Author Topic: Photography thread  (Read 557618 times)

Offline Kardiffuk

  • RAWK Supporter
  • Kopite
  • ******
  • Posts: 762
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #160 on: July 4, 2006, 09:55:01 pm »
What's the second photo? Looks like a cemetary of some sort?
Yes it's a war cemetary in Adenkerke just over the Belgian border from France, it's mainly full of Belgian & French graves but there's also some UK solder's there, including a member of the family.

Offline timiano

  • Flatlander
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,482
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #161 on: July 5, 2006, 04:08:51 am »
70-200L @ F4 and 200mm

Was you at a bird sanctuary then?

Offline kiwimark

  • Kopite
  • *****
  • Posts: 912
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #162 on: July 5, 2006, 05:02:59 am »



From Sydney Zoo.....

Offline ghost77uk

  • Kopite
  • *****
  • Posts: 882
    • Steve Kingsman Photography
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #163 on: July 5, 2006, 10:51:33 am »
Ace bus mate, used to own a 76 Devon and a 79 Super Viking.  Just didn't have the time to fight off the rust and the annual engine rebuild.

Been down to Vanfest a couple of times, and drove from Warrington to Monaco and back in 2001. Brilliant times!

Funnily enough, I've been down to Padstow for about 3 years on the run in the summer. Took the shot below of the ferry from Rock. In fact that street scene that you've got going slightly downhill, so a U-ey where the two roads meet and the apartments we were staying in were just there :)

Tip with your camera, try a UV filter or circular polariser on there if one is available, those sunny Cornish days don't half put out a load of haze. Top pics though, the bus melted my heart!

Wish I could claim the bus as me own...But unfortunately it's not :( These surfer dudes rocked up so thought I'd take advantage...Didn't park it in the greatest spot for me tho ;)

Cheers for the tip too - Much appreciated :)

Offline bradigor

  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 29,156
  • Henrik Zetterpig
    • Pucks Across The Pond
  • Super Title: Loves Ron Dennis
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #164 on: July 5, 2006, 10:59:40 am »
I really need to get back into photography, used to have some class urban images using a black and white camera at college.

Offline bradigor

  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 29,156
  • Henrik Zetterpig
    • Pucks Across The Pond
  • Super Title: Loves Ron Dennis
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #165 on: July 5, 2006, 11:01:04 am »
Claire. Any advice on a decent digital camera that will give me varying image effect based on how I take the picture, that won't overly break the bank

Offline timiano

  • Flatlander
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,482
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #166 on: July 5, 2006, 11:11:18 am »
Claire. Any advice on a decent digital camera that will give me varying image effect based on how I take the picture, that won't overly break the bank

Nikon D50 Black + 18-55mm Lens Kit - £350 delivered. I'm a Canon man myself, but that price for that quality is just remarkable!

Offline bradigor

  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 29,156
  • Henrik Zetterpig
    • Pucks Across The Pond
  • Super Title: Loves Ron Dennis
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #167 on: July 5, 2006, 11:12:17 am »
Nikon D50 Black + 18-55mm Lens Kit - £350 delivered. I'm a Canon man myself, but that price for that quality is just remarkable!

Sounds like excellent value, might see if i can get it cheaper off of ebay

Offline NatD

  • Takes offence at authors and people who eat in restaurants.
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 4,751
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #168 on: July 5, 2006, 11:18:46 am »
Taken in March 2001, Flat Iron Building in NYC.  Taken on a standard APS camera and then scaned in, just love it.....

"...waking up at 12 in my clothes again, feel my head explode from a night of Gin..."

Offline Lo

  • is Hamilton
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 8,657
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #169 on: July 5, 2006, 11:20:12 am »
Claire. Any advice on a decent digital camera that will give me varying image effect based on how I take the picture, that won't overly break the bank


The pink one from Asda, reason being its PINK :wave

Offline bradigor

  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 29,156
  • Henrik Zetterpig
    • Pucks Across The Pond
  • Super Title: Loves Ron Dennis
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #170 on: July 5, 2006, 11:26:42 am »

The pink one from Asda, reason being its PINK :wave

Yes that is the one you want hun. That is the one you will get, I don't want a pink one though :P

Offline NatD

  • Takes offence at authors and people who eat in restaurants.
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 4,751
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #171 on: July 5, 2006, 11:28:19 am »
March 2004 - Driving Down Pacific Highway between LA and San Francisco: -



March 2004 - Looking down the valley in Yosemite National Park: -



April 2005 - Berlin, Brandenberg (sp) Gate: -

"...waking up at 12 in my clothes again, feel my head explode from a night of Gin..."

