Official Photography Thread: Vol. ICan'tFindTheLastOne

[kitrov]

The cigarette buds in the bottle look pretty dope. Niceperspective I guess.

Anyway, I decided to upload some stuff to flickr. Feelfree to check it out.

Feedback is always welcome.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitrov/

 

[skeemer nyc]

I just got my new Canon 40D..

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[ross is here]

I got a Nikon D40 Camera and I want to buy some new lenses.

are these any good?

Amazon product ASIN B000XS1DL4
Amazon product ASIN B0009HN57Y
I think my D40 came with the 18-200 lens.

any recomendations as to what I should get?

 

[jaw knee c]

The fisheye is just an attachment I believe. It's cheap so its up to you if you want that effect. You'll lose some picture quality with it though.

But if you have the 18-200 lens, you do not need the 55-200. Its the same thing but your 18-200 has more range.

 

[m eazy724]

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[ross is here]

Originally Posted by Jaw Knee C

The fisheye is just an attachment I believe. It's cheap so its up to you if you want that effect. You'll lose some picture quality with it though.

But if you have the 18-200 lens, you do not need the 55-200. Its the same thing but your 18-200 has more range.

thanks. what about an 50mm lens?

 

[dunks r nice]

Kitrov - Thanks.

 

[epidemik the great]

so after this thread, i want to get back into taking photo's with my Minolta film camera...does anybody else use these film scanners??? im kinda ignorantas to never hearing about them, but can you just scan the film directly from the camera onto your computer???

 

[ebayologist]

I scan film relatively often. You clearly need to get your film processed so technically no, it's not from the camera to your computer, but not a whole lotin between. And also better scanner better scan, like most of the time for my actual art photography practice I scan with an Imacon scanner at schoolthat's about $10k scanner but I also print most of my work at 20in x 20in and sometimes more. For most purposes any scanner with dual lens will do a decentjob and any scanner with a reflector will technically work. Alot of places that process film will scan it, most of them use mediocre flatbed scanners anddon't do a very good job scanning the exposure correctly, much like Krispy & BlackJamesBond stuff where their color and exposure is usually pretty faroff.

 

[justinvincent]

My dad was allowed to shoot next to the sports and press photographers during the Warriors vs Lakers game.
You guys might've seen him, he was wearing a brown vest and aj1 lo's lol.

The colors on these pictures hasn't been corrected yet but eh.
Thought they were dope regardless!

he has more on his smugmug if you guys are interested.

 

[brotttttarp]

nice^^

 

[airjordanjack]

justinvincent - Those are nice pictures he took.

 

[dkjordan23]

I have a film SLR, and I'm tryna find somewhere online where I can send in my film to get developed/prints (I'm living on campus w/o a car so its kindahard for me to go somewhere myself). So far I've only found snapfish and shutterfly. Does anyone know the quailties of these places developing, or ifthere's some better option?

Another question about the 50mm lens everybody's lovin. I searched around, and couldn't find any nikon 50mm lenses for digital SLR's. Do they notmake them right now, cause that would mean everyone that's shooting with a Nikon and that lens is really shooting with an equivalent of a 70mm lens causeof the different sensors or whatever, right? So do they also sell a 50mm DX lens?

 

[ebayologist]

^How much are you looking to spend per roll and per print and what size prints are you looking to make?

Because most the online places that are snapfishesque are giving you consumer quality print where at like 5x7's they're fine to put in a little pictureframe for your desk or shelf but they're not art worthy printing. If you want to spend more there are places you can ship to get your film processedprofessionally and either printed or scanned quite well, but they're usually a little more expensive. film as a consumer product is dead, so you end upwith what's left of that that's really not that good or professional but kind of expensive. Like if you're buying professional film you should gothe professional route and because otherwise you're wasting money on film, but if you're shooting like film that you bought at walgreens or cvs myguess is snapfish type places will be fine and cost effective.

Also if you're shooting B/W film just process it yourself. You can order a tank, reels, and all the chemicals for about $30-40 and get like 20 rolls beforeyou need more chemicals which themselves are probably about $15 or so. And I know you mentioned you don't have car but if you just stock pile your shotfilm someone at school told me Costco has a good film processing dept. in some locations, apparently they have people trained to use that specific machine theyhave and it gets used quite often so the chemistry is well kept, but myself I use CSW and sometimes Gamma in Chicago who I'm sure you could ship to eitherand they'll mail it back...

 

[ross is here]

Originally Posted by dkjordan23


Another question about the 50mm lens everybody's lovin. I searched around, and couldn't find any nikon 50mm lenses for digital SLR's. Do they not make them right now, cause that would mean everyone that's shooting with a Nikon and that lens is really shooting with an equivalent of a 70mm lens cause of the different sensors or whatever, right? So do they also sell a 50mm DX lens?

About the 50mm lens, I looked around Amazon, and found some Nikkor lenses. I have a Nikon D40 but I'm not sure if the ones that I was looking at arethe right ones?

 

[bayareakickz]

Originally Posted by Dunks r nice

Nice stuff guys. I need to buy a tripod already

I LIVE NEAR THERE!

hahahahahahaha

i pass by it on the freeway everyday

 

[kdwallace]

This onewill work on a D40 - but it won't focus. By work I mean that you will be able to use the auto metering functions on the camera.

