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This Christmas I lost a hard drive (my backup) and it was a pretty sobering wake-up call for me since, had it been my main hard drive, I would have lost more than one month of pictures among other things. I just spent enough money to buy a very nice L lens on a storage solution so this never happens again. This is such an expensive hobby.
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Sevn posted:For Nikon DX cameras, the 35mm is the same. It is great on the cheapest DX bodies, and it is great on the expensive DX bodies. Its great even on FX bodies! It gives the 35/1.4 a run for its money if you're not a pixel peeping, corner sharpness obsessed test-chart shooter. It was my main prime when I had to travel light for a wedding in Hawaii  DSC_1383 by capacity4action, on Flickr
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Dec 27, 2011 16:49
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I'm meeting with a Magnum photog at the Magnum offices at noon to discuss my graduate thesis. Nervous!
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Dec 28, 2011 17:22
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Anyone have some good photography lighting blogs that they follow? I already follow Strobist and Lighting Essentials but I'm looking for more, possibly more along the lines of studio lighting would be super helpful.
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Dec 28, 2011 20:12
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I don't, but I found this yesterday: http://ricknunn.com/fiftyoffifty A project using only a 50mm + 5d2 and some small lighting setups. He puts up a lighting diagram for each photo he takes, which is pretty cool.
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Dec 28, 2011 21:17
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Guess the lighting was mentioned here, and really needs to be updated more often than it is.
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Dec 28, 2011 21:21
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Martytoof posted:I don't, but I found this yesterday: That is a great idea, and executed just as well.
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Dec 28, 2011 23:48
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Anti_Social posted:That is a great idea, and executed just as well. Yeah, I just tweeted him that it got me off my rear end shooting. Just because "boo hoo, there's nothing interesting here to shoot" doesn't matter. I'll go MAKE an interesting scene and shoot it, then.
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Dec 29, 2011 00:49
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What are these 'grids' he's shooting through?
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Dec 29, 2011 00:54
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Pretty much what it sounds like. It's a grid you put on your light source so it directs the light and there's little to no light falloff onto areas where the grid isn't pointing. http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/10/free-and-so-easy-diy-grid-spots-for.html
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Dec 29, 2011 00:56
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Awkward Davies posted:I'm meeting with a Magnum photog at the Magnum offices at noon to discuss my graduate thesis. Nervous! I'm guessing this has happened by now - how did it go? What was your graduate thesis about?
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ExecuDork posted:I'm guessing this has happened by now - how did it go? What was your graduate thesis about? Fine. My thesis is almost completed unrelated, but someone knows someone and how can you pass that up. She was super nice, and it was cool to be in the magnum office. She gave me some helpful advice and that was it.
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Dec 29, 2011 01:50
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My grandparents just moved to a retirement community, I've been at their house since Christmas cleaning out closets and such. I just came across a Polaroid SX-70 that looks to be in very good condition, not sure if it's ever been used. I didn't have a clue what this thing was beforehand, but after a quick google search it seems there's a bit of a cult following behind it. Kind of cool. If nothing else I can display it on my bookshelf as a neat prop. 
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Dec 29, 2011 20:05
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Backup camera? Yeah, it's film. So what?
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Dec 29, 2011 20:13
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Elite Taco posted:Backup camera? Yeah, it's film. So what? If I can find reasonably priced film in time for my next wedding I'm totally doing a portrait with it to give to the bride.
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Dec 29, 2011 20:31
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Yep. Tonight's first dance photos will likely be brought to you by Portra 400 
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Dec 29, 2011 20:51
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Doing a blog giveaway for a couple of photography tutorial books, thought some of you might be interested! Most useful for the beginning to mid-learning photographer, with lots of lighting stuff  http://winniejeng.com/blog/2011/12/new-year-giveaway/
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Elite Taco posted:Backup camera? Yeah, it's film. So what? My film camera fell off of a speaker and broke. Worse, the flap to the back broke open, ruining the film 
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nonanone posted:Doing a blog giveaway for a couple of photography tutorial books, thought some of you might be interested! Most useful for the beginning to mid-learning photographer, with lots of lighting stuff Posted! I used <img> tags to put an image in, but it's not showing up. Will that appear after it's "moderator approved"?
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Hmmm I have no idea. Can you just link for now? I'll play around and see. Edit: Looks like you didn't add the actual <img> stuff, I don't know if it deleted it or something, so I fixed it for you, all good! nonanone fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Dec 30, 2011 22:00
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So I went to a club tonight for a NYE party. I brought along my camera. The owner thought I was "from the news." And then later on he told me that next time I should tell him I'm coming and he'll "pay me." Hm.
