Anyone into Photography?

[ricardo]

I just do it as a hobby and its pretty nice to try to capture those magical moments, where everything seems to be perfect and you forget about stuttering and all the stress of life.

I just started to do a gallery with my photos.

In case anyone wants to see it in the links below:

Geneva and Surroundings: http://druk-code.com/index.html

Prague during free time after a conference: http://rtiago.web.cern.ch/rtiago/Prague/index.html

Post yours too if you have it.

[chris2112]

Your pictures are very awesome haha. I've been very interested in getting into photography, I just bought a Canon XSI recently. I can't wait until I get a 300mm lens so I can actually take good pictures lol.

[Box of Clocks]

I don't do any photography myself but I took a look at your efforts and was impressed. I particularly like the Geneva ones.

[ricardo]

Thanks guys.

chris2112, what kind of photography are you interested? I would love to have a 300mm too, but the good ones are way too expensive and my camera is not that good to make such a great investment. I have a nikon d40.

[chris2112]

Thanks guys.

chris2112, what kind of photography are you interested? I would love to have a 300mm too, but the good ones are way too expensive and my camera is not that good to make such a great investment. I have a nikon d40.

It all interests me, landscape to macro lol. I just need the money, photography is an expensive hobby lol. A 300mm seems like a good lens for general nature.

[PhilGarber]

Yes sir! Photography is one of my greatest passions in life. That and writing are my two favorite ways to express myself.

[ricardo]

Do you have a gallery? I like to see other peoples photos, especially from places I never seen.

[PhilGarber]

I do, but I haven't updated them in a long time so they don't really represent me.

[Bobby]

Yep, I really enjoy it. I haven't had much time lately to get out there due to Uni. Its holidays now and if tomorrow is a nice day I will venture into the city with my Pentax film camera and snap some photos!

I have many Pentax film body's and an istDL for digital. The best thing about Pentax is they have kept the same K mount system(not including M42 however)

The following photos are a mix of digital and film. I love shooting film though, I have an unhealthy obsession with it. I shot 11 rolls of film while I was in New York for 9 days :o

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/bridgeopera.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/operahouse1.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/UNSW.jpg

The above were shot on my digital body.

The below were shot on film in New York, the last is a photo of my Dog :p

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/umbrella.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/man.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/bench.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/people.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/rom.jpg

Lets hope this all works *crosses fingers*

[chris2112]

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/operahouse1.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/UNSW.jpg

The above were shot on my digital body.



Those photos are so cool! It looks like you have some good experience using a camera. What kind of lens did you use for the second picture? it looks so good. a wide-angle maybe? lol

[Violet]

omgosh. rob you make me want to see more of sydney. ;)
and holy southen style deep fried chicken strip. there are totally stars on the bridge. :eek:
why have i not seen these photos before? talk about burn. :p

[chris2112]

I definitely found a new outlet for appreciating life lol. I've only been taking photos for a few months but its turned into one of my favorite past times ever. When I'm stressed or bored with life, escaping from everything and just being with nature really has a way of recharging my state of being haha.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/026.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/IMG_0813.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/061.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/IMG_0802.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/113.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/IMG_0512.jpg

[Bobby]

omgosh. rob you make me want to see more of sydney. ;)
and holy southen style deep fried chicken strip. there are totally stars on the bridge. :eek:
why have i not seen these photos before? talk about burn. :p

Haha yep, the stars are an effect given by the aperture blades in the lens, you can tell I used a different lens for the Bridge and UNSW photos. There are 6 points for the stars in the bridge photo, which means the lens I used has 6 aperture blades.

;) You have seen these photos. You even asked me if you could paint one of them :p

[Violet]

Haha yep, the stars are an effect given by the aperture blades in the lens, you can tell I used a different lens for the Bridge and UNSW photos. There are 6 points for the stars in the bridge photo, which means the lens I used has 6 aperture blades.

;) You have seen these photos. You even asked me if you could paint one of them :p

haha well i admit that i have seen the photos from when you went to America :p but i havnt never ever seen the sydney ones before :(

your techno camera talk is lost on me i am afraid :cool:

i like your photos chris! it would be absolutely amzing to be able to see nature like that *is in awe* haha australia doesnt have anything cool like that, or maybe i just need to get out more :cool: :D

[chris2112]

i like your photos chris! it would be absolutely amzing to be able to see nature like that *is in awe* haha australia doesnt have anything cool like that, or maybe i just need to get out more :cool: :D

:eek: what!? Natures awesomeness is everywhere! I'm jealous, The Great Barrier Reef and all the life down there probably has more potent natural beauty then everything in the United States combined! haha

[colesmiles]

haha australia doesnt have anything cool like that, or maybe i just need to get out more :cool: :D



you need to get out more :D :D
australia is beautiful
thats my goal in the next bunch of years
before i see more of the rest of the world
gotta see more of my own country

[Violet]

you need to get out more :D :D
australia is beautiful
thats my goal in the next bunch of years
before i see more of the rest of the world
gotta see more of my own country

haha yeahh i'm not denying that its beautiful :P
i just dont live near any of the mega stuff (eg, great barrier reef...)

but omfg. the coolest thing i have ever seen is a massive complete rainbow with another rainbow inside it :D
not directly related to Australia i know, but it was epic none the less :rolleyes:

where abouts do you live?
i'm a sydney girl :cool:

[colesmiles]

I am also a sydneysider!!!!!!!!! :)
I quite like it here.
Considering whether to go out tonight... Don't think much is going on in town.
..Yeah there's not much beauty around us.. I mean, bondi's nice, and... any beach?

[colesmiles]

Currently HSC-ing.
It's a sad time. =[

[ricardo]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/3993283912_8661b5a2d2_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3992524631_d85b030e83_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3992525107_987c62dd57_o.jpg

Oooh, I will miss the swiss landscapes.

The video below is not mine, but its just FANTASTIC!

http://www.vimeo.com/4038064

[Violet]

Currently HSC-ing.
It's a sad time. =[

OMGOSH! me to :D
well thats not really a fitting emoticon thinggy, so more like ':('

i just have art left which is in approx 12 days and its only technically 1 unit cause i have already handed in my major :cool:

what subjects do you do?

[colesmiles]

OMGOSH! me to :D
well thats not really a fitting emoticon thinggy, so more like ':('

i just have art left which is in approx 12 days and its only technically 1 unit cause i have already handed in my major :cool:

what subjects do you do?
Yeah I have nothing until Art and Drama, which is the day after.
I do Art, Drama, 4 Unit English, R.E 1 unit and Ancient history.

Art is so friggen easy. I swear to god.
How good does it feel to get that major out of the way though?

[Violet]

Yeah I have nothing until Art and Drama, which is the day after.
I do Art, Drama, 4 Unit English, R.E 1 unit and Ancient history.

Art is so friggen easy. I swear to god.
How good does it feel to get that major out of the way though?

omgosh! tell me about it :D
you don't know how many all nighters i have pulled for art :eek:
i did painting, what did you do? (i was literally painting up untill i handed in it :p)

i do art, english adv, biology, 2 unit religion and maths :cool:

how did you find the incredibly random religion question? :eek:

[colesmiles]

LOL! i get you with the all-nighters. I did watercolour pencil and painting.
Framing cost me a shit-load though. I was hard-pressed for time at the end.
andLOL@religion
I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out if it was a trick or not. I asked the supervisor, but she said, "It's open for interpretation."
So I wrote a little "Dear Marker," note and wrote about all three areas that I learnt, plus random stuff. Wrote about Christianity, so the day-to-day life of a catholic school and up-bringing helped me fluff it out a little.

I bloody loved the modules question though.
No specified speeches or poems, and three straight essays.
I almost cried during reading time.
Best thing ever.

You know people appealed for Paper2 due to "psychological stress" after the RE exam?

[Violet]

LOL! i get you with the all-nighters. I did watercolour pencil and painting.
Framing cost me a shit-load though. I was hard-pressed for time at the end.
andLOL@religion
I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out if it was a trick or not. I asked the supervisor, but she said, "It's open for interpretation."
So I wrote a little "Dear Marker," note and wrote about all three areas that I learnt, plus random stuff. Wrote about Christianity, so the day-to-day life of a catholic school and up-bringing helped me fluff it out a little.

