December Photo Thread

[Gromit]

What camera? The colours are good (unlike my Fuji ). Shopped or raw?

 

[girasol]

Yay, Santa brought me a proper camera! No more photos with my mobile for me...

No idea how to do anything with it apart from the preset thingies yet

This one is very impressive - did you pan it? Doesn't look like you did, but it's quite amazing how sharp the train is compared with the rest.

 

[Sweet FA]

It's a Nikon D40X. I photoshopped them all (auto levels/contrast - I tried auto colour but it washed them out too much). I panned but it was total luck that the train ended up in focus and not a bit of tree or grass (if 'panning' means moving the camera with the train?). I basically used the preset with the running person on it

I only started using it yesterday (the memory card got delivered to the wrong address ) but it's really exciting.

Anybody got any ideas re: books I could buy to tell me how to do this properly? I've found books that tell me how to use the camera but the instructions do that OK, I'm really looking for something that will teach me about composition, examples from the masters etc.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

...I'm really looking for something that will teach me about composition, examples from the masters etc.

I don't think you need any theory on composition etc. All photo books by the 'masters' are worth buying/borrowing just to try and see how they saw things. Personally, I prefer to try and do something different that works to my way of seeing. You obviously have a natural eye and understanding of the basic technical principles. See as much photography as possible and try and understand how the photograph was taken and what the photographer saw rather than teaching yourself rules.

Best book I was given this year was 'Scrapbook' - Henri Cartier Bresson. I'm not his biggest fan, but the book is very revealing in many ways.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[pogofish]

Braemar was cold & quiet yesterday:

 

[neonwilderness]

Braemar was cold & quiet yesterday

I like that first one

Here's one I took late last night.

 

[alef]

Magneze. New year's eve, Offline:

 

[Dhimmi]

Braemar was cold & quiet yesterday:

Really like this one.

And this, rotary engine, what's it doing on a pole.

cheers,

 

[pogofish]

It was from a Wellington that crashed in Glen Cluanie during the war - wreckage lay there till quite recently when two engines & the larger pieces were recovered - One engine & (IIRC) wing remains were sent off for conservation whilst this engine was raised as a monument to all the aircrew killed in the Cairngorms over the years:

More info on this & some other crash sites here:

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/scottish_crashsites/oxfordph404.html

 

[Grandma Death]

Taken Boxing Day in Burton with my new sony erricsson camera phone.

 

[Dhimmi]

It was from a Wellington that crashed in Glen Cluanie during the war - wreckage lay there till quite recently when two engines & the larger pieces were recovered - One engine & (IIRC) wing remains were sent off for conservation whilst this engine was raised as a monument to all the aircrew killed in the Cairngorms over the years:

Blimey, didn't think it might be on a memorial. Have you got any more photos of the momument? I like the plaque, would it be okay to share that with an Aussie chum?