General Chat / The Offical Photography Thread

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Took these of my friend Erick last night. We are on a tournament paintball team and we practice every wednesday. I just thought these were two of the better ones..

Here's some I've taken recently:

My Nephew


The newly refurbished Jet Star II


Spider (Mauer-Sohne SC200), currently my desktop background


I've got a few good ones of Colossus (Swartzchopf... uh, yeah you know what I'm trying to say... looping coaster) and of Wicked, the new Zierer Launched coaster, but I've got to get them positioned and rotated correctly. I'll put them up later. I think my pictures have gotten a bit better over the years. I find myself going places to get pictures more than to do things haha.

This was my photo entry for the yearly Photocontest at Themepark.nl

^I'm not seeing it... the link says something like "Do not steal our bandwidth" when I tried to open it in a new window.

Why are you all taking pictures of coasters without the train... seems pointless to shoot.

Jampri, that picture of your nephew is awesome, one of the best portrait type photoes Ive ever seen honestly.

I have this habit of taking random pictures of people, because most of my friends look terrible when posing and/or refuse to have pictures taken and/or force me to take fourteen and let them review each one and pick the best. So as an experiment i've mostly just been timing my digital camera's delay so i can pull it out and have wonderful pictures of people's genuine looks at the time.
unfortunately due to the nature of this method i usually get half of the subjects face, or all sky, or the like. here a few that actually worked.

Me and my buddies get ready for prom-





On an expedition to London-





you get the idea. there's also a massive pile of failures.. actually, most of the "good" ones are considered failures, normally. Like this one, where the lens refused to open all the way.



of course this led to my abusing the occasionally glitchy lens for my friend's action glare.



huzzah?
If you'd like i can post the more conventional photos of my London trip. Some i think came out very well indeed.

Edited by ][ntamin22, 07 July 2007 - 10:50 PM.

Why are you all taking pictures of coasters without the train... seems pointless to shoot.

I actually make an effort to have a train or a car in each of my coaster shots. The two I posted above have them

@eman: Thanks man. That shot was pure luck really. I actually got a few really good ones like that that day. I showed my brother the pics and gave him some prints and he was pissed that they paid a professional photographer a good sum of money to get pics. Heck, all I needed to do was set him on the ottoman and smile at him. He did the rest The only editing I did to that was BW and increase color in iPhoto and then add the black and blurred corners.

Been trying to improve on macro photography, shooting things up close or in detail as opposed to trying to cram everything into one shot and cluttering the composition.


I wish I had an SLR... they could have focused these butterfly photos at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom better:








Although this flower shot from Gilroy Gardens came out quite nicely:

Cork, those are really cool. I've been trying to get some practice with macro photography but I don't get as much as I'd like. Before my HD crashed on my PC, I had a picture of a flower of almost the exact same type at Lagoon Park here in Utah. They're really pretty. I wonder if I posted it earlier in the thread...

EDIT:
Didn't have it in the thread yet, but had it on my imageshack account. This is with my old 4 MP camera, so its not as crisp as my 10 MP one now, but its still pretty good I think. This one has no editing.

Edited by Jampri, 07 July 2007 - 11:47 PM.

Thanks Jampri!


P.S. My goal by Christmas is to buy myself something like a Nikon D200 with this fucking awesome lens. And some other neat stuff too.

The D200 is a great camera, but keep in mind that there might be a D300 next year. This is not oficially confirmed by Nikon, but if you are listening you should be able to hear the birds singing. I doubt they will release it before end of 2008 though, as the D3 will be released end of this year.

The 18-200 VR is a good lens, but keep in mind that it starts at 18mm which is almost 30mm on a film camera. Thinking of landscapes that can be a lot already. Apart from that it is just f/3.5-5.6 which is not bad as a start, but you probably want f/2.8 zooms or even f/1.8 lenses. The possibilities with those are much better.
If I were you, I would think of a used camera and used lenses. You can get quite good lenses in the Nikon forums a lot sheaper than the new ones. So you could add a Sigma 10-20 or the Tokina 12-24. Seeing your pictures those might be good for you. (kenrockwell.com offers some very interesting tests.)

You setup would be a great start. Will take me some time to buy a D200 and a 650€-lens.

Good luck on realizing your plans.

Here is a picture I took in Venice, Italy back in April. I think it turned out pretty well considering I was using a 7.1 MP Kodak EasyShare and it was one of the first shots I took with it.

^Thats a pretty neat picture. I've always loved pictures of Venice. All the one's I've seen make it look like such a beautiful place (although I have heard otherwise.) I hope I can go there someday.

^Thats a pretty neat picture. I've always loved pictures of Venice. All the one's I've seen make it look like such a beautiful place (although I have heard otherwise.) I hope I can go there someday.

Who on earth told you Venice isn't beautiful?

Haha, someone told me a while ago that it was kind of dirty and smelled bad. I haven't really ever taken them too seriously though. I still think it looks beautiful.

@DragonInferno: That one is looking pretty nice. Cutting out the three middle windows and adding some white canvas could work really well there.

Here are three (four) I took at the Münster Classics 2007, a local Old Timer Tour. They all have a white canvas, which will be sort of invisible with the white background here.









Magnus

Dude, nice shots. I can see a smudge on the first one, tho, on the bottom left.

Haha. Knew someone would find it.
That was the first thing I fixed after uploading these. Didn't see it the night I was working on those and the fact that I was using my laptop didn't help either.
Thanks for the comment.