Photo's

[Spike]

After the recent thread that got silly and thankfully was closed by Kev, I wondered just what people thought made a good photo?

Myself I like the ones taken from another angle than the norm. I mean we must have a million pics of the Liver Buildings yet some people can still capture it in a different way. I also like one off pics and people pics. Whats your ideal photo?

One of the best photo takers I have seen on the net is a member of YO. Greg's Dad ( Joe ) I think his pics are brilliant. He can capture the one offs and the popular ones from different angles. His eye for a photo is fantastic and some of his pics are just stunning. Not meant to embarrass you Joe. Im just saying thank you for sharing them with us. I for one have enjoyed them over the past few years.

I like Ged Fagan's people pics on his website. Some good ones taken in town.

And Kev that pic you took of the wrecked boat at Garston was brill. Where is it?:handclap:

I like taking pics, but as my site says " Just for fun " its enjoyable.

What I have noticed is how good the photo takers were in the past. Some of those old photos are flippin fantastic.

By the way I took the best picture ever this year....I took one of Baby Sam.

All Say AAAAAW :rolleyes:

[ChrisGeorge]

Nice to see you back here, Spike. I like any photograph of the city, old or new, but also photos of places elsewhere such as Joe Neary's shots of the Lake District, Runcorn or Wigan. Some of the nature shots by Ronijayne and AZ Gila, etc, have been great too. I like arty shots as well was straightforward photographs. I suppose I'm easy to please.

Cheers

Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[burkhilly]

Spike - I want to see the latest picture of Sam!

With regards to photos, I've only just got a digital camera - dead easy to use and upload onto my laptop. As I'm getting a puppy in a couple of weeks pictures of her will be on Yo - if I can work out how to upload! (I just know the pictures will not be as good as Sam though!)

I'm also with Chris I like looking a photos of any type - and like him am easy to please!

[Spike]

All I use is a didgy cam. If they turn out ok im happy. When it breaks I will go back the shop for another one.

[Ged]

Personally i'm fed up seeing L1, The Liver and William Brown st et al and have been for a long time as they're all in every new Liverpool photographers book in Waterstones. I prefer what many might deem to be menial street scenes. In this day and age of every man and his dog photographing around the Albert Dock including tourists, which I welcome, some of them must even have photos every bit as good as anything on here, I am more into what has gone which is why i've sat for 8 hours at a time in the LRO resurrecting those fantastic pictures taken by Harry Ainscough from files that had not yet been seen by anyone.

The number of times I have managed to match up a street to a person who has emailed me wanting an old previously unseen pic that means something to them, whether it's for a family tree album or an old workplace or where their gran once lived, makes it all the worthwhile for me. Also, before the internet, a lot of these photos were hidden and never to be seen. You can see from the flickr accounts of the likes of Eric James, Bernard Rose, Joe Neary, Dave Sinclair and others that there was always some real talent out there back when.

[ChrisGeorge]

Aye, Ged, some of the lesser known back alleys are good to see.

C

[Spike]

Well Said Ged.

The pics of places that have gone are priceless.

[GeorgePorgie]

I'll take a pic of my back ally when the binmen have been,Chris.

What we have to remember here is...that in todays digital photographing we can enhance that pic with ease in the computer but your true film photographer had to work out what was best for the given senario/compostion at the time and so had to twiddle his/her camera controlsto suit.

[Gerard Fleming]

I'll take a pic of my back ally when the binmen have been,Chris.

What we have to remember here is...that in todays digital photographing we can enhance that pic with ease in the computer but your true film photographer had to work out what was best for the given senario/compostion at the time and so had to twiddle his/her camera controlsto suit.


Taking and making a good photograph, Digital or otherwise has nothing to do with computer enhancement..a computer can not teach anybody what is a good shot...you can buy the best camera going and 200 books on the subject and the latest edition of photoshop...it wont make you a good photographer.

[ItsaZappathing]

I like many are sick of seeing City Centre photo's. Shame other places around Liverpool where not photographed as much.

[Gerard Fleming]

.....your true film photographer had to work out what was best for the given senario/compostion at the time and so had to twiddle his/her camera controlsto suit.


The great Joe Devine never twiddled anything...all his photos were taken in some kind of auto mode...a little known fact he told me....

you can also take it from me there is a bit of twiddling to be done on digital cameras...why do you think some photographers are better than others ?..

Because they know what they are doing when in modes other than auto.

[Spike]

I like many are sick of seeing City Centre photo's. Shame other places around Liverpool where not photographed as much.

