Digital photography

^ I wanted to do my own street view and rig a helmet-mounted go pro and just ride around. Guess its a similar thing.
This is just another implication of street view and more evidence that its changed photography in some way... for better or worse (I'm undecided)

Took this at lunch time.

http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-children-photography-elena-shumilova/

excellent

Saw those on the FM forums. Bit cheesy but good.

Really cheesy, but really good I'd say!

What are the suggestions for learning a bit more/taking better shots/post-processing? I saw this on Amazon https://local.amazon.co.uk/London-wide/B00HQG038U but suspect it will be a bit shit. Any other suggestions?
Cheers

http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-children-photography-elena-shumilova/

excellent

PP is hideous imho.
They all look like bookcovers for for the novels you find in charity shops.

@apollo good,first one is great

Apart from obvious dodging burning here and there I though they're tastefully done for what the photographer was trying to achieve.
I prefer that rather than the usual HDR, oversharpened or compressed levels
stuff that you get on Flickr

Actually looking back more closely some of the blur is a bit OTT. I Assumed it was a DOF thing.

they made me throw up a bit in my mouth

From the comments section,

"One obvious photoshop, that even those with limited knowledge of the programme will be able to spot, is the fact that in the two photos next to each other of the boy looking out to the lake and sitting on the pier, the splash ring in the water is the same one, and has been superimposed, just rotated and softened in the standing pic (check out the light reflection pattern!)"

Not sure if this photographer believes in God, but her work captures the beauty of God's creation so well. Breathtaking and stunning, while at the same time tender and tear-jerking.

lol

They do look a bit like fundamentalist christian adverts on the back of busses.

My brother is looking for a little camera to take touring. He's no camera geek so a point and shoot will work fine.

A request of his which is a little trickier is that he doesn't want to take a battery charger and would like to charge the camera like it's a phone off his solar charger.

Any ideas about this? I can't seem to find anything that can do this? Bit tricky to search for.

RX100 charges over usb...

Quite liked the linked photos, reminded me of this for some reason. Except that this is not sweet in that way. Another female Russian art school graduate, the cold weather, kids and animals etc.

http://www.evgeniaarbugaeva.com/#/stories/---tiksi/01

My brother is looking for a little camera to take touring. He's no camera geek so a point and shoot will work fine.

A request of his which is a little trickier is that he doesn't want to take a battery charger and would like to charge the camera like it's a phone off his solar charger.

Any ideas about this? I can't seem to find anything that can do this? Bit tricky to search for.

I hear that samsung has by far the best built in WIFI / uploading interface. This would no doubt be very useful for doing stuff on the move. They also charge via usb, are well specced and are cheap.

^^ Saw that exhibition in real life. Makes me realise how a little computer screen doesn't do the images justice.

RX100 charges over usb...

This.

Amazingly useful.

While we're on the subject of cameras automatically taking pictures would it be a good time for everyone to hate this .....

Is there anyone who has been waiting for this kind of technology?

http://www.autographer.com/#home

Wow, I have a massive flashback to sitting in lecture listening (well, reading) about automatism, drawing randomly without thinking or concentrating which was a popular technique amongst the Surrealist back in the eary 20's;

Automatic drawing (distinguished from drawn expression of mediums) was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move 'randomly' across the paper.

Why hate it? I like the idea of letting the camera take snap while you're carrying it, might be a darn sight more interesting than the million black and white photos of a soda can we see everyday.

Absolutely. I was reading the stuff about streetview the other night and it made me think of Man Ray. I can't remember what he called them, but he used to take photographs at random without framing or composing the image, and he came to many of his photographic discoveries (such as rayographs) by accident as a result of experimentation. I reckon he would have loved streetview as an innovation, especially when it produces weird effects. I definitely don't think he'd agree with this:

That in itself is a contradiction. perspective is an intrinsically human thing no? Automate it, and that perspective vanishes. Autonomy can't take a single shot, at least not a meaningful one. It'll machine gun a location with shots, then leave it up to you to conjure up forced meaning that might have nothing to do with the original context.
I can see what you mean about autonomy very clearly, I just don't think it's some holy grail for the "medium" obsolete or contemporary.

Surely streetview is the ultimate "unconcerned, but not indifferent"?

shooting from the hip, just indiscriminately

Absolutely. I was reading the stuff about streetview the other night and it made me think of Man Ray. I can't remember what he called them, but he used to take photographs at random without framing or composing the image, and he came to many of his photographic discoveries (such as rayographs) by accident as a result of experimentation. I reckon he would have loved streetview as an innovation, especially when it produces weird effects. I definitely don't think he'd agree with this:
Surely streetview is the ultimate "unconcerned, but not indifferent"?

Man ray shot from the hip, not indiscriminately. That's just zone focusing and snapping away when you glimpse something interesting. He also thought of Photography as an Artistic medium. Not straight up documentation (debatable I know). That was my point. Of course Streetview is indifferent. It was designed to MAP, not record. streetview is a byproduct of the mapping process as we're visual creatures. We look for landmarks and symbols.

Again, I love streetview and all that comes with it, I just don't agree with Photographic automation as a mass usage. As in for what everyone produces that has no Artistic premise.
There was a body of work by someone who collected hundreds of images of famous landmarks and overlapped them. The difference in composition was negligible. Of course, that could be down to geography, but my point is, the majority of people already take the same shots.
Automate it with a camera like Ed suggested, and imagine the rest.

I was just making the point that the leap between the 'shooting from the hip' style of street photography and automated photography such as streetview or CCTV isn't as big as you may think. Street photography is often preoccupied with eschewing a premeditated documentary style in favour of becoming transparent, what's more transparent than a camera you don't know is there?

http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-children-photography-elena-shumilova/

excellent

Amazing, even if the subject matter is not to your taste, the qaulity of the image and the technical skill is great.