Photography

[datan]

No, I didn't even develop that one myself...took it to the local Wally World. It was my very first ever roll of B&W, and I was so scared about how they might turn out. Some of my favorite pics came off that very first roll, isn't that funny? Natural afternoon sunlight. Taken on my living room couch right next to the window.

Love, Heather

hm...it does look warmtone. do you know what kind of paper it was printed on?

the foreground (pillow and baby's shirt) looks like it could bring up a bit more detail if you burn it in. do you have the contact sheets?

 

[Tini]

Ivoryrain wrote:

I have a Minolta 3XI I love - it can be an automatic or a manual



Snap - We have the same. But awaiting delivery of an HP 945 digicam.

 

[Tini]

An interesting experiment that hapened in church the other day. We have a German guy in church (late 50's) and very old fashioned who is a semi professional photographer and adamant that standard photography is the ONLY way.
Our home group leaders wife had a small point and shoot (3Megpixel) digicam. Discussion continued and a shoot out was the result.
Werner with all his standard cameras (no additional lighting etc.) and Kathy with the digicam. They both developed a few photos on standard film paper and brought them in the next Sunday. (They were portraits of kids playing in ther coffee room).
I could't see the difference and in general prefered the loom of the digicam results.
Interesting outcome and not what I expected.

 

[EliasEmmanuel]

personally, I swear by film cameras.... the only digital camera I've seen that'd meet my resolution expectations was a 12 megapixel that a digital photographer I met had, and since I don't have a firstborn to sell yet that'll have to wait But yeah.... the alchemy of traditional photography has me tight in its grip.... I just love the process.

(my stuff's at http://www.radford.edu/~cswalker , incidentally)

 

[* kittie *]

wow, you took all those?

anyways, they are very creative? deep. awesome.

 

[Tini]

Great shots - very artisitic. I like!

 

[EliasEmmanuel]

wow, you took all those?

anyways, they are very creative? deep. awesome.

Heehee...Gorsh.... :o *scuffs foot on ground and looks at his feet*

seriously, wow, thanks. I havn't done much shooting in a few months (working on building a darkroom of my own), but I'm really itching to get going again.... once I get through this backlog of film

Actually I have lots of other shots I havn't put online... those were just the newest at the time. I'll get a more complete gallery up once I move the site (it's still on the college server, so it won't be there forever). I'll try to let whoever's interested know when that happens.

Thanks again!

 

[short stick]

i like although i would agree to the initial outlay of the digital cameras of quality, i have found that through general shooting and ease of use (e.g. not changing film etc) the digital is a great investment, also not spending money on chemicals to process...

trouble is that you also need a decent printer otherwise the quality of the photos is irrelevent really...

looking foward to seeing some more of your shots Elias

 

[Tini]

trouble is that you also need a decent printer otherwise the quality of the photos is irrelevent really...


looking foward to seeing some more of your shots Elias

We just take a disc of the image in a JPG formt to the local developer who puts them onto a standard postcard print for about R2.00 per print (i.e. approx 20c US?). They look great - no visible difference to an amatuer and a lot cheaper than a printer.

Agree with your comments regarding seeing Elias' new work. We wait in anticipation!

 

[LadyBird]

I would much rather have an old fashioned 35mm camera than one of the new digital kinds. Last year I took a photography course and LOVED it! It was awesome. I think that part of the fun in taking pictures is controlling the aperature and focus and everything else too manually. And I like developing my own pictures...unfortunatly a dark rooms costs a lot of money...

 

[Stuart Elflett]

I used film for at least 20 years... loved photography, but could never justify the cost of really getting involved - purely the film & developing costs... I won a digital camera in 1998 - it took a 320 X 200 pixel image, and by todays standards was a toy - back then, it was worth over $600 - I took a few shots, and stuck it in a cupboard as it simply couldn't equal 35mm quality...

It got dragged out when my first daughter was born in 2000... the images were still tiny, but they were instant... that lasted until she started crawling, and found that digital cameras made good hammers... rapid succession through a range of cheapies took me quickly to a Canon Powershot G2 - in the first year with that camera, I took 10,000 photos (that's 277 films worth - or $25,000 worth of film and processing)... I printed a good 10% of those, at around 50c a print...

