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Those heygate pics are pretty depressing.
Here is a portrait shot I took of my girlfriend, to brighten the page up a little :P
Taken sitting on my bedroom window. Nice shot of a Glasgow tenement.
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A_Northern_Soul wrote:^ love those shots of Heygate. Great work


agreed. Those are a strangely beautiful set of photographs.

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A handful from this evening:

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GH wrote:A handful from this evening:

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Lovely pics.

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That last one has such a beautifully melancholic vibe to it, awesome man :)

I started a series on poppy seeds. Whaddya think?

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I wanted to try to convey them as humans :roll:

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Here's a select few I took between Christmas and yesterday (not in order):

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I only use Sikypix convert them from RAW to JPEG format then use just the basic windows picture editor to mess with the contrast, colour and crop.

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VERY nice!

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These are really nice. Do you guys use macro lenses for some of these?

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Cupz wrote:VERY nice!


Cheers :D

tubolcane wrote:These are really nice. Do you guys use macro lenses for some of these?


Can't say i do do. Looks like Spenner might though. Those poppy seed ones are awesome.

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GH wrote:A handful from this evening:

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Can I get a High quality image of this please? It's just awesome! It will be my wallpaper for my PC.

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Here is a pic from tonites Dynamo MLS soccer game in humid Houston Tx, my daughter and me in some bands tee-shirt just in from London! Image

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747Music wrote:
GH wrote:A handful from this evening:

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Can I get a High quality image of this please? It's just awesome! It will be my wallpaper for my PC.


Sure thing :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/togasnail/ ... otostream/


@turbolcane: For the above pics I'm using this lens
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Which is a film camera lens from the '80s, and was quite cheap, yet provides excellent results. It does have a limited macro setting of sorts.

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Been trying to make a kaleidoscope that fits on the end of my lens like a filter. Need to find the right sized step down filter ring and get a threaded tube to house the mirrors.
Just took these looking at my monitor.

Twoism home page:

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Random scene from a Werner Herzog documentary:

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Very cool. I was just wondering the other day how you get kaleidoscope images w/o using photoshop. I have a kaleidoscope kit coming my way, I might just modify one myself. What do you have at the end of the kaleidoscope tube? A clear sphere like at the end of a taleidoscope might have a cool effect.

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thanks for the lens info. in fact, thanks everyone who participated in this thread! I really miss doing this kind of stuff. I've got some old kaleidoscope stuff, just shot through the tube, and had varying degrees of success. I'm actually kind of obsessive about not re-touching anything I do. some old thumbnails:

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rainier wrote:Very cool. I was just wondering the other day how you get kaleidoscope images w/o using photoshop. I have a kaleidoscope kit coming my way, I might just modify one myself. What do you have at the end of the kaleidoscope tube? A clear sphere like at the end of a taleidoscope might have a cool effect.


I currently don't have anything at the end, it's just a cardboard tube with mirrors at the moment. I'm going to try and get the end threaded too so I put my fish eye on it.

As for the clear sphere thing, my friend has lent me one of these:

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Her aunt got it her from America, San Fransico I think, and can't remeber the name of the shop. I can't find ones to order on the internet at all and there's no manufacturers mark on it . The glass bubble on the end really magnifies/amplifies/multiplies the image, it's immense. I want to buy a few and customise them for a camera.
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[quote="tubolcane"]thanks for the lens info. in fact, thanks everyone who participated in this thread! I really miss doing this kind of stuff. I've got some old kaleidoscope stuff, just shot through the tube, and had varying degrees of success. I'm actually kind of obsessive about not re-touching anything I do. some old thumbnails:


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That! Turquoise hexagon lens flare, love it. As for not re-touching photo's, I know what you mean. I really try to keep it basic too, I just use windows photo editor for slight adjustments. It's really easy to overwork stuff and it does take away some of the magic.

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Some more mess abouts with the kaleidoscope from last night. These are of our dog Elly asleep in on a chair:

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Thanks! Those were part of a mosaic that I re-shuffled endlessly with many others. Even without touching them up, I can go crazy just with crops and placement. OCD: both good and bad for art:)

It's also time to retire this old terribly misspelled pseudo-masonic username for something classier. I'll be back in some form.


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tubolcane wrote:thanks for the lens info. in fact, thanks everyone who participated in this thread! I really miss doing this kind of stuff. I've got some old kaleidoscope stuff, just shot through the tube, and had varying degrees of success. I'm actually kind of obsessive about not re-touching anything I do. some old thumbnails:

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Those are really great. Nice work.

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