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Congratulations for a nice self-made panoramic camera, but you forgot one option: the Horizon 205pc. It's $2590 new in the 'net, but I'm fairly certain you can get one cheaper by looking around a bit. Since it has a curved film plane and rotating lens, you can get very nice real Panorama shots. I t...

Suppose you want to shoot medium-format panoramic-format images. You could buy a pro camera: $5700 for a Horseman, $3600 for a Linhof (no lens) or a secondhand Fotoman body for whatever they're going for. You could spring for an old press camera ($150 on the cheap end) and a rollfilm back for severa...

I was shit-busy over the summer and found a lot of real-life diversions as well. Now that I've got a handle on it all I'll hopefully be able to do more than drive-by post (or at least manage drive-by posting in two places instead of one).

Yes, I freely admit to being inspired by a far greater photographer than myself in this overexposure. Thoughts? Though I'm a bit late here, I'd suggest trying to even out your highlights and shadows as much as possible when you make the frame (get bracketed exposures if need be) and doing the compo...

These photographs first came to light last year, but I haven't seen them mentioned here before now and I am sure that some people will take an interest. The upshot is, a fellow by the name of John Maloof buys tens of thousands of old negatives for a few hundred bucks at an estate auction and realize...

@ Shep: The tone-mapping is a bit garish, but you did it without murdering contrast so points to you for that. @ Rye: Your cameraman got a bit too frenetic for my taste on some of those shots of the band - just crossed the line to where it became hard for me to track the musicians - but otherwise th...

Not a rule per se, but a suggestion: If anyone's going to do a music review, a basic suite of information in the thread title would be helpful (as applicable: artist, album or song, genre, and region of origin) so people get an idea of what the thread is about even with obscure artists and genres, o...

creature Drawing's not my strong suit, but there is a lot that this one needs: 1. Clean up your lines. You've got stray bits of limbs that you didn't erase, and the rest are sketchy. 2. Learn to shade and texture. Your line drawings don't give any real impression of shape or bulk, and when you're d...

(There will be a few new features cropping up in AM&P as a way to put the Art Gallery to more use. This is one of them.) Just as the title says - this thread is for nominating posters who have some work that you - yes, you - would like to see in the Art Gallery. How this works: 1. Come up with a...

In an better world I would have had a reflex camera (I'm not very good at composing with rangefinders) and a wider-angle lens (at the distances I had to stand to keep cars etc. out of the way, 43mm was a bit too tight.) In a perfect world I would have had a view camera with a wide lens for mad persp...

Question: what if you didn't look at the photo in terms of architecture? Does that change anything? I'd have to echo phongn, really - the electrolier (big dark spot on a lighter field) and its mounting point + the ceiling around it (pattern, text) compete for attention a bit too much. Just looking ...

Picked up at the post office today, from Germany with love. I think this photo shows my cameras limitations though, very grainy, despite the ambient lightning being good, I also cleaned it up in photoshop. Maybe at full resolution, but the version you posted here looks pretty clean to me. Nice layo...

Fixture I can't help but look at this one in terms of architecture, and for that reason I think the diagonal composition does more harm than good. It removes the kind of formal presentation you might expect (formal as in form, but also formal as in Serious Business - this is a bank after all) but d...

Fire I think the choice of black and white adds at least one thing - I think the fine details of the massed flames through the center would not be as easily seen in color. The big splash of orange would grab most if not all of the attention directed at the photo. That said, the choice of black and ...

Credit all work that is not your own. Lack of credit will be rectified and plagiarists, when found, will be subject to disciplinary action as per board rules. Flickr's ToS requires that images be linked back to their Flickr page, so keep that on your radar too. Link or thumbnail images wider than 1...

@ Lonestar - that's some really handsome terrain. Where were these taken? The first shot up there, with the pipe spraying water, is quite pretty. Some post-processing to lighten the shot and make the pipe stand out more would be nice. Does it really look dark to you? It needs work to improve contras...

"Simone Bolivar (1788-1840), little-known sister to the famous South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar, spent her time engaged in high level diplomacy, consolidating Latin American territory in the wake of her brother's victories, uniting fractious local leaders until she tragically ceased t...

What's the policy on posting in both threads? Say I post 3 pictures in the casual thread and one of them here? That's fine, if the one you're posting here is one you really want to be critiqued. Don't just march every single photo through here albeit one at a time, though, because that's not the po...

I'm closing PAD for the time being, pending an experiment in art presentation threads. If you just want to show off photos you're taking and maybe get comments or compliments but don't care so much about critique, post here . If you're seeking critique, post here . If you want visibility, feel free ...

If you have an artwork you want serious opinions about, or you are trying to learn and you want helpful feedback, this is a thread devoted to critique. Like Show-Off, this is a multi-media thread. We've got a spread of people on this board with experience in a variety of different arts, so if you dr...

To start this off- some photos, pre-processing, from a recent roll. (Reala 100 in 6x7).

If you've got some stuff you want to SDN to see, but don't want to make a thread for it, this is the place. This isn't a serious thread for people to be serious about art. All subjects and skill levels are welcome, and people can comment and compliment as they please. Snapshots? Great. Napkin doodle...

That would be a fair point if every single manned capsule ever used didn't have windows, except they all do, from Mercury to Soyuz. You have to admit that the cockpit windows/cupolas/portholes on spaceplanes, stations, and capsules to date don't exactly compare with the giant-ass bay windows that s...

I hear you can not buy a new console right away and see how living without one works out for you before you ultimately decide. (You might find yourself more inspired to draw if you get away from games, especially if you put some of that time into activities that give you ideas. You'll be out of that...

I thought about that tree - it does kind of bookend the horizontal lines. Try it both ways; there's no reason not to. About the stones - I wasn't suggesting you go for a wade or anything like that! I thought with a vantage point somewhat further to the left, it might be possible to get an arrangemen...