that stuff - but here's a couple of non-architecture things I'm pleased with:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1267/1094812943_c6a1cca475.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1322/1054540844_4c735bfcb0.jpg

http://%0Ahttp%3A//farm2.static.flickr.com/1091/1035381400_6f6d27f2f4.jpg

All three taken with my little Olympus point-and-shoot, which I always keep in a pocket somewhere for times when the SLR isn't handy or just wouldn't do. I like 'em, anyhow!

ha, all "three" should have been a warning to me. Take two:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1091/1035381400_6f6d27f2f4.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1186/1102086513_8dd0f0a6a2.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1186/1102086513_8dd0f0a6a2_b.jpg

Sorry!!!

i got my first 'we like your picture, please consider adding it to...' yesterday, not because it was any good but because it was green. is it rude to delete awards you don't want?

nice pic, Ste. a swallow? get lots of swifts around here, impossible to photograph though.

are you kidding me? it's probably the rudest thing anyone could ever do. don't do it (unless you want to go to hell)

Just add a comment that says "leave me alone freako and take your own fucking pictures, you leech".

Thanks koogs, actually i'm not sure if it's a swallow or a swift. the ones at our local farm are swallows but this was somewhere different. I just thought they were the same ones.

yeah i got one of those messages today on my wonder wheel pic, they wanted to add it to the group Warriors 79. I always oblige tho.

There's nasty banding/fake corona effects in this and some other of my sunset shots. Anyone know if it's a problem with the camera (or rather, my use of it), or something fixable in photoshop, or even if it's just a monitor issue (i have an lcd, the problem is esepcially visible if you view from the side).

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1022/1102662915_a1d71248f3.jpg

oops i mean

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1022/1102662915_a1d71248f3.jpg

i can see some dithering/bandinb problems from here but i know for a fact its just this crappy lcd monitor screen. i'll look at it when i get home to a decent monitor

swifts are black and black, longer wings than tail, scmitars in the sky. swallows have white stomachs and red chins (which you can just about see) and longer streamers.

Possibly your graphics setting, ledge. I just changed mine from 16bit to 32bit (I have to stay in 16bit for some of my work applications to function) and the banding disappeared from the above image. I'm only using a crappy Dell LCD monitor myself.

nah I'm on 32 bit. I just tried messing with adobe gamma but quickly realised that's pretty much useless for lcds (or for mine anyway). Maybe my monitor's just poor :(

It might just be your monitor. That looks OK on this CRT -- the sun is burnt out, but there isn't the bad banding.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1205/1101119838_e784463b3a.jpg

I haven't taken a good photo in ages.

No banding on my screen either, ledge - take heart!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1286/1116755611_05044d7b67.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1313/1120355917_10026e413d_o.jpg

Tucson is bananas in terms of shady motels.

Wood robot is great, Kerm - is that your work or someone else's?

Thank you, he's mine. I made him yesterday.

whoa i just switched to 32 bit too and the banding vanished

how long have i been living this mediocre screen resolution life?!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1096/1116664942_e297c1a213.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1264/1122385462_45a357a520.jpg

this was a 4 second exposure and i'm just astounded the cat sat through it

Cats love staring contests.

Though that's still rather amazing.

Love the pic Kerm! here's a recent couple i'm really proud of:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1298/1120591922_bc168e155f.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1439/1110120644_af21e674e2.jpg

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgin/1129560154/"; title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1275/1129560154_8920d45dd8_o.jpg"; width="800" height="533" alt="Sphinx Course, Hole 5 (Monkey), Tucson, AZ" /></a>

THERE ARE MORE

;_;

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1275/1129560154_8920d45dd8_o.jpg

THERE ARE MORE

more of my wildlife attempts today. I photographed this fella tonight, but he was sitting next to me fishing yesterday. I recognised him because of his gammy leg.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1339/1140213959_583b0555d9.jpg

I'm back:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1060/1151558464_3c44a9787d.jpg

I like this one as well, mainly for the roadmap on the dude's forehead:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1271/1151581292_3443a02b33.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/groups/25views/pool/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/10_views/pool/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/0-25/pool/

groups for any images that have less than a certain number of views.

why?

Because there aren't enough groups on flickr?

Ned R has taken some great car shots for something that appears to be happening in Carmel. Check 'em out

I guess it's this. Looks great.

Yeah, if all the classic car people could help me out with those -- I wasn't about to take a running list of what car was what, but I'm sure more than a few people there were.

And yes, that's the event in question. Home page here:

Concours d'Elegance

I think my favorite absurd car was this one -- yes, that's a gold-plated Rolls, and yes it was previously owned by 'an Arab sheik,' so it was said:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1011/1193402556_11b2f5376c.jpg

7631 is a rolls royce 8) don't know what flavour though. or that one (xpost)

got a ticket in carmel once, for being 6" over front of parking bay.

Koogs, you criminal.

My favorite overall had to be this -- a Henriod (I gather), a Swiss car from something like 1896:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1382/1193462116_bc2186b16d.jpg

Still working just fine -- its owner drove it down the street later on in the afternoon, to general applause. (All cars formally registered at the Concours have to actually work, no shells or museum pieces allowed.) Here's a close-up of its maker logo:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1040/1193469812_7642cb37f1.jpg

I particularly liked this interior...
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1192661589&size=m&context=set-72157601588786711
Does it match one of the exterior shots? It's cute.

Oh I guess I can't do that...
Try again...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1290/1192661589_9c81f5389d.jpg

Yeah, all the interiors had exterior shots, but for whatever reason Flickr seems to not load up sets chronologically anymore. Let me try and reorganize it.

Ah, that was easy enough. Okay, at this point you should be able to associate all exteriors and interiors via browsing the main set page.

What the hell, a bit of show-and-tell -- this first shot is my dad having just noticed what I gather is a Jag from 56 or so. See, he owned just such a car, but had to sell it back in the late sixties when he was reassigned from Hawaii to the mainland (held onto the green Porsche, though, which I remember from my youth -- cool car):

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1014/1192429291_7b8af0ec0f.jpg

And in this shot that's my dad and my mom, who said something about how of her two suitors at the time in the mid-sixties my dad had the far cooler car. (I have no idea what gesture my dad is making.)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1380/1193300034_07b317068f.jpg

Terrific cars, and the California sunshine shows 'em off beautifully.

Yeah, we were lucky there -- Carmel in summer is notorious for the fog, since it's right on the coast (obv.) and the heat inland almost always drags in the marine layer. But the whole time I was there it was just clear skies and warm but not stifling heat, a perfect balance.

