Take a picture once a day, whether you need to or not

[Mosesandstick]

Took this a couple of weeks ago on one of the few walks I've been on under lockdown. Been without my camera gear for a while, but the best camera is the one you've got on you...


2020-04-25 Regent's Park by Aled Moses, on Flickr

[Mosesandstick]

Wasn't sure whether to revive the food thread or post it here, anyways lockdown baking time:


2020-05-06 Cheese Focaccia 1 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-05-06 Cheese Focaccia 2 by Aled Moses, on Flickr

[Mosesandstick]

Is there a limit to how many times in a row we're allowed to post in this thread? Couple of shots around London practicing with the telephoto.


2020-05-09 Cantelowes Gardens by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-05-09 Cantelowes Gardens-2 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-05-16 Hampstead Heath 002 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-05-16 Hampstead Heath 004 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-05-16 Hampstead Heath 005 by Aled Moses, on Flickr

[Khaldun]

No limits!

Glad to see the shots.

My plans to do portrait work have kind of gone to shit, but I might do some self-portraits just to explore.

Was toying with going to a protest tomorrow with camera. Am covid-nervous about it.

Have some flower shots from earlier this spring that I need to work with, have been kind of unmotivated lately.

[Mosesandstick]

I feel your pain. We've recently had an incredible run of Spring weather, but I can't really take advantage of it as we're not going to travel just to take photos. I hope you find something that scratches that photography itch.

I really like Chihuly's sculptures, and they had a few down in Kew Gardens in London last summer. Some photos:


2019-08 Kew Gardens 006 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2019-08 Kew Gardens 008 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2019-08 Kew Gardens 010 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2019-08 Kew Gardens 013 by Aled Moses, on Flickr

[IainC]

Washi A film. Handmade ISO 12 black and white film made from motion picture leader protector stock.

Spotmatic, Takumar 105 f/2.8


Washi A024.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


Washi A016.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


Washi A004-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[IainC]

A friend got her full tattoo finished, healed and wanted some photos of it. She's also super into latex clothing so we did a tattoo shoot that then morphed into an alt-fashion thing in the machinery room of my condo building. Be aware that if you click through on any of these photos, you may end up in an album that has some NSFW images. Nothing explicit, but there is some see-through latex, and some nudity facing away from the camera.



IMG_6338-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr



IMG_6346-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr



IMG_6385-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[Trippy]

Wow the detail on that tattoo (tattoos?) is impressive.

[Mosesandstick]

Interesting shots, feels like you've managed to get two very different kind of photos in the same shoot.

[Teleku]

For how much I travel the world, and how many pictures I've taken, I've been terrible about ever posting anything to this glorious thread.  I don't expect that to ever change, really, but I was just looking through some more recent photos over the last few months, and this one struck me.  Just a random photo from my cell phone from walking through Hledan market in Yangon, but I liked it.

[Samwise]

Encountered this photogenic fellow in a walk around the Marin Headlands yesterday:

[IainC]

The coyote is cool.

If you don't bring your own photogenic young lady to the flower festival, wait until someone else's gets into position.


IMG_6522.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_6542.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Random riverside cafe shot


IMG_6548.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Went to shoot butterflies at the weekend, and found myself surrounded by birds instead. Unfortunately I only had a macro lens with me so I'll go back there soon with the 70-200.

IMG_6434.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_6439.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[Khaldun]

Really nice set-up with the women at the flower festival. Those are the kinds of scenes that make me want to take a painting class where we really get into color theory so that I can make smart choices.

[Count Nerfedalot]

love the egret! how did you get it all so sharp?

[IainC]

love the egret! how did you get it all so sharp?

Luck mostly and a good lens. That was with the 24-70 f/4L and a lot of crop. I went back on Saturday with the 70-200 and got some better pics.

Northern Treeshrews

IMG_6694.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_6606.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Javan Pond Heron

IMG_6730.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_6698.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Asian Openbill

IMG_6650.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

I think this is a Lesser Forktailed Drongo

IMG_6740.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Greater Coucal

IMG_6678.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Finlayson's Squirrel

IMG_6683.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[Samwise]

Those are great!  I especially like the blue birb in flight and the surprised shrew.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Those are all beautiful, Iain!

[Khaldun]

Love the colors and light on the last one of the shrew on the tree, but they're all very nice.

[Count Nerfedalot]

So, the older I get, the lazier I get. Which, considering I started life lazy, is probably not a good thing, although I've always said the best engineer is a lazy engineer (who figures out the way to solve something with the least possible effort).    Maybe when I retire (Real Soon Now) I won't be so tired all the time and will have more energy for fun stuff like photography. At least that's my hope. In the meantime, I've learned of these cool-sounding newfangled (not really) thingies called phone camera lens attachments. Basically your clip-on tie for a cell phone camera.  I'm not too lazy to carry my phone around. I'm probably not too lazy to keep a case of lenses handy in the car even. I do have binoculars and map books and Audubon identifier books and gloves and hiking boots and a rock pick and fanny pack and portable microscope and such in the car after all, just in case! And a (beach) towel.  I actually used the towel once to help put out a brush fire in a horse pasture! I call the car my self-propelled purse. Camera gear running into the several thousands of dollars worth I don't generally stow in the portable solar furnace/car though.  But back to phone lenses. Are they any good or too good to be true? Anyone have any experience with them?  My Pixel camera is pretty good, and I even have a couple (full size and desktop) tripods I can mount it on.  A lot of the stuff on Amazon is super cheap so I'll probably get something just as an expendable toy to try it out soon, but if anyone has any concrete suggestions or warnings, that would help enormously! If I can get half the fun out of a $40 set of phone camera lenses that I've gotten from the $20 hand held plastic lensed microscope I got at Radio Shack 15 years ago I'll call it a bargain!  But I'm willing to spend a good deal more if it's actually worth it.

<psa>Speaking of solar furnaces/cars, keep your hand sanitizer handy, but not on your dashboard or anywhere the sun can reach!  That stuff is basically low grade napalm, and quite ignitable under the magnifying lens of a car windshield. </psa>

[Mosesandstick]

No experience with phone lens attachments, but modern mirrorless cameras and telephoto lenses are incredibly small.

Nice photos Iain, I really like the squirrel. Did you have to go far out of central Bangkok?

Couple of backlog photos from a hiking holiday last year.


2019-04 Yorkshire Dales 003 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2019-04 Yorkshire Dales 004 by Aled Moses, on Flickr

[Khaldun]

I wish I could say why exactly this whole thing has killed my visual feeling. I've done shots at home, of home-like action, but it's really messed with my exploratory desires and my wish to do images of people. I feel bad about not making images more often but I also just can't somehow.

[IainC]

Nice photos Iain, I really like the squirrel. Did you have to go far out of central Bangkok?

Nope, all of those are from a park in the north of Bangkok centre - Suan Rotfai park.

I had a long weekend at Krabi, which is a beach destination on the Andaman coast of Thailand.

Some highlights.

IMG_6820.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_6898.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_7094.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_7022.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_6980.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_7028.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_6832.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Spoilered for spider

[Count Nerfedalot]

love that sunset pic!

[Pennilenko]

I rarely feel jealousy, but Ian seems to be living a hella good life.

[Count Nerfedalot]

Abstract nature art.

[IainC]

I've been in kind of a rut recently. I was in Koh Chiang a few weeks ago and took ages to even get the regular landscape shots edited. Here are a few of the ones I don't hate too hard.


IMG_7818.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_7660-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_7632-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_7642.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Film shots

Soviet panoramic camera


KohChiangHorizon01.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

Medium format slide film. I fucked up by guessing wrong on the reciprocity of expired Fuji Velvia so most of the two rolls I shot were hopelessly overexposed.


KohChiang03.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


KohChiang07.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[IainC]

Did a bit of a photo walk around the edge of Chinatown here.


IMG_8566.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_8539.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_8535.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_8559.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_8556-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

And a random late night shot.


IMG_8452.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[Khaldun]

The wave motion on the Soviet panoramic shot is really interesting.

[Mosesandstick]

Been a bit slow on my post-processing work, good job on everyone for keeping the thread going, even if it's difficult during Covid times.

Anyways, chihuahas. And a lab.


2020-07 Puppies 030 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-07 Puppies 026 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-07 Puppies 020 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-07 Puppies 033 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-07 Puppies 012 by Aled Moses, on Flickr


2020-07 Puppies 005 by Aled Moses, on Flickr

[IainC]

I haven't been outside with a camera much since I got back to the UK, but I did take some photos from my new apartment's balcony over the past couple of weeks.


IMG_8827-Edit-2_edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_8817.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_8816.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


IMG_8813.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[IainC]

I went out to buy a camera from an elderly gent in a seaside town in Norfolk at the weekend. The countryside had a whole lot more snow than we had in the city, and we got stcuk in snowdifts more than once.

Was pretty though!


IMG_8971.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr



IMG_8959.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr



IMG_8956.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr


Bonus rainbow photo from the previous weekend.


IMG_8948-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[IainC]

I was going through camera bags looking for something and I found a roll of medium format film that I had forgotten about. I had no idea what was on it so I developed it quickly to see, and there were actually some nice images on it from last summer in Bangkok.



Moskva0001-Edit-2.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr




Moskva0002.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr




Moskva0007.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[Khaldun]

Like the girl with the car. Kind of wish her feet were in the frame.

[IainC]

It was a narrow alley and I was using a 6x9 folding camera with a fixed 105mm lens. I had nowhere to go to make it wider, and I wanted to get the width of the car more than the full height of the girl. Also, it's a rangefinder and there's quite a lot of parallax between what the viewfinder shows you and what the lens sees.

[Khaldun]

Yeah. It's a great shot anyway--great subject, really interesting.