Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
This week we've selected ten wonderful photos submitted by readers to The Consumerist Flickr Pool. There's one beautiful summer one for foot fetishists, a final shout out to Billy Mays, and then we're going with a general Americana vibe for the rest in honor of the Fourth of July.
If you had a great photo that didn't get picked, it doesn't mean the photo was bad. It means you're not a patriot and should move to Canada, you commie.
top photo by pbm
by digitizedchaos
by Mica_R
by The Ninja Monkey
by Corey Templeton
by Plant Design Online
by theblackdoc2071
by Mica_R
by nixter
by Kitty LaRoux
And finally, PEACE OUT BILLY MAYS
by Don Solo
Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click "Join Group?" up on the top right, and start hitting "send to group" on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.
Add your shots to The Consumerist Flickr pool, and perhaps they'll get featured in a future story, or even highlighted in a Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds post.
See previous winners of the Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool finds here.
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Comments:
Mica's fireworks shot is beautiful - it's sooo hard to get fireworks right.
And PBM's baseball hotdog shot has alarming skies: is a Canadian team about to win the (cough) World Series?
Trai_Dep... that is my fireworks shot (nixter) . I agree it is hard to get them right. A good setting to try is F11 for around 10 seconds. I just shot some last night where 10 seconds was too long. I shot them around 6 seconds.
@Nick Stankus: Whoops. Sorry about misreading that line (and digitizedchaos, likewise).
Really awesome shot. How much experimentation did you have to play with?
I used to feel bad about getting a 10% hit rate for frames I was happy with, until I read an interview of Cartier-Bresson where he said, even after he was who he became, said he threw 9 of 10 photos away. Incredibly generous of him to say this, and heartening.
I like playing with the edges: dark and slow exposure, or fast foreground with rapid panning. I often get really smeary, abstract prints that would be difficult to replicate via Photoshop (and I'm fairly adequate with Photoshop). There's something magically unpredictable about pushing CCDs or film that's hard to come back later and trying to finesse post.
Short reply (heh): loves my film still - I get a lot of play with it, but it slays at getting the right exposure, such as your shot. Really good job. Love it!
Yay, my picture of the Vegas neon made the Friday Flickr!
You left one out:
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