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Camera porn! The Third and the Seventh by Alex Roman If you haven't seen this animation yet, it's pretty rad. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Jan 7, 2010 |
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brad industry posted:I spent this week moving into my friend and I's new live/work studio in an old cookie factory. That pretty much rules. Though it deprives me of urbex material, I love it when old facilities like that get more life out of 'em. You'll need to have a proper name for the studio, though... there's a group here that used to work in a huge old bakery, so they're called the Bakery Photographic Collective. Please find a proper cookie-related name for yours and you'll be awesome.
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orange lime posted:I was reading the marketing materials for the Pentax X90, one of the superzoom compacts. In the list of features is this: If it's shrinking the whole picture horizontally by just a little bit, it could be to stop people from being all like "oh god I look fat, don't photograph me!"... Cancelling out the whole "camera adds ten pounds" nonsense maybe? A full scale of JUST the head wouldn't make any sense and I don't even see how it could possibly work unless the camera was cloning in new background stuff or bending light around a person in some impossible way.
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Whitezombi posted:Which lens did you use? I didn't. I wore a bowtie though. VVV I doubt that any filter would protect an electronic lens through a wash cycle. Except for a UV, of course. Pop one of those suckers onto a lens and it'll be invincible. In ye olden tymes, the strongest knights always wore suits of UV filter-mail. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Apr 3, 2010 |
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Please stay safe, dorkroom buddies.  That video is utterly infuriating. (big props for the black humor of crossposting the Sigma bazookalens though) Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Apr 6, 2010 |
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Whitezombi posted:I love Craigslist When I was right out of college a few years ago, I was broke and tried out for a Craigslist job. T'was a big wedding portraiture place with an actual office and a lighting studio, they have display cases in all the big hotels around here to promote themselves... and they wanted to pay someone $8 an hour to do pretty much all of their post-processing and retouching work. They also insisted that this $8/hr candidate should have several years of solid experience in Photoshop and a related 4-year degree. It was an independent contractor position, of course, don't want the tax man telling them to provide benefits. Did two days to cover a gap in rent, never showed up again.
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This is pretty rad: Stanford's Frankencamera  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq-bWm6WpMo&feature=player_embedded Programmable API (Linux/C++), Realtime HDR, in-camera panoramic stitching, gyroscope, and all sorts of other nerdery. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Jul 30, 2010 |
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Advice: if you live in the upper Northern Hemisphere, grab your camera and look up tonight. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3335206  There's a big solar storm hitting tonight, should be some pretty intense aurora borealis action up there.
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spog posted:This is the only thing worth subscribing to. And very cheap, too: Do ho ho.
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Whitezombi posted:I know this is video but it's pretty drat cool. That's awesome, but kinda sad almost. On a related note, Boston.com is doing a series about Prokudin-Gorskii at the moment. Gorskii rules. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html Here's one of his more famous photos:  ca. 1910 They've got a bunch of his work in there that I've never seen before though, really cool stuff... and the full collection of ~2600 images is available here: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&c=100&co=prok
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My K10's current strap is just a length of cheap brown woolen yarn that I tripled back over itself and knotted off at the lugs. gently caress year
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Film schools are pretty awesome. I'm teaching an animation workshop and their tech department gave me a half dozen 50d's and a 1Ds Mk.III to play with for the week. Goddamn is that thing nice.
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Cross_ posted:Oh Craigslist My buddy actually got a free* 5D and one of the longer L lenses when he joined me to check out a Craigslist ad. I was there buying about a hundred bucks worth of P/K and M42 stuff (two bodies, eight lenses, fifty rolls of film - it ruled.) After I paid for that stuff, I saw the seller's 5D sitting on the bookshelf and said "Hey, a 5D? Nice." She told us the tale of how she'd been shooting seascapes with it when a big wave knocked her into the ocean, so now it was pretty much a paperweight that would be too expensive to get repaired. Then she just gave us the salty, gritty thing for the hell of it. The body seems pretty well hosed, the lens still works in manual. Makes a horrible grinding sound from all the sand inside the barrel, but my buddy has managed to get some use out of it and the glass is pretty much fine.
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Helmacron posted:Well I didn't get into any art galleries next year. I sent proposals to four. I also didn't get into any universities. I applied to three. I don't actually feel sorry for myself. Just perturbed. I heard nothing back from any of them and then a rash of rejections. I spent a couple hundred just printing photos for everything. Have you shown work anywhere in public before? If not, try non-traditional galleries first to get some resume experience. It's pretty easy to get shows in places like bookstores, local libraries, or coffee shops. From there, look for local "Calls for Art" or group shows. Once you've got some showing experience listed on paper, galleries are more likely to pay attention to you. If you already know what you're doing though, disregard this. I'm trying to work through that stuff too and it definitely takes awhile. Being able to schmooze people is really damned important if you want to get into shows - go to their openings, chat 'em up, drink their booze, then mention the proposal again when they know who you are. That might help too. Just don't be like this guy I know on facebook: "if I do not get excepted for the photography group... which I'm sure I will... but if not I will be retiring from photography..." (dude shoots nothing but HDR myspacey shots with the $4000 setup he bought on a whim, threatens to quit photography every month or so and always gets a slew of "no you are too good you can't quit!" messages, it rules) Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Dec 23, 2010 |
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8th-samurai posted:Agreed. Basic concepts are basic concepts no matter what camera you shoot with. One of my friends has been doing a lot of egg printing for her MFA work. It's weird.
