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he still has his car review up https://www.kenrockwell.com/porsche/cayenne-turbo-s/index.htm it's so stupid and gushing that i wonder if he told the porsche dealership "i'm a famous photographer, knock 5 grand off and i'll write you a positive review with beautiful photos on my site that gets 100,000 views a month"
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Mar 13, 2023 00:05
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Sagebrush posted:he still has his car review up lol @ assuming he paid for the car also ugh god the cayenne is a dogshit ugly porsche do not take any of ken rockwell's advice jesus christ
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Mar 13, 2023 00:07
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Beeftweeter posted:lol @ assuming he paid for the car
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Mar 13, 2023 00:13
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also i know that ken looks at his traffic sources. hi man.
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Mar 13, 2023 00:17
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Sagebrush posted:also i know that ken looks at his traffic sources. hi man. hey ken, you smell like hot dogs
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Mar 13, 2023 00:18
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Sagebrush posted:also i know that ken looks at his traffic sources. hi man. yes ken, the something awful domain is entirely appropriate. you've been featured
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Mar 13, 2023 00:20
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ken rockwell is good because he makes me feel much better about my photography because I can look at his poo poo and also his success, and honestly say my work is better than his (he really is that bad) and it gives me hope someone one said ken rockwell was the rob liefeld of photography
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Mar 13, 2023 01:05
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those porsche pictures are online used car dealership level like, they're not bad, but lmao
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Mar 13, 2023 01:08
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Achmed Jones posted:last night i spent some time reading ken rockwell's site. here are my thoughts, more or less in order i like to think of him as “k-rock, the panchromatic shock, rockwell”
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Mar 13, 2023 01:25
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also mods namechange please to “Al Rokkor” tia
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Mar 13, 2023 01:25
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wait until you find out about peter lik
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Mar 13, 2023 05:38
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what’s likma
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Mar 13, 2023 06:18
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just going thru the photos I took tonight   422 photos to look thru lol my process initially is to go thru them all, and each photo either gets no rating, or it gets 3 if it's usable/worthwhile at all. I'll go back and give a 4 to good photos and a 5 to (what I consider are) great photos. usually end up with about 20 5s this is a definite good one, and right at the start. usually I go thru and sort them all into worthwhile or not before doing editing, but it's fun to do a quick one or two as I'm going thru and send it off to the model who replied with "I love thissssss omg" in this particular instance which gives me that precious validation echinopsis fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Mar 13, 2023 |
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Mar 13, 2023 10:04
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Mar 13, 2023 11:44
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these are pretty good not to be too harsh but this is less so, lol. you can't tell what she's doing since you can't see her feet. it looks like she's blasting a fart really
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Mar 13, 2023 14:04
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ken Rockwell is a firm believer that women can’t be photographers because 
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Mar 13, 2023 15:54
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Seriously? Lol. Do you have a link to that page? I remember one article of his about "how to be rich" or some poo poo and part of it is not wasting money on frivolities like giving your wife flowers. Instead, he sometimes slides 20 dollars across the table to his wife and says "that's flowers" and she loves it because he's so responsible with money
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Mar 13, 2023 15:59
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can’t find the exact one but https://mail.kenrockwell.com/tech/how-to-learn-photography.htm has a “Women and children take pictures because they like them”
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Mar 13, 2023 16:06
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Lmao I never noticed this part of his footer beforequote:As this page is copyrighted and formally registered, it is unlawful to make copies, especially in the form of printouts for personal use. If you wish to make a printout for personal use, you are granted one-time permission only if you PayPal me $5.00 per printout or part thereof.
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Mar 13, 2023 16:10
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well im glad that i came to the correct opinion, this guy fuckin sucks
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Mar 13, 2023 16:17
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Beeftweeter posted:these are pretty good she's doing the heavy lifting tho lol quote:not to be too harsh but this is less so, lol. you can't tell what she's doing since you can't see her feet. it looks like she's blasting a fart really ahah that's fine, I mean not the fart part, but I cna't control what weird poo poo people think
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Mar 13, 2023 17:33
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echinopsis posted:thanks that is part of good composition though, at least with a live subject. you're supposed to suggest what kind of feels you get off of an image, even if that's not necessarily what happened. example,  i love this picture, it looks like eggy is very calm and interested in what's going on. that's only partially true though: in reality he was incredibly nervous and had started barking because my wife had just gone inside
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Mar 13, 2023 17:41
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you know how I feel about rules man
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Mar 13, 2023 17:52
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i wonder how much it pisses off ken that pentax 'won' digital SLRs as has been discussed at great length, that dude has a number of personal failings that make it very difficult to garner anything of value from what he posts* though i guess you can compare his own reviews against one another for some kind of internal consistency. i've always had a hard time reading and participating in gear-focused camera forums because there are so many people in the hobby who are just like him. i am reminded of the one tamron workshop i went to back in like 2009 where an obnoxious white dude cornered me and, unprompted, produced a rant about how "those j*ps are so fukkin crafty" with regard to how good whatever lens he was testing was. i dunno i threw away his business card he gave me "because you seem cool" while he was watching. it's not to say that there isn't anything to be learned from looking at materials generated by people that bring profound extracurricular opinions to the pursuit, but it's real hard to want to dig past open bias and engage when they're like that. ken's been the same way for the entire time i've been into the hobby. puts way too much stock in what brand is printed on your gear, absolutely none in artistic expression via the medium, and takes way too many opportunities to remind the world why nobody should listen to old dudes. last time he came up in this thread, that was when i found he was writing he considers things made in south korea to be substandard in some way without offering anything except the country name. and i go now and see his front page and top of his gallery page are bedecked in 2008-2010-era hdr, oversaturation alongside too much contrast, and generally boring framing. then there's the "taking better photos" in the <title> tag. i dunno about that. of course, as we have all prattled on about endlessly, it's all subjective. that said, ken's bullshit appears to be derived solely from attempting to get people to click his affiliate links. picture for the picture thread:  taking and processing this again today, i would have definitely brought the exposure up some and i would have gotten all of his toes in frame. i also see that 2006-era color noise and yep, iso 3200 at f4, still only good enough for 1/15. he was posing well for me though, looking at birds outside the window if I remember correctly.
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Mar 13, 2023 18:34
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doing another shoot this morning there's a bit more riding on this one. well, she does a pinup look, so there's a lot more time and effort on her part for preparation look wise, which is a bit more pressure than I am used to lol spoke to her about the location and she said "I've never shot there professionally, just with my camera" so she thinks I am a pro
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Mar 13, 2023 20:26
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nurrwick posted:
i like it  what a handsome little guy. dogs are surprisingly difficult subjects, they are more adhd-brained than i am ffs. i am fortunate that they love to pose for me though  eggy almost makes it effortless lol
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Mar 13, 2023 20:39
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it's still pretty difficult to look at pics of zeus because he died recently, but man did that guy also love to strike a pose  rest easy pal 
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Mar 13, 2023 20:47
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i mean yes art is subjective but it's not actually _that_ subjective, and it can be discussed and reasoned about. "it's subjective anyway" is what someone says when the conversation is over. sometimes it's a way for lovely artists to ignore valid criticism and sometimes it's a way for good artists to ignore stupid bullshit criticism, but either way it puts an end to discussion and thought.
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Mar 13, 2023 21:46
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what post(s) are you replying to ?
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Mar 13, 2023 21:57
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probably my unending tome there are limits to how far subjectivity can get your choices, definitely, and you should be able to explain to peers your work and what you were going for, i guess. i think i would be willing to say i don’t agree with ken’s choices, and i further think many of them are objectively boring or bad. i feel that way with a lot of oldhead guys. there’s a portraiture dude out in the shenandoah valley whose ranch i drove past once. i looked him up to see what kind of work gets you a huge plot of land with your name on the stone wall out front. it turns out “terrible exposure and color work” is in there, as well as “thoughtless background composition” and “often the camera was just slightly off level.” so if that’s the bar, there’s hope for whoever needs it! but yeah fair point about art is subjective being shorthand for “this is something i don’t want to engage with anymore”
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Mar 13, 2023 22:44
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Achmed Jones posted:well im glad that i came to the correct opinion, this guy fuckin sucks  
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Mar 14, 2023 09:40
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i hope no innocent japanese folks got caught in the crossfire when america harnessed the power of the sun. probably not, ken surely would have mentioned it
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Mar 14, 2023 09:54
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 this is the exact face of a twitter bio that says “Christian|Husband|Father|Photographer”
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Mar 14, 2023 10:02
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I harnessed the power of the harness to look like the world's biggest dork
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Mar 14, 2023 10:03
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jesus WEP posted:
off to capture some correctly exposed pictures harnessing the power of the sun
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Mar 14, 2023 11:12
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shitposter|chronically confused|dilettante|father
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President Beep posted:off to capture some correctly exposed pictures harnessing the power of the sun make sure you bring an nd filter
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Mar 14, 2023 15:36
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k-rock “the christian shock” super-father rockwell
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been working in my editing skills. what do you all think?
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