Todays hunt.(spider warning)

Messiah Khan · 17 Jun 2007 at 21:41

Bit more of a mixed bag today. Ive been along the Durham coast from Easington Colliery. Some stunning coastline it has to be said. There was loads of wildflower meadows packed full of flowers(including orchids) birds and insects. Had a great day, and got some decent pictures as a bonus;

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3. (How cool is his hair cut, lol)

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Messiah Khan · 17 Jun 2007 at 21:42

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7. (Queen bee and drone getting ready to make new colony)

Zheka · 17 Jun 2007 at 21:43

Great work as usual, N6 is the winner

azzerz · 17 Jun 2007 at 21:47

Brilliant pics, mate

Where do you find such great things to take pictures of?

MaxPower · 17 Jun 2007 at 21:50

Family forum :mad:

Great images as always though. You have some real talent.

drunken fool · 17 Jun 2007 at 22:11

Number 5 is the winner for me

What are the EXIF details?

Messiah Khan · 17 Jun 2007 at 22:21

Zheka said:
Great work as usual, N6 is the winner

Cheers.

azzerz said:
Brilliant pics, mate

Where do you find such great things to take pictures of?

Thank you. You just have to look carefully. Walk slowly and look under leaves etc, and you'll find a whole other world hiding.

MaxPower said:
Family forum

Great images as always though. You have some real talent.

I did put a spider warning on the thread title.

Cheers. Lets hope I can get better and turn it into a career somehow.

drunken fool said:
Number 5 is the winner for me

What are the EXIF details?

Exif should be embedded on all images, but here you are anyway;

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Orientation of image: 1 File change date and time: 2007:06:17 20:44:24 Image input equipment manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION Image input equipment model: NIKON D40X Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows Exposure time: 0.005 F number: 4 Exposure program: 3 ISO speed rating: 100 Shutter speed: 7.64386 Aperture: 4 Exposure bias: -1 Maximum lens aperture: 3 Metering mode: 2 Light source: 0 Flash: 0 Lens focal length: 150 Sensing method: 2 Custom rendered: 0 Exposure mode: 0 White balance: 0 Digital zoom ratio: 1 Focal length in 35 mm film: 225 Scene capture type: 0 Gain control: 0 Contrast: 2 Saturation: 0 Sharpness: 0 Subject distance range: 0

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Orientation of image: 1 File change date and time: 2007:06:17 20:46:45 Image input equipment manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION Image input equipment model: NIKON D40X Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows Exposure time: 0.00625 F number: 5.6 Exposure program: 3 ISO speed rating: 400 Shutter speed: 7.32193 Aperture: 4.97085 Exposure bias: 0 Maximum lens aperture: 3 Metering mode: 2 Light source: 0 Flash: 0 Lens focal length: 150 Sensing method: 2 Custom rendered: 0 Exposure mode: 0 White balance: 0 Digital zoom ratio: 1 Focal length in 35 mm film: 225 Scene capture type: 0 Gain control: 1 Contrast: 2 Saturation: 0 Sharpness: 0 Subject distance range: 0

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Orientation of image: 1 File change date and time: 2007:06:17 20:51:42 Image input equipment manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION Image input equipment model: NIKON D40X Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows Exposure time: 10 F number: 22 Exposure program: 1 ISO speed rating: 400 Shutter speed: -3.32193 Aperture: 8.91886 Exposure bias: 0 Maximum lens aperture: 4 Metering mode: 2 Light source: 0 Flash: 0 Lens focal length: 28 Sensing method: 2 Custom rendered: 1 Exposure mode: 1 White balance: 0 Digital zoom ratio: 1 Focal length in 35 mm film: 42 Scene capture type: 0 Gain control: 1 Contrast: 2 Saturation: 0 Sharpness: 0 Subject distance range: 0

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Orientation of image: 1 File change date and time: 2007:06:17 20:56:41 Image input equipment manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION Image input equipment model: NIKON D40X Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows Exposure time: 0.005 F number: 4.5 Exposure program: 3 ISO speed rating: 800 Shutter speed: 7.64386 Aperture: 4.33985 Exposure bias: 1 Maximum lens aperture: 3 Metering mode: 2 Light source: 0 Flash: 0 Lens focal length: 150 Sensing method: 2 Custom rendered: 0 Exposure mode: 0 White balance: 0 Digital zoom ratio: 1 Focal length in 35 mm film: 225 Scene capture type: 0 Gain control: 1 Contrast: 2 Saturation: 0 Sharpness: 0 Subject distance range: 0

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Orientation of image: 1 File change date and time: 2007:06:17 21:00:18 Image input equipment manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION Image input equipment model: NIKON D40X Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows Exposure time: 0.005 F number: 7.1 Exposure program: 3 ISO speed rating: 800 Shutter speed: 7.64386 Aperture: 5.65564 Exposure bias: 1 Maximum lens aperture: 3 Metering mode: 2 Light source: 0 Flash: 0 Lens focal length: 150 Sensing method: 2 Custom rendered: 0 Exposure mode: 0 White balance: 0 Digital zoom ratio: 1 Focal length in 35 mm film: 225 Scene capture type: 0 Gain control: 1 Contrast: 0 Saturation: 0 Sharpness: 0 Subject distance range: 0

benjo · 17 Jun 2007 at 22:24

Great pictures

Do you have No.5 in a higher res? Would make an amazing wallpaper

Messiah Khan · 17 Jun 2007 at 22:45

benjo said:
Great pictures

Do you have No.5 in a higher res? Would make an amazing wallpaper

Cheers. Is 3755x2514 big enough? lol.
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8160/dsc0153zt3.jpg

dsb · 17 Jun 2007 at 23:46

awsome mate.

any chance of number 2 in large format as well, hope you dont mid me using it as a wallpaper.

