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I am in Kyiv, Slovakia and Zürich. More than happy to meet Goons and take bad photos together.
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Back when I was an Evegoon, I met several other Goons in Reykjavik and at other Eve meets. Most of them were pretty chill and cool dudes/ladydudes (apart from the fact that they played Eve Online of course). I don't think any of the Evegoons I know are regular Doorkroom posters though.
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May 24, 2016 22:22
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I got one of my photos printed on canvas stretched over a 120x80cm wooden frame, I ordered it online from a local photoservice chain (Fotolab/Cewe). The frameless look is always going to look contemporary compared to a framed and matted print regardless of the image.
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Nov 28, 2016 14:20
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Maybe they are reading the 'I Found the Best Photographer' thread, but unironically.
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The portfolio site thread is archived and I don't think it's worth starting a new one, but I added the initial content to my new photo-blog. Mostly it's an excuse for me to talk about my collection of Soviet cameras but hopefully it will become more of a resource for me to point potential collaborators at and to showcase how terrible my photos are. I'd appreciate any feedback (telling me to take better pictures won't work however) and maybe people might be interested to read some hands-on impressions of various analogue cameras. Gear pages are here. I have some more sample images from some of the cameras to post yet and I might do some video content too, talking about particular items.
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I was at my local camera store today to pick up some film and there were two ladies ahead of me in the queue waiting to have their pictures transferred off their little digital compact cameras onto a CD. The shop has a kiosk thing that you cam plug a USB cable or an SD card into and preview your pictures then print them but these ladies didn't want prints, they just wanted to have the pictures on CD 'so that they could see them on the computer'. After they'd gone, I asked about it and apparently this service makes up a massive portion of their daily take. Because old people can use a CD drive but not a USB port apparently.
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Feb 4, 2017 20:58
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Platystemon posted:Connecting the camera to the computer is for suckers (with the exception of tethered shooting). I'm prepared to believe that they are using some lovely computer from the 1990s that doesn't have a card reader but I can't imagine a computer that has an optical drive but not a USB port. Also I'm pretty sure that any of these lovely point and shoots will be detected automatically by any flavour of Windows as an external drive so you don't even need to gently caress about with whatever software that comes with it.
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Feb 5, 2017 11:19
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Good news! Flickr won't be run by Yahoo any more. Bad news! They're selling it to Verizon. Let's hope that Verizon don't decide to gently caress it up randomly.
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May 23, 2017 21:52
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The domain moodilylitplumbing.com is available. What the gently caress even is this? Have I suffered a head injury and woken up in 1992?
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Aug 6, 2017 10:29
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xzzy posted:apparently they had way too much money and felt like risking bankruptcy on a stupid idea This isn't Yashica. Yashica no longer exists. This is a Chinese import/export company who bought the rights to the name and are mostly using it to rebrand snap-on cell-phone camera lenses.
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Oct 15, 2017 13:49
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BBC have a retrospective of the best images from Getty photographers. Some amazing photos in there. The hockey shot and the surfer image stand out to me particularly.
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Dec 21, 2017 20:35
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alarumklok posted:How does this even try to solve the thing they claim it helps solve? A month or so ago, Facebook announced that they were developing a way to combat revenge porn by developing a way to uniquely identify any photo and then blocking it from upload in any version if it was reported as revenge porn. It sounds like Kodak are working on something like that, but for all images as a way to derive a digital fingerprint for original works. This lets the platform search for all versions of your original work no matter where it's used. Then you, the creator, connect that fingerprint with your wallet by adding it to the blockchain and you get paid in Kodakash whenever it gets used. Problems are: - Why would image buyers use this when there are literally hundreds of reputable stock image agencies that accept real money instead of Dunning-Krugerrands? - Blockchains get more unwieldy as more data is added by design. The BItcoin blockchain is only capable of handling about 2-3 transactions per second globally at this time. - Most cryptocurrencies aren't backed by anything. I don't see how this will be any different. Unless Kodak are going to underwrite their currency with some tangible assets, anyone using the platform is going to see the value of their portfolio swing crazily and be susceptible to bubbles and manipulation.
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Jan 10, 2018 17:12
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Yeah, I definitely didn't invent that phrase but I love how it elegantly describes the cryptocurrency environment so completely. I'm currently designing a blockchain-powered game for a crypto hedgefund so technical limitations of blockchains are a thing I've been looking at a lot recently.
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Jan 10, 2018 17:36
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That is my (limited) experience too. I signed up with Pixsy who found a bunch of sites using some of my pictures but then declined to do anything about it because they are all hosted in countries that don't give a poo poo about copyright protection.
