The Official(?) Head-Case Photography Thread.

[gauche]

Originally Posted by jinp6301

wow, nice contrast on the japan pics, gauche

and your bro is a nice photographer hungrych

jinp, thanks.

hungrych, your brother's pictures seem to have a wider than normal format, do you know what kind of camera he was using?

[hungrych]

He just cropped them like that, but he also had a wide angle lens.

[Asr]

Pics from the 8/24/08 HeadRoom & LA/OC Audio Society meet. I know these pics aren't exactly interesting but I wanted to demonstrate something.

1st pic taken by me with the Nikon D80 body and Tamron 17-50 f/2.8.
2nd pic taken by Iron_Dreamer with the Nikon D80 body and one of his lenses. See the work of the better photographer!

[gauche]

Originally Posted by Asr

Pics from the 8/24/08 HeadRoom & LA/OC Audio Society meet. I know these pics aren't exactly interesting but I wanted to demonstrate something.

1st pic taken by me with the Nikon D80 body and Tamron 17-50 f/2.8.
2nd pic taken by Iron_Dreamer with the Nikon D80 body and one of his lenses. See the work of the better photographer!

[ig]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g156/Asrale/LAOC%202008/laoc08_22.jpg[/img]

[ig]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g156/Asrale/LAOC%202008/laoc08_23.jpg[/img]

Asr, your pic imo is no better or worse than Dreamer's. You both were visually stimulated by the chandeliers and felt compelled to capture them in you own individual styles. Or am I just reading way too much into your comment.

Besides, the better photographer would have used large, hi-rez, fast black and white film and German glass.
Of course I'm talkin' Contrastique w/ a Hasselblad.

[Asr]

Originally Posted by gauche

Asr, your pic imo is no better or worse than Dreamer's. You both were visually stimulated by the chandeliers and felt compelled to capture them in you own individual styles. Or am I just reading way too much into your comment.

Well Iron_Dreamer was better able to zoom in without blurring the shot is more of what I meant.

And two selections from today's sunset. Couldn't decide which I liked better so here's both:

[grawk]

Contrast is better on the 2nd, color in the first. If I had to pick, I prefer the crispness of the 2nd.

[gauche]

Originally Posted by Asr

Well Iron_Dreamer was better able to zoom in without blurring the shot is more of what I meant.

And two selections from today's sunset. Couldn't decide which I liked better so here's both:

[ig]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g156/Asrale/Colorado/sunset0826_1.jpg[/img]

[ig]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g156/Asrale/Colorado/sunset0826_2.jpg[/img]

Yep, read way too much into it.
Nevermind.

Oh btw , nice sunset pics.

[Iron_Dreamer]

Here's a shot I took on the drive home the other day. Made me really wish I had a tripod with me at that moment.

[Asr]

You and me both Dreamer, I had a great opportunity to do one of those too over the weekend but no tripod made me sad.

At the Cave of the Winds near Colorado Springs



Fun with shutter speed near the CotW entrance



Inside Cave of the Winds









Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs











Dead specimen permanently poised for the ages

[Contrastique]

You have some nice surroundings there in The States. I would love to see that myself one day.

Meet my new camera (the one on the right):


My boyfriend picked up a box from where he had his own photography store before he joined his dad. 2 Rolleicords came along of which this one is in the best condition. I added it to my collection so now I can experiment with 6x6 for real! We have to go there soon coz there all still like 20 boxes left with cameras, 2 Leitz projectors and 2 large format (8x10") cameras, the latter probably not functioning anymore.
Really awesome playing around with that old stuff. Lot's of unfamiliar brands, lot's of solutions to "problems" nobody even wonders about anymore with all these cameras that take care of everything without you having to think about how things work or know when to press the shutter-release button. Long live smile detection nowadays

[jinp6301]

wow colorado is gorgeous!

and cool "new" camera, indra!

[krrm]

Originally Posted by jinp6301

wow colorado is gorgeous!

How true, and especially after traveling through Kansas!

[EdipisReks]

i have a rollei 35s. it was my dad's. i haven't used it, i probably should. my strongest memory of it was my dad taking pictures with it of me next to rockets at the Kennedy Space Center, when i was a kid.

[Asr]

All pics below from hiking trails behind NCAR in Boulder, CO









View of Boulder at 17mm focal length...



...and at 50mm

[grawk]

Nice, I interviewed for my current job while at a conference at NCAR a couple summers ago.

[Asr]

Originally Posted by grawk

Nice, I interviewed for my current job while at a conference at NCAR a couple summers ago.

It's a cool place, has a great view of Boulder. And they do some cool stuff, I've been inside a few times. The main attraction for the locals is the network of hiking trails behind it tho.

[grawk]

the main attraction for me is their supercomputers, since that's what I do

[Asr]

Oh sweet, I guess you get to work with Bluefire?

NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory: bluefire

That system is a monster! A monster! 76 teraflops, geez...

[riceboy]

Originally Posted by grawk

Contrast is better on the 2nd, color in the first. If I had to pick, I prefer the crispness of the 2nd.

X2. I do like the contrast on the second one more, but both are great. Those skies look at Hawaii but with less clouds. All the pics in Colorado look great Asr. Keep them coming .

[grawk]

Originally Posted by Asr

Oh sweet, I guess you get to work with Bluefire?

NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory: bluefire

That system is a monster! A monster! 76 teraflops, geez...

No, I work on the system that was delivered a day before that to NOAA R&D in Maryland