Picture(s) of the day....

[Peter.N.]

I was still in bed then Jim - I wish I had your energy. Yes, nice picture.

Peter

[myglaren]

Out of my window a short while back. Trued to straighten it up and failed miserably. Need to re-learn The Gimp

A combination Misty Morning and Sodium Light one - the light is not very visible but is the one I went to photograph as it came on. It didn't but came on the following week and is on permanently now.
Between the trees to the right of the red C3.

The council are supposed to be replacing them with LED lights, should have been done in March but something intervened. They were mooching about in the street last week so probably next March.

[Peter.N.]

Beginning to look like winter isn't it. Don't like the cold.

Peter

[CitroJim]

I was still in bed then Jim - I wish I had your energy. Yes, nice picture.

Well done Jim nice image.

Thank you both

Peter, I only have energy in the mornings All gone by lunchtime!

As I think I've said before, I do love running miles and miles on dark, clear early mornings with just the illumination from my head torch and streetlights... It really is quite magical

The LED streetlights cast some scenes in an interesting light (no pun intended) at times and I like to try to capture it on camera if I can...

I wonder what I could do on the photography front if I could run with a much higher quality camera... All my pictures are taken on a small cheap mobile phone camera... One I use for listening to the radio or Amazon music whilst running and for potential emergencies... If it gets broken it's no big loss...

[CitroJim]

Beginning to look like winter isn't it. Don't like the cold.

It's surely on its way but get Christmas done and dusted and things start to go the other way... Happily in this country we don't have to endure a long winter...

Or a particularly harsh one in the main...

There are some positives, like the opportunity to get some great winter pictures for this thread and you Steve, have made a great start

[myglaren]

I only poke the camera out of the window these days Jim. Severely limiting.

[CitroJim]

I only poke the camera out of the window these days Jim. Severely limiting.

It's amazing what you capture though, keep 'em coming Steve

[NewcastleFalcon]

I wonder what I could do on the photography front if I could run with a much higher quality camera... All my pictures are taken on a small cheap mobile phone camera... One I use for listening to the radio or Amazon music whilst running and for potential emergencies... If it gets broken it's no big loss...

I am very much in favour of the capturing the moment photograph. Yes if you had stopped at that scene taken out various combinations of lens/filters/ shot it on different settings/exposures etc you may have got a sharper more vidid image maybe with an artificial colouring of the background.

This looks a case in point


I prefer the on the spot snaps, point and shoot!

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

I like that one with the deep blue sky Neil

I'm really wanting to develop my early morning run photography technique but have no clue where to start to learn how to do so...

Any advice and guidance will be very welcome

Here's today effort... A view of a rather nice residential area of MK by night and lit by some very powerful high-pressure sodium lights

Red House Park 1

And another, just around the corner

Red House Park 2

Nicely atmospheric on a cold, clear morning

[bobins]

I suppose it depends on what you want your photographs to represent. Modern phones excel at pulling out loads of detail in challenging conditions - but the end result isn't a true representation of what your eye saw. I used to do an awful lot of pgotography in darkness or extremely low light level conditions. My old Canon digi SLR would be on full manual and the end results may not have been perfectly exposed, but they were a good representation of what the conditions were. I worked with a small team underground recently, and at the end of the job we took some documentary photographs. A mate used his iPhone in full 'point and squirt' mode, and I used my Canon in full manual. He got a perfect photo beautifully exposed, I got a true representation of where we'd been working.

[CitroJim]

Thanks Bobins I'm with you, I'm keen to capture what my eyes see and in general the picture I take do but I'd like to loose the camera shake, the general graininess and have a little more sensitivity if that makes sense...

The big issue is how much kit I can carry whilst running... A small mobile phone is the easiest as it does other things besides...

Any recommendations for a small cheap phone with a decent camera? I'm currently using a Nokia 5 for running and the camera is not a patch on my super-dooper Samsung...

The Samsung is both too bulky and expensive to risk taking on my morning runs... I've already cracked the Nokia screen in a fall...

[bobins]

'fraid great modern phone cameras are several F-stops from my field of expertise, so I'll let others advise.

Paging Zel, your expertise is needed

[mickthemaverick]

Following Gibbo's post a while ago I bought myself a £6 dashcam which also takes stills. From what I've seen so far they are fairly basic images of the 'you get what you see' variety and are small, lightweight and cheap as chips. A possible avenue to explore Jim?

[Peter.N.]

I grew up using film cameras but processing was expensive, at least prints were, transparencies were cheaper but you needed a projector of course. I have a Fuji FinePix digi that I bought 10 years or more ago, it was a Which? best buy but by the time I get mine they had brought out a new one so I got mine about half price and it's been brilliant. I see they are recommending this month that is about 10 times the price I paid for mine All. the while mine goes on working I shall use it, it only needs charging once or twice a year.

Peter

[Peter.N.]

What's this then?