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xzzy posted:I just saw it as an attempt to mimic the Einstein picture.. probably the hair that does it more than anything. On the NatGeo page it says he was a painter in France who turned and made that face when he noticed the photographer. I kind of like it, and if it's good enough for NG, it's good enough for me. They're usually pretty good about stamping out or not displaying things they feel is over-the-top, but I don't know how they choose what to display on their contest page. I also go for super-ultra-high-contrasty stuff which is definitely not the norm I guess. If you want something a little more "traditional," I absolutely love this one from their first week of entries. The magazine actually had an article about this group, the Yi people, not long ago if I remember right. Pretty powerful stuff.  Click here for the full 632x948 image. Axel Serenity fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Oct 19, 2010 |
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Oct 19, 2010 02:48
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Demon_Corsair posted:Nah, you have seen it before. It's Peyto Lake in Alberta, in the Rockies. I know I have posted a shot of it before and I think DreadHead posted a much better one. I know I posted one probably around this time last year.
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Oct 19, 2010 03:21
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Dread Head posted:I know I posted one probably around this time last year. So is there a trail to that spot or something? Because it seems like most pictures are from the same spot. Not that it's a bad spot by any means. It just amuses me that I can recognize a lake so easily, especially one I've never visited.
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it's really the only available lookout point in that area. it's crazy easy to get to and tour busses just pull right up. Love the rockies, need to shoot more during sunsets up there.
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Yeah, I tried to get a differnt view but that is the only really view you can get (easily), if I had more time I probably would have hiked down to the lake its self. Edit: Moraine Lake is even worse.
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 I just came across David Chancellor's work while scrolling though my Tumblr feed, got some great stuff, particularly like the one above. He also has a set on his site of a large group of hungry Zimbabweans coming across a dead elephant, the series shows the carcass being reduced to bones in under 2 hours, amazing stuff. http://www.davidchancellor.com/docs/photos.php?id=2:14
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Oct 21, 2010 18:23
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Spedman posted:http://www.davidchancellor.com/docs/photos.php?id=2:14 This is why photography is good. This, and that feeling you get in your gut when you snap off a doozie.
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Current obsession: David Sims, I may or may not rip out my fav photos from Vogue and they mostly happen to be his 
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It's probably worth adding that this image has put David in the shortlist for the National Portrait Gallery photographic portrait prize 2010.
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I thought this was cool as hell.   http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannepaint/5103317586/sizes/l/in/photostream/
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I long for the day I A) travel to a place/location like this B) realize the potential and take the shot http://www.christopherandersonphoto.com/#/BOOK%20PROJECTS/CAPITOLIO/9
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Oct 31, 2010 19:21
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^^ the red state series is pretty good
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So I was walking across the State Street bridge in downtown Chicago when I spotted the most peculiar looking camera setup I've ever seen. At a distance, I had no idea what I was looking at, until I got closer. YEP. A Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 on a Canon body. I was really surprised at how much smaller the lens is in person. The optics are gigantic, but I always imagined this absurdly large lens. A few other passing photographers were standing around the photographer, asking questions. His work is actually really quite cool.   http://peternewman.net/ I totally wanted to grab a picture of his setup, but I left my camera home that day. I'm taking this as a lesson to invest in a quality pocketable camera for when I do not wish to carry my 5DII around for a quick hop downtown. Still, my thinking when leaving the house was: "the chances of me seeing something completely unique and impossible to replicate is very unlikely, plus I'll not be downtown for long." 
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I got to play around with a lens like that a few years ago way before I started with photography myself. A friend's company used it to take 360 degree panoramas of restaurants, he brought it along to a kayaking contest. They're pretty awesome and a lot of fun. Me 7 years ago in my white water kayaking gear looking fairly herp-de-derp: http://i.imgur.com/k2XfL.jpg (linked since it's far from an awesome photo :P)
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Just looking at the specs for the nikkor 6mm. "Picture angle: 220°" gently caress me. That thing can look behind you when you take a photo?
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I'm probably breaking some sort of Dorkroom rule here because he's so ~.provocative.~ but Tyler Shields is loving awesome imo:
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unleash the unicorn posted:I'm probably breaking some sort of Dorkroom rule here because he's so ~.provocative.~ but Tyler Shields is loving awesome imo: My god, how offensive! I demand that you take this provocative piece of filth down at once.
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squidflakes posted:My god, how offensive! I demand that you take this provocative piece of filth down at once. How dare he overexpose? I won't have his filth stinking up my internet.
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squidflakes posted:My god, how offensive! I demand that you take this provocative piece of filth down at once. unleash the unicorn, I hope my anticipated displeasure satisfies you.