And handily enough, here's more about that Henriod -- from 1897, it turns out.

Well, if we're doing cars...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1224/1173774005_2c87d3c6d4.jpg

Overturned, having had a run-in with a PMC 1800 Pininfarina:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1440/1174622788_b0b3690644.jpg

Fiat 1500 escapes the copper kettle that did for the Lamborghini Miura...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1015/1174643438_88f379ca53.jpg

Gah, BMC, sorry. Due to be smashed into a wooden train tomorrow, I expect. Or crushed by a leopardskin Mini that's inexplicably three times its size.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1255/1199839982_c7003f0527.jpg

The old "shooting out the window of a moving vehicle" game, but I think I got good returns on this one.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/495864408_fdb349aba2.jpg

talking of 'shooting out the window of...', I'm quite happy with this one.

(i was only a passenger, occifer)

(grey herring on the pond this morning. weather and lack of 10x zoom means that picture won't be half as good as the above but we will see)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1437/1201860692_5c64c37646.jpg

Okay, this is kinda nuts -- thanks to Elvis's identification of the car in this photo I took during vacation (and my attendant update of title and tags -- it's a 1961 or 1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder):

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1300/1192584593_64ad92487c.jpg

This single shot has immediately become my most-viewed photo period, at last count 577, beating out the previous holder, this shot of Corin from Sleater-Kinney, three to one:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/41081867_d7bc6a0f8b.jpg

Is there some Spyder cult out there I don't know about?

You've never heard of the tifosi?

I have now.

Well, it's an f-ing gorgeous car.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/guymauve/751588613/"; title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1110/751588613_c3b53543d6.jpg"; width="500" height="375" alt="Johnny Ramone, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles" /></a>

Dan I. lives in the beginning of 28 Weeks Later (well, not the very beginning).

Forget cropping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SSu3tJ3ns
How long till Photoshop gets this?

that is verrry interesting!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/london-alt/

"There are several existing London Flickr photo groups but none of them, as far as I can tell, specialise in the darker, less glamorous side of the city."

"NO SULTAN'S ELEPHANT PICS."

(not a recommendation, necessarily)

oh, wait: http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainzep/1196118265/in/pool-london-alt/

Forget cropping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SSu3tJ3ns
How long till Photoshop gets this?

Can I vote "never"? Please? The idea that it's preferable to display a stretched-out, distorted, crunched, cropped version of an image instead of the actual composition, however scaled, is really unpleasant to me even as an amateur photographer.

Ha ha yeah I was watching it and my "creative" side was going "horreur!" but then they went into the tech details and my geek side went all "wow cool!".

I did a search for "Sigma" groups on Flickr yesterday (just to get a feel for what people think of this much-maligned [but very widely-bought] lens manufacturer, and see some results, obv) and ran smack into the strange world of US college fraternities/sororities...

this first shot is my dad having just noticed what I gather is a Jag from 56 or so

Forgot to ID that one. It's a 1956 Austin-Healey 100-4

I use that london-alt one (as you can tell from my cheap booze pic). Another good one is the 'guess where london' group. I take more photos of London tower blocks than is strictly sensible.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1357/1242296181_865bf4710b.jpg

Few more:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1223/1242231691_cf49626e1a.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1277/1243105300_7df28b9ae1.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1419/1242217879_aefbe1ff02.jpg

New Group: http://flickr.com/groups/transporticons/

I'm liking bridges, critters and Scotland (my photography leaves much to be desired)

http://flickr.com/photos/rumpie

Here's my lot!

Tenerife AND Morar - 2 of my favourite places Rumpie!
(esp. Tenerife which is much maligned imho)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1324/1313668362_6ff50c3215.jpg

Nice. I could do with a cheap-ish EOS film SLR, if only for the lens(es) that might come with... Is that a short Sigma zoom on there?

I think I should only post pictures taken out of (or of) train windows on this thread.

Stuck at signal just north of Watford Junction (Zeiss 135mm telephoto, f/3.5, ISO400, 1/400sec):

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1055/1314617749_99fd2dd243.jpg

The window itself (cheap Chinese extension tubes, 50mm, f/1.8 [no actual control over aperture with the tubes on], ISO400, 1/320sec):

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1379/1315487858_8b056e1c28.jpg

Ok, I am clearly an idiot this morning. What do I have to do to the link from flickr to post it here? I've tried to convert it as per the below formatting tags but it keeps complaining about spaces. :-(

Click the "Convert simple HTML" button. (I assume you're using the link Flickr gives you under All Sizes, Option 1?)

hey MJ - yes, lens came with camera, £50 for the lot. it's a sigma 24-70 iirc but when i stuck it on my DSLR it was like "NO WAI WTF ERROR 99" :(

It's a nice, heavy-duty lens though, and although the EOS750 really, really basic (program mode, DEP mode, OFF mode. flash is AUTO or OFF) but i'm addicted to putting Ilford Super 400 in it because it gives awesome results.

Yes I was Michael. This is a sign I found at the weekend.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1295/1323838850_23a4a6c2ed.jpg

My photos

Aw, that's a shame about the noncompatibility between the 350D and the Sigma; they do say there are some issues with third-party EF lenses. Maybe some smart person with time on their hands has bunged together a compatibility table somewhere on the web.

I was kinda hoping to pick up a Sigma EF for cheap (people aren't daft; no one is flogging their 1980s-90s EOS film camera on eBay with a kit-bag of Canon L-series [or even mid-range] glass for coppers; sub-Canon glass, maybe).

xp... yay, cheasyweasel.

Yeah Ned, everyone assumes we want to go to Tenerife for the 'nightlife' which couldn't be further from the truth. Why booze all night when you need to be up first thing to explore the interior?

I love the Canarians although my pidjin Spanish doesn't work on them as well as I'd like!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1043/1330724801_f538c44c4d.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1307/1327403208_6fa49c1045.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgin/1331786995/

HAY GUIZE I WENT TO SWEDEN

can meerkats have flickr accounts?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/09/05/m3.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/05/nmeer105.xml

Some discrepancy between the Metro/Telegraph stories saying they were digital pics and the above EOS 650 film SLR. I guess the meerkats fancied making some slides next. And the photos are rubbish. Get 1 x Photoshop, meerkats.

well aren't yall the photographers!! ;)

'Course, what I really want to post on this thread is a photo of a particular ILXor, taken in Greenwich Park in June, but it's not a public pic, so I really shouldn't. At least with my kids I've got a few years before they divorce me for being so indiscreet.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1138/1337416131_db1e1f5778.jpg

I don't know how I deleted my account, but I did - this is the new one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunaceee/

Why do I always walk around with a camera full of pictures instead of just uploading them already?

I call this one "I hate you"
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedtrifle/1360267510/"; title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1198/1360267510_d42da96079.jpg"; width="500" height="375" alt="I hate you" /></a>

oops...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1198/1360267510_d42da96079.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgin/

Some fashion week stuff up.

I got a new lens, yay

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1069/1296050586_a393c58f89.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1225/1296068552_76e3c6ce55.jpg

from The Spiral Jetty

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1339/1280783077_349ca474f4.jpg

For some reason I had assumed that he Spiral Jetty had gone or been dismantled or something, although I guess being where it is it'll be there for pretty much ever though. Cool.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1044/1366257717_19490acfd1.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1201/1381115871_b3e67487f0.jpg

most interesting
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1076/877602788_7add083588.jpg
most favorites
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1082/697072482_f365787ee0.jpg
second most comments as first is same as most interesting
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1414/906531222_34e1789c68.jpg

my sets
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68179053@N00/sets/

who cares about dumb flowers moistened with stupid dew

oh dear, someone's grumpy.
what would you prefer to see iiiijjjjj?

Insane Clown Posse action shots (live shots where they have the microphones and are rapping on stage)

i'll get back to you on that one...

loving that last one goodwin

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1395222809_5ae6072dec.jpg
Wot?!

akira?

i was taking some long exposure shots at the sunny weekend, for infrared stuff. But on some pics i'm getting a big build up of excessive light in the middle of the photos. It's as if light is leaking in from somewhere

anyone any ideas? we're talking about 15 secs exposure.

Great stuff, not_goodwin.

Ste: the excessive light thing - are you using an older non-multi-coated lens on a digital body? I've heard tales of this sort of thing happening with pre-digital era lenses (though most of them are fine for D-SLR use, this might be one application where the sensor gives weird results).

i think its a pretty modern lens, a nikon 18-55 bought new recently type thing.

you can see it slightly on this pic;
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1037/1386579126_3222202510.jpg

(the outer vignetting was post-processing in photoshop btw)

Oh, I dunno then. Looks like the sort of fogging on film that you'd expect from a punctured shutter curtain. Not that there's any analogue for that in digital photography.

Tell me about yr IR experiments, Ste! Filters? I assume the Nikon sensor happily goes out to IR/NIR wavelengths, so no need to fiddle with the body or anything?

> I assume the Nikon sensor happily goes out to IR/NIR wavelengths, so no need to fiddle with the body or anything?

take photo of the business end of one remote control. (it's a suggested solution for various tivo troubles - remote not working or there's another remote in the room with a button stuck down)

No modifications, but my D80 has a high IR blocking sensor which means loooong exposure times etc anything really to let as much light in without destroying the final image.

Most of my shots, the recent successful ones, are on 15 secs, F4-5.6 sometimes can go lower if the suns really bright, ISO 500 at least.

The white balance needed to be manually set so the camera over compensates with blue, if you want that decent out of the camera shot, otherwise you'll just get pink pictures. You can always change it in Photoshop later but it's nice to not have to.

This one I'm most pleased with and was straight out of camera - no retouching;
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1225/1381248129_8a51cd9cb1.jpg

oops and yes i just use a Hoya R72 screw on filter

Here is a thread where someone is experiencing the same problems as you with a R72/Canon 18-55mm combo. Gist of it is that the Canon 300D has pretty severe internal IR filtering, so exposures may have to be very long (and on mine, that's hot-pixel territory) and the kit lens isn't quite up to this application.

That's a great shot above, though - but even on that one there's some slight fogginess in the middle.

Oh, and this is a useful list of lenses and their IR compatibility (the Nikkor 18-55 is actually recommended! My Canon 18-55 isn't but my 50mm/f1.8 should be OK - shame it's not much of a landscape lens); link found by following this Flickr discussion which suggests that it's quite the opposite to what I suggested upthread - it's the multiple coatings of modern lenses that contribute to all the internal reflections and the central hot spot.

wow cheers for all that, some good info. Hmm i wonder if my lens just needs a good clean? Or maybe even my UV filter removing.

Thanks again!

i did take a break from IR photos this weekend tho, this thing in my bath tub:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1269/1381962985_efb202c243.jpg

Great!

EW! A lego man - squish it!

cool shot Ste!

I HAS 10,000 HITS

Why no ILE group/pool?

http://www.flickr.com/groups/541852@N22/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/ilxor/

^^^^^^

haha ned i'm loving that pork pie photo

Yeah, that's a great photo - Ken Morse couldn't have managed a better overhead shot with his rostrum. And I speak as a vegetarian Ken Morse fan.

Ste - it's always a pleasure researching this stuff; I'd much rather be doing that than working. I wish I'd got into photography - seriously into it, rather than the occasional dabble in my 20s - years ago when I had the money to invest in lenses and tripods and that. I should've bought some Canon EF L-series glass in '97 instead of those power amps and exotic interconnects; audiophilia as a hobby sort of hits the buffers when you have children, but photography really takes off. (I'm also fairly disillusioned with the former, but the latter is infinitely rewarding).

great spider picture. do they do lego hobbits?

of course they do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egQA_yQpMw4

xpost Thanks. Here is the porkpie in question.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1092/1401273804_52ebce467c.jpg

i managed to find a way using quick masks and 'Selective Color' in photoshop to botch the hotspot problem, not perfect but a lot better.

now i'm hungry

I'd love to take a Photoshop course (or read a book or research it properly online) as my use of it is limited to simple Curves and Levels but, when I come back from a kids' party or a weekend away with 150 pics on the card and I whittle that down to 30 or so for Flickr purposes, the idea of getting into layers and masks and whatnot with all those images is kinda depressing. As one photographer interviewed in the Guardian said recently re: film vs digital - "take film to lab, go to pub vs stay up all night with Aperture - no contest".

ooo grainy: http://grubbasoftware.com/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1120/1404179667_471db4e49c.jpg

i'm partial to this one too from the weekend even tho it is basically impossible to look at
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1043/1405158034_a06f58e467.jpg

Recent favourites

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1316/1332179686_861cd869f0.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1095/1416477496_ae036775d7.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1117/1416481718_2e88f4751e.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1262/1250219271_871985eee7.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/458130496_a004518c52.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/427374136_efa3ce47f9.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/427374133_5ceb2a5db8.jpg

Think this is my favourite though. My buddy Jake a.k.a. Bear in nature..
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/427352806_a09f368067.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1198/1420325853_2b9eb4bd1a.jpg

Straight in at number 1 in my Most Favourited chart
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1203/1385642439_07e050a26f.jpg?v=0

Admittedly there's not much competition.

great shot Madchen

Catching up on the summer travel backlog, I've just uploaded another personal favourite: Bruce vs Trucker Hat
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1092/1423108848_b53e0098c8.jpg?v=0

I ought to comply with Flickr's regulations, eh?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/madchen/1423108848/

(thanks notgoodwin)

I ought to comply with Flickr's regulations, eh?

ah fuckit

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1331/1355358879_95d2e81104.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1063/1387809977_c54a1fc794.jpg

Oh Nice!

