Radbot posted:

Good lord. I would have gladly made that business deal with Leibovitz if I had the money to loan. It's hard to argue with making a loan whose collateral is worth far more than the loan itself.

I kinda wonder about that MacWorld shoot... perhaps this is the amateur in me speaking, but is it really necessary for "half a day" (4 hours? 12 hours?) to expire for a shot like that? I've worked with large format before doing product photography with what seemed to me much more challenging subjects and I came away with great results in far less time. Was it really even necessary to break out the Sinar at all?

torgeaux posted:

Put this up in the General thread a while ago, but loved it too much to let it go away:

Weegee talking about his brand of photojournalism in NYC.

http://tedbarron.com/BWF-June-2009/22-Weegee.mp3

brad industry posted:

Even if they're not making a profit, you are still entitled to some kind of compensation.

pwn posted:

When he whines about how the boom operator gets paid, he glosses over that they don't get paid every time someone buys the DVD. They do the work once and get paid once. It's pretty hilarious how people in the arts think one instance of their work should be paid for over and over and over again into perpetuity.

Dorkroom: Do you think you're entitled to be paid every time someone makes money off your work? If so, why? Sub-question: Would you find it fair to send the maker of your camera a portion of the profits every time you make money with it?

Interrupting Moss posted:

Except it's difficult to portray sideline shooters as exploiting their subjects.

evil_bunnY posted:

You're either missing the point or seriously comparing warfare to sports with regards to the suffering they inflict on populations.

Mannequin posted:

This looks photoshopped to me, specifically as though he used the radial blur filter:



I can't really see how you can achieve this effect in-camera. To do so you would have to be zooming out with your lens while exposing the shot, at the same speed the horse is traveling towards you. (I think). Hmm. I guess it's possible.

Example radial blur/zoom filter:




What do you think?

torgeaux posted:

torgeaux posted:

My guess is, then, that he's talking about substantial manipulation, then, rather than global adjustments/dodge & burning.

AIIAZNSK8ER posted:

Are you saying that older MF backs take longer to process a DSLR so you can't take shoot in a continuous mode?

torgeaux posted:

Yeah, but why not just go with some photography friends? I see what you're saying, and I see the appeal, but I think I'd be irritated out of my mind by hour 2.

On the other hand, a photography road trip or vacation would be fantastic. My wife, I believe, might disagree.

Radbot posted:

Has anyone read that new-ish Ken Rockwell article about the research of photography hobbyists being due to the easy availability of internet porn? Really kinda turned me off the guy. I knew he was always a bit off his rocker, but that one takes the cake.

http://kenrockwell.com/tech/death-of-photography.htm

squidflakes posted:

I wonder if invoking Ansel Adams is the photography community's version of Godwin's law.

For any argument about photography, as the post count increases, the probability of someone comparing their preferred gear, shooting style, methods, workflow, or software to that used by, endorsed by, pioneered by, or would have been, had the technology been available, used by Ansel Adams approaches unity.

That and its almost to the point where someone is going to write the laundry list of True Ansel Adams Photography Facts a la Chuck Norris.

orange lime posted:

Yes. Seriously, watch the video. Realize that the footage of a dozen happy civilians walking and joking in the street before being shredded by anti-tank cannon fire, after several minutes of observation and debate by the helicopter crew and their commanders, is completely real.

Not only does the helicopter gunner utterly annihilate the crowd of people because he mistakes what is obviously a camera for an RPG, but they then blow up the van of people (with identifiable children in the front seat) who are clearly just picking up the wounded and the dead. There is no blood or gore and it is still one of the most horrifying things I've ever witnessed.

HPL posted:

I think that's the heart of it. If they were like: "OH poo poo gently caress gently caress gently caress" then that would be one thing that could be interpreted as a panic response but it sounds like they were fairly deliberate about what they were doing.

tuyop posted:

I never got why he didn't just camp out like 800 meters away in a nice big hide with a long lens and get the shot that way.

Augmented Dickey posted:

Can someone explain to me how exactly fixed aperture zoom lenses work? It boggles the mind.

Like, it seems that logically if a lens has a max aperture X at its longest focal length, then the max aperture at any shorter focal length should be greater than X. But obviously that's not the case.

RangerScum posted:

I'm just saying you of all people might want to call it the right thing since a lot of your B&W landscapes are HDR. You remind me of the blind black KKK leader from the Chapelle Show.

Paragon8 posted:

Don't get me wrong I didn't mean to sound like I was defending him. It must be an awful feeling seeing the people you spent a huge amount of time and effort producing a photojournalism story on in somebody else's portfolio. It's definitely different than someone taking a picture of the eiffel tower in the same way as you, or some other easily accessible concept.

I think the duplicated concept is ultimately more damaging than any similarities between the pictures. Honestly I don't know why the other photographer really bothered. He spent considerable time and expense getting good pictures, but ultimately worse than the photographer whose footsteps he followed. Now he's got the whole plagiarism thing to deal with.

anthropologists posted:

The rapid expansion of surf tourism in the Mentawai Islands in the period 1995-2009 has subjected them to world scrutiny to a degree probably unmatched in their history. In this we are possibly seeing the beginning of a new chapter in the relationship between the region's residents and the rest of the world.

ZoCrowes posted:

Has some kind of yellow border or something...

BTW congrats on finishing your degree. I get mine handed to me Saturday.

Any post-grad plans?

poopinmymouth posted:

Also I find Pietur Hugo's work way more exploitive and patronizing than JoeyL's. It's almost by definition look at these crazy (black) savages and how savage and different they are from us. I know he and others claim it's meta, but I don't buy it.

dakana posted:

Prison changes people, maaaan.



also, I can't believe I just made this.

orange lime posted:

Wow, that's ridiculous. It also implies that you're going to hit your shutter's rated life after you've recharged the battery 20 times, right? Ouch.

fronkpies posted:

20 times would be 100,000, so that's right isn't it?

Bojanglesworth posted:

I'm sorry but that is just the type of person who pisses me off. There is no need to have that much gear strapped around your neck, especially not for a "dog surfing event."

The guy who I met with today to buy a new body brought his bag of gear and had at least seven or eight L series lenses and not just a 1D Mark IV, but also TWO 5d mk2's. What type of photography does he do you may ask? Hobbyist bird photographer. I just don't get it.

GWBBQ posted:

Bloody August posted:

Freshly formatted card, I did have some misc Reaper files on there from a friend, but that's why I formatted it. I guess it could have been that the card was old and tired, I didn't check my better 2GB card. Either way, 2Gb in a 5DII equals failure.


Maybe this is why. When I was messing around with it, I did have it at 6400, and 5DII RAWs will certainly be larger than 7D RAWs.