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 Air
      
Location: Canada
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< on 1/26/2007 1:32 AM >
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http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=40444
I don't consider myself so, I am curious what you guys think of these shots. I never really received alot of feedback for them elsewhere (including my flickr) as with my other work, and I happen to really like these alot. Some are HDR's.
Digi. Silos at sunset.
22 year old expired film in $20 Olympus XA.
HDR - trains in a yard. Shot only because the clouds looked complelling.
Film - Hearn. At night. With wierd blue scanning line @ top.
HDR - A doorway in the control room at TPC (Toronto Power Company) Niagara Falls.
Digi - looking out the workshop window at TPC (Toronto Power Company) Niagara Falls.
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Glass
  
Location: Chicago
as one does
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<Reply # 1 on 1/26/2007 1:36 AM >
| | | | 1) Too far away and not very interesting.
2) Grain is horrible. BUT if you level it out into shadow it won't be so bad.
3) It's been done a lot, but it's still not a bad shot.
4) Good reference shot, but the grain is unrestrained and there are distractions (line on top).
5) I don't know what I'm looking at.
6) The best exposed out of all of 'em... still needs some more thought behind it, though.
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Air
Location: Canada
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<Reply # 2 on 1/26/2007 1:38 AM >
| | | | Posted by Glass
1) Too far away and not very interesting.
2) Grain is horrible. BUT if you level it out into shadow it won't be so bad.
3) It's been done a lot, but it's still not a bad shot.
4) Good reference shot, but the grain is unrestrained and there are distractions (line on top).
5) I don't know what I'm looking at.
6) The best exposed out of all of 'em... still needs some more thought behind it, though.
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Thanks!
The last two are huge windows, and having be shot a fair bit by others, decided to take a gander at a new angle. I really like 5, its a door in a back room.
I'm not sure what 4 is about, its a cheapo film scan and that friggin line was on everything. Not the negative tho.
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Glass
Location: Chicago
as one does
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<Reply # 3 on 1/26/2007 1:42 AM >
| | | | Developed by Walmart's finest?  Be honest!
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Air
Location: Canada
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<Reply # 4 on 1/26/2007 1:43 AM >
| | | | Posted by Glass
Developed by Walmart's finest? Be honest!
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Shoppers drug mart. Toronto's best kept secret-- $3.00 developing. Usually good but sometimes the scans are vexed. I also don't pay so, its all good!!!
I'll just scan them properly (on a drum, or a decent scanner) if I need to print them.
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tron_2.0
Location: Ohio
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 5 on 1/26/2007 1:44 AM >
| | | | I really dig the HDR shot with the train. Very tasteful, and it doesnt look like a rainbow vomited all over my screen!
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I find your lack of coziness.... disturbing.
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Air
Location: Canada
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<Reply # 6 on 1/26/2007 1:45 AM >
| | | | Posted by tron_2.0
I really dig the HDR shot. Very tasteful, and it doesnt look like a rainbow vomited all over my screen!
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Amazing. I was going for that. Its just 2 extra steps!!! I'm suprised more people aren't doing it.
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ryan
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Location: Providence RI
Gender: Male
F/gayz
| | | | Re: Please Review, mmmkay
<Reply # 7 on 1/26/2007 1:48 AM >
| | | | Posted by Glass
Developed by Walmart's finest? Be honest!
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Everyone trash talks wal-mart. But you know what, all of my 35mm stuff is processed via wal-mart(unless I'm shooting slides) The machines they have are good machines, as long as you get a competent person running them your pictures will be fine. The wal-mart I go to is one a friend works at, she was a photography major and worked in other private labs. I completely trust my pictures in her hands. The benefit of using wal-mart.. I NEVER PAY FOR PROCESSING EVER.
I climb stuff!
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tait
Location: toronto
Gender: Male
meow
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<Reply # 8 on 1/26/2007 1:56 AM >
| | | | Quick question, that first shot, are those the elevators in Port Mcnicoll?
