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It does nothing for me either larry, that's the thing about photography, it's very subjective to each individual. Similarly with scribbles (sorry to single you out) work, most of it is not for me but I can still appreciate it and the skill used, does baffle me when people love it so but that's not a problem, everyone likes something different.

Anyway, photos:

The memorial on the downs just north of Brighton that marks the spot that Indian soldiers were cremated during the war.

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Needs to be viewed large though, link in photos description text.

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Helllloooo again. Barely picked a camera up since getting a 360 six months ago, but I'm doing a new shift pattern at work now which gives me 4 days off in every 8 (wahey), so photgraphy is back on again.

Really need to get my finger out now though as I've been asked to do another exhibition in November.

Some randoms from last few weeks...

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Thanks iwan mate. Yes, I do quite a bit of pp on my pictures (it obviously varies from pic to pic like). Nothing too complicated though, usually curves, saturation, crops, usm etc. All part of the fun as far as I'm concerned.

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Cheers larry, yeah I think I desaturated that one a bit. I also forgot to alter the iso down from 1600 after being inside a dark old place, so its a bit too grainy, esp around the telly screen. I need to re-install that noise-ninja plugin/stop being a forgetful spanner.

usm = unsharp mask.

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Similarly with scribbles (sorry to single you out) work, most of it is not for me but I can still appreciate it and the skill used, does baffle me when people love it so but that's not a problem, everyone likes something different.

Hehe. It often splits my tutors down the middle too.. I like that.

I always think more critique would be nice in this thread, but I'm always a bit nervous about writing negative thoughts on stuff posted here, as its hard to know if people are open to it.

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I always think more critique would be nice in this thread, but I'm always a bit nervous about writing negative thoughts on stuff posted here, as its hard to know if people are open to it.

I'd welcome it (even though I've taken bugger all pictures since Christmas). As long as it's constructive and not needlessly picky, and if people are willing to take it in good faith, then I don't see the problem.

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Great work Deepblue. I genuinely dig your stuff.

How did you get an exhibition? Where you approached? Know someone who works at museums/galleries?

Ah cheers man.

Regards the exhibitions, I joined this site at about the same time as I started getting into photography (2004ish), its a small, friendly, fairly conventional photography site ran by a group of people based here in the north east.

Pretty much all of the stuff I've posted on here I've posted there as well.

One of the guys who helps run the place (Alan Brown) has been doing photography for years and took a bit of a shine to my stuff. He got the visual arts development lady from the customs house in South Shields to look at my pics and (luckily)she liked them and I got offered the chance to have an exhibition in their "secondary" gallery last June, running alongside (support act, I suppose) an exhibition by Garry Hunter. I got to show 15 or 16 pictures and it was one of the best things and scary things I've ever done. Sold not a bean though.

I've been invited to do it again this November. I think its a case of right place, right time, to be frank, as I'm no artist. I've just been very very lucky.

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Where are they taken deepblue?

The cloudy/stormy/industrial one I took from the ferry as it rolled up to the port that the Newcastle/Amsterdam ferry stops at on the Netherlands side (forgotten its name) a couple of weeks ago

The trees one is at the bottom of my garden, the traffic lights are train signals as the east coast mainline is also at the bottom of my garden. I got the effect by using the zoom (28-250 lens) on a longish exposure handheld, taken at dusk.

The roofless van and old telly ones I took today at an abandoned farm I stumbled across

"this is where I died" was in the loft of an old stables which became a car repair/mot place before going to wreck and ruin. It was written with axle grease.

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Ah cheers man.

Regards the exhibitions, I joined this site at about the same time as I started getting into photography (2004ish), its a small, friendly, fairly conventional photography site ran by a group of people based here in the north east.

Pretty much all of the stuff I've posted on here I've posted there as well.

One of the guys who helps run the place (Alan Brown) has been doing photography for years and took a bit of a shine to my stuff. He got the visual arts development lady from the customs house in South Shields to look at my pics and (luckily)she liked them and I got offered the chance to have an exhibition in their "secondary" gallery last June, running alongside (support act, I suppose) an exhibition by Garry Hunter. I got to show 15 or 16 pictures and it was one of the best things and scary things I've ever done. Sold not a bean though.

I've been invited to do it again this November. I think its a case of right place, right time, to be frank, as I'm no artist. I've just been very very lucky.

Interesting. I'm on ppfuk but I don't upload there very often. Had a pic of the week..maybe even 2. can't remember. I find the whole gallery/portfolio thing a bit odd.

A great opportunity. I've like to get some nice prints done. So much money though with framing and all. I want to get a monitor calibrator before I even try making 'proper' prints. We use Spyder3 at work which seems very handy.

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You the Grace Jones feller rundll? I remember seeing that one on here and on ppf. Classic shot anyways.

Yeah its sort of an odd place is ppf, it infurates me at times, everyones very friendly and supportive and stuff but its also very very straight laced on the whole. Many people have left mumbling "too many landscapes" and suchlike.

Anyways, I did all the printing, mounting and framing myself for the last exhibition, cost me about £500 - £600. Frames from ikea!

For the next one I'm supposed to be applying to the arts council for funding but the form is something like 48 pages long plus an interview (and I've probably left it too late now) so I'll probably end up getting my arse felt again. I can live with that though as its such a buzz seeing your pictures on a wall that isn't inside your own house.

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Sorry to re-post, but had another mess around with this shot, increased contrast in the rocky area again, and played about with the curves and levels of the sky and middle ground, I really need to spend more time on my pics before posting them! Think it has much more impact now!

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A few shots over the years, I need a better camera I think, all these were shot with a Canon Powershot S3. Is it the wrong attitude to feel limited by a camera?

Depends on whether you're truly limited by the camera's features, or by your own skills / experience as a photographer (that's not a personal criticism aimed at you by the way!). For me, understanding of composition and the use of light are both far more important than the camera - a quick perusal of somewhere like Fickr will show that great shots can come from limited equipment, while truly awful ones are possible on state of the art gear, though obviously the converse is equally true. I've got a Powershot S2, and I feel limited, for instance, by the fact that I can only get decent DOF / Bokeh effects by using either the macro settings or long telephoto zooms, but otherwise I've not really scraped the surface of what is possible with the camera - there are all manner of things I've not even attempted - slow-sync flash effects, or long exposure pans for a couple of examples.

Better specced equipment will generally give you more growing room to improve your skills though.

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I was in Paris with work yesterday so took a day's holiday today to get some more use out of my camera. I bought a 50mm f1.7 lens off eBay and haven't looked back...

St. Pancras:

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The Louvre; old and new:

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Louvre Pyramid:

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Finally, some colour:

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I was in Paris with work yesterday so took a day's holiday today to get some more use out of my camera. I bought a 50mm f1.7 lens off eBay and haven't looked back...

St. Pancras:

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The Louvre; old and new:

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two thumbs, really like these.

some more taken from the ferry heading to Amsterdam.

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