any ninja photographers? photoblogs.

[mohan]

I want to shoot night life with this baby;


Leica 50mm 1:0.95, to bad only to bad its over £7 grand.

after working in the film industry though I've been spoiled by using nice gear.

[kwami]

It gets me out and about I'm always rambling about with my little russian



taken out on Uist magical place

[dj seizure]

I want to shoot night life with this baby;


Leica 50mm 1:0.95, to bad only to bad its over £7 grand.

after working in the film industry though I've been spoiled by using nice gear.

Oh my god.

Literally speechless.

[jiba]

Here is a little bit of my stuff, currently using a Nikon D80 and the kit lens 18-135 and a 50mm 1.8 (which I use as often as possible!!) Looking at getting a 28mm prime next and a nice wide angle.

[firky]

I like the one of the woman on the tracks, goes to show you don't need to spend thousands for pro quality results. It's all about the skill of the photographer and developer / photoshoppery. Having said that I know a bloke, can't really call him a friend, who lives in Sweden and owns a Hasselblad H4D-60 - they're about £35k just for the body. It never leaves the studio and only takes shots of products - such as cars, frozen pizzas, roast chickens, occasional model etc.

Still makes a living off it and a very comfortable one at that. Bloke's a tnuc to work with tho

[firky]

Perhaps the wrong thread for it... but does anyone else really hate 'urban exploration' photography? Bores me shitless, first time you see it it is interesting to see stuff you don't normally and having done it myself, breaking in and that is a thrill but the end product is very repetitive. Once you've seen one derelict factory or asylum you've pretty much seen them all! A bit like porn really, doing it is much better htan looking at pics :z

[mohan]

Perhaps the wrong thread for it... but does anyone else really hate 'urban exploration' photography? Bores me shitless, first time you see it it is interesting to see stuff you don't normally and having done it myself, breaking in and that is a thrill but the end product is very repetitive. Once you've seen one derelict factory or asylum you've pretty much seen them all! A bit like porn really, doing it is much better htan looking at pics :z

Totally agree, seen quite a lot of HDR urban exploration stuff which is even worse. I do keep an eye on http://www.artificialowl.net/ though.

[dj seizure]

Ewwww HDR. Makes me cringe.

[mohan]

here are some of mine, no photoshop involved.




Massive Cliche i know;



If only I got my feet wet this would have been a perfect shot;

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

[dj seizure]

Very tidy photos sire.

Take them using film? Or did you get the grainy effects by increasing iso?

[mohan]

Very tidy photos sire.

Take them using film? Or did you get the grainy effects by increasing iso?

All but the second last one where shot on film, the grain is party because of bad scanning rather than just the film. I'm a bit of a dinosaur, still love film (and love film cameras), haven't taken any personal photos in months, taken thousands of shots for work though, this is soon to be my new colleague;(the robot not the person).

[dj seizure]

Oh wow! Madness ting!

Well yeah, I only use film too. Just thought I'd drop, if you go to a big enough ASDA they have the photo centres there. They process your films for £2.97 and scan them to CD. Pretty sick eh? But obviously it has to be C41 films. All b&w which isn't has to be done at home and then you can take your negatives into ASDA and they'll scan them in on to dick for 97p for 4 films on one disc.

Absolute steal for high quality scanning!

[mohan]

Oh wow! Madness ting!

Well yeah, I only use film too. Just thought I'd drop, if you go to a big enough ASDA they have the photo centres there. They process your films for £2.97 and scan them to CD. Pretty sick eh? But obviously it has to be C41 films. All b&w which isn't has to be done at home and then you can take your negatives into ASDA and they'll scan them in on to dick for 97p for 4 films on one disc.

Absolute steal for high quality scanning!

Thanks for the heads up, I have a flatbed that can scan film but it's such a pain in the ass to do and the results are patchy.

[dj seizure]

I was using a Veho scanner. HORRIBLEY SHIT.

Then ASDA saved me! Get on it!

[firky]

Perhaps the wrong thread for it... but does anyone else really hate 'urban exploration' photography? Bores me shitless, first time you see it it is interesting to see stuff you don't normally and having done it myself, breaking in and that is a thrill but the end product is very repetitive. Once you've seen one derelict factory or asylum you've pretty much seen them all! A bit like porn really, doing it is much better htan looking at pics :z

Totally agree, seen quite a lot of HDR urban exploration stuff which is even worse. I do keep an eye on http://www.artificialowl.net/ though.

There's some good stuff on http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/ but all of it is much of a likeness.

[seckle]

here are some of mine, no photoshop involved.




Massive Cliche i know;



If only I got my feet wet this would have been a perfect shot;

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

love the one with the woman in the rain, at the end. nice work.

[seckle]

Very tidy photos sire.

Take them using film? Or did you get the grainy effects by increasing iso?

All but the second last one where shot on film, the grain is party because of bad scanning rather than just the film. I'm a bit of a dinosaur, still love film (and love film cameras), haven't taken any personal photos in months, taken thousands of shots for work though, this is soon to be my new colleague;(the robot not the person).

i do a lot of green screen stuff too, but nothing with robots yet. is the robot for high speed 60fps stuff? looks like you have it on a track? quicktime 360??

[seckle]

I want to shoot night life with this baby;


Leica 50mm 1:0.95, to bad only to bad its over £7 grand.

after working in the film industry though I've been spoiled by using nice gear.

i've gotten to play around with a few of those leica primes with a red one scarlet. the 19mm is amazing, and just wide enough that it starts going circular, but not fish eye. beautiful lenses, but as you say, so expensive that most people can only rent them. you can buy an adapter from switzerland to use some of the leica primes on a canon 5d or 7d.

[firky]

Prefer Carl Zeiss glass myself, check this badboy out. It was made for some Arab Prince IIRC and requires a static mount such as a car to use properly:


But that was a one off...... this baby you can own for only £38k

http://www.sigmaphoto.com/shop/200-500m ... x-dg-sigma

Sigma’s APO 200-500mm F2.8/400-1000mm F5.6 EX DG, is the first large-aperture ultra telephoto lens to have an F2.8 aperture at 500mm. With its specially designed attachment mounted becomes a 400-1000mm F5.6 ultra telephoto lens capable of auto-focus shooting. It has ELD (Extraordinary Low Dispersion) and SLD (Special Low Dispersion) glass for maximum correction of aberrations. Perfect fast moving nature subjects and sports such as surfing, polo and soccer and as it excels at tracking fast moving objects it is a great surveillance lens. Here, Sigma’s achievement is unsurpassed and stands alone.

[dj seizure]

Ahhh man, You lot are all pro and stuff

I can't afford shit! Buying and developing film is expensive enough!

Got a few more travel photos developed/printed!