I posted here earlier that I have the older version - an E series 50mm - which is nice. It won't do anything with my camera - no metering, no focussing, nonothing.

It's the one that I took those firelight pictures with.

The only advantage with that one is that you can get one for like $30 on ebay sometimes. I would like one that meters sometimes - takes a little guesswork andthen a few trial shots to get decent exposures sometimes.

 

[dunks r nice]

bayareakickz - Yes that area is

Some shots i thought were interesting.

 

[ebayologist]

^I'm not trying to single you out, and if it feels that way, well, I apologize and I see this all over the internet and with a great deal amateurphotography. But what on earth would motivate you to take a crooked photograph. I don't get it. Pretty much everything I've ever been taught tells methat's wrong and something not to do, and maybe it's that you and the rest your crooked photograph cronies (obiviously they're not actually yourcronies but still

) were never taught. But I would really like anyone, you, whoever to explain the wild logic that influences you or whoever else to takethese weird diagonals. Something has to go off in your brain and be like lets do it this angle, I wanna know what that is... Just so you know, if you have toturn your head to look at a photograph something is wrong, it's not more interesting, it's bad... I'm not trying to put you on blast here, I'vejust been seeing that over and over in this post, and maybe I'm exaggerating the problem but I just see photographs like the first one you posted and thinkpretty much exactly this "It's clearly absent the figure, so it is landscape yet to the horizon is at like 35 degree angle" and then just scratchmy head. And even if the figure was present I still don't understand the MO that prescribes angle like that. To me it seems like this possible what you did"square up the camera to the subject, and turn on parallel plane about 30 degrees clockwise and shoot". I apologize if that came across as attackingor something like (i save the attacking for wack clothing lines

) but I'm just lost/dumbfounded.


Also for those into Marijuana photography. I heard Taryn Simon (Contemporary art photographer. she's represented by Gagosian Gallery (which means she getsmoney as they say...))speak on wednesday night and she had a Marijuana photograph in a series of hers "An American Index of the Hidden andUnfamiliar"

here's the text that accompanies it..
"Research Marijuana Crop Grow Room
National Center for Natural Products Research
Oxford, Mississippi

The National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR) is the only facility in the United States which is federally licensed to cultivate cannabis forscientific research. In addition to cultivating cannabis, NCNPR is responsible for analyzing seized marijuana for potency trends, herbicide residuals(paraquat) and fingerprint identification. NCNPR is licensed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and also researches and develops chemicals derived fromplants, marine organisms, and other natural products.

While 11 states have legalized the medical use of marijuana, a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision allows for the arrest of any individual caught using it forthis purpose. Nearly half of the annual arrests for drug violations involve marijuana possession or trafficking. "

Anyhow, I've been kinda busy about C&C on photos but I feel like I should kick some knowledge now and then and I figured since some of you are clearlyinto marijuana photography

you might enjoy that...

 

[m eazy724]

@Ross
The Nikkor's won't af with the D40. Get the Sigma 30mm f1.4 hsm if you want an af prime for the D40. I think they'll also have a 50mm f1.4 hsm nextmonth.

@ebay
Can you post some hassy shots? Intrigued at how much better they would look.

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[SVNTI]

Ive been thinking about getting the Sigma 30mm 1.4 but damn, $500 is steep.

 

[m eazy724]

Is it that pricey? For $500, I think you're better off upgrading the kit lens to:

1) Tamron 17-50 f2.8 xr di II
2) Sigma 18-50 f2.8 hsm
3) Nikkor 18-200 VR

Sharpness and bokeh should come close to the prime and they're much better walkaround lenses.

 

[ebayologist]

"@ebay
Can you post some hassy shots? Intrigued at how much better they would look. "

Well I don't know what exactly you're looking for as far as seeing how much "better it is" but I assume you mean in reference to the lenssharpness and bokeh, etc. I don't think the internet is the best venue to show either but still. It's like having a top speed race in a small parkinglot, it tells you very little. I mean sure you can tell some podunk car from any reasonably fast car that won't hit "top speed" if you willyou'll relize is fast but you're not going to be able to see what makes like Mclaren F1 a Mclaren F1 type thing, I can't web host a 100-200mb tifffiles.

Nonetheless
Probably one the more Bokehy photographs I could think of off the cuff from my "the sneakerheads" series without getting my notebook out I think thatwas shot at F4, I could look up the shutterspeed I don't know off hand.

And a close up. Even that's resized. The og file is literally 134.6MB.

Just to give you an idea of the sharpness of my 50mm (in medium format 50mm is slight wide angle, like 30mm or equalivent in 35mm film) lens. (this photographhas a context i'll probably put on Niketalk evenually but it's in a unfinished work so I'm actually kind of hesitant to put it on the internetright now but oh well... It was shot F8 @ 1/60)

The first one was scanned on imacon simulated drum scanner and the second was on a flatbed espon v750.

 

[airjordanjack]

Nice pics everone. Can someone please tell me how to put the link to my flickr in my sig?

Heres a pic of my ipod...

 

[epidemik the great]

thanks ebay...you've been alot of help in this thread...so basically i could just get the film processed at one of those places like Costco's and thenscan it myself??? i was looking into buying a Canon scanner for like $200, but im not really looking to blow up the picture or anything at that moment...justsort of for personal use