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psylent posted:Fujifilm Instax 200 - $100 on ebay. Oof. Amazon's prices can be pretty hilarious too. $274 for a new Polaroid One-Step 600, $120 for a three pack of Polaroid 600 film - and a page full of reviews of people bitching about how they'd bought it and found the chemistry all dried up. Then there's some seller trying to get $2000 for a used Instax 200 with three packs of film.
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Man, what a delightful train wreck. e: just got to the "'my kid could paint that' / art isn't work" arguments while my printmaking friend was reading along too. Boy did that ever earn a deafening PFFFFFF moment. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Jan 15, 2011 |
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Twenties Superstar posted:I'm glad that you're a thinking egalitarian but objectifying a man is just as bad as a women hombre I like my women like I like my cameras: musty, cheap, and picked up at a thrift shop~
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Paragon8 posted:you can get them cheaper if they have fungus Aww yeaaah.
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brad industry posted:This is a subforum on Something Awful, take it easy. Judging from my own fairly limited sample pool, the photo department at my art school/workplace is usually like 90% female students to 10% male. However, the entire photo faculty is men.
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Another completely unscientific observation: The male photographers I know usually buy much more expensive gear, almost exclusively Canon with a big huge bag of gear. Status symbols ahoy! The female photographers I know are all either Dx0-level Nikon users or they're shooting film. Also they've been more likely to be into alt-process stuff and darkroom experimentation, encaustic layerings over prints, etc. One of the girls in my Photo 1 class stopped using her camera entirely and just did photograms by creating body impact patterns on vaseline over plate glass. It was pretty rad. (I'm also glad that I finally cut off my horrible ponytail, that's one stereotype down.)
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Ric posted:I find this derogatory talk about clean, intelligent creatures most offensive and insist that you use a different pejorative, possibly one based on sexuality or gender. Why, you bourgie gearfluffer!
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squidflakes posted:So wait, on a comedy forum, under a thread that's supposed to be specifically for GBS type stuff, we're calling each other out for making unfunny comments because we assume the other posters are a pack of skeezy weird-o fucks meanwhile we're expressing our biggest fear as being perceived as skeezy weird-o fucks? Sure it's a comedy forum, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be at least a little classier and more clever than 4chan or a Youtube comment section in here. Casual sexism is up there with casual racism for dragging a place down quickly. Shmoogy posted:A photographer hitting on his model is extremely unprofessional and creepy. During my freshman year at art school, there was a notorious 40+ year-old dude in the area known as "Sketchy Rob" who made a point of chatting up all the incoming freshman girls. He'd invite them to do private model shoots for him, pay a little bit or pay with food, and kept pushing their comfort levels towards nude fetish shoots as quickly as possible. If they reached that point, he'd try to start loving them too. Nickname was well deserved. I was less than pleased when my roommates started inviting him over to our place... Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jan 25, 2011 |
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gently caress all camera manufacturers. Real playas ARE cameras.  ^ Ann Hamilton, using her mouth as a pinhole aperture. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Jan 26, 2011 |
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xzzy posted:I guess this could be moved to the camera bag thread, but yes, that's the sort of thing I'd like. A camera condom that I can toss in my normal backpack. Try looking around a local camera shop for those things. My nearby shop has a whole bin of used leather ever-ready cases for like ~$10 or less. e: actually, I think they all for film bodies, so this might be stupid advice after all Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Jan 27, 2011 |
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This is getting pretty far away from photography, but I had some fun tonight playing with an image-to-sound converter. http://www.skyfell.org/soundofanimage.html It interprets RGB pixel values as MIDI notes, which can then be mapped to different instruments and used in audio synthesis programs. An hour or so of screwing around turned one of my old urbex pictures:  Counters into this audio: 
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Shmoogy posted:That's pretty cool. Is there a legitimate(/alternate) use for that technique, or is it purely just doing something awesome? One of my friends got an assignment to reinterpret a self-portrait into a different sensory medium, so she asked if I knew anything about turning an image into sound. FruityLoops and Adobe Audition have tools sorta like this too, I used to use those to make some weird generative work for one of my New Media undergrad courses. It can be an interesting way to make abstract soundscape stuff or for multimedia image+sound installation work... so the legitimate use is pretty much "lol art." Also, Aphex Twin sometimes use hosed up pictures to control spectrographs in their music:  I'm going to try using this PC program when I get home later: http://www.nicolasfournel.com/audiopaint.htm Similar idea, but it'd be turning images into sound by using additive synthesis instead of MIDI. Here's a sound sample from their site, made out of an image from the Hubble Telescope: http://www.nicolasfournel.com/waves/AudioPaint/GhostsFromSpace.mp3 BobTheCow posted:drat that's super cool! It'd be fun to play with different images to see if you can get sounds that fit the same mood. Bright images make really horribly high-pitched tones. Colorful images create a lot of difference between the three main instrument channels, getting more chaotic with more color differences and saturation. It also depends a lot on which instruments you map the RGB values to... using square wave, woodblock, and saw wave made that image sound almost exactly like background music from the game DOOM. Piano and flute just sound jangly and goofy, but might work for a dark yet colorful image. I did add a lot of post-processing too once it started yielding a direction that I liked. Converted image to MIDI, pulled MIDI file into GarageBand, then designed some quick custom synth instruments and effects for each track instead of using the generic midi stuff. It was pretty fun to try, kind of a neat scattershot way of getting new sound ideas too. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 10, 2011 |
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pwn posted:This is cool as gently caress. Thank ye. I just finished trying out the AudioPaint program. Instead of midi notes like the previous thing used, this one treats each row of pixels as an oscillator, building up sound through additive synthesis. I tossed in this picture I took of the inside of a lava tube:  And after tweaking the frequency ranges a bit, it returned this as audio: 
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pwn posted:It's killing me how nicely these match up with the mood of the source photo. Oh god. Sure, I'll try that one with the midi thing once I'm back on a mac. The MIDI one was mac only, but I used the PC one for my second attempt. Here's the link for the PC program: http://www.nicolasfournel.com/audiopaint.htm That Rockwell image might actually sound pretty cool in Audiopaint, since it maps frequency vertically and time horizontally. The bright signs in the middle of the image should register as loud mid-frequency bursts blaring out from the full-spectrum static created by all that blue. With the MIDI program (Sound of an Image), it'll probably sound like an absolute mess. I'll try it with synth claps and synth trumpets.
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HPL posted:Retouching is loving awesome. All women should look skinny as a rail with huge boobs. If you want the retouching thread to really take off, post it in the E/N subforum instead.
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GWBBQ posted:If I had $4000 to spare, I'd definitely buy this. For about a hundred bucks, you could rock the KGB-issue Zenit "Fotosnaiper." It'd be almost as goony as using the machine gun camera, and only slightly less likely to get you shot by the police.  (source: http://esens.deviantart.com/art/fotosnaiper-ID-42129400) Or perhaps a surplus Graflex K20:  Uses 5-inch aerial rollfilm so you can scoff at all those 120-format chumps... at several hundred dollars per roll. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Feb 25, 2011 |
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HPL posted:It must have been pretty neat to get those aerial photos back on large format film and see how much you could zoom and enhance on the enlarger. My dad's got some aerial prints that he made back when he was a Navy S&R pilot, they're pretty awesome. He moved out of state recently, but next time I see him, I'll see if he still has the negatives around.
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"THIS IS BEYOND ART !!" Let's make this the new Dorkroom slogan.
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:Lets not forget this cool thing. I was never sure if it was real or not. As awesome as that thing is, I find this caption on their examples page to be highly suspicious: quote:Barack Obama's speech in Germany in front of Berlin's Siegessäule. July 24th 2008 I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have ended well for the artist if he pointed that thing at Obama.
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Martytoof posted:I haven't seen a single Lensbaby photo where I said to myself "wow, that really adds to the photo". They all end up looking like a lame photoshop effect. Amusingly enough, that Lensbaby effect looks pretty similar to the test roll I got back from my "new" Argus A. Early 1940s lens, center is vaguely sharp and everything else gets really blurry from spherical aberration. A lot of shots turned out lame because of it, but a few seemed to have some potential.
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nonanone posted:Dr. Cogwerks, that's basically the impression I get from it. It's a way for people who own dslrs who don't want to deal with film to get lo-fi quality. As someone who does shoot film now, it seems redundant and a little silly to do thing like make my 5dmkii look like a pinhole camera or holga or whatever. If you plan for the effect when shooting, it could be useful in a pictorialist sort of way. Sounds like a lensbaby offers more control over the aberration than a regular ol' meniscus lens would. I'd call it a dumb gimmick if it's just being done for "omg holga ++++" flickr comments - but if that effect actually works for the intent of the shot, cool. Experimenting with your imagemaking process can be pretty worthwhile too.
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pwn posted:Or be Not A Literal Child and don't gently caress with other people irl loving with people irl, through the medium of art = art. Do it. It's the kind of beneficial trolling that could easily turn into a human-interest newspaper story.
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Celebrity endorsements are fun.  As I've mentioned in a couple other threads, I've been helping the owner of a defunct photo store with inventory and liquidation. While she was out, one of her kids was rooting around in the basement and found an old, dusty, life-sized stand-up cardboard Bill Cosby torso from back when he did Kodak ads. They set it up behind the counter. Later that night, the owner comes into the dark store, sees Bill Cosby's silhouette lurking in the dark by the registers and proceeds to flip the gently caress out, almost called 911 thinking that he was a burglar. So much cursing ensued. I'm gonna see if I can keep the cutout and use it to torment anyone who visits my apartment. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Mar 23, 2011 |
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