Out of Focus & Off Topic MkIII...

Some simply amazing landscape photos here:

Top Shots From the 2021 International Landscape Photographer of the Year

Love number 4, like an abstract painting. And 11- wow!

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/02/top-shots-2021-international-landscape-photographer-year/621462/

anyone taking part in RTE's eye on nature competition €1k up for grabs 🙂

AFAIK photos auto embed ? If you link it should show

it appears it won't work for me either. i haven't used a forum in like 7 years & i guess the old way as you mentioned above doesn't work. i tried all the other share options as well & just kept getting errors! MEEP

if someone could point me in the right direction, i'd appreciate it!

Hi all, first time wandering in here I think. I did the NCFE level 1 in photography last year, just for something to do. Really got into photography over the course of the year when I had time for it. Upgraded my camera in June and spent the summer trying to focus on macro photography. Some of the earlier photos were bad, I’ve improved a lot over the summer but I still dont think I’m a great photographer, at least not yet anyway. I’m signed up to start level 2 next week. Can’t wait to get started again although photoshop is the Bain of my life. Some of the others in the class struggle with it too so I’m not on my own. I’ve just put a few of my photos from the summer up in the photo thread. I saved them on to my phone from Facebook and posted them here so the quality isn’t the best but constructive criticism is welcome. 😊

Hello everyone,

I used to post here a long time ago. I've neglected the old camera and I'm looking to pick it up a bit more and get creative again. I have an iMac from 2010 which I can no longer update and I am now unable to use Lightroom/Photoshop so I suppose I'm in the market for a replacement computer. I shoot photos and video with a 5dM2 and a 6DM2. Trying to figure out (and failing) as to what I should be thinking and looking out for so if anyone has recently gone through the same process and they were willing to give me a few pointers and tips, I would really appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks,

Rojo

Here's the remaining shortlisted entries in the Creative Open category:

I don't really know what the criteria for entry is supposed to be, so I can't really tell where Eldagsen's image wold fall in terms of an good or not entry. To my eye, looking at the image, it doesn't surprise me at all to see that it is AI generated, but then he did tell them that there was an AI component to it. Seems to be a bit of a manufactured controversy to then come out and say "actually, it's all AI! Look at how I fooled you all and opened up a debate!". It would be one thing to win a "traditional" photography competition with an AI image, but to win a "you can enter images with AI elements" competition with one seems like a non-issue. TBH, none of the entries do anything for me, simply because I don't know what it is I'm supposed to be judging them against.

Clearly some of them - particularly this one from Nicolas Bigot - have strong "non photographic" elements to them (I haven't bothered to look to see if this is AI, AI merged with a photo, a 3D render or what. I don't really care):

Every photography competition has had to deal with manipulation and inappropriate staging from the year dot. Remember when this winner of the Natural History Museum's wildlife photographer of the year award was stripped of his win because it turned out he staged the shot with a tame wolf:

There's always going to be dishonest people, and there's going to be times that some of them slip though the net - this isn't something new with the advent of AI images.

There was a great episode on Gerry Andrews, of Milk Market fame. I think it was the first episode. Now there is a photographer, and gentleman!

That a Press or a 600se? Peel apart was always better than Instax from a technical POV, reverse shots notwithstanding. I've put Instax through my Mamiya Press in plate holders, and put C330 lenses onto an Instax, ultimately it's the film itself kind of lets it down, just too low res, and difficult to get the entire thing registered on the exact same plane. I do like it though, just more low-fi than it could be.

Ha, yeah. I went to considerable expense to get that back for the press that has the shutter button on it, and is linked to the advance and darkslide so makes it impossible to screw THAT bit of it up at least (though you still have to remember to cock the shutter everytime). It's major drawback was the particular cable that linked the back to the lens was on a weird clicky fit and would fall out all the time, I remember retracing my steps during a walk for about 45 minutes until I came across it lying innocently on the ground. Back was useless without it.

There are a bunch on Japan ebay, but none of them come with the cable which is a bit **** as they're effectively useless without it. I wasn't a huge fan of shooting mine because it's probably the single most unergonomic camera I've ever owned. It had boxy bits sticking out at every conceivable right angle, the back, the RF, the lens, the handle if you had it fitted, then the cable if I was using that was looped below the camera body, it was impossible to take it out of a bag without a good five minutes rearranging the thing 🤣

Hi,

Anyone recommend me a company for Professional Indemnity insurance please?

Thanks in advance!