pics you took that you're pleased with

Awesome shot, nighttime long exposure?

Lush. Is that out by Philly?

Wow

Camera / lens?

wow u too..and menu others. great thread

canon 6d with canon ef 16-35 f4 L. my favorite (and only) lens at the moment

  On 8/25/2017 at 5:57 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Lush. Is that out by Philly?

Just saw this. That was in the White Mountains in New Hampshire.

  On 10/14/2017 at 10:54 AM, o00o said:

This is great

Got myself a Mint SLR670s (basically a refurbished and modified SX-70). Really happy with this camera. This scan using my iPhone and Google PhotoScan really doesn't do it justice. The lens is fucking sharp.

I don’t know where else to post this and I don’t want to start a new thread soooo

I’m looking to buy a mirrorless camera to replace my dslr (Nikon d750). It’s a great camera but I hate carrying it around and carrying the lenses and I don’t really need it anymore. I’m looking at Sony a7 ii or maybe just getting the Sony a6300 and spending more on a lens. Anyone got suggestions? Mostly doing outdoors landscape stuff and some night shooting, little bit of portrait. I’ve heard video on the a6300 is very good.

  On 11/29/2017 at 6:05 AM, zaphod said:

I don’t know where else to post this and I don’t want to start a new thread soooo

 

I’m looking to buy a mirrorless camera to replace my dslr (Nikon d750). It’s a great camera but I hate carrying it around and carrying the lenses and I don’t really need it anymore. I’m looking at Sony a7 ii or maybe just getting the Sony a6300 and spending more on a lens. Anyone got suggestions? Mostly doing outdoors landscape stuff and some night shooting, little bit of portrait. I’ve heard video on the a6300 is very good.

I've read about Sony cameras "eating stars", so if astrophotography is your bag, you might wanna steer clear from Sony. I'm pretty sure all of the Sony cameras exhibit very noticeable rolling shutter when used for video, though.

Other than that, if you're dead-set on having a 35mm sensor, then Sony mirrorless would be a good choice. Don't poo-poo APS-C sensors though, I've been thoroughly impressed with the image quality coming out of the APS-C cameras I've owned (Fujifilm X100T, Fujifilm X-Pro2).

Cool your style gets better and better with time

I'd go see that movie.

Another amazing barrage of photos from Suffocate Peon 

A mixture of analog shots (taken with B&W, blue duochrome, and yellow duochrome Polaroid films) and digital shots.

  On 2/15/2018 at 7:03 PM, oscillik said:

Another amazing barrage of photos from Suffocate Peon

thanks a lot again

too much? I kept adding because one particular photo jarred with another. This thread breaks upon opening on my tablet. I put up something like 110 photos in a row on a photography thread on another forum, mainly to annoy the people on there, although i do like the consistent mood it creates. Someone commented; 'Couldn’t you pick the best three! '.to which a man replied 'To be honest I doubt even he knows which are the good ones', which flipped me out and...i said some...things. 'I'm at a point where I have to think whether it's worthwhile, whether the privilege of an online place to show can offset how upsetting it is'. etc etc a few words i can't remember what i said. Man replied and the gist is/to directly quote him he said it's 'average street photography, with the motion blur and heavy silhouetting on some photos it looks like a sixth form students take on it at that. Boring compositions and un-interesting subjects where you haven't really captured anything, and have just silhouetted them to try to create interest'. So yeah it kind of means a lot for the response on here to be more receptive, i think because i'm really chasing boldness instead of accepting it's futile unless I get intimate access to subjects, shoot on film, find a war zone, maybe travel back in time to the 70s.

man it cuts deep to be described as average. That's the worst thing anyone has ever said to me. I'd rather he hated the harshness.

I dunno, I'm surprised with the edits because they're often beyond what I can hope for, although the freshness only lasts a few days for me. Transforming the ordinary to something unnerving is the addiction. I dunno, I've been surprised, that's probably enough.

Your blue hued urban England shots are beautiful, i don't do colour so don't know, how much can you do in camera? That to me is England. London is urban. England isn't countryside to me really.

Also! Got this. Which made my day/week/month/year/life/afterlife

Nice!

  On 2/16/2018 at 3:44 PM, Suffocate Peon said:

 

  On 2/15/2018 at 7:03 PM, oscillik said:

Another amazing barrage of photos from Suffocate Peon

 

thanks a lot again

 

too much? I kept adding because one particular photo jarred with another. This thread breaks upon opening on my tablet. I put up something like 110 photos in a row on a photography thread on another forum, mainly to annoy the people on there, although i do like the consistent mood it creates. Someone commented; 'Couldn’t you pick the best three! '.to which a man replied 'To be honest I doubt even he knows which are the good ones', which flipped me out and...i said some...things. 'I'm at a point where I have to think whether it's worthwhile, whether the privilege of an online place to show can offset how upsetting it is'. etc etc a few words i can't remember what i said. Man replied and the gist is/to directly quote him he said it's 'average street photography, with the motion blur and heavy silhouetting on some photos it looks like a sixth form students take on it at that. Boring compositions and un-interesting subjects where you haven't really captured anything, and have just silhouetted them to try to create interest'. So yeah it kind of means a lot for the response on here to be more receptive, i think because i'm really chasing boldness instead of accepting it's futile unless I get intimate access to subjects, shoot on film, find a war zone, maybe travel back in time to the 70s.

 

man it cuts deep to be described as average. That's the worst thing anyone has ever said to me. I'd rather he hated the harshness.

 

I dunno, I'm surprised with the edits because they're often beyond what I can hope for, although the freshness only lasts a few days for me. Transforming the ordinary to something unnerving is the addiction. I dunno, I've been surprised, that's probably enough.

 

Your blue hued urban England shots are beautiful, i don't do colour so don't know, how much can you do in camera? That to me is England. London is urban. England isn't countryside to me really.

 

Also! Got this. Which made my day/week/month/year/life/afterlife

My art has been called average by several people online. I wouldn't take it personally. It's a highly subjective thing. For me, positive feedback is nice but it's not why I draw/paint/design/whatever. I do it because I'm basically possessed to do it and will probably never stop, whether it makes an impact on anyone or not. The ideas are always flowing and if they interest me then I manifest them digitally or physically. If I keep getting jazzed to do it then I continue.

Suffocate Peon - I'm sorry for my poor choice of word with 'barrage'. I never meant any negative connotation, quite the contrary actually.

It really disheartens me to read that you have been getting shit from internet expert pro photographers who seem to like to spend most of their time spouting negativity in online forums rather than getting out there to shoot.

Everyone who has posted in this thread has a great eye, and I mean everyone. I know I've said it before, but I am always excited when I see that this thread has been bumped, looking forward to seeing what everyone has made.

From very early on in this thread, your photos stood out to me above all others, and that is still the case to this day. Seeing your photos were a massive inspiration for me to step up from just shooting with my mobile phone, to getting something semi-serious. Your work is full of atmosphere and mood, and it has a rawness and grit to it that really speaks to me. Your photos are also amongst the most beautiful B&W work I've seen yet.

Personally, I've mostly stopped posting my work to Flickr (apart from the music gig photography I shoot, for ease of sharing with the congregation of Emotion Wave here in Liverpool). I frequent a few photography IRC channels, and I very quickly got sick and tired of comments which I'm sure you're used to seeing from other internet experts - "You've overexposed the highlights." "Why are you shooting at ISO 12800?" "Why is there so much grain?" "The colours aren't true to life." etc etc etc.

I shoot the way I shoot because that's the way I shoot. I develop my files the way I do, because that's the way I like em. Anyone who has anything to say to me about my work, if they don't like it they can get fucked. I recently went to a local Photographic Society in my hometown. I was disappointed to find that it was full of middle-aged men who do nothing more than take what I personally consider to be very boring (but likely technically correct) photos of birds, aeroplanes, etc. All centre frame.

And you know what? There's nothing wrong with shooting like that. If that's what people like, let them do it. I'm not going to wax lyrical to them about the many reasons why I don't like that stuff.

Negativity always affects creative people. Please don't let their bullshit dissuade you from creating more beautiful photography.