The Photography Thread

[Zaqarbal]

Originally Posted by djchameleon

What type of zoom lenses do you have?

Simply this:



8X.

Originally Posted by djchameleon

What's the x on it?

Multiplication:

"Zoom lenses are often described by the ratio of their longest to shortest focal lengths. For example, a zoom lens with focal lengths ranging from 100 mm to 400 mm may be described as a 4:1 or "4×" zoom."

Zoom lens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by djchameleon

I was trying to do something similar to that but my camera is awful so I had to tip toe closer to them and I ended up stepping on a pebble that scared them off a bit so the pics that I do have aren't as good as I would have liked them to be.

The ducks I photographed seemed to be calm. I guess they're used to seeing humans. Also, a pocket tripod helps me to keep the camera still...

...and to take pictures at "duck level" too:

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Apart from that, this is my latest "urban curiosity". A bus shelter:

Closer:

Just plastic, cardboard and paper............ but it looks real!

[Zaqarbal]

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I'm going to be going around snapping some German WW2 bunkers sometime soon.
I won't be pissing around with those.

Good luck.

I've photographed some Civil War bunkers, of the so-called "pillbox" type. The former frontline is nowadays a lush park.

I'm not a big fan of pigeons (a.k.a. "the rats of the air"), but, since they are regarded as symbols of peace, I thought this could be an interesting picture:

At another bunker, I wanted to take a close-up photo. And at the very moment I shot, a pigeon shot off the loophole.

Too blurred. But at that moment I thought: "Damn, what a coincidence, I'm a f**king visual poet!!".

[anticipation]

a set called "a view from this tower":







food snob.

[bonesaw-orchestra]

I dig your bowl man, I'm not just talking about the cereal bowl haha.

[FETCHER.]

Luss at Loch Lomond. Taken on my phone.





Park with my dog.

[Zaqarbal]

Last week:



He said "nevermore!", and flew away...

[jackhammer]

Not spectacular pics but......


Nice cathedral but the inside is a little more interesting:

I am sure one or two might recognise the interior.

[Zaqarbal]

Originally Posted by Aurora

Solitary hunter scanning the horizon, like White Fang.

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My latest sunrises:

And this is a stainless steel monument named Gate of Enlightenment:

[Zaqarbal]

Freakarchitecture. Modern architects: love them or hate them. Pictures taken today:

This is a.....

.....a Neolithic fortress? No. A housing building. The Bamboo Building. Yes, that's bamboo....

Wa babalooba ba lam bamboo....

It's been a productive day. I willl post more pics of weird buildings. Very interesting, I think.

[Zaqarbal]

Here comes the color! Orange:

Green, yellow, blue, orange and red. A housing building:

Apotheosis of colors: