Official BeyondUnreal Photography Thread

[Hermskii]

I'm not a photo enthusiast Billy BA but those where awesome shots! Thank you kindly for sharing those. Is there a place where I can see more of these similar quality shots from the past? Thanks again.

 

[BillyBadAss]

I'm not a photo enthusiast Billy BA but those where awesome shots! Thank you kindly for sharing those. Is there a place where I can see more of these similar quality shots from the past? Thanks again.

That was from a blog, but this site is kind of full of them.

http://www.retronaut.co

 

[OO7MIKE]

Here are some glorious 4x5 Kodachrome shots taken from 1940 to 1943. Best film line Kodak ever made, but discontinued it because of how expensive and how lethal the chemicals were to develop it. Nothing has ever looked so good since IMO. http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914

All of these images look like they were taken with a ring flash or clam shell as a fill light... yet some of them are clearly not. I am very curious as to how these photos were taken. I looked up the photographer but all of his photos are BW on the website and hardly of the same quality. It looks like professional touch up artist got ahold of the originals and really went to town with the processing. I'm not saying they are fake but that I'm in great disbelief. I'm just really curious as to how the photos where made. (lighting, camera type, lens type, post processing techniques for the film and digital post production.)

Is there any more info you can share about these photos BillyBadAss? The dynamic range in a few of these shots is simply unbelievable.

 

[FuLLBLeeD]

BBA-san you're photos are so good....please put ur penis in my butt ~UGUUUUUU

 

[BillyBadAss]

All of these images look like they were taken with a ring flash or clam shell as a fill light... yet some of them are clearly not. I am very curious as to how these photos were taken. I looked up the photographer but all of his photos are BW on the website and hardly of the same quality. It looks like professional touch up artist got ahold of the originals and really went to town with the processing. I'm not saying they are fake but that I'm in great disbelief. I'm just really curious as to how the photos where made. (lighting, camera type, lens type, post processing techniques for the film and digital post production.)

Is there any more info you can share about these photos BillyBadAss? The dynamic range in a few of these shots is simply unbelievable.

All I know from the blog is these were shot on Kodachrome which is a positive (slide) film. That film was always beautiful and by far the best thing Kodak ever made. Also, the film was 4x5, not 35mm.

 

[SleepyHe4d]

~UGUUUUUU

Pomf =3

 

[Israphel]

I didn't see your post as ranty. I liked it, but you compared 35mm film to medium format digital film. I think at that point you should compare it to 120mm film and if it's a resolution penis battle, then compare large format with the currently cameras.

Good, I'm glad I wasn't ranty...I can "go on a bit" sometimes.
But I was comparing 35mm film (the books and photographers I mentioned) with 35mm dSLR (and in particular, full frame) with the images I linked, because that's what you originally compared when you said "in the realm of 35mm film; digital cameras are finally catching up in terms of resolution."

I mentioned digital MF as an afterthought.

There's also something about looking at positives on a light board that I never get tired of.

Absolutely. And those images look lovely

I also loved the Kodachrome WWII photos you linked. Have you ever used a view camera like that. It takes a while to get used to the inverted image on the ground glass plate, and focusing is....time consuming, but it's a whole different way of taking photos.
Like Mike though, I looked at some of those photos and thought...hmmm, where's the light source. Particularly the first inside an aircraft fuselage, and the third (which is my favourite) in the wind tunnel.

All the same, wonderful images and thanks for sharing.

 

[Rambowjo]

Click it for much higher resolution.

 

[Zxanphorian]

Click it for much higher resolution.

You always take great cloud pictures! :tup: From what is shown, looks like a weak and/or dying thunderstorm or shower(based on the fibrous cirrus of the anvil above).

How do you capture such contrasts and depth by taking cloud pictures like that? If I go and take some, they either come out too bright or too dark, otherwise, if I am able to get it down, it always looks two dimensional.

Although I don't have a (D)SLR, my P&S does have manual exposure, iso, aperture, shutter speed settings. If that helps.

 

[Rambowjo]

Thanks . Having 10 megapixels really helps, but I aim towards slightly overexposing the pictures, then I just fix them up in Photoshop afterwards.
Maybe I'm a little lucky, but I feel like I have a good idea of when I can get a good cloud picture. Generally when the clouds are absolutely massive, I try to snap some pictures. You get a lot more dimension that way.

Here's the original.

I didn't hear thunder, I think it was just a rain cloud. It isn't quite hot enough for thunder yet I think.

CR2.

 

[ambershee]

I recently mucked about with some glaciers and volcanos and shit. Have some very amateur pictures taken on my crappy compact:

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[Rambowjo]

Those are great, I really wish I could go to a place like that and get some pictures of my own. I like the first one in particular. Cliffs like that are amazing.

 

[Al]

Sup bird?

 

[IronMonkey]

Plant in my garden
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[igNiTion]

Click it for much higher resolution.

^ New background thanks

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[Zxanphorian]

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Nice inversion bro.

 

[[GU]elmur_fud]

Plant in my garden
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Zee plant ist a Narcissus pseudonarcissus AKA a Daffodil but perhaps you knew that and were just being lazy. Nice macro though. Never eat 1 of those BTW they are edible but they taste horrible.

 

[IronMonkey]

LOL

Thank you for the kind words.

Nice macro though.

Oddly enough, no macro. It was a case of the best camera in the world being the one in your hand at the time.

The shot was taken (iirc) at something like 300mm (200mm on full-frame) f5.6 by standing back a bit. Not my lens of choice for taking that sort of shot but owing to the geography of my house* I couldn't be bothered to go back into the house to find a more appropriate lens.




*The house and garden are on a steep hillside and the shot was taken from outside the garden (and below the house). Only a mountain goat could reach the flower from the house side of the garden wall (but, there again, a mountain goat might find the flower quite tasty.

 

[[GU]elmur_fud]

It's not like I thought you would eat one normally, merely I had to eat one of just about every edible wild plant indigenous to North America for a wilderness survival training thing (Bear Grylls shit) and I wanted to put that horrible knowledge to use.

Edit: Hmm maybe 5 minutes and I run into this... oh well, if she ate it, she learned.
http://harleypastore.deviantart.com/art/XXIX-299288184

 

[IronMonkey]

I had to eat one of just about every edible wild plant indigenous to North America for a wilderness survival training thing

My idea of wilderness survival is a restaurant that I haven't been to before.

Our Judo club is planning a camping weekend for a big competition in Inverness during May (the camp site is adjacent to the sports centre) and I've found the perfect spot to pitch my tent: http://www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/INVSOU/inverness-west#2

Am I a wimp? Yes. Will I care, sleeping soundly in my hotel room whilst the others freeze their buts off? No.



Was the daffodil the worst?