Awesome Photography

[jyo]

I would love to get into photography and have been playing around with a good camera lately, but these pics are truly amazing. Some are taken using High Dynamic Range Imaging (which I had no idea about until recently ) and they are stunning.

I know there are some photography threads around but here's a new one. This guy takes pics throughout Europe of abandoned farmhouses, houses, warehouses, breweries, anything where the inhabitants have long ago left.

I think it's great.

Check it out-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316987/Photographer-Niki-Feijens-eerie-images-abandoned-farm-houses.html

More here- http://500px.com/nikifeijen

And just to relate this to beer, an old brewery- http://500px.com/photo/39932188

 

[Dave70]

The photographer isn't Michael Day is it?

He did some nice work with the town of Pripyat post Chernobyl.

Creepy shit.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/9128776/Photographs-of-Chernobyl-and-the-ghost-town-of-Pripyat-by-Michael-Day.html

 

[thedragon]

Great photos. Not just the composition and light, but the subject tell awesome stories

 

[jyo]

No, this guy is Nick Feijen. Cool link there, Dave.

 

[bum]

Pixels.

I can tell.

 

[dent]

I find the Feijen ones all pretty same-samey due to the rigidly controlled exposure and post-processing across all of the frames. It is cool and all but it seems like a bit of cheap trick after a seeing a whole bunch like that - though I am not very impressed with heavily post-processed photos in general.

I have a personal interest in photography with which my urge to create struggles against my not particularly artistic nature. But I try to stick at it now and then.

 

[Bizier]

I have seen your bottle filler Dent, you are indeed an artist mate.

I am a failed artist.

Wah.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

I dislike heavily processed & HDR photos generally. A bit of processing to imitate what our brains do with vision, fine, but take it further and that shit is no different to the loudness war in music. What's wrong with dynamics?

 

[Cocko]

I love HDR and tilt shift.

But not hdr but awesome pics:

http://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/The-Portfolio-page

Carry on.

 

[jyo]

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/forced-perspective-model-car-photos/

 

[Liam_snorkel]

That's pretty cool

 

[Dave70]

Cat's Eye Nebula. Should be quite familiar to Tool fanciers.

I love the stuff taken by the Hubble, best viewed in full screen.

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/


I hope there's no truth to the assertion I heard one rather agitated creationist fellow make, claiming Hubble images are merely shopped to help back up claims the universe is older than 6000 years.
I'd be so disappointed.

 

[jyo]

That's pretty cool

Yeah, it messes with your brain, hey!

 

[jyo]

Yeah, love the Hubble pics. It kind of puts things into perspective.

Check this out to get an idea of the scale of some of the nebulas.

http://htwins.net/scale2/