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A5H posted:What's the name of that black border you get around photos that is sorta circular? vignette
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Nov 27, 2009 16:08
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fronkpies posted:Probably ben asked a thousand times already, but im getting an imac on monday (oh god cant wait) and dont know whether to go with what i know and get lightroom or try aperture. I use Lightroom now after using Aperture initially.
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Jan 3, 2010 12:26
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BobTheCow posted:I wish! That was one of the first things I checked on, but no dice, smugvaults are only accessible by me. Would http://www.scribd.com/ be at all helpful?
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Jan 26, 2010 23:29
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I use manfrotto nanos which I've found to be pretty neat.
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Feb 7, 2010 23:14
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Eutheria posted:What's the general consensus on SmugMug? Then smugmug is definitely your best bet.
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Feb 12, 2010 01:46
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phootnote posted:would it be illogical to go from 450d to a 40d? i think i want something more substantial.... This is perfectly logical!
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Feb 22, 2010 04:34
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lllllllllllllllllll posted:I am thinking about getting the Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS USM for my Rebel T1i / EOS 500D. Someone told me not to, as the heavy thing will "feel wrong" on my lightweight consumer camera. Is this true? Is it a good always-on lens? The 15mm at the low end and the additional zoom compared to the kit lens are enticing, even with the high price (for me at least). Thanks! I wouldn't worry too much about it "feeling wrong" but try before you buy. Most camera stores should let you put a lens on your body just to get the feel of it. It's a good range, I'm not sure if many canon goons have used it, but from what I remember it was very well reviewed. AF lock basically does what it says - you use it when you've got a specific subject and you don't want your AF to spazz out and focus on someone's knee after you've already focused it on their face. WB should be pretty easy to change - firstly you should be shooting RAW, but your camera should have some preset WB options depending on your circumstances. Those tend to be pretty helpful at getting you in the ballpark and you can fine tune in post.
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Feb 28, 2010 21:23
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SquallStrife posted:So, everyone knows about using tilt-shift to make life-size things look tiny... Macro photography?
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Mar 4, 2010 04:11
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The main thing would be to meticulously set up your subject in terms of models and make sure the detail holds up. There's some neat lego photography that looks good enough that you forget about the scale. --> http://laughingsquid.com/snow-scenes-of-star-wars-legos-on-hoth/ The only obvious clue to scale is just that everyone knows what lego guy's size is.
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Mar 4, 2010 17:37
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haha, yeah. That's awesome.
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Mar 4, 2010 18:02
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For a more low investment option in terms of time and money I can recommend "The Photographer's Eye" by Michael Freeman. I haven't gotten really deep into it yet, but it does a great job of expanding my vocabulary and I'm already more confident in being able to articulate what I like about images and why. It's even good at giving you tools of how to understand a photograph might be good even though it doesn't appeal to you personally. What I really like is that he'll basically take the same picture in about 5-6 different ways in terms of crop and subject placement and explain what is good about each one. He does it very educationally - it's never "this is wrong, and this is right" Photography is such a weird field in that you have a marriage between technology and art, and typically people who specialize in either branch tend not to be very good at the former. I mean it's great that people can find something they enjoy doing within photography - even if it's being a dick obsessed with ISOs and megapixels, or if it's someone taking cliché 365 projects on flickr with a point and shoot. I'd really like to go further with my photography and I think in the past six months I've made a great improvement in not just my own pictures but how I view others. I'm a little wary of going to school for photography at this point, because I feel like I've mastered the technical aspects - and I think I do a good enough job aggressively developing and experimenting with different parts of the field rather than just taking the same kinds of pictures again and again. That kind of went off on a bit of a tangent, but yeah - I recommend The Photographer's Eye. It's a good companion to Understanding Exposure.
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Mar 24, 2010 22:41
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jackpot posted:I'm gonna step in and ask a really stupid question: what is the LR catalog? What is saved there, what does it do? Is it just a record of all the RAW changes you've made? Yeah, I think that's basically it. I think Lightroom doesn't destructively edit any images so all the edits are stored in the catalog, leaving the RAW files untouched.
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Mar 31, 2010 17:27
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poopinmymouth posted:Anyone know of a source of "behind the scenes" food styling blogs or flickr groups? I specifically want to see the dirty tricks of it, that go beyond normal cooking and arranging. There's a bunch of food styling stuff on youtube too. It can be a little hit or miss, but there's some interesting videos. This one always cracks me up it's like a PSA from the 80s. Paragon8 fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Apr 22, 2010 |
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Apr 22, 2010 15:52
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TheAngryDrunk posted:When you see a photo like this... haha, I counted the nikons and canons before I even saw what they were shooting at.
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Apr 27, 2010 16:45
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jet_dee posted:Is it worth waiting for Lightroom 3 to be released? I'm a student but I graduate in July (my student ID card says course end 01 July 2010), and Adobe asks for a scan of the ID to be submitted within 6 days of ordering online. Download the Lightroom 3 beta for free just to see if you like it.
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May 3, 2010 18:00
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I'm actually helping someone run some one day workshops. At a much cheaper price than a lot of other people are charging - at least initially so we can iron out the kinks. At the end of the day, after the costs of hiring the studios and lights and paying for the model, the photographer is making less than her hourly rate. Hopefully it'll be pretty fun, and worth the time and effort. Some of them do seem ridiculously priced. I'd do your research into the photographer teaching and make sure that's a style you want to learn. Make sure that it's going to be a small class size. I've seen some fashion and wedding workshops (Jasmine Star in particular) that run into high triple digits, and I definitely don't see myself paying that much for it. Having someone in person telling you a technique or an idea can be much better than learning from a book or a manual. I really think PIMM should run lighting workshops in Europe.
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May 4, 2010 19:23
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TsarAleksi posted:How... do you mean? That makes no sense. make them live view only.
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May 25, 2010 20:34
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I'm not advocating viewfinderless SLRs! I was just clarifying what beastruction was saying. I also totally want to start calling models "tangos" thanks to that link GWBBQ
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May 26, 2010 15:48
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Cyberbob posted:Where's the best generic "retouching skin" tutorial? I sort of use this - http://www.sxc.hu/blog/post/476 It works pretty well if you tweak it a bit and don't follow it completely blindly.
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Jul 25, 2010 12:02
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TheAngryDrunk posted:That is true. That he's mistaken? I'm pretty sure you can adjust exposure in lightroom with a mask. Well like that adjustable brush tool thing in lightroom. Paragon8 fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Aug 10, 2010 |
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Aug 10, 2010 10:44
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oh okay, gotcha.
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Aug 10, 2010 11:38
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General Gingersnap posted:I am doing my first paid shoot soon of someone's house so that they can submit it to a local magazine. She is a friend of my family, so there wont be a huge amount of anxiety. However, if I do a great job I could get a ton of referrals in the future. What I will use is Canon T1i with a Tamron 18-250. I have a Canon 50mm as well, but I would probably only use it for detail shots etc. I will also be bringing my Nikon N90S for film shots. Lighting wise, I was hoping to just use natural light, but I will be bringing my 430EX II just in case. Does anyone have any advice for shooting interiors/homes? I have looked stuff up on the internet already, but I wanted to ask you guys before I do this. I cant afford to gently caress up Get something WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE. Mades the house look big and poo poo.
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Aug 12, 2010 22:39
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What is the difference between a Sandisk Ultra CF 30mbs 4gb card and a Sandsik Extreme III 30mbs 4gb card?
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Sep 21, 2010 21:56
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Molten Llama posted:A couple months. Great, thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.
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Sep 22, 2010 09:48
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stingray1381 posted:What is the interaction between Photoshop and Lightroom? If I were to buy just one, which would should it be? It depends on the depth of editing you do. Lightroom is basically a library organizer with powerful editing tools built in. Photoshop is even more powerful at editing but has no file support system for organization.
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Oct 6, 2010 20:43
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brad industry posted:I would start with Lightroom and then get Photoshop when the limitations become obvious (you want to do more pixel-manipulation retouching/compositing or need better masking, layers, etc.) Have you tried LR3's tethered capabilities yet?
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Oct 7, 2010 00:59
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brad industry posted:It's unreliable and there's not really anything you can do other than restart it if it's not working. It's new so I assume they are working on making it better. I've used it a few times at home in my studio but I still prefer C1 for tethering. Yeah, I've only used C1 while assisting but had a brief crisis where a client miscommunicated what they wanted - I thought they wanted tethered but they only wanted to be shown the unedited pics on a laptop on the day of the shoot but before I found that out I was in a panic as I only have LR3 and thought it was a miracle when I discovered it could support tethered. I only goofed around with it shooting poo poo on my desk because I don't have a long enough cable to do anything else and it did seem a bit unpolished.
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Oct 7, 2010 01:32
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subx posted:This is the only forum I've ever had basically every thread (Except the Canon thread, cause gently caress those guys) be all blue (from being read). Partially because of it not being quite as active as some subforums, but mostly because all of the threads are awesome (except the canon thread, because, well, you know). The canon thread randomly has a lot of nikon users posting.