Offline Mark.

  • Kopite
  • *****
  • Posts: 681
  • Robbie is God
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #172 on: July 5, 2006, 11:50:36 am »
San Diego from Coronado.


Offline El Phes

  • Answers to Judith, but only on Thurdays.
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,985
    • Portraits / Weddings / Commercial / Events
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #173 on: July 5, 2006, 03:47:49 pm »
Some really great shots in their people - thanks for sharing. Will try and get a couple on soon. Love photography - thinking of going into it and doing something I really like doing rather than working for workings sake.

Especially love NZ shots (did I spot Lake Mathison in there?), Mt. Fuji - brilliant, Eagle shot - brilliant, Sea of Red - Fantastic shot in Istanbul, Sydney Zoo - love the backdrop! and Monument Valley. Got close to there, but soooooo gutted I didn't go and see it. Might have to make another trip in a few years time.

Offline BlahBlah

  • Kopite
  • *****
  • Posts: 587
  • Istanbul-head
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #174 on: July 5, 2006, 03:56:04 pm »
Dont really wanna flood the thread with Attaturk pic's so i'll just show my fave.


Offline NewHampshire_Exile

  • Ambassador
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,781
    • www.YNWA.TV
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #175 on: July 5, 2006, 07:39:30 pm »
3 that I have on this pc that I really like -firstly - an artisic pumpkin effort by the eldest, secondly  - trying to catch the ocean and thirdly a snap at a friends wedding which I thought came out really well.
(looks like I should have used higher quality images - they don;t look as good on here.)
« Last Edit: July 5, 2006, 07:41:23 pm by NewHampshire_Exile »

Offline Bob Kurac

  • Cares.
  • RAWK Staff.
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 10,466
  • Modern football is shit
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #176 on: July 5, 2006, 11:34:54 pm »
These were amongst the best I took today - nipped down to Marshside for an hour just before the game kicked off ... Oh, and before anyone says "Birds thread" I beat you to it ...
« Last Edit: July 5, 2006, 11:39:50 pm by Bob Kurac »

Offline Redwhiteandnotblue

  • God's spin doctor.
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 3,090
  • not that He needs one
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #177 on: July 6, 2006, 12:15:24 am »
Keble College, Oxford

went this week with the school

keble is fucking incredible

Oxford's a dump.

Offline timiano

  • Flatlander
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,482
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #178 on: July 6, 2006, 01:00:31 am »
These were amongst the best I took today - nipped down to Marshside for an hour just before the game kicked off ... Oh, and before anyone says "Birds thread" I beat you to it ...

What lens/camera/filter combo are you using there Bob, plenty of vignetting going on?...Nice pics regardless mind.

Offline Bob Kurac

  • Cares.
  • RAWK Staff.
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 10,466
  • Modern football is shit
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #179 on: July 6, 2006, 09:11:53 am »
What lens/camera/filter combo are you using there Bob, plenty of vignetting going on?...Nice pics regardless mind.

I agree - damn birds were too close! I was digiscoping - using a coolpix 995 with a dca adaptter on a swarovski ats80hd. So there's digital zoom in the camera, and 20x on the scope, yet the birds were only 50m - 150m from me. So the camera zoom was as low as 1.6x - especially for the Little Ringed Plover pic, the bird was very close, hence the vignetting - it only really fully disappears at 2.8x +. But the pics are as taken, not tweaked at all, hence you noticing it! I can't be arsed with editing them, I only take them as record shots really. It's  not every day you see a spotted redshank on your doorstep; little ringed plovers too are noticeable, although one or two pairs do breed locally.

Any advice appreciated, though! I've only taken all this up this year, just used good old binoculars before! Also timiano, I notice that you say that you post your pics elsewhere - did you mean on RAWK or another site? I'm interested in bird photo sites ...
« Last Edit: July 7, 2006, 12:51:00 am by Bob Kurac »

Offline Armin

  • Reformed RAWK Traitor
  • RAWK Staff.
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 13,503
  • I'm up on the pavement
  • Super Title: Keep off the Grass!
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #180 on: July 6, 2006, 09:53:01 am »
I like the vignetting on those pics, the darkening at the corners seem to make the birds stand out more... I might have a go at some wildlife pictures, their are loads of breeding birds at the local canal, might be time to dust off the slr and have another go at photography.

I've got a couple of pics I took in Paris which I like. Might get the scanner going later on and post them up here.

