Grassroots Photographers, post YOUR favorite photos (one per day)

kylini wrote: It's usually from sun flare. The shape of the ghost depends on the lens used (blade shape and number for aperture, plus aperture setting). Multicoating, using a hood, and holding your hand over the sun will prevent them.

And to add... if you want flare, point your camera at a strong light source. In this case (and many) it's the sun, but it can be a car headlight or a street light or any other strong directed light source from the edge or just outside the lens's coverage. Flare comes from light reflecting off the different pieces of glass that make up the lens and/or the inside of the lens barrel, the aperture window, etc. The shape is determined by the number of aperture blades and their shape mostly.

Sometimes flare can be good (like above), most of the time it's bad and causes the image to wash out, lose contrast, and generally look crappy.

Lunch date

About as grassroots as photography gets: wooden pinhole camera ( ONDU 6x6 ), film developed in homebrew Caffenol (instant coffee-based developer).

Not quite as grassroots, but in the same philosophy. Picked up an older Takumar Bayonet 135mm f2.5 lens from a local pawn shop (along with a Pentax ME Super and a SMC-A 50mm f/2) for about $25 each. Taken with the Takumar, on my K30. Should hopefully have a couple nice rolls of slides from Denali Park this weekend in a few weeks too...

Saw my first brown bear in Denali National Park this weekend.

How close? Close enough...

I had a blast taking photos at a 4th birthday party. This young woman isn't the birthday boy but was far more photogenic.

Shot this weekend on the Wambaw Creek. Nikon AW120 set to vivid.

Wow very nice! Wish I was able to get down the rivers more this summer...

Two for today. First is the first color shot with my Yashica 124 that I'm happy with, not bad for no light meter and guessing exposure based on the sunny f/16 rule. Shot with Kodak Portra 160NC.

And one from my Yashica Electro 35, shooting Velvia 50 RVP.

Ollie and what's left of his favorite Snoopy toy. Taken with My iPhone and run through Instagram.

Concert from last night, 4th row, 10 feet from the stage Alice Cooper and he was freakin awesome

In reply to ryanty22:

OH! HELL YEAH!

Richard Nixon wrote: Those sunset pictures are gorgeous. Do you remember the settings for those shots?

The pink colored panoramic is actually sunRISE in breckenridge, the others sunsets (the panoramics are all stitched, i'd have to dig to find stats)

Stats for the last one (non-panoramic)

• NIKON CORPORATION
• Model NIKON D40
• Shutter Speed 1/400 second
• Aperture F/10.0
• Focal Length 18 mm (kit lens)
• ISO Speed 200

Right around the time I got my D40 (8 years ago now, since have moved on to a D80 and now a new D7100 soon)

More

here in the middle of the July/Aug heat is a reminder of what's to come

Panasonic DMC-FZ1

Something from the "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" collection. Voigtländer Perkeo II, Kodak Ektar.

My Foundry furnace