I've had a subscription since I was like 4. :smug:
anybody know where to get a cheap EOS film body with a good feel and weight, like similar to the 5D or whatever?
eBay?
So my mom was cleaning up around the house this past weekend, and found a few rolls of film sitting there. So she sent em in to be developed, turns out to be from when I was in 8th grade (sophomore in college now). Blast from the past, holy crap I looked like a baby. But what amazes me more is how well the pictures came out, despite sitting there exposed for about 6 years.
Me and my flatmate were taking pictures in Holyrood Park, up on the side of some cliffs, just now, at 2am, when we saw a car slowly coming towards us, along the road we were next to, which is unused at night.
We promply shat bricks, then shat a house as it started slowing down next to us. Turns out it was a police car (:v:) seeing what were doing, after they grew suspicious of our flashlights from light painting.
They saw we were just taking pictures, and got interested, so they got out of the car and we showed them all the photos we took, and how we did them :v:.
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;32615580]Me and my flatmate were taking pictures in Holyrood Park, up on the side of some cliffs, just now, at 2am, when we saw a car slowly coming towards us, along the road we were next to, which is unused at night.
We promply shat bricks, then shat a house as it started slowing down next to us. Turns out it was a police car (:v:) seeing what were doing, after they grew suspicious of our flashlights from light painting.
They saw we were just taking pictures, and got interested, so they got out of the car and we showed them all the photos we took, and how we did them :v:.[/QUOTE]
whenever I'm roaming around at night, I'm both fearful of cops showing up, but usually have some elaborate plan of how to approach conversation, ensure that I'm not some teenage punk with a bag full of spraypaint nor is my camera a gun of some kind, and get carried away and keep track of the good pictures so I can skip right to them in the event he gets curious like that.
Often times though, I'm wandering around local areas which are 90% subdivisions, so seeing me with a tripod pointed pretty much anywhere can be mistaken as me being a creeper and looking in windows, so ensuring all of my photos are noncreeperish is always in the back of my mind.
In general, even during the day and in public, I avoid not seeming like a creeper. I know it seems like a pretty easy thing to avoid, but from security/cops/paranoid lunatic parents' perspectives, I'm a guy with a big powerful camera and it could be aimed at a garbage can I want to plant a bomb in (true story)/a place I want to break into (true again)/your retarded fucking kid that won't stop screaming and throwing their toy at people (god forbid you can see the front of my camera from way off to the side, I'm not even remotely near you, you schizoid).
If I was honestly going to be doing things as sketchy as planning illegal activities or creating a creeper photo album of your kid because you're confident your fat mcnugget of a child is worth creeping, I'd probably be using a cellphone and snapping pics whilst pretending to talk or something. I know it's probably not the best idea to tell a person who's accusing you of doing bad stuff that you know how better to do such bad stuff is not exactly a bright idea, (terrible wording but you know what I mean), but proving that you wouldn't heft a giant SLR around on a stealthy mission or be setting off flashes and scribbling around with flashlights in the dark for all to see.
...so yeah, I think way too much into this when I'm out and about because it's too quiet, heh.
I felt the same way, when I realised it was a police car, I skipped right to the best picture I'd taken so far, ready to show them that we were making art.
It paid off.
Slightly related, I keep a couple mirror selfies on my memory card in case someone questions the legitimacy of my gear or if it needs to be identified as mine.
Pageking content:
TIME is hosting a contest with a $2500 grand prize for student photographers
[url=http://lightbox.time.com/nextgen/]Clicky[/url]
[QUOTE=bopie;32616262]Slightly related, I keep a couple mirror selfies on my memory card in case someone questions the legitimacy of my gear or if it needs to be identified as mine.
Pageking content:
TIME is hosting a contest with a $2500 grand prize for student photographers
[url=http://lightbox.time.com/nextgen/]Clicky[/url][/QUOTE]
the D7000 has a nifty feature that writes personal info, so all I really have to do is open a picture and hit up on the d-pad to get to the EXIF info, then once more and it displays-
[release]Copyright: ROC Photography
Artist: Ryan O'Connor[/release]
I figure that may come in handy in case of theft as well, given it's a rather well hidden feature in the menu. only problem is that a thief would probably be too dumb to post anything outside of facebook saying "look at my new camera I'm so pro and loaded lol" so digging around for the exif would be made near impossible. :I
[QUOTE=daijitsu;32615801]whenever I'm roaming around at night, I'm both fearful of cops showing up, but usually have some elaborate plan of how to approach conversation, ensure that I'm not some teenage punk with a bag full of spraypaint nor is my camera a gun of some kind, and get carried away and keep track of the good pictures so I can skip right to them in the event he gets curious like that.
Often times though, I'm wandering around local areas which are 90% subdivisions, so seeing me with a tripod pointed pretty much anywhere can be mistaken as me being a creeper and looking in windows, so ensuring all of my photos are noncreeperish is always in the back of my mind.
In general, even during the day and in public, I avoid not seeming like a creeper. I know it seems like a pretty easy thing to avoid, but from security/cops/paranoid lunatic parents' perspectives, I'm a guy with a big powerful camera and it could be aimed at a garbage can I want to plant a bomb in (true story)/a place I want to break into (true again)/your retarded fucking kid that won't stop screaming and throwing their toy at people (god forbid you can see the front of my camera from way off to the side, I'm not even remotely near you, you schizoid).
If I was honestly going to be doing things as sketchy as planning illegal activities or creating a creeper photo album of your kid because you're confident your fat mcnugget of a child is worth creeping, I'd probably be using a cellphone and snapping pics whilst pretending to talk or something. I know it's probably not the best idea to tell a person who's accusing you of doing bad stuff that you know how better to do such bad stuff is not exactly a bright idea, (terrible wording but you know what I mean), but proving that you wouldn't heft a giant SLR around on a stealthy mission or be setting off flashes and scribbling around with flashlights in the dark for all to see.
...so yeah, I think way too much into this when I'm out and about because it's too quiet, heh.[/QUOTE]
It's why I love living on a college campus because:
a) I can use the photography student excuse even if I'm not a photography major, and
b) it's all just a bunch of college kids so no one gives a fuck.
Ed, why does it feel like I haven't seen you here in forever.
[QUOTE=Edthefirst;32617140]It's why I love living on a college campus because:
a) I can use the photography student excuse even if I'm not a photography major, and
b) it's all just a bunch of college kids so no one gives a fuck.[/QUOTE]
I look 17 so I'll have that as a passive excuse for a while :v:
[QUOTE=iWumbo;32617294]Ed, why does it feel like I haven't seen you here in forever.[/QUOTE]
I've just been around, always lurking. I'm going to start posting frequently again since I've started to get out and shoot more.
[QUOTE=Edthefirst;32617140]It's why I love living on a college campus because:
a) I can use the photography student excuse even if I'm not a photography major, and
b) it's all just a bunch of college kids so no one gives a fuck.[/QUOTE]
At the same time, I still feel weird walking around with a camera. Not really my SLR anymore, but with this TLR I do, because it's a larger, twin lens thing. Some people get bugged, though I've had quite a few compliment me on it, so I don't get what I'm worried about.
I've decided to stop doing my 365 on a basis that I have to upload a photo for every day.
However, I still intend on taking photos as often as I can, often being every day. I seem to have massive week or two periods when I have no creativity or motivation, I just end up taking a very mediocre photo every day that I am not happy with.
Is this the right choice guys?
[QUOTE=B-hazard;32622362]I've decided to stop doing my 365 on a basis that I have to upload a photo for every day.
However, I still intend on taking photos as often as I can, often being every day. I seem to have massive week or two periods when I have no creativity or motivation, I just end up taking a very mediocre photo every day that I am not happy with.
Is this the right choice guys?[/QUOTE]
Stop asking us what is the right choice.
There's no right or wrong except for what feels right or wrong for you.