Thx! Was actually hammered and not even looking when I took that second one so lucky it turned out so well.

most interesting:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1276/1083688570_895c5a3466.jpg

it's the most favourited too, second in volume and not of the littleman:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1274/566094046_8db4759915.jpg

Man, i wanna get hammered in the death star too!

I love that first one of ledges above. Just a hint of colour and the way the trees look like they're cut-out of black paper. Excellent.

I love pictures of spiral staircases.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allyzay/1426362123/"; title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1013/1426362123_52f8272290_b.jpg"; width="1024" height="679" alt="katie" /></a>

lol
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1013/1426362123_52f8272290_b.jpg

Wow, that rules.

srsly, if that's a shop, I want the recipe.

West Chi, from the Top of the Cock:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1235/1426016316_70d710f19a_b.jpg

not a shop--i lightened the image slightly in picasa before uploading but that's it. it just looks like that at sunset in az!

*applause*

kenan, I really like that picture.

I went for a little walk about today, and this is my favourite photos.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1325/1428273963_89c9e7ec75.jpg?v=0

Who are you? No offense or anything.

I am mainly a lurker, used to post as jellybean, but didn't post that much with that name either.

i remember jellybean.

jill, what is that a picture of?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1414229980_0da59b191c.jpg

This was taken just last Thursday and already it's my most viewed photo. Flickr be loving some kittens.

Kittens and cars. That one Ferrari shot of mine from a month back is at 12,000 views now.

Oh great well now I just feel ignored.

kerm, that is a really cute cat.

but mine's cuter. ;)

Thanks. I'm sure. One of my roommates surprised us with it last week. It'd been abandoned by its momma in a shop at her work. It still does not have a name.

awwww.

!

everyone, let's name that kitty!

Penny. That kitty looks like a Penny to me.

I think it's a dude.

oh. ok.

Max.

really love kenan's nightscape

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1098/1429739394_ab6eef4bea.jpg

SQUEEE!

so what i need is a kitten driving a car and i will have the most viewed pic in flickr history?

if you shift the colours so it looks almost cross-processed, photoshop on a "film" border and add it to 500 groups there will be a perfect storm of views

basically. I hate 99.994% of all Flickr ppls.

i liked this one too
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1335/1428957532_65aab39f43_b.jpg

That AZ sunset one upthread is top. I like the way everything blurs or moves, except around her face.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1001/1429375621_78011ad868.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1211/1430248260_eb50b67812_d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/1430250914_7d3a5a2619.jpg

that last one was the view from my Hot Springs, AR hotel balcony this weekend. I walked straight out onto it and there was this perfect William Eggleston scene just waiting for me.

http://flickr.com/photos/richardgin/1430513249/

LOL

http://flickr.com/photos/richardgin/1431334750/

LOL

http://flickr.com/photos/richardgin/1430394351/

LOL

oomg! WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE?!

FUCKING SWEDEN! :D

um, think i just upset someone. posted a comment on one of his pictures posted to one of the abstract computery art groups i frequent saying that i liked his work but that posting 39 pictures to the one group so that the entire front page was full of things that looked very similar was probably a bit much (smiley face). an hour later and he's deleted the 39 new ones (and my comment) and everything else he'd ever posted there, gone.

was i right or was i out of order? (i have apologised since)

Seems totally reasonable to me (and you used a smiley face!) - flickr is not immune to rather sensitive souls.

Ally's photo is gorgeous. I want that sky in my garden. Also I want that wallpaper photo thingy in iiiijjjj's first one.

I brought a big bar of Plopp back from Sweden for my co-workers and it made me very popular (as well as having a great name it's pretty tasty).

I just went through a bunch of old photos and uploaded some, and I'll have to do it again sometime, because I skipped the ones that need some shopping. Anyway, I like this one a whole lot:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1024/1465722868_80edac6767_o.jpg

btw: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxion/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2011/1496960867_05b2424b06.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2026/1490905495_b7a547602e.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1088/1486482730_4beef2e808.jpg

but that posting 39 pictures to the one group so that the entire front page was full of things that looked very similar was probably a bit much

hanging is too good for these morons

Have just upgraded to Flickr Pro, and have been binge-uploading my past year's half-decent photos. None of which are anywhere near as good as any on this thread, but there you go. Ah, well, I just need to take lots more now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/forest_pines

(having said that, I do like this one)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2028/1496070922_63dcb1f6f8.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/forest_pines/1496070922/

My second flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/missionphotographic/

This is my most popular pic:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1047/537104460_938e7f82a5.jpg

Forest Pines Mk2, I love the picture. Where is it?

Blueski, where did you take those pictures? Looks great!

Bude, on the north coast of Cornwall

Lovely. Now to GIS for stormy Bude action. Cheers.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/1520279091_63f1c94f2e_o.jpg

so, i like computery graphics stuff and keep an eye on a lot of the associated groups. one is for generative and evolutionary art, where, bascially, you give it a simple formula and let it go and do its thing (fractals, i guess, is the obvious part of this but it also covers l-systems and cellular automator and all that stuff). only someone seems to have grabbed hold of the 'evolutionary' part of the description and has been posting terrible drawings of tiny organisms.

and these are getting tons and tons of positive comments and those annoying award things. very odd.

also spent a day walking around museums with ma the other day but she'd left her camera in the hotel and mine was out of juice so we didn't take a single shot. however, i've found everything that we would've taken a picture of already on flickr. hurrah.

that last one of stevem's is great

however, i've found everything that we would've taken a picture of already on flickr.

And were your parents in the foreground of any of those pictures? Because that would've been a spooky bonus.

yeah, none of us are in any of them but that's nothing a bit of photoshopping wouldn't fix. (they tended to be shots where people don't make sense anyway - the main hall of Nat Hist Mus, the chandalier in the V&A, Albert Memorial, 14 cormorants in a line on the serpentine...)

it did annoy me that in places where it was obviously being kept semi-dark so that light wouldn't fade the objects (V&A especially) that people were wandering around flashing away. all the more idiotic given that everything was behind glass anyway. back from a once in a lifetime trip to london with a camera full of reflected xenon.

