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Beer Coaster posted:FWIGTEW and Other First Wedding Acronyms Yeah but it's offset by the number of cool lenses you get to shoot with pro-bono, almost any time you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_euUMN-V1s
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DaNzA posted:You should go out and buy lotto. Having two drives failing at the same time is extremely rare unless they are on the same computer or something.
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Paragon8 posted:Lets hope the model doesn't flake! 
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Mannequin posted:Yeah but it's offset by the number of cool lenses you get to shoot with pro-bono, almost any time you want. I know someone who got a job at a rental house solely to check out lighting gear for free. On slow weekends he would show up with a U-Haul and load every pack and stand they had up and go do really epic shoots.
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Jul 26, 2010 17:48
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Paragon8 posted: I feel your pain.
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McMadCow posted:
I'm glad I'm running a policy of only doing location tests with models I haven't worked with before. Studio time in London is expensive!
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Paragon8 posted:I'm glad I'm running a policy of only doing location tests with models I haven't worked with before. Studio time in London is expensive! Ouch, I can imagine. Sorry to hear about your flake though. It happens quite often when you're not dealing with agency models.
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McMadCow posted:Ouch, I can imagine. Sorry to hear about your flake though. It happens quite often when you're not dealing with agency models. Yeah, it's annoying but I didn't really lose anything - just forced to sit on my rear end all day instead of shoot. You don't really want to work with someone who is feeling sick either, so I'd much rather her postpone and want to be there rather than obligated. I've assisted on shoots with agency models and the difference between them and MM is just ridiculous. I'm way too self conscious of my skills to approach the models my bosses work with right now.
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So does anyone here listen to TWIP (This Week in Photography)? Is there any back story to why they seem to be obsessed with iPhones?
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rcman50166 posted:So does anyone here listen to TWIP (This Week in Photography)? Is there any back story to why they seem to be obsessed with iPhones? http://www.flickr.com/cameras/
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rcman50166 posted:So does anyone here listen to TWIP (This Week in Photography)? Is there any back story to why they seem to be obsessed with iPhones? That's pretty much every photographer with an iPhone though. Kind of wish they'd shut up about it, gets old.
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rcman50166 posted:So does anyone here listen to TWIP (This Week in Photography)? Is there any back story to why they seem to be obsessed with iPhones? I think its just the geekiness of the hosts. I don't find it too offensive most of the time and I think the bulk of the audience is the hobbyist crowd. edit: there's also good reason to push iPhone apps that are developed by people like Chase Jarvis, Lisa Bettany, and Scott Bourne.
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Any good photography/art podcasts I should be listening to while where on the subject?
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Twenties Superstar posted:http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ Oh dear, it's beaten the XSi and 5D... 
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fronkpies posted:Any good photography/art podcasts I should be listening to while where on the subject? I like the Candid Frame, and Jeff Curtos history podcast if you haven't listened to it yet.
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Picked up this weekend: An Inner Silence: Cartier-Bresson's Portraits. Love it. I just don't think of him as a portrait guy. drat good stuff. http://www.amazon.com/Inner-Silence-Portraits-Henri-Cartier-Bresson/dp/0500288755/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280178882&sr=8-1
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Glass Knuckles posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stzmHm6eF-0 Give me back my three minutes and eight seconds. I cannot believe I just watched that.
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Glass Knuckles posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stzmHm6eF-0 I guess it takes 150 people to polish a turd.
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When I saw that, I felt it was only half serious. I know that they do some crazy things for food styling, but the cheese puller hand model lady is out of control.
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Pompous Rhombus your gear buy/sell/trade thread was such a hit I literally stole your OP and made a hockey equipment thread. Hope you don't mind.
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Martytoof posted:Pompous Rhombus your gear buy/sell/trade thread was such a hit I literally stole your OP and made a hockey equipment thread. Hope you don't mind. Not at all! How do you ship a hockey stick, anyways?
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Hockey sticks are easy. UPS guys hate bowflexes the most.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Not at all! Wrap it in newspaper and ship it, if you're the last guy I bought one from. Genuinely surprised it didn't get smashed. So pretty much like every photography purchase on eBay 
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Whoa. http://itchyi.squarespace.com/thelatest/2010/7/20/the-longest-photographic-exposures-in-history.html I didn't even know this was possible. The article shows a few extremely long exposure photos -- from 6 months to 2 years and beyond. How did they do it? Pinhole cameras, ultra neutral density filters, some kind of special film?
