Your pictures of Nature

[Evil_Onyx]

I ride my bike in that area frequently, cjp, and often across that very bridge, when I'm in the Northern Virginia area.

@Evil_Onyx: another fellow B&W film user! We have to stick together. Film is now getting past the "lambasted by digital" crisis and is starting to make a comeback as an "alternative" medium for photographers. While Kodak remains a step behind the market (for now), vendors like Ilford, Photokemica, and Arista are releasing new paper and film products for the artist niche market.

Its a pitty film is a dieing out, It is harder to get a good photo but the result is usually better.

And i like the feel of handling the photos as i print them rather than photoshoping them.

 

[Ghostrider]

vendors like Ilford, Photokemica, and Arista are releasing new paper and film products for the artist niche market.

I love Ilford's B&W film. Digital just doesn't cut it when it comes to B&W photography. I should scan some of my old films...

 

[Andy44]

Scanning is part of the problem. When you scan B&W negatives, you are not scanning the final photo, just the "raw" image. And if you scan the final print, you are not really seeing what the print looks like perfectly. Same with digital, I guess, when you print a digital photo it's difficult to get it to look like it does on a monitor.

I use mostly Kodak 400TriX film and Ilford fiber paper, but I experiment with other stuff. Kodak makes a BW film called 400CN which is processed in color chemicals, so you can take it to the drug store and get it developed in an hour. It has very nice, fine resolution, and once you have the negatives you can print it on paper just like regular BW film. It's also easy to find everywhere. My Yosemite photos on the first page were shot using Kodak 400CN.

 

[jrriss]

Cropped version.


Taken with my Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM that I got today.

 

[tblaxland]

^ Cropping FTW . Nice work jrriss, and welcome to the forum.

Here's another of mine, taken at Wallis Lake, New South Wales:

 

[orb]

Here's another of mine, taken at Wallis Lake, New South Wales

Now I can see what's sitting on your avatar. :lol:

 

[tblaxland]

Some more of my nature pics, this time from my mobile phone's built-in camera. The quality came out not too bad anyhow and its best to take these opportunities as they present themselves.

A nice sunset at Forster bar:

View through a window of some nice Sydney eucalypt forest:

Out bike riding yesterday under this dramatic sky:

Same place, some birds enjoying the wetlands:

A nice double rainbow to cap off the day. The clouds behind it were very dark, making the rainbow colours nicely saturated:

And this morning, an unusual conjunction - the Moon, Jupiter, and me at the bus stop early enough to observe it :lol:. Uranus is also in that image, about 0.5° below Jupiter, but obviously well below the capabilities of my phone camera to resolve

 

[Suzy]

I don't have anything much, so some insects (me holding them), a bushfire-smoke sunset and a storm front:

 

[Andy44]

I finally got around to scanning in some of my black and white prints. These were all processed by me in a traditional darkroom. My Lexmark scanner is a peice of junk, but it's all I've got, so this is as good as I can do for now:





Note the girl in this next one: she has just jumped off a cliff and is plummeting toward the water. Yes, it's high!

 

[Krys]

You can see some of my pictures taken with my mobile here.

I have never owned a real camera - scary no? So these will have to do, the japanese garden is by far my favourite.

 

[Andy44]

Any camera that takes pictures is a real camera! If it lacks features or resolution, you just have to work that into your composition. Besides, cell phones today have very high resolution; they are capable of very nice images.

You have a nice eye for composition, Krys. You should keep at it.

 

[Krys]

Thanks Andy, generally I just snap something when it strikes me as beautiful...if I have a spare moment.

 

[Unstung]

Some from last week:



(Click to enlarge)

 

[FordPrefect]

Thunderstorm above Ethiopia.

 

[Bj]

Pictures from trip to Montana one or two weeks ago

The second picture is in the middle of a hail-storm that blew through. The other guys got caught out in the middle of it. My Dad and uncle grew up on ND and knew about those clouds so we hauled it in before it hit

 

[jrriss]

Dragonfly!

 

[SiberianTiger]

Very nice silver clouds.



The Siberian river Ob', spating wide (as seen from an airplane).

 

[FordPrefect]

An altocumulus cloud layer bordering at the northern edge of the german-austrian alps. As seen from FL310.

....sometimes, there are moments in life you wish they would stretch on forever. Like this sunset I experienced at the south coast of Mauritius. Everything was perfect. The scene, the weather, air temperature (25°C), low humidity, a light breeze and the sound of waves of a calm sea...

 

[statickid]

Any camera that takes pictures is a real camera! If it lacks features or resolution, you just have to work that into your composition. Besides, cell phones today have very high resolution; they are capable of very nice images.

You have a nice eye for composition, Krys. You should keep at it.

yeah its too bad that we're not getting any real pictures back from the mars rovers or the cassini probe:lol:

 

[Bj]

Canada through a telescope: 9mm lens on telescope 35mm equivalent on camera


Canada without telescope max zoom:



we call them fish flies (because walleye eat them) but I think they are mayflys on ground:


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and hiding from wind: