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Interesting article about her and her situation here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/18/annie-leibovitz-photographer quote:Dan Kellum, Leibovitz's assistant in 2002, tells the magazine that when her daughter Sarah was in her infancy she insisted on recording the child's minute eating habits in a journal. Except that the journal had to be a brand of notebook imported expressly from Sweden. When stocks of the journals were running low she ordered a couple to be couriered on the next plane, at a shipping cost of $800. Sounds like she just has no idea about money.
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pwn posted:IS THE ONION A GOON?? That is far too funny
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Interrupting Moss posted:CF cards aren't exactly pricey at reasonable sizes. No sane person would save money on the cheapies. To be fair, I have not heard problems with cheap off-brand CF cards (apart from obvious scam/counterfeit ones). I think the technology is mature enough that it's easy to make something reliable, even at a low cost. That said, I do agree with you, why take the risk when it is important stuff like your photos.
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Cyberbob posted:What's the best response to "Wow those photos are great, you must have an awesome camera" that you've heard/said? 
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Nondo posted:Allow me to apologize in advance That was really well done, thanks for sharing 'got a 70-200 in my pants, she makes me wear a UV filter' 
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Pompous Rhombus posted:As noss said, film was apparently pretty pricey back in the 60's, and doubling the number of shots per roll (and coming up with much smaller bodies/lenses) was a clever move. A bit analogous to the DSLR/cropping thing today when you think about it, although the limited high ISO performance/size of enlargements limitations might not be such a close fit. I recall that when the Konica half-frame came out, it got pretty slammed for the quality of images due to the half-frame format. That said, it was reviewed by the same type of people who pixel peep nowaday, so who knows...
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JaundiceDave posted:This dude has 199,537 photos on his flickr. Given that Flickr was introduced in 2004, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr#History Assuming he was posting at full rate as soon as it was launched (pro account, 2Gb per month limit), that's about 100 photos per day. Roughly 1 photo every 10 mins for every hour that he has been awake for the last 6 years. EDIT: 'Joined Aug 2006' which means his finger is basically glued to the shutter release. spog fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jan 9, 2010 |
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psylent posted:A friend of mine got the GF1 and it's a great little camera. I'd love to have one as a carry around, but I don't see it replacing my DSLR any time soon. It is lovely, but it's not that small though. Speaking of which, are there any decent pancake lenses for Canon? I'd even go manual if it meant that the body+lense was really light
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Beer Coaster posted:I read that and just kept thinking: I must be getting old, cause I agree with about 70% of that article. Though almost nothing he says about photography.
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Jan 22, 2010 06:41
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Interrupting Moss posted:I'm absolutely convinced he's the photography world's equivalent of Fox News: saying whatever it takes to get the most viewers excited one way or the other so they'll keep coming back. I think he deliberately has opinions that he knows will wind people up. In other words, he's not an idiot, he is a clever troll. Let's face it, he gets quoted a lot more than people with sensible/mainstream opinions.
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Mannequin posted:On an unrelated note, looks like the official White House photographers are now using tilt/shift lenses as part of their arsenal. (Also, they all shoot with Canon 5D Mk II's): So, give it about 3 months and we'll start to see really crappily tone mapped HDRs from them...
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Paragon8 posted:Continuing to eavesdrop he sounded like a huuuuge douche. Apparently his ideal assistant (he was describing it to his dinner companion) is to be young (16 years old was perfect apparently), sexy, willing to carry heavy things, and female. And the problem with this is....?
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Paragon8 posted:I am just disappointed that an apparently successful fashion photographer had to resort to hiring 16 year old girls as assistants to perv on. To be fair, most successful fashion models have a tendency to look like a bag of bones with all the sexual appeal of a coatrack. But to drift back to seriousness, I've always wondered about the disconnect between what is considered 'attractive' in the fashion world, compared the the glamour world.
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orange lime posted:I just wanted to say that the fredmiranda forums loving SUCK. I saw a piece of equipment that I'm interested in on their buy/ sell forums, so I tried to register an account. First, they don't accept "free email addresses", including the obviously shady virus-spewing business that is Gmail, so I didn't think I'd be able to sign up at all. I tried a Mailinator address on a whim and what do you know -- it worked. If that's not loving broken I don't know what is. Then, as soon as it accepted my Mailinator email, the site tried to sell me a subscription that's required to post new threads in the buy/sell area. After I finished changing my email address, I realized that I had nine loving fredmiranda tabs open, because it opens every single link in a new window. Then, to top it all off, my "randomly-assigned" default password was "YajerK". photography-on-the.net uses captchas that were completely unworkable. Even when I definitely entered the correct letters, it still would not let me register and I gave up trying. But there's plenty of other reasons to hate FM apart from technical.....
