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This is my first attempt at photography.

Camera is a 1981 Minolta Maxxum 7000

Lenses are a 50mm non-zooming and a 70-210 zoom.

Please be kind, i'm very new at this.

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And my personal favorite:

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Also, can anybody tell me what causes this:

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I really have no idea, so any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
 
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You mean the lines of the picture? Looks like the film was wound too tightly or was old. I had lines like that when I wound my own film a couple times, when I wound it too tight. Also, my grandma gave me some film that was sitting in her cabinet for years, and it had stress lines like that.
 
#206
kserg said:
Sax, Sonic, Ivar: Thanks for input.
Thanks anyway... Oh here, one more shot i got for you guys. :)


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You are welcome. And that picture is great, I like the colors and the landscape very much :)

BurningSkies said:
Ivar's work always makes me happy. I really appreciate his color balance and the fact that he gets such a sense of depth and dimensionality out of a landscape...I struggle a lot with landscapes and not having them come out very FLAT.
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Thanks! :) I really appreciate it!

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Because I've sworn off digital for the summer and have been only shooting B&W film and doing my own darkroom work. :) Wish I could share some of my prints, but no decent scanner right now.
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That's cool! Can't wait to see your darkroom work.
I only dabbled in film and darkroom when I was 15 years old and took a photography course at school. Haven't touched that kind of stuff since.
 
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The Alexander said:
This is my first attempt at photography.

Camera is a 1981 Minolta Maxxum 7000

Lenses are a 50mm non-zooming and a 70-210 zoom.

Please be kind, i'm very new at this... I really have no idea, so any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
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It looks like you've got a double whammy of bad film and poor processing...The color balance and fact that the contrast goes from very high to very low depending upon the shot makes me think old film...some of the splotchy weirdness makes me think bad processing. I kind of like them that way though. There's no bad film or processing...you just need to know how to use it for good effect. :)

I spent 8.5 hours in the darkroom the other day and nothing wanted to come out...and then I realized it wasn't me, but bad chemistry. Hopefully wednesday nite will go better.
 
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Ívar Þórólfsson;4492242 said:
You are welcome. And that picture is great, I like the colors and the landscape very much :)


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Thanks! :) I really appreciate it!


That's cool! Can't wait to see your darkroom work.
I only dabbled in film and darkroom when I was 15 years old and took a photography course at school. Haven't touched that kind of stuff since.
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I was the same way, which is why I decided to take a full B&W course and learn how to do it right. I'm lucky enough to have a usable darkroom that's a 10 minute walk from home, and a year's membership is $150 including all facilities and materials besides paper and film. Digital B&W has always been a frustration since you can't really print it with any real tonal fidelity.

I've really come to enjoy the satisfaction of processing my own film and doing my own printing. The developing is more meditative, and the printing is more creative. I also like the buzz the caustic chemicals provide. ;)

I've been getting a lot of 'oh, that's an interesting shot...' from the old guard though.
 
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Matt Till said:
You mean the lines of the picture?
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I mean the big red blob at the very top.

BurningSkies said:
It looks like you've got a double whammy of bad film and poor processing...The color balance and fact that the contrast goes from very high to very low depending upon the shot makes me think old film...some of the splotchy weirdness makes me think bad processing. I kind of like them that way though. There's no bad film or processing...you just need to know how to use it for good effect. :)
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Well, the film is a five-pack of some generic Fujifilm, and I just had the pictures put onto a CD at Walmart. So.....I wasn't expecting much :o

I do kind of like the vibe that it gets, it looks like the pictures are old.

I'm sure the pictures will get better once I actually get familiar with the camera, too.

Thanks for looking.
 
#211
I've just started getting into photography in the last few months, but I'll post a few. Feel free to offer any critiques and criticisms.



My son playing goalie. He made a nice save on this play.

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And here are a few from my trip to Quebec City two weeks ago...






The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, which is underneath the Basilica of St. Anne de Beaupre.
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The top of Montmorency Falls
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The altar at The Cathedral of Notre Dame
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The seargent reviewing his troops prior to them relieving the outgoing guard unit at The Citadel, with the famous hotel Fairmont Le Château Frontenac in the background.
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dave64o said:
I've just started getting into photography in the last few months, but I'll post a few. Feel free to offer any critiques and criticisms...
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I like all your pictures, but I LOVE the one of your son about to make that save. IMHO, perfect depth of field and really nice framing/composition... not to mention timing! :)
 
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Vic said:
I like all your pictures, but I LOVE the one of your son about to make that save. IMHO, perfect depth of field and really nice framing/composition... not to mention timing! :)
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Thanks, Vic. Funny, I've posted that picture on DP Review and had someone tell me i didn't crop it down enough, that I needed to go narrower so I have more of my son and less net. Oh well, that shows just how subjective this is. It would have been cool to be just a little bit later so the balls is going into his hands, but it still works.


Rummy, The shot of the wasp on the leaves is really nice. How far away were you to get that shot?


Here's another I took while in Quebec City a few weeks ago. This is a gold archway over the altar in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Old Quebec.

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dave64o said:
I've just started getting into photography in the last few months, but I'll post a few. Feel free to offer any critiques and criticisms.



My son playing goalie. He made a nice save on this play.

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And here are a few from my trip to Quebec City two weeks ago...






The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, which is underneath the Basilica of St. Anne de Beaupre.
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Now, you see, I would say just the opposite. On that Footy shot, I'd say if you had less depth of field, you'd get rid of the spectators in back of the goal making for a more effective shot. With a bit of work, you could keep him and the net clear, but had the other crap in back de-emphasized. :)

Now, on the other hand, you've made a great use of depth of field in the next shot.
 
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pics from my trip to Skyline Caverns in Front Royal, VA last weekend. Please opine.

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