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feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

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feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
why yes this is a good and not at all frightening photo let me just post it to my instagram to entice new clients

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
the killer clown really ties the whole thing together imo

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
you plebes probably can't tell but there is subtle symbolism within this image of attractive, nubile women dropping literal bombs from their vaginas on alice from alice in wonderland and a cake as nosferatu laughs and a sweet elderly man smiles irreverently

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
I only transfer data off of my SD card using gold-plated usb cables so the fuji colors don't leak out all over the place like some ham-and-egger

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
mods?

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
It's great, Suzanne, young and upbeat. I also note that your EXIF is available and love that!
Fave

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

Dren posted:

Comments take a really negative turn at the end there

sorry but i have a browser plug-in that hides any negative or discouraging feedback in comment sections. it automatically installs when you open a deviantart account

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
Time heals everything. Everything but love. How I got in to Leicas



Love. Hate. Love. Hate. And love again.
When I left home under a cloud at the age of 16 my father gave me a fast fifty Takumar and a book of Ernst Haas' work.

"Here, you'll need these," he said. For a couple of years I kept body and soul together with that fifty and a Sun tele on a pistol grip fronting two Spotmatics. Just barely.

A meager body and a sliver-thin soul fell in love with a metallurgical engineer. I was burning steel - she showed me how to push a bead with a Redi-Arc and put it back together. We made out in the back of the truck I was repairing. It took two years to figure out she was an alligator in cat's clothing. Two years of blood and snot after that I finally left her.

"I liked you better when you were weak," she said.

I turned what was left toward the door and was about to close it behind me when she said, "Wait, I want you to have something." For some reason I stopped. Tired. An empty face with an unknown route to an unknown station. Numb. The fool with no name stopped.

She came out of our, no, her, bedroom with her M4 and a 50 two-0.
"Do something with this," she said and closed the door for me.

I hated it. How do you frame with a thing like this? I shot transparencies not black and white. No goddamn easel. Depth of field? Where's the preview.....? Oh.
But I loved it. Small. Quiet. Light. Light years sharper. A visual fetish.

And the smell of her every time I put my eye to the finder.

But I hated it. How do you load film? Are you serious? I got over it.

Like the alligator I kept coming back. Still shot reflex because it made sense. Gave up on black and white and nearly the M4. Got a 28 for it. Kept shooting slides.... By this time I was doing 90 percent of my work with a pair of F4s bodies. And a pair of M6s. Same 50. Same 35. Mostly Kodachrome.

Then I went digital.

Reflex in digital was easy. Canon and Nikon killing it. Superb. Moved through the Ds and then worked with a guy who had a Fuji S3. Remembered that. Called it the "Skin Job." He got it. The M4 and M6 were parked and what the hell was I gonna do for a quiet gentle camera when a D3 was a gravel truck leaking hydraulic at a Strauss ball. Auditioned Sonys and Lumixs and whatever else with the tiny perfect lenses. No, no, no.

Ironically great cameras in RAW or black and white but their JPGs kinda blew in color. I like JPGs.

And then I gave up. Looked at the Ms sitting on a bookshelf. Shot twenty-something rolls of Velvia one day. Sent it to NCPS. Hated the film. Kept coming back to those cameras. Didn't have a film after Kodachrome went. Astia. Provia.... No, no. no..... Ektachrome... no...no. No.

The big C got the engineer - her dad let me know. No parent should have to bury a child. Thirty years since I'd seen him and there we were at her service. He cried. I was numb. Again. We drank to remember. I pulled the M4 and the fifty out of my jacket and put it in the casket, just below the overlay where no one would see it. Said something stupid.

The next morning I listed the M6 and rented an M8. Then an M9. No, no, no....

The alligator was worm food. Dreams of an M4 haunted me and every once in a while one crossed my path. But there isn't any Kodachrome anymore so I would roll over and kick a sheet off. Maybe throw on some music until I could sleep again.

Most of my work is done with a D3.

But my always camera when I'm just me, tired of being strong, tired of turning a numb face to the world, is a little X100. Skin Job's little brother. A may-as-well-be 35mm FOV with a finder that lets me see what's actually going on in a non-reflex, quiet, gentle camera.

Sometimes, when I put my eye to the finder, I can still hear the vicious sweep of a reptile's tail but it's faint. Faint, yet still there in the distance of time that healed nearly all.

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

8th-snype posted:

Nice feeling of asphyxiation there Erik

:eyepop:

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
Old people just take their cards to the kiosk at the local walmart/drugstore

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
fascists are so uptight

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

the entire conversation though


:goonsay:

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
let's be clear this is a swastika enthusiast group





but the one guy is totally a swastika nazi

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

ExecuDork posted:

I've never heard an image like that before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuX5_OWObA0&t=6s

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
Pedestrian photography goes in the street thread

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
you can post a picture of anything(except girls)

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
I'll let you guys in on a little social media secret: if you follow 50,000 people and like 1,000 posts a day you will in return get some of that back regardless of the actual quality of your own content. There's a reason that it's not called merit media.

Also, people typically don't stumble upon new work on any social media platform. They usually only look at the work of the people on their radar: the people they follow and the people that interact with them. (Also hashtags and flickr groups in this case)

Fav a stranger's work and they most likely will at least look at your work out of curiosity and may even reciprocate the action (like/follow/comment) out of simple politeness.

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
DPReview Recommends: Best compact cameras for travel 2015

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

dakana posted:

guys if you want to be the best, you have to buy the best



feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
i'm the jacket seemingly made of discarded microfibre cloths

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

akadajet posted:

*flash pops up*


You just know she'll just get bored of it in a couple of years and dump it in the woods

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUuH4TEmgLo&t=5s

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
I think we should encourage autists to openly and candidly share their weirdo hobbies with others because the ones that don't are scary af.

Malcom Gladwell posted:


The idea that people with autism-spectrum disorders can stumble into patterns of serious criminality has a name: counterfeit deviance. It has long been an issue in cases involving A.S.D. teen-agers and child pornography. “They are intellectually intact people, with good computer skills but extraordinary brain-based naïveté, acting in social isolation, compulsively pursuing interests which often unknowingly take them into forbidden territory,” the lawyer Mark J. Mahoney writes in a recent paper. They come upon an online image that appeals to their immature sexuality and don’t understand its social and legal implications. The image might be “marked” for the rest of us, because the child is in some kind of distress. But those kinds of emotional signals are precisely what A.S.D. teen-agers struggle to understand. They start to obsessively collect similar images, not out of some twisted sexual urge but simply because that’s the way their curiosity is configured. What gets these young adults into trouble with the law “is not abnormal sexual desires,” Mahoney writes, “but their tendency to express or pursue normal interests in a manner outside social conventions.”

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

Twenties Superstar posted:

hell some peeps in this forum have 30 pages of parking lots and restaurants on their flickr ;)

Which side are you arguing?

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

rohan posted:

hail sviiian

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

Shellman posted:

I'm glad my mat got bound up somehow and died.

yea i saw ur post in the Yashica-Mat BDSM club

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
Do not take cell phone shot or any other type of screen shot of the photos on this website. All photos are protected under COPY RIGHT LAWS.

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
guy should have at least used indiegogo or whichever one lets you cash out even if you don't reach your goal

he'll never see that $57 lol

feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.

EL BROMANCE posted:

Wow they really took Raphael in a whole new direction in the new Turtles movie.

*sai*

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feigning interest
Jun 22, 2007

I just hate seeing anything go to waste.
lol this is his 'side project'

https://www.instagram.com/hdrportraits/

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