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xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

ExecuDork posted:

both of the people with a dumb look on their faces is entirely the photog's fault.

Naw, those are just candids. The couple will cherish those unscripted moments their entire life!

"HAW HAW honey, remember when you looked like you were getting ready to spit at our wedding? That was the best!"

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xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I like how putting his name in a search engine doesn't reveal a single photograph attributed to him.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I'd like to see a couple of Mitchell's photos to compare them against someone defending those atrocities.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

You know he spent like a week pouring through his exhaustive 8 bit music collection to find the perfect clip to pair with his personality and prepare the viewer for what they're about to see.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I like how his GNP selections have absolutely none of the scenery that makes the park famous. I assume all the other collections are the same but couldn't stomach clicking on them.

And his B&W series is just converted color photographs.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Too bad he didn't spend 15 minutes googling to find one of the ten billion websites already set up to sell photographs that only need 10 minutes to get set up.

And I hope to hell his "credit card processor" is a plugin from an established business because that's a new level of stupid if he's trying to handle payments on his own.

(not that anyone is ever going to buy anything)

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Well the jig is up, Ansel didn't take good photos because of skills he just made a short prayer to Jesus to send the perfect photons through his lens. God probably did all the dodging and burning too.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

The extra weight might make it more stable if bumped. So wood is not better in any way that matters.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Piss off scrub, do you even know how flash memory works? The camera is literally using electricity to shock atoms in the SD card to indicate a 1 or a 0. What Sandisk doesn't want you to know though is that there is a "ghost" effect at play.. the atoms remember the original value and if you try to write new data on top of it the storage "averages" the old with the new, resulting in low contrast photos. You can compensate for this in Lightroom up to a point by cranking up the saturation, but you still have to live with owning originals that aren't accurate depictions of the scene as you visited it.

You really need to be using a brand new SD card with each shoot.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Yes but you're actually creating soul when you copy it to your computer, back it up to your local backup drive, and then upload it later on to glacier. Then you upload the edited version to flickr, meaning you have X*3 amount of their soul (don't forget to subtract some soul if you slap a stupid watermark on the flickr export).

No one will say no to that, that's free soul!

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Those pictures probably look fine to him because his perception of reality is so skewed.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I had no idea all you had to do to avoid censure was to forbid it. This will make my life so much easier!

I hereby give notice to the IRS that it is strictly forbidden to take any action against me forcing me to pay taxes.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

The internet is a harsh place, only the strong survive.

Hopefully he found this thread.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Listing off their gear and settings is a giant red flag, the smarter move was to not engage them at all.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Well if you want to shoot wide but are a pleb who doesn't own two bodies, why not whip out an iPhone? Saves you fussing with lenses and maybe missing some action while rooting in your bag.

I wouldn't do it, but I can see the thinking.

That gopro though.. that's another level.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

drat, a lovely SEO web design company AND a lovely wedding photographer? How do they find the time?

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I think it's associated with high estrogen but I ain't no doctor so take that with a grain of salt.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

The only way to know when you've nailed your tone mapping is when things look like they were lazily photoshopped in.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I wonder what the thought process was like.

"ughh there's spots on the image, gently caress it, I don't want to get the tripod out again."

or

"oh gently caress yeah there's spirits in my photo! that will enhance my brand!"

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Goddamn I had never stumbled into /r/photography. What a cesspool of stupid.

And here I thought /r/earthporn was bad.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Scrolling through their instagram, it's textbook dunning-kruger. They think they're emulating what successful photographers do, but lack the awareness to realize how far off they are.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

ReverendHammer posted:

What successful photographer has super out of focus pics that weren't shot on like a 100+ year old camera or something?

That's just full frame bokeh. Totes a thing.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I think he's just scared of the sun and wants all photos to look like they were shot on grey days, maybe he's a vampire.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

A low contrast watermark with a gradient on it so no matter what the image is, you can't read half of it.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

People with ten thousand dollars to burn on a hobby they're probably bad at tend to act Iike the world exists to serve them.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Yond Cassius posted:

His inaugural project would be the highest-resolution, most lovingly-rendered Bristol Stool Chart ever created.

In bad lighting with poor white balance and a lovely B&W conversion also attached just for funsies.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Unfortunately his kickstarter to buy a forums account got zero backers.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Kenny Logins posted:

The watermark right down the middle is really something special

And the tags... 'micropyle' it me i'm that.

"sexually" made it into the tags too.

I know a lot of creeps stalk flickr for fap material but a neon caterpillar is not something I would have guessed as a fetish.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I want to see the picture he took.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

This individual works in the white house and this is their portfolio site:

http://www.politicalphotographer.co/

I appreciate that as a documentary photographer you don't get to choose the scene and lighting so they won't all be zingers, but it seems reasonable that the site you set up to show off your work should be the very best you can produce.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

SOOC is totally fine everyone, it shows you what it was really like to be there.

I guess they have multiple lovely photographers because that series is attributed to an Andrea Hanks.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Even if there is a no edit rule they're still bad because you know they're taking thousands of exposures and the ones that made it to Flickr are the best of the bunch.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Aww you overdid it, they're gonna change their permissions once they notice.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Bokeys are always a draw.

This sample is fun because it's easy to watch the photo get better as you zoom in on the couple. At least until you get real close and realize what a distraction the lamps are.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

$40 for an effect you could get by taping tin foil to your body and poking it with a needle?

Good on them for making money from stupid people buying in to a stupid idea I guess.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

bobmarleysghost posted:

I'm just questioning why does anyone need a photo of their baby's allegedly pulsating umbilical cord?

Where would they hang it?

I don't know about the pulsating umbilical cord, but I'll be sure to ask my wife next time she's not on shift.

But "first pictures" are a big part of her job once the baby is out, gotta get a mom who can't wait to sleep, a baby who looks like a corpse, and an oblivious dad all in frame.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

They're revolutionizing light painting!

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I would like to sell my photos for several thousand dollars too, but unfortunately every exposure I take is complete trash and even worse I have realized this fact.

It would be nice to be oblivious.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Spotted in my hotel room, so I'm not surprised they use garbage for decorations but I got stuck wondering what kind of pretentious dweeb would ever consider publishing such a piece.



"Hmm yes this perfectly depicts my disdain of long exposure waterfalls, the lovely light painting was genius *uploads*"

Unfortunately I couldn't find the author.

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xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

gently caress I'm owned.

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