Great thread idea this one.
Well, I don't know what it is, but there's definitely something going on upstairs

Offline nidgemo

  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 20,836
  • Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat.
  • Super Title: Coming soon! Official Launch May 2008
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #181 on: July 6, 2006, 10:17:17 am »
Claire. Any advice on a decent digital camera that will give me varying image effect based on how I take the picture, that won't overly break the bank
Nikon D50 Black + 18-55mm Lens Kit - £350 delivered. I'm a Canon man myself, but that price for that quality is just remarkable!

If I was you, I'd go canon. I'm a Canon man too!

You'd probably get a 300D for very good money now, and it's an excellent camera.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Canon-EOS-300D-Digital-SLR-Kit-1-GB-SANDISK-CARD_W0QQitemZ140004169632QQihZ004QQcategoryZ31388QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Canon-EOS-300D-Brand-new-DSLR-see-30D-20D-or-5D_W0QQitemZ230003771265QQihZ013QQcategoryZ31388QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

(note that second one is without lenses)

pic below is one I quite like, taken recently with a standard 300D - conditions were really dark, in a local engineering works, and I hadn't took a tripod, so it could have been better...
« Last Edit: July 6, 2006, 10:22:57 am by nidgemo »
I'm no longer on RAWK, but if you need to contact me about anything, you can email me on nigelmorrison@connectfree.co.uk

Offline El Phes

  • Answers to Judith, but only on Thurdays.
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,985
    • Portraits / Weddings / Commercial / Events
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #182 on: July 6, 2006, 02:19:22 pm »
Can anyone please tell me how I can reduce the size of a picture? I need to get them under 200KB and a couple are like 240-300. Cheers

Anyway, here's some I can put up....

1. Balinese Boatman
2. Sunset in Fiji
3. Mount Everest
4. Singapore at night


Offline nidgemo

  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 20,836
  • Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat.
  • Super Title: Coming soon! Official Launch May 2008
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #183 on: July 6, 2006, 02:21:08 pm »
Can you please tell me how I can reduce the size of a picture? I need to get them under 200KB and a couple are like 240-300. Cheers

Anyway, here's some I can put up....

1. Balinese Boatman
2. Sunset in Fiji
3. Mount Everest
4. Singapore at night



photoshop > image > image size (800 x 1200 @ 72 dpi is fine) and the go to save for web, pick .jpg at about 40, and then save themunder a different filename (so as nopt to overwrite your original)
I'm no longer on RAWK, but if you need to contact me about anything, you can email me on nigelmorrison@connectfree.co.uk

Offline El Phes

  • Answers to Judith, but only on Thurdays.
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,985
    • Portraits / Weddings / Commercial / Events
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #184 on: July 6, 2006, 02:23:32 pm »
photoshop > image > image size (800 x 1200 @ 72 dpi is fine) and the go to save for web, pick .jpg at about 40, and then save themunder a different filename (so as nopt to overwrite your original)

Thanks mate.

Offline El Phes

  • Answers to Judith, but only on Thurdays.
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,985
    • Portraits / Weddings / Commercial / Events
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #185 on: July 6, 2006, 02:30:41 pm »
1. Goan Sunset
2. Cape Byron aerial view - Australia
3. Thai boy
4. Boat Quay - Singapore


Offline El Phes

  • Answers to Judith, but only on Thurdays.
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,985
    • Portraits / Weddings / Commercial / Events
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #186 on: July 6, 2006, 03:08:59 pm »
I know it says "best photo", but I do get a little carried away when it comes to photo's. Just love appreciating them....nature one's especially. Love Bob's "birds".....

1. Island in Fiji
2. Corcovado (Rio)
3. Lizard eating a Praying Mantis
4. "The Beach" - Thailand
« Last Edit: July 6, 2006, 04:43:13 pm by Elphesadente »

Offline ghost77uk

  • Kopite
  • *****
  • Posts: 882
    • Steve Kingsman Photography
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #187 on: July 6, 2006, 03:17:14 pm »
Elphesadente - Got any more shots from Byron Bay? What a fantastic part of the world...Loved it there!

Offline El Phes

  • Answers to Judith, but only on Thurdays.
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,985
    • Portraits / Weddings / Commercial / Events
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #188 on: July 6, 2006, 03:24:58 pm »
Elphesadente - Got any more shots from Byron Bay? What a fantastic part of the world...Loved it there!

I have mate, but they're either in albums or boxed away for the time being until we get the house together!! Was a cracking place wasn't it. I took that shot from a microlite that you could go on from the nearby airport - brilliant experience, but cacked me pants when he stalled the engine a couple of times (on purpose!) to nosedive and glide for a bit  :o

Offline byrnetred

  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 2,283
  • We are men of Shankly's best...
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #189 on: July 6, 2006, 03:38:17 pm »
I have mate, but they're either in albums or boxed away for the time being until we get the house together!! Was a cracking place wasn't it. I took that shot from a microlite that you could go on from the nearby airport - brilliant experience, but cacked me pants when he stalled the engine a couple of times (on purpose!) to nosedive and glide for a bit  :o
i have some good photos of nimbin that ill have to put up.. 8)
quite an experience that place was...
...i miss my scouse accent...

Offline Living Legends

  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 3,439
  • 5 Times Baby! Make that 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #190 on: July 6, 2006, 10:41:38 pm »
My son taken a few weeks ago.

Offline MichaelA

  • MasterBaker, honey-trapper and 'concerned neighbour'. Beyond The Pale. Vermin on the ridiculous. Would love to leave Ashley Cole gasping for air. Dupe Snoop Extraordinaire. RAWK MARTYR #1. The proud owner of a new lower case a. Mickey Two Sheds.
  • RAWK Staff.
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 29,365
  • At the Academy
  • Super Title: MichaelA
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #191 on: July 7, 2006, 07:49:23 am »
Anyway, here's some I can put up....

1. Balinese Boatman
2. Sunset in Fiji
3. Mount Everest
4. Singapore at night

1. Goan Sunset
2. Cape Byron aerial view - Australia
3. Thai boy
4. Boat Quay - Singapore


1. Island in Fiji
2. Corcovado (Rio)
3. Lizard eating a Praying Mantis
4. "The Beach" - Thailand

Great photos...you bloody show off.  :D

Offline AB LFC

  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 7,908
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #192 on: July 7, 2006, 08:21:23 am »
Are these photos really yours people posting them? They look very professional.

Offline El Phes

  • Answers to Judith, but only on Thurdays.
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 6,985
    • Portraits / Weddings / Commercial / Events
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #193 on: July 7, 2006, 09:08:47 am »
Great photos...you bloody show off.  :D

Thanks mate - have to be honest, I do like showing them off, but the main thing is I haven't rammed them down my mates' throats. Some of them haven't seen the shots and I went travelling 7 years ago! I don't mind though.

Are these photos really yours people posting them? They look very professional.

The pictures I have posted are 100% mine. My wife is actually in the shot of "The Beach" in Thailand! (A bit like Ursula Andress if I might say, for those old enough to remember her!)

Offline buzzing

  • Fart bottling, Men and Motors watching, meat washing scaffold erector.
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 18,225
  • R.I.P
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #194 on: July 7, 2006, 09:16:44 am »



From Sydney Zoo.....


Is your name peter crouch :o
"You have to admire animals. Hamster spun round in a wheel three times bigger than him and abruptly lands on his back. Then just gets up and carries on as if nothing happened! If that was a human he'd be helicoptered to hospital, off work for 6 months have back issues for 20 years and then start legal proceedings against the wheels owner"

Offline buzzing

  • Fart bottling, Men and Motors watching, meat washing scaffold erector.
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 18,225
  • R.I.P
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #195 on: July 7, 2006, 09:25:04 am »
Great photos...you bloody show off.  :D

seconded...amazing pics..Wallpaper quality (just not high enough res)
"You have to admire animals. Hamster spun round in a wheel three times bigger than him and abruptly lands on his back. Then just gets up and carries on as if nothing happened! If that was a human he'd be helicoptered to hospital, off work for 6 months have back issues for 20 years and then start legal proceedings against the wheels owner"

Offline tomred

  • yraelo
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,837
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #196 on: July 7, 2006, 12:15:45 pm »


Probably one of my best 'non modified' images

Great photo! Some really cracking stuff on this thread.

Offline tomred

  • yraelo
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,837
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #197 on: July 7, 2006, 12:24:14 pm »
A few more.










Offline Withnail

  • Failed anorexic.
  • RAWK Supporter
  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 7,760
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #198 on: July 7, 2006, 12:34:23 pm »

Offline RedVash

  • Legacy Fan
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,237
  • ...through the storm...
Re: Best photo you've taken yourself.
« Reply #199 on: July 7, 2006, 12:35:36 pm »
my first time at anfield...unforgettable.
RED is not a colour.
RED is a way of life.