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Title: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 07, 2009, 08:29:04 AM: Anybody interested in photography?

Feel free to share your pictures - no matter what the subject is (as long as it is decent enough to show to average chemicalforums user). Or perhaps you want to discuss your camera? Lens? Share some experience? Go on :)

Note: please try to post pictures not wider than about 650 pixels, as wider ones can break the way forums are displayed. And while using chemicalfroums attachements is OK, you will probably do better using some picture hosting service like photobucket or something - when chemicalforums are moved (and it happens now and then) attachements are usually lost.

I will start. I am taking pictures since I was about 10 or 12. Now I am using EOS 400D. It happened this year that I took two nice shots of a raising and setting Sun:

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Fsunset.jpg&hash=28e4a7e35bd07d34321a762d704c119d97090cac)

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Fmarcin_summer_holidays.jpg&hash=48af7eb089b4f632dd2787eb92a4242845a36631)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: azmanam on October 07, 2009, 10:39:14 AM: This is probably the coolest picture I've ever taken, also a sunset, while I was in Hawaii. Absolutely nothing special about the camera at all. I was lining up the shot in the view finder (before digital cameras (!) and I had a friend standing behind me telling me when a wave was about to crash, and the timing was perfect :)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 07, 2009, 10:49:20 AM: Nice one :)

I have some nice crashing waves taken in early eighties on BW film, somehow since then I have never been to the sea during stormy weather. This year we got to the sea in February (in exactly opposite direction everyone was going - we went north to the sea, everybody else went south to the mountains, if you will look at the map of Poland you will see what I mean). Highest waves were below 1 foot :(

Edit: 1 foot waves and about 5 feet and 5 inches of my wife ;)

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Fzima_09%2FIMG_8568.jpg&hash=23b6e02873769d9c8f08450a87f876e69fe448fd)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: azmanam on October 09, 2009, 09:43:08 AM: Here are a few more. These are various pictures I've taken around our chemistry lab over the past few years. In order:

*3 phases of carbon dioxide visible in a liquid CO2 extraction I was doing for a chemistry demo
*getting ready for some organic photochemistry. The pink solution is rose bengal and cyclopentadiene. Oxygen is bubbling through for cycloaddition reaction.
*Reaction involving gaseous molecular chlorine. The bottle was corroded and ended up not even opening... but the set up was cool.
*Adding base to a thiazolidinethione-directed aldol addition. Color changes from bright yellow to reddish purple
*visual separation of product from unreacted starting material after the very same aldol addition. Product becomes bright yellow.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: azmanam on October 09, 2009, 09:43:27 AM: It wouldn't let me post the fifth, so here it is
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 09, 2009, 02:45:28 PM: When it comes to chemistry I have only pictures taken for my titration page - like this:

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.titrations.info%2Fimg%2Fmethyl-orange.jpg&hash=821d753deccb697649253c66ed146eae98988003)

But here comes the funny part - how these pictures were taken :)

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Ftaking_pictures.jpg&hash=20c10a805a5e38fad53a246d485414fb8c42d953)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 16, 2009, 05:54:57 AM: What about animals? For example small ones, like this Lycaena dispar:

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2FLycaena_dispar.jpg&hash=e0346f60f533b161705436ddd079bd70fe761091)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: nj_bartel on October 16, 2009, 09:00:01 AM: I love the last one. Impressive image resolution.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 16, 2009, 09:16:31 AM: I must admit this is one of the best butterfly pictures I took. Less then 200 meters from my house :)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Arctic-Nation on October 19, 2009, 05:51:22 PM: Two and a half months in Poland, and I've discovered I've taken not nearly enough pictures. Here's a sunset taken from my room, the location of the 'fire' would be the University of Warmia and Mazury.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 19, 2009, 07:09:16 PM: Wow :)

Are you still in Olsztyn?
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Arctic-Nation on October 20, 2009, 01:34:28 PM: Most of the time till July next year.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 20, 2009, 01:55:11 PM: I have been in Olsztyn for few hours back in seventies, and at least twice in a night train going through the city... ;) Somehow it was always either to the left or to the right of my way.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Arctic-Nation on October 22, 2009, 04:56:16 PM: Can't say you've missed out on much. The whole place is as interesting as watching painted grass die.

Though I must admit that I've spent 7 years in the best university city in the world (Leuven, Belgium). ;)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 22, 2009, 05:43:47 PM: Many small/average cities are boring. However, you are close to Mazury lakes, so you can try to visit Mikołajki. About 70 km east of Olsztyn. As far as I remember city is not interesting, but I love lakes around.

Well, I loved them many years ago, I wasn't there for at least 10 years. I was told it is getting more and more crowded, but that shouldn't be problem at the moment.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: mir on October 24, 2009, 03:03:56 PM: My best so far:
(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblogg.humle.be%2Fwp-content%2F2009%2F08%2Fdsc_8720.JPG&hash=c8f9de876ac3687d1d79010ca9b30c34241ade65)
From a nuclear rector, the Halden Reactor Project (http://www.ife.no/hrp/index_html?set_language=en&cl=en').
(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblogg.humle.be%2Fwp-content%2F2009%2F06%2Fdsc_5771.JPG&hash=d2baa32db23b146f84c6c968cf1bea522a84573e)

More at my photoblog: http://blogg.humle.be/ (http://blogg.humle.be/').
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 24, 2009, 04:10:52 PM: Nice ones :)

The butterlfy reminds me of

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Fmotyle%2FArgynnis_paphia.jpg&hash=0e140e4c303b31f50237831627b0eff6279e7d91)

although yours is much better specimen (and I am not sure it is the same species, but they are closely related).
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: mir on October 24, 2009, 04:21:11 PM: I believe it is called Argynnis adippe or High Brown Fritillary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argynnis_adippe). The underside of the wings was very similar at least.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 24, 2009, 06:55:45 PM: Could be, mine is Argynnis paphia (see file name).
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: mir on October 25, 2009, 05:08:37 AM: Are you interested in butterflies Borek? Do you catch them?
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on October 25, 2009, 05:17:49 AM: I did, years ago:

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Fmotyle.jpg&hash=47d38c5ef9cb73798a585e7e7a4a22cf50722def)

That was taken somewhere in mid-nineties.

Now I am mostly taking pictures.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on November 03, 2009, 09:29:45 AM: (https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Fchickadees1.jpg&hash=3d692322df75712dc55a53563983de398bc48aec)

This was taken last year, but that's exactly what I can see through my window right now (just no patches of snow yet). Feeder is in such a position, that I have to just slightly turn my head left when sitting at my desk/computer to see it. When chickadees come they engage my peripheral vision :)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: desmond728 on February 16, 2010, 11:05:21 PM: (https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fdata.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_kvszncokIk1qaoapuo1_1280.jpg%3FAWSAccessKeyId%3D0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2%26amp%3BExpires%3D1266465894%26amp%3BSignature%3DYzIRTltGEh5H3%2F1go0%252B%2F213Pqv0%253D&hash=63c7c6e0d0ed7b3d93e94e4ef5a47476154deeaf)

i took this pic a while ago.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: desmond728 on February 16, 2010, 11:07:17 PM: (https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fdata.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_kuf586oy8N1qaoapuo1_1280.jpg%3FAWSAccessKeyId%3D0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2%26amp%3BExpires%3D1266466007%26amp%3BSignature%3Dk94a%2FJzvsbjalPJ4U%252BifsVFIj9w%253D&hash=2788fe173b9107fb2ef4c26ffda6db4a64d90600)

this was a school pic, me doing a lab in my chemistry class
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: hobobot on April 30, 2010, 12:51:44 AM: Mir: I love the reactor pic.

All about the timing on this sodium explosion.
(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iamphred.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F11%2FIMG_3058-682x1024.jpg&hash=e4d0c15203f0b050bdf96111ac44e50db8b95a35)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Schrödinger on April 30, 2010, 03:17:31 AM: How do you post a picture without attaching a file? I want to post some photos too :'(
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on April 30, 2010, 03:24:09 AM: hobobot: Nice one

Schrödinger: post your pictures on tinypic.com (or some other service, like imageshack) and then post them here using [ img][ /img] tags.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Schrödinger on April 30, 2010, 03:31:46 AM: That's what you get :

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi39.tinypic.com%2Fjpa42q.jpg&hash=ef8f315ecc7fb8642ceab17c5c6891c5a95a426a)

for putting your leg into :

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi41.tinypic.com%2Ftahhqx.jpg&hash=85caa7928fac149645750efce9dc9da4c2141838)

Nobody would want that on their pants!!
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on April 30, 2010, 07:35:00 AM: I am not asking what the brown stuff is.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: azmanam on April 30, 2010, 08:34:47 AM: Took this one a few months ago on a particularly windy morning in Washington DC. This is one of the many flags forming a ring around the Washington Monument.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: skyjumper on May 02, 2010, 01:44:37 AM: (https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ak-ash1%2Fhs486.ash1%2F26572_1385205262988_1017695936_1218808_979161_n.jpg&hash=6e85d1c36a90b3e38ce1a28b20471edb124ca464)

I enjoy urban exploring.
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: vickium on May 31, 2010, 04:42:05 PM: @hobobot --

Wicked sodium explosion photo! Kudos!!
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: skyjumper on June 10, 2010, 09:14:32 PM: (https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg821.imageshack.us%2Fimg821%2F7771%2Fleaves.th.jpg&hash=ee463e55ba960bb757a23f8416789953989a0bc0) (http://img821.imageshack.us/i/leaves.jpg/)
I found that that makes an epic desktop wallpaper. Taken with a Nikon D50 at 55mm
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on June 11, 2010, 03:46:09 AM: Quote from: skyjumper on May 02, 2010, 01:44:37 AM
I enjoy urban exploring.

That reminded me of a picture taken during city trip (we prefer to call it "penetration" ;) )

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Fcobweb.jpg&hash=cbd9b3756e346c050417c068dc663cfe1e4101da)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: hobobot on June 13, 2010, 02:16:02 AM: Quote from: vickium on May 31, 2010, 04:42:05 PM
@hobobot --

Wicked sodium explosion photo! Kudos!!

Thanks!

@ Borek: That's awesome and well captured. Remind me never to walk anywhere near there.

@ Skyjumper: Was it a special macro lens? How'd you get so darn close on that thing?
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on June 13, 2010, 04:06:03 AM: Yesterdays picture - there was a thunderstorm over Warsaw.

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Fthunderstorm1.jpg&hash=14f04cdf7d48c06f248b3bde5944bf84ba911ad2)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: skyjumper on June 13, 2010, 04:18:07 PM: Quote from: hobobot on June 13, 2010, 02:16:02 AM
Quote from: vickium on May 31, 2010, 04:42:05 PM
@hobobot --

Wicked sodium explosion photo! Kudos!!

Thanks!

@ Borek: That's awesome and well captured. Remind me never to walk anywhere near there.

@ Skyjumper: Was it a special macro lens? How'd you get so darn close on that thing?

Nope, a standard 18-55mm!
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on February 02, 2012, 10:02:44 AM: About a week ago in Bieszczady (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bieszczady):

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Fzima_12%2FIMG_5193.jpg&hash=c845d3b67fc728e0298619a176b577c752965dbd)
Title: Re: Taking pictures - photography thread
Post by: Borek on February 02, 2012, 10:38:42 AM: Half a year ago in Croatia:

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Flato2011%2Fuvala.jpg&hash=674f5712de58ab4a6906adfdf58251ec3635b426)

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Flato2011%2FIMG_1413.jpg&hash=00a0f104c72b4903a0d32f3665765f770d12bfb0)

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Flato2011%2FIMG_3224.jpg&hash=d72eaa619526121b2b03998e9d60e4f0dce511c5)

(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bpp.com.pl%2FIMG%2Flato2011%2FIMG_1684.jpg&hash=9da5ae97898f1bb45ad3ccb2f6ba1803cbe5159e)