Critiques:
1. I would have off centered the shot vertically, maybe more water and less sky? The shot is as said too far away, but it would be alot better if there was more water and less sky, something like #3. Centered shots can get visually boring at times.
2. I love it. The grain, the tones, and the silhouette all add to create an atmosphere that is unlike most shots.
3. Awesome, nothing to say.
4. Not a huge fan, kind of a meh shot. It's interesting but there's too much empty space vertically. The reflection is sweet though.
5. Same as 4, really meh. There's not much in composition and it seems really underexposed + undersaturated.
6. Awesome shot. Colours are spot on and I like the composition.
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Air
Location: Canada
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<Reply # 9 on 1/26/2007 2:08 AM >
| | | | Posted by ryanxpromise
Everyone trash talks wal-mart. But you know what, all of my 35mm stuff is processed via wal-mart(unless I'm shooting slides) The machines they have are good machines, as long as you get a competent person running them your pictures will be fine. The wal-mart I go to is one a friend works at, she was a photography major and worked in other private labs. I completely trust my pictures in her hands. The benefit of using wal-mart.. I NEVER PAY FOR PROCESSING EVER.
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I've heard it can be good, and they have days when they sell 4x6 for 10c.
Word!
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Air
Location: Canada
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<Reply # 10 on 1/26/2007 2:17 AM >
| | | | Posted by tait
Quick question, that first shot, are those the elevators in Port Mcnicoll?
Critiques:
1. I would have off centered the shot vertically, maybe more water and less sky? The shot is as said too far away, but it would be alot better if there was more water and less sky, something like #3. Centered shots can get visually boring at times.
2. I love it. The grain, the tones, and the silhouette all add to create an atmosphere that is unlike most shots.
3. Awesome, nothing to say.
4. Not a huge fan, kind of a meh shot. It's interesting but there's too much empty space vertically. The reflection is sweet though.
5. Same as 4, really meh. There's not much in composition and it seems really underexposed + undersaturated.
6. Awesome shot. Colours are spot on and I like the composition.
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Yup those are the silos at Pt.McNicholl.
1. I actually walked out to get this one, but I found the composition of the horizontal shot I have stronger.I'm shooting everything I have with one lens. A fixed 20mm so it forces me to work around the issue -- all the time.
2. Its iso64 film, but I guess the age of film has 'aged' it well. Only this shot came out with this type of coloring. The rest looked like washed out ektachrome.
3. Thanks.
4. I really like working with reflections. They are amazing.
5. It was strictly a light play experiment. The sun was setting and I was more intent on capturing the colors in the room, which appeared for a few min, then ducked out.
6.I might not have mentioned this, but these windows are huge (15ft+) and they posed a real problem to shoot as ugly-ass construction lights were plastered everywhere. That, and I was trying to stay out of sight.
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Sentinel
Location: Lawrence, KS
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 11 on 1/26/2007 2:29 AM >
| | | | I'd have to say 6 is my favorite. The window and ceiling view is beautiful. The rest are alright, just kind of boring.
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desmet
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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<Reply # 12 on 1/26/2007 4:26 AM >
| | | | 1 - Not the most interesting subject and sky, and the lackluster composition doesn't help.
2 - This might be savable if you did levels on it so the blacks were black and the whites were white. Not enough tonal range, too much grain, not enough shadow detail.
3 - Very well done. The best of this set by far.
4 - Lens flare, too much exposure some places, not enough others. A longer lens and bracketing and blending would be what you needed here.
5 - Angle doesn't do it for me and the white balance needed to be fixed on this one. Looks slightly soft too.
6 - Composition is weak.
I took a look at your site before and you have way better stuff than this. Not sure why you would post this stuff because except for 3 it doesn't touch a lot of the stuff on your site. Some pics on there like Breathtaking and I'm not religious are really very good.
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Air
Location: Canada
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<Reply # 13 on 1/26/2007 5:53 AM >
| | | | Posted by desmet
1 - Not the most interesting subject and sky, and the lackluster composition doesn't help.
