[QUOTE=B-hazard;32554033][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography[/url]
[editline]30th September 2011[/editline]
I'm considering doing a 52 week or 365-ish project instead, I just can't get my photos up to the standard I want every day, and often I will have a whole week that is bad. Should I do this or not?[/QUOTE]
you need to stop asking us what you should do, the choice of doing these projects solely lays at your feet. You're the only one that knows how much you want to do it and how committed you're going to be.
You shouldn't need some project to motivate you to take photos.
365, and even 52 projects require discipline. You can't expect it to work if you're going to bitch out (I mean that in the nicest way possible - I only made it to 265 last time.)
The only reason these kinds of things are fun or rewarding is because they are hard. Like Latir said, there are times when you just need to push through it. You can't give up when the project fights back (uninspired, etc.) There isn't a point if you aren't challenging yourself, and there certainly isn't one if you don't follow through with it.
That said, there is no reason you [i]have[/i] to have a project going. As Roll pointed out, you shouldn't need it to motivate you to take pictures. I'm sure Vivian didn't need to sit around on the internet worrying about uploading a picture a day to Flickr to get good at what she did.
[QUOTE=B-hazard;32551176]I think I'm just about ready to give up on my 365, I'm on somewhere like day 110 now and most of the time I just take a few random pictures on the way home on the gym as I'm either uninspired, lazy or don't have time.[/QUOTE]
have you read the reasoning to the "ish" in my project?
[url]http://rocphotography.net/?p=791[/url]
though having a solid must-post-daily 365 does help you to prepare, in a sense, for work deadlines where you may be creatively dry time to time as well.
surely it's silly to do a 365 project, because expecting that you can ouput a decent photo every day is a bit unrealistic
also offtopic
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fdpT6-gGxo[/media]
if I do a video project soon, it will be about how buying a ~professional~ SLR could make your pictures better, IE it physically drags you around and takes the pictures by force
stretch out my robot dance muscles
[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32555059]surely it's silly to do a 365 project, because expecting that you can ouput a decent photo every day is a bit unrealistic[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/louislanderdeacon/5310361002/]It's been done (and completed) before.[/url]
In my opinion on the project, success or failure is based heavily on completion. You don't need a masterpiece everyday, but you aren't exactly helping yourself if you just snap a completely random picture every day.
whoooaaaaahhhhhhh
read "[URL="http://www.85mm.ch/Book/GoingCandid.html"]Going Candid[/URL]" and "[URL="http://www.85mm.ch/Book/CollectingSouls.html"]Collecting Souls[/URL]", this guy is cool. I also just read in the first book that he uses a D7000 with a 50 1.8 exclusively for candid portraits on the street, and he put up the tip that he feels the lens is rather bright compared to what is metered. Shoot at f/4 and change your exposure compensation to -0.7 and it should be better. (ISO 800 maximum [though I know the D7k can push that waaaay farther], but he usually uses 400 on the streets due to being bright, but still in buildings' shadows)
I just took a picture with these settings and holy shit, it's like I upgraded my camera again
Question: If I have 2 cameras using the same ISO film, and set to the same shutter speed & aperture, they should both have the same amount of light right? In other words, can I use my SLR to accurately meter for my TLR as a makeshift measure till I get my handheld meter from home?
Yep. I do that with my old pentax 67 and my digital.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;32555214]whoooaaaaahhhhhhh
read "[URL="http://www.85mm.ch/Book/GoingCandid.html"]Going Candid[/URL]" and "[URL="http://www.85mm.ch/Book/CollectingSouls.html"]Collecting Souls[/URL]", this guy is cool. I also just read in the first book that he uses a D7000 with a 50 1.8 exclusively for candid portraits on the street, and he put up the tip that he feels the lens is rather bright compared to what is metered. Shoot at f/4 and change your exposure compensation to -0.7 and it should be better. (ISO 800 maximum [though I know the D7k can push that waaaay farther], but he usually uses 400 on the streets due to being bright, but still in buildings' shadows)
I just took a picture with these settings and holy shit, it's like I upgraded my camera again[/QUOTE]
Surely making the image a little darker isn't like you've upgraded your lens and camera?
You can turn it down by 0.7 stops in post really easily.
Also, tried it with a 50mm f/1.4 D and didn't really do anything unexpected.
[QUOTE=bopie;32555740]Yep. I do that with my old pentax 67 and my digital.[/QUOTE]
Thanks bopie.
