Autoshite photography thread.

[Guest]

Depends on the camera and what mode he shot in.

 

I'd say he he probably brought the contrast up a crack and then either 'lens burnt' or 'lens distorted' the image to get those darkened edges.

 

The popularity of effects like this (essentially clever software filters) are why plastic Chinese landfill lenses like the Holga and Diana have made a comeback. A plastic lens by sheer dint of its shonkiness lets a lot of light in (so the edges of the image get sucked in) produce loads of aberrations and soften the edges of the image. A lot of these effects you can achieve by cocking around in GIMP 2 (I ended up working out what one of those 'vintage' iPhone filters did via this method).

 

I'm a massive cheapskate and have thus never used Photoshop. I use GIMP 2.

[Guest]

Also Tayne, thanks for the tips. I shall bear those in mind and let you know how I get on.

[MrDuke]

Re. using Gimp for OMGLOMO effects, one of the recent Linux mags had a really simple tutorial on how to achieve it, might still be on the shelves if anyone wants to go and look at it. Don't buy it mind, it's not worth it.

[loserone]

Another piece of neat software I've been playing with this week - Darktable

[Guest]

 

Wanted to know how you get this effect for ages, and last night I managed it. 30 second exposure and 100 ISO. First time I've used my 18-55 kit lens for ages. The auto focus is dopey as fuck, mind.

[Guest]

You know you can use your flash to freeze your car's motion?

 

I didn't, no. But the flash on my D60 is shite. It's a weird combination of useful bits and infuriating penny pinching, that camera is.

Please explain further. Wouldn't that light up the surroundings and look utterly shite?

[retrogeezer]

[dollywobbler]

 

Quite pleased with this one given that I guess the focus and was trying to balance the camera on a table (with the strap under the lens to get the right angle) at 1am in the morning. I was bloody freezing!

 

I illuminated the van with my torch. Nature did the rest.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

[image]

 

Wanted to know how you get this effect for ages, and last night I managed it. 30 second exposure and 100 ISO. First time I've used my 18-55 kit lens for ages. The auto focus is dopey as fuck, mind.

 

I like this a lot. I want to attempt something similar next time I get the chance.

[Cavcraft]

 

Wanted to know how you get this effect for ages, and last night I managed it. 30 second exposure and 100 ISO. First time I've used my 18-55 kit lens for ages. The auto focus is dopey as fuck, mind.

 

That's a stunning picture, Jon.

[Cavcraft]

Another piece of neat software I've been playing with this week - Darktable

 

Is there a simpleton's version of that do you know? I looked on that wesbite and think I understood about one in fifteen things at best

[Pillock]

For playing around at night, light painting is pretty good. The idea is you set a long exposure with the camera on a tripod, in as much darkness as you can find. You then shine a torch on the bits you want to come out in the photo, so it's almost like having multiple flashes pointed at different areas. Heavily used in urban exploration where setting off flashes would alert people but you can get away with directed light on internal walls.

[Station]

I found using manual focus on those exposures to work best.*

 

Does anyone know how to reduce the orangeyness on night photos on the camera??

[Pillock]

You can play with the white balance, but I know when I went out around town at night, my camera just didn't have the range of adjustment.

I was with a mate who had a nice new EOS550 and his photos were coming out really neutral, mine were orange and nothing could be done on the camera itself. I ended up converting most to B&W.

[Sulla]

Resurrecting this thread as I am quite proud of this photo I took on holiday last week. Messed around with on pixlr.com which is handy online editing tool. Acheived using some filter or other and a metal effect to finish, reminds me of the photos in car adverts in the 1980s.

 

The Xant by Sulla1105, on Flickr

[Pete-M]

I've not spotted this in 'ere, but Jon had another go at the old tail light blurry motion trick with my Impreza a month or so ago.

 

He's getting better at it

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Thread resurrection time. Today, while davidfowler2000 was snapping picturesque snowy mountains in Glencoe, I was camped out on a motorway bridge with a bit of #11 welding glass blu-tak'd to my camera.

 

Here's the result - a 20 second exposure of a busy motorway.

 

And here's a 30 second exposure showing more vehicle trails. Composition could have been better on both of these, but of course you lose your viewfinder when you stick bits of black glass over your lens.

 

And here's the last shot without the glass, to give you an idea how busy the road was.

 

Nothing exceptional there but it was something I'd not tried before. If you've got a welding mask lying around, give it a shot.

[Cavcraft]

Superb, Tayne. I had a half arsed attempt at light trails a while back and need to try harder.

[Pillock]

 

A £20 tripod and a £2.99 wired remote from ebay, and my £180 secondhand Pentax K110 DSLR. This was one of the very first photos I took, I was quite chuffed with it but now I think it needs more interest, it needs something illuminated but still to contrast with the fast-moving traffic.

 

My advice here is: Be nice to the policemen who pull up behind you as you're lurking around a motorway bridge at midnight. They're genuinely concerned!

 

Also, look for alternative forms of light trails (and don't be afraid to look like a berk with a tripod at a funfair)

 

 

Behold, the prototype wind-turbine powered Kangoo.

[DodgyBastard]

Here's a few of mine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pete-M]

That bluey grey Polo saloon looks really nice. I like the wheels, too.

[DodgyBastard]

Took some more tonight,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[credders]

i took this early on this year, i know nothing about photography its just on my fone and i think i was just lucky with the light,

 

[stuboy]

[hauserplenty]

My '88 Sedan DeVille:

 

Me driving on the wrong side of the road:

 

In this monstrosity:

(A 1977 Chevy van with fiberglass RV roof)

 

An interior shot of which:

 

Home away from home:

 

Tailgatin':

 

'Ere's a nice little earner:

 

Interior needs a bit of work tho:

...might clean up nicely, y'never know...

 

Ran when parked!:

 

Alarm install on a 2008 Grand Cherokheap:

 

Just add new drivers:

One down...*sigh*...jobsworth innit?