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I'm growing increasingly frustrated by my photography. I've been making an effort to shoot images more consciously, and while I'm shooting as much as ever and trying new things, I'm pretty discontented by the results and rarely take them any further than getting them developed or dumping them on to my hard drive. Taking a semi-competent picture isn't difficult, but I want to take photographs that make me feel something. My favourite photographer is Steve McCurry and while I find his photographs emotionally stirring, I can't help but wonder how much of the intent behind them was a matter of expression or opportunism. Is affective art independent of the artist's intentions? Is simply being inserted in the moment destructive to the presentation of a final image? Can art pander? burzum karaoke fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Aug 24, 2012 |
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pseudonordic posted:For the record, my IT director is a Pentax ME Super. squidflakes posted:I'm sorry, IT Director? You mean the head contractor? y'all hosed.
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Aug 24, 2012 10:16
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http://www.behance.net/gallery/Water-Wigs/4889175 These are ridiculous <edit: in a good way>, fair play to the guy for nailing the technique 
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Aug 24, 2012 12:26
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evil_bunnY posted:y'all hosed. This is why I don't work there anymore.
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Aug 24, 2012 16:59
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aliencowboy posted:I'm growing increasingly frustrated by my photography. I've been making an effort to shoot images more consciously, and while I'm shooting as much as ever and trying new things, I'm pretty discontented by the results and rarely take them any further than getting them developed or dumping them on to my hard drive. Taking a semi-competent picture isn't difficult, but I want to take photographs that make me feel something. Yes, not necessarily, and yes. The simplest approach might be to seek out things that make you feel a certain way and take pictures of them. Hopefully your images will make others feel the same way.
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Aug 24, 2012 17:07
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My philosophy on photography is a quote from a David Lynch movie. I take pictures of things so I see them again the way I remember them, not necessarily the way they happened. This can translate to photojournalism, editorial, fashion, whatever.
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Aug 24, 2012 17:15
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^^That's typically my philosophy for processing. As far as taking pictures, I try to take my camera with me as much as possible and when eyes tell my brain "oh gently caress", I shoot. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Visual appeal and design sense are at least tangible to me, but emotional appeal is a conundrum I don't know if I'll ever fully grasp. burzum karaoke fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Aug 24, 2012 |
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Aug 24, 2012 17:39
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My problem is when my brain goes "oh gently caress" I can't find an interesting composition. Just because the sun is breaking through some storm clouds and painting a patch of corn field yellow and it looks loving badass as I stare at it doesn't mean anyone is going to care when I put a picture of it up on the internet. I've been trying to get better about getting myself into interesting spots when there's good light, but it's a hell of a lot of work.. especially as I normally encounter these scenes when I'm out with my wife and I feel kind of bad forcing her to stand around for 30 minutes as I dick with the camera.
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Aug 24, 2012 18:48
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QPZIL posted:My philosophy on photography is a quote from a David Lynch movie. I take pictures of things so I see them again the way I remember them, not necessarily the way they happened. This can translate to photojournalism, editorial, fashion, whatever. I thought that was going to be a Winogrand quote for the first half. "I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs."
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Aug 24, 2012 20:07
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xzzy posted:My problem is when my brain goes "oh gently caress" I can't find an interesting composition. Just because the sun is breaking through some storm clouds and painting a patch of corn field yellow and it looks loving badass as I stare at it doesn't mean anyone is going to care when I put a picture of it up on the internet. Just take the damned photo. Either it works or it doesn't. If it doesn't work, figure out why it doesn't work and consider it a learning experience for next time. For every great photograph a great photographer takes, there are bazillions they took that you never see.
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Aug 24, 2012 20:32
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I'm gonna buy my first filter soon, a K2 (#8) Yellow. I've been shooting B&W all this time with nothing in front of the lens, so I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised by the difference.
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Aug 24, 2012 20:35
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QPZIL posted:I'm gonna buy my first filter soon, a K2 (#8) Yellow. I've been shooting B&W all this time with nothing in front of the lens, so I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised by the difference. Red filters are the most fun for dramatic effects but they suck up a ton of light because they're pretty dark.
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Aug 24, 2012 20:37
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Yeah, I figured a red filter would be too much for my standard shooting, but I've noticed that most of my outdoor shots have a grey boring sky, so a medium yellow filter should perk up the contrast a bit.
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Aug 24, 2012 20:44
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Are you shooting digital or film? If you're shooting digital, I know that Canon DSLRs can be set up with a picture style that simulates colour filters if you just want to mess around and see how stuff looks.
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Aug 24, 2012 20:48
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HPL posted:Are you shooting digital or film? Come on son, let's be serious here.
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Aug 24, 2012 20:51
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QPZIL posted:Come on son, let's be serious here. To be consistent, instead of instantly replying to his answer with your computer, you should reply by a handwritten note, sent by post, with an expensive stamp.
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Aug 24, 2012 20:59
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spog posted:To be consistent, instead of instantly replying to his answer with your computer, you should reply by a handwritten note, sent by post, with an expensive stamp. Oh I did, he should be getting it in a couple months depending on how often the horseman needs to stop.
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Aug 24, 2012 21:06
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Meh...I got sick of trying to document the world as is. It just does not happen fast enough for me to be interested in it. So I drag lights and reflectors and hammer that poo poo into something I like, on demand. Much happier now.
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Aug 24, 2012 22:23
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Sad Dorkroom discussion. Neil Armstrong. Moon Photographer.
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Aug 26, 2012 00:28
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squidflakes posted:Sad Dorkroom discussion. Will no one think of the poor Hasselblad ELMs that monster left to to rot on the surface of the moon? 
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Aug 26, 2012 06:13
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8th-samurai posted:Will no one think of the poor Hasselblad ELMs that monster left to to rot on the surface of the moon? Those things are still there. We could bring them back and start using them again like NBD.