Messiah Khan · 18 Jun 2007 at 08:53

dsb said:
awsome mate.

any chance of number 2 in large format as well, hope you dont mid me using it as a wallpaper.

Thanks. Im sorry but im going to have to say no. Eventually hope to make money out of them somehow, and I wish to keep the high res ones to myself until then. I only posted the high res of no.5 as im not that overly pleased with it. Sorry.

Nicos Rex · 18 Jun 2007 at 10:03

Number 5 has potential. It is the somewhat bland sky that lets it down.

As an b&w film photographer I would have taken at least one shot of that scene with a red filter and/or burned the sky in in the darkroom. I suspect that you may be able to get the same effect in post production.

Messiah Khan · 18 Jun 2007 at 10:07

Yeah, the sky was very hazy and bland. I tried burning it in a bit, but it made it really noisey. For the look I was going for, it was too bright as well. I could really have done with much longer exposures 2-3mins+. Tbh, i'll just consider it as a lesson and do better next time.

Nicos Rex · 18 Jun 2007 at 11:16

messiah khan said:
Yeah, the sky was very hazy and bland. I tried burning it in a bit, but it made it really noisey. For the look I was going for, it was too bright as well. I could really have done with much longer exposures 2-3mins+. Tbh, i'll just consider it as a lesson and do better next time.

I will look forward to your next effort! I presume that you wanted the really long exposure for the nice water effect that you have at least partly achieved.

Interested to know if with digital photography you get reciprocity failure with really loooong exposures like that as you do with film and have to compensate by "guess and hope".

If your camera was shooting in a proper black and white mode, a red filter would undoubtedly have given you the dark sky you wanted (and it would have lengthened the exposure by getting on for 1 stop as well which would have suited you just fine for the effect you were after).

Messiah Khan · 18 Jun 2007 at 11:39

You'll have to expand on what you mean by 'reciprocity failure' im afraid. I could probably do with more filters, especially ND grad ones, but for now im just using a ND10 one. The sort of look im after is where you have super flat, etherial looking water and stratched clouds, with very simple minimalist static structures. Theres a certain artist that does some stunning examples, but I can't for the life of me remember his name. Id be interested in seeing some of your work, as theres not enough B&W shots posted on here.

Nicos Rex · 18 Jun 2007 at 12:34

Reciprocity failure is a phenomenon where with long exposures and/or low light levels the reciprocal relationshio between aperture and shutter speed to achieve correct exposure fails requiring a still longer exposure to get a decent negative.

An example of a situation where this may happen would be a time exposure of night time traffic to get the nice tracks from the headlights. You need to guess how much extra exposure to give using the time honoured method of thinking of a number and doubling it. I tend to bracket lavishly and widely in this situation, but to be honest it can be a bit hit and miss.

As for putting some of my work up here I may do so sometime - it is the time needed to mess about with cheap scanners and getting really angry with the poor results which has prevented me so far (not to mention the limited time I have to spend on photography which I would far rather spend in a red lit room with the smell of dev and fix in my nostrils!).

Messiah Khan · 18 Jun 2007 at 12:54

Ah, ok, I see what you mean now. Well I have to admit, I tend to do everything by very rough guesswork anyway. I tend to set it to f22, iso 100 and expose for 30 seconds. Then work it out from there. Not scientiffic, but it works in the end, lol. So do you work entirely with film then? Having only been photographing for a few months, I have only used digital. Film is deffinately something id like to experiment with eventually, especially if I had access to a dark room.

Nicos Rex · 18 Jun 2007 at 13:26

messiah khan said:
Ah, ok, I see what you mean now. Well I have to admit, I tend to do everything by very rough guesswork anyway. I tend to set it to f22, iso 100 and expose for 30 seconds. Then work it out from there. Not scientiffic, but it works in the end, lol. So do you work entirely with film then? Having only been photographing for a few months, I have only used digital. Film is deffinately something id like to experiment with eventually, especially if I had access to a dark room.

I work almost exclusively with film - only using digital for family snaps. Not that I have anything against digital media, just a case of what I am used to .

Your growing expertise with photographs of bugs and your creative eye belie your short experience with the medium and do you great credit.

Build a portfolio of a few hundred of your bug shots of the standard that I have seen and I suspect you could get them into a photo library and make some cash.

Messiah Khan · 18 Jun 2007 at 13:40

Thanks Nicos Rex. I actually have a thread going on another forum, discussing how I could make some money from, or even steer my career towards photography. As with so many other people in the industry, im getting a little weary of IT. My current job as IT support in a 6th form college does however give me a lot of time teaching and helping students to use cameras, DV cameras, photoshop and video editing etc, and it is this side I much prefer. So hopefully over the coming years I can get myself into a job that allows me to specialise in something like a technician for a photography studio, and also make a bit of money on the side from stock libraries.

ElDude · 18 Jun 2007 at 16:57

I didn't meet you at a party this weekend did I? I was talking to a lad interested in photography that was an IT bod in a school :eek: