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Do these guys actually take photos or do they just run their mouths about it?
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Spedman posted:Same here for G+, I only have a look at the group every now and then, and sometimes post alt process stuff. At one point I was getting a little sick of this one lady posting heaps of lovely street photos (tautology?) though. Yeah, 90% of the photos posted there are awful.
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Aug 4, 2014 16:36
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Whitezombi posted:Do these guys actually take photos or do they just run their mouths about it? That was basically why I stopped listening to OTP.
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Aug 4, 2014 20:12
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Whitezombi posted:Do these guys actually take photos or do they just run their mouths about it? The guy in NYC (Bill) is a relatively successful commercial portrait photographer, and is actively shooting personal work, while Jeffery works in a range of creative fields and is a casual photographer with a strong interest in the topic. If you want in depth gear chat and technical explanations, this podcast is not for you, it's all about being creative and the challenges associated with that.
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Aug 4, 2014 22:14
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Spedman posted:The guy in NYC (Bill) is a relatively successful commercial portrait photographer, and is actively shooting personal work, while Jeffery works in a range of creative fields and is a casual photographer with a strong interest in the topic. If you want in depth gear chat and technical explanations, this podcast is not for you, it's all about being creative and the challenges associated with that. Yeah. Out of the 4 hours I listened to less than 1/2 was about photography. I actually do not want gear chat and tech explanations unless I'm trying to learn about a specific camera/lens/etc. This was a couple of guys talking about sound gear, hard drives, some random poo poo and then a little bit of photo stuff. meh
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Aug 4, 2014 22:51
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Whitezombi posted:Yeah. Out of the 4 hours I listened to less than 1/2 was about photography. I actually do not want gear chat and tech explanations unless I'm trying to learn about a specific camera/lens/etc. This was a couple of guys talking about sound gear, hard drives, some random poo poo and then a little bit of photo stuff. meh They do talk about random poo poo a lot.
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Aug 4, 2014 23:32
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I'd love to find a podcast of just creative people talking about how they're creative. Inspiration is more important than gear chat, imho.
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Aug 5, 2014 00:05
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Dorkroom podcast time.
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Aug 5, 2014 00:45
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Paragon8 posted:Dorkroom podcast time. Just like two hours of someone reading the best thread out loud at the top of their lungs then ten minutes of street thread post shaming.
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Aug 5, 2014 00:48
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ZippySLC posted:I'd love to find a podcast of just creative people talking about how they're creative.
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Aug 5, 2014 01:09
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ZippySLC posted:I'd love to find a podcast of just creative people talking about how they're creative. Inspiration is more important than gear chat, imho. 
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Aug 5, 2014 01:10
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Whirlwind Jones posted:It feels like there's a flaw in your logic here somewhere. Well like their methodology and inspirations.
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Aug 5, 2014 01:20
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"I like, saw this thing, and I thought it'd make a good picture, so I like, shot it. And then my computer crashed and I had to wait a week before I could process it. And my girfriend was all weird that week so I was in this kinda, like, weird place, y'know, in my head? and I put it together and it was like "cool!" and my buddy came over - I hadn't seen him in like, ages - and he said it needed more, I dunno, like black in this one spot so I did that and BAM pretty cool picture. Yeah."
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Aug 5, 2014 05:47
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Paragon8 posted:Dorkroom podcast time. I had an idea for a podcast where I'd interview subjects before and after a portrait session and release it as like a 30 minute interview series. It stemmed from listening to Lee Fields and wondering what I'd ask him if I ever got to photograph him. But all ideas are bad and I suck at everything.
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Aug 5, 2014 09:46
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ZippySLC posted:I'd love to find a podcast of just creative people talking about how they're creative. Inspiration is more important than gear chat, imho. You are probably going to get that more from books and interviews with good photographers. http://www.amazon.com/Ping-Pong-Conversations-Francesco-Zanot/dp/8869654095 is really good, I found it really insightful. These blogs are probably NSFW, some posts may contain naughty bits: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com is an excellent blog that features some interviews with photographers where they get right into their creative processes. http://photographsonthebrain.com/ is great for finding inspiration from cool new and old photography that you have probably never seen. Really though there is no substitute for just getting out there and being creative. Personally I feel like my own photography has made the biggest jump forward in the last 6 months by just going out and shooting 3-4 days a week consistently. Go out there and do it, then analyse your own work and figure out what you can do better and you will find your own direction. deaders fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Aug 5, 2014 10:05
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deaders posted:Go out there and do it, then analyse your own work and figure out what you can do better and you will find your own direction. This worked out really well for me. When I went pro I had a huge fantasy of being some joe mcnally mother fucker with seminars and blog posts with all my insightful knowledge. Then I realised I don't really have any and nobody would listen so I just did my work. A lot of photography education/community seems almost like an excuse to procrastinate or complain about being a photographer. Most of the photographers i've "networked" with on facebook just complain about other photographers or try to be "edgy" about an industry that they'e barely looking into the window of.
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Aug 5, 2014 10:56
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Paragon8 posted:A lot of photography education/community seems almost like an excuse to procrastinate or complain about being a photographer. Most of the photographers i've "networked" with on facebook just complain about other photographers or try to be "edgy" about an industry that they'e barely looking into the window of. The creative equivalent of converting to Judaism just to tell the jokes. deaders posted:http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com is an excellent blog that features some interviews with photographers where they get right into their creative processes. Ridiculously NSFW. Not blaming you because I should have known better, just a warning to anybody else.
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Aug 5, 2014 14:17
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Huxley posted:
Iiiii wish I had read down before following those links. We're not talking like 'tasteful nudes' NSFW. We're talking like, 'here's some, er, a lot of pornography I'm using to make a joke with' NSFW.
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Aug 5, 2014 17:24
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Reposting choice Christopher Doyle quote. "You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using."
