Gio001 Posted October 10, 2010 Posted October 10, 2010 What irritates me is getting photos printed at Boots... anything I've done to the colours - cranked down saturation / contrast / whatever always gets autocorrected or changed by the staff or something. Do not want! @ dan-likes-trees Have you got a Wilkinsons Photo near you?? They dont mess with the colours & also print out in original format ie:- if you shoot in a different format other than 6x4, 5x7 etc or crop your photos you get them printed that way and the quality of the prints are way better. Slightly more expensive than Boots or Asda but worth it.
Goafer Posted October 10, 2010 Posted October 10, 2010 I work in a photography lab with 2 industrial printers. I can print the colours however I want! [/smug]
nightwolf Posted October 10, 2010 Posted October 10, 2010 That reminds me, my friend recently showed me toy camera analogue and I cannot stop putting in my photos.
Goafer Posted October 10, 2010 Posted October 10, 2010 Went to St Crispins Mental Asylum today on a bit of an explore. When trying to go up the bell tower in the first picture, I almost fell through the rotten second storey floor. Good times!:
nightwolf Posted October 11, 2010 Posted October 11, 2010 The last one is brilliant, very saw like. I do love looking around insane asylums, so creepy but interesting. EDIT: Gio try snapfish online, I've had quite a few photos done by them, if you sign up you get 40 free photos (you have to pay 99p postage) I've signed up with two different accounts, they turn up in a couple of days. They aren't amazing if the photo is difficult to print (like I have some 3d model pictures I wanted printing) but ordinary photos are great, they don't change them either.
dan-likes-trees Posted October 11, 2010 Posted October 11, 2010 Very very cool! And yeah, the Wilkinsons Photo sounds good, I'm sure there's one in Leeds somewhere, I'll have to seek it out. Raaainbooww
Goafer Posted October 11, 2010 Posted October 11, 2010 I do love looking around insane asylums, so creepy but interesting. A girl who likes looking round asylums eh? I say, that's a smashing blouse you've got on.
nightwolf Posted October 11, 2010 Posted October 11, 2010 Haha, indeed, I'm far more interested in large scale places though, my friend and I are hoping in the next couple of years to go to Chernobyl, but whether that'll happen. I hope so, sod the radiation.
Goafer Posted October 11, 2010 Posted October 11, 2010 Haha, indeed, I'm far more interested in large scale places though, my friend and I are hoping in the next couple of years to go to Chernobyl, but whether that'll happen. I hope so, sod the radiation. A friend from work wants to go early next year. Not sure whether that will happen or not. The more people that book a tour, the cheaper it is ($200 for 4 people compared to $490 for 1 or $260 for 2). You're welcome to come with us if want to help reduce the cost. People willing to share the experience are hard to come by!
nightwolf Posted October 12, 2010 Posted October 12, 2010 A friend from work wants to go early next year. Not sure whether that will happen or not. The more people that book a tour, the cheaper it is ($200 for 4 people compared to $490 for 1 or $260 for 2). You're welcome to come with us if want to help reduce the cost. People willing to share the experience are hard to come by! It entirely depends, next year is much a don't know what the hell is going on year as I leave uni in the April/May, so that's why my friend and I haven't committed to anything yet.
Paj! Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 My halls of residence used to be an insane asylum. It's all nice now though / a nurse was murdered by a patient in what would be my flat. This was in like 1900 though. *walks off*
nightwolf Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 My halls of residence used to be an insane asylum. It's all nice now though / a nurse was murdered by a patient in what would be my flat. This was in like 1900 though. *walks off* Sounds fascinating! Come back!
jayseven Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 Just to say that there pretty much all halls come with that rumour attached! Few are true. I've been wanting to go to Chernobyl for aaages. Tell me when you're thinking of going, goaf.
Paj! Posted October 22, 2010 Posted October 22, 2010 Just to say that there pretty much all halls come with that rumour attached! Few are true. Seething Wells Halls in Surbiton, London, UK, was originally a mental hospital in 1813. It had two main blocks, the first which was known as "block X" held class A patients. The second was known as "block B" held both class B and C patients. Block X was renowned for its high class prison state in which around 60 patients were kept tied down to their bed in one hall. Block B was less secure which allowed its patients to walk around freely until night time, where they would be restrained in similar fashion to those in block X. Most patients in Block X suffered from Mental disorder and many more. Murderers where also held if they were seen as having a mental illness. Seething Wells is now a student halls of residence, the current blocks that students live in are were old residents of Seething Wells Mental hospital used to live. They are not in their original state after rejuvenation, however they do have the original foundations. Block X and Block B however are intact after plans to convert them were not passed. Kingston University are still trying to get permission to start work on converting them into another set of halls which would hold up to 60 students. There has been 78 suicides at the Hospital on site, one of the most famous ones was a man called Oliver Tierny, who had chronic schizophrenia whom climbed to the top of block X and jumped off impaling himself on a fence, his body was not found until the next morning. Security was tightened after the event in order to minimize the chance of a repeat. A Nurse was also murdered in the Hospital Grounds, and was buried there as requested by the family as a memoriam to the love she had for her work. Her body is now buried in the local Surbiton Church grounds after the conversion to Student Halls was passed. The Nurse was murdered by a Thomas Griffins who was originally in Block B before being moved to Block X shortly after the Incident. He murdered her by slighting her throat using a sharpened piece of stone when she was on her evening rounds. Her body was found later on in Thomas Griffins' bed next to him. I'm at Seething Wells. I'm in Block B.
Ashley Posted October 24, 2010 Posted October 24, 2010 And to change the tone a bit... Looking through the photos from yesterday's event and I unintentionally caught this:
ReZourceman Posted October 24, 2010 Posted October 24, 2010 HA! At first I thought you meant the guy on the ride who looks like he's going for a wee on a Wii (lololol) but that is brilliant. Actually the guy in blue is turning around as he has just been the victim of the pink haired one's trick!
Frank Posted October 27, 2010 Posted October 27, 2010 As I didn't want to spam the other thread, I thought I'd post 2 more pictures here
Goafer Posted October 31, 2010 Posted October 31, 2010 (edited) Went back and re-edited an old photo of my first Scirocco. Abandoned petrol stations are awesome, especially in the fog. Also found what appears to be ReZ playing the bass when going through my old photos: Edited October 31, 2010 by Goafer
dan-likes-trees Posted November 2, 2010 Posted November 2, 2010 In other news, bought a Polaroid Camera. First test shot didn't go brilliantly, it has to be said..
Frank Posted November 2, 2010 Posted November 2, 2010 AWR! So jealous, I've been looking at some Poloroid cameras on amazon but haven't brought myself to buy any yet. What's it like?
Paj! Posted November 2, 2010 Posted November 2, 2010 Do tell. I wanted to use Polaroid for my current project (we use stills to make a film), but apparently they're expensive and the film is a bitch.
dan-likes-trees Posted November 2, 2010 Posted November 2, 2010 Do tell. I wanted to use Polaroid for my current project (we use stills to make a film), but apparently they're expensive and the film is a bitch. Yeah.. polaroid cameras themselves don't cost anything - I picked one up from a charity shop for £20 though the same were going on ebay for a fiver when I later looked (gutted). However, as you say the film's an utter bitch. Polaroid stopped manufacturing film a few years ago but last year a company in the US started doing so again. It's sickeningly expensive, I got some off ebay, pack of 8 shots for 16 quid. Major ouch. And obviously it's really hard to know how they'll turn out so the money-to-good-shot ratio is pretty poor. Anyhoo, first one I took came out really underexposed, I think possibly because I didn't cover it in darkness when it first came out of the camera. I'll probably post results here once I've taken a few more... but as they're so expesnive I'm saving them for good occasions!
Paj! Posted November 2, 2010 Posted November 2, 2010 Yeah I've done research into it - a company called Impossible Project has made loads of film in place of Polaroid themselves...and I just remembered I have my grandad's polaroid 640 lying around, so I might invest. I'll be the belle of the ball if I use polaroid for my project, showing how hip and retro and rich I am (poor afterwards). :p
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