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Jan 1, 2012 09:03
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the posted:So I went to a club tonight for a NYE party. I brought along my camera. This is a bad idea without knowing what you're getting in to. Or you'll get $20 and he'll expect you to be there from 10-2am, and then use all of your photos for flyers/posters for ever.
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I got a late Christmas gift from a friend, in the book Understanding Shutter Speed. Peterson again has some pretty good advice in it from what I've skimmed through so far, but holy poo poo he really can't resist showing off his wife's fake tits at every opportunity.
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Jan 2, 2012 03:56
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I got an Instax Wide from Girlfriend for Christmas. It is HUGE, and also pretty awesome.
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In Australia McDonald's pays $10 when you're 14. So $8 p/h is insane.
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Jan 3, 2012 01:42
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Schofferhofer posted:In Australia McDonald's pays $10 when you're 14. So $8 p/h is insane. Oh look, replied to something 5 pages old and the app won't let me edit it.
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Schofferhofer posted:In Australia McDonald's pays $10 when you're 14. So $8 p/h is insane. My socks are drying. Just another non-sequitor. Schofferhofer posted:Oh look, replied to something 5 pages old and the app won't let me edit it. Ha. I figured it was a different thread.
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nonanone posted:Doing a blog giveaway for a couple of photography tutorial books, thought some of you might be interested! Most useful for the beginning to mid-learning photographer, with lots of lighting stuff I applied, but my image is not showing up, and it's been a few days. I think I may have terribly screwed up my post.  I can post a link to the image, if I need to.
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I fixed it, no problem. I don't know why but it seems like when you comment with the code it takes out the IMG tags. Ah well.
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Jan 4, 2012 03:38
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I was using the photoframe function of my TV set-top box to display some xmas photos. One of the transition effects was an interesting colour-wipe: the photo loaded in B&W and the colour was wiped in a second later. It suddenly reminded me just how awesome and emotional B&W is. Now, I am fighting the urge to convert my entire LR archive into B&W, just to see how much better they all look.
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I heard on the radio this morning that Kodak will be kicked off the New York Stock Exchange if they can't get their stock price above $1/share. Hmm...
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Well, I just talked to the director of HR and he's almost as bad as everyone else. Despite the fact that I brought a printout of the relevant passages of Title 17 and explained what work-for-hire entails, the company apparently still feel that not only do they have complete and total ownership on anything that I've taken on the clock (which is not the case with 99% of my photos), but that anything taken on my weekends from public areas with my own equipment fall into some sort of gray area and are still somehow partially theirs due to me being employed by them (on other days of the week) and the photos having some value/interest to the company. Sucks for them, because I will never bring a photo of mine within 500 yards of work as long as I'm alive.
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I guess the upside is if they ever do fire you, you got some great ammunition for a lawsuit! Maybe. I suppose there's a chance a lawyer would laugh at you for trying, but it might make you feel better.
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Lawyers only laugh at people who don't have any money.
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William T. Hornaday posted:Well, I just talked to the director of HR and he's almost as bad as everyone else. Despite the fact that I brought a printout of the relevant passages of Title 17 and explained what work-for-hire entails, the company apparently still feel that not only do they have complete and total ownership on anything that I've taken on the clock (which is not the case with 99% of my photos), but that anything taken on my weekends from public areas with my own equipment fall into some sort of gray area and are still somehow partially theirs due to me being employed by them (on other days of the week) and the photos having some value/interest to the company. On the plus side, morally speaking, you can steal as many office supplies as you can stuff down your trousers.
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ease posted:Lawyers only laugh at people who don't have any money.
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I read an article that proclaims the coming death of the dSLR, and its replacement by mirrorless cameras. What do y'all think? Personally, other than venturing into the EVIL thread, I know nothing about mirrorless cameras, but it seems that in a few years, assuming I can look through the viewfinder and not notice any sort of lag when I'm panning, there'd be little reason to have a big box and a mirror in my camera.
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I think that guy's writing style is incredibly annoying. There's probably some truth to what he's saying, but there's going to be holdouts for a long time. Film isn't even buried in the grave yet and 10 years ago people were saying its time had come. As for whether to buy now or wait for these mirrorless cameras to get decent, that's a losing proposition. There's always a better device just around the corner, if you keep waiting for it you'll never buy anything.
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Cockwhore posted:I read an article that proclaims the coming death of the dSLR, and its replacement by mirrorless cameras. What do y'all think? Yeah I don't think I'm going to take the  very seriously.
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Cockwhore posted:I read an article that proclaims the coming death of the dSLR, and its replacement by mirrorless cameras. What do y'all think? I like how he posts a picture that he took with a dslr as an example of why we don't need dslrs with the caption of "I took this with a dslr, but I didn't have to!" Well yeah...same could be said for any photo.
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