[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32555059]surely it's silly to do a 365 project, because expecting that you can ouput a decent photo every day is a bit unrealistic[/QUOTE]
I see a 365 as less of a project, more of an exercise. At different points during the project, you realise something you didn't know before. I didn't finish my 365 but my photographic ability still improved because of it.
If you take photographs on a regular basis, i don't see the reason to do a 365, unless you like the challenge.
our school has a darkroom, i'd have to ask the head of art about using it but they only do digital photography because of the chemicals involved
[editline]30th September 2011[/editline]
i was like "fucking what"
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;32556011]Surely making the image a little darker isn't like you've upgraded your lens and camera?
You can turn it down by 0.7 stops in post really easily.
Also, tried it with a 50mm f/1.4 D and didn't really do anything unexpected.[/QUOTE]
turning down in post os great and all, but if the shot is getting overexposed then blown highlights become an issue. Inversely, now you may have to worry about shadow detail. I'll experiment with the method more today, im always a fan of high key and brigh contrasted b/w, but this seems to bring things to a medium point that im happy with
[IMG]http://i54.tinypic.com/zk0qs0.jpg[/IMG]
I'd like to share a little heart-warming story that happened earlier today.
My girlfriend and I were out looking for a Strobies flashgun mount and the only place we found that sold them in store is Jacobs digital but obviously the boxes were marked for Canon/Nikon flashguns and not the Jessops branded one she had (Jessops and Jacobs are the 2 main nationwide photography retailers in the UK).
Since my girlfriend didn't bring the flashgun with her the assistant manager rang up Jessops and tried to find out which "official" flashgun they based their design off, naturally they didn't say so instead of saying "Well buy it online from us then" Jessops sent someone round from their nearest store with all their branded flashguns for my girlfriend to identify and then helped her pick out the right attachment from the ones Jacobs were selling.
It was a truly bizzare moment (like an Xbox 360 fanboy helping someone choose a PS3) and I snapped the above picture while at the checkout. :v:
thats so cool
My local Jessops next door shop is Jacobs. I find it amusing.
The Jacobs store also used to be the Jessops dev/printing store.
Same in Edinburgh.
I bought a Lowepro Nature Trekker AW II for $100 at my lcs.
[img]http://products.lowepro.com//CatalogImages/18-1992-IMG4L.jpeg[/img]
[img]http://products.lowepro.com//CatalogImages/18-1992-IMG1_LRG.jpeg[/img]
[img]http://www.naturessecretlarder.co.uk/images/2/9af286a2lowepro-super-trekker-aw-ii-black-jpg.jpg[/img]
I'm going to climb the fuck out of them mountains.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/uHOgz.jpg[/t]
So I bought a gigantic camera bag at an estate sale for $10 the other day. Sadly a guy managed to get to the bag about 5 seconds before me and scooped up the Topcon RE Super and 4 lenses that were inside it, which especially sucks because that's one of the 3 cameras I'm hunting for. But hey at least I got the bag. The only problem with it is that I use the Micro 4/3rds system, and this bag could easily hold a large DSLR and 6 lenses. But since Micro 4/3rds cameras and lenses are so small, I managed to fit my entire setup (one body, three lenses, two accessories, and one flash) into the top compartment.
[video=youtube;VwVTgSxjidw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwVTgSxjidw[/video]
Will hike in the morning.
[img]http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/313992_2422956781578_1481237305_2716267_1134969947_n.jpg[/img]
too god damn hungover to do shit
[editline]1st October 2011[/editline]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOPIRo7hvrE[/media]
[QUOTE=bopie;32566339][t]http://i.imgur.com/uHOgz.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ep9832;32566708]So I bought a gigantic camera bag at an estate sale for $10 the other day. [/QUOTE]
Funny you should say that, last episode Phil bought some jazz shoes from an estate sale
flickr downtime october 2011 never forget
[editline]1st October 2011[/editline]
the usual 'I might have to actually go outside' joke doesn't really apply to flickr, being a photographers community and all...
[editline]1st October 2011[/editline]
(it's back up now)
Is there any way to hook my d3100 up to my PC so that I can see whatever the sensor is seeing on the screen?
[editline]1st October 2011[/editline]
so like, liveview but on the computer
[url]http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikond3100/discuss/72157625301348336/[/url] that looks informative
[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32570179]Is there any way to hook my d3100 up to my PC so that I can see whatever the sensor is seeing on the screen?
[editline]1st October 2011[/editline]
so like, liveview but on the computer[/QUOTE] dcamcapture has an option for that. And in other news my birthday is in 9 more days
Nikon's NXCapture has the live view thing too.
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