Tis true Zaps

[Gerard Fleming]

I like many are sick of seeing City Centre photo's. Shame other places around Liverpool where not photographed as much.

Well said John.. I could not agree more...

I get fed up of seeing all these same old same old pics myself.

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With regards to photos, I've only just got a digital camera - dead easy to use and upload onto my laptop. As I'm getting a puppy in a couple of weeks pictures of her will be on Yo - if I can work out how to upload!...


Best of luck with the photos... if you need any help then just get in touch.

[Spike]

This photo always amazes me.

Its my very own Great Grandparents and their 3 boys. It was taken in 1915 and I think it is so clear for its age.

[scouse smurf]

I'll take a pic of my back ally when the binmen have been,Chris.

What we have to remember here is...that in todays digital photographing we can enhance that pic with ease in the computer but your true film photographer had to work out what was best for the given senario/compostion at the time and so had to twiddle his/her camera controlsto suit.

George, Cavemen only had chalk, later artists had proper paints and modern artists have dead cows and bed linen.

Just because digital photographers can post produce their photos doesn't make them any less spectacular than those of film photographers. I'm sure a good few of those old school photographers would have loved the ease that Digital gives us

Considering I only ever go to the 'popular' places that everyone's sick of seeing, I guess I'll just throw me camera away :)

[ChrisGeorge]

This photo always amazes me.

Its my very own Great Grandparents and their 3 boys. It was taken in 1915 and I think it is so clear for its age.

Hi Spike

Actually the old time photographers had bigger equipment than later photographers, so the detail and clarity was often far better than seen with later work.

Chris

[scouse smurf]

oh as for what type of photo's I like, I honestly don't know, I just like what I like. I do dislike HDR pics though

[Gerard Fleming]

After the recent thread that got silly and thankfully was closed....

It'll be back on soon... and...



.... I also like one off pics and people pics...


.......I'll show lots of one off people pics.. I've taken hundreds of them....whether you like them Tony is another matter... I sincerely hope so..

[ChrisGeorge]

I'll take a pic of my back ally when the binmen have been,Chris.

What we have to remember here is...that in todays digital photographing we can enhance that pic with ease in the computer but your true film photographer had to work out what was best for the given senario/compostion at the time and so had to twiddle his/her camera controlsto suit.

Actually there was a lot of photo manipulation that went on back then as well, as Philip G showed in comparing a couple of postcard views of Church Street, Liverpool, (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44435674@N00/5352415724/) taken over a hundred years ago.

Chris

[Spike]

I remember the Fairies in the garden one. Pretty clever how they did it.

[ItsaZappathing]

As most of you already know, my favourite photo's are of wildlife in action. However my favourite "nostalgia" type of photo's are of people doing ordinary things like work and of people in their houses. I find the decor and ornaments etc fascinating.

[Spike]

The WW2 Blitz photos are an incredible record of the destruction that happened here.

[corky100]

I like HDR, but its an art form in itself, you still need a good pic to start with, and getting the settings right is just as important. I do feel that an over-reliance on contrast can spoil an otherwise worthy photo.

TBH I tend to only use Windows Live gallery and its simple settings to edit mine. In particularly bad light I do turn to photoshop to help. It really can help turn a good picture ruined by bad light into something else with a little patience. Its all up to what you wat to achieve I suppose.

I have in recent months begun to realise that while the popular Liverpoolscenes can still produce stunning pics, that some of the lesser know places, and events, can produce more interesting results. stunning over interesting - thats a debate on its own really. But some of the less desirable images can really induce a little more thought, which to me is every bit as important as that Wow factor. I just started digging through some of my back catalogue (ooo) to pull out photos of people in random places and situations, and with a little thought I have found that even the mundane can be given a new life. My proudest image of this 'genre'? The drunk sleeping it off in a back street near the Anglican Cathedral, edited to B&W. Not ideal subject matter to some, but a phto i am very proud of :)

[Gerard Fleming]

166 vintage (ish) Liverpool photos..

On >> Here.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/thumbnails.php?album=33)

[Spike]

I like HDR, but its an art form in itself, you still need a good pic to start with, and getting the settings right is just as important. I do feel that an over-reliance on contrast can spoil an otherwise worthy photo.

TBH I tend to only use Windows Live gallery and its simple settings to edit mine. In particularly bad light I do turn to photoshop to help. It really can help turn a good picture ruined by bad light into something else with a little patience. Its all up to what you wat to achieve I suppose.

I have in recent months begun to realise that while the popular Liverpoolscenes can still produce stunning pics, that some of the lesser know places, and events, can produce more interesting results. stunning over interesting - thats a debate on its own really. But some of the less desirable images can really induce a little more thought, which to me is every bit as important as that Wow factor. I just started digging through some of my back catalogue (ooo) to pull out photos of people in random places and situations, and with a little thought I have found that even the mundane can be given a new life. My proudest image of this 'genre'? The drunk sleeping it off in a back street near the Anglican Cathedral, edited to B&W. Not ideal subject matter to some, but a phto i am very proud of :)

Im lost with all this HDR stuff. Im sure its good stuff im just not in the know.

Me idiot proof click and hope is me top level :)

[GeorgePorgie]

Actually there was a lot of photo manipulation that went on back then as well, as Philip G showed in comparing a couple of postcard views of Church Street, Liverpool, taken over a hundred years ago.


Sorry to dissapoint you Chris but....the bottom one is the work of a very good artist and is just a copy from the original postcard.
If you cannot see that then you need to go to specsavers. :)

[ItsaZappathing]

166 vintage (ish) Liverpool photos..

On >> Here.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/thumbnails.php?album=33)

I've spent hours on there before. Your's and Ged's site should come with some sort of warning. Such as " Warning, you will get nothing done for the next 5 hours or so once you start looking".
Brilliant stuff.:PDT11

[ChrisGeorge]

Sorry to dissapoint you Chris but....the bottom one is the work of a very good artist and is just a copy from the original postcard.
If you cannot see that then you need to go to specsavers. :)

You are right in the sense that the photograph has been redone by an artist. Although I would say from my study with various old illustrations that happened a lot. You're correct that it's not the same thing as photoshop or photographic manipulation. Although it does show us that people did monkey around with photographs back then as well, no matter how it was done.

The second postcard view though is not simply a copy, because the overhead wires can still be seen. The artwork is done over a copy of the original photograph. I've seen the same thing done with views of London and elsewhere. It probably happened a lot when they colorized the black and white views... they did other things too to alter the view.

[Gerard Fleming]

I've spent hours on there before. Your's and Ged's site should come with some sort of warning. Such as " Warning, you will get nothing done for the next 5 hours or so once you start looking".
Brilliant stuff.:PDT11

Thank you very much for that John...thats much appreciated mate..
I've literally hundreds of my own pics to add...
and unusal vids I've made around The Cunard Building...docks and warehouse...
videos INSIDE the dockers clock...
when it comes to one off pics of the unusual around Liverpool I take great pride in the pics I take..
The Last night at The Odeon picture house on London Rd ?...cant get more one off than that mate..


Cheers John... G..

[GeorgePorgie]

Take this one for example...and yes its a oil painting folks....

[Gerard Fleming]

A few people pics...
got hundreds like this...


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3045&fullsize=1)


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/People-on-Church-Street.jpg



This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3046&fullsize=1)



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/John-smoking.jpg

[corky100]

Love the smoker pic Gerard, but was never a fan of crowd pics, just my preference. Individuals have so much more to say in my mind :)

[Gerard Fleming]

Love the smoker pic Gerard, but was never a fan of crowd pics, just my preference. Individuals have so much more to say in my mind :)

Thanks corky... I've plenty of crowd like pics but I agree with you...theres nothing like a good individual shot...I hope you like the ones I'll be putting on... thanks again...G.

[A.D.W]

What makes a good picture? How long is a piece of string?

[corky100]

its all in the eye of the seer.....

[burkhilly]

Well I'm going to Smithdown Road at the weekend to take pictures of Garrick Street and the street next door but one, Cranbourne Road. Garrick Street is defo being demolished in the next 18 months or so. Not sure if Cranbourne Road is though. Both these roads featured in two of the most famous Liverpool murders...........no I'm not ghoulish, but having seen all the pictures via Yo - records should be kept so I'm starting mine.

[GeorgePorgie]

What makes a good picture?

Wet weather for one,obviously this is not the best of pics but there seems a lack of photoraphs in this type of setting.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Montreal_rainy.jpg

[Gerard Fleming]

What makes a good picture..?


Wet weather for one.... there seems a lack of photoraphs in this type of setting.




Which reminds me.. I must get all my wet Liverpool photos added to my website..


A rainy night in Liverpool.. (Wet on Whitechapel.)


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3048&fullsize=1)



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/Wet-on-Whitechapel.jpg




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A rainy night in Liverpool.. Wood Street crosses Slater Street.



This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3049&fullsize=1)




http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/Wood-Street-and-Slater-Street.jpg

[John Doh]

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I remember the Fairies in the garden one. Pretty clever how they did it.

Are you talking about the Cottingley Fairies, Spike? - A couple of young girls with scissors and paper and box camera! Their unique advantage was that they had the support of the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who personally endorsed their authenticity...

[Gerard Fleming]

More rainy nights in Liverpool..


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3051&fullsize=1)

Taken with my magical manual focus Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f/1.4 SL II lens..



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/Bench.jpg



This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3050&fullsize=1)




http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/Limey-Street-raining.jpg




A rainy night in Liverpool.


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3052&fullsize=1)




http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/A-rainy-night-on-Bold-Street.jpg

[lindylou]

I like the rainy pics too :handclap:

Although I hate being out in the rain myself ! .. don't like the least bit of drizzle near my hair ! ha ! :PDT_Aliboronz_09:

[ChrisGeorge]

Fine work, Gerard. And you are correct about the pics looked better "viewed large" -- makes me feel as if I am right there. Bravo, lad!

Chris

[lindylou]

All I use is a didgy cam. If they turn out ok im happy.

Me too :) I have an idiot proof camera just for snaps.

[lindylou]

Im lost with all this HDR stuff. Im sure its good stuff im just not in the know.

Me idiot proof click and hope is me top level :)

here's one you'll like :)

Taken from here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/24357540@N02/2546516148/

[ChrisGeorge]

Very dramatic, Lindy. And definitely a photograph that has been "treated" to accentuate the cloud formations and atmosphere of the view, much like this one of St. Francis Xavier Church, Everton, also on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41557568@N04/5192070517/in/photostream/). :)

Chris

[Spike]

here's one you'll like :)

Taken from here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/24357540@N02/2546516148/

Ha Ha very good. I love the name :handclap:

[GeorgePorgie]

More rainy nights in Liverpool..

Sorry but these photos don't do nothing for me,photographs in the rain have to be very selective and preferably without to much distraction ie buildings in wet weather without a few pedestrians or people come across as bland and uninteresting.

This one for instance...it works because there not too much distraction and the capturing of the figures in the forground are unbelievably in step with eachother and Sillouetted....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/images/2008/11/26/stephen_wright_01_470x394.jpg

[GeorgePorgie]

Mr Neary,this one you took a couple of years ago and posted it on YO is a good photie but its even better in B&W

[GeorgePorgie]

The caption reads...."No sign of our dad yet Mikey". :)

[hmtmaj]

Now THAT is good,
this one COULD be mistaken for a Chambre Hardman pic :handclap:

[az_gila]

The caption reads...."No sign of our dad yet Mikey". :)

...or "I told you not to kick the ball that way"....:rolleyes:


It is a great picture.:handclap:

[Gerard Fleming]

Sorry but these photos don't do nothing for me...


No problem...thanks for the reply..
(as it happens.. the photo you posted does nothing for me..thanks though for taking the time to find it and post it ).


....photographs in the rain have to be very selective and preferably without to much distraction.....

Is that right ?..thanks for that, I'll try and remember that.

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I like the rainy pics too :handclap:

Although I hate being out in the rain myself ! .. don't like the least bit of drizzle near my hair ! ha ! :PDT_Aliboronz_09:

Thank you Linda...
night time and rainy days are my fave times to take photos....

Ta Lind..

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Fine work, Gerard. And you are correct about the pics looked better "viewed large" -- makes me feel as if I am right there. Bravo, lad!

Chris


Thank you Chris mate... thats much appreciated and I'm pleased you like the pics.

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Very dramatic, Lindy. And definitely a photograph that has been "treated" to accentuate the cloud formations and atmosphere of the view, much like this one of St. Francis Xavier Church, Everton, also on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41557568@N04/5192070517/in/photostream/). :)

Chris


Hiya Chris..
Spooky the way you posted that flickr link...
that is the flickr site of my friend Derek Hyamson..
Dereks a great photographer and very active daily around Liverpool...
he's from West Derby and is here there and everywhere....
not bad for a 79 year old..(I think !..)

I've been in touch with him today...
he wants me to add more of his images to my website...
On 'The Liverpool photographs of Derek Hyamson'

On here.. >> 54 of Derek Hyamsons old(ish) Liverpool photographs... (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/thumbnails.php?album=61)



Derek wants me to add a load of pics on my website from a boxing presentation night at Litherland ABC in1984..

Plenty like the one below will be added on my site very soon....


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3053&fullsize=1)




http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/1-Derek.jpg

[gregs dad]

What they were saying was "Hurry up and take the pic grandad so we can go in the museum"

[Gerard Fleming]

A River Mersey sunset.. from The Pier Head.

This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3054&fullsize=1)



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/River-Mersey.jpg




A River Mersey sunset.. from Everton Terrace.


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3055&fullsize=1)




http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/New-Brighton-at-night-from-Everton-Terrace.jpg

[ChrisGeorge]

Hiya Chris..
Spooky the way you posted that flickr link...
that is the flickr site of my friend Derek Hyamson..
Dereks a great photographer and very active daily around Liverpool...
he's from West Derby and is here there and everywhere....
not bad for a 79 year old..(I think !..)

I've been in touch with him today...
he wants me to add more of his images to my website...
On 'The Liverpool photographs of Derek Hyamson'

Hi Gerard

I'm pleased to hear that Derek Hyamson is a friend of yours. I referenced his St. Francis Xavier photograph when I wrote a poem about the church and poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, here in the Traditional Creativity section. You might wish to point him to my poem, "Brooding Everlasting" (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?45826-Brooding-Everlasting-(CTG))

And talking of "brooding" -- that's a fine photograph of yours of the wind farm. I don't like those things that disfigure the landscape, but that's a striking image and amazing to see Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, dwarfed by the scene! Good work once again, Gerard, mate. :nod:

Chris

[Gerard Fleming]

Hi Gerard

I'm pleased to hear that Derek Hyamson is a friend of yours. I referenced his St. Francis Xavier photograph when I wrote a poem about the church and poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, here in the Traditional Creativity section. You might wish to point him to my poem, "Brooding Everlasting" (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?45826-Brooding-Everlasting-(CTG))

And talking of "brooding" -- that's a fine photograph of yours of the wind farm. I don't like those things that disfigure the landscape, but that's a striking image and amazing to see Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, dwarfed by the scene! Good work once again, Gerard, mate. :nod:

Chris


Hiya Chris...

Thanks for that mate.. I've plenty of pics inside Fort Perch..unusual ones of places the public dont normally get to see...the underground etc thats all getting restored as a public museum...(I'm friends with the chap who owns Fort Perch and I come and go as I please..)...I'll sort some pics out and put them on....might be a little while but I wont forget..

I'll pass on your message to Derek, I'm sure he will be pleased with you using his photograph as a reference..

Cheers mate.. G...

[Spike]

I like pics like this. One lazy Horse that is.

[Gerard Fleming]

A few from my collection of one off Liverpool photographs..
One off in my opinion means just that...
the only photograph in existence of a particular scene.. that can not be recaptured..


The last picture show...

at The Odeon Cinema London Rd...on the closing night.


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3057&fullsize=1)



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/The-last-picture-show-SMALL.jpg



Henry Bohn bookshop on Lime Street.. on closing day..
St Johns car park on St Johns Lane visible through doorway..


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3058&fullsize=1)



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/Henry-Bohn-SMALL.jpg

[Spike]

I like Spooky One's Wooooooo

[Gerard Fleming]

One off Liverpool images..


Lime Street from Concourse House balcony..


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3059&fullsize=1)



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/Concourse-house-roof-.jpg



Lewis's coffee shop.. the last days before closing..


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3060&fullsize=1)




http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/Couple-in-Lewiss-cafe.jpg

[Ged]

After the recent thread that got silly and thankfully was closed by Kev, I wondered just what people thought made a good photo?

Myself I like the ones taken from another angle than the norm. I mean we must have a million pics of the Liver Buildings yet some people can still capture it in a different way. I also like one off pics and people pics. Whats your ideal photo?

One of the best photo takers I have seen on the net is a member of YO. Greg's Dad ( Joe ) I think his pics are brilliant. He can capture the one offs and the popular ones from different angles. His eye for a photo is fantastic and some of his pics are just stunning. Not meant to embarrass you Joe. Im just saying thank you for sharing them with us. I for one have enjoyed them over the past few years.

I like Ged Fagan's people pics on his website. Some good ones taken in town.

And Kev that pic you took of the wrecked boat at Garston was brill. Where is it?:handclap:

I like taking pics, but as my site says " Just for fun " its enjoyable.

What I have noticed is how good the photo takers were in the past. Some of those old photos are flippin fantastic.

By the way I took the best picture ever this year....I took one of Baby Sam.

All Say AAAAAW :rolleyes:



Thanks Spike.

Some of the best street life photos i've seen, with witty captions to boot.


http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?9732-Quincy-s-street-life&highlight=tom+mann


.

[lindylou]

Oh, I used to really enjoy Quincy's posts :nod:

[gregs dad]

Belated thanks to Spike and Chris the cheques are in the post.
I do agree that digital has made things a lot easier and best of all cheaper.
I have run the full course of photograpy in my life from the days of print out papers which involved you buying a negative of a football team and putting it in a cardboard frame with
P O Paper,exposing it to the sun for 2 minutes,it usally faded after a day but it only cost
2d.I have done all my own developing and printing.
Summer months I travel around on my travel pass taking on average 400 pics a month,winter it goes down.
A good photographer with a cheap camera will always take a better pic than a ordinary man with an exspensive one

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/523282763_d13d2b76a5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/523282763/)
One of my favourites, my daughter 50 years ago

[Gerard Fleming]

......A good photographer with a cheap camera will always take a better pic than a ordinary man with an exspensive one



:handclap:

[lindylou]

GD, I remember seeing that photo once before and I think it is excellent. I hope you have it in a lovely frame on the wall. It deserves to be on show. :)

[barizla 66]

Belated thanks to Spike and Chris the cheques are in the post.
I do agree that digital has made things a lot easier and best of all cheaper.
I have run the full course of photograpy in my life from the days of print out papers which involved you buying a negative of a football team and putting it in a cardboard frame with
P O Paper,exposing it to the sun for 2 minutes,it usally faded after a day but it only cost
2d.I have done all my own developing and printing.
Summer months I travel around on my travel pass taking on average 400 pics a month,winter it goes down.
A good photographer with a cheap camera will always take a better pic than a ordinary man with an exspensive one

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/523282763_d13d2b76a5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/523282763/)
One of my favourites, my daughter 50 years ago

what a fantastic photie, brilliant:handclap:

[Spike]

This is what I call a one off.

Not the best quality as it was taken on a phone. But quality dont make a good photo. This is funny and not what you see every day.

[Spike]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/523282763_d13d2b76a5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/523282763/)
One of my favourites, my daughter 50 years ago


As with all your pics Joe...Flippin Brill.

[GeorgePorgie]

A good photographer with a cheap camera will always take a better pic than a ordinary man with an exspensive one

And it takes a painter with a keen eye to realise a good photo's potential in B&W. :unibrow:

[PhilipG]

Greg's Dad / Joe Neary has been my favourite Liverpool photographer since I first saw his early 1960s colour view of Great George Place.

This is another favourite of mine.

He's also a perfect gentleman.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/538671226/sizes/o/

[Gerard Fleming]

Belated thanks to Spike and Chris the cheques are in the post.
I do agree that digital has made things a lot easier and best of all cheaper.
I have run the full course of photograpy in my life from the days of print out papers which involved you buying a negative of a football team and putting it in a cardboard frame with
P O Paper,exposing it to the sun for 2 minutes,it usally faded after a day but it only cost
2d.I have done all my own developing and printing.
Summer months I travel around on my travel pass taking on average 400 pics a month,winter it goes down.
A good photographer with a cheap camera will always take a better pic than a ordinary man with an exspensive one

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/523282763_d13d2b76a5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/523282763/)
One of my favourites, my daughter 50 years ago




As i said years ago when I 1st saw this...
this photograph is as good as anything, anywhere...anytime.
Amazing photograph Joe... it really is.

[Ged]

And used by a local music artists for his album cover I do beleive.

Well done Joe.

[gregs dad]

Thanks folks,I`ll have to go and buy a new hat now my heads gone bigger.
The singer song writer was Alun Parry who sent my daughter a very nice letter on her 50th birthday a few years a few years ago.
She worked as a nurse all her life rising to staff nurse till a few years ago before having to retire with back problems,caused by lifting patients up before, health and safety came in .
A short time after she retired they asked her to come back part time in admin which she does now

[GeorgePorgie]

Nice one Joe...however I have to dissagree with anyone that says back problems are caused by early stages of our life due to lifting.

Pregnancy can cause back problems or just the plain old back at nearly retirement age has just gotten weak,I know of two 75 and 80 year old men who worked or had jobs in a lifting capacity and they can still bend down and don't have a back complaint.

Its the same with any joints in the human body...when we get older they become fragile and weak. :)

oh and I have had a few jobs that entailed lifting ie stacking full bottled crates for four years,digging for two years....my back is still in tune and I'm nearly...erm oldish.

[ItsaZappathing]

Two things.... Alun Parry, very nice fella. He's done me a favour or two.
Backache...I got one now. Causing pain in my leg and buttock too. No fun!!

[Ged]

ZappaJohn - your backache sounds like it could be sciatica.

Georgeporgie - your backache sounds like from your pregnancy.

[lindylou]

I suffer with aches and pains too :(
must be my advancing age ! :PDT_Xtremez_42: :(

[lenka]

Belated thanks to Spike and Chris the cheques are in the post.
I do agree that digital has made things a lot easier and best of all cheaper.
I have run the full course of photograpy in my life from the days of print out papers which involved you buying a negative of a football team and putting it in a cardboard frame with
P O Paper,exposing it to the sun for 2 minutes,it usally faded after a day but it only cost
2d.I have done all my own developing and printing.
Summer months I travel around on my travel pass taking on average 400 pics a month,winter it goes down.
A good photographer with a cheap camera will always take a better pic than a ordinary man with an exspensive one

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/523282763_d13d2b76a5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/523282763/)
One of my favourites, my daughter 50 years ago

amazing!!!

[Spike]

Yes Joe's pics tend to be amazing...He is very good aint he :PDT11

[ChrisGeorge]

Thanks folks,I`ll have to go and buy a new hat now my heads gone bigger.
The singer song writer was Alun Parry who sent my daughter a very nice letter on her 50th birthday a few years a few years ago.
She worked as a nurse all her life rising to staff nurse till a few years ago before having to retire with back problems,caused by lifting patients up before, health and safety came in .
A short time after she retired they asked her to come back part time in admin which she does now

Hi Joe

Great back story to a wonderful photograph. Thanks.

Chris

[pennylane]

Joe , this is one of the best pictures that i have ever seen , it should have it's own room in a gallery . Just amazing , as are all your pics , but this one !!! Oh my .. Timeless .

[scouse smurf]

No matter how often he says he only does it for his own enjoyment, can we start a campaign to convince GD that he should publish a book of his photos ?

[pennylane]

No matter how often he says he only does it for his own enjoyment, can we start a campaign to convince GD that he should publish a book of his photos ?

I totally agree Smurfy , and the man is so modest about his work . Not even a hint of the Prima Donna's about that lovely man Joe .

[AngelCake]

I don't like pictures that have been tinkered with and keep coming across "HD" pictures where the colour looks false and unappealing to my eyes. There's a picture of my mum by a tram stop and I remember being shocked the first time I saw it because I didn't know Liverpool had trams! I like old shots of streets and there's a pic of a small girl walking down a dark street that really moved me , not sure if I can post it though. It's on a cool site about old Liverpool

[PhilipG]

I don't like pictures that have been tinkered with and keep coming across "HD" pictures where the colour looks false and unappealing to my eyes. There's a picture of my mum by a tram stop and I remember being shocked the first time I saw it because I didn't know Liverpool had trams! I like old shots of streets and there's a pic of a small girl walking down a dark street that really moved me , not sure if I can post it though. It's on a cool site about old Liverpool


If the site is "Old Liverpool" on Flickr, or even any other, you could always post a link to the picture.

[corky100]

While not matching what GD has posted in any way, these are some of what i class as my favourite 'best' images, that i took myself. I hope they sort of illustrate that i prefer single/lone figures, and hopefully that they also provoke questions in the viewers mind.... what do you think?

[pennylane]

Brilliant Corky ! They certainly do provoke thought , the girl on the beach looks like she's enjoying the view , there's a hint of an unseen smile there .

Picture Two . to me it's the classic '' NO i'm not talking to you ! Go away !'' while the fella knows the girl will eventually turn back around , so he just waits patiently for her .

Picture three .... H'mm what's he thinking about ? or is he just resting a while ? I'm still thinking about that one

Picture four ... One man and his dog against the world , the only time he feels free is when he can take his beloved dog to the beach ..

Picture five . Looks like the saddest of all , but maybe not , maybe he is in a temporary stupor , and will recover and smile again ?
But the man on the stairs in pic three , well i need to look at him again before i decide ..
Thanks Corky .

[corky100]

theres a little bit more to tell on some of these pics. I had to laugh at the 'Hint of an unseen smile' comment!

But if i said what the information behind these was, would it spoil the mystique?

[GeorgePorgie]

The lad asleep is obviously Zonked or a crack head...he's also pi$$ed himself. :)

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the guy sttin on the stairs thinks he's at an everton game. :smirk:

[pennylane]

theres a little bit more to tell on some of these pics. I had to laugh at the 'Hint of an unseen smile' comment!

But if i said what the information behind these was, would it spoil the mystique?

No , don't tell us Corky , leave it to our imaginations :) well if you want to tell you can .

[scouse smurf]

I don't have the bottle to take photos of people. I expect to get me camera shoved where the sun don't shine.

