not 100 things...90-93 things maybe! ;)

Here are a bunch of photos. I took part in all but one in some way. I may have posted them before but i want criticial evaluation from the experts.


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...1/F1000001.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...1/F1000004.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...1/pics17-3.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...1/IMG_0004.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...ars_jcobbs.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...1/F1000013.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...1/F1000015.jpg

They are all pretty cool. I like the dark alleyway one the most. It's like purpleish.

Shame its slightly blurred, or was that the look you were going for? I like the barspin one

people shots with nothin' going on are always better in B&W...

Nice shots.

Callumrides, you could make your photos look better if you think harder about composition, like what you should and shouldn't include in the frame. If you include foreground objects, it's usually good to have them in focus, but there are exceptions. Everyone goes through a 'tilt' phase, and it damn near never helps your photos, so if you can't level the camera at least crop it to level...

Of course the barspin shot is a good standard to aspire too, but it looks like you don't have lighting equipment or a wide angle to shoot something just like it yet...

Different kind of art:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/S5001290.jpg

i personally like the top one for some reason.

If i ever got a tattoo it would be of the Solid bird. Not because i'm obsessed with Solid, (i like them alot) but really because that thing is sweet! Yeah. Word.
This is the bird on a shirt:
http://twelve0four.net/solidbmx/shirts.jpg

That is one hella sick bird.

That's rad as a tattoo, I bet.

HEY EVERYBODY, SHOW US YOUR TATS!

their logo is a russian coat-of-arms:
http://www.la.psu.edu/CLA-OnlineCour...Russia_coa.gif

or a modified Ruger logo:
http://www.pilkguns.com/tenp/RUGLOGO.jpg

(closer to the Russian Coat-of-Arms)

Oh ****! The company that makes my frame are really KGB members conspiring against BMX and the government!

Yep, didn't you know, jeez

By popular demand (?)

My first time shooting with film:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/01270010.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/01270017.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/01270024.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...01270006-1.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/01270004.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/01270003.jpg


My camera now:
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/S5001251.jpg

I like the fourth photo in particular. What's under the bridge in the fifth picture?

East Hill

The fourth picture is the coolest.

Yeah, the fourth is an underground area connected to some tunnels, just off a park here. Neat place, it definitely is.

Under the bridge in number five is a bicycle/ walking trail that continues out of town and eventually to St. Louis. This part is just running along next to a creek.

Sharp, and well exposed. You just need to work on your subject matter a bit more, and composition.

The fifth image has bright spots at the edges. Your eyes are always drawn to the brightest part first, so that's a bad thing. You seem to cut stuff off at odd places - watch your edges more.

Finally, did you shoot everything standing upright? Bend your knees, kneel, lie down. Point your camera up, point it down. You want a point of view that we don't see every day. Can you go back and get low enough to shoot the parking meter framed by the window behind it? In the third image, the left 1/3 of the frame is mostly a distraction. I would have tried shooting through the middle of the sculpture, and catching the lights or tree, again, framed by the sculpture.

All in all, a good effort. My guess is you may have been hampered by a basic tripod that either doesn't go down low, or you were thinking too much, and didn't get into a creative groove.

They are super cool pictures. Keep it up.

*This is the part where the gun shot rings out and everyone realizes how expat just shut down kjohnnytarr*

Na, the last sentence of his post is pretty much truth.

Actually, it's all positive and encouraging.

Nice, I want a spotmatic. Already have some m42 lenses too, once I get some EOS glass again I'll probably get one to use them with instead of the Canon.

Although I don't know if I could stand a manual camera other than a Leica now... I ordered a Canon A1 for a friend and advancing that thing was like grinding rocks together, and there's tons of mirror return lag. Picked up the M3 and it was like cutting warm butter, and... "tick".

A1's are known for having the advance and shutter mechanisms go bad. How does his shutter sound? I actually called a place that had me fire the camera by the mic on my phone, and he could tell that the shutter was going bad.

Hmm.. The shutter itself didn't sound screwed up to me, but the time between the mirror going down, shutter firing and mirror coming back up was a lot longer than the 1N.

If I was shooting sports/action, I'd get the 1n RS.

Nice shots, This is my feeble attempt at an artsy photo:

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...heellicker.jpg

This is one of my connections to hardtail

you two know lots. a little too much. impressive.