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Finger Prince posted:Arguments, questions, comments and debate about content and art and quality are good fun, but can also be inspiring. My comments about Google street view, and subsequent posts about documenting the banal got me thinking. Google is out there documenting the banal at a scale that no human documentarian can possibly approach. Drop your little yellow dude in any small town in America, play around with zoom and angle, and you can get some pretty mundane shots of everyday life in Nowheresville. So I thought, what if I could emulate that myself? Stand in the street and take a picture of nothing in particular, with no real thought to subject except to deliberately have none. I took a bunch of bad photos that didn't quite work, but a couple that showed promise. I blurred faces, numbers on stores, licence plates in GIMP, tried to make it look as street view as I could. It was an interesting experiment and I wouldn't have thought to try it were it not for the discussion itt. I'm going to keep working on it - I haven't got anything worth sharing yet - but I think the idea has promise and hopefully I can manage to pull off something like what I'm thinking. you should check the new streetview appreciation thread.
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In the meantime, here are some triangles. DSCF2810 by King Dugga, on Flickr
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eggsovereasy posted:you should check the new streetview appreciation thread. Thanks for letting me know about that! Bookmarked.
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Finger Prince posted:Arguments, questions, comments and debate about content and art and quality are good fun, but can also be inspiring. My comments about Google street view, and subsequent posts about documenting the banal got me thinking. Google is out there documenting the banal at a scale that no human documentarian can possibly approach. Drop your little yellow dude in any small town in America, play around with zoom and angle, and you can get some pretty mundane shots of everyday life in Nowheresville. So I thought, what if I could emulate that myself? Stand in the street and take a picture of nothing in particular, with no real thought to subject except to deliberately have none. I took a bunch of bad photos that didn't quite work, but a couple that showed promise. I blurred faces, numbers on stores, licence plates in GIMP, tried to make it look as street view as I could. It was an interesting experiment and I wouldn't have thought to try it were it not for the discussion itt. I'm going to keep working on it - I haven't got anything worth sharing yet - but I think the idea has promise and hopefully I can manage to pull off something like what I'm thinking. There are several photobooks done using Google Street View already, you can check those out too for ideas.
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alkanphel posted:There are several photobooks done using Google Street View already, you can check those out too for ideas. I particularity like this project: https://9-eyes.com/
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p0stal b0b posted:Hell yeah. Not trying to be a cheeky bugger, but did you ever consider developing these in Black & White? I feel like the form & contrast would make them excellent candidates... I did indeed    I could've spent hours there, shame I was so pressed for time.
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Dread Head posted:I particularity like this project: https://9-eyes.com/ these are dope
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alkanphel posted:There are several photobooks done using Google Street View already, you can check those out too for ideas.
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Sep 22, 2021 20:09
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^ These are all so cool but I love this one the most.  wheelchair by Tom Pepper, on Flickr I took this one a few days ago and its been growing on me.
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Sep 23, 2021 05:13
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Sep 23, 2021 17:09
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Interesting architecture. Where/what is it? (Pictures are nice too)
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Got around to scanning a few more 6x17 panos from my vacation this year, there is no end to the dust I still need to clean up.     
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Interesting architecture. Where/what is it? Thanks. It is a brutalist crematorium/chapel from the 70s it's in suburban Stockholm.
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This is really dope.
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Way more interesting than what 99% of visitors do at that beach: macro shot of a chunk of ice with the sunrise behind it. The late day purple cast on the image owns.
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I like all of them but these 2 in particular. 
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seravid posted:I did indeed Awesome.
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xzzy posted:Way more interesting than what 99% of visitors do at that beach: macro shot of a chunk of ice with the sunrise behind it. Yeah I got there and there were a couple of people taking that exact picture, but then I went further down to the end of the beach and it was pretty empty (that's an 11pm picture lol). That was my final night in Iceland so I actually have the same picture on Ektar and E100, but Velvia 100 (RIP) was pretty clearly the best to complement the scene. I think I'll put them up later in the film thread as a comparison. Dread Head posted:I like all of them but these 2 in particular. Those are also the two Velvia 100 pics I took (RIP again sweet prince), thanks! Where are your pics at? I always stormy backdrops in bright light. cerious fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Sep 24, 2021 |
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cerious posted:Yeah I got there and there were a couple of people taking that exact picture, but then I went further down to the end of the beach and it was pretty empty (that's an 11pm picture lol). That was my final night in Iceland so I actually have the same picture on Ektar and E100, but Velvia 100 (RIP) was pretty clearly the best to complement the scene. I think I'll put them up later in the film thread as a comparison. My photos are from Vancouver Island.
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idk if i'm the only one that gets annoyed about this but i'd like to propose that we change the thread title to something along the lines of landscape thread: no goddamn thumbnails we're all here to look at photos, making them small doesn't help us do that. i'm far less likely to give your photo a good look if you thumbnail it because you're making it more work for me. it's different in other parts of the forums like say in games i might not give two fucks about your screenshot of whatever in the middle of discussion about strategy so i'd rather you thumbed it but yo. this is the photo forum. make it so i can see that poo poo
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From the rules thread if people don't know this trick Posting Photos As this is a photography subforum you don't need to timg your large images, but there's little known imgur shortcuts you can use to make them a sensible size. Putting s, m, h or l before the .jpg in an imgur url will resize the image for you. For example: code: code: code: code: I always wrap an h sized image in a link to the full sized one of people feel like clicking through.
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I still use Flickr like a caveman, but they have the handy bbcode generator. Pick one of the "large" sizes they offer, boom done.
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xzzy posted:I still use Flickr like a caveman, but they have the handy bbcode generator. Pick one of the "large" sizes they offer, boom done. This. I just pick whichever size is around 1024 on the large end for ease of browsing.
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I edited my post to use the huge thumbnails with clickable images. I like timg though since you can click on the corner for an even bigger blowup. Big panos are awkward to share since even a big thumbnail doesn't do it justice, the short axis ends up getting shrunk down too much. Even the 1200x3600 doesn't really do it justice, but there's not really a way to share the full res stuff.
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Holy smokes more Stockholm please
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Very good.
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Just lovely. Hopper-esque.
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Do people think the clipped highlights detract from or enhance that image? I ask because that's one of those "rules" that photography blogs/videos like to harp on, never clip ANYTHING. And to me it works in this case.
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It depends, and it's not a big deal in that particular image, imo.
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xzzy posted:Do people think the clipped highlights detract from or enhance that image? I'm not an expert by any means, but for me the clipped highlights kind of make that image. Personally, trust your eyeballs over the zebras. Do you gain anything by exposing the highlight less? Do you lose anything in the shadows if you do? I think the rest of that image would be too dark if you exposed for the highlights, without resorting to HDR, and you don't lose anything by having them clipped. In this case it makes the image have a natural quality, it makes you feel like you need to squint from the low sun. It brings you into the location instead of just looking at it.
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personally i think it could have been pulled a bit (hard to say) but the images being much more about the composition of generic elements and light i feel it is undesireable to coomplicate things with whatever logo is on the side of the truck
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xzzy posted:Do people think the clipped highlights detract from or enhance that image? To me the entire thing was kind of about that blinding light, as that was how it looked in reality. I am also not a technical photographer by any standard, I sort of just run and gun and hope for the best. Here is the same thing from the other direction where the sun doesn't cause a glare. 
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That's a really cool photo too, but the first angle is definitely holding my attention better.
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