I LOVE my job!

[Spectral Morn]

They are no longer driven by the desire to win votes but to strip away checks and balances and basic freedoms. Security is always placed above liberty for this serves to justify mission creep towards authoritarianism and exerting limitless control over a fearful populace.

They have also learnt how to manipulate the mainstream press who were traditionally always against them, certainly under previous Labour governments.

This government is about gaining, keeping, maintaining and consolidating power above all else.

The ISA is not independent and it is not about protecting children. It is about creating a climate of paranoia and fear. It is also about raising revenue for another self-justifying parasitic goverment body.

100% Correct we are doomed................................. Unless you all get off your big fat lazy asses and vote these B..........s out next election.


Regards D S D L

[Marco]

Marco, there are plenty of other threads for you to participate in. If the topic does not interest you, just say nothing.

It's that simple.

The rant is relevant to photography in highlighting the full extent of government meddling in our lives, including photography.

Wrong - this area is for pictures, as denoted by the room description "Off-topic photographs"

So let's see some...................

If you post a picture of a bloody politician, though, I'll strangle you with your pishcatchers!!

Marco.

[Steve Toy]

All part of AOS thread drift my dear just like the chat about frocks. Photography is meant to stimulate discussion anyway.

[Marco]

Yesh, but frocks are funny!!

Pictures of politicians in frocks - now that would be *really* funny!!

Marco.

P.S You have an important PM on its way from Beechy. Call me when you get it

[The Vinyl Adventure]

you want another piccy?
this is the fruits of todays labour.. a stop for a corporate broshure for a company called one creative...
stuff the weddings this shit is what i wanna do with my life.. this sort of photography really makes me tick!

[REM]

Fantastic composition and lighting, was it all done 'in-camera' or is it PP in Photoshop or whatever, brilliant either way.
One small point, would it not have been better if the moody geeza had worn a new pair of shoes or were you maybe making some sort of statement like maybe '...look at this guy, been round the block a time or two, not afraid to get his shoes scuffed..'?
Anyway, very well done indeed.

Cheers

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Yeah I too find the shoe distracting! I tried lowering the exposure just on the sole .. But It looked odd somehow!?
Anyway it's shot with mostly natural night to capture the ambiance of the garage (7.1 60th 800iso) with a little bit of very difused flash. I did take my lights but we were a bit rushed and i recon it's prob turned out better for not useing proper lighting!
I used lightroom for the editing - it was croped and rotated slightly (I couldn't get the low angle and the camera completely straight) contrast slightly enhansed, sharpened, de saturated, slight sepia tint added to the highlights, very feathered post crop vignette applied, more yellow gradient tint on the ceiling, and a grey grad from the bottom left to focus the eye into the frame a bit. Quite a bit of fiddleing but I'm pretty chuffed with the end product! Thank you for the positive feedback, it's always nice to here!

[Varun]

Hamish,

The garage shot is quite smart-and what an expertise in dry darkroom technicking- Eh!

I appreciate that it is not easy to convert images into B&W-although there are a couple of softwares available which do a good fast job. Shooting digital by choosing B&W I have realized is a total waste. It has to be standard colour and then converted to B&W.

Do you use RAW only?

[The Vinyl Adventure]

raw is the only real way to shoot with digital, it allows a level of adjustment using softwear like adobe bridge or lightroom that is really not available to those shooting with jpeg
i dont find b&w convertersion an issue, but a high quality photo based monitor is a must!!