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Aug 26, 2012 06:30
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Unfortunately you'd get thrown in jail the instant you got back into range of law enforcement.. they already have laws about touching artifacts on the moon.
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Aug 26, 2012 06:42
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xzzy posted:Unfortunately you'd get thrown in jail the instant you got back into range of law enforcement.. they already have laws about touching artifacts on the moon. Dude if you can get to the moon just to get a fee Hasselblad, I think you can avoid the local constabulary. 
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Aug 26, 2012 06:51
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squidflakes posted:Sad Dorkroom discussion. He should have picked a model with better skin.
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Aug 26, 2012 18:02
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squidflakes posted:I... I can cut this down to 2 4X5 sheets right? What would you do with the other half?
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Aug 26, 2012 20:00
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Mr. Bigsby - sell me your RB67 thingy!
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Aug 26, 2012 21:43
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Not to steal Bigsby's spotlight but I've got an RB67 kit I'm looking to get rid of and I just haven't taken the time to make an entry to the buy/sell thread: -Pro-SD Body -90mm K/L Lens -Waistlevel Finder -Non-metered Prism -67 Back -645 Back w/ ground glass mask -Polaroid Back -Left handed grip
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Aug 26, 2012 22:34
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I am now one of THOSE PEOPLE. Sent my 1D3 and 70-200 f/4 in to Canon for repairs. Body had a circuit board or something replaced that was causing battery drain, and then they did a bunch of other stuff during their cleaning and checking, including AF calibration, angle adjustments, etc. The 70-200 needed parts of the focus mechanism replaced / repaired as well. So I threw ~$425 at them, and they sent me all my stuff back. Cool, everything works now. I went and shot some senior photos, then started editing. I routinely zoom in to eyes and faces to check focus and to edit skin tones. As I'm editing, everything is a little softer than it usually is. I feel like I'm being paranoid / crazy, but I keep editing and checking, and it starts getting a little ridiculous. There is definitely more missed focus. I even installed a trial of Aperture so I could see where my chosen focus point was. So after consulting with that, I ran a more controlled test: I printed off a focus chart, set up my tripod and took a bunch of focus test shots. Sure enough, they show a consistent backfocus with both my 70-200 and 17-35. I'm pretty sure my dialed-in AF microadjustment should fix the issue, but it still kind of pisses me off that my camera is worse off after just coming back from Canon's service center. How does that happen?
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Aug 26, 2012 23:31
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If you shot with an ME Super, it wouldn't 
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Elite Taco posted:Mr. Bigsby - sell me your RB67 thingy! I am over in Sweden so if you are in the US you are likely better off picking one up from KEH. Not sure what they go for now, but a few years back you could get an entire outfit for 200 bucks or so.
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Aug 27, 2012 19:24
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Martytoof posted:How many times a day do you think some manager at a fortune 500 company says "How much?! But I can buy a 2TB external drive at best buy for a hundred bucks!" This happened to me the other day and it came from the head of one of our reference data management teams in front of our divisional head. He said "well no because you need to pay for mirroring and fibre connections and redundancy etc. etc." and the rest of us just sat there feeling awkward as someone crashed and burned. Mind you £10/Gb is pretty loving ridiculous.
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Martytoof posted:How many times a day do you think some manager at a fortune 500 company says "How much?! But I can buy a 2TB external drive at best buy for a hundred bucks!" Oh, I love doing that to the infrastructure team. Usually the conversation goes something like:  Hey, your logs are filling up the disk again. So buy some more. No way, don't have the budget. But disk is cheap! No it's not. Look, I can walk down to the warehouse and pick up a 1TB drive for next to nothing, you're telling me I can't have 300 gig for logs? THIS IS DIFFERENT DISK, OKThey know that I know, but it is still fun to gently caress with them.
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Aug 28, 2012 20:42
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I'm pretty lucky where I work.. users can have all the disk they want if they can cough up the budget for it. IT generates specifications, users pick what they can afford from the list, and we put it on the network. If they want more disk, they can buy more disk. It works extremely well.
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Aug 28, 2012 20:53
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xzzy posted:IT generates specifications, users pick what they can afford from the list, and we put it on the network. If they want more disk, they can buy more disk. How often do you think you can you afford to be down? This is what it costs. How often do you think now?
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Aug 28, 2012 21:22
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Had a customer show up with a pile of 2TB USB drives from Best Buy a few weeks ago. They wanted to plug them into their SAN. It didn't go very well.
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Aug 28, 2012 21:37
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I like the premise of this new show, Capture. Take a look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfmifVKpat8
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Santa is strapped posted:I like the premise of this new show, Capture. Take a look poo poo, i've never heard of Platon before but i recognize a lot of his images...awesome stuff. i'm guessing the key to his general look is "shoot with a wideangle close to the subject" whereismyshoe fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Aug 29, 2012 |
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Not sure where to put this... http://o.canada.com/2012/08/28/your...f397196d7476f6e but I guess here works. There doesn't appear to be any direct advice in there, at least.
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whereismyshoe posted:poo poo, i've never heard of Platon before but i recognize a lot of his images...awesome stuff. i'm guessing the key to his general look is "shoot with a wideangle close to the subject" He's really fantastic, he did a workshop in Santa Fe and I got to hear him do a talk about his shoots, really funny and extremely nice guy. His book is wonderful as well, it includes his journal pages scanned in at the back about some of the shoots.
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whereismyshoe posted:poo poo, i've never heard of Platon before but i recognize a lot of his images...awesome stuff. i'm guessing the key to his general look is "shoot with a wideangle close to the subject" It's more his lighting than the gear. It's a neat idea for a show but Dylan "pretentious art student" McDermett kind of ruined it for me
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