Good pics, Corky :)

[corky100]

People are surprisingly accommodationg, Smurfy. Unless they're breaking and entering or robbing the offy. I tend not to take too many of those...... :rolleyes:

[Spike]

Great Photo;s Corky :handclap:

[Ged]

I totally agree Smurfy , and the man is so modest about his work . Not even a hint of the Prima Donna's about that lovely man Joe .

I have to agree. It's what defines a person who is excellent at these types of shots.

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I don't like pictures that have been tinkered with and keep coming across "HD" pictures where the colour looks false and unappealing to my eyes. There's a picture of my mum by a tram stop and I remember being shocked the first time I saw it because I didn't know Liverpool had trams! I like old shots of streets and there's a pic of a small girl walking down a dark street that really moved me , not sure if I can post it though. It's on a cool site about old Liverpool

Agree. I like to see the clouds or the sky or the colour of the bricks as they were when the pic was taken, not all purple and greenish yellow et al as that's just plain false so you may as well animate or paint any your own colours over any old scene.

[ItsaZappathing]

While not matching what GD has posted in any way, these are some of what i class as my favourite 'best' images, that i took myself. I hope they sort of illustrate that i prefer single/lone figures, and hopefully that they also provoke questions in the viewers mind.... what do you think?

Excellent, Well I think so anyway. Very good Corky.:handclap:

[John Doh]

While not matching what GD has posted in any way, these are some of what i class as my favourite 'best' images, that i took myself. I hope they sort of illustrate that i prefer single/lone figures, and hopefully that they also provoke questions in the viewers mind.... what do you think?

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Yes, Corky, I take your point entirely about provoking questions in the viewer's mind - and I see Pennylane's already embarked on an imaginative excursion! I was put in mind of a teacher of my acquaintance who used to use photos like these as a stimulus for creative writing with his English classes. Almost all the pupils could be relied upon to rise to the occasion with scenarios demonstrating wonderful flights of imagination, some producing short stories, plays and poems of an exceptional quality. Perhaps you should re-post these brilliant images on the Traditional Creativity strand... and see what happens...

[lindylou]

I was put in mind of a teacher of my acquaintance who used to use photos like these as a stimulus for creative writing with his English classes. ..

I remember that too - in English lessons we'd be given a choice of pics of lone figures and we'd have to use our imaginations and make up a story.
Same kind of thing in art classes only using a single word. For instance, 'fence' or 'dream' -
we'd then have to come up with a good image of our own interpretation of that word.

[corky100]

sometimes 'selective' cropping can change a pictures perspective entirely - a trick the media uses all too well......

[John Doh]

I remember that too - in English lessons we'd be given a choice of pics of lone figures and we'd have to use our imaginations and make up a story.
Same kind of thing in art classes only using a single word. For instance, 'fence' or 'dream' -
we'd then have to come up with a good image of our own interpretation of that word.

I've just discovered that this was the technique used to inspire the teenagers who wrote Under The Mud: they were given magazines, invited to cut out pictures and then write a story around them...

[pennylane]

We were never given things like that in our school , all i can remember are the basics . Like reading a story then writing an essay about it .. I seem to remember having to write something about Salmon .

[liverpoolkid2]

I have taken some snaps of Perth Landmarks in my Perth photo's and will take more for you, somebody posted a post regarding bad backs lifting patient's,
Well here's one when I was 14/15 I had a part-time job helping our local milkman deliving milk ( funny that) this one morning REECES was late with the deliver so we all knew we were going to be late for school our last Crosville bus H12 passed outside our house in Whiston at 0840 so Jonny lavelle decided if we could stay he would take us all to school on the back of the hay cart ( well before you had to wear seatbelts) well while we were waiting this door kept on banging and was driving me bonkers (I remembered some advice my dad gave me first time I've listened and wished I hadn't) so I went to this door ready to shut it looked behind to make sure nobody was there AND it was a room with a pit where the farmer got underneath to fix car's/lorries well this 14 year old innocent went in I had never seen so many women with no clothers on? but I didn't see the first step and down,down I went so with all my strengh I turned over on to my back and all the steel rods punchered my back so the my motto is DON'T LOOK AT PICTURES OF WOMEN WITH NO CLOTHERS ON:handclap::unibrow:

[Marty1]

DON'T LOOK AT PICTURES OF WOMEN WITH NO CLOTHERS ON

Unless they're on your computer !

[liverpoolkid2]

[QUOTE=Marty1;357777]Unless they're on your computer
yea but you've got to watch NOBODY is watching you watching the photo:shock::unibrow::)'s