Photography Thread

So we have an Arts thread and the occasional game screenshots thread, so what about a "life screenshot" thread? Show off your photographic and film masterpieces here, talk about the equipment you use or techniques you do physically or digitally to achieve your pictures, and boast if you won some competition or got your photos or videos featured somewhere.

Useful Links

[Video] How to develop your own B&W Film (Basic)
[Document] How to develop Colour Film (Advanced)
[Wiki] Analog Camera Reviews by people who actually use them
[Website] DPReview - News, Reviews, and Tips on Digital Photography

Galleries, Albums, and Channels

Highlight your best photos, or just dump albums of them and I'll link them here, video channels also. I'll sort 'em better when they start piling up.

[Imgur album] Mine - 35mm Black and White, and Colour.
[In-Thread] Vien's Photos
[In-Thread] Dio Nolos'/Solonoid's Photos
[In-Thread] MarKhan's Photos
[In-Thread] Mike's Photos
[In-Thread] Jonos' Photos

[Last Updated - 28 March, 2018]

Some Volcano in Costa Rica

Hotel Casa Santo Domingo, Guatemala

Belize

As much as I love photography I have never actually had an interest in taking my own photos.

Waiting in Traffic

In the Autumn Hills

Lost a lot of quality because it's been copied too many times

Amurrica

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Sunrise in my apartment

If I only scanned in the negatives of my and Ec Mrs Chalies travels. I did a ton of pretty good architectural shots and people. That’s one of my regrets. I didn’t keep my negatives.

If I only scanned in the negatives of my and Ec Mrs Chalies travels. I did a ton of pretty good architectural shots and people. That’s one of my regrets. I didn’t keep my negatives.

lmao stop being old

If I only scanned in the negatives of my and Ec Mrs Chalies travels. I did a ton of pretty good architectural shots and people. That’s one of my regrets. I didn’t keep my negatives.

What does Ex Mrs Charlie even look like anyway?

If I only scanned in the negatives of my and Ec Mrs Chalies travels. I did a ton of pretty good architectural shots and people. That’s one of my regrets. I didn’t keep my negatives.

Completely serious question. What's a negative?

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mental_hospital_park_bench_out_of_focus

mental_hospital_park_tower

city_area_railroad_1

city_area_railroad_2

court_nearby_street

court_stairs_to_street

court_nearby_area

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university_building_near_chappel_area_autumn

university_area_2PM

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urban_area_street

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rainfall

Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore

The Washington Monument

Obama's Inauguration in 2009

Long exposure of a firework being spun on a string

Sandy Point State Park in Maryland

If I only scanned in the negatives of my and Ec Mrs Chalies travels. I did a ton of pretty good architectural shots and people. That’s one of my regrets. I didn’t keep my negatives.

Completely serious question. What's a negative?

I used to shoot with a Ricoh 35mm SLR camera. I still have it somewhere.

It used a photosensitive film that had to be processed chemically. The camera exposed the film to light. When processed, the film had a reverse color image on it. You put that over a photosensitive paper and exposed it to light shone through the film. Then you processed that paper to make a picture. The film, after being processed, was called a negative because it looked like a negative image when you looked at it.

And thank you for making me feel ancient

And thank you for making me feel ancient

Don't worry, when I was growing up digital cameras weren't a thing.

(Some of these are from old phones I've had)

Pelican at the beach

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Dodger Stadium back in July, pre-game

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Same game, players on the field

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Spider we found at work

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My dog while we were camping during the summer of 2011

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A grasshopper. I think I took this picture when I used to have an android.

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If I only scanned in the negatives of my and Ec Mrs Chalies travels. I did a ton of pretty good architectural shots and people. That’s one of my regrets. I didn’t keep my negatives.

Completely serious question. What's a negative?

Negatives are the strips of film that have been developed so that you can print them out and look at them directly without the film being destroyed in the process. In the picture below, it's the strip of film above the CD, or the pile below the cat.



So you start off with the roll of film (the thing to the right of the cat), take pictures on an analog camera, then wind the camera up when the roll is filled (usually 24 or 36 shots, or "exposures" as the camera's -CLICK!- noise is it opening a trapdoor to expose the film to the light through the lense for a millisecond or so).

Then you either develop it yourself like the video in the OP (which at one stage you have to do in complete darkness as the film is still sensitive to light), or get it done professionally by mailing the film roll off in the post. When I was young (<2000's) you could just send it off to Boots or most pharmacists as they all had 24/hr development labs. Now it's rare to see, but the cost is about the same regardless (It's like £3-6 a roll to buy, then another £7-9 per roll to get them developed and printed).

The development process "freezes" the light captured on the film, so the film isn't sensitive to light anymore, and brings it out so it's visible on the film as you can see in the little shapes on the film strip.

The reason it's called a Negative is because the developed film comes out in inverted colours - Black is White, White is Black, Colours are their opposites, etc. Only when they are printed out are the colours inverted, which is a double negative (inverting the inverted), so the prints come out in the right colour they are seen irl, like the cat photo on the left.

And/Or you can get them scanned and digitised which adds a bit onto the cost/makes it cheaper than printing them out, so you can shove 'em on facebook or imgur like I do.

Film kinda died out once digital cameras were developed and become cheaper for anyone to buy as the technology progressed. On the bright side, it made professional film cameras dead-cheap. My camera on release in the 1980's would cost a bomb, not to mention the lenses... today I e-bay'd the thing, a flash, and a lense for £40.

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And thank you for making me feel ancient

I remember actual film, too, grandpa.