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Oct 20, 2010 23:32
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3D photography is going to be the next HDR.
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Oct 28, 2010 20:34
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Kaluza-Klein posted:Hey, thank you very much guys! From what I've heard and followed - get matte if you're going to frame it, gloss if you aren't. Don't get a metallic print of a picture of white people.
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Nov 3, 2010 02:36
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Ballistic Photon posted:Can anyone explain to me the reasoning behind covering your gear in black tape? Like Spog says there are several reasons. Here are some of the others 1, Some people think it disincentives theft which in my opinion is dumb as a thief is going to take a largish camera no matter what. 2, to stop a subject's eyes from focusing on the manufacturer's logo. It's not really a big deal either way
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Nov 7, 2010 13:36
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mobby_6kl posted:I've never noticed anyone taping over their camera. From the protection point of view, what would you be taping over? It seems like there's almost no empty space on my 550D to put tape on. I think there several problems with idea of hypothetical high end specialist camera thieves. The only places you're really guaranteed to see a lot of SLRs are tourist attractions, concerts and maybe like children's school events. The vast majority of cameras there will be entry level at best with perhaps the rare 5dmkii or d700 hobbyist. The second issue is reselling them - most stores that sell used equipment will probably flag a guy who sold more than one high end body to them like what happened with B&H and the guy that was selling them nikon d2's he stole from traffic cameras. Craigslist is a possibility but the people in the market for high end cameras would probably be far too suspicious of too low prices and sitting on stolen merchandise is a little risky. I've at this point put way too much effort into this post but I have an annoying friend who thinks his black taped up camera makes him immune to thieves.
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Nov 7, 2010 16:12
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Isn't there a point where fixing failure might be better served in just going outside and taking better pictures?
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Dec 4, 2010 01:25
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poopinmymouth posted:I honestly never understand why people feel out of camera images are somehow superior to ones with lots of post work. The camera does almost everything for you in terms of recording the scene. When you go in afterward, you have to have enough knowledge to make those alterations in a believable way, which takes way more perspective, color, volume, anatomy, cloth wrinkle, and compositional knowledge than lifting a framing device to your eye and pressing a button at the right moment. Other forms of art like painting or drawing you have to make LITERALLY everything of the final image. A camera is such an insane jump in rendering realism you have to have crazy skill to alter it in a believable way. It speaks to more vision than just seeing interesting scenes, because you are able to imagine information not there yet when you take the photo. I think there is a an attitude in photography of people dismissing things they don't understand or don't know how to do. Like the Straight out of Camera people deride processing as a crutch mainly because they don't know how to use it effectively. I've encountered the same attitude with natural light vs. using flashes/strobes. They don't know how to use the latter so they put it down and act like natural is everything.
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Dec 6, 2010 14:42
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Phat_Albert posted:There is literally no way to ask a girl who you are not close friends with if you can photograph her outside of an event where she actually wants to be photographed and not come off as creepy. This isn't necessarily true but it's so easy to accidentally come of as creepy because as soon as you try to think "okay how do I make this not sound creepy" it ends up becoming creepy. A self fulfilling prophecy. Fortunately I'm getting to the point where friends of friends will approach me about taking their photograph. Which is a great compliment in one way, but in another way you realize the girl asking you for sexy photos is doing it because you're a good photographer not because she's coming onto you. 
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Dec 12, 2010 02:30
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Photography is so ridiculously faceted that there are all sorts of photographers and branches of photography. A guy really into shooting birds might have a really extravagant setup but only shoot birds so wouldn't carry a camera around with him. I rarely if ever take my camera with me unless I know I'm going to be photographing something but there are plenty of people who do take their camera with them because they get a lot out of street shooting or just finding stuff on the street. Ultimately your milage may vary. I've tried taking my camera out with my doing day to day things but it just ended up being dead weight in my bag. Yet there are some people that can take great images just as happy serendipity anywhere they go.
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Dec 26, 2010 15:08
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caberham posted:backblaze, carbonite, flickr, smugsmug etc... the subfolder thing pisses me off hugely. I'd love just one more level, but noooo. The iPad resizes images automatically so you should just be able to export whatever to it
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Dec 26, 2010 16:24
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GWBBQ posted:If you put it on a film camera. The super telephotos don't need a filter.
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Dread Head posted:Mine actually has a "filter" built into the front, the manual says it may be removed in certain situations if you notice ghosting. I am guessing it is removable incase it breaks etc. That's weird. Would it affect weather sealing?
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