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Aug 5, 2014 17:33
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quote:In every post I try to show at least one cock. If I'm including a vagina also in the post I always put a few paragraphs between the two. Just so they're not right on top of each other. Just remember, the reader is king. You've got to listen to them, then respond to their needs. You're not the boss. They are. A lot of them have been stuck in a dark room with a computer for hours. If they are hungry for flesh, it's not your place to question that. Your place is to serve the best photoblog possible. He's not exactly Lord Lichfield, is he?
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Aug 5, 2014 18:34
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ExecuDork posted:"I like, saw this thing, and I thought it'd make a good picture, so I like, shot it. And then my computer crashed and I had to wait a week before I could process it. And my girfriend was all weird that week so I was in this kinda, like, weird place, y'know, in my head? and I put it together and it was like "cool!" and my buddy came over - I hadn't seen him in like, ages - and he said it needed more, I dunno, like black in this one spot so I did that and BAM pretty cool picture. Yeah." Ok great.
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Aug 5, 2014 23:06
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Haha wow did not expect to need a NSFW warning but yeah that post is pretty nsfw.
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Aug 5, 2014 23:08
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Edit/quote ugh
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Aug 5, 2014 23:09
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Has anyone used Formatt's 4x4 Big Stopper equivalent? I was wondering if I could save a few photobucks and not get the Lee one.
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Aug 6, 2014 08:20
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1st AD posted:Has anyone used Formatt's 4x4 Big Stopper equivalent? I was wondering if I could save a few photobucks and not get the Lee one. Lee is a bunch of wife-beating drunks.* *...from a grip who is really sick of people demanding Lee equivalents of perfectly good Rosco gels.
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Aug 6, 2014 08:22
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So last night I was supposed to meet a model around 7, which was great because the sunlight was perfect. Of course her makeup took too long and we didn't end up meeting until 8. At that point the sun had dipped below the trees, making the whole situation a bit difficult. What do you do to get more flattering light at this time of night? Getting catchlights and all that good stuff is tricky without the sun to play with. Here's a few shots (unretouched, so... don't judge them too hard). First shot is natural light, second shot is using a reflector, third is (obviously) flash. I couldn't get the flash off camera because I somehow forgot one of my triggers. This was not my best shoot haha.   
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Aug 6, 2014 15:00
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That makeup took an hour?
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Aug 6, 2014 16:00
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That is the first thing I thought too. 
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Aug 6, 2014 16:02
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Haha I know right? When she kept texting me with delays, I was expecting the greatest makeup job I'd ever seen.
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Aug 6, 2014 16:25
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Yeesh. I do not envy you at all in that situation. Not a lot to work with, lighting and otherwise.
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Aug 6, 2014 16:26
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1st AD posted:Has anyone used Formatt's 4x4 Big Stopper equivalent? I was wondering if I could save a few photobucks and not get the Lee one. The ProStop one gets pretty good reviews. The cheap one apparently has a problem with putting a massive magenta cast on every photo so steer clear of that one.
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Aug 6, 2014 16:45
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In the first one, the dress is in focus whereas her face is not, which seems like a bigger issue than lighting. In my opinion.
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triplexpac posted:What do you do to get more flattering light at this time of night? you almost answered your own question triplexpac posted:I couldn't get the flash off camera because I somehow forgot one of my triggers.
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Aug 6, 2014 17:28
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I've been working on making a really big time-lapse project, the problem I'm running into is that my 7D has developed many stuck pixels that ruin any high ISO shots. Normally lightroom takes them out automatically, but I think the fact that I'm shooting on small RAW is loving that up. Normally I could just clone them out and go on my merry way, but this being a time-lapse makes that really difficult. Is there anything I can do? 30 Seconds at f/11 800ISO  You can see this shot as a time-lapse at :46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68mmsDXxqJ4
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Aug 6, 2014 20:04
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Anybody got any good tips for deciding on the right (i.e., completely neutral) white balance when processing? I don't know if my eyes just adjust and get used to it, but half the time when I come back to a photo it looks way off. And then I'll change it, but when I come back to it again it looks way off in another direction and I end up changing it again. Auto and the eyedropper have yet to routinely give me consistently satisfactory results. Do I need to make my desktop background 18% gray or something? It's driving me nuts.
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Aug 7, 2014 18:26
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I asked this in the post processing thread, but it might be kinda dead: I'm trying to get better at carving / dodge & burn. I seem to remember seeing a website once that had a bunch of simple 3d models that would show how lighting should form on a face, to use as reference. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Aug 7, 2014 18:28
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Boom. http://blog.patdavid.net/2012/03/visualize-photography-lighting-setups.html
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Aug 7, 2014 18:42
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William T. Hornaday posted:Anybody got any good tips for deciding on the right (i.e., completely neutral) white balance when processing? I don't know if my eyes just adjust and get used to it, but half the time when I come back to a photo it looks way off. And then I'll change it, but when I come back to it again it looks way off in another direction and I end up changing it again. Auto and the eyedropper have yet to routinely give me consistently satisfactory results. Do I need to make my desktop background 18% gray or something? It's driving me nuts. Take a photo of a grey card at the beginning of your shoot, then use that to get your white balance setting for the rest of your photos?  But yeah, I suffer from this all the time too. It helps if you can buy or borrow one of those monitor calibration thingies, and also make sure your room is lit the same way every time you process photos. My editing PC is in my basement with no windows, so I just have a single lamp that I keep on all the time for consistency.
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William T. Hornaday posted:Boom. Thanks, that's a good one! The one I was thinking of was this: http://www.planesofthehead.com/memorized_head_detail.php I thought there were more examples on that site but I guess not.
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Anybody in the NJ area have a Lensalign and can help me solve my focusing issues?
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