[GALLERY] FireDragon's Photography

[FireDragon04]

NEW As of 14th October.

http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/287/8/9/Never_Going_to_Stop_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/287/7/a/Football_Spin_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/287/0/1/The_Fair_of_Somewhere_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/286/9/4/St_Stephen__s_Panoramic_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/276/0/6/Recurring_Facade_by_firedragonmatty.jpg



I took a trip to the lake district on Sunday 6th September 2009 and unfortunately fell ill on that night, so I only have a few photographs from that day I'll be uploading. Due to me falling very ill we had to go home, and the moderately short trip i had planned was cut much much shorter.

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs25/i/2009/252/7/9/Rydal_Water_by_firedragonmatty.jpg (http://firedragonmatty.deviantart.com/art/Rydal-Water-136446136)
http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs29/i/2009/252/6/5/Cruising_Windermere_by_firedragonmatty.jpg (http://firedragonmatty.deviantart.com/art/Cruising-Windermere-136446118)
http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs27/i/2009/252/0/b/Incoming_Clouds_by_firedragonmatty.jpg (http://firedragonmatty.deviantart.com/art/Incoming-Clouds-136446091)
http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs30/i/2009/252/f/2/Tree_Over_Rydal_by_firedragonmatty.jpg (http://firedragonmatty.deviantart.com/art/Tree-Over-Rydal-136445562)

Everything Pre-6th September here:
Update 19th August.
I took this photographs on a walk i took.

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/229/0/d/Hidden_Light_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/229/d/0/Solitary_Nature_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/229/d/e/Beauty_Field_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

Update: 16th August.
Took these photographs next to the Humber on the 14th August 2009.

http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/226/a/0/The_Humber_Bridge_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/226/2/3/Twisted_Nature_by_firedragonmatty.jpg




So i havn't updated this in what must be 6 months now, so this is quite a massive bump but i didn't want to slowly update with some little pieces i wanted to try to improve from my previous photographs then begin posting again. Anyway here are some of my newer photographs.


http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs45/i/2009/115/a/7/Panoramic_Street_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/142/1/4/Bleeding_Heart_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/119/7/b/Sunset_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs43/i/2009/115/d/4/Old_Garden_Statue_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs44/i/2009/081/7/3/Paul_and_Brooke_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs45/i/2009/141/6/f/Splash_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs44/i/2009/141/a/7/Aftermath_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1037/stairsanddogslant.jpg
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/4003/a20b.jpg
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5923/a15n.jpg





Entire old thread in here...
I recently got the chance to up north (England) a little bit and take some nice photos.

New Edits:

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/892/longwaterve2.jpg


All taken 2nd January:


Panoramic Shots:
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1299/crater2nu2.jpg (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/3174743140_b7060e6498_b_d.jpg)
Hole of Horcum #1
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5118/crater1bc9.jpg (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/3173906237_66f01de49f_b_d.jpg)
Hole of Horcum #2
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4076/suttonbankdj8.jpg (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/3173908505_249b65d129_b_d.jpg)
Sutton Bank

Sutton Bank
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/3173933849_bb78d185c8_b_d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1041/3174770550_bfdb562575_b_d.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/3173935447_328e32e003_b_d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1150/3173936387_e078a3d914_b_d.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/3174773048_ecf6f11e38_b_d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1174/3174773754_cb641f9fce_b_d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1077/3173939273_b9bec411f3_b_d.jpg


Hole of Horcum
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/3174758058_4ae980170f_b_d.jpg

Village of Goathland
Train station
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1176/3174799288_2e77d6eee9_b_d.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3113/3174801822_d5df03850b_b_d.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/3173969519_d2fefb8598_b_d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1140/3174807166_d8faf30723_b_d.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/3173974111_4beee55ce1_b_d.jpg
Misc.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1040/3174812030_5abe650759_b_d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1024/3174813798_1efdec6813_b_d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1135/3174815240_d2fe55a73e_b_d.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/3174816276_77d5dd2d1d_b_d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1395/3173981745_8179017540_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1170/3173983669_b409793f23_b_d.jpg



ALL OLD STUFF

Hey Everyone,
People may not know me for my photos...well know one would because i only started taking photos 2 days ago (Saturday 30th August). So I'm pretty new to all this 'stuff'.

The camera I'm using is a Fujifilm s1000fd, all info/pics of the camera in the spoiler box below.

http://a.img-dpreview.com/news/0801/fuji/s1000fd_specs.jpg



Anyway my current photos are: {As of 01/09/08 }

Benji
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2817569892_3e28eafd27_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2817569366_b7eff9c15a_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2817568764_2ecd8aaff5_o.jpg

Snaily
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3011/2816719085_dccfdc9e4a_o.jpg

Found Snaily at 10pm at night after rain, in the pitch black <3 Flash.


Misc Shots
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2176/2816795121_ab1c647dfb_o.jpg

Sunset Boulevard

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3234/2817635976_d1604f2e9b_b.jpg

Gorgeous Day

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3285/2817572372_460d7a620e_o.jpg

[U]Satellite Dish

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3177/2817571400_729df28864_o.jpg

Xbox 360 Controller

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3142/2817567866_576ff90127_o.jpg

Eye Spy

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/2816819143_4694540f57_o.jpg

Computer (Messy)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2817679312_61fb842d3b_b.jpg

Half Room Panoramic



UPDATE 1

My current photos are: {As of 02/09/08 }

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2821058130_bbb46d23da_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/2821059180_e0a7e7a46a_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/2820216153_4a57ce38b6_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/2821056690_7eae363550_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/2821056182_836157c835_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/2820218443_0734668c6a_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2821057672_159b9bf891_o.jpg



[U]UPDATE 2


My current photos are: {As of 03/09/08 [UK Date Format]}
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/2825424752_854f035a39_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/2824583081_021d570e78_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3100/2825413678_df2631ea36_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/2825415768_3ca57a57e1_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3013/2825414442_b1564e74ff.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/2824582101_a34b877eff.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2824583715_e6d7a7f392.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/2825415150_2e8ded24f6.jpg?v=0



That's it for now, I'll keep updating this GALLERY though, as I'll no doubt be taking a lot more photos.

[Corndogman]

All of it looks 'OK' but none really grab my attention. Although I do like the second dog one and sunset boulevard. The 360 controller one looks nice too, its one of those "looks better in a picture than it does in real life" type of things.

[dazman23]

Only 3 cables coming out of your sky dish I'm so dissappionted lol.

Not bad I like the Half Room Panoramic and the 360 controller.

[FireDragon04]

Like I said though i did only start taking photos a couple of days ago.


Only 3 cables coming out of your sky dish I'm so dissappionted lol.

Not bad I like the Half Room Panoramic and the 360 controller.

They're all multi-room set-ups with Sky+/HD. Well except my room, i've got normal sky still.

[killer9856]

I like the sunset boulevard. some stuff isn't that eye grabbing to me.


btw


pringles are yummay

[FireDragon04]

New Photos posted, mainly flowers this time, testing out my hand at closer things.

[Reaper Man]

You composed all your subjects dead center, which isn't very interesting. Of course, stuff still can be placed there, but in general it's more attention grabbing if the object is composed off-center.

[FireDragon04]

Just updated the GALLERY with today's....

[Reaper Man]

With that shot of the bricks on the ground, you should've used a smaller aperture (there's no EXIF data, so I can't tell which you used, but I do know you could have stopped down more) and focused about a third of the way into the frame = maximum depth of field for that aperture.

The wall closeup shouldn't have been shot at such a high ISO. As a rule of thumb, try to shoot at the lowest ISO possible - giving you a finer photo with more dynamic range.

I see what you're trying to do, but to be honest your choice of subject isn't really exciting, try getting to a different angle - it's as if you shot down at that rusty hinge, getting down to its level would probably yielded a more interesting shot.

Your lens seems to suffer from pretty significant barrel distortion, you should try correcting for that post-process.

Finally, time of day - you seem to shoot at around midday (from the looks of it). While this isn't always a bad thing, generally it yields shots with little or no atmosphere, the shadows are harsh and directly below the subject. Try shooting in early morning or late afternoon where shadows are long and interesting, while subjects are more interestingly side-lit.

Tl;dr - Work on your composition and subject choice, consider the light more not just the subject alone.

