Photography forum off-topic discussion - General

Sounds like it could be a RAM issue, I know commonly if the RAM isn't seated properly it lets off, usually, a series of beeps.

Ok, that's the last time I go out to take night photography without some sort of defensive weapon :v: I was doing HDR's of a road and a building, and several car drives by, one of them pulls up next to me, and a guy* jumps out, goes over to me, standing all intimidating infront of me and goes "Why the fuck are you taking pictures of our car? What is that in your hand?" (I was holding the flash) My immediate response is to punch the living shit out of the guy and take the tripod and smash in the window of the car. No wait, that's not how I reacted :v: I put my hands up and went "Hey, you guys just went past by coincidence, want me to delete the picture?" then he gave me a long hard stare and I kept my smile and relaxed pose. He goes back in the car after what seems like an eternity, and they rev the engine and rush off. *Of Persian heritage might I add, in Norway. Not insinuating anything, but Persians tend to be troublemakers, as far as my experience goes. Seeing how the last 3 murders in Norway were done by a man of Iraqi descend and 2 of Pakistani descend. And they are the source of random insults whenever I'm walking down the streets with friends. Gah. Anyone else had someone jump at them for no reason when taking pictures?

I decided to go outside and try taking some pictures on a film camera for the first time in a decade, and for the first time ever on an SLR, and I can't tell if they're working or not, and I'm pretty sure I ruined a couple crap shots trying to check if it was working, and now I feel retarded. Guess I won't know until I take it to get developed. There is one shot I'm hoping turned out okay, I tried taking a picture of a lightbulb to see how it would turn out. I guess I've got to get used to how film works again. I'm hoping to actually get out tomorrow, after reading over the manual and looking up some more tutorials, and actually give it a proper shot. Anyone know if Wal-Mart's Photocentre develops film, or does it only do digital prints? Can't tell off their website.

Oh ffs, friend of that guy I posted last page. Where do these kids gain the self confidence? [quote=SS Photography]© Copyright: Sam Schreiber 2010-2011. All photographs and artworks in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Sam Schreiber (SS Photography). Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved.[/quote] [quote=SS Photography]LOMOGRAPHY!!!!!!!!!! get into it its the newest oldest thing out! if you have a iphone or new i touch you can download really cool lomography filters for your camera:) if you do share them with us:)[/quote] [url]https://www.facebook.com/pages/SS-Photography/125248800876446[/url] Kids need to learn the Facebook T&C. [quote=Facebook]# Sharing Your Content and Information You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition: 1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.[/quote] [editline]25th June 2011[/editline] Also got a roll of shitcunt Fujifilm from Big W because I'm too lazy to go all the way to the markets for the good camera store.

[QUOTE=The Salmon;30695426] Also got a roll of shitcunt Fujifilm from Big W because I'm too lazy to go all the way to the markets for the good camera store.[/QUOTE] Fujifilm is nice, I get good results with it.

Heh, saying that you use Fujifilm is about as specific as saying 'I use a Canon DSLR'

How protective someone is about their 'art' is generally an inverse indicator to its actual quality. [QUOTE=H4Z3Y;30696153]Heh, saying that you use Fujifilm is about as specific as saying 'I use a Canon DSLR'[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=The Salmon;30695426]shitcunt Fujifilm from [b]Big W[/b][/QUOTE] It's probably Superia.

[QUOTE=DaCommie1;30689366]Sounds like it could be a RAM issue, I know commonly if the RAM isn't seated properly it lets off, usually, a series of beeps.[/QUOTE] Graphics card. Reseated ram a few times, Lenovo 3000 N200, one long beep and two short

[QUOTE=bopie;30696788]How protective someone is about their 'art' is generally an inverse indicator to its actual quality. It's probably Superia.[/QUOTE] I just checked and it IS Superia! Since when do you know so much about Australia?

Superia is the standard for big, non-camera specific stores. You see it at Walmart, gift shops, airports etc. Most disposables are loaded up with it too. It's like if someone went to the store and said they came back with ketchup - unless they went to a specialty shop, you just kind of assume its Heinz. V:v:V

I kind of figured that's what you were basing your facts off of. Of course if anyone mentions they got fuji I'd assume it's the general stuff you'd find sitting in walmart and pharmacies and such.

[QUOTE=bopie;30700183]Superia is the standard for big, non-camera specific stores. You see it at Walmart, gift shops, airports etc. Most disposables are loaded up with it too. It's like if someone went to the store and said they came back with ketchup - unless they went to a specialty shop, you just kind of assume its Heinz. V:v:V[/QUOTE] Or smartprice. Or Tesco Value.

I officially have a wedding booked for next saturday :holy:

[QUOTE=cueballv2themax;30697809]Graphics card. Reseated ram a few times, Lenovo 3000 N200, one long beep and two short[/QUOTE] Graphics card issue? Aren't most laptop graphics cards integrated? If that's the case, your laptop may be fucked. Have you still got a warranty on it? If not, and if the graphics card is integrated, it may be worth looking into a new one.

[QUOTE=DaCommie1;30705049]Graphics card issue? Aren't most laptop graphics cards integrated? If that's the case, your laptop may be fucked. Have you still got a warranty on it? If not, and if the graphics card is integrated, it may be worth looking into a new one.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's gonna be about £100 to repair. £100 I don't have. I'm considering buying a used Dell D610 as a stopgap, or just getting a used CRT since I need a high-res screen for my Mac

Why a used CRT? The white balance? Also, I got a D620, I think, for $70, and it's a pile of crap TBH, better than a netbook, but it's not going to perform well for anything that needs a lot of processing power. Then again, it's from, like, '05 so it's not going to perform that amazingly.

cheap and lots of resolution yeah i don't need a lot of power, this n200 had a 1.6GHz Core 2 and 1GB RAM, not amazing eh [editline]25th June 2011[/editline] unless some people here have a spare £100 lying around they could give me

What do you mean by "lots of resolution?" Most CRTs that I saw were a maximum resolution of 1280x1024, I know they made others that went in the few thousand range, but those cost hundreds, even now. Nowadays you can get cheap LCDs that run a widescreen resolution of 1440x900, and you can even find cheap ones running the same 1280x1024 that you're likely to find on CRTs, and even a few that run resolutions around 1680x1050 and 1920x1080 full HD. The resolution of a monitor is how many pixels appear on the screen, and most cheap CRTs don't have a very large resolution. From what I've heard CRTs display whites better than LCDs, are you sure you're not mistaking something along the lines of contrast or colour balance for resolution? Also, the D610 is likely to have a single core at 2Ghz and 1GB of RAM, even less than what you have now, technically. Still, as long as you can get it for dirt, it shouldn't be too bad. I know I wouldn't have paid more for mine than I did.

i have an old crt which i pushed over 1920x1600 [editline]25th June 2011[/editline] my current res is 1280x1024 and i edit in final cut on this

Editing has more to do with hardware than screen resolution. Screen resolution mostly affect the size of what you're viewing, and on occasion the quality (HD or not). Also, how'd you manage to push it up that high, most monitors have a limit they hit and then they go black with an "unsupported resolution" message.

i just changed the settings and it worked. and i'm editing 720/1080p footage and need all the screen space i can get for color

If you're editing 1080P footage it stands to reason that for an optimal viewing experience you need a monitor rated for 1920x1080 and full HD supportive, because I know contrast ration has something to do with full HD capabilities as well. I know most of those monitors run in the $150-$400 range new, so it'll probably be hard to find one for under $100 used, considering the oldest you'll find one from is about 2007, and considering they cost more back then the person selling is is likely to have the idea that he can charge more for it than newer ones to try and earn more of his money back. If you can get a CRT to run that resolution, it'll help you out with editing, but won't quite be full HD, though it will have the same resolution. It'll give you a good idea about what the final product will look like on an HD screen, the rest of the HD content is mostly small details.

[QUOTE=DaCommie1;30708848]If you're editing 1080P footage it stands to reason that for an optimal viewing experience you need a monitor rated for 1920x1080 and full HD supportive, because I know contrast ration has something to do with full HD capabilities as well. I know most of those monitors run in the $150-$400 range new, so it'll probably be hard to find one for under $100 used, considering the oldest you'll find one from is about 2007, and considering they cost more back then the person selling is is likely to have the idea that he can charge more for it than newer ones to try and earn more of his money back. If you can get a CRT to run that resolution, it'll help you out with editing, but won't quite be full HD, though it will have the same resolution.[/QUOTE] it will get the job done

just got back from a shoot I did this morning, I think my model had a great time [img]http://s.hzy.im/0500.png[/img]

because of the dire state of photography portfolio CMSs I have decided to start making one myself, the default theme will look similar to the 500px portfolio theme, but you can install it yourself on your own web hosting [img]http://s.hzy.im/0505.png[/img]

[QUOTE=H4Z3Y;30717880]because of the dire state of photography portfolio CMSs I have decided to start making one myself, the default theme will look similar to the 500px portfolio theme, but you can install it yourself on your own web hosting [img]http://s.hzy.im/0505.png[/img][/QUOTE] ooh, I can't wait to see where you take the idea. [editline]26th June 2011[/editline] an interesting thought from someone on 4chan (along with a D7000-specific graph) [release][img]http://gyazo.com/2b3d68a7dfe332dea97973a526a2d5e8.png[/img] Is it just me or is in camera metering stuck in the film era? We meter to middle gray; why? Reversal film prefers underexposure, but negative film prefers overexposure. Middle gray splits the difference and gets good results with either. With digital, the best image quality is always found by exposing to the right without blowing highlights. Camera manufacturers can't even decide where middle gray is; it varies by camera and even by in-camera settings, most of which are meaningless when shooting raw. Why don't we meter to white? Better, why don't we meter to the brightest channel? Over/under exposure masks and histograms are generated from jpeg previews. Why? These could be generated from raw data during processing and stored in the raw files, adding only a few kb and increasing the accuracy of exposure estimation. My camera shows four stops in the histogram when (according to dpreview) it actually has 8 stops of usable dynamic range. What good is that?[/release]

Couldn't do the urbex yesterday, some assholes let a haulage firm dump all their waste there, completely ruining the scene.

I'll leave you all with another screenshot. I have all of the frontend stuff working, pulling it out of the database, etc. Now all that I need is to make the admin panel (which will probably be the hardest part) [img]http://s.hzy.im/0510.jpg[/img]

does it go through those photos automatically?

POY gogogo [quote][img]http://gyazo.com/fe6e01c7d784a9999b496c1d7f78767c.png[/img][/quote] I spend nigh every waking moment here, and sleep under my desk most days. Consider it a live webcam.