Photo-A-Day III

[crusher]

Im not really a photographer just a guy that snaps pictures when I can remember where I left the camera

Global warming: the melting snowman

[Jesus On A Bike]

[Woolies]

A Burgher of Calais (I checked - vegetarian so I'm allowed) by Rodin in the wee gardens at Westminster.
I like the head in hands emotion and Victoria Tower in the background being recognisable as the Houses of Parliament. Makes me feel like it's some sort of political commentary...

EOS 5D, 70mm on 28-135
1/40sec @ f5.0 ISO 100

There's some icky halo glow and unfortunately a spider's web across the head (tidyed in photoshop a bit but probably not well enough for print ). This is the third or fourth finished version I've made of this though so the remaining flaws are stuck with it until I go back one day when there are no spiders.

[Potatojunkie]

Part of the guy on Kelvinway Bridge who represents industry by means of some chain and a big hammer. Also I am stealing Ryan Woolworths' sensible formatting.

EOS 400D, 50mm prime
1/60sec @ f/10 ISO 200



I'm completely smitten with Lightroom and the contrast you can wring from your pictures with it. Also you can make trees go all Calvin & Hobbes.

[Jesus On A Bike]

Basically, Json.


Fucking nose shadows.


Also, face.

[Woolies]

Revisiting a previous theme but this time for some building in London.

EOS 5D, 28mm on 28-135 zoom
1/200 @ f4.5 ISO 100

I've also got a cropped version of this taking about an inch of the top & bottom, and another version just taking an inch off the river but leaving the sky cos the clouds are rather braw as they are.

[djtoast]

Curse your full-frame gadgetry making lenses have sensible numbers again, it confuseth me.

[gritted teeth of jealousy]Nice picture though.[/gritted teeth of jealousy]

[Woolies]

Originally Posted by djtoast

Curse your full-frame gadgetry making lenses have sensible numbers again, it confuseth me.

[gritted teeth of jealousy]Nice picture though.[/gritted teeth of jealousy]

I know! It's weird being able to just understand focal lengths again and know what I'll see in the viewfinder before looking, I feel like a photographer again after years spent in the wilderness of 1.6 times arithmetic.

Or something.


But aye, I quite like this tretment for buildings so might do a series - the only problem being that I think the original pic with the silver granite of Aberdeen will be by far the best...

[Jesus On A Bike]

Call me an idiot, but what are yous talking about? I need to learn this stuff.

[fallen_nemesis]

Originally Posted by Woolies

Revisiting a previous theme but this time for some building in London.

EOS 5D, 28mm on 28-135 zoom
1/200 @ f4.5 ISO 100

I've also got a cropped version of this taking about an inch of the top & bottom, and another version just taking an inch off the river but leaving the sky cos the clouds are rather braw as they are.

my god that's rather stupendous!

My eye keeps being drawn to the wee white liney thing in the water on th right thoguh. What is it anyway?

Originally Posted by Potatojunkie

Part of the guy on Kelvinway Bridge who represents industry by means of some chain and a big hammer. Also I am stealing Ryan Woolworths' sensible formatting.

EOS 400D, 50mm prime
1/60sec @ f/10 ISO 200



I'm completely smitten with Lightroom and the contrast you can wring from your pictures with it. Also you can make trees go all Calvin & Hobbes.

the colours in this are amazing

Mo's been trying to pimp lightroom to me for about 2 years and i didn't listen either!

Sorry Mo!

[Potatojunkie]

Originally Posted by fallen_nemesis

What is it

It's a white pole.

Originally Posted by fallen_nemesis

the colours in this are amazing

Mo's been trying to pimp lightroom to me for about 2 years and i didn't listen either!

Sorry Mo!

Ta, duck. You can grab parts of the histogram and drag them about and all sorts. It's amazing.

[Runt]

It was a yellow pole(of the navigation variety).

[Woolies]

Originally Posted by Jesus On A Bike

Call me an idiot, but what are yous talking about? I need to learn this stuff.

Silly geek stuff really...

Camera lenses use mm to identify the zoom (or wideangle-ness) of their lenses.
Traditional film SLR cameras and digital SLR cameras can share the same lenses BUT the pictures taken with them will be different!

For example a 50mm lens on a film SLR camera will show more of a scene than a 50mm lens on a digital SLR. Almost without fail the difference is a factor of 1.6. So a 50mm lens on a digi-SLR will show the same as an 80mm (50 x 1.6) lens on a trad SLR camera.

The techie reason is that digital SLR sensors cover a smaller area than 35mm film, the Canon EOS 5D (which I've used for the recent pics I've posted here) has a "full frame" sensor so the lenses act in the same way as on a trad. film camera



If all you've ever used are digital SLRs then you'll never know the difference but for me "growing up" using 35mm, I never really got the hang of why I wasn't seeeing as much in the frame as I expected when using digtal SLRs!

[Jesus On A Bike]

I see, cheers!

[Runt]

Originally Posted by Woolies

Silly geek stuff really...

Camera lenses use mm to identify the zoom (or wideangle-ness) of their lenses.
Traditional film SLR cameras and digital SLR cameras can share the same lenses BUT the pictures taken with them will be different!

For example a 50mm lens on a film SLR camera will show more of a scene than a 50mm lens on a digital SLR. Almost without fail the difference is a factor of 1.6. So a 50mm lens on a digi-SLR will show the same as an 80mm (50 x 1.6) lens on a trad SLR camera.

The techie reason is that digital SLR sensors cover a smaller area than 35mm film, the Canon EOS 5D (which I've used for the recent pics I've posted here) has a "full frame" sensor so the lenses act in the same way as on a trad. film camera



If all you've ever used are digital SLRs then you'll never know the difference but for me "growing up" using 35mm, I never really got the hang of why I wasn't seeeing as much in the frame as I expected when using digtal SLRs!

That clears that up for me then