Early this year, I had an offer to shoot some commercial work, which could pay for an upgrade (all my photography has been self funded... sales and competition wins have paid for the equipment, including a Canon S9000 for printing enlargements, etc), so I went up to a Canon Eos 10D, and have been steadily adding lenses... the photographic 'hobby' is starting to make some nice money for me now - the skills I've picked up from really using the cameras rather than only taking the odd shot have made a huge difference to photography for me...

And interesting fact popped up at a recent product launch though - 80% of digital camera owners have never printed one picture... images get shared on the web now more than they do physically!

I'd love to share some of my work with you - but until I've posted a bit more I can't even give you a link - although there is a link to one of my albums in my profile...

Cheers,
Stuart

 

[ynnad777]

Hey Guys,
I am new on this website and am just getting started. I love Photography I have been taking photographs for 3 years now and plan to join the mission field to travel around with Missionaries to capture thier adventures. Here is some of my work(Becuase I am new it won't allow me to post the link but it is fullersphotos.com) I hope you like it! I just got it up on the web so I am going to be adding alot more stuff but come see what I have so far.

 

[Im4HimiHs]

Cool pics EliasEmmanuel.

I used to use film, but I still have several rolls undeveloped and some of those are dated back to the early '80. Then, I got a quality digital camera and I am enjoy it very much. The ability to delete a bad pic and replace it instantly is awesone. Luckly, I have the computer hardware and software to be able to print them. It is nice to be able to hand the family their pics shortly after taking them.

 

[Stuart Elflett]

I've now got enough posts under my belt to share a link with you:
http://www.photozo.com/album/member/onehotrx7

That's a good place to see some of my shots!

Peace be with you...
Stuart

 

[LN]

pro photog here!

comparing a consumer point and shoot digital to a professional digital SLR is like comparing a stagecoach to a ferrari

people see stuff coming out of point and shoot digital consumer cameras and freak when I say that I'm digital. Until they come in and see a 16x20. When they start being able to count eyelashes, they are no longer concerned.

peace,

LN

 

[Stuart Elflett]

Too true, LN, too true - even the difference between a top end compact and an introductory digital can be staggering... I've had people see what I did with the Powershot G2, and go out and buy a sub $200 digital camera, and get discouraged because they couldn't get the same results... I still get that with the 10D - they see professional quality work and think they'll get the same from a $100 digital from Kmart... besides that, you'd know yourself, the image quality is still largely in the lens, and the same applies to all the new 300D buyers who are putting a budget lens on the camera, and wondering why their images aren't as sharp... the eye of the photographer still counts, but the ability to capture the image does rely on the equipment to a certain degree...

Peace be with you...
Stuart

 

[joleen]

hi^^

i like photo as well.. i use nikon f65... ^^ i have alot of fun in devolop film n print my own self photo.. very fun^^ but i never done colour printing of my own^^

 

[LN]

You too Stuart!

I love it when people ask about optical zoom on my DSLR. I don't even know what optical zoom is. I'm like well... I have an 80-200 2.8, 50 1.4, 28-70 2.8, 14 2.8, 20 2.8, 17-35 3.2...

LOL!

The 10D is a nice camera. I have three D100s. After some tweaking on the custom settings, they are great. I used the D2H and while the body is awesome, the files look the same as my D100 but with less MPs. Although the sensor is supposed to make up for that, I'm not going for it.

 

[Stuart Elflett]

Nice range of glass there, LN... I'm still working my way up to 'L' series glass, by buying and selling lenses at the right price - so I've always got the opportunity to try some different glass too... I have a 28-135 IS, 75-300, 100mm f/2.8 macro and a 50mm 1.8 in my bag at the moment, and a loan 100-400L - to the people that ask the 'optical' zoom I tell them either "anything between 28-400mm, 44-640 'effective', or 15X zoom"... that normally solves it...

Peace be with you...
Stuart

 

[Oblio]

Well, I love the old fashioned way.

I love to shoot my Graflex 6x9 MF

I took 10,000 photos (that's 277 films worth - or $25,000 worth of film and processing)...

You pay $90 a roll for film & processing ??

You have a good point though, and the way to get better at photos is to shoot. A lot. Film/lab adds up. There is not much recurring costs in digital.

I still love my Graflex