Photography

roifromnwales

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I used to be quite a good photog a few years back. couple published in papers [right place at right time] and won a local club comp. totally by accident [it was a snapshot of my daughter which turned out to be very good technically apparently.
I started when i was in hospital with smashed up leg and read everything in the library. it wasn't as hard as I thought so I swapped my point and press for a better camera and got bits and pieces.
i was really surprised how easy it all was. [and really enjoyed making the camera tell lies]
gave up when I was robbed in late 80's. they took all my kit and i never had the heart to start again..

I have just been sold [I couldn't resist it] a complete set up, about 2k worth. olympus OM1 and 4 plus macro and telephoto lenses and loads of filters etc so i am reading up and starting off again.
I wondered if we had any other keen photogs in here that would be interested in chatting about it and helping me regain some of the knowledge..
 
I'm about to buy my first 'real' digital camera.

& I've got photoshop elements and have learned a little about how to use it.

If you share your photos, I know of one who I consider quite good who may share more too.

:)
 
I'm lucky enough to make my living taking photographs as a staff toggy for the Shropshire Star and Shrewsbury Chronicle here in the UK! I have posted some of my leisure and works images on my (newly created 20/4/06!) first attempt at my own little bit of cyberspace at www.autograssphoto.piczo.com
For work use we use top end Nikons but for my own stuff I have top end Canon gear! I freelanced for more years than I care to remember but with the advent of digital, everyone and his dog thinks themselves as photographers so, I took a staff position as lots of places were employing "freelancers" who charged less and less and were just good at bluffing their way through!
 
so glad there is interest.
I sort of dabbled for the last couple of years having not bothered for 20 since my stuff was stolen.
I got a cannon eos and have slowly built up some filters and a cokin system but no lenses for it other than the 70 /135 zoom I got it with. I have a zenit as a back up and have the rings for the same filters and a selection of lenses but this is the first time I have had any macro stuff
had a look at sean white and there are some great shots there and also the difference between a working photog and someone who does it for "art"
I hope to pick both brains
I am away [again] for a couple of days and will get in touch when I get back [if that's ok with you]

LK I never go anywhere without my little eye Q digi. only a 1.3 m but great for those instant shots and i intend to use it for a natural shot to compare with my 35 m work.
will mail you when I get back --spares for my beast-- and freebies too so got to go.
overnight tonight and pull bits off tomorrow and friday
roi
 
Are you, as your screen name suggests, from North Wales? If so, that is quite close to the area we cover and I seem to remember, from the odd occasion we holidayed there, that there is some beautiful, and also dramatic, scenery around there!
With regard to filters, I very rarely use them, I think that during the last five years I have used an ND once and a grey grad twice (the ND filter was whilst shooting some boxing training pics to enable me to slow the shutter down and use rear sync flash to get a touch of movement in a very well lit gym and the grad whilst doing a couple of landscape cover shots for Shrops Mag!
 
:D I don't profess to be a photographer but here are one or two taken with our CHEAP Digital camera:-

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Originally posted by Little Kopit@Apr 27 2006, 09:38 PM
JSW, please tell us where!!!!


:D
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:D Sure will:-

Photograph 1 = Death Valley

Photograph 2 = The Grand Canyon

Photograph 3 = Laguna Beach at Sunset
 
A touch of a magenta cast but apart from that, I wish I was there! :¬)
 
Originally posted by virgil@Apr 28 2006, 04:06 PM
A touch of a magenta cast but apart from that, I wish I was there! :¬)
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:eek: I did say it was a cheap camera and the weather/lighting wasn't too good at the time. But I could actually clean them up a little with a Photo enhancer. ;)
 
"But I could actually clean them up a little with a Photo enhance"
this is the major benifit of digi camera work but i must admit I love the 35 m cameras.
I use [used to] filters to enhance and also to make the camera lie.
my favourite set of pics [which I don't have any more] was a set showing different weather conditions but they were all taken within minutes. i made it stormy, soft and gentle, morning , evening. it was quite an amusing set which any one who saw them had a lot of trouble believing they were all taken at the same time.
everything has progressed in the last 20 years so I have a lot to catch up on. I am not really into the effect filters.
on the way home last night there was a terrific sunset I was driving into. one place was crying out to be photographed.
the big orange sun was sinking between 2 trees. the effect was superb but didn't have the camera with me. I took a digi shot a bit further but it was nothing like the one I wanted to take.
it would have been a really good one to hang on the wall.
I also learnt a long time ago in a competition that everyone has individual taste. A judge ripped a photo to pieces. the photog ended up in tears [ a lady]. she rated her pic. I liked it too but it was all wrong according to the "judge". he rated my particular pic so highly it got first yet it was really a snapshot and taken from that angle [my daughter on her potty but you couldn't see that] because my leg was in plaster, my ribs taped and my left arm only just out of plaster and I could hardly move.
pure luck it came out technically good according to the judge but I did enlarge it and hang it. My dad loved it so much he nicked it and hung it at his house where it hung for years much to my daughtewrs ambarrassment.
I think landscape is my favourite subject but natural patterns attract and some portrait especially with filters to effect.

" With regard to filters, I very rarely use them" surely you will use a 1a or 1b skylight?
do you use a digi or 35 m for your work?

and yes i do live in north Wales with lots of terrific landscape opportunities so I'm really looking forward to getting out there and taking some and when I am on the road there are going to be lots of stops....
 
ps
JSW nice shots and you lucky B*******.
I was wishing I was there too.
but that is what photography is really about....... memories

it can also be art but when photography is art at least all the bits of people are in the RIGHT places lol
 
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