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rcman50166 posted:So does anyone here listen to TWIP (This Week in Photography)? Is there any back story to why they seem to be obsessed with iPhones? I gave up a listening to them about a 6 months ago as every single podcast followed the same formula: Iphone section, video section, 40 minute long, unedited interview with some boring guy, unexciting questions section. Occasionally, they'd have a guest star, like Bettany who's only claim to fame is that she is pretty. Which doesn't work so well on an audio podcast. I suspect that they have the problem that there isn't a lot of news in photography and that as they aren't a 'proper' news outlet, they don't get access to juicy news. It's a shame as they are nice guys. One of them was a programmer for LR (his name is in the splashscreen!) - but he never talked about it much which was a wasted opportunity (possibly afraid of his NDA)
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The germane question is how one ships used hockey pads without calling the local bomb disposal unit.
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rcman50166 posted:Oh dear, it's beaten the XSi and 5D... Well a lot of the people who are spread out between SLRs will also have a iPhone as well.
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dakana posted:Whoa. http://itchyi.squarespace.com/thelatest/2010/7/20/the-longest-photographic-exposures-in-history.html After doing some math it appears that you can get insanely long exposures by making a pinhole camera very long. You can easily hit f/1024 with a one metre long camera. Couple that with a NDF and if you calculate for reciprocity you can reach multi year exposures. Try it out http://pinhole.stanford.edu/phcalc3.htm
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fronkpies posted:Any good photography/art podcasts I should be listening to while where on the subject? I've only listened to some of it, but some professor is posting his History of Photo lectures as podcasts and it's pretty good: http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com/
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Those super-long-exposure pinhole photos are amazing, I'm surprised I hadn't ever heard of anything like that before.
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Holy Shhhit http://gizmodo.com/5597729/45-yard-sale-find-turns-out-to-be-200-million-worth-of-ansel-adams-photos Lost Ansel Adams negatives found at yard sale for $45
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Guy who sold them can't even afford to buy a gun to off himself now, after being talked down from $70 to $45.Alvination posted:I want to go to more garage sales. I always say this, but then I actually go to garage sales and they're all full of yellowed t-shirts, folding tables, and dinner plates from the 70s.
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Martytoof posted:Guy who sold them can't even afford to buy a gun to off himself now, after being talked down from $70 to $45. Those dinner plates could be collectible Franklin Mint plates. Were there ever Ansel Adams collectible plates?
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The guy should at least give the seller 25 bucks just to be nice.
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So after 10 years, he just recently decided to have them checked out. I wonder why he waited so long.
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:When I saw that, I felt it was only half serious. I know that they do some crazy things for food styling, but the cheese puller hand model lady is out of control. Uh did you watch the whole thing? It's an advertisement.
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So yeah, photography is a personal hobby of mine. However, any pictures taken are in the end withering somewhere on my hard drive. I figured, putting the useful ones on a microstock site might have some benefit? Yay or nay? I keep reading many things. What about that Getty cooperation with Flickr? Does that result in anything useful? Especially with a site as crowded as Flickr Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jul 28, 2010 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:So yeah, photography is a personal hobby of mine. However, any pictures taken are in the end withering somewhere on my hard drive. I figured, putting the useful ones on a microstock site might have some benefit? Yay or nay? I keep reading many things. What about that Getty cooperation with Flickr? Does that result in anything useful? Especially with a site as crowded as Flickr Microstock is poo poo for the industry and overall value of images, it can't hurt (you) as an amateur, but I prefer not to contribute to the eroding of the profession. I know that sounds  as hell, but I think of it as common courtesy for the people out there trying to earn a living from it full-time.The Getty thing isn't a terrible deal; Getty takes big chunk of the commission relative to other stock agencies like Alamy, etc, but they've also got the most eyeballs on your photos by a big margin as well. Even their pro rates are like this, so as far as I can tell the Flickr thing isn't taking advantage of people unduly or anything. That said, a pro I know won't touch Getty out of principle because of their lovely commission rate, and has just left his old stock undigitized up to this point. I was accepted for it and still haven't uploaded anything; still considering putting together a portfolio for Lonely Planet Images, who pay a 40% commission (rather than Getty's 20-30%). You sign a contract giving the agency an exclusive license to your images for a certain number of years, so it's not something you want to jump into lightly. You can still make prints or sell them in a book of your images, but not as commercial stock.
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