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LuisX
Aug 4, 2004
Sword Chuck, yo!

jackpot posted:


Completely unrelated to photography, but of all the things that have come into - and gone out of - style in my lifetime, I can't believe this has lasted as long as it has.

Sigh, I know, I only cared about his upper body, but he wanted to have the pants like that :(

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Whitezombi
Apr 26, 2006

With these Zombie Eyes he rendered her powerless - With this Zombie Grip he made her perform his every desire!
Since you guys are liking these I'll post a few more.



Oprah Haza
Jan 25, 2008
That's my purse! I don't know you!
Please, please, please work on your temperature adjustment.

Whitezombi
Apr 26, 2006

With these Zombie Eyes he rendered her powerless - With this Zombie Grip he made her perform his every desire!

Oprah Haza posted:

Please, please, please work on your temperature adjustment.

That's just me playing around in post. I've been sick and bored out of my mind.

nonanone
Oct 25, 2007


I wouldn't worry about it. It's naturally warm ish looking, which gives a lot of life. What an animated kid, one of those rare cases you can actually say is a really cute baby.

dakana
Aug 28, 2006
So I packed up my Salvador Dali print of two blindfolded dental hygienists trying to make a circle on an Etch-a-Sketch and headed for California.

Whitezombi posted:

Since you guys are liking these I'll post a few more.



I can't stop imagining that the baby took this herself as a profile picture for Facebook or something, and it makes me laugh.

KingColliwog
May 15, 2003

Let's go droogs
I'll be damned if that didn't make me laugh. Now I can't unsee it, there's no way whitezombi took this picture

Ric
Nov 18, 2005

Apocalypse dude


Here are a few I've taken recently; comments welcome.











poopinmymouth
Mar 2, 2005

PROUD 2 B AMERICAN (these colors don't run)
I love having my 2nd light to control density.

I keep it almost perfectly at the camera axis, similarly to how Dan Winters uses his ringlight. I need to build some screen covers to control the ratio more, this is using 2:1 (my power pack is locked at a 2:1 assymetric)

brad industry
May 22, 2004
If I have the room to do it I tend to use a large softbox/umbrella behind the camera instead of an actual ringlight. Or bounce a bare head into a V-flat behind it. Same effect, more control.

notlodar
Sep 11, 2001

poopinmymouth posted:

I love having my 2nd light to control density.

I keep it almost perfectly at the camera axis, similarly to how Dan Winters uses his ringlight. I need to build some screen covers to control the ratio more, this is using 2:1 (my power pack is locked at a 2:1 assymetric)


That entire set is really cute :3:, it's nice to know your face doesn't shatter if you smile

torgeaux
Dec 31, 2004
I serve...

notlodar posted:

That entire set is really cute :3:, it's nice to know your face doesn't shatter if you smile

Yes, sad to say, my first thought wasn't about the merit of the photo, but, "Hey, pimm is smiling!!"

poopinmymouth
Mar 2, 2005

PROUD 2 B AMERICAN (these colors don't run)

brad industry posted:

If I have the room to do it I tend to use a large softbox/umbrella behind the camera instead of an actual ringlight. Or bounce a bare head into a V-flat behind it. Same effect, more control.

Yeah this was a 60" umbrella almost directly behind the camera and up a bit. Learned about it this way from an old school portrait guy. Seems a lot of people don't use the fill on axis, which leads to shadow pockets. I do wish my power pack had more control over the asymmetric ratio.

LuisX
Aug 4, 2004
Sword Chuck, yo!
Clubs and event:

This local photog has good stuff:

http://anthonyverrilli.com/

Wish I could see more photogs shooting with such quality more often :(

Whitezombi
Apr 26, 2006

With these Zombie Eyes he rendered her powerless - With this Zombie Grip he made her perform his every desire!

dakana posted:

I can't stop imagining that the baby took this herself as a profile picture for Facebook or something, and it makes me laugh.

KingColliwog posted:

I'll be damned if that didn't make me laugh. Now I can't unsee it, there's no way whitezombi took this picture

That's the first thing I thought when I was processing it.


I have strange friends.



Paragon8
Feb 19, 2007

LuisX posted:

Clubs and event:

This local photog has good stuff:

http://anthonyverrilli.com/

Wish I could see more photogs shooting with such quality more often :(

This guy has a really slick site, I like how he's added twitter urls to all the pictures - good way to try and stop people stealing his photos without credit.

Also, ridiculously gorgeous women shot in an unabashed way.

jackpot
Aug 31, 2004

First cousin to the Black Rabbit himself. Such was Woundwort's monument...and perhaps it would not have displeased him.<

LuisX posted:

Clubs and event:

This local photog has good stuff:

http://anthonyverrilli.com/

Wish I could see more photogs shooting with such quality more often :(
My loving God, what is up with the bouncy poo poo going on. I don't know if it's just Firefox, but it drat near made me seasick, what a terrible way to display photos.

Great pics though.

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

Yeah the gallery interface is hosed up something fierce.

LuisX
Aug 4, 2004
Sword Chuck, yo!

jackpot posted:

My loving God, what is up with the bouncy poo poo going on. I don't know if it's just Firefox, but it drat near made me seasick, what a terrible way to display photos.

Great pics though.

I agree with this, but I let it pass cause he could shoot :)

the
Jul 18, 2004

by Cowcaster
How as this taken?

brad industry
May 22, 2004
Two softboxes at even 45 degree angles and then two black fill cards to subtract really close to his head on either side. Probably a black card under his chin too.

the
Jul 18, 2004

by Cowcaster

brad industry posted:

Two softboxes at even 45 degree angles and then two black fill cards to subtract really close to his head on either side. Probably a black card under his chin too.