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Jan 10, 2018 18:55
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This is why you buy two (or more) batteries and put a fresh one in the camera every time you take the old one out to charge. E: digging the thread title change...
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Jan 17, 2018 20:16
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I have my Canon setup like this for precisely that reason.
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Jan 18, 2018 00:36
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My black and white pictures of homeless people are going to be on loving fire.
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Jan 18, 2018 02:47
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Battery powered metering? Luxury! When I were a lad we had to calculate the exposure with a stopwatch by staring directly into the sun until our retinas detached. When our eyes looked like fried eggs, we knew how long to open the shutter for.
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Jan 21, 2018 18:56
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I'm moving to Bangkok in a couple of weeks. Are any Dorkroomers local-ish to there? Does anyone know where the good places for photo stuff are? Specifically darkroom supplies as well as labs for C41 and E6 developing but. Good leads on cool used gear stores would be cool too.
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Apr 3, 2018 21:29
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I was in Prague a while ago and the Charles Bridge was a sea of tripods at 7am. I can't imagine how people get shots of areas like Antelope Canyon or Lake Wanaka without getting a billion bits of random photo hardware in the frame.
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Apr 11, 2018 14:50
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xzzy posted:vast swaths of flickr's fetish folks are probably making GBS threads their collective pants.
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Apr 26, 2018 18:33
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So the end result of the Smugmug/Flickr thing is that Flickr and Smugmug will remain different brands. Smugmug will keep their no porn/weird stuff rule and Flickr will allow it as long as it's appropriately flagged and restricted.quote:You are solely responsible for the User Content that you post or transmit using the Services and you agree not to post, transmit or otherwise publish through the Services any of the following: Good news for the HDR pictures of sexy ladies clinging to roof gables crew!
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May 19, 2018 08:17
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There's a really cool video that goes into quite a lot of detail about the cameras used for monitoring shuttle launches. They mostly used 16mm cameras for the stuff closer to the launch and 35mm further away. The bit around 37 minutes in where they are talking about the 120kg, 4000mm lenses that they use to track the launch once it clears the tower is just incredible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2VygftZSCs
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May 24, 2018 04:21
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I'm sitting in a cafe in Chiang Mai and there's a Korean kid at the next table who looks around 12 years old. He's taking pictures of his girlfriend across the table. First came the 1Dx - which was nearly as big as he is, then the Hasselblad 500. Now he's deciding which lens to use on his Leica.
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Jun 17, 2018 07:31
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A good Vice article. Stop Taking Pictures of Homeless People.
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Oct 1, 2018 07:56
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So a Leica café opened around the corner from me. There are a poo poo ton of rich Asians who carry a Leica as a status symbol. It's funny to see someone with a $7k camera around their neck fumbling for a phone to take pictures of their girlfriend at the tourist spots. quote:"The idea of the café is built around photography," said Danai Sorakraikitikul, CEO of A-List Corporate, the sole distributor of Leica cameras in Thailand. "Instead of a barrier between walking into a door, opening a door, the younger consumers feel intimidated to have to open a door and come in. But at a café, it's not like that. When they come in they can order a cup of coffee for 150 baht, and they'll be greeted by our staff bringing them very expensive cameras to let them try. They can take pictures and we'll print them out for them, and they'll know that it's not expensive -- it's cheap for what it can do."
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I've seen a lot of places that don;t let you use tripods and no video cameras is reasonably common at a lot of tourist destinations. First time I ever saw signs like these though. IMG_3219.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_3221.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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President Beep posted:Trying to cut back on professionally done stuff that might be produced for sale? Dunno why that would be the case though. Weird. But you can walk around with your 1Dx or D850 as much as you like. Technically you could probably use your Hasselblad H system too as it doesn't use film and isn't a video camera. I would guess that the security dudes wouldn't be interested in a detailed technical argument however.
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Dec 18, 2018 12:22
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I just find it funny that you can wander around with your 5Div and a bag full of L glass, but if you have a Diana, they are going to make you put it away.
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Also, the breach happened in July last year. Whoever stole that info has had 8 months to do whatever the gently caress they like with it.
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I feel like such a scrub. I bought a nice tripod on Friday (Benro carbon and magnesium one with an S2 video head) and I was trying to set it up on my balcony with my new 5Div for lightning shots. I couldn't get my camera onto the head though, the locking lever for the tripod mount kept hitting the bottom of the camera before it was even nearly tight.It was like one of those physical puzzle toys where you have to loosen things precisely enough so that the thing can slide through the other thing without completely falling apart. So figured I'd got a dud one with a bent safety or something. Went back to the store and the guy showed me that the locking lever can be pulled out and disengaged to let you wind it back and tighten it some more.