The London Eye towards dusk is like a huge photographic "D'oh!" machine - pop, pop, pop the flashes go in all the pods.

Blueski, where did you take those pictures? Looks great!

Puerto de Soller, Mallorca altho the last one is a close up and crop of a stained glass window in Palma's cathedral

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2371/1530176634_cad8c9b61c.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2033/1513690623_2fe6ec669c.jpg

Tucson is bananas in terms of shady motels.

-- Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:36 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

what where you doing in Tucson? no-tel mo-tel is a landmark.

If you use a disposable camera (as I am currently reduced to) and then take a picture of a thatched cottage it looks like a bad 1970s postcard...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/1514173771_d48da74eda.jpg

Ned, whose blue plaque is that sign in front of?

http://flickr.com/photos/richardgin/1545553171/

Mexican insanity chili

Ned, whose blue plaque is that sign in front of?

-- aldo, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:30 (6 days ago) Link

Not a who, a where.

Treated myself to a new lens, 50mm f/1.8 II. Haven’t taken it off since I bought it and would highly recommend it if you take pics at gigs and don’t want to use flash.

Some shots of the 1st night I used it…
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/1550628861_f1695f06bf.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2342/1550642555_cd72d1fd05.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/1550674557_dbfad30ad1.jpg

Excellent! The 50mm f/1.8 is a bit of bargain, isn't it?

£60 brand new, can't fault it at all.

ledge, your Tate pic inspired me (the one looking down on all the people). I ended up scribbling a doodle in a meeting yesterday of something very similar.

Really? I much prefer this one:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2296/1571515599_76322f1355.jpg

Also have you seen my Weather Project (aka the big giant sun) set?
http://flickr.com/photos/ledgr/sets/72157594463081379/

I got my first abusive comment!

On this nondescript photo of a Sikh temple someone commented "Typical of a labour left winger to like this shit". What can you do?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/468068747_2eb7a799be.jpg

so i have this image that in the last 24 hours has been viewed roughly 30 times.
it's about 3-4x as many views as most other "popular" pics i upload. how do I find out what's driving all these people to the page? if someone linked to it is there any way I can find out through flickr? I'm just curious really.

it's probably everything to do with the subject matter; the world series champ, David ortiz
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2244/1739144409_2f6f28f794.jpg?v=0
but if it's really just people searching out pics of him en mass - is there anyway for me to find out?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2227/1879313869_0fd4e28fbe.jpg

don't look too closely though, in my defence I was on a moving ship and it was dark.

I think this is one of my favourite recent live shots
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/1894708719_a88499c654.jpg

I need to get motivated to start taking my camera to gigs again.

Okay I could have sworn that Flickr accepted Switch/Maestro payments when I set up my Pro account, and now I can only renew it using one of three credit cards, none of which I have?

Twats.

Doesn't appear to accept PayPal either? Talk about making everything more difficult than it needs to be.

Switch/Maestro lol

Not a big fan of the new map in explore

haven't taken a snap for months. missing out on decent autumn/winter opportunities.

Last Saturday:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/2050747410_a59dbea612.jpg

I gotta get me some sunshine.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2278/2054328468_4486652f42.jpg

anyone recommend an (cheap) interesting place to go in the world to take pics, before xmas?

How cheap? I would say Lanzarote if you can get a cheap last minute flight. Of course a few of the Canaries have a combination of weird landscapes and package holiday thing going on, but Lanzarote has the weirdest.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/134479765_7ec7df75ce.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/144784573_0b026ef893.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/46829733_10695786f5.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2124/2052483251_7b8edd243b_o.jpg

More weird shit on Flickr.

More High Contrast Blue sky stuff

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2409/2071524936_0653d91bea.jpg

What I like about flickr is you can find historical photos of things.

This was the above in all its glory:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2218/1661972219_917f1f3d0b.jpg?v=0

very cool!

Anyone else activated the new Flickr Stats thing on their account?

Just have. And boy was that guy-with-piledriver graphic shit

And me, I know know who has been nicking my images without telling me, admittedly most credit.

http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/stats/construction2.gif
o mi sides

i just activated this - 24 hr wait - I'M SO EXCITED!

Mine are ready to go -- 322,746 overall views? Nutty!

I am wetting myself with anticipation at the deluge of stats.

My stream continues to be 75% non-public pix of the girls (friends & family) and their local toddler chums stuffing their faces with cake at a seemingly endless stream of birthday parties (private). To anyone who just sees the public stuff (i.e. Facebook contacts), it must seem like I never leave the house...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2121/2061131158_8f27ac5cb2.jpg

Ooh, nice - whatever it is...

Mine's a measly 41,853 views. Photos of East Midlands cities and redundant churches have limited appeal...sigh.

It's wick I see. Amazing. Especially viewed large. World in a grain of rice and all that jazz.

It's a wick. I see. I cannot type at all at the mo.

a measly 41,853 views!!! according to my main page i have an *actual* measly 3,227!

64,621

:/

:`(

Jimmy that is a crime. :-(

14,829 - now that i have stats. still, :`(

Cursed Return, I think the figure on the main page is just the number of hits on your photostream (i.e. people who go to your front page), not the cumulative hits on yr pages. If my figure was hits on pix it would mean an average of 8 views per picture, which ain't right. These stats will reveal all...

98,610. That'll do me.

Fascinating stuff - nice to know my stream is the first port of call if you Google image search on "matchbox car with dog". And it explains the weirdly high hit-count for our homemade play-dough.

(Yahoo image search, I meant. We're nowhere on Google).

Where do you see this number?

O I see it now. 20 poxy 000.

What kind of monstrous egos do you guys have?

it's fucking huge like my cock and balls wut

It's less about the total hits (which is a bit dick-wavy, I s'pose), but the pattern of activity. People still can't get enough of Hope Sandoval! Another four views yesterday and it's been up since April 2006. And those sneaky blog sites who've pinched some of my pix...

I have a strange peak on Dec 7: 158 views up from an average of about 5.

I like yr frosty shots, Ledge.

Yeah they turned out nice. I don't do enough macro.

Downloaded the new Uploadr. Hmm, but all right enough. I guess.

