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I bet they got like 6 entries for the plant category. Apparently there are middle school kids who have taken shots that blow the poo poo out of anything in my portfolio.
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I know right, gently caress those kids. Sweet 5DmkIII and 500mm f4 IS II you got there, 12 year old child. Really surprised that they went with what they did for the birds category. I mean, its a great pic, I'd be stoked if I took it but this was one of the entries:  which loving owns hard and totally should have won imo Also, this picture is just fantastic: 
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I know right, gently caress those kids. Sweet 5DmkIII and 500mm f4 IS II you got there, 12 year old child. If you're talking about Mama's Back you should mention the $1300+ tripod setup too. quote:Technical specification But that is possibly borrowed gear, so I can let that go. My question is, who is driving them out to the middle of nowhere and sitting in camouflage with them all day so the kid can take wildlife photos? They aren't old enough to drive, they can't be lugging $8k worth of gear on long hikes on their own. I've figured it out. That's the real subtext in most of the children's category photographs. On the surface you think it's about you needing more camera gear but when you look deeper you see the images are really about how your parents didn't love you enough. Anubis fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Oct 18, 2015 |
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Or maybe some parents just make a lot of loving money and spare no expense trying to make their crotch fruit the best at something.
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Bubbacub posted:I bet they got like 6 entries for the plant category. xzzy posted:Or maybe some parents just make a lot of loving money and spare no expense trying to make their crotch fruit the best at something. I remember as a kid, I was a squad level swimmer, which from memory was just good enough to go to competition. One of the kids in the class above me had the stereotype Asian mum who drove him hard. I saw him doing laps one day when I went to the pools with friends, and he wanted to come and have fun with us, but his mum started lecturing him about how he had to be the best and the only way to do that was work. We didn't stick around long, because a mother yelling at her kid in public doesn't make for a fun place to be, but the look on that kids face when his mum said he couldn't take a break and have some fun is stuck in my head. I imagine these kids have parents like that, but 100x worse. Losing your childhood so your parents can live through you and admire the family trophy cabinet while you sit their miserable must loving suck. That being said, I'm definitely finding some pretty plants and getting that first prize next year though.
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A few years ago some kid managed to get in with a photo of a fox in a hen house taken using about the only point'n'shoot I've ever noticed on the competition, but yes "Child was photographing the subject alongside their father" is a common theme. One of the kids this year is from an family of nature photographers (Dad, two daughters and a son). edit: I do think that the switch to digital has helped a lot if you want to prodig-ize your child. "Come and sit with me for hours on end in an uncomfortable hide, taking only a handful of photo that you won't see for a week" had to have been a hard sell. The instant feedback of digital has to help stave off boredom somewhat. Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Oct 18, 2015 |
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Oct 18, 2015 10:07
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I think for the most part child photographers with super nice setups are probably using the parent's gear or have that gear provided by parents who themselves are so into photography they can't help but slather it onto their kids as well.
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I guess there are worse things you could drag your kids along for, but what's weird for me is seeing kids with glitzy websites with prints for sale and poo poo. Like they're already trotting out a 12 year old as a brand. I think I had a website at that age, but it a ship guide to Wing Commander 3 or something.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:
Giving a life is nothing to win a prize over even if an animal!!!!!! Made me sick first time I saw it. Pick something more beautiful and pleasant next time!!!!
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Anubis posted:If you're talking about Mama's Back you should mention the $1300+ tripod setup too. Yeah I was just making a joke but that's sort of a good point. Like, 95% of nature photography is having the money and time for expensive equipment and travel so its not something a kid can really do without a ton of support from wealthy parents. Anyway, I'm not actually trying to slag children, and I think its cool they have some categories for kids.
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I didn't expect this to come out as well as it did, but this is the result of taking 5 second exposures over and over until a bat tripped a laser which in turn triggered a set of flashes. Pallas's Long-tongued Bat, Costa Rica 
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Some Costa Rican reptiles and amphibians (some wild, some from private reptile collection that were made available to photograph): Costa Rican Rattlesnake  Tree Frog (?)  Glass Frog  Eyelash Viper  Hog-nosed Viper  Green Iguana  Parrot Snake  Red-eyed Tree Frog  "Jesus Lizard" Common Basalisk  Speckled Palm Viper  Striped Palm Viper  Strawberry Poison-dart Frog 
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The only thing I hate about this thread, loving snakes, and large rear end images of them. Gross.
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Counterpoint: loving GORGEOUS PHOTOS of snakes.
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Yeah, all those reptile photos are incredible
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Never stop posting your Costa Rica photos, InternetJunky. The persistent drought in California has dried out a lot of the marshland in the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, so several of the reed beds are growing out of solid ground right now. Entire herds of black-tailed deer will move into them to graze on the grass below the cattails while remaining hidden, so there are intermittent trampling, munching and snorting noises coming from the reeds, sometimes just feet from the trail. Occasionally, one would show itself while moving between reed beds.  black-tail by Redwood Planet, on Flickr  buck-trot by Redwood Planet, on Flickr Banana slug.  banana-slug-twig by Redwood Planet, on Flickr
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Reckon this make more sense here than anywhere in TVIV.... The BBC's next major nature series starts this weekend, and as always it looks like it's another absolute master-class in camera work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTIQmt2s_24
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Holy poo poo that bat photo (and the rest of those costa rica photos, but especially the bat one)
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We all gotta go sometime, cow.
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And those clouds changed forever seconds after the picture was taken. Nothing is forever. And not everything gets to be delicious.
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Good burgs gotta live a good life.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Reckon this make more sense here than anywhere in TVIV.... My debut as a camera operator for the BBC Natural History Unit just aired. It's on iPlayer now for anyone in Britain or using a proxy plugin: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vpb86 I shot the opening segment and some of the narration/B-roll around the coast. Some animal portraits from the Sequoia Park Zoo from yesterday: River otter  Bush dog  Muntjac 
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Moon Potato posted:I watched the gently caress out of that. It's easily some of the best wildlife cinematography I've seen. I don't know what a bush dog is, but it looks pissed. Yeah, The Hunt was fantastic, I loved the Arctic one. It was a shame that iplayer mpeg compression couldn't handle the huge flocks of birds and schools of fish, collapsing into a blocky mess. Will definitely check out the episode you shot on, the first one was pretty fun.
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Trying to salvage some old Kenya shots. Safaris are awesome, but you don't get much variety in backgrounds/surroundings so I'm trying to see what I can do in photoshop for some of these boring shots. Moon Potato posted:I watched the gently caress out of that. It's easily some of the best wildlife cinematography I've seen. Your three zoo shots are great. I wish there was a whole series like this.
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InternetJunky posted:I don't suppose you know of a free UK proxy, do you? I'd love to see the footage. quote:Your three zoo shots are great. I wish there was a whole series like this. Edit: they put a low-res copy up on Youtube, but they forgot to uncheck the 'Please gently caress up my gamma' button while exporting and the colors are all washed out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtY415tfU3E Moon Potato fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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Another option is to use a free 7 day trial at unblockus. It doesn't them too long to unblock your IP so you can use another email address to get another 7 days.
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(Guess who hasn't been on a luxurious safari to photograph exotic species) Squirrel on Fence by Trevor Zuliani, on Flickr
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This thread needs more pictures, and now that I am starting to get the hang of using my camera, I'll post some.     "Its really simple. just do exactly what I do" 
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Ika posted:This thread needs more pictures, and now that I am starting to get the hang of using my camera, I'll post some. This is a very, very pretty shot, but I feel like you could bring up the shadows and bring down some of the highlights a bit and you'd end up with an even better result. (assuming you shot in RAW)
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Kenshin posted:This is a very, very pretty shot, but I feel like you could bring up the shadows and bring down some of the highlights a bit and you'd end up with an even better result. (assuming you shot in RAW) I'll have to give that a try. I haven't started figuring out postprocessing yet, still trying to get enough practice so I can get a good pictures of the cheetahs running one day., so all of these are straight conversions. E: I'm only doing .raw, and then run the good ones through a 29 line C++ program to convert them and downsize them. Here's another one I'm really happy with, of the father. 
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Ika posted:I'll have to give that a try. I haven't started figuring out postprocessing yet, still trying to get enough practice so I can get a good pictures of the cheetahs running one day., so all of these are straight conversions. 
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VelociBacon posted:(Guess who hasn't been on a luxurious safari to photograph exotic species) It is an invasive species so I guess it qualifies as exotic?
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InternetJunky posted:Trying to salvage some old Kenya shots. Safaris are awesome, but you don't get much variety in backgrounds/surroundings so I'm trying to see what I can do in photoshop for some of these boring shots. I think the only way to isolate animals in africa would be to get them pin sharp on a tele with green bokeh to easily separate them. (because most animals in the bushveld are pretty good at camouflage, it also tends to fool photoshop when trying to separate them from savannah/brownish backgrounds) And good luck finding a green background most of the time!
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