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Can't post any pictures.

by Travellingman 5 months ago in group Talking Pictures
Last updated 3 months ago.

I’m afraid this site is playing up at the moment I seem to get any pictures posted on here or any other thread. I have tried many times but I get ‘timed’ out. KC or Your Mail? I don’t know, can do text, but not pictures.

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Red Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Such a pain when you can’t get posts up!

Lets see if it’s playing nicely – have added a pictutre of my camera of choice – Nikon D80
Travellingman Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Is it an SLR Red? I have a Canon G6, non SLR, which was superseded by the G7 and now the G9. Inevitably the pixel count has gone up. But on the SLR side of the Canon thing the choices are infinite, so are the prices.
Travellingman Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I tended to play safe when taking pictures, using Auto on most of the shots, but just lately I have been using the different programmes on the camera themselves. Like I have said I am no expert so f stops and other settings are still somewhat of a mystery to me.
Colombo Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

My first camera was (and still is) a Kodak brownie 127. I found I had to climb a steep learning curve. This is one of the first pictures I took. I thought I was taking a Class V2 pulling the Queen of Scots Pullman over Crimple Viaduct, near Harrogate. It turned out to be a nice shot of the viaduct, but I can’t tell you what the engine number was.
Travellingman Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Colombo, I think there is still a lot of interest in film based photography, and even in the black/white genre. Although some prominent film producers have stopped making film because of the switch towards digital, arguments till rage about film v digital.
Colombo Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Here’s an example of a picture where it wouldn’t have made any difference if it were taken in colour or black and white. The engine was painted black, the shed walls were whitewashed, and everything else was covered in a grey-to black dust. Goole c1958. Taken on my parents pre-war 120 Ekania bellows camera, of german origin.
Red Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

A whole different art film to digital?

I’m a digital user myself but would love to spend some time using film. Convenience is probably my main reason for digital, although agree with Travellingman that auto shots are brilliant as the camera’s are so well thought out – you can try using the program setting (p) this still allows the camera to make most decisions but you can experiment too : )
Red Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Love black and white pictures – I’m shooting everything in colour and using photoshop to convert to black and white (have been told this gives great quality to the images) any other schools of thought?
Travellingman Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Red: Couldn’t you just alter the setting on the camera to take b/w pictures instead of using Photoshop? I only have Photoshop Elements ver 1.
Travellingman Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I use a Canon G6, had it quite a while, must admit I think its a cracking little camera. As you say Red, I have used the P setting as well as the portrait, landscape and macros. But I have yet to get my head around f stops and depth of field.

I have read the books, magazines, but I am thick, just can’t grasp it all at the moment.
Colombo Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Here’s the first two cameras I used. The Brownie 127 took excellent pictures under the right conditions. My parents’ Ekania gave more scope, having shutter speeds of 1/25, 1/50 and 1/100 as well as T and B settings. The lens aperture could be varied between f8 and f23. It was with this latter camera that I took my first time exposure.
Travellingman Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I also take video, but as with still pictures it is a learning curve, but one thing common with both formats is using a camera with a tripod.

I have a full size tripod, I also have a mini pod that I carry around whenever I am going to take pictures or video.

Colombo do you still use the Ekania? Can’t say I know the name of the make, but there again, didn’t do a lot of film photography.
Colombo Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Afraid the Ekania has got a pinhole in the bellows, which fogs about half the picture. I once dropped the Brownie which cracked and started letting light in. I mended it with chewing gum. I’ll get my other cameras out and photograph them.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

This is the first in a sequence – I don’t seem to be able to upload more than one picture per post.

It was taken on the Royal Wedding day from the platform of Selby Station, and shows the first of two ships, going up river.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

This is the second of the two ships. The railway bridge operator had realized there were two ships and had kept the bridge open to river traffic.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Shortly after the passing of the second ship, there was a huge boom, and the railway bridge operator shouted to us on the platform, "Come and look at this!" (He must have been a Mike Yarwood or Harold Wilson fan).

Totally ignoring any regulations he allowed some of on to the bridge, to look up stream

Apparently, the road bridge operator had not realized that there were two ships and had closed the road bridge. Ships’ braking distances, being what they are on a rising tide, the result can be seen in the picture with the bridge at quite an angle to what it should be.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

P.S. I forgot. The 2nd ship was the M.V. Halciene, which used to put in appearances, moored adjacent to Chapman St bridge.
Travellingman Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Did you actually take these pictures or have you acquired the negatives?

And yes, I can see that the bridge is a bit of a mess.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I took them. I have a new all-singing, dancing negative scanner, and am working my way through my B&W 35mm negatives at the moment, and finding a lot I had forgotten I’d taken.

These at Selby were taken on the wedding day of Charles & Dianna. British Rail, Eastern Region, showing some initiative, realized that not every body was interested. They offered a £2 run-a-bout ticket, giving unlimited travel for the day on the Eastern Region, outside London.

Even they could not imagined their popularity. Every train I saw that day was packed. I chose to go as far as I could, and went to Berwick and back. Another chap at Selby was taking his son to Norwich and back.

It is the only time I have seen trains so packed it was impossible to get on. Someone at Selby showed some initiative and rustled up a set of coaches and an engine to clear the North bound platform and take us to York.

Coming back, the platform at Berwick was so crowded that we were standing on the platform slopes at the end of the station. British Rail must have shown a profit that day, and the person responsible given a telling off, for they have never repeated it.
Travellingman Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Not being a rugby fan, and being a lapsed football fan, if any local team is concerned with a big match I find it an ideal time to get out with my camera as others are glued to the tv.

It doesn’t even have to be a local team, but some big match of some sort to keep people indoors watching and make areas that are usually buzzing, become quiet, perfect for taking pictures.

And so it was with the Royal Wedding, yes there were street parties, but large areas of West Hull were rather quite.

On the subject of railways, I use to stand on the gate of the Hawthorn Ave level crossing as a child to collect train numbers, and I remember the changeover from steam to diesel. But I cannot find my old book that I wrote all the numbers in, nor did I have a camera back in those days.
Red Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

sorry to revert to former subject but was looking at getting a scanner – any advice?

Looks like the negative scanners a good idea, great pictures.
Travellingman Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Hi Red, well I can’t really advise on the scanner thing as to tell the truth mine is an ancient, but had been a good one, Agfa Snapscan 1212.

I’ve been thinking about upgrading myself as the Agfa doesn’t have negative scanning but it would probably govern your choice with what you are prepared to pay.

All I can say is look online at reviews of scanners, just type in to Google or whatever, scanner reviews and see what comes up.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

My scanner is an Epson 4490. In the transparency mode it can scan negatives or positives up to 3.5 by 2.5 inches (the old 120/620 film size).

I have just discovered – should read the instructions – that in the reflective mode there is a photo option. I this mode, I have scanned plate negatives, about 8 in by 6 in.

The scanner comes with a cut down version of Photoshop. There is the means of ‘inverting’ the negative scan to a positive in one click. I got mine from the same place as my Apple iMAC in Carr Lane.
Red Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

thanks guys will have a lot of researching to do I think – can’t wait to have all my old film pics again.

Didn’t realise we had a Mac shop in Hull, fantastic.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

The manager of the MAC shop is Dan, who is very knowledgeable, as are his assistants. He recently recovered practically the whole of my hard disc when I had a catastrophic failure.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Travellingman: You would have been familiar with this view, then.

It shows B1, 61035, Pronghorn, on the 9:00 Liverpool (Lime Street) on 11th April 1960.
Travellingman Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

If my memory serves me right Colombo the fence on the right was the Shiphams foundry, and across the road was George Clark’s engineering factory.

This was the factory that built, and supplied the water desalination units for the North Sea Ferry Norland that went out to the Falklands as a troop ship.

I have to say, with regret, that coming into Hull on that line now, does not give a very good first impression of Hull to visitors.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

True.
Red Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Not sure that any route in is exactly picutesque, but could be worse!

I find that I don’t spend much time in Hull taking pictures, parking is an issue in so many places around the city, so many places outside of Hull seem so much more friendly – grass greener?
Colombo Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

If the trains from the West are diverted over the overhead line and come in via Walton Street, you get a different view. Unfortunately, not many drivers admit to ‘knowing’ the route, even though it is only about a couple of miles and every signal refers only yo your train.
Travellingman Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Red: I often, when time permits, to set off on my bike and take pictures, both in Hull and its suburbs. And yes your point about ‘grass greener’ I can understand. Espcially at this time of year I love to see the leaves turning colour on the trees, Elloughton is favourite spot of mine.

Colombo: Talking of Walton St, is there any truth in the rumour that a ‘Halt’ will be built at the KC Stadium, as there was at Boothferry Park?
Colombo Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I believe it is just a rumour. (There’s that U.S. spellchecker, again, Will).

It would have to be very close to Walton Street Crossing, which would require the gates closing while it was at the platform, or under Anlaby Road flyover.(I thought the Americans would know how to spell flyover, Will)

If it were on the curve behind the stadium, It would not be accessible to trains entering and leaving Paragon, without a reversal.