post your photography thread!

[zeitgeist]

Awesome feedback--thanks Mark!

[zeitgeist]

A hike last Friday out above the Great Salt Lake

[futureling]

Wow that is great. What did you use to capture that? A wide angle lens?

[zeitgeist]

Thanks! Canon 550D with the Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 that day I believe

Anybody rock a Manfrotto tripod? I have an older Bogen video tripod that I loooove, but it's way too heavy for backpacking around. I'm thinking of picking up the MT190CXPRO3:



I like the 90deg column idea. I checked one out at the camera store yesterday and I can't decide if the carbon fiber weight reduction was worth the extra ~$100

[naicob]

A hike last Friday out above the Great Salt Lake

Wonderful perspective. The slight over-saturation is nice without being overwhelming. Great work.

[zeitgeist]

Thanks for the input! I'm trying a bunch of new stuff, including calibrating my monitor at home. Since I just moved recently too, and work nights, and can only do my post work during daylight hours, and I've found a lot of my prints are coming out a bit saturated as a result. Good to get a second set of eyes.

[zeitgeist]

Welp, might as well hog this page since it's relevant--went out today and took a different shot. The peak on this island in the background is where I took the last shot I posted from.



And if anyone is curious, yes, I did get that tripod and it's fucking fantastic, albeit a bit heavy.

[gfxtwin]

There are some tremendously gifted photographers in this thread. Like, seriously professional work. I'm definitely not a photographer at all as you can probably tell (the only pictures I ever take are via iphone, lol), and normally these would be hidden away somewhere in the depths of my PC, but I feel like they have a bit of a BOC vibe so what the hell.

[gfxtwin]

Thanks zeitgeist!

Where are those shots taken? The first one looks like a warm and dry place...

You know, I wish it was a dry and warm place. It's just near my house in northern Utah.

Here's the Milky Way last night--you can get really crisp night shots in the Winter

Man, that is a nice a fucking view.

[coffee grapes]

[zeitgeist]

That dish looks absolutely delicious. Soon enough we'll be picking fresh tomatoes in the garden!

Hike in the rain this afternoon:

[coffee grapes]

[coffee grapes]

[naicob]

Welp, might as well hog this page since it's relevant--went out today and took a different shot. The peak on this island in the background is where I took the last shot I posted from.



And if anyone is curious, yes, I did get that tripod and it's fucking fantastic, albeit a bit heavy.

Just the right kind of beautiful.

Great control of colours (if you post processed). Otherwise, an incredible scenery worthy of capture.

[zeitgeist]

Thanks for the feedback Naicob. I try for more realistic processing, but I completely subscribe to the "photography as an art" via photoshop side of the thing too. I used to be real elitist back when film was still all the rage, digital cameras were a very new thing (and they were damned terrible too--photoshop didn't even exist).

It was a really special thing to go out on an epic adventure in the mountains, with only 24 frames, maybe 48 if you were smart and brought a couple rolls. Either way, you knew that you had one chance to get each of those couple dozen shots, that they cost a quarter a piece to process, and you'd maybe get 1 amazing shot from the entire day, if you were lucky. But today, with SD cards, LCD instant-review, and incredible lens tech, I've gotten over the entire elitist phase, and really enjoy what people way more talented than myself can come up with--same goes for the people still lens whacking and chugging with brownie cams and lomos (I have one and I love it).

As I grew up though, and camera technology has gone exponential, I can't keep that same boring (to me), stagnant position that it's "cheating" to take multiple exposures, clone-stamp out birds, shoot (moderate) HDRs, or use photoshop to recreate the scene you captured to your liking.

Mini rant I guess to see if this thread will support more than just pic porn.

That all being said, here's something from today. "It's sooo BOCccy!"

[naicob]

Totally agree on all accounts. It's a visual artform and most any approach is a good one. I often like to take shots that look photoshopped but aren't and vice versa. Sometimes the fun is in combining a few images together to revisit what you had in mind when shooting. At other times the camera simply doesn't do justice to the scene and playing around in photoshop is the most honest approach in trying to show what you saw. For some, capturing exactly waht was there is the point, for others it's the exact opposite. I like to do a bit of all.

[machinea]

I love the canon 5 series. I'd love to have a 5D. I have an older rebel and some nice lenses but anymore it's really just my iphone, since it's on me at all times so its just easy to get a shot whenever.

[zeitgeist]

...At other times the camera simply doesn't do justice to the scene and playing around in photoshop is the most honest approach in trying to show what you saw. For some, capturing exactly waht was there is the point, for others it's the exact opposite. I like to do a bit of all.

Yeah, basically what you said here exactly.

I love the canon 5 series. I'd love to have a 5D. I have an older rebel and some nice lenses but anymore it's really just my iphone, since it's on me at all times so its just easy to get a shot whenever.

What's the quote I always hear? Something like, "the best camera in the world is the one you have on you." I've realized I enjoy seeing photography being made available to almost everyone these days, and don't really care about their weapons of choice, as long as I dig the end result.

That all being said, I definitely salivate over new tech. Anyone have a GH4 yet?

[machinea]

Well its ended up being true for me. I've taken 6000 pictures in this last year alone. All with my iphone 4S and it's because I have it with me and I'm living in an awesome place with so much natural beauty its ridiculous.

[coffee grapes]