Defecting to Nine posted:

There's this older guy in NYC who goes around to all the parades and such with one of those. Shoots handheld. loving insane.

Rated PG-34 posted:

That clip is awesome. This isn't an uncommon occurrence I'm sure. I just recently sat through a slideshow of atrocious wedding photos, where it was terribly evident that the photographer had messed up the ISO setting. She 'corrected' her mistake using b/w and film grain filters . It also seemed pretty apparent that she lacked technical skills regarding aperture settings and such, although she was 'skilled' enough to do selective desaturation . The collection was also minimally edited and consisted of over 600 shots, many of the same scene even when one frame was obviously better. Suffice to say, it was a terribly boring slideshow. I didn't have the heart to tell him that it all looked like poo poo, and restrained myself from strangling his roommate who was awed by the 50s look (b/w filter ) and made comparisons to Renoir

unleash the unicorn posted:

I hope this hasn't been posted before, but the Boston Globe has set up a website that's dedicated to news photography.

https://www.boston.com/bigpicture

Some pretty cool stuff there.

Phat_Albert posted:

On a similar note, did anyone see the piece that the Today show did on Ann Curry and her photography? Its kind of cool to see a celebrity (even a relatively minor one) who's actually into photography.

ease posted:

I am curious tho, do they just focus manually with the 5d and 7d?

Bojanglesworth posted:

Too much money, not enough brains. That is pretty much the official moto of where I live (Washington, DC area.) The last wedding I shot was a Korean (read: rich people) wedding, as I am just hanging out waiting for the ceremony to start a guy wanders over to me to ask me what type of camera I have, then proceeds to show me his 1d mkIV and 24-70 L, but admits he doesnt know how to use it, and THEN asks me if he can borrow my flash for a bit because he doesn't own one. I wish I had money to blow one whatever I wanted regardless of cost.

diarrhea for girls posted:

Welcome back buddy.

I had one of those Mavica FDs as well, it was actually a pretty awesome camera for what it was but the reliability of floppy disks left a lot to desire. I remember them sending me some promo materials about the amazing new CD-R using Mavica and my mind was blown.

rcman50166 posted:

Oh dear, it's beaten the XSi and 5D...

AIIAZNSK8ER posted:

Does anyone have recomendations for good documentaries on photography?

Combat Pretzel posted:

Hrm. I wasn't too sure before because of his accent. He sounds as arrogant British as you can be (at least to my Belgian ears).

Well, no use then. They're somewhat cheaper than that German online shop I'm always ordering from, but import taxes would jack DigitalRev's prices over the German shop's ones.

brad industry posted:

What's atrocious to me about that cover is the type. Dear god who the hell designed that.


I liked this guest blog post by John Loengard:

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2010/archives/11324

dunkman posted:

guidoanselmi posted:

low earth orbit isn't very far away. the space station is 173 miles away and if you run the calcs for how well you can resolve a point source from a distance (in space, darkness, etc) you'd be really surprised.

math stuff below:
Threshold Intensity = Radiated Power/Surface Area = R. Power / (4 Pi dist^2). E = planck constant * speed of light / wavelength (planck & speed of light are constants & wavelength is between 400-600 nm). Use an arbitrary threshold intensity, eg human ocular cone cell will trigger on 5 photons.

so assuming a 10 W red light bulb:

5 = 10/(h c/600 nm) / (4 pi r^2) and solve for r.

god im bored

trueblue posted:

This is pretty cool.

Guy gets lost at sea, takes photos, loses the camera. He gets rescued, the camera washes up 4 years later and he gets the photos back. The full album is here.

Casull posted:

The car looks horrendously out-of-focus

So how did you guys get into photography anyway? I bought my XT a year ago on a whim from a goon (UGAmazing, to be exact) and didn't do anything with it for four months until I picked it up randomly one day and went shooting. Then I started reading up on shutter speed/aperture/ISO, and from there it quickly became into this obsession I have today.

psylent posted:

The makes it less bitter. And what the gently caress is is with a manager writing like a 14 year old girl on a phone?

A5H posted:

Yeah. I've never actually used it on my 7D. And I thought maybe it was 'creative auto' that people were on about earlier. I don't think my 350D had a 'P'? And if it did I've not used it for years.

spog posted:

It's a shame it is an April Fools joke

http://translate.google.com.au/tran...s%26prmd%3Divns

I can imagine an awful lot of photographers got their ponytails all twisted up in excitement.

PREYING MANTITS posted:

It's being reported that photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed in Libya today.

Hetherington was co-director of "Restrepo" and Hondros was a Robert Capa Gold Medal recipient for his coverage of the conflict in Iraq. Apparently other PJs were injured in the same attack but their names haven't been released yet. Sad news.

Shmoogy posted:

That isn't too surprising, there are probably pretty strict guidelines about how many copies of an image there can be until it's given clearance, and he probably isn't given a lot/any time at all to edit.

BeastOfExmoor posted:

I really hope that they release more than just that one photo from that occasion, at least in my lifetime. I suppose he probably wasn't playing "wedding photographer" during the whole operation, but he's got to have some really amazing images.