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orange lime posted:What? Who wants this? What is the reasoning? Are they trying to capture the lucrative people-who-think-their-heads-are-too-big market? Is there some Asian cultural stigma against having a big head? Or does it filter just the faces, leaving the heads the same size? Why? I never realised that there was a whole section of humanity who were concerened that their heads were too big. And there there were enough of them to justify the cost of implementing such a feature. Dr. Cogwerks posted: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. I guess they could do it reasonably well, just by looking for a face and then distorting that area inwards a little. Background may get a little stretched, but you'd probably not notice it too much. HPL posted:Probably makes them look less weird when you take a photo up close at a wide angle. Well, it won't correct the distorting that give you a huge nose and funny eyes, so perhaps it really is for big headed people with self-image issues...
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Shmoogy posted:Thanks buddy, I downloaded them all just in case some day I or someone else needs them, and I can't find the site. I have a nasty feeling that this may insipre me to pull apart my busted 50 1.4 to find the tiny little bit of broken plastic that has knackered it. quote:Took a while because I couldn't remember what I could use to download everything on a single page downthemall - beloved by internet hoarders and pron addicts alike.
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I think some of you guys don't understand the words 'fun stuff'.
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Haggins posted:i tried to read the review till I got to the $10,000 with one lens part. If I had that kind of money I'd rather spend it on an airplane. http://idleicarefundplease.blogspot.com/ Makes you think....
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Pompous Rhombus posted:I'm not one for gimmicky shirts but I would probably buy at least one of those posts in t-shirt form. Actually, I think I would too, as long as it were subtle. Unfortuntaly, few people would get the joke so I would have to save it for special, photographer-intensive occasions. HPL posted:Doesn't Sony or someone else make Nikon sensors? And I know Coreco makes a bunch of medium format back sensors. Yes, I believe that is the case. I wouldn't be surprised if all the electronics for Leica actually come from Panasonic and only the chassis and lenses are made by Leica.
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Dread Head posted:Sony manufactures the Nikon sensors but they are designed by Nikon. I've heard mutterings that it might even go a little bit deeper than that - i.e. that Nikon gets involved with the production to some extent. Of course, we'll probably never know the reality, but I can imagine that if you're designing cutting-edge stuff, you'll want someone on the shop floor to make sure it actually works and to get the best out of the manufacturing equipment. It happens a lot in other relatively specialist industries: I've worked on projects where I am using components/systems from a competitor. And at the same time, they might be competing against us for the same project, using components that were supplied by us to them. So in that regard we are bi-directionally partnering with competitors to work together on projects that are directly competing with each other. You have to have a certain amount of schizophrenia to get your head around it.
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HPL posted:According to DPReview's new review on the Canon S90, the sensor in it is made by Sony. Finally, they get round to reviewing it. Is it my imagination, or are they getting slower and slower at reviewing stuff?
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HPL posted:Turning on ...well, to be fair, any one that doesn't have live view that is.
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DaNzA posted:
It would have been okay with a UV filter on it.
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Mannequin posted:Why do we want to keep people out of the dorkroom? More people should come in and join and contribute, even if they're just starting out. No? I agree with this. After all, fun though you guys are, if we dont get fresh blood, we'll end up like one of SA's weird sub-forums. Or worse, like a typical photography forum.
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Augmented Dickey posted:spog wtf does your avatar mean ive been wondering for years Umm, I guess it is a handful of random thoughts together with playing with an animated gif maker. The young lady is Pink The quote is from Maggie Thatcher (how often do you hear the word 'stench' in politics?) The old guy was from a series of mughshots where the photographer made them really emotional by using a really shallow depth of field and moody lighting. And it replaces a previous avatar which caused people to hate me, but I've lost my copy of it. (Or the perhaps I should say that Pink represents my inner psyche, while the old guy represents my physical future and the quote represents my political views)
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Greybone posted:
I thought avatars were numbered, but in may case the only difference is .jpg/.gif. Clever you for finding it. People used to send me messages, telling me that they hated me, solely because of that one that I had. pwn posted:
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fronkpies posted:Has the old project thread gone? Sounds interesting, go ahead and make a thread and I will enjoy it and I am sure others will. Having a background there should allow you to capture images that other photographers won't be able to without the aid of a stab vest.
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Paragon8 posted:Ultimately it's a bit of a grey area and there's arguments either way. I guess the safest way to go is to get your friend to sign a contract! I thought that the default definition was that, in the absence of a contract, it was whoever pressed the shutter release. But I admit that I may be confused and thinking about fruit machines in casinos.
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Ric posted:
I had no idea that you could get your buffer upgraded. That's kind of cool http://support.nikontech.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/15997/~/d3-digital-slr-camera-buffer-memory-expansion-service And photovests should only ever be worn when getting your camera equipment onto a plane whilst bypassing the handcarry weight restrictions
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diarrhea for girls posted:Welcome back buddy. You know who else liked the Mavica FDs? That's right,
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diarrhea for girls posted:That has to be one of the creepiest photos I've seen of KR, haha. He really likes wearing yellow shirts. I think that's the exact same one from in his "left handed" F100 shot. I thikn he really likes the colour saturation on the yellow shirts
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Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/ has some great tips today: Firstly, a tutorial on how to get extra lens flare in your photos for great effect: http://photosbycarla.blogspot.com/2008/08/lens-flare-tutorial.html Shortly followed by our Ken's tips on how to afford anything http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/how-to-afford-anything.htm (short version, you avoid buying a house, a car or food)
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dakana posted:Honestly, I'd reply and just say something like "good light makes good photos; I was bouncing my flash off of the ceiling and it created a large, soft light source which generally looks pretty good." I'd say 'Yes - I changed the settings to make my Nikon look like a Canon' If he asks further, tell him you added some isos and bokehs.
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man thats gross posted:Backing up 139GB of poo poo to S3 with an upload speed of 1mbps sucks rear end. That is all. Go outside and take some pictures?
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evil_bunnY posted:If you shoot at 10MP you'd probably generate more data than what's been uploaded in the mean time. I am mildy curious what fps will match the upload speed. man thats gross posted:I have been. It's been uploading for like 4 days and it's 15% done. My internet is barely usable. Only another 26 days to go...
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man thats gross posted:I'm shooting RAW, averaging about 15MB per shot. I ended up with 0.008 fps or one shot every 2 minutes to match 1 mbps. Roughly. I hope this doesn't put you off taking photos, as every shot you take means another 2 mins without high speed internet pron. Martytoof posted:loving jealous. Japan is one of those countries I think I could spend the next two years wandering around and photographing. I swear that there is something magical about the light in Japan. It's perfect for photography - as soon as the day gets a bit of sun, every single shot you take has perfect brightness, contrast and colour. I've never felt that elsewhere.
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unixbeard posted:I am using Lightroom 2.2 and I noticed its putting .dngs in Pictures/Lightroom/blah as you would expect, but there is also about 8 gigs of .nef's in Public/Lightroom/Imported on blah I'm not sure of the correct answer, cause I cannot understand the problem fully, but in this case, I would do a simple test: Pick an image, got into explorer and drag it from its location and onto the desktop. Then run LR and see what happens when you browse to that image. If it is missing, then you've screwed up. If LR seems happy, then you can got ahead and move all the NEFs to a folder elsewhere for a week, then delete them (to be on the safe side)
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rcman50166 posted:So does anyone here listen to TWIP (This Week in Photography)? Is there any back story to why they seem to be obsessed with iPhones? I gave up a listening to them about a 6 months ago as every single podcast followed the same formula: Iphone section, video section, 40 minute long, unedited interview with some boring guy, unexciting questions section. Occasionally, they'd have a guest star, like Bettany who's only claim to fame is that she is pretty. Which doesn't work so well on an audio podcast. I suspect that they have the problem that there isn't a lot of news in photography and that as they aren't a 'proper' news outlet, they don't get access to juicy news. It's a shame as they are nice guys. One of them was a programmer for LR (his name is in the splashscreen!) - but he never talked about it much which was a wasted opportunity (possibly afraid of his NDA)
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Alvination posted:I want to go to more garage sales. poo poo, that makes that mint-in-box Atari 2600 I got from a garage sale for $5 seem less of a great steal.
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