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Pompous Rhombus posted:lmbo a Sigma 12-24 is more flexible, less cumbersome, faster, wider, cheaper by several orders of magnitude, has autofocus, and is still rectilinear. quote:Recommendations 
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While not as cool as getting a tattoo video picked up by Gizmodo, the consumerist chose my photo as the top in it's Friday Flickr Finds!. I enjoyed a 500 hit spike on that photo and a bunch of discussion on it. It feels pretty good. photo: 
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Oct 25, 2009 18:26
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 This exact same thing happened to me last weekend. She also doesn't understand how anyone makes money from photography and doesn't do weddings.
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Oct 26, 2009 19:57
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I know it's only a little thing, but I'm always happy after posting a gallery of social photos from an event on facebook and getting a shitload of "******* has set your photo as their profile picture" updates. 
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Oct 29, 2009 12:46
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psylent posted:I know it's only a little thing, but I'm always happy after posting a gallery of social photos from an event on facebook and getting a shitload of "******* has set your photo as their profile picture" updates.  FB does tend to murder photo quality with some brutal jpegging, I guess with so many million pics they need to save on storage. "Photographers" who post their work on FB and nowhere else make me wince, though :P
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Oct 29, 2009 13:45
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I wiped my facebook account a couple of years back, but a few days ago a friend logged in next to me to show me his latest horizontal conquest. About half the people I knew were using photos I shot as profile pics, it was a pretty  -moment.
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Oct 29, 2009 14:03
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Whenever I'm at a friend's house and I find one of my pictures looking me in the face, I too get a bit . NoneMoreNegative posted:This is a good feeling, agreedo Facebook: Sharp photos are good, sharpening is good; therefore, slamming Sharpen up to 11 must be GREAT pwn fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Oct 29, 2009 |
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Oct 29, 2009 16:30
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pwn posted:Whenever I'm at a friend's house and I find one of my pictures looking me in the face, I too get a bit Oh hell, that goes for just about any effect with a slider. Contrast is good. CONTRAST ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT IS BETAR! Brightness is good. BRIGHTNESS AT 255 IS BATTER! Color saturation/de-saturation is good. HALF MY PIKTUR IS PURPAL!!!ONEONEONE And just to be a dick, Lionel Lum is terrible about that. He's got some P&S that he takes to anime and comic book conventions. Shoots the same 5 poses of scantily clad girls. Then moves the contrast slider to the far right. Ta da! Suddenly he's a professional photgrapher.
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Oct 29, 2009 19:50
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Hey, you just ragged on my entire workflow < >
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Oct 29, 2009 20:26
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squidflakes posted:And just to be a dick, Lionel Lum is terrible about that. He's got some P&S that he takes to anime and comic book conventions. Shoots the same 5 poses of scantily clad girls. Then moves the contrast slider to the far right. Ta da! Suddenly he's a professional photgrapher. You've pinpointed the entire reason for his success.
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Oct 29, 2009 23:59
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DanTheFryingPan posted:You've pinpointed the entire reason for his success. Yeah. I know. drat his scaly hide!
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Oct 30, 2009 05:34
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swqFA9Mvq5M This is a great watch, be sure and view in HD / fullscreen...
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Nov 5, 2009 22:11
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NoneMoreNegative posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swqFA9Mvq5M Thanks for that, that guy does amazing work. I actually saw some of my usual locations in his shots.
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How do you guys feel about cinematography? I think I could make some real bank being a director of photography  And now I can't watch lovely movies because the framing is atrocious and I get get over how someone get paid buttloads of money for that poo poo.
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notlodar posted:How do you guys feel about cinematography? I think I could make some real bank being a director of photography I love cinematography, I did that before I got into still photography. And yeah, there's a lot of really uninspired camera work in lots of movies, but hey, who am I to complain about it from my cubicle? 
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I dunno, it sounds like you'd be the directors bitch. You'd scout out fantastic framing and shooting angles, and then he'd want bullet time and dolly zoom vertigo effects (which is awesome by the way) in every scene.
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I would love to do the photography for a film. Film industry people know so much awesome lighting poo poo it's ridiculous. I constantly rip off lighting ideas from movies.
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I think it would be really cool to be a director of photography. I assume you get to help the director achieve his vision. I like the idea of being the one with the technical knowledge of how to light any scene to make it look like a particular time of day or making it look like there is only candle light because its the 1800s.
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Mannequin posted:Extremely rare Nikon lens for sale up on eBay right now: I see your rare and wonderful, and raise you a rarer and wackier 6mm Fisheye  
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Nov 6, 2009 07:04
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Holy mother of gently caress. That lens curves space and takes photos of things five minutes into the future.
