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I moved... [deleted] says:
I'm working on catching the essence of drearyness. Judging by comments I might just be getting there.
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This is the time when B&W is most powerful.
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City lights. Frost on fallen leaves. People rushing through the night. There's always stuff to photograph.
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Just another opportunity. I am heading north to the snow for a couple of weeks soon, and am looking forward to a change from beaches and yachts and all those summery things...
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Streetlights and car headlights sending their beams through the fog.
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Heh... I just took a few night shots of the thick fog here last night GG. I should be uploading them in about... a month?
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I've been looking at frost in my photostream lately. I took a load of pictures on Saturday, and more on Sunday. We have a pond nearby with lots of interesting features - leaves, benches, ducks walking on the ice.
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Do what FDB says, try black & white.. or better get an old film camera and do some BW film.
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Thanks for the help and great ideas. I guess Petteri Sulonen is right, "There's
always stuff to photograph."
I like the B&W idea too and always enjoy those pics on Flickr too!
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Philly 18% Gray edited this topic 79 months ago.
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There's always Candy!
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_mpd_ [deleted] says:
Shoot bleak stuff :)
Ok, I'm an outdoors kind of guy and I've already shot up anything "inside" that is going to get shot, short of Christmas lights in a month or so.
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Like mooseherder, I go out and shoot bleak stuff, unless it's pouring!
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Yeah, I'm photographing trees in urban spaces with the fog as background. I'm totally into it. I like it way better than the sun or clear skies. I wish it would stay, as there's like 50k pictures in the city I want to take.
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TV
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Basketball. I have twelve games and a holiday tournament on my schedule in December. I'll probably squeeze in a few snow shots and some b&w, too, but I'll mainly shoot sports.
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I spend all summer shooting mainly people/public events and also classic car shows.
That basically drys up from November through to April here in Calgary.
At this time of year...
I get the chance to play with scenic photography. I will try to get away to a local municipal park (especially if there's snow on the ground) and fire away. I also enjoy photographing urban scenes - old buildings, old neighbourhoods, etc... The new areas of most cities don't photograph as well, but go find those older neighbourhoods and you'll find lots of great stuff to photograph.
And also, if it interests you, try some indoors photography. There is lots of macro type photography you can do around your place.
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Sherlock77 (James) edited this topic 79 months ago.
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... take a pic of you messiest drawer in the house ...
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Thanks for all the great ideas and suggestions! Really appreciate it.
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Explain "Sunny". I'm from Seattle.
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occecid edited this topic 79 months ago.
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How about rock bands and burlesque girls... but then that's about all I shoot. :)
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My camera's too dodgy in low light to take many pictures at shows unfortunately, I usually do take more indoor shots during the day though, probably more portrait type stuff and still lifes etc. Some outdoor stuff, which is awfully pretty, but it's awfully cold and damp outside, and my camera doesn't like it much (neither do I for that matter).
Also there are so few hours of daylight right now I frequently miss my chance on days when I would like to take pictures.
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pelirroja [deleted] says:
bunchofpants, i think the candy companies need to hire you for their marketing dept. never have i seen more beautiful necco wafers.
i appreciate the landscape after a snowfall. of course, living in west michigan if i don't tell myself that, then i will just be depressed all winter staring at all of this lake-effect snow...
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Shoot macro theres stuff all around you. Man I hope it snows this year.
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Stils, table tops, macros.
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hagee edited this topic 79 months ago.
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I add my voice to the cry: indoor macros! There's a secret world beneath this world, and it is this world.
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what about this?
and so on and on and .....
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Re: Indoor Macros
Lighting aside... How do you do it? I think it takes a certain type of person to even imagine these images in the first place. I'm sure there's plenty of macro in my place, but I'm an outdoors photography type (whether scenic, urban, people or automotive), I somehow can't even imagine the indoors macro pictures... the way my brain works? [grin]
Different strokes for different folks is the way I see it, we're all good and/or enjoy different kinds of photography. And that is the joy of it all.
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hey, one of the most consistently beautiful flickr tags is "overcast"
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I love photographing horrible weather a lot more than sunny weather...
Blue gets boring, but the clouds are always fun...
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for indoor macros, you have to think "inside the box" so to speak.
plants are always a favorite: take a close look at parts of leaves, or masses of stems.
Spices can be interesting (whole, not ground!).
Utensils with interesting lighting and odd angles (or not).
audio or video medium (tapes, cds, albums, etcs).
cooked food can be somewhat unpleasant, but fresh fruit macros can be fun.
Then again, there are always still-lifes to try, for non-macro shots... but they can be more work.
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How do you do it? I think it takes a certain type of person to even imagine these images in the first place
That's the fun part - learning something new, rewiring your brain a little. Turn something bad (lack of usual subject matter) into something good (growing your abilities and vision).
Or, just take hundreds of pictures of your damned cat.
;->
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normy [deleted] says:
tasteful nudes
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not of yourself please
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very good thread. full of ideas. I am going to stretch my imagination and take more indoor shots. let's see
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Normy, heh heh heh - his profile says he's taken. I can hear the divorce attorney from here: "You honour, my client found him extending his zoom at a tasteful nude". *chuckle*
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FDB Graphics edited this topic 79 months ago.