I hope I don't come off as demeaning.

[FireDragon04]

UPDATED MAIN POST.

I've added some new photography from North Yorkshire, England. (It's about an hour and half from where i live, in East Yorkshire.)

[Limited]

You went up north? Are you mad? I hope you got disinfected :P

Anyways, nice photos, you heard of the Great Molvorn Hills? Some spectacular photos can be taken up there.

[FireDragon04]

Nope, never heard of them, although i don't travel around to much so.

Well I live quite up north I live near Hull, so it sucks HAHA, but its good having some nice views around, although we're not as lucky as some, who live in New Zeland though, i love to live there...just gorgeous!

[FireDragon04]

Hi Everyone,
I know this is like a massive bump but i've finally got some new photographs i'm happy with i wanted to update the main post with, and just have. Enjoy.

[Reaper Man]

I'm loving the panorama, reminds me of when I used to live in England. It's an HDR, right?

[FireDragon04]

http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/226/a/0/The_Humber_Bridge_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/226/2/3/Twisted_Nature_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

Two photographs (out of ALOT) that i took on the grimy foreshore of the Humber. Lovely.... :downs:

I took some more but nothing i hugely like.

Expect lots of more photography to be hitting up this thread in a few weeks as I'm going to the Lake District.

[ThePlague]

P awesome man.

[=sw=warlord]

the Humber.

>_>
That in Barton?
Please tell me your not in lincolnshire <_<

[FireDragon04]

Nope. Yorkshire. The Humber Bridge is the fifth largest single-span suspension bridge in the world and bridges traffic across the mouth of the Humber. Where the Humber meets the North Sea.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Hessle_-_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire_dot.png

I like exactly on top of the yellow dot (north of the Humber opening)

I like in Cottingham near Hull, if ANYONE wants more information hit up my agent :cop: LMAO!

[=sw=warlord]

I know about the humber i live about 20 minutes drive away from it.
I live in the outskirts of grimsby haha.
Ok now im getting worried, i've got limited terrorizing my home town and you terrorizing where i live now :suicide:

[FireDragon04]

Haha wow. I knew someone from Vicki Stark from Grimsby. We would actually call her Grimsby, because Grimsby Accent is so different to Hull accent she sounded so foreign to us. Ahhhh memories of High School lol! :ugh:



Anyway...

3 NEW PICS!


http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/229/0/d/Hidden_Light_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/229/d/0/Solitary_Nature_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/229/d/e/Beauty_Field_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

[ThePlague]

2nd one is the best. The other two are meh, nothing too fantastic.

e: what did you edit anyway?

[Syuusuke]

Hey take prolonged shots where you also zoom in while the shutter is open (bad term), those are pretty fun to take.

WHATS WITH THE FRINGING?!

[Reaper Man]

Ehhh, you really need a GND filter. Failing that, shoot HDR.

Consider the content of your photos more. For example, the tree one - there's a nice tree, but then there's an ugly power pylon in the background, also, crazy chromatic aberration. The one above that, zoom blur, fun technique, boring subject. Twisted Nature - nice idea, very cramped composition, could show a bit more of the bridge there.

In a nutshell: a photo should be interesting due to its composition and content, not due to the editing (typical thing people do - thankfully you don't) or the fancy technique used (there are obvious exceptions to this). A zoom-blurred photo of a clump of otherwise boring trees is still a boring photo, that has zoom blur.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4386/photo101.gif

[FireDragon04]

I took a trip to the lake district on Sunday 6th September 2009 and unfortunately fell ill on that night, so I only have a few photographs from that day I'll be uploading. Due to me falling very ill we had to go home, and the moderately short trip i had planned was cut much much shorter.


http://firedragonmatty.deviantart.com/art/Rydal-Water-136446136
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs25/i/2009/252/7/9/Rydal_Water_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://firedragonmatty.deviantart.com/art/Cruising-Windermere-136446118
http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs29/i/2009/252/6/5/Cruising_Windermere_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://firedragonmatty.deviantart.com/art/Incoming-Clouds-136446091
http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs27/i/2009/252/0/b/Incoming_Clouds_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://firedragonmatty.deviantart.com/art/Tree-Over-Rydal-136445562
http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs30/i/2009/252/f/2/Tree_Over_Rydal_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

[ThePlague]

Second to last is the best. It keeps your attention good. The others are alright, but don't focus on one thing, so your eye wanders a lot.

[Reaper Man]

First and second to last look great! Keep it up man.

[FireDragon04]

Disaster Story in SHORT:
-Camera Broke
-Sent to sony for repair
-They came back and say £350 to repair
-I say fuck off
-They send me back
-I buy brand new full kit Sony A330 (fairly recent release too)
-I use to have an A200 btw.

So moral of that story in short, Sony are money mingebags!

Anyway, here's some new photographs...
Some very odd...some normal.

Halo Figures/Xbox testing camera photos in here

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/258/0/3/Missing_My_Other_Half_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/258/b/f/Master_Chief__s_Great_Catch_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/258/0/d/Xbox_Ying_Yang_by_firedragonmatty.jpg


Real photos start now:

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/259/6/3/Adding_A_Little_Red_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/259/4/a/Pick_Your_Own_Converse_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/259/5/5/Dice_Splash_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/259/c/2/Spaghetti_Junction_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/259/d/0/Rolling_Away_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

[Corndogman]

I like the first and last especially, although they all do look very grainy.

[FireDragon04]

So i've finally got some more photos i wish to show on here.

New photographs:

http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/287/8/9/Never_Going_to_Stop_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/287/7/a/Football_Spin_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/287/0/1/The_Fair_of_Somewhere_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/286/9/4/St_Stephen__s_Panoramic_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/276/0/6/Recurring_Facade_by_firedragonmatty.jpg


My other work and more of this is at: http://firedragonmatty.deviantart.com/

[Hunter]

Wow, amazing pictures of the rides.

[=sw=warlord]

gtfo my grimsby.:saddowns:
Good pics.

[Heathen]

Don't go overboard with long exposure though.

Its a mistake many make.

[Reaper Man]

The rides looks cool, but the second one could be better composed - needs context, like the surrounding area, otherwise it's just a bunch of lights. The wide vista of the fairground is real trippy, I like it, however there is an awful lot of negative space.

Your black and white street photo appears a little underexposed, that's what happens when you meter off a white surface - the light meter tries to render everything as a neutral gray to get the correct exposure, and therefore underexposes whites. Otherwise, it's well composed, I like how the fence leads your eyes to the person sitting on the steps.

[FireDragon04]

Thanks for the comments guys.

In response to reaper about that second photo, i took a few more which you may like better, not sure. This is the better one of the others i took that night.

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/6296/dsc02088.jpg


I've got a few more i should upload, from that night.

[Reaper Man]

MUCH nicer! The people add context to the shot and in general, make it more interesting. I make it a habit to try and include people in all my shots.

Shame about the people on the right of the shot, it'd look so surreal if it was just the two people silhouetted in the center.

I did a quick crop of the photo, not sure if it works, but whatever, I just wanted to see what it would look like:
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2370/cropy.jpg

[Heathen]

I like it reaper.

[Corndogman]

I don't think it really works all that well, as you said it would look better with just the two people there, but with the same amount of space on the sides.

[FireDragon04]

I like it. Thanks Reaper. Gave me a few ideas too :iamafag:

[Ganon]

I would of gone for an even longer exposure, unless that thing wobbles

[FireDragon04]

I can't believe I forgot to post these here:

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5440/colourinmotionbluepourb.jpg http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8452/colourinmotiongreenpour.jpg http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs37/i/2009/305/0/f/Colour_in_Motion___Red_Pour_by_firedragonmatty.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs36/i/2009/305/6/3/Colour_in_Motion___Ripple_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs36/i/2009/305/9/e/Colour_in_Motion___Flow_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/1628/colourinmotionblastoutb.jpg
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/326/1/d/Drops_in_Milk_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/328/d/9/Splash_in_Milk_by_firedragonmatty.jpg
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4678/colourinmotioncrashdown.jpg
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/498/impactbookcoverphotov2b.jpg


A few of the photographs from a school project called 'Color in Motion'. There's loads more i took, these are just a few from my deviantart.

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Ripples on the ground in the first big pic are just pure :awesome: