PHOTO THREAD.

[GodsGrace]

Looks Art Nouveau to me.

You know your architecture!

The style [Art Nouveau] was called Jugendstil in Germany, Sezessionstil in Austria, Stile Floreale (or Stile Liberty) in Italy, and Modernismo (or Modernista) in Spain.

source: Art Nouveau | History, Characteristics, Artists, & Facts

 

[GodsGrace]

Street Busker, Des Moines, Iowa

Oh my gosh...
blue photoshopped,,,but great!

 

[Yehren]

You know your architecture!

The style [Art Nouveau] was called Jugendstil in Germany, Sezessionstil in Austria, Stile Floreale (or Stile Liberty) in Italy, and Modernismo (or Modernista) in Spain.

source: Art Nouveau | History, Characteristics, Artists, & Facts

Well, maybe not as much as I thought...

 

[Yehren]

Antoni Gaudi?

 

[Yehren]

Oh my gosh...
blue photoshopped,,,but great!

Background was a street fair, and very distracting.

 

[brakelite]

I enjoy browsing through the photos on this thread...I have always loved photography but never had the good equipment to produce the desired result. My older sister however is the professional photographer. When she was able she took her camera on long treks around the South island of NZ and returned with some brilliant pics. Here are a few of mine taken with a humble phone lol. The school where I work... Victorian Gold fields... And some Australian wildlife.

 

[brakelite]

Sorry about the repeats....

 

[GodsGrace]

Antoni Gaudi?

YES!

Thanks to a very nice cab driver, my husband and I (and our two children) got to see this architecture in person back in the 80's. It was one of the most amazing things I saw.

(after Queen!! LOL)

 

[GodsGrace]

Background was a street fair, and very distracting.

I thought so....

 

[GodsGrace]

I enjoy browsing through the photos on this thread...I have always loved photography but never had the good equipment to produce the desired result. My older sister however is the professional photographer. When she was able she took her camera on long treks around the South island of NZ and returned with some brilliant pics. Here are a few of mine taken with a humble phone lol. The school where I work... Victorian Gold fields... And some Australian wildlife. View attachment 7188 View attachment 7188 View attachment 7189 View attachment 7190 View attachment 7191 View attachment 7192 View attachment 7188 View attachment 7189 View attachment 7190 View attachment 7191 View attachment 7192

Beautiful school !
And I love the mouldings...have them in my home too.

 

[Yehren]

I have always loved photography but never had the good equipment to produce the desired result.

Don't worry about equipment; just take images. The limitations of a cell phone camera will make you a better photographer, if you keep at it. Cell phones today can give very good results, when processed:

 

[GodsGrace]

Don't worry about equipment; just take images. The limitations of a cell phone camera will make you a better photographer, if you keep at it. Cell phones today can give very good results, when processed:

I love the look of your black and white photos...and they're the most difficult.

Also @brakelite I think you should concentrate on composition more than equipment.
A good focal point and good composition is more than half the battle.
Get extra objects out of a picture that take the focus away from the central point of attention.

 

[Yehren]

I love the look of your black and white photos...and they're the most difficult.

I grew up using B&W film, because I couldn't afford to do color processing. So that was what I did:

This was taken about 1973. My wife and son. Tri-X, printed out on Agfa Portriga-Rapid. There's no other paper like it.

 

[GodsGrace]

I grew up using B&W film, because I couldn't afford to do color processing. So that was what I did:

This was taken about 1973. My wife and son. Tri-X, printed out on Agfa Portriga-Rapid. There's no other paper like it.

I'm not familiar with processing, but I love the brown. Is that a filter?
I was terrible with B & W.

 

[Yehren]

I'm not familiar with processing, but I love the brown. Is that a filter?
I was terrible with B & W.

Portriga-rapid has a slightly warm tone. I enhanced it when I digitized the photo to give a sepia tone to it.

Black and white requires a different eye than color photography. I was trained in the Zone System Ansel Adams used, which requires to you note the lightest tones and darkest tones and then adjust processing to get a full tonal range of white to black on the image.

 

[Yehren]

This was about 1976, I think. Obviously, not using the Zone System.

 

[GodsGrace]

Portriga-rapid has a slightly warm tone. I enhanced it when I digitized the photo to give a sepia tone to it.

Black and white requires a different eye than color photography. I was trained in the Zone System Ansel Adams used, which requires to you note the lightest tones and darkest tones and then adjust processing to get a full tonal range of white to black on the image.

Who doesn't love Ansel Adams!
The contrast made all his pictures outstanding.
I always felt like I was inside them....

It was just a hobby for me....you actually studied.

I could never get the "trick" for black and white and now I understand why.
(it needs to be studied)

 

[Yehren]

Who doesn't love Ansel Adams!
The contrast made all his pictures outstanding.
I always felt like I was inside them....

The key was that he figured out how to set the range of tones to fit the image. There would always be at least one place in the image that was pure white, and one that was pure black, and every tone in between. He used all of the potential tonal range for each shot. For which he was often criticized for not making "real images." Not unlike the criticism aimed at HDR today. The problem isn't the process; it's in people who use it without understanding how to control it.

It was just a hobby for me....you actually studied.

Not formal classes; just other knowledgeable people.

I could never get the "trick" for black and white and now I understand why.
(it needs to be studied)

Mrs. Yehren doesn't know an f-stop from an EV, but she takes remarkable images:

What matters is an eye for images. She just learns what the camera can do. I tend to intellectualize things. Different approaches, but both work just fine.

 

[GodsGrace]

The key was that he figured out how to set the range of tones to fit the image. There would always be at least one place in the image that was pure white, and one that was pure black, and every tone in between. He used all of the potential tonal range for each shot. For which he was often criticized for not making "real images." Not unlike the criticism aimed at HDR today. The problem isn't the process; it's in people who use it without understanding how to control it.



Not formal classes; just other knowledgeable people.



Mrs. Yehren doesn't know an f-stop from an EV, but she takes remarkable images:

What matters is an eye for images. She just learns what the camera can do. I tend to intellectualize things. Different approaches, but both work just fine.

Yes. I remember the black in his pix very much...not so much the white.

And your wife is great also...if she hadn't taken part of the front of the cabinets, it would have looked different. All that orange on the grey...and mysterious things going on outside the window. Wonderful !

 

[amadeus]

Never more than an amateur myself, but I still take pictures. This is my pastor on his 94th birthday. I take pictures of him periodically each time thinking that these may the last one ever taken. He lives on...