I have no idea what those are.

UserNotFound
May 7, 2006
???

the posted:

I have no idea what those are.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032679

squidflakes
Aug 27, 2009


SHORTBUS

LuisX posted:

Clubs and event:

This local photog has good stuff:

http://anthonyverrilli.com/

Wish I could see more photogs shooting with such quality more often :(

Good looking girls? Check

Quality pictures? I don't know. The glaring highlights on the faces really really make me hate these pictures.

poopinmymouth
Mar 2, 2005

PROUD 2 B AMERICAN (these colors don't run)

squidflakes posted:

Good looking girls? Check

Quality pictures? I don't know. The glaring highlights on the faces really really make me hate these pictures.

2nding, basically the best stuff about the photos are the subjects, and since it's club photography, he didn't really have much to do with that. These look like pretty formulaic flash with some kind of diffuser on a bracket, go to popular clubs with hot chicks, get well known so you can get some friendly poses, and snap away. I don't see anything laud-worthy about them.

brad industry
May 22, 2004
There's at least 2 or 3 Cobra Snake wannabes in every major city now, it's so annoying.

edit:
This pretty perfectly sums up how I feel about them:

Travis Jeppesen posted:

As a photographer, Nan Goldin has inspired a legion of imitators who tend to confuse certain lifestyle traits with artistic substance, a privileging of content over form with an excuse for taking sloppy photographs. I tend to think of them as the Vice generation, after the magazine that first published many a Goldin copyist under a hipster anti-ethos saturated with attention begging and unwarranted self-destruction.

From a review of a Nan Goldin show http://www.artforum.com/archive/id=24055

brad industry fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Jan 4, 2010

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


That poo poo is awful.

Paragon8
Feb 19, 2007

dude knows his clientele though, as bad as the quality seems to us it's probably 90% better than what's on all these people's facebooks and myspaces - he seems to be able to market himself well and probably makes decent money doing it.

Genderfluid
Jun 18, 2009

my mom is a slut

brad industry posted:

There's at least 2 or 3 Cobra Snake wannabes in every major city now, it's so annoying.

edit:
This pretty perfectly sums up how I feel about them:


From a review of a Nan Goldin show http://www.artforum.com/archive/id=24055

Would you mind just quoting the whole thing, I really don't want to register for another site to read it.-+

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

This hipster anti-ethos is just killing me.

Pompous Rhombus
Mar 11, 2007

evil_bunnY posted:

This hipster anti-ethos is just killing me.

Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism...

Ric
Nov 18, 2005

Apocalypse dude


JaundiceDave posted:

Would you mind just quoting the whole thing, I really don't want to register for another site to read it.-+

artforum.com posted:

Nan Goldin
10.27.09

Author: Travis Jeppesen

10.10.09-12.06.09 C/O Berlin

As a photographer, Nan Goldin has inspired a legion of imitators who tend to confuse certain lifestyle traits with artistic substance, a privileging of content over form with an excuse for taking sloppy photographs. I tend to think of them as the Vice generation, after the magazine that first published many a Goldin copyist under a hipster anti-ethos saturated with attention begging and unwarranted self-destruction. Where one finds a similar mode of annihilative glamour in a Goldin original, it appears more authentic, perhaps accidental. Her subjects, whether laughing or crying, often seem as though their minds are somewhere else, and their eyes are lost in pensive reverie (unlike the random soulless fashion victims hamming it up in, say, a Ryan McGinley). Revisiting The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1981, in this exhibition, one is struck by this generational lapse in the twenty or thirty years since most of the photographs comprising the famous slide show were taken. Whatever happened to empathy?

For it is her empathetic identification with her subjects that has always been at the core of Goldin’s work, from the Ballad to the more recent Heartbeat, 2003, a series of couples captured in moments of intimacy. It is this most “uncool” facet of her output that endows it with its lasting appeal, as the four slide shows that constitute this exhibition––each set to a sound track compiled by the artist––attest.

Cyberbob
Mar 29, 2006
Prepare for doom. doom. doooooom. doooooom.

the posted:

How as this taken?



From the style i'd say it's one of Martin Schoeller's too. Google the name and see if there are many 'behind the scenes' videos.

FasterThanLight
Mar 26, 2003

the posted:

How as this taken?



with a Rebel :rimshot:

squidflakes
Aug 27, 2009


SHORTBUS

Travis Jeppesen posted:

Her subjects, whether laughing or crying, often seem as though their minds are somewhere else, and their eyes are lost in pensive reverie

Or, you know, they are just high as gently caress.

forest spirit
Apr 6, 2009

Frigate Hetman Sahaidachny
First to Fight Scuttle, First to Fall Sink



i found the lighting right here to be great, so I just exposed the shot for her at -1 and brightened her up in post to retain the background. woooo

angryhampster
Oct 21, 2005

I like the composition in that one ^, but it's pretty obvious that her face has been massively brightened.

LuisX
Aug 4, 2004
Sword Chuck, yo!
It works though. Maybe play with the white balance a bit, her skin does not look that well.

forest spirit
Apr 6, 2009

Frigate Hetman Sahaidachny
First to Fight Scuttle, First to Fall Sink


Yeah I noticed that when I viewed it large. I am going to burn her face and dodge the other half, because it kind of looks like she's got two face going on. Thanks guys

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evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

It looks like you've pushed the right side of her face too far (not much detail left, and the left side's bright enough, so I'd tune it down a notch). Also you've got pretty obvious exposure-adjustment halo's around the jacket.

This is really the kind of picture where bringing to some light along makes post 200% easier.

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