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Don't let the gloomy weather stop you. I live in Washington state. If I let that affect me, I'd never take photos (almost.) Keep your eyes open for interesting possibilities that take advantage of the weather. They're all around.
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i love shooting abstract interiors. try 'em, you'll like 'em. :)
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Here's a fog and rain group to check out for inspiration in shooting in gloomy weather. Lots of beautiful stuff in their photo pool.
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I started a bleak set for the upcoming few months... thanks for the idea, PhillyEagles!
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Gee, PhillyEagles, with the weather so bleak (and worse on the way) and dinner with the family to look forward to, with the requisite "what are you doing with your life and why don't you tuck in your shirt" speeches... I think you're supposed to start to think about shooting...
yourself.
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The twisty weird shapes of dead and dying plants. Frozen stuff. People shuffling along in the fog. Warped trees. Bonfires.
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Yikes, calicojane... now that's bleak. Glad us Canucks do the Thanksgiving gathering in October when things are still somewhat colourful...
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There was one day last winter (very cloudy, somewhat cold) when I just had to go on a photoshoot.
I went to a local park that has very few trees and took two rolls of pictures, was actually a great day, got some nice pictures, even got blogged once from that day... After about two hours the hands started getting a wee bit cold and I finally packed it in.
I even titled the pictures "Dreary Winter Day"
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I think the point is, there is never NOT something to shoot. Haha! Valid use of double negative. English teachers eat your heart out!
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Ahh when the weather turns bleak and cold, I'll be under hot lights in a warm studio shooting portraits and other controlled lighting projects.
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Now is a good time to learn lighting techniques. i've done a Portrait Photography course this term which started with available light, then I learnt studio techniques.
My latest project is with flash - this weekend i have an assignment to use the hot shoe flash outside, and to bounce it, diffuse it etc. and set it for different exposures to what the camera might read, and see the effects.
This can produce quite dramatic portrait effects outside, darkening skies whilst lightening the subject etc. Looking forward to playing around!
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Never too bleak out there especially when you can get shots like this
or this
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I got this shot in the dead of winter:
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Actually I like bleak or at least changing weather. I get bored with the never ending sunshine... Hope it snows this winter :)
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*Louise** edited this topic 79 months ago.
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Winter landscapes can be great in the city and countryside. Night time shots are easier to do because the sun sets earlier so get out your tripod and do some long exposure work in the city. Frost on leaves, steam on a cold day.
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I will probably stab myself in the eye trying to take macros of paperclips in the deep dark desolate (and did I mention cold) Buffalo winter.
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I made yesterday, photos of my diaries, the very old ones, the curent ones, the futures ones. Then, the afternoon sun fall on my rose leaves and colored them in red and I took that from my open window.
Today, I took from the car, the bared trees at the entrance of my small town
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from my perspective -- plenty! I have always lived where there's sunshine almost every day of the year!
So... how about snow falling, snow on trees, footprints in snow. frost -- on anything! holiday lights, at home or in the city. wood burning in the fireplace. candles! or perhaps a good time to work on some still life images, or your photoshop skills. :)
enjoy your winter. it will be gone again soon enough.
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LOL @ calicojane...
I find this sort of weather very nice for outdoorsy shooting. It's kind of nice to be out in the middle of the day and not have the harsh shadows from the noon-time sun. Everything is sort of blurry, sort of mysterious.
Plus, I love frosty mornings. Nothing like a nice sheen of ice over the world to get some interesting shots. Revel in the beauty of changing seasons.
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Winter for me is...
Blue-ish white balance.
Harsh light. (hard to shoot into, or with, the sun)
Not many people hangin about...
Cool.
(shot this last saturday)
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MiloTheGreat edited this topic 79 months ago.
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Well today was the first day of snow on the west coast so I got out there in the early morning and got some pictures of the trees covered in snow. Look at other peoples winter ideas and pick up some ideas.
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Find the beauty in the bleak!
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This is when you have to be creative w/stuff around the house!
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it's also a great moment to reflect on your own works. Get into those shoeboxxes and reorganize those piles of photos while it's dark. Too dark to shoot.
I'm organezing, tagging and cleaning up my offline photostream and it gave me some new inspiration.
For those moments that it's raining outside, cams bateries are recharching or ther's noting on TV:
there always will be Flickr! (I hope)
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i've been trying to freeze snowflakes(no pun intended)
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spidrwegian_no_more [deleted] says:
The weather here is very bad at the moment so I've been reading this thread for inspiration. It's happy summer for you lucky people in the southern hemisphere, and always summer for you in the middle, but for us in the north it's not that great.
Any more ideas?
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Yeah, take inspiration from the masters. AurelioZen is someone I know only from flickr but his photos constantly challenge me to think again... have a look at two I woke up to this morning. Perfectly captured from a morning commute in grim winter weather...
www.flickr.com/photos/aureliozen/304787206/
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www.flickr.com/photos/aureliozen/304787185/in/photostream/
OR begin to get serious (even if its seriously funny) about self-portraits. I am not a self-portraitist myself but love the humour and creativity in the (daily) self-portraits of another of my favourite contacts, Cybergabi...
www.flickr.com/photos/cybergabi/302226211/
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Briggate.com edited this topic 67 months ago.
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spidrwegian_no_more [deleted] says:
I've been known to do a few selfportraits myself but have yet to set up some proper lighting rather than taking a few odd shots about the house.
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