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Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 04, 2003, 08:40:09 pm
No new models I feel like rendering quite yet, supposed to be doing work, half asleep. So I'm ****ing around with my pictures. Here.

(http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/misc/ang.jpg)

Anyone else a photographer around here?
Title: Bored again
Post by: Knight Templar on January 04, 2003, 08:44:26 pm
A moose with a fishing rod?

This I Like :)
Title: Bored again
Post by: Unknown Target on January 04, 2003, 08:58:55 pm
it's a moose with a gun, right? :D
Very good otherwise, would make a nice "speech" scene
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 04, 2003, 09:10:50 pm
...

Moose?:wtf:
Title: Bored again
Post by: Knight Templar on January 04, 2003, 09:22:13 pm
what is the moose's purpose in life?
Title: Re: Bored again
Post by: Setekh on January 04, 2003, 09:52:24 pm
Hey, that looks pretty cool, Stryke. What'd you take that on? :)

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Originally posted by StrykeIX
Anyone else a photographer around here?


*raises hand*
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 04, 2003, 09:56:54 pm
Hmm... that'd probably be the EOS IX, standard zoom lens.

You got any pictures? Put 'em up here.
Title: Bored again
Post by: Setekh on January 04, 2003, 10:01:38 pm
As a matter of complete coincidence, I just did (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,12519.0.html). :)

Oh, you work with film? Who's darkroom do you use?
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 04, 2003, 10:05:35 pm
The film... for that camera, it only takes Advantix film. Which is nifty for a few things (you can take it out midroll and stick in a different roll, good for if you wanna switch between BW and color), but sucks because it's C-41, which can't be developed in the average darkroom.

I do SOME hand-developing, got a couple old AE-1 cameras inherited from my grandfather with standard film and some lenses. Don't use 'em as much, and I'm not sure I've got any pictures I developed on hand, but the answer's occasionally and with a mediocre degree of skill.
Title: Bored again
Post by: Setekh on January 04, 2003, 10:08:15 pm
I wish I knew more about conventional film... I work in digital (I'm a cheapass). That's pretty cool though, I have a few other friends who've taken proper photography courses and everything.
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 04, 2003, 10:13:26 pm
Another.

(http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/dog.jpg)


Vignetting and blur aren't in the original print... I had an assignment to forge another photographer's style, and I happened to pick one whose work involved lots of low F-stops, high contrasts, and vignetting.
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 04, 2003, 10:15:57 pm
Hey, I'd go digital if I could afford a decent camera from the start. As it is, I couldn't even afford the ones I have, and often can't even pay the development costs.

I think digital takes a few years to pay itself off, but it looks pretty cool. I wanna see when they finally get it beyond just "almost as good as film, but more convenient".

Which will never happen for APS format, sadly since I've got an APS camera.
Title: Bored again
Post by: Anaz on January 04, 2003, 10:22:17 pm
cool dog pic...
Title: Bored again
Post by: Levyathan on January 04, 2003, 10:26:55 pm
Hey, that first one looks pretty nice! I just can't tell if it's a very sharp-legged clown or a pot plant bulb.
Title: Bored again
Post by: Setekh on January 04, 2003, 10:33:02 pm
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Originally posted by StrykeIX
Hey, I'd go digital if I could afford a decent camera from the start. As it is, I couldn't even afford the ones I have, and often can't even pay the development costs.

I think digital takes a few years to pay itself off, but it looks pretty cool. I wanna see when they finally get it beyond just "almost as good as film, but more convenient".

Which will never happen for APS format, sadly since I've got an APS camera.


Professional digital would, but I do all my work on a budget compact (cost me about USD$220, plus another USD$90 for the 128mb Memory Stick)... I've already recouped my cost many times over (I was saying to Shrike earlier over ICQ, I've recently taken my 12415th photo).

Yeah, that's something to look forward to. My next camera's still going to be a compact, but after that, I want to move to digital SLR. It really impresses me, the standard they're bringing digital up to nowadays... but film still has the upper hand by far for now.

For me, the ignorant one... what's APS?

(Oh, and yeah, I do like that dog... nice. :yes: )
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 04, 2003, 10:34:43 pm
Sorta a sub-35mm. Relatively recent setup- it's all those Advantix films and such you see. It's really cool for some things, but, as I said, it's all color process, and there isn't much variety in the types you can get.
Title: Bored again
Post by: mikhael on January 04, 2003, 11:35:55 pm
Stryke, is that an angel in a church way up there at the top? Looks great. The light fuzz works well.
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 04, 2003, 11:50:37 pm
Museum, I believe, but yes. Thanks.
Title: Bored again
Post by: Knight Templar on January 04, 2003, 11:52:43 pm
woa ****... you mean to tell me it's not a fishing moose?
Title: Bored again
Post by: Gortef on January 05, 2003, 06:23:27 am
w00t! Those are really good photos. And nice editing too :yes:
Title: Bored again
Post by: Nico on January 05, 2003, 06:45:05 am
gloomy... I like.
Title: Re: Bored again
Post by: Styxx on January 05, 2003, 07:23:48 am
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Originally posted by StrykeIX
Anyone else a photographer around here?


Well, I like to think that I qualify as a very amateur one. :D

I work with a Canon EOS 500n SLR camera, and I've experimented with a wide range of films, but I still stick to the standard ISO 400 color. Dunno, I just like the simplistic style, I think. I'd post some of my stuff, but I don't have a scanner.

:p
Title: Re: Re: Bored again
Post by: Setekh on January 06, 2003, 12:37:31 am
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Originally posted by Styxx
Well, I like to think that I qualify as a very amateur one. :D

I work with a Canon EOS 500n SLR camera, and I've experimented with a wide range of films, but I still stick to the standard ISO 400 color. Dunno, I just like the simplistic style, I think. I'd post some of my stuff, but I don't have a scanner.

:p


You could always air-mail them to me for me to scan them. :D

Hey Stryke, have you got any more shots? What you've already put up is pretty good. :yes:
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 06, 2003, 12:49:51 am
Books of 'em. Scanned, I only have a handful. Let's see...

(http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/scanImage02.jpg)

(also one of the maybe three pictures I ever kept with a person in it.)

...

I guess I deleted all the old ones. Ah well, maybe I'll do more next weekend, if I don't have anything else up by then.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Bored again
Post by: Styxx on January 06, 2003, 04:54:20 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
You could always air-mail them to me for me to scan them. :D


Always the practical person...
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 10, 2003, 10:30:27 pm
(http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/dam.jpg)

And, for variety, a color print. Got a ****load of these, too, but since color is ****ing HARD to get right on my scanner (note the dirt I couldn't fix) this'll be the only one I upload. Won an award, actually, which kinda surprised me...

(http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/pad.jpg)
Title: Bored again
Post by: Knight Templar on January 10, 2003, 11:39:29 pm
The top one is cool.. bottom one look like a frogs vagina.

Oh, and what was your first one you posted anyways? I still swear it looks like a Moose with a fishing pole.
Title: Bored again
Post by: delta_7890 on January 10, 2003, 11:51:57 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
The top one is cool.. bottom one look like a frogs vagina.

Oh, and what was your first one you posted anyways? I still swear it looks like a Moose with a fishing pole.


Firstly...eww...

Secondly, it was an angel.
Title: Bored again
Post by: Gortef on January 11, 2003, 11:50:21 am
Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
The top one is cool.. bottom one look like a frogs vagina.
 


... I don't really like to know what it really is anyway...

but it has nice colors though
Title: Bored again
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 11, 2003, 12:14:01 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
The top one is cool.. bottom one look like a frogs vagina.


You've never seen one of any kind, eh?