2 - This might be savable if you did levels on it so the blacks were black and the whites were white. Not enough tonal range, too much grain, not enough shadow detail.
3 - Very well done. The best of this set by far.
4 - Lens flare, too much exposure some places, not enough others. A longer lens and bracketing and blending would be what you needed here.
5 - Angle doesn't do it for me and the white balance needed to be fixed on this one. Looks slightly soft too.
6 - Composition is weak.
I took a look at your site before and you have way better stuff than this. Not sure why you would post this stuff because except for 3 it doesn't touch a lot of the stuff on your site. Some pics on there like Breathtaking and I'm not religious are really very good.
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Some of these are just interesing and I happen to like them. I dident want to post the 'best of' shots I thought I'd had cause I'd really thought I should get critiques on stuff I'm iffy on. People don't tend to dig what I like some of the time, which is ok, but I am curious why. Some shots, people just feel and seem to home-in on, espcially when they have people in them.
I really like the shot of the Hearn, it seems to glow even though the exposure is a bit off. I'm not one to play by the books, I fool around with exposure a fair bit to achive mood, so I'm not always going for something 100% technically perfect. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Alot of my recent work is from a $20 Olympus XA point-and-shoot rangefinder. I keep it with me at all times, and in case I have technical problems with my other camera. Its amazing how you compensate for things when your using a fixed focal lens/point-and-shoot. It has helped me alot.
The two shots you mentioned, on my flickr, Breathtaking is one of my favorites. Its actually my desktop. The cross processing just worked so well on it, and it was taken with the cheapest camera I have. The religious one also is the same camera, same roll.
I deleted a fair bit from my account, but will have a personal site up soon. My best of shots, are not even up anymore.
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tullo
Location: Belleville New Jersey
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: Please Review, mmmkay
<Reply # 14 on 1/26/2007 4:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by ryanxpromise
I NEVER PAY FOR PROCESSING EVER.
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can i just say, i'm very jealous of those of you who get your processing done for free....i might shoot color film instead of digital if i had this kind of hookup.
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argonian
Location: Toronto, ON
Gender: Female
"Now with added cats!"
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<Reply # 15 on 1/26/2007 6:13 PM >
| | | | Posted by Air 33
I'll just scan them properly (on a drum, or a decent scanner) if I need to print them.
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disclaimer: this is not an attack
I have heard allot of people saying this lately and I wonder why you wouldn't just print from the negative?
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chairsmissing
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 16 on 1/26/2007 7:45 PM >
| | | | Posted by argonian
disclaimer: this is not an attack
I have heard allot of people saying this lately and I wonder why you wouldn't just print from the negative?
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i suspect very few people have access to a RA4 printing setup i.e. color enlarger with processor. i believe the only lab currently still doing this in the city is image works. note, i'm discounting optical systems like those found at future shop, shoppers, etc, simply cause they produce shitty prints. i did a semester of RA4 last year and the results were stunning, though very time consuming.
though i wonder how many people would actually buck up and pay for a drum or imacon scan.
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desmet
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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<Reply # 17 on 1/26/2007 7:45 PM >
| | | | Posted by argonian
disclaimer: this is not an attack
I have heard allot of people saying this lately and I wonder why you wouldn't just print from the negative?
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I don't because I don't have access to a darkroom and need to post process. I would KILL to be making silver prints again, but I have no way to do it.
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chairsmissing
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 18 on 1/26/2007 8:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by argonian
disclaimer: this is not an attack
I have heard allot of people saying this lately and I wonder why you wouldn't just print from the negative?
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oops - for some reason i thought you were talking about color printing specifically, but i think my comments apply both to color and b&w.
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Air
Location: Canada
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<Reply # 19 on 1/26/2007 11:14 PM >
| | | | Posted by mlserychlc
can i just say, i'm very jealous of those of you who get your processing done for free....i might shoot color film instead of digital if i had this kind of hookup.
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Check the shops where you develop, and ask if you can just get developing. Most places wont post it as an option. When i do pay, I pay $3 vs $8 with prints, which I dont even need anyways.
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