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i think you mean to post that pic here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3303711 hth
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I just found out about https://www.cpoy.org College Photographer of the Year competition. The winners in the portrait category are my favorite. I haven't seen the actual name of the photographers anywhere yet but the Bronze winner of the portrait category is bad rear end. http://www.cpoy.org/index.php?s=WinningImages&c=216#3.0 I love the way the photographer chose to show the guy as a portrait. All the little details make it, like his sweet wallpaper, and his suspenders.
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:I just found out about https://www.cpoy.org College Photographer of the Year competition. The winners in the portrait category are my favorite. I haven't seen the actual name of the photographers anywhere yet but the Bronze winner of the portrait category is bad rear end. http://www.cpoy.org/index.php?s=WinningImages&c=216#3.0 I love the way the photographer chose to show the guy as a portrait. All the little details make it, like his sweet wallpaper, and his suspenders. The Gold portrait winner made me all  These are fantastic
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Rot posted:While not nearly as emotionally moving as the last few galleries, whenever I see a Grant Gunderson photo on the cover of a ski magazine I get all excited. He's my favourite sports photographer. I know him!
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dreggory posted:The Gold portrait winner made me all It made me go, "what the gently caress am I doing" and want to call a certain someone. Great shot, and the portrait for Adlene is amazing too.
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 Photographer Eric Draper This picture was in a newspaper yesterday. I spent 10 minutes typing a post explaining why I liked this picture but I closed the window. So quickly said, I love how there are so many elements that build up the image instead of cluttering it.It almost feels like the set-up of a play. The horrid sterile classroom. The man pointing at the TV which gives the picture's context. The stiff men in suits on the left. The American flag in the corner. Bush on the phone, facing away from the television and the images of New York.
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Fragrag posted:
I really like this picture but I'm struggling to explain why. Well actually no I don't. It's really easy and for that I love it. See how many technical faults you can identify. Wide angle distorts too much, it's noisy, colors are flat...but still, holy poo poo it's a behind the scenes picture of Dubya on 9/11 a few minutes after he left the classroom. Whatever you experienced that day and whatever you project onto it or whatever it stirs in you, you can find it right in that picture. It's a perfect reaffirmation of the old press journalist adage "F/8 and be there".
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It looks like a super-secure phone, too - one that the President's entourage must always carry around.
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Found while cruisin' Wikipedia for info on wet-plate: "A Veteran and His Wife", 1860's
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Found while cruisin' Wikipedia for info on wet-plate: That guy is straight out of a Leyendecker drawing. This is an amazing find.
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aliencowboy posted:That guy is straight out of a Leyendecker drawing. This is an amazing find. Both people in the photo are in their late teens.
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dunkman posted:Both people in the photo are in their late teens. They also have four kids apiece, from previous marriages.
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http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2010/11/15/best-of-the-year/#a=1 The best 55 photos of the year from Reuters photographers, some really amazing stuff in there.
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 Click here for the full 1000x667 image. Image 32 of 55: IVAN ALVARADO (March 1: Constitucion, Chile) posted:“Take my picture with the dog,” the survivor tells me. I take it as if ordered to, and see that his face shows tremendous pain. “I lost my home, the sea took my son and my wife, and this is all that was left. I can’t leave the dog here. He was my son’s.” He pauses. “I found my wife (alive), but my boy is still missing.” Before he finishes speaking I lower my camera and cry. I walk together with him thinking what to say to lessen his suffering, but there is only silence. I never sent this poorly-focused photo of the earthquake survivor. The preconception of what makes a good photograph, the aesthetics, the layers of composition, and the sharpness or lack of it, all became reasons not to choose it. It was some time later when I realized that the sadness of the out-of-focus man with his pet is still transmitted as pain and devastation even through the picture’s technical defects, and banishes all the photographic concepts I hold true in my own little world.  Free lesson right there. I usually take pictures of birds who don't as frequently show emotion in a manner that can be that can be captured in a still, but drat. Thanks for the link. Heads up: There are some  ones at the end.
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e: never mind. I'm an idiot.
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^^^^  My Cakes are LOL posted:e: never mind. I'm an idiot. It was relevant when I typed it. 
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The Big Picture this week is all shots from National Geographic's photo contest. Some amazing shots. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html
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BeastOfExmoor posted:The Big Picture this week is all shots from National Geographic's photo contest. Some amazing shots. Awesome stuff. 17, 30 and 35 are my favourites.
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 Worker at a Carbon Black plant, John Vachon, 1942.
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