I bloody loved the modules question though.
No specified speeches or poems, and three straight essays.
I almost cried during reading time.
Best thing ever.

You know people appealed for Paper2 due to "psychological stress" after the RE exam?

LOL! really? haha that is the funniest shit
i would have found paper 2 awesome, but i was sick during it and even though i was literally struggling to not fall asleep on the table they still made me do it :eek:
so in the end i only finished half the exam cause i like fell asleep (the fact that i fell asleep during one of the most epic hsc exams is an indication of how sick i was) :eek:
if they dont accept my appeal i'm actually screwed :(

you gotta love catholic schools :rolleyes:
i go to a catholic school as well and because of this subject i now define myself as an agnostic. so much for making it compulsory to strengthen your faith haha
i did judaism cause it was the only one i prepared for for the essay, so i was stuck with it regardless of the question :cool:

that s with the cost :/
what was yours about?
mine was about an old depressed man. haha yeah don't ask, my teacher was like choose a concept ... NOW! :|
it turned out pretty good though :)

[colesmiles]

s about being sick =[
My grandma was taken to hospital the night before Ancient History and I hadn't heard anything until after the exam. But I couldn't be bothered appealing because - to be honest, my in-class assessments although passes, weren't the best.
LOL Yeah, because of the catholic school I define myself as an atheist. Organised religion can do some crazy stuff. But it's still interesting to learn about I spose.
THE COST OH DEAR GODDDDDDD... to get my stuff framed. I did rather large bainbridge board frames and all together I think it cost me over 250 bucks.
Ridiculous.
Plus Drama, I did costume design and that cost me a load too.
90 bucks for those ones.

For art my concept wassss the apparently 'legal' poaching and killing of wolves. I did a bunch of wateroclour images with derwent pencils and stuff, ones of wolves as natural somewhat magical beings and others of post-human interference, savage and stuff. I also painted two large ones and sort of made the Aurora Borealis come out of their mouths, then I covered it in chicken wire.
I'll try and find a piccccccccc

http://i734.photobucket.com/albums/ww347/colewolf_23/09092009001.jpg


Tharrrrrrr.
I made the middle frames myself, but the rest is bainbridge, which cost a bucketload.

[Violet]

oh WOW :eek:
that is incredible! :eek:

heres a photo of mine:

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t170/anthea_018/IMG_3282_jpg.jpg

its heaps big 48" X 120" all up.. i'm not sure what that is in cm :P and it was a to transport cause the bus wouldnt let me on with it as it was a "safety risk" :(

wow! drama as well! you must have been busy :eek:
how did you find your stutter with that?

oh and what made you want to do wolves?

i pretty much painted an old man because i am the most confident at painting people, and i thought that it would be so much more interesting to paint wrinkles then smooth skin :P

it was a to paint the wrinkles though :eek: (i used a tripple zero brush to paint the majority of the paintings. you can't tell in the photo though, but when you look up real close it is like a TRILLION of little squiggly lines.
haha i think i am insane :rolleyes:

[Box of Clocks]

Really good work Colesmiles. I'm inpressed.

[MarkBulger]

I used to do black and white photography back in the day. I really enjoyed the developing and printing - it made me think about the days when photographers had to do all their own work. Of course, now they don't even sell the paper any more. :mad:

[colesmiles]

Haha thankyouuuuuuuuuuu

Violet, yours are amazing also, and I find it the opposite. People are sooo much harder to paint than animals.
Plus animals always end up looking cuter :)

Drama yeahhhh, I always do fine. Strangely enough, its sort of like singing. Unless it's improvisation work - I never stutter. I love the attention and everything. My stutter is only very mild these days anyway.

I wanna show you some of them up closeee, but I don't think I have any photos.
hmm.
I'll find some soon and get back to you.

[colesmiles]

I used to do black and white photography back in the day. I really enjoyed the developing and printing - it made me think about the days when photographers had to do all their own work. Of course, now they don't even sell the paper any more. :mad:
What do you mean they don't sell the paper anymore???

I own some, and I use it.

The darkroom at school was epic. I've developed from my own negatives countless times.
It's great fun.

If you go to an art supply shop, they're sure to have some.

[Box of Clocks]

I'm really impressed with your work Violet as well. I imagine that will probably go down well with the examiner.

