Photography Photography Thread vs. BL Shutterbugs unite!

[thujone]

I want to lose my trunks in that

 

[MsDiz]

Also home, shades of green

 

[thujone]

shit that lagoon looks awesome! how's that beach? looks nice and private, i would get hella sunburned there

 

[MsDiz]

shit that lagoon looks awesome! how's that beach? looks nice and private, i would get hella sunburned there

It’s a secret spot, well off the beaten track and one i spend a lot of time in summer at. There’s lots of little islands and I SUP around them. The little cottage in the first pic is one on an island.

 

[thujone]

wow... ever fantasize about becoming a smuggler?

 

[MsDiz]

wow... ever fantasize about becoming a smuggler?

Oh yes! My son has always wanted to be a pirate!

 

[MsDiz]

This is another favourite beach. At the far end there is a sea cave you can swim through, when you’re exiting and the sun is hitting the water the colour is amazing. There’s also a waterfall near the exit which usually isn’t high flow unless there’s been rain. Ireland has many gems.

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

Inside a wasps nest:

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

A wasp's head - aren't they cute?

 

[Xorkoth]

Went on a hike today... I love where I live.

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

Went on a hike today... I love where I live.

I think I hate you...

 

[Xorkoth]

I took some pictures of woods exploration of the woods behind my detox cabin. I put some others in the current photo contest.

These are some weird fungus I have never seen before, what looks like red fish eggs in slime, and these bulb growing out the top that spit a cloud of spores when you touch them. So weird, I've never seen these anywhere before.

Here's a fungus that looks like a flower.

Just a really cool tree and vine situation

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

nice shroom, Xorkoth.

realized my photogrpahy plan includes some basic version of premiere call premiere rush. good by imovie (hopefully). in a dream, it's better than premiere elements.

i miss premiere pro and media encoder (the only way to truly crop a video file) most from when abobe had awesome student pricing for the full creative suite (used to be $9.99 a month, then was $19.99 a month, now is $19.99 a month for first year and then $29.99 a month after that even if you can still fake your student status). for a while i had i job where i could stay after and use media encoder on my own time. that job is gone.

 

[DopeM]

 

[Celestial_Robot_Cat]

I've been into photography on and off for several years but decided to really commit to it last April. Picked up an old, used Canon 7D with a couple of lenses. I was completely hooked! I went out shooting at least a couple times a week. It was better than my cell phone (lol) but it was a 9 year old camera and I had some issues with it. Nonetheless, I became very passionate about photography and have been working to get better ever since,

After some unfortunate circumstances occurred in my life (my mom passed away suddenly in the fall), I had the means to upgrade my equipment so I decided to go whole hog because I could. I picked up a Sony A7III, and have also (over the last few months) acquired the three Tamron f/2.8 zoom lenses: 17-28, 28-75, 70-180. The upgrade was significant and has subsequently elevated the quality of my photography (as well as my enthusiasm for it).

I'm arguably still a total amateur but I am doing my best to get better in both my compositions and post-processing. Anyway, here's a recent-ish pic from a walk in one of the local parks.

f/3.2 | 1/160 sec shutter speed | 180mm focal length | ISO 160

 

[Celestial_Robot_Cat]

I really enjoy taking photos of water. I use my Nikon 3200D and set the exposure time to extremely short. These pictures are of a tiny waterfall about 6 inches tall, and capturing the splash:

This one is a photo of a glass of water, as I stomped on the deck to vibrate it:

This one is a bowl of water set on top of some paintings I did on a block of wood. The water is tapped with a straw and photos are taken through the moving water:

This one is from my iPhone, using the "Noir" filtetr which is a very dramatic black and white setting. The photo is of a beautiful blue sky with wispy clouds on a sunny day, looking up with some tree branches framing it. The result looks dark and dramatic, basically the opposite of how it looked to my eye. I really like the juxtaposition.

A nice spider pic with a soft blurred background:

This was a photo I took where I focused on some pine needles that were very close to the camera, so it put the background out of focus and made a really interesting effect:

A wild lily that captured the sunlight and was glowing like a lantern:

A tiny little red mite, peeking over a vast chasm (from its perspective at least):

I love the water shots! Water is so amazing and a great subject. The spider...well, I scrolled past that.

 

[DopeM]

That lilly lighting tho.....

 

[Celestial_Robot_Cat]

Hope it's cool if I posted another one and/or share thoughts. I was initially only interested in shooting landscapes but living in the city with no car, I gradually grew a lot of cityscapes too (not street photography, as such). Thankfully Vancouver's got more than a fair share of beautiful views and photographing the city has actually given me a greater appreciation for just how beautiful it is here. I grew up elsewhere and had never seen a mountain in person before the age of 24. Seeing the mountains every day has never stopped filling me with awe and I find them equal parts magnificent and majority. I love light and colour but can't paint or draw (I can barely cut a straight line, lol) but photography's been a good fit. It feels like it uses both my logical and creative parts and satisfies me the same way that playing music does. I'm not aiming for photorealism, though I respect those who pursue that; not am I aiming for something surreal. I like to strike a balance somewhere between how it looked and how it made me feel. Anyway, speaking of mountains (might look a bit blurry condensed, click for full res).

ƒ/7.1 | 1/160 | 115mm | ISO160 | multi image panoramic stitched together in post

 

[Xorkoth]

Post as many as you want and share as many thoughts as you want!

Here are some photos of my recent detox cabin retreat month. I have a ton more but haven;t brought the rest over yet:

The below is a trick using the Noir filter on my phone, and aiming at the sun. It looks like a super-exposed mioonlight picture.

Mushrooms growing in a hollow of an old growth tree

These are this weird fungus I have never seen except in this one little cpove where the cabin was, it looks like fish eggs in goop that grows these puffy spore-filled sacks that spew white spores when touched:

 

[Xorkoth]

Also, 3 pictures of the same thing, 3 different iPhone filters: