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MrBlandAverage posted:It should also incorporate lolcats and/or bannable catchphrases as a caption and break tables. That sounds like a dorkroom photo contest waiting to happen.
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Got a weekend to kill in NYC coming up, and I plan on going to B&H on Friday. Someone please take my wallet from me before I get there. I'm scared of what may happen.
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Apr 7, 2011 00:57
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There's a 50% chance it's a Jewish holiday and they'll be closed.
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Apr 7, 2011 01:46
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DJCobol posted:Got a weekend to kill in NYC coming up, and I plan on going to B&H on Friday. They close early on Fridays, be sure you get there early enough. Also, make sure you go upstairs as some people forget to do this for some reason, and miss out on the best part. Also... really, don't buy anything there. NYC sales tax is horrendous. Cross_ posted:There's a 50% chance it's a Jewish holiday and they'll be closed. Not this Friday. Their hours.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:05
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Cross_ posted:There's a 50% chance it's a Jewish holiday and they'll be closed. There's a 100% chance that it's closed whenever I visit their website. I don't think I've ever seen that site without the WE'RE CLOSED dialog.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:06
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Mannequin posted:They close early on Fridays, be sure you get there early enough. Also, make sure you go upstairs as some people forget to do this for some reason, and miss out on the best part. Also... really, don't buy anything there. NYC sales tax is horrendous. My flight gets into Newark pretty early, so I'll be there in the morning. Whats upstairs? The only I planned on purchasing while I'm there is a backpack. I need to make sure I get something big enough to hold all my crap (laptop and accessories, camera and lenses, ipad, cables and other crap, etc.) and want to see a bunch of different bags in person rather than buying sight unseen online.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:47
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You should really just order your backpack from amazon or something. Just check them out there, and use prime to get it for at least half the tax at your hotel on a Saturday.
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Apr 7, 2011 03:13
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BobTheCow posted:What would be the most bannable possible photo? I'm thinking nudity, gaudy HDR, lens flare, super vignette, obnoxious watermark. Bonus points for pointlessly crooked horizon and distracting background elements. and it wouldn't offer any critique (or better: terrible critique) in PAD.
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Apr 7, 2011 03:15
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dakana posted:and it wouldn't offer any critique (or better: terrible critique) in PAD. Can we add some bokehs and missed focus? And it obviously has to be shot on THE BOSS.
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Apr 7, 2011 03:25
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Martytoof posted:There's nothing worse than coming back from a small walkaround shoot and having a card full of technically well shot photos, but they're all ridiculously boring. I almost like it better when I have zero keepers because I was shooting +2EV accidentally or something. Yes, I'm a pretentious cock. Why do you ask?
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Apr 7, 2011 05:34
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ExecuDork posted:Dump the pictures to an obscure corner of your harddrive and forget about them for at least a year. Like good wine, some photos will benefit tremendously from a little aging. 1) Convert them into black and white. Voila! Instant 'reportage' 2) Run a lomo-effect filter over them. Poof! Instant hipster cred
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Apr 7, 2011 05:47
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Delete them all in a fit of artistic rage, that's what I'd do.
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Apr 7, 2011 06:12
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BobTheCow posted:What would be the most bannable possible photo? I'm thinking nudity, gaudy HDR, lens flare, super vignette, obnoxious watermark. Bonus points for pointlessly crooked horizon and distracting background elements. Don't forget selective coloring! (Oh God please don't tell me there are pictures of selectively-colored HDR out there)
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Apr 7, 2011 06:17
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Casull posted:Don't forget selective coloring! I had to find out. Indeed there are. Here's the very first google result for "selectively-colored HDR" Yikes.
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Apr 7, 2011 06:27
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PREYING MANTITS posted:I had to find out. Indeed there are. Here's the very first google result for "selectively-colored HDR" Oh god, it exists. The bottom of the barrel has been discovered.
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Apr 7, 2011 06:39
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I actually think the selective color makes it look better because it actually has a visual focus rather than looking like a big rectangle of rainbow vomit.
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Apr 7, 2011 07:25
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mr. mephistopheles posted:I actually think the selective color makes it look better because it actually has a visual focus rather than looking like a big rectangle of rainbow vomit. So would that mean you would prefer a puddle of vomit, like this?
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Apr 7, 2011 07:30
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Maybe it's because I just woke up, but at first, I thought there was a lava-dungeon below the street.
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Apr 7, 2011 13:19
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aliencowboy posted:Maybe it's because I just woke up, but at first, I thought there was a lava-dungeon below the street. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIQ6o5zItrA
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Apr 7, 2011 14:33
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Martytoof posted:There's nothing worse than coming back from a small walkaround shoot and having a card full of technically well shot photos, but they're all ridiculously boring. I almost like it better when I have zero keepers because I was shooting +2EV accidentally or something. The best thing you can do is get out of your comfort zone and shoot something you normally wouldn't shoot in a way you normally wouldn't shoot it. For example, you could try spend a day doing nothing but shooting while laying on your belly for a different perspective. Do you stop people on the street and ask to take their portrait? Try that. Maybe try your hand a macro if you don't do that a lot. Give yourself an assignment like "I'm only going to shoot red things". The possibilities are endless, just find something that'll work for you and mix things up.
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Apr 7, 2011 15:36
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Martytoof posted:There's a 100% chance that it's closed whenever I visit their website. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3391326&userid=0&perpage=40 Really interesting discussion and article in Ask/Tell about the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect who own and staff B&H Photo. Maybe helps explain why you can't order that lens hood til Sunday. Fun fact: they regard the state of Israel as an offence to God, and the Holocaust as just punishment from God for the Zionist movement of the 1890's. Zegnar fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Apr 7, 2011 |
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Apr 7, 2011 16:22
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I don't understand all the hype for HDR, infrared is where it's at.
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Apr 7, 2011 18:06
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Hai guyz I think this photo needs an invite.
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Apr 7, 2011 20:28
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Dread Head posted:Hai guyz I think this photo needs an invite. Tease. How about you show us this awesome photo?
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Apr 7, 2011 20:51
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Whitezombi posted:Tease. How about you show us this awesome photo? The photo is not all that bad (not saying it is really good ether) which is why I didn't post it.  Edit: looks worse larger Dread Head fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Apr 7, 2011 |
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Apr 7, 2011 22:35
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DJCobol posted:My flight gets into Newark pretty early, so I'll be there in the morning. Whats upstairs? The only I planned on purchasing while I'm there is a backpack. I need to make sure I get something big enough to hold all my crap (laptop and accessories, camera and lenses, ipad, cables and other crap, etc.) and want to see a bunch of different bags in person rather than buying sight unseen online. The entirety of the camera department if I recall. Downstairs they have lights and telescopes, and a bunch of other stuff I don't remember. Check out their bags but wait until you get home to buy it online, unless you don't mind paying the extra tax.
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Mannequin posted:The entirety of the camera department if I recall. Downstairs they have lights and telescopes, and a bunch of other stuff I don't remember. Check out their bags but wait until you get home to buy it online, unless you don't mind paying the extra tax. Cool, thanks for the info. I'll be buying the bag there since I have 5 more cities to visit before I get to go back home and I'm sick of using a t-shirt to wrap up the camera and wedging it between my ipad and all the other crap I have.
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Apr 8, 2011 10:04
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Unbelievable, but I found something even dorkier than a photo vest!  http://www.hammacher.com/Product/78937?refsku=79148&xsp=1&promo=xsells
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Apr 8, 2011 15:58
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For that guy, Christmas is every day of the year.
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Does anyone else see David Duchovny? I just imagine him investigating a paranormal Christmas tree that eats cats.
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Would it be possible to make a camera that takes 2 exposures at the same time? eg: when I'm panning, sometimes I miss a cool thing that would have owned at a fast shutter speed. My idea is to make it take both pictures at the same time. Would this require 2 sensors?
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A5H posted:Would it be possible to make a camera that takes 2 exposures at the same time? eg: when I'm panning, sometimes I miss a cool thing that would have owned at a fast shutter speed. My idea is to make it take both pictures at the same time. Would this require 2 sensors? And two lenses. Nothing some duck tape and hooking a single remote trigger up to two cameras can't solve.
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xzzy posted:And two lenses. Hah! That would make an awesome attachment for a monopod. Or tripod for that matter. Edit: Ok, I meant hooking up two cameras to 1 monopod/tripod. Having them pointing towards the same spot and firing off when they can. Sevn fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Apr 8, 2011 |
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Sevn posted:Hah! That would make an awesome attachment for a monopod. Or tripod for that matter. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/707200-REG/Vanguard_MULTI_MOUNT_6_Multi_Mount_6_Tripod_Utility.html 
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What about the way cell phone cameras and some compacts do it, reading the sensor output sequentially, but with multiple passes or something like that? Like take 10 1/500 exposures to add together for a 1/60 main image, but for one of the middle passes crank the ISO up so it's not underexposed.
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BobTheCow posted:http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/707200-REG/Vanguard_MULTI_MOUNT_6_Multi_Mount_6_Tripod_Utility.html Yeah, that is pretty cool. Can it align them vertically and closer together? And I was also thinking more about the shutters firing on burst, together. That way, it would be like he said, being able to take a picture at a faster shutter speed while also taking a picture at a slower shutter speed.
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Aww it's not as good of an idea as I though. I thought you might be able to siphon off the first part of the exposure or something.
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A5H posted:Aww it's not as good of an idea as I though. I thought you might be able to siphon off the first part of the exposure or something. But it is still fun to think about  By the way, what are you taking pictures of where you are panning but want to have the faster shutter speed as well?
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Sevn posted:But it is still fun to think about CARS! A specific example from last season I have is panning and then a blow out. Obviously it would be cool to have the tyre exploding frozen, but I couldn't because I was panning.
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A5H posted:CARS! A specific example from last season I have is panning and then a blow out. Obviously it would be cool to have the tyre exploding frozen, but I couldn't because I was panning. Good point. I do motorcycles every once and a while, but they never crash on my corner, and if they do it is only because the bike slides out from under them and I couldn't get an interesting shot anyways. Ninja edit: I can keep panning if it is a low-side crash.
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