The photography thread

[Joematthews]

Cheers man, it was taken from the top of Dom Luís Bridge, Porto. It's such a cool city to visit for a few days.

 

[FIXXXER]

just got two old lenses from my dad, both like 35 years old, bought an adapter for my EOS 400D, both fixed
width, one 35mm and one 135mm (owning the kit 18-55mm lense and a Tamron 70-300mm) and they seem
to be pretty cool.
Only took like 5 shots with each lense, almost no processing, just a bit of contrast stuff done, but just really
basic-both shots with the 135mm and just my cat because he was posing for it

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/73276802/domino.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/73276802/domino2.jpg

Sure, no great shots or anything special, but for the first try with two old lenses without AF in a room
without good light-seems ok to me.

looks nice man, need to check that stuff out, i'd love to have an old lens on my 600€!

 

[StefTD]

these lenses are Revuenon lenses (sometimes called Revue) some kind of home brand for Quelle back in the days
they were built in different factories afaik during different times, seems like they were pretty decent between
1970 and 1980. I found a few good reviews about them, seems that the "newer" ones were pretty shitty, but my
dad bought them during his time at the university, so sometime between 1971-1975 and a friend of him told him
to get them who's a teacher for photography in an art school nowadays.
If you want a nice read (especially because I own the Tamron, too) about the 135mm one:
http://lopatin.de/Fototechnik/Revuenon 135mm.pdf (German)
Afaik they're sold pretty cheap now, saw a few at the bay between 10-20€, but some of them probably aren't that
great and old lenses could be fucked or just dusty and crackly.

 

[Carlsman]

Some new photos. Some are rushed due to deadline for a magazine and contains some mistakes completely missed by me. Doing a shoot and retouch in the same day and then off to the printer is never a good idea, very bad planning. But yeah, you learn something new everyday. I'm glad the magazine's not printed on fine paper, just plain "ordinary-everyday-newspaper-paper", don't really know the technical term for it, so you can't see every detail on the final product.

 

[arv_foh]

your lighting is always amazing man. props

 

[StefTD]

so I've shot a few more pics with my dad's old lenses, loving them, it was quite challenging to get this pic
right because of the manual focus and lightning and so on, but I really like it, all the editing work was done
with Camera Raw so just pretty soft.

 

[zakky]

^^^really like it! good job man!

 

[StefTD]

would have been awesome to get the bee in focus, but that was way too hard

 

[arv_foh]

would have been awesome to get the bee in focus, but that was way too hard

you need to get a focusing rail for macros like that, it's almost impossible to do it without, insane shallow depth of field

trying to shoot macros even when it's slightly windy is so frustrating haha

 

[StefTD]

did it handheld, nice thing about the old lense is that the focusing range is really long, so you don't fuck
up the whole focus by a little turn, it was actually pretty windy-the flower is on my balcony on the second
floor and there was a storm 10 minutes later that actually almost destroyed that flower

 

[arvoitus]

I recently developed my second film with a analog SLR.

I used the Kodak Portra 400 film, really great quality:

 

[Carlsman]

Thank you Brian! For commenting on my lighting.
I love your photos and the postprocessing you do.


@arvoitus:
Really nice photos! I really like the one with the dog and the one with the cat.

 

[Ermz]

I recently developed my second film with a analog SLR.

Dang. The look of those shots gives me a similar hard-on to analogue saturation/compression.

 

[StefTD]

Dang. The look of those shots gives me a similar hard-on to analogue saturation/compression.

so true!

 

[FIXXXER]

+1

 

[NNotN-ENN]

Yeah the Portra stuff always looks nice. Good shots!

Carlsman, always love seeing new stuff from you!! Makes me feel very lazy though haha

 

[TesticleMilkshake]

My sister took a photojournalism class for with this kid, he is an amazing photographer. His specialities are street photography and portraiture, often works with the homeless.

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

Favorite photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenrhazlett/6208751502/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenrhazlett/5957164081/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenrhazlett/5258614843/sizes/l/in/photostream/

 

[exoslime]

+1 on the analog saturation hard-on

and wow, Hazletts photos are breathtaking..!!

 

[StefTD]

yep, great photos, I would love to do some kind of photo documentation with people, but I actually don't
know what to say or ask...I think I would be to shy to ask, and I am actually not very shy, just not sure
how to do it in such a situation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenrhazlett/7030982233/in/photostream
this is pretty cool imho, my girl took a photo of her dad 2 years ago that looked similar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenrhazlett/5766898064/in/photostream
I really like this one!

 

[LeSedna]

I sometimes said I should give it a try, random pictures are cool. You could promise them to put their photo on a blog and give them a card, so that you get both advertisement and an ice breaker ?