Digital photography

^ Good idea. Did you bother walking the stairs?

One from today:

Always walk the stairs, they're the best thing about Old Street and my regular trips to the eye hospital

^^ very nice wii! Really like it.

...the Pompino pics...

I particularly like the one with the leaning tree. How long were you searching for one to match the flare of the bars?

some modern sculpture in stratford new town

I particularly like the one with the leaning tree. How long were you searching for one to match the flare of the bars?

To be honest that was a bit of luck (matching the tree to the bars) and a bit of cheating (tilting the photo in post to make the bike vertical).

stupid lens (300mm mirror lens) I bought for fun ages ago and finally took out to play with today
I wanted it to take boring empty pictures of isolated things and pictures with the perspective horribly flattened

I also took a picture of an annoyed man

Cool! I like the weird bokeh. The bloke doesn't look annoyed so much as "wtf?".

Looks very annoyed to me.
Looks like he's aware of the camera being pointed at him, and to me it definately looks like he would rather not be photographed right now.
I'm assuming one would probably not take the picture if standing right in front of him, but since you're far-ish away with your 300mm lens, you do it.

he's got a bow and arrow
very risky

stupid lens (300mm mirror lens) I bought for fun ages ago and finally took out to play with today
I wanted it to take boring empty pictures of isolated things and pictures with the perspective horribly flattened

I also took a picture of an annoyed man

Considering the price of the lens, these look great. what f shop / iso?

hmmmm

Considering the price of the lens, these look great. what f shop / iso?

It's fixed f5.6 but it underexposes crazily so in terms of exposure it's more like f16, I just increase the ISO if the shutter speed gets too low (but considering the lens is tiny and my camera has in-body stabilisation it's OK even with quite slow shutter speed). All those were 400ISO but only because I was very hungover and couldn't hold my hands anywhere near still.

The tweed run has a new website. I really like the gallery style of it. Here's a photostory from when we went to Florence:
https://tweedrun.exposure.co/the-tweed-run-tuscany-2011

Eighteen hours of documentary (and getting smashed) of an amazing day that I'm proud of.

Really nice set. Looks like a lot of fun.

Guess you have to be british to be able to appreciate this.

Or Italian. That almost looks like a normal day at Fortezza da Basso. Florence has its own fair share of peacocks...

Was about to say. Walking around in Milan you see proper dapper cyclist every now and again, better dressed than anyone i've ever seen in london

Bear in mind that said dapper cyclist probably still lives with his Mama, who irons everything in sight. Also, most Italian footwear is still trapped in the mid-nineties. Prada/Moschino trainers = not cool, anywhere. Strangely popular in Milan though.

Guess you have to be british to be able to appreciate this.

I was about to protest but actually, I guess I'd rather describe myself as 'from britain' than as 'british' so maybe you have a point.

Hi MV, when I was in Glasgow I tended to use the term 'from the UK' instead of British so as not to offend my Scottish buddies. We only met once or twice, I was the token Englisher.

Incidentally, I'm offended that no one gave me mad love for my 'stairs photos' from the previous page, you bunch of bastards. Maybe they're just shit...

Awwww!

Seriously though I looked at them and thought "not bad",
but to be honest they are not spectacular, maybe if the angle was just a little bit different they would be more interesting.
No offence but they look a bit "standard".