And I meant to say "impressed" earlier in reference to Colesmiles work not "inpressed" so sorry about that.

[DekHog]

I can't believe I never seen this thread before... yes, I very much like my photography. Started many years ago with old film cameras, then, just due to things in life, fell away from it for a long, long time. I just 'got back into it' with digital a couple of years ago.
Maybe it's because it can be a relaxing, sometimes solitary pursuit....

A few of my recent images...

My niece, Holly...

http://i38.tinypic.com/207kf87.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/2hnxbwo.jpg

My wife, Nell...

http://i33.tinypic.com/2a8g9vp.jpg

http://i36.tinypic.com/j6tp2u.jpg

A couple of random local images...

http://i36.tinypic.com/sgssqc.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2im86lj.jpg

[colesmiles]

Haha :) It's cool, I got what you meant :D

BTW VIOLET - YAY ART EXAM DONEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Drama tomorrow and I'm officially finished Year 12 and the HSC and done with the board of studies...EUGH i hate those jerks.

So excited! Gonna beach it after tomorrow.
YAY BONDI TIME




It seems we sort of hijacked this thread also.
I feel bad.

[colesmiles]

OH MY GOD :o
THOSE ARE BEAUTIFUL

[MarkBulger]

What do you mean they don't sell the paper anymore???

I own some, and I use it.

The darkroom at school was epic. I've developed from my own negatives countless times.
It's great fun.

If you go to an art supply shop, they're sure to have some.


I used Agfa sepia paper - they stopped making it long ago. It had a slight tint to it and beautiful texture. People were running around buying it by the case at the time.

[Violet]

haha i KNOWW!!! :D :D

s how you have drama on the last day though :/

how did you find art?
it was soo much more easier then i thought it would be, haha i'm just hoping that my marks reflect that :p

i had all these epic plans to go out (eg the CIRCUS! :cool:)
but then i had to come down with suspected tonsilitus (for the 2nd time) :eek:
soooo im just gonna pump myself with antibiotics and get better in the next 24 hours so i can commence partying :D

but lucky i was sweet for the art exam :rolleyes:

we should totally meet up sometime in our 4 month break! all the aussie people :)
theres quite a few on this forum :D

[colesmiles]

LOLOMG
I didnt even realised you replied, I've been so busy
Yeah art was dang easy

I've been partying these last few days
and tomorrow im sposed to go for an interview at wollongong uni
srsly should be asleep right now

and wth is with the weather at the moment?
seriously, im dying

and yessssssss we so should meet up
and party
4months :O REALLY?!?!
I never calculated it.
Sweeeeeet.

[Violet]

sounds like a plan! :D

haha i never really calculated it either, that was just a general guess :p

goodluck! welll i hope it went well seeing as it was like a week ago :cool:

omgosh the weather has been ridiculous, i was up at schoolies in terrigal and we went to gosford and it was like 45 degrees (in like the shade)! i could literally feel just the general air burning my face :eek:
but that was like a week ago, now its like almost cold :confused:

[Evy182]

Yep, I really enjoy it. I haven't had much time lately to get out there due to Uni. Its holidays now and if tomorrow is a nice day I will venture into the city with my Pentax film camera and snap some photos!

I have many Pentax film body's and an istDL for digital. The best thing about Pentax is they have kept the same K mount system(not including M42 however)

The following photos are a mix of digital and film. I love shooting film though, I have an unhealthy obsession with it. I shot 11 rolls of film while I was in New York for 9 days :o

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/bridgeopera.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/operahouse1.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/UNSW.jpg

The above were shot on my digital body.

The below were shot on film in New York, the last is a photo of my Dog :p

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/umbrella.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/man.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/bench.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/people.jpg

http://www.thraxeh.com/Pics/phy/rom.jpg

Lets hope this all works *crosses fingers*

wow those are beautiful!
i especially like that one of that man with the clouds, like sitting down.
NOICE!

[Evy182]

love love love photography.
just learning how to develop film at the mo,
i want to start up maybe a tumblr site to show my pictures ?
anyone know the best way to share photography over the internet ?
website wise ?

[chris2112]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/038-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/108-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/360-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/element1297/365-1.jpg

[isonuZ]

i love photography!
i like manipulating them