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Jun 30, 2019 13:41
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It sounds like location is your USP honestly. If most cosplayers in the US are getting their photos at cons against concrete walls, or in the carpark of the centre, or surrounded by sweaty nerds under bad light, then having a cool place that's a better stage for the costume should be the most visible difference. Much more so than technical stuff like lighting and PP, and certainly more than intangibles like a lower chance of random sexual assault. Regarding the difference between the US and other countries, I think it's just because the US has so many cons going on that, if you are a cosplayer or a cosplay photographer, you can hit up a con somewhere pretty much any month of the year. Outside the US, it's not so common, there might be one or two big cons a year in your country. So if you are a cosplayer, you'll probably be looking for other settings to show off your work.
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Jul 4, 2019 07:20
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I did a science of photography workshop for a local photo group. Talking about circles of confusion, Bayer filters and what raw files really are.
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ReverendHammer posted:Wow, that's a pretty heavy level of technical discussion. Really curious on how you organized it and tried to make it understandable by everyone. I didn't go into the maths, I started off by talking about what happens when light goes into the lens and why a larger aperture leads to a narrower depth of field. I used uncooked spaghetti as a visual aid to show how more collimated light leads to a longer depth of field. Then I segued into what focus actually is, and how sharpness is affected by a bunch of things to do with lens design as well as aperture. Then I went moved onto the sensor, why cameras natively see in monochrome and how sensor manufacturers fudge colour rendition with mosaics. This led fairly organically into RAW files and the 0-255 scale in RGB channels. Finished off with talking a little about the digital signal for in-camera processing and why ISO invariance is a thing for some cameras at certain ISO ranges.
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The local photographer dude who used a hammer to attach my M42-Eos adapter to his 5Div is back again. He wants me to do second shooter/digital assistant stuff for a shoot he has at the Canadian embassy in town here (he's Canadian). He wants to do the shoot tethered and he's checking with me to make sure that I have everything I need to assist him. I tell him I have the USB cord that came in the box with my 5Div, but it's pretty short and I can't go shopping for a new one before his shooting date. We discover that he doesn't have one at all. He says it's fine, he'll see if he can find one in a lighting bag or, if the worst comes to the worst, he'll go and buy one right now. He asks me what type he needs. I send him a picture of the two ends of the cord (USB-A and USB 3-MicroB). I also know that he also has a 5Div so he can just pop the side open and take a look at the port himself. We spend a loving hour on Messenger while he' at the mall, going back and forth on the exact type of USB cable. He's sending me pictures of Micro USB and USB-C stuff and asking if its ok. I'm using an older MacBook with no HDMI port so it has to be USB-A or Thunderbolt on the laptop end. He's not going to shoot video or do any bursts so even a USB2 cable is probably going to be fine. I tell him if he can't find a long enough cable with the right combination of USB plugs, he can just buy an extender and use the stock one. I then have to explain what a USB extender is. He's at the mall sending me pictures of 50cm long cables and asking if these are ok. I'm like, No, they are not ok unless you want to shoot with the laptop in one hand and the camera in the other. He finds an 80cm one and asks again. I tell him to find a 3m cable and then get back to me. I ask him if he's ever shot tethered before and he tells me that he has. Why the gently caress doesn't he know this? Why the gently caress doesn't he already have a cable for it?
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We did the walk through. It was us, two Thai ladies who were also bidding for the job, ad the interior designer. The shoots are to showcase new furniture and interior design in the ambassador's residence and the embassy. None of the new furniture or interior design was installed yet, so the interior designer was basically pointing at the old stuff and trying to describe how the new stuff would change (literally everything except supporting walls). The designer had no real idea what he wanted or what was an acceptable number of deliverable images. Also, by the time the shoot actually happens, he'll have gone back to Canada, so won't be able to direct us once the new stuff is actually in place. There is no way that this can go wrong!
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We lost the bid to the Thai ladies so this isn't happening now. Probably for the best to be honest. Sorry for those of you who wanted to hear about crowbarring 5Divs into MacBook Pros or whatever the gently caress awfulness was guaranteed to go down.
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Saw this in my email this morning. Cardboard, view-camera style instant camera using Instax Mini cartridges. They have a (funded) Kickstarter for a brass and fibreboard version too. The new version seems to be an aperture priority camera with circuitry to automatically manage the shutterspeed, while the cardoard one has only 1/25 or 1/500 selectable speeds. Gimmicky steampunk styling for $130 a pop.
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That's loving stupid. The content is hosted and served from Instagram no matter where it's embedded. If they want to provide protections to photographers who don't want their work used elsewhere, do it like Flickr does and provide a no-sharing toggle either on the account globally or per post. I never thought I'd ever write 'do it like Flickr does', but here we are. Thanks 2020.
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