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Hey /p/, I know that you guys hate it when people post huge images when one could just as easily resize it, but I've been up for about 2 days and I just got these photos back, so I'm excited and extremely tired at the same time.
Here are some photos that came back that I think turned out well. They're not necessarily well-done, but they give me confidence that I understand the techniques required to bring those effects back whenever I want. Does /p/ agree?
There are 8 photos. Please be kind!

This photo seemed kind of grainy... Do you guys think that it ruined the photo, or added to it? I like that it's grainy because it adds to the feeling of it being a scene from a horror film, but then again, maybe it would have looked even better with a lower ISO speed.
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>> Anonymous
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Here's image 2... I'm about 80% sure that I was an idiot and allowed the camera to auto-focus, which made it focus on the nearby scene, leaving the background super blurry...

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Here's image 3... None of my pictures of the moon turned out clear enough to use... Do I need to set the shutter speed even higher? I'm still relatively new to photography, so it just feels like too much of an obvious fix.

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Image 4... Just messing around with a flashlight, but I'm glad I did it. It made me more certain of the effect of low light and low shutter speed on scenes, and, while it's an idea that many of us have seen about a thousand times, I thought it was still cool.

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Obligatory light graffiti image with stupid message, but now I REALLY want to buy a Digital SLR and mess around with settings and lighting as much as possible, if only for fun.
Oh, image 5.

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Image 6. This is my car driving down a windy road, but the positioning is terrible, so it looks like I just swing a light left and right a few times. Maybe I'll use this area more often, because the road is a stereotypical curvy road, and it looks like it has so much potential.
Also, what's that thing in the top right? There were no people around except for me, and my car didn't start that far up the mountain, hahaha... Is it a luminescent bug or just some previously unknown light on my car?

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>> Anonymous
>>83600
Also, very grainy. I couldn't find anything better than 100 ISO when I was getting film, and for the sake of messing around with different specs, I bought some 800 ISO rolls along with 400 and 200. More reason to get a DSLR camera, so that it can emulate 50 ISO and stuff without any trouble at all...
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Uh, image 7? I guess I chickened out about an image while uploading, so here's a regular image en route from Lake Tahoe, California, to the Bay Area, California, at some point. Probably closer( read: at) Lake Tahoe.

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>> Anonymous
So, that's it... Does anyone have any thoughts...? I know that they're all very grainy, but please forgive me, as I'm new to everything( I'll see about blaming the high-sensitivity film when I've proven that I can do well with the sensitivity which is best, lol)...
>> Anonymous
well, its good to see youre practicing the basics of the technical side
>> Anonymous
>>83596
I think this one doesn't suck. But these scans suck balls. They're grainy as hell.
>> Anonymous
>>83664
Thanks, the scans are "courtesy" my local film-processing place, but their scanners are still better than any scanner I could get my hands on without paying some crazy fees.
>>83606
Heh, thanks. I think investing in a DSLR will give me more opportunities to try different options and settings while maintaining the high quality of a digital photo, do you guys agree? Or is it just a huge waste of money for the purpose of getting a better grasp on photography?

I guess the eventual goal of all this would be to be able to take a quality photo of just about anything that I see because I'll have a wide range of tools, all of which I would know how to use.
>> Anonymous
I really liked 2 and 6. 7 was pretty good, too. The rest weren't worth posting. I was fine with the grain.

On further reflection, picture 1 is really close to being something impressive. If you (or a friend) has a digital camera, I'd take it back there and keep snapping a bunch of different shots until you find a more interesting angle. Then shoot it with your film camera. Also do a little post-work on it. Contrast, etc.
>> Anonymous
>>83674
I think if you're already investing in film, a constant expense, you wouldn't be making a bad choice if you were to get a dSLR. You could argue that buying film would be "a huge waste of money for the purpose of getting a better grasp on photography." Not saying you're wasting money with your photography, but just using your words to make a point. No hostilities here. :)
>> Anonymous
>>83689
Thanks, I didn't take any offense from it to begin with, haha. I think I might stick with DSLR and leave film entirely if I get a DSLR camera, but I don't think I'll be missing out on very much at all. I don't get prints to begin with( maybe I'll take them somewhere and get it printed if I like the product on my computer), and at this point a lot of images aren't even worth bringing onto my computer, so being able to delete them would pay for itself in just a few days( or as my case is, nights). The added bonus is that since I usually dislike photographing friends in common settings, I'll be able to avoid the pitfall of being "that guy with the unnecessarily large camera" everywhere I go and still take the shots that I want.
>> Anonymous
>>83687
Thanks, I really appreciate that. I think I'll be spending some time at the scene of the first picture, as it was where I went to junior high school about 5 years ago and I just found out that they leave all the exterior lights on and the outside areas are always accessible. It's really amazing that they don't get robbed, but then there's not much to take, it's just a junior high school... heh.
Side note: Images 1 and 2 are from the same location. Needless to say, there are tons of cool places to photograph from, and since I'm a real night owl I can get some cool shots without looking like a pedophile.

Just a trespasser... hahaha.

I've been having some ideas about what to do with light and manipulating the camera's settings to show those things, so I think that images 4-6 were more like cornerstones in getting used to adjusting the shutter speed and aperture to something that would otherwise be retarded. My qualm with image 6 is the lens flare and the noise. The noise is easy to eliminate by using a lower ISO and adjusting settings, but I don't know so much about natural lens flares... Is there any quick fix that I can use to get rid of that in future photos, or is it something more involved?
Or, tragically, am I doomed to lens-flare-filled photos for the rest of my life?
>> Anonymous
>>83692
Didn't you know? Lens flare improves any photo.
>> Anonymous
Never enough lens flare in any photo ever, even if it's of the moon, right?

Okay, let's say that I wanted to add LOTS more lens flares, but I wanted to start from a clean canvas, lens-flare-wise. How would I go about doing that? lol.
>> Anonymous
Bump to eliminate natural lens flare.