Liked this shot from today:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2336/2115977275_8009e992be.jpg

look at me look at me
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2149/1588518483_eeee99f6d8_m.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2403/2115532497_d085db966c.jpg

http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/stats/construction1.gif

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2311/2117599090_e4a7626e8c.jpg

~16,000

61,326

Tickled by the fact that Stats shows that the below photo (which I titled Ungooglable with description "Your search - pthwndxrclzp - did not match any documents") is getting hits from search engines! Ok, not for that word, but still...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1230/558182472_8f34430670.jpg

My favorite photo in a recent batch:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2415/2145197184_3758917b8a.jpg

Warm enough in Raleigh today for the snakes to come out and play:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2186/2147440655_501f45fc13.jpg

Cool shot. Is it dangerous? I love the colour of whatever it is it's slithering on too. Looks like a huge rusty paella pan.

Thanks Ned. No, not too dangerous I don't think. I picked them both up and put them there. They were hiding beneath that frying pan and a rusty dutch oven. They're not very big. That's a pine needle. Here's another angle:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2122/2147440529_a7099fb2da.jpg

World's largest Windows Media Player:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2149849485_967d1525b4.jpg

They did have a sound system for that thing for a while - pods adhered to the windows, using the glass as big planar speakers. It's amusing to see how often the thing crashes.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/2152925444_942b646eea_o.jpg

X-Mas California stuff going up slowly this week.

better 1
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2281/2176497057_4dc3351bf8_b.jpg

or 2
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2214/2177283098_20b365280d_b.jpg

oops hueg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2330/2172858888_b76fc3714c.jpg

color xp

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2283/2172102067_c83e59bcbe.jpg

polaroid shit makes a (brief) return engagement

Milo, I like the color one more. The red on green pops, whereas the grayscale is more flat.

ya go colour go

Yeah, it's all about the red/green in that photo - much prefer the colour pic, though if I hadn't seen it first...

35mm f/1.4L, Milo? Is that new? (I have made you a contact, btw).

Xmas presents - ginger drinking chocolate from Liberty and an Olze & Wilkens chopping board, both snapped with another gift from Santa: Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2260/2170666890_3fea49f42e.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2204/2156635030_0c655bc5ff.jpg

whoa loving that spaceman pic

Awesome chopping board.

35L I got just before Christmas, I think. t's AWESOME. I need to get renter's insurance, though, as I get nervous walking around with the 5D+it.

okay, i've finally got a camera. nothing fancy -- a wee samsung L730 -- but absolutely ideal for someone who's never really taken a picture in their life. so i've got myself one of these flickr wotsits.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2303/2160718714_90001a350a.jpg

accounts.

that's the one!

Great first pic, Grimly.

Bit of a disk space crisis on the laptop so I'm swinging the axe on duff pix. Except it seems to be turning into almost as painstaking a process as that of selecting/Photoshopping images for Flickr. And don't get me started on the slog of uploading Flickrpix and near-Flickrpix to Photobox for printing (no Flickr prints for UKers) - that seems to have kept me up until the small hours for most of the last week.

2008: the year I take fewer, better photographs.

thanks, michael! more by accident than design, perhaps. i shall be paying a lot of attention to your fewer, better pictures, certainly.

I am loving the Flickr Stats, despite my aggregate views being a measly 4,224.

From this weekend: the view from the Kilburn White Horse

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2178963568_dbf116a143.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/forest_pines/2178963568/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2117/2192416230_cdd806e2fa.jpg

This one is of Kirkcaldy Old Kirk.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/treefell/2171413501/"; title="Kirkcaldy Old Kirk & Kirk Wynd by treefell, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2007/2171413501_6e81109937.jpg"; width="334" height="500" alt="Kirkcaldy Old Kirk & Kirk Wynd" /></a>

My aggregate views seem to be at 32,518!

I went and forgot the bbcode converter!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2007/2171413501_6e81109937.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2040/2220593814_30e8880884.jpg

That is rock candy I made myself, without adult supervision, btw.

how was it?

I haven't done anything with it besides take its picture.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2352/2214126664_07c195471b.jpg?v=0

Hello, ilx. I haven't posted for a while.

I saw this on my way home from work on Friday. No idea who put it up there.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2025/2221363300_2cbea94762.jpg

From Ciudad in LA last Tuesday night:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2369/2216063492_57019fcddb.jpg

http://www.waldenplantation.net

half-assed photos documenting progress on the B&B in the middle of nowhere, so the owner (four hours away) can keep an eye on progress

Pencils! Everyone loves pencils.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2013/2284229655_8768e90e8b.jpg

Oh the snow.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/2240531781_844af383ca_b.jpg

That's from three weeks ago. We're supposed to get something comparable tonight, as well.

as predicted.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2059/2292968475_cca408f8b7_b.jpg

I has a guitar.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2360/2314509649_c6474c0e14.jpg

(and a Kids in the Hall concert poster, and a Polaroid of Christ of the Ozarks that fell out of a used book I bought)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/2282369145_4547b5146d.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2308776552_af69003c00.jpg

Serious patience needed when attempting these.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/2349504085_a690ba00f6.jpg

Ace! Off-camera flash? I wouldn't have thought the standard flash speed of 1/200sec on the Canon would be fast enough for this kind of thing but it clearly is.

I've already plastered this on the Parenting thread, but sod it. These Lightroom presets are like crack...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2263/2349469183_fe59474702.jpg

I found a Stryper barn yesterday.

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/48/017tp7.jpg

Ace! Off-camera flash? I wouldn't have thought the standard flash speed of 1/200sec on the Canon would be fast enough for this kind of thing but it clearly is.

Thanks, i just used a speedlite 430EX anda bedside light from the side, have a look it the exif data if you wish ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/68179053@N00/2349504085/ ), also add me as a contact as i'd love to look at more of you shots.

You're already a contact, not-g (cavern on Flickr, right?) but I'll friend you too...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2352/2345358589_ba31f86e11.jpg?v=0

Totally agree that patience is not optional when attempting this.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/2345737469_731b28b169.jpg?v=0

1/200th is fine, though. I was sceptical at first, but was delighted to prove myself wrong.

yes, recently tried getting a snap of a splash in a wine glass recently. The frustration almost made me quit photography for good lol

"recently"

Hal from 2001?

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68179053@N00/2382802573/"; title="Untitled by cavern, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2362/2382802573_c3f9c238a2.jpg"; width="333" height="500" alt="" /></a>

huff....
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2362/2382802573_c3f9c238a2.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2377520512_1fd05f907c.jpg

did you win Kerm?

Yeah, the dollar pool on the second race...

Nice, well done.

My picture of the alien autopsy at the Roswell UFO Museum is now my most popular...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/34729601_9664185261.jpg

Flickr video

Hurrah!

"Playback of this video failed. Please try again later."

Hmm.

Ooooh: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesmitchell/2399522297/

Shame there's no .jpg thumbnails generated for the videos.

There are in my photostream.

Can you play that Arsenal video, James? Maybe it's just me.

My thoughts (almost) exactly:

"The point is video on your photostream. My family visits my photostream, they have Flickr accounts or guest passes, they check it daily, weekly, whatever. Having clips right there for them to see is the beauty of it." Don't worry just about features -- the same feature looks different in different environments. Think about the final use of the application, by a real person in a real environment, instead of just idealized feature sets (much less developmental familiarity)... the important thing is video within the Flickr experience, rather than just video itself.

- http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/experiences_vs.cfm

looks like a few are getting ready for battle...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/675051@N25/

And there's another group.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/no_video_on_flickr/

Splitters!!!

VIDEOOOOOO! at last. this is good.

Video is blocked at work, it seems. Fast work by our US firewall team seeing as there wasn't any video streaming capability on Flickr on Tuesday and suddenly, Wed am, it's blocked. Hmmm.

VIDEOOOOOO! at last. this is good.

how so?

Btw, i disagree.

if you disagree and don't know why it's good let's just leave it at that.

I do know why, i just couldn't be bothered to type it all.
I can see both sides of it, i just don't think it's needed.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/2435209181_c64d6d7f87.jpg

Cuteness!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2311/2432698611_4eb1837587.jpg

I derive a lot of satisfaction from checking my stats each morning and seeing that "Lendl at Wimbledon" is still holding "Becker blur" out of my top 10 (despite the fact that, since introducing the referral-tracker, I get more Google hits for Becker than anything else). Just like their careers, Ivan has the edge despite the Boris hype.

Staircase at Heal's department store:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2364/2403560379_152b652f81.jpg

(I mean, since Flickr introduced the referral-tracker...)

is it just me or does flickr suck now? I was going to upgrade to pro but the upload on my last set was slow & buggy. seems like some users are complaining about performance and reliability. especially since they started the video thing.

thoughts? alternatives?

I haven't noticed any difference and I uploaded about 400 pix last month. I know there was an apology for some database issues on the home page a couple of days ago but whether they've been resolved, or what form they took, I've no idea.

Apart from that brief period a couple of months ago when contacts' photostreams weren't updating properly (it went on for a week or so), I haven't really encountered any problems with Flickr in over 3 years. I know the "...is having a massage" message became a bit of a running joke early on but I rarely see that now.

I haven't had any problems either, and I'm uploading very day. I saw a message on the front page a couple of days ago about a problem but it didn't seem to affect my uploads or anything.

Does anyone look at the videos? I've seen about 2.

I'm blocked from playing videos at work (also affects Google Video but not YouTube, weirdly), so I never see them. It's also discouraged me from uploading more than one of my own.

not used it for months.

someone help me rekindle my photography interest, my camera is gathering dust and i have no inspiration.

That's a shame, Ste. You were qaop_space, right? Your account appears to have lapsed - all those lovely IR pics are no longer visible.

I dunno...pre-digital, so it can't really be compared, but I've been scanning old film SLR prints recently and clearly the FTb sat in a drawer for months on end back in 2002-03. Unless we were going somewhere or had overseas houseguests, there was no drive to just take pictures. Post-kids and post-digital, there's always a reason to shoot, to experiment.

I haven't had any problems either, and I'm uploading very day.

After saying that last week, this week it's been pretty slow and then to-day I got this message...

Your photos are hosted on a computer that is currently offline for maintenance.

We expect the work to be complete within 3-4 hours, at the most.

...which I've never had before.

by request, Battles @ ATP
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2144/2506440723_178b5482a2.jpg?v=0

brilliant! i have about two dozen identical grainy distant blurry band shots which are really not worth flickring.

flickring? oo-er missus etc

Before I bought a digital camera, my cameras used to sit unused for months at a time too. Even since, there are periods where it's gone a couple of months without being used. It was when I started uploading photos to flickr, funnily enough, that I started carrying it about with me and using it most weekends.

Anyway, as this is the Flickr thread, here's some photos

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2084/2503983015_f78b883656.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2232/2498100327_0ca1d8dcd6.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2397/2496628540_77a5e81877.jpg

Terrific! You've gotta love 1.8 (or 1.4 or, if you're really loaded, 1.2). I thought the top one was a huge plate of Snowballs.

Fun with a polariser:

WITHOUT
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3067/2477235590_d5236eb481.jpg

WITH
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/2477236756_19b04aaab6.jpg

This is one I took on my recent holiday in a place called Paradise, WA.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2337/2483717717_278cba8172.jpg

I whined about taking my 5D+35 to work long enough (photographing the project we're working on so the bank can keep an eye on what's going on), the property owner bought me a new camera: Pentax K20D and a 35/2.8 Macro lens. It's awesome. Seriously. Not as convenient on the button-pushing (for WB, etc.) as the 5D, but auto ISO, shake reduction, dust cleaning (5D already has visible dust @ f/8, even though I've not changed lenses in six months), 14.x MP.

Also, small and light, even smaller than my film EOS Elan.

quick shot, f/2.8 @ 1/10 or so
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2535491092_cef13d58e1.jpg

Auto WB still doesn't 'get' CFLs, of course. Though it's not that far off, the pickguard is a little yellowed.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2017/2534424846_b0fd414618.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3255/2601418755_47f8ab279f_b.jpg

dust cleaning (5D already has visible dust @ f/8, even though I've not changed lenses in six months)

When you were mulling over the virtues of 40D vs 5D a few months back, I didn't even consider this. 40D has some kind of self-cleaning sensor. My old 300D has no sort of sensor cleaning system (but a smaller sensor than your 5D), it's 5 years old and I change lenses a lot, so it must have some crap on there by now. I haven't noticed it (but I can see blobs in yr OOF image above).

The Pentaxes look like smashing cameras; they have about the cheapest 50/1.4 on the market too. That 35/2.8 looks no slouch either. And curse Canon for never giving us a proper Auto ISO/TAv mode.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3198/2600429048_7fe649b805.jpg

That's very nice. I don't think I've ever taken a good sunset picture in my life and I've sort of given up now.

Public aquariums can be equally disappointing, but this one turned out OK:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2598395630_495b60052d.jpg

How do you link the pic back to your stream?

Go to "All Sizes" above the pic, choose "Medium", copy & paste the HTML in the first box in here.

Don't forget to hit the 'Convert Simple HTML to BBCode Button'

My trick for sunsets is to use a hard surface to lean the camera on and push or pull by a stop or so (I forget which way is push and which is pull). Also I tweaked the saturation and contrast in aperture.

gawd

has anyone ever followed the mean-spirited discussion on the hardcore street photography group?

no, do you have some choice morsels?

nah, there is just a general, all-pervading meanness vibe

like ilx, bt w.none of the enlightenment

I avoid nearly all of the group discussions - my only contributions are of a techie nature.