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I've been doing TV work for years before getting into photography. Only very recently have I even started to grasp the basic notion of film cinematography, though, coming from a TV background. Everything I've ever shot is shot like a TV talk/music show, which is great for TV talk/music shows and not so great for everything else. Leatherheads has some damned fantastic work as a straightforward picture, and The Fountain is a great example of creative lighting, very similar in function to that of Apocalypse Now's cinematography. I want to be a DP when I grow up. But seriously, you talk about poaching ideas, The Fountain is crazy. I was watching some of the supplemental features yesterday morning, it's amazing the ways the DP dreamed up to tell this story. For that matter the documentaries on the disc are unlike 95% of the tripe on the typical DVD which is "it was so much fun shooting with actor" 
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Cyberbob posted:I see your rare and wonderful, and raise you a rarer and wackier 6mm Fisheye  Two shots for a full 360 panorama stitch, I think I'm in love...
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pwn posted:I've been doing TV work for years before getting into photography. Only very recently have I even started to grasp the basic notion of film cinematography, though, coming from a TV background. Everything I've ever shot is shot like a TV talk/music show, which is great for TV talk/music shows and not so great for everything else. I loved The Fountain as a film, I'll have to rewatch it for the cinematography. One thing that I've got to add.. I've been rewatching Buffy and Angel recently, and I'm falling in love with their use of light, or should I say, dark. It seems like its a pitch black canvas in most scenes, and light's used sparingly to open up only certain parts of the shot.. I love it.
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A Nikon penis http://www.nearfield.com/~dan/photo/wide/fish/index.htm - - - Starting from next year I'll try to take one photo every single day. Yeah I know plenty of people do this but it'll be cool to start on 01 01 2010 It'll probably last 1 week before I find it too boring.
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Ringo R posted:Starting from next year I'll try to take one photo every single day. Yeah I know plenty of people do this but it'll be cool to start on 01 01 2010 I've always wanted to do this but I thought about cheating a bit. I know there are going to be some days where I won't have time to put the effort into composing a shot. Maybe instead of shooting every day, I could shoot say, 7 good shots on a single day and post one a day for a week. It'd still make for a good blog ( that's half the fun right?) and it'd still push me to shoot more.
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Nov 6, 2009 15:45
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I was doing that bu I hosed up when I failed to get shiny pennies from the bank....
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Nov 6, 2009 15:53
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For you Office fans... Ryan's Photoblog!
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Cyberbob posted:I loved The Fountain as a film, I'll have to rewatch it for the cinematography. Along those same lines, Dollhouse has some of the most delicious cinematography and lighting I've seen come out of television in a long time. My roommate has been running through the entire series and I'll constantly forget what I'm doing and just stare at it 'cause it's so drat pretty.
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I think Jericho has some really great cinematography. It hit me half way throughout the series, that everything has to look naturally lit, because there is no electrical power in the town. All of the indoor scenes are shot near windows and doorways and have gorgeous beams of sun light coming onto the actors.
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Mad Men has really great photography, lots of dramatic mixed light sources.
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/\/\/\ That'd better not be a season ending spoiler!  That kite video was great. The showed one of the early kite photographs, "San Francisco in Ruins," in that video, and now I am convinced I need this hanging on my wall.  The Library of Congress will let me download the 158 MB tiff of it, though I might be more tempted to just order a print from them rather than trying to print it myself. On a different note, I just saw this infuriating "Photographers Rights" video posted on a local blog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY2cCPW3H7g
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marmot25 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY2cCPW3H7g
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I know this girl who bought like ten CF cards for a backpacking trip, and I thought I might buy some from her just because she can't possibly be using all of them as she's just a casual photographer and I'm frequently running out of space with my new camera. So, it'd be a win win situation. She apparently backed up all her photos to the cards. Then accused me of thinking my "photography" was more important than her backups (that I didn't know she did when I asked her about buying them)  So, are these chinese sellers on ebay with cheap CF cards legit?
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Nov 9, 2009 20:24
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Do you really want to risk it? And I mean the card quality, not the sellers.
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Nov 9, 2009 22:43
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CF cards aren't exactly pricey at reasonable sizes. No sane person would save money on the cheapies.
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I was about to pull the trigger on some 8GB cards, but they suddenly jumped up by around 30% - I'll probably just go for two 4GB cards now.
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dear mac owners, your monitors are too bright. please calibrate or lower your brightness.
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marmot25 posted:/\/\/\ Download the tiff and help out a goon by using that large format printing service someone's running on SA mart, it's quite cheap.http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3208476
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Interrupting Moss posted:CF cards aren't exactly pricey at reasonable sizes. No sane person would save money on the cheapies. To be fair, I have not heard problems with cheap off-brand CF cards (apart from obvious scam/counterfeit ones). I think the technology is mature enough that it's easy to make something reliable, even at a low cost. That said, I do agree with you, why take the risk when it is important stuff like your photos.
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