A.R.S.E.

Phew

I had 2 cameras set up. One doing a wide shot every 60 seconds with an old mill in the foreground and a long lens for the close ups that I was shooting every couple of minutes.

It was a bit of guess work really. The wide shot didn't turn out as well as I thought it would. I was a bit too wide, which meant the moon looks really small in the shots. I have strung about 20 together to see if the moon timeline type of shot works ok, and it does to a certain extent, but it looks too small. That's just experience though. Next time I think I would leave out the long shots, set up a timer with a longer focal length to foreshorten the distance and make the moon look larger and then maybe wander a bit with another lens to try and get a building foreground type shot.

I agree that I also saw a lot that looked very faked. The moon was big but not THAT big! I even saw one where someone had shopped the blood moon over a sea sunset! Needless to say it had loads of 'woo that's an amazing shot' replies and only a handful of 'err... you know that's shopped don't you'.

We get another lunar eclipse in 2019 so I'll have another try then!

The moon in wide shots is a problem, it comes out far smaller than we see it (again the eye and the brain are far more powerful than the camera in a really quite annoying way), and it's difficult to control the exposure then too. A wider shot just has to be done from further away with a long lens, it seems. Experience, as you say.

I wouldn't say that the telescope one I mentioned was faked, more staged. I don't think it was photoshopped, but the guy standing there pointing a telescope in completely the wrong direction while there's this enormous moon behind him didn't seem right to me ... it also makes the guy with a telescope out to be a bit thick, really. "'Ere, mate, where's this moon to then?" I hadn't seen the sunset one but yes, that either belongs in the digital art category on DeviantArt, or is just photoshop.

I made an animated gif of my eclipse pics.
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Very cool Kev.

Good work on the animated sequence - works nicely.

A few more recent ones ... I'm working on a personal project from which these images come, but they're missing their accompanying text because I haven't yet worked out the format for the text and images together ... and it's all written in Spanish anyway ...

Madrid - Templo de Debod by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
"We'll always have Paris ..." by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr

And this was just a pun for one of my English classes at school who are reading The Great Gatsby, or for them, El Gran Gatsby ...
El Gran Legazpi by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr

Excellent guys. Love the gif Kev.


It's interesting sometimes looking back at photos you shot years ago, usually you can see a big improvement with more current images. This one didn't seem too bad, and had never been stitched, so I photoshopped it together tonight. I don't actually mind it too much. Taken in 2008 on my old 30D (two cameras ago).







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An excellent example of the photographer over the camera, nothing wrong with that at all.

I went to Paris on the weekend. I've been a few times before and photographed most of the notable monuments so I was unlikely to repeat that this time, especially as I only really went to see a couple of friends, eat cheese and crepes, and drink wine ... but these were taken near where my friend lives, crossing an old railway line that's now home to quite a few families. I wanted to photograph it to show that this is a place within the city of Paris ... I didn't really know what else I could do beyond that, and that seemed like a fairly pathetic gesture. Selling my camera and what else I have of any real value would at best bring one of these unfortunate families out of there for a few months. But at the end of the day, I was still stood up on the bridge visiting a foreign city for a few days, and they were down there living each day as it comes ... I don't really know what to think sometimes.

Paris by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Paris by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Paris by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr

Amazing to see that though. I had no idea. Love the first image. And the last one too, the polarising lifestyles. Almost looks as if it's hidden away out of site.


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It's sort of hidden, I imagine because they'd probably be moved on if it were at street level, but it's not invisible ... but you would only see it if you're walking in that neighbourhood, which whilst not far from Montmartre/Sacre Couer, is in the direction that very few tourists would be heading. I had seen homelessness in Paris, as in most cities of a certain size, but not this extent of make-shift housing (which is now semi-permanent - some of the huts have electric lighting (presumably siphoned off from somewhere and most have chimneys) so it surprised me too.

Great stuff Owain. Really liked it. I had no idea there were shanties in Paris.

Where were they?

Near Porte de Clignancourt ... not too far from the Sacre Couer area, although not in the direction most people would walk unless they lived there. Below is the precise location where I took the photos, from the bridge over the old railway lines ... Google Earth doesn't show them, but it's impossible to say when those images are from.
https://www.google.es/maps/dir//158+Rue ... 9934?hl=en

Looking very Autumnal round here at the moment

Tree tops by Kevin Clark, on Flickr

Autumnal path by Kevin Clark, on Flickr

Nice shots, the both of them.

Also shot a few trees these past few days. Still shirking colour ...
Madrid - Plaza de España by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid - Plaza de España by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr

Having something of a purple patch of late, taking lots of pictures I quite like ... which is nice.
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Seguridad by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid de noche by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid de noche by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr

That'll do for now though. Going to limp around (sciatica is back) and see if I get anymore ...

Last one is brilliant

Thanks Norbs! I sort of knew the moment I looked down on the square that there was an image there ...

My Fuji is here. Very slightly mixed feelings so far but I'm worse than bloody Pip as far as Great Expectations go; and yesterday wasn't my greatest of days on the mental side ... anyway this little lot have brought it back round to a positive ... not sure it'll kill off my SLR but I'll find some uses for it.
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr
Madrid by Owain Shaw Photo, en Flickr

Whoa whoa whoa. Did I just see a colour shot?

Haha!

Third one is ace.

durbster wrote:Whoa whoa whoa. Did I just see a colour shot?

Damn, I've been rumbled.

I thought if I snuck it in with all the others nobody would notice ...

Thanks Dex.

That wasn't a dig by the way Owain, I love your stuff.

I know, mate, no worries! Well, I knew it wasn't a dig anyway - nice to know you like the photos too!

Not been about in ages but still taking an occasional photo with my phone & vintage 20D!

Stunning.

I really like the fourth and the sixth, but the others are equally impressive.

Yep very impressive indeed.