Want some gum?

AFarhat · Feb 8, 2015

The fun Pikes Place Market in Seattle.

Along with two pictures of my first attempts to long exposure photos.

All taken with Portra iso800.

Shipman · Feb 10, 2015

Your horizons are painfully crooked.

AFarhat · Feb 11, 2015

True, I honestly didn't even notice. I was more focused on figuring out my exposure times. Thank you for the critique.

Shipman said:
Your horizons are painfully crooked.

dennybeall · Feb 11, 2015

Don't feel bad about the horizons, it's probably one of the most common problems. I've been doing this for over 40 years and still get a crooked horizon or a leaning building occasionally....If it wasn't for Photoshop I'd be in trouble all the time.....

Seadawg · Feb 12, 2015

To me the first one is cool in a gross kinda a way. What are the floating lights in the 3rd?

James Baranski · Feb 12, 2015

If you are looking for long exposures why iso 800? Higher ISO creates noise and you have a lot of it

LilyBee · Feb 15, 2015

How would the first one look if the colors where enhanced?

James Baranski · Feb 15, 2015

terrible, the shot is not sharp IMO

K_Pugh · Feb 16, 2015

James Baranski said:
If you are looking for long exposures why iso 800? Higher ISO creates noise and you have a lot of it

I think they were shot with film, Portra, but yes more noticeable grain and to top it off, noise inherent with a not-up-to-par scanning process.

paigew · Feb 16, 2015

Is that a gum wall??

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AFarhat · Feb 18, 2015

James Baranski said:
If you are looking for long exposures why iso 800? Higher ISO creates noise and you have a lot of it

This was the first time working with a longer exposure, and that just happened to be the film I had in my camera. I didn't realize how much the ISO on film makes such a huge difference.
I do agree with you, with the first shot not being super sharp. The lens I was using was a generic kit lens and is rather hard for me to get into focus.

K_Pugh said:
I think they were shot with film, Portra, but yes more noticeable grain and to top it off, noise inherent with a not-up-to-par scanning process.

I don't have a scanner, nor the equipment to process my own film, so I sent this in to get developed and scanned. I will be fixing most of that very shortly. I'll be making better decisions with my film from now on.

paigew said:
Is that a gum wall??

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Yes, that is the gum wall. I thought it might be a little bit of a different take on it.

Thank you all for the insight, and helping me realize that if I don't take my time with my set up and equipment, the photo is very often hardly worth taking.