What do you folks think of Utata? Are any of you members? I quite like these Iron Photographer challenges and thought I might have a go.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/2608012951_d23b9f26f7.jpg?v=0

Fisheye ftw

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/2572158638_fcf66236b6.jpg

Yeh, that group is chock-full of hefty dicks, czn

[Just like their careers, Ivan has the edge despite the Boris hype.]

Lendl? it was as simple and human as that.

Hey, take your dirty talk outside mister.

Pinefox: Becker has now streaked away into my top 8, leaving Ivan in the dust, behind - funnily enough - Boy George.

G-kit: cor, so that's what that Peleng 8mm is capable of? Very impressive (and it's a great composition too, of course).

flickr is a wastelaaaaaaaaaannnnnndddddd... it makes ILX look 95% cogent.

MJ, the Peleng is certainly a fun lens, but it lacks a little in quality. Contrast is pretty nasty, you really have to beef it up in post. It's fully manual, which is fun, but it's kinda fiddly at the same time - it has a completely pointless aperture locking ring, and using flash with it is largely hit and miss.

That said, it's CRAZY on a 35mm camera - the FOV is close to 180degrees so it's largely impossible to get a shot without your feet, camera strap or fingers in it.

Also, because it's 8mm, you have to get ridiculously close to the subject. Trust me, taking those skateboarding pics was scary as hell. it doesn't look like it, but I'm probably under a metre away from the skater in most of them.

But you get more than enough fun out of them for the price, even if the quality is a bit of a trade-off. Oh, and the lens cap is AWFUL. Both front and rear fall off in a light breeze. Fortunately, most of them come with a nice carry-case.

I have this raynox qc 505 semi-fisheye (£12)

http://www.digitaltoyshop.co.uk/uploads/images_specification/qc-303_web.gif

I have a 16x24" print coming from MPIX. Assuming I like it, how would you overmat - 20x30"?

from HCSP:

jedisushi says:
I am no more thank a rank amateur, and I heartily accept the lambasting to come from the admins for this, but quite frankly, "Cone Girl Snap" and "Kids With Balloons" (above) cannot even be compared. In my humble opinion, the latter is a better image in every way, both technical and artistic. I just don't see those two images being worthy of comparison in the least.

Bring on the flames. :-)
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~Joe~ says:
sorry jedirawfish.... you didn't say anything to debate... saying this is better than that in every way.... over and over... without once even saying 'why', just makes you a bit of a moron.... a moron in every way, but please come back to the party with some photographic feelings and maybe you can play with the rest of us both technically and artistically.

did this clown just read that thread on how to be profound or what?
..

I don't know anything about overmatting, Milo (would that I ever had to think about such a thing!). I read that the standard for 16x20 is 22x28 (but Ansel Adams preferred 25x29, apparently) - perhaps 20x30 would be a little tight on the short side.

I don't tend to put pix of the kids on this thread, but, as an example of our latest forays into medium format, I can't find a better image than this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/2614473724_c8dee17333.jpg

covet:

http://www.theplasticlens.com/blog/?p=65

I have to admit, though it's not a technologically-based comment, Lulu's sunlit expression there is kind of priceless. There is something very adult about it maybe ... or maybe it reminds me of pix of me looking at my brother, c.1975?

http://m1m.info/Tichy/

o_O

Super shot Michael!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/2618585167_7b40d93809.jpg

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/09/getty_flickr_partnership/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2689956719_0a70828233.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/2691167263_48611f6b73.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/2768313023_c5db386310_b.jpg

I am still on Flickr, I am taking loads of photos these days, mainly from ground level (ie putting my camera on the ground and taking a photo).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugle/

I'm still there too. I have my camera with me always and just take pics at random cuz I like to take pix. I'm not very good but every once in a while some goodness gets in there.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3258/2773141381_27692104cf.jpg

those trees radioactive or something?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2793410329_43d064cdda_o.jpg
Fontana Dam, NC.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2336/2811349393_297ff5e6e6.jpg

i was really bored!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2833207930_369654cd5d.jpg

that's pretty sweet

(i couldn't find this thread through the search engine btw)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2854092033_97a2eb7e16_b.jpg

Too much vignetting?

is it fake?

I don't think there's all that much vignetting in there at all, really, but it's still very nice.

My cousin is an A&F model.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2852493638_56cbc5a083.jpg

Back and raping the hell out of my lomo filter for all its worth:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3213/2893762602_149771b967_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3226/2893653248_cabb7095e7_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/2896114683_10ffbc37fb_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3126/2879656444_36aebe4403.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugle/2929006007/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/2929006007_28e02c16f3.jpg

A couple different streams I saw while backpacking this weekend:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2964268113_85ce52a66c.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2965745296_0684d87392.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/2955433711_c2bec24b92.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/2956276662_f8669a8194.jpg

nice

wish I was better at milking the pre-sets on my digital camera, but this was what I got on a bog-standard setting trying to take mountains floating in clouds in Nepal
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/2997535584_1e14d0b77f.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2996692139_ae056343fc.jpg

http://flickr.com/photos/richardgin/sets/72157608461515028/

^^^ alaska

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2996862306_118b596e33_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/3148286397_a909eba691.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3231/3149118464_03d7184544.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/3141776563_0f8f6c3f10.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3505/3224116898_8484302576_b.jpg

shop, pixels, etc

i don't even own photoshop! just walk down to prospect park and check him out yourself sir.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/3243255824_b10be7af9b.jpg?v=0

i love those trees in that owl pic

Those talons are awesome and scary.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/3240114747_af66a40254.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3279/3291355743_4d04318a4a.jpg

why do bird exhibits at the zoo always look so insane?!

and yes this is a real bird >:[

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3596/3290512413_0f8f79e184.jpg

haha EVERYONE has a pic of their technics, AMIRITE?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/3288616174_251004160c.jpg

Woman in my photography was like "lol you taking pics of THIS?" I wanted to say: STFU.

yes, i enrolled in a class and YES I KNOW I AM STILL SHITE

next up is shot of husband smoking a big fat joint and i capture the smoke. woohooo

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3442/3293077500_ce1da94529.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3512/3261202903_da04bf1673_b.jpg

where is that amenaza?

Hyde park, London in 2001

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3419/3302291478_5f5ff833d8.jpg

Let's make this one Flickr 3?

Can we have a new Flickr thread...