Fender's Photos

[Fender357]

Hey. I'd like to get my own thread going in the Showcase fourm. So...if you could ah....make that happen TDE.... I'd be greatfull... :E I'm hoping to get some feedback so I can get my ass out there and start taking more pictures.
Anyway....here's work......


http://img62.echo.cx/img62/9062/spider019gn.jpg


http://img62.echo.cx/img62/7664/frog016lo.jpg


http://img62.echo.cx/img62/180/bushimibite016gp.jpg

http://img62.echo.cx/img62/6491/hospital014rc.jpg

http://img62.echo.cx/img62/1896/monkey11zs.jpg
Just for fun...had to put it in there. (Monkeyhangingfromsidemirror :upstare: )


Just a mix of stuff right now, I'll put more up when I get some feedback. And if TDE dosn't mind I'll put up a couple of the photos I took for SW (mostly mountains and stuff) I think there's new stuff too I never got to show him.

[Sparta]

Nice photo's. I wish i had a lens that could get in that close :(. I'm currently doing Photography in my Media class in year 12 and the one thing i wish i really really had is a Macro lens like yours. Nice shots. Particularly the first 3

[joule]

OMG! Did you steal my cat???!

Great pics, btw.

[Fender357]

Oh dude....the Macro lense is my favorite.


More pictures.

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This is my friend. Very very odd and true fact about him.... His name (in some language..cant remember what) means Dark Prince. True stuff.

[i z 3 r]

The picture of that tree and the orange sunset is proably one of the most beautiful shtos ive seen. great work

[hellboy900]

I will be leaving soon on my Art Trip to go to Torrie Staright Islands , well very soon...Thursday and we will be up there for a week taking black and white photos of the community to show the different cultures that attend to my school.

We will be holding an Art Exibition once we get back, We have also already been out to Wooribinda to take photos of the people out there and i have come back with some very impressive photos, iam very pleased with my self.

Iam really looking forward to this exprience, its going to be loads of fun.
Maybe if your lucky i might be able to scan some photos of mine and post them here. :)

[Danimal]

I like your style.

*Showcase'd!*

Oh, and TDE retired a looooooooongeh time ago.

[jondy]

Neat photos, Fender :) You need to work on your composition and cropping in some of them tho' - the 4th photo's horizon isn't straight (and the lighting is bland) while the fifth isn't arranged in a particularly pleasing way; which is a shame as the subject is gorgeous :)

Nice stuff, good work. Add some more!

EDIT: Incidentally, what kindof kit are you using? Judging from the nice DOF in some of those photos, I'm guessing you're a film guy.. either that or you have a DSLR :P

[G-Dub]

Fender I hope you don't mind, I'm using the tree/sunset one as my desktop wallpaper at work :D

[Ennui]

Those are all very very nice. Great work.

[Fender357]

Thanks guys, k...

i z 3 r Thanks, it actualy was taken at around 11 at night. Its just a very very foggy night and one of the big street lights over my park. I won an award for another picture kind of like it.

(35mm color film) Its just a long exposure time. And the light that you'd think is the sun, is the moon.
http://img26.echo.cx/img26/1929/10pm0yg.jpg


Danimal Thanks man.....and..... AGIAN??? When is that guy not retired?? He seemed to be posting on his showcase thread recently.

jondyfun I'm not sure exactly which ones you're talking about. If by fifth one you're talking about the monkey...that one I was just sticking my camera out the window from the back seat, it was never ment to be pretty :D.
But yeah...the one problem i seem to have alot is I forget to level myself with the horizon. I focus on just the subjects a lot. Probably because I shoot a lot of close up macro stuff, so I'm not as use to composing full scenes as much.

And the setup I use right now is actually digital, but not really digital slr (damn it :( ) I have a Nikon Coolpix 5700. At the time I got it I didn't really understand digital cameras and the differences between them. Its an ok camera at 5 MP, but the thing that seriously kills me is that its all auto-focus. I can set F stop and shutter speed manualy (it does it fairly well on auto though) but the focus is only auto. And it seriously gets me because I LOVE to take pictures at night. I can see just fine, but the damn camera can't see what I can...so it can't focus on much of anything unless I've got a flashlight to shine on it first (i have gotten that desperate) I really want to save up to get a Cannon EOS 20D. I have used film quite a lot, but not so much now because it costs me money :). I have a Cannon AE-1..it was my moms, its older than me, and I love it. I have a great macro lense on it. And I've decided that any time I use the analog camera I'm going to stick with slide film. It gets the best color and sharpness out of anything. And I know it well enough to know which brand of film will get me what kind of hues.

Devvo Yeah man, thats cool with me. If you guys want any of these pictures at their original size (very big) just ask. I just shrink em down to 10" by 7.5" for the forums.

Now more pics.
I'm going to start posting the pictures I've taken on trips and stuff. I've gotten to visit some pretty cool places, so I'm just going to group them together. That way I can give little bits of info about the places and I wont have to explain as much every time :) .

But first gotta get this one out there. Pic of my gf on our anniversary. We went to Catalina for a couple of days. (and yeah yeah, i know...composition... :) )

http://img62.echo.cx/img62/2391/natrock017as.jpg

[DoctorWeeTodd]

The fourth pic of your first post and the first pic of your second look like HL2 screenshots.

[Fender357]

Thanks...just a note to anyone because it just happend to me...if the picture dosn't come up..just right click on it and click show picture.

And I'll have more pics up soon. I've been buisy with work lately (I am so quitting in like the next week :thumbs: )

[Sui]

I really love your style of photography; some of the images are very bold and contrasted, they look great :D

[Jimmeh]

Great pics man :D

I don't suppose you've got that night-time picture with the tree/street lamp in full size have you? :) Would make a great desktop. :thumbs:

[G-Dub]

Hey Fender,

Yeah that would be cool, could I have the large version of the one I mentioned?

The orange sunset through the trees :D

My email is gwoollard@gmail.com :D Cheers dude! :thumbs:

[Fender357]

Linkage.... http://img45.echo.cx/my.php?image=lightpoints5ye.jpg

Just the full size one...might be too big..but you guys should know how to resize stuff the way you want it.

[Fender357]

Ok...this first bunch of pictures all come from my trip to the El Toro Marine base. It was a big time air base during WW2 and Vietnam. It was closed in 1999 and now all of the base is abandond (exept for like one or two buildings) After it was closed the government went over a bunch of different ideas of what to do with the land. Some people wanted an air port, and that idea pissed off everyone that live anywhere near there. So now its going to be a park. (a really really friggn' huge park). The government is selling off the base bit by bit to big corperations with the stipulation that, they can use only like 10 % of the land for what they want, and the rest has to be a public park with all sorts of stuff like theaters and zoos and just about everything.
I got to go there because the photo teacher I had at the time is doing this 10 year project to document the changes the base is going through. Right now, its just all run down buildings, but in a couple of years it will be lots and lots of park.
So here's my pics. (and this is just some pictures...I went there for 2 days, 8 hours each day. I took my digital camera and I used color, B&W, and Slide film. This is all just digital stuff.)

In the air traffic controle tower there was a bunch of gutted equipment, this was an upturned pannel with a diagram of the runways on it. And a reflection of me if you can find it.
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It had rained a lot the days before we went there. So there were a lot of puddles in the buildings (it probably helped cut down on the dust and owl crap in the air :x )
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There is a theater on the base, it was pretty creepy.
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This is it inside...I had to up the brighness in photoshop a ton.
http://img299.echo.cx/img299/2104/theater015it.jpg

In a back room in the theater was this empty room with a chair....very weird.
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This was in an area with gigantic no smoking signs about every 10 feet. It was where they kept all the jet fuel and worked on the engines. The two holes are from where they've taken soil samples to test just how toxic the ground still is. You could see more holes inside the building too.
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The newest part of the base was the apartments. I think they finnished them just before they closed the base. Really bad timming.
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Someone scraped "no" in that wall.
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One of the main hangers.
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Cushoning for the nose of a plane.
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You might have seen this when I did that dumb strider picture a wile back.
http://img62.echo.cx/img62/3324/doors014ey.jpg

Stairs through holes.... :|
http://img62.echo.cx/img62/2035/hole020ls.jpg

http://img62.echo.cx/img62/8074/hole013dn.jpg

I have a lot more pictures of just the general base...not very many with any kind of composition or anything. Just pictures of a neat place. If you guys are interested I'll put more up.
I've been offering for a wile to put these pictures up for anyone needing referance material for mods. Who dosn't need pictures of some run down buildings? :)

[Jimmeh]

Wow, fantastic photos man. I love them all.

Oh, and thanks for the full-size pic :)

[Sparta]

*Sparta is envious of Fender and his Macro lens.

Bastard

[G-Dub]

Linkage.... http://img45.echo.cx/my.php?image=lightpoints5ye.jpg

Just the full size one...might be too big..but you guys should know how to resize stuff the way you want it.

Thanks dude, got your email too :thumbs:

[Fender357]

*Sparta is envious of Fender and his Macro lens.

Bastard


Save up and get one, it is soooo worth it. I'm lucky with my digital because even though it dosn't have any lenses for it, it has a macro mode that really does the trick.



Ya bastard....



And there are more El Toro pics comming. Just getting through resizing the bunch of them. Now I gotta upload them on image shack. (image shack is neat!!)

[Jangle]

i love that pic with the tree and the orangeness :D

[B-MAn]

which cam did you use for these?

[Fender357]

All of these pics were taken with my Nikon 5700 Digital. 5 Megapixles.

[Incitatus]

nice photo's and some very nice indeed, but the one with the reflection in the puddle is absolutely awesome

[jondy]

Good job, there's some really interesting lines in there :) One thing I've noticed - all your photos are the standard 4:3 ratio - experimenting with cropping those photos would be ideal, as there are some really strong points of focus that can be brought out a lot with the right choice of format.

[Fender357]

Ok...here is the last of El Toro. This is a whole bunch of pics so I'm not comenting on many of them. If you have any questions about any of the pictures just ask. I'd love to go into detail about any area. It was cool there.
http://img205.echo.cx/img205/341/building012pl.jpg

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http://img205.echo.cx/img205/9008/roof013zk.jpg

The big green hill is an empty weapons bunker. Big metal doors are on the other side.
http://img205.echo.cx/img205/1390/bunker011pd.jpg

The hearts dotting the "I's" just make it really funny. I didn't block out that number because...well...go ahead and prank call a government number...
http://img205.echo.cx/img205/9947/hearts013zu.jpg

http://img205.echo.cx/img205/4461/octo019qo.jpg

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Makes it so exciting!!
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A gigantic owl flew out of here.
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Empty :)
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Some kind of school...couldn't get in :( .
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[SimonomiS]

I love that logo with the octopus and the bomb. :D

[GoJan]

Damn that looks like a nice place to vandalise fender

[ktimekiller]

i love the cat!!! so cute!

[Sulkdodds]

Damn, those photos are cool.

[Maxi]

Nice pics Fender! Way better than me :P

[Fender357]

Here are a couple of pictures I took will up north in San Luis Obispo. I had to fiddle with these in photoshop because of some nasty haze. These look way better than the originals.

http://img62.echo.cx/img62/6809/greens084bn.jpg

http://img62.echo.cx/img62/8533/greens068my.jpg

http://img62.echo.cx/img62/2455/greens056bg.jpg

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Thats looking out into a bunch of rain.
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Morrow Rock
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http://img77.echo.cx/img77/4595/woods018uh.jpg

[Que-Ever]

I really like the sixth and last pictures.

[Fender357]

Now for some newer pics. These are from an abandond hospital in LA that a friends sister was using for some film school project. We had to help them paint a little section of it to make it look new. Then the rest of the time I was off taking lots of freaky pics :).

http://img62.echo.cx/img62/434/hall014wu.jpg

I have this as my desktop pic right now :D
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This may be VERY dark...but I still think it looks neat. It was so freakn' scary taking this picture too. It was a pretty long hallway I'm guessing but there was absolutly NO light down the rest of it.
http://img62.echo.cx/img62/9698/glass012fd.jpg

Moon through glass.
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hehe....
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[jondy]

Good job on the lockers pic, that's very well spotted. What lense are you using? There's some barrel distortion :O must be pretty wideangle :)

[Fender357]

Actually no lense. Its just a Nikon CoolPix 5700, which is kinda just a point and shoot (i guess you'd call it).

[Maxi]

Nice!

You're deserted places pics always turn out amazingly well :) I especially like the one you said was too dark. Imo it isn't at all.

The first of those lakeside pics looks a bit overexposed but I dunno, might be from the post process.

[Fender357]

Yeah I was thinking that one was a little off with the exposure. Which is odd because it didn't look as bad wile I was photoshoping it. I think I was just trying to get it so you could see out to the sand bar ok. It was super hazzy in the pic because of all the rain. I was trying to tone that down as much as possible without getting things to grainy. But thanks! :)

[colin4444]

Wow, you have some really good photos. Good job. I should really spend more time taking pictures since I had a lot of fun in my photo class at high school. By the way, what school does your friend go to who's doing film? I'm actually going to be studying film next year.

[Fender357]

Wow, you have some really good photos. Good job. I should really spend more time taking pictures since I had a lot of fun in my photo class at high school. By the way, what school does your friend go to who's doing film? I'm actually going to be studying film next year.


I'm actually not sure. It is some big film school in LA. And I don't really know her that well.....as in....I can't remember her name. I can remember that her brother's name is Eric and she has a twin and both of them are models. (they're tall) I think they were really nice too.

[galoot3000]

Wow, it's been such a long time since I posted here. Great pictures, easily the best that I've seen in a while. I really like "the Dark Princes" JTHM t-shirt. Everything looks wonderful.

[eatbugs]

I haven't read through the thread (I only looked at the pictures) I really admire the one photo which shows the shed as the focal point and it has the hills converging on one centre of interest, it's great. How far are you going to go with your photography??

[Fender357]

I'm not sure...its a bit difficult to get into "the buisness" of it all. And I haven't had much time to go take pictures lately. But I would really love to become a profesional photographer.

[Maxi]

I'm trying to figure out a way to start selling photos myself...

[CyberPitz]

This is the kind of thing I want to get into for college. Everything looks so beautfiul through a camera...

[eatbugs]

This is the kind of thing I want to get into for college. Everything looks so beautfiul through a camera...
agreed. Photography and painting are far better choices for careers than game making.

[CyberPitz]

agreed. Photography and painting are far better choices for careers than game making.
Truth, I'd go into art and stuff, but my creative side is SHIT. I mean..stick figures give me problems.

[Trask]

some of those landscape pics are eye catching, this is the best photography on this site, when are you updating?

[D€vIL²]

awsome photos.

I thought this would be a good place to share this one picture I took with a friends camera

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/7175/1654421028469c0c390id.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Fender357]

Ok here's a bit more pics...not much of anything, just random stuff.

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1169/dscn0041small9fc.jpg

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http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7750/lightgreen4fe.jpg

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7734/roadlights53ny.jpg

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[Boogymanx]

Could I have this image (http://img205.echo.cx/img205/9956/tower019vv.jpg) in full-size please? I love that pic! You make wonnderful pictures, I like all of them!

[ktimekiller]

Fender, do you spend your entire life time traveling? seems like it...

[Fender357]

I don't think I spend that much more time doing stuff out of the house than other peopole. I just try to be somewhere other than home, work, or the movies, once in a wile. Unfortunatly that hasn't been the case lately and I haven't been taking any pictures. And I really have never had the chances to SERIOUSLY travel. Not since I was really little.
Here's that pic big.
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/2305/tower014jx.jpg


Here are some other pics too. From the Orange County Fair two years ago. For a couple years in row, I've been going to the oc fair with my girlfriend to see Weird Al play. He almost always does a free show there and its always great. He is seriously a great stage performer. I took my camera in and despite the naging sercurity guard ass holes I got some nice (NON FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY) pictures. Seiously...they say...no "flash" photography....so wtf is the big deal if I don't use a flash? Anyway, here are some pictures of Weird Al Yankovich in some different costumes.

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/1896/al4ct.jpg
This was around the end, I think it was Yoda.

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/7782/weirdaljedi18sz.jpg
This was the Jedi song.

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/3847/weirdalnirvana14jd.jpg
Smells Like Nervana

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/2428/weirdalnirvana20zt.jpg
Smells Like Nervana

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/3218/weirdalnirvana39pk.jpg

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/6073/weirdalyodacrazy0pw.jpg
During Yoda he had the audiance singing and he held the mic twords a lady up in front so she could kind of sing at it, and then he yelled, " SING IT RIGHT, YOU'RE DOING IT ALL WRONG!!!!!" It was damn funny.



And here's some piggies..

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/8085/pig7vq.jpg

[combinedeath13]

holy shizit.

[Beerdude26]

I want this one (http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7750/lightgreen4fe.jpg) in large, can you do that?

[JNightshade]

Piggies! I Want 'em Piggies!

[Fender357]

I want this one (http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7750/lightgreen4fe.jpg) in large, can you do that?

Mabie eventualy, right now my computer is dead. Had to buy a new barebones system and I've got to put everything together again. But I do have a larger original of that. I have to make all of my pictures smaller for image shack.

[short recoil]

Awesome photographs man, really nice stuff you have there.

And btw that old marine base would have to be just about the best airsoft skirmish site in the world :)

[Qonfused]

Wow! VERY nice pics man!
Bravo!

[Beerdude26]

And btw that old marine base would have to be just about the best airsoft skirmish site in the world :)God it would be BF2 in real life :p

[Fender357]

Just an update that I've got my computer working again and I'll be trying to get some newer pictures up soon. Gonna have a buisy week, but I'll se what I can do.

[Derwen_Llewelyn]

awsome photos.

I thought this would be a good place to share this one picture I took with a friends camera

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/7175/1654421028469c0c390id.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Hahahhaa! winner. :imu: :thumbs:

You should post your photos to devart, and make a gallery 4 yourself! :P