/ ~deep~
[QUOTE=LarparNar;32622388]Stop asking us what is the right choice.
There's no right or wrong except for what feels right or wrong for you.
/ ~deep~[/QUOTE]
I'd say that one was good enough for a Disney movie
[QUOTE=daijitsu;32555095]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]
continuing on this, a friend just informed me they said at the iPhone 4S event "To many customers this will be the best still camera they've ever owned and the best video cameras they've ever owned."
Found this in LMAO pics:
[img]http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/9158/greatphoto.png[/img]
D:
good news is, it's made it 20 minutes without gaining a dozen likes or fifty fangirl "OMG THIS IS SO AWESOMMMME" comments
[QUOTE=LarparNar;32625254]Found this in LMAO pics:
[img]http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/9158/greatphoto.png[/img]
D:[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://www.ragemaker.net/images/Stupidity/seriouslyChan.png[/IMG]
Found a Nikon instead of a Canon in Kelvin's bag.
[img]http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/317092_10150318686166003_564946002_8671280_1780556798_n.jpg[/img]
Accept the power of the nikon
one of us
one of us
Went to a soccer game for my school today and was shooting some video. First of all my camera wasn't charged so I didn't get nearly enough shots to satisfy me. Secondly there was a dude next to me with two 5DMII (I think) both with some big ass L series lens. And I mean BIG. I was just there with my 60D and mediocre 18-135mm...
Still pissed about it not being charged though. It was the championship and we won with a last minute goal....
[QUOTE=Ohfoohy;32631790]Went to a soccer game for my school today and was shooting some video. First of all my camera wasn't charged so I didn't get nearly enough shots to satisfy me. Secondly there was a dude next to me with two 5DMII (I think) both with some big ass L series lens. And I mean BIG. I was just there with my 60D and mediocre 18-135mm...
Still pissed about it not being charged though. It was the championship and we won with a last minute goal....[/QUOTE]
If you think you had camera-penis envy, when I was taking photos of my school's prep rally I was standing next to some guy with a D700 with a 200-400mm f4 lens, a 28-300mm f3.5-5.6 lens, and a 50mm f1.4, while all I had was my little Olympus E-PL1 with a 40-150mm f4-5.6 lens.
Football games and everyone has 70-200 f2.8L lenses, or some newspaper photo guys with supertelephotos. Or that one daily herald guy with a D3s and 400 f2.8 and a backup D2xs
I had to take a picture for AP Physics to display a physics concept. I thought this wouldn't take more than a half hour. It took me three hours to get one picture because I kept redoing the photo trying to make it perfect and get my exposure/framing perfect. Then I realized that this photo would not even be remotely artistic even if it was done perfectly, plus it's not being graded on how good the photo is it's how good the physics concept is. I called my friend, he used his webcam to take his photo. It took him five minutes to do the project, I really hate how I can waste time sometimes and forget my main goal, well at least the photo came out good :smile:
ohgodohgodohgod
so I got invited to the Lake County Camera Club, the ~official~ photo club for the area, teamed with somewhere like 50 in the chicago area and many many more over the country. Photo contests are held monthly and the pictures are posted up to the website, and winners go to the chicago-area judging, then national if it wins again.
The guy who suggested the club to me has a bookstore in the nearby town, with a huge selection of his photography printed and ready to sell up front. He apparently makes $20,000 annually from his prints, though having a storefront on an often walked strip helps I supposed. He showed me around his work (which was pretty cool) and he told me that if I saw the club's website "[I'd] [i]want[/i] to go and meet the people behind it all". He made it out to be some crazy professional sounding thing, and I finally got around to browsing the site.
[url]http://lakecountycameraclub.org/[/url]
the gallery has many gems, but there's an odd number of pictures that are generic "my first picture" kinda stuff and flickr grade HDR tonemapping
and this picture hurts my brain because it's good but the reflection is so goofy
[img]http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/342/screenshot2011100500472.png[/img]
The fact that they call it a [i]camera[/i] club should have been a dead give away.
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