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InternetJunky posted:Find me a brush that makes you look like this  guidoanselmi posted:helmacron posts The only part of Pentaxforums worth reading is the marketplace and the reviews. But stick to the less wordy reviews, the long ones tend to be gushy.
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ExecuDork posted:The only part of Pentaxforums worth reading is the marketplace and the reviews. But stick to the less wordy reviews, the long ones tend to be gushy. Good thing I never got tremendously high and made a Fifty Hitler Post on their forums... yep, that never happened. EDIT: Upon further examination of the saved PDF, in no way was it actually a 196-Hitler Post.
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Jan 16, 2013 10:56
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Soundmonkey, at the risk of MOD SASS: It's the middle of the night (in North America) and you're telling maudlin stories about hijinks at other forums and begging for major threads to get rebooted. You're drunk, go to bed. But do something nice for Shortbus, first. EDIT: LET THE LIQUOR DO THE MODDING
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Jan 16, 2013 11:09
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ExecuDork posted:Soundmonkey, at the risk of MOD SASS: Actually no, I'm just sort of trying to reboot old megathreads in general. Thank you for your kind concern though 
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Jan 16, 2013 11:18
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InternetJunky posted:Find me a brush that makes you look like this This device is used to capture distant planets. Not capture pictures of planets, mind you, but actually capture them.
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Jan 16, 2013 18:06
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Oh. My. Zeus. posted:This device is used to capture distant planets. Not capture pictures of planets, mind you, but actually capture them. Nah it's just a telephoto lens.
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Jan 16, 2013 18:35
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This is a pretty interesting thing: http://www.eoshd.com/content/9467/aps-c-and-super-35mm-just-went-full-frame-metabones-speed-booster http://www.eoshd.com/content/9467/aps-c-and-super-35mm-just-went-full-frame-metabones-speed-booster posted:Crop factors are a thing of the past. It's an adapter for NEX E-mount cameras that lets it not only use Canon EF (full frame) lenses, but inserts a lens in between the mount and the sensor to shrink the projected image down to something that fits onto the crop sensor in the back of the body. The result is that there is no crop, and you get the full-frame image, albiet with some loss of quality and fidelity as the image is shrunk down and sent through another layer of glass.
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There's been discussion about it for the past few days in the gear thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3491423&pagenumber=23#post411497704
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Jan 16, 2013 20:34
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Ah, the one thread in dorkroom I don't have bookmarked. Fixed that now, thanks.
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Jan 16, 2013 20:38
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Woop. I'm going up the London Shard on Saturday  No tripods allowed though 
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Jan 16, 2013 20:58
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Oh. My. Zeus. posted:This device is used to capture distant planets. Not capture pictures of planets, mind you, but actually capture them. Leica's new Unicron line.
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Jan 16, 2013 21:10
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Beastruction posted:Leica's new Unicron line. Excuse me while I go put Transformers: The Movie soundtrack on repeat and jam out to some sweet rear end 80's tunes.
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8th-samurai posted:Excuse me while I go put Transformers: The Movie soundtrack on repeat and jam out to some sweet rear end 80's tunes. You got the touch You got the power Whitezombi fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jan 16, 2013 |
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I'm trying to find a photographer and I am having no luck. He did landscapes of farms and such in Illinois. Some of his prints were just a couple of inches high and a few feet long. I may be mixing up a couple of people but I swear it's one guy. I think I remember seeing something about him on PBS many years ago.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:Oscar Bailey? No. It's driving me crazy.
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What more do you need? NSFW, maybe
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From Clayton Cubitt's twitter:quote:Three step guide to photography: 01: be interesting. 02: find interesting people. 03: find interesting places. Nothing about cameras. I have to say I do agree with 2 and 3, even though I've seen some boring (to me) shots being overly praised. Step 1 I'm iffy about - if you as a photographer can create interesting photos, that does not equate you being interesting. It also doesn't mean you're not interesting. I just don't agree with that being a necessary trait to have if you are to succeed as a photographer. I think step 1 should be show only the good photos (a few people on his twitter suggested that), provided you're a good editor. From this blog: Photographs on the brain
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Don't think any of those are necessary, but they help I guess. 01: Be Smart 02: Read Interesting Investment Books 03: Find companies with adequate earnings reports. Don't speculate. Now you know my secret. Go out and get that money! 
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Santa is strapped posted:I just don't agree with that being a necessary trait to have if you are to succeed as a photographer. That's just something boring people say. Also he's not saying people need these things to be successful photographers, he's saying if you possess/do them you will be a successful photographer.
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Jan 19, 2013 11:51
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I know plenty of interesting people that are poo poo photographers.
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Jan 19, 2013 11:58
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William Stafford (as quoted by Robert Adams): "Smart is okay, lucky is better." I would say a much more important thing for a photographer than being interesting (though it is certainly related), is to be interested.
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Do you guys know the name of the photographer who has a gallery called something like People and Places? One specific photo I'm thinking of is a little kid with a balloon chasing someone around a big boulder on the beach and all you see of the other person is their balloon. Pretty vague, I know
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mr. mephistopheles posted:That's just something boring people say. Not true at all. I've seen a lot of interviews with photographers whose work I like, but they do not seem interesting at all. In my post I didn't say that the opposite is true, I just said I don't agree because I, like others here have said, have seen interesting people produce poo poo work and not interesting people produce amazing work. And vice versa. Saint Fu posted:Do you guys know the name of the photographer who has a gallery called something like People and Places? One specific photo I'm thinking of is a little kid with a balloon chasing someone around a big boulder on the beach and all you see of the other person is their balloon. Pretty vague, I know I know the photos you're referring to, but can't remember the name. I do know they were posted in the Awesome Photos thread, check there a few pages back.
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I know commercial photography doesn't typically fall into the category of "good photographers" for a lot of people, but for the past little while I've been following a wedding photographer whose work I love without knowing anything about her. She was recently on TV and I was blown away by how unhappy, boring and just miserable she came across. I couldn't believe that someone who could produce these lovely, romantic wedding shots couldn't even produce a smile once the whole show.
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Santa is strapped posted:I know the photos you're referring to, but can't remember the name. I do know they were posted in the Awesome Photos thread, check there a few pages back. e: Bingo
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^^^ drat, I love the use of color. Thanks for linking it here.Santa is strapped posted:Not true at all. I've seen a lot of interviews with photographers whose work I like, but they do not seem interesting at all. In my post I didn't say that the opposite is true, I just said I don't agree because I, like others here have said, have seen interesting people produce poo poo work and not interesting people produce amazing work. And vice versa. Again, he was not saying you have to be an interesting person to be a successful photographer, he was just saying if you are an interesting person and you find interesting people and you find interesting locations, you will be successful. It is not an all-inclusive or exclusive list of the qualities that make a successful photographer, it's just one possible configuration of qualities that lead to that result. The only way you disagree is if you think it's possible to do all of those things and still fail as a photographer. Uninteresting people being successful has nothing to do with what he said and does nothing to disprove it. Everyone should take an analytic reasoning class/read a book about it at some point in their life. poo poo is interesting. I personally think the most vital aspects of success in any field of art is your ability to at least appear confident in your work and self-promote. I've seen amazing artists who couldn't make any money off of it because they were always down on their work and afraid to show it off to anyone. I've seen lots and lots of lovely artists who were in love with themselves manage to make a living out of art because they couldn't shut the gently caress up about how amazing they were and other people bought into it. Photography is especially bad because all it takes to impress most people is a big expensive looking camera and photos that look technically better than standard P&S shots, even if they're still technically terrible.
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That's a good way to put it.
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That second to last picture, I actually wouldn't be surprised if that picture was actually shot recently
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Man, our generation is a bunch of pussies.  The extent of our protest is ranting on internet forums.
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I dunno, I'd say forming literal shield walls against riot police like they did a year ago in Oakland takes more balls than getting naked and doing drugs at a rock concert.
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Spime Wrangler posted:I dunno, I'd say forming literal shield walls against riot police like they did a year ago in Oakland takes more balls than getting naked and doing drugs at a rock concert. You've never had bad acid.
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Once upon a time, I went to Mazatlan and took a photo of a man with no legs. DSC07208 by Kelly_Davis, on Flickr Now, by once upon a time, I mean three years ago. And yet, it (and the color version) remains one of the most popular photos on my Flickr, and it kind of creeps me out. Once in awhile, I'll notice a spike in my Flickr referral log. I'll get excited, thinking someone noticed and liked my work - only to see it's the amputee photo. I'll follow the referral links to find it's been added to amputee galleries. Someone is getting off to my photo of a man with no legs, and it's weird to me.
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If you want spikes in your view count, post a photo to reddit. Post it in the /r/itookapicture subreddit and watch your count go into the 500s easily. You should post this photo there actually.
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My photos with the highest views - a few passed the 1000 mark not long ago - were posted to PentaxForums, and consistently attract half-a-dozen views each per week, despite being more than 2 years old. The subject matter in that set is a few photos from the golden hour near a lake and dam in central Saskatchewan, in autumn, plus a couple of roses from my mom's garden from around the same time. The only creepy view spikes I've gotten were from a few pictures of highschool cheerleaders I took at the Royal Hobart Show last October - the team from a local high school had done well in some regional competitions and had been invited to perform at the Show before heading to an international competition. I think their average age was about 17; a few of the photos of a girl in mid-air, action shots I was mildly proud of for not completely blowing the focus, ended up getting favourited by a couple of Flickrites without their own photos, just large collections of favourites, consisting entirely of nudes. It's the internet, just find the annonymous regular free porn like the rest of us.
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When I first started taking photos I was in high school, so I took photos during rehearsal of the musical I was in. Suuuuuuper creeped out by the foot and dance fetish users that favorited them.
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A friend of mine had to change the title of one his Flickr photos, he had inadvertently named it very similarly to a creepy anime based stalking game. He was getting around 50 hits a day from google referrals, it was tilted along the lines of "there she goes" or something like that.
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Santa is strapped posted:If you want spikes in your view count, post a photo to reddit. Post it in the /r/itookapicture subreddit and watch your count go into the 500s easily. I'm going to post this one to reddit and see if the views spike. It is currently sitting on 2 at 1:10pm on Jan 22. edit: 246 views @ 3:50pm on Jan 22 edit: 1498 views @ 1:10pm on Jan 25 
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psylent posted:My current most viewed (around 9.5K) is a photo of me and the dude from the Arcade Fire. Not sure why it's viewed so much, but a lot of people seem to find it while trying to figure out how tall he is. I'm gonna sit here and wait for reasons why that isn't your photo contest entry (unless it's an old photo or something).
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