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Hello to the forum. I am new here and have wanted to join for a bit now. I only had a hotmail account but have borrowed my folks blue yonder address so I am now joined. I do have a few questions and am interested in finding what you may think. This is a non related photo just to say hi. The River Severn that flows through Iron Bridge, Telford. My home town



http://www.pbase.com/ishis_photes/inbox
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Hi ishi

Thanks for sharing this image, it looks like very interesting architecture and a wonderful setting. What country?
Nice framing. Welcome!!
Don
 
I like your photo a lot, very well captured. Thank you for posting it. If the filename is correct, you are over 25,000 photos with your SD10 and your experience certainly shows in that photo! Welcome to the forum, post some more photos when you can.

(Hmm, unless the camera is second-hand and the previous owner(s) took a lot of photos...)

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Welcome to the forum!

Thanks for sharing the photograph. It is a very interesting photo and captures one attention.
Cheers,
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larryj

If you can see the light, you can photograph it
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Glad to have you aboard. I like the posted shot - it's an interesting perspective.

tjh
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'To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding
something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to
do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you
see them.' - Elliot Erwitt

pbase gallery: http://www.pbase.com/tjhanlon/
Sigma Users Group: http://www.pbase.com/sigmasd9/tj_hanlon
 
Thanks for the encouraging comments. I am from the UK. This was my SD10 about a year ago (not new) I have been practicing with film a lot recent though. Then an sd9 turned up recently for a give away price and I just couldn’t turn it down. I sold my SD10 some time ago managing to convince myself film is better but it is just different. If I am correct this used to be an old building to store boats in that carried coal and stuff up the river. Iron Bridge is actually the first bridge made of iron and Telford is known as the birthplace of industry. There are lots of coal works, tile works and Iron works in this area. I will try and upload a photo of the bride but I am having a little trouble figuring out how I actually got this one up (:
 
Yay. I figured it out. Looking through my old scans I have found that I have been a little happy with my delete function and don’t have any of the bridge. They all seemed to look like tourist shots because there are so many photos of it (it is kind of a landmark here). Anyway this is the side of the valley the bridge sits in.

 
These are the kind of things I am playing with. I have much to learn and am looking forward to getting better with my sd9. I don’t normally like doing people shots but the one in Amsterdam is with a TLR so I can just look down.











 
The Zone 8 PS had its Annual Meet near Ironbridge a year ago (our usual venue in Snowdonia was up for a refit) - here's one by the riverside just down from the bridge. (One of our long-time members Colin Thomas lives in Telford and regularly exhibits)



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The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process. -Edward Weston
http://www.photosnowdonia.co.uk/ZPS
 
Hi. Yes I know this spot.
Zone 8 was founded in 1977. That’s a long time, even before digital (:
Do you hold public exhibitions?
 
We used to but getting the work assembled and framed and then trying to find venues - we gave it up - too many (almost all) suitable venues are local ones funded by the Arts Council - who decree what the venue can show in the main, leaving only a couple of vacancies each year, which quite rightly they use for showing the work of local artists.

So, we produced (well - I produced) a photo book pre-ordered by members. Some 4,500 pages in total (around 65 per book) so even on the relatively fast Canon inkjet, took for ever.

Anyway - you can view those images here (and you can find galleries by some members on this location too i.e. http://www.pbase.com/ZPS )

Book Link: http://www.pbase.com/zps/drawn_by_light

If you do not get a viewing - try again in about a day, as pbase has been plagued with multiple disc failures (their announcement) on their servers. Lots of messages on all forums about this over the past couple of days.

The ZPS website gives info on activities, etc. including our main Annual Meet, where lots of work is viewed by those attending. In 2008 is in Beddgelert in the heart of Snowdonia in the Royal Goat Hotel, over the first holiday weekend in May - it's always that period of time. Totally booked for 2008 - it's a popular activity - both photographically and socially.

As I know you have recently come into the Sigma scene, a number of us use different models (mostly influenced by me!). As said, if you select the Tree View on the pbase ZPS website, you can browse many samples from participating members - many using the SD9, SD10 and SD14 plus other cameras of course.

As an example of a past exhibition, check this out:

http://www.photosnowdonia.co.uk/ and click on the links for Millennium Exhibition and also link for Exhibitions to get a flavour of past exhibitions - all of which were received with acclaim at all venues.

We are discussing the possibility of some work being exhibited at the hotel Meet venues but nothing certain as yet. Also, perhaps, another book using Blurb or another provider (I could not face another marathon, even though it was widely acclaimed for the high quality). Each year individual members, in additions to showing recent work, also produce books of their work - some commercially, some personally. Hope this gives you some idea.

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Zone8

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process. -Edward Weston
http://www.photosnowdonia.co.uk/ZPS
 
Looks like there are some nice work, Shame you can’t have local exhibitions though. What does “show in the main” mean?

I wonder if you could host expeditions at craft fairs and in shopping centres as I have seen painters do.

I come form a painting background by the way
 
Ishi said:
Looks like there are some nice work, Shame you can’t have local
exhibitions though. What does “show in the main” mean?

I wonder if you could host expeditions at craft fairs and in shopping
centres as I have seen painters do.
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"show in the main" simply referred that due funding by the Arts Council through local Arts Councils, they are told what to show - leaving only (usually) a couple of blank periods, like a couple of weeks in the whole year, which they can offer to locals - meaning about 1 in 500 stand any chance, if they are lucky.

As said, we gave up exhibitions. Some members have their own exhibitions around the UK but to do that for a group is incredibly difficult. In addition, most venues require at least one person present at all times during the exhibition as well as the setting up. So, OK for individuals but in real terms, it's mostly an ego trip I suppose so better done by individuals.

I think you would be very surprised at the time and effort (let alone cost) to transport an exhibition round, hang it and monitor it. Whilst exhibitions may sound wonderfull, the reality is a bit of a nightmare and expensive too and seldom do many actually view them. I ran my own gallery when in Devon for several years but in the main (again!) I funded it as sales of work by even decent artists were pretty low and I got, in those days, plenty of visitors due personal efforts in terms of letting many know of each new exhibition.

Although online images cannot in real terms show how brilliant the printed versions can be, they are available for anyone to view - at any time - wherever they may live so that's why we (and the vast majority) use such facilities. It's also a tiny fraction of the cost so whilst I can understand your wish to see exhibitions - it's not a simple procedure and is a very expensive way to show work BUT you can view thousands of images online at any time.

Individual "stands" in shopping malls and suchlike are fine - for an individual selling (or rather, trying to sell) work but that really means an almost permanent committment if it is to work properly in terms of self-promotion or earning extra dosh as unlikely to provide an income of any worth, especially as payment (often quite a lot) for such a space-facility has to be covered, whether work is sold or not and of course, the "person" has to man the show at all times. Check how many market traders have disappeared over the past few years as an idea of how viable such ventures are (NOT).

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Zone8

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process. -Edward Weston
http://www.photosnowdonia.co.uk/ZPS
 
Thanks. The last image is from a 4x5 negative and a Paragon Tessar lens. I am still looking for ways to lower the contrast of digital. Maybe I will get an old Tessar.
 
What do you mean? Are you talking about over sharpened images? If you REALLY want to lower the contrast, you can do it in any photo editor.

tjh
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'To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding
something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to
do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you
see them.' - Elliot Erwitt

pbase gallery: http://www.pbase.com/tjhanlon/
Sigma Users Group: http://www.pbase.com/sigmasd9/tj_hanlon
 
It depends what you mean by sharpness. If you mean local contrast then yes for my taste digital is sometimes over sharp, if you mean focused detail then no.

I do not find lowering the contrast in my Photoshop to work the same as a low contrast lens. It seems to do it a clinical way that just dulls the image. I am sure it could be done with several layers and time, but not for me.
 
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