[QUOTE=Him1411;34944249]but guru there is actually no joke there, it isn't funny.[/QUOTE]
Is there ever when explaining sarcasm? Can we just move back on topic?
I saw this while digging through flickr
[url]http://www.flickr.com/groups/625952@N23/discuss/72157628846158431/[/url]
was the same person who took that 5Dmk3 picture that bopie posted
i thought it was funny
[QUOTE=GuruLongie;34944621]Is there ever when explaining sarcasm? Can we just move back on topic?[/QUOTE]
Best to avoid sarcasm over the internet, it's so easily lost.. and yes, yes we can.
[QUOTE=Him1411;34944735]Best to avoid sarcasm over the internet, it's so easily lost.. and yes, yes we can.[/QUOTE]
Agreed... Phew that was awkward...
Looked up the beastly sigma 200-500mm f2.8 on amazon
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Sigma-200-500mm-Ultra-Telephoto-Canon-Cameras/dp/B0013D8VDQ/ref=cm_cmu_pg__header[/url]
very pleased with the customer images, really show what the lens is capable of.
[img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SLT3v9SPL.jpg[/img]
[img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZygX4gwHL.jpg[/img]
[img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61wOshw3RlL.jpg[/img]
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Well, I finally decided to spring for the Sigma 200-500 f/2.8. For under $30,000 I couldn't pass up the deal. I know, carrying a 37lb lens around may seem like a chore, but the savings in gas to drive to photo shoots more than compensates for it. I actually do most of my Florida and Georgia area outdoor wedding and landscape shoots from my rooftop now. The IQ is tack-sharp even wide open at 1000mm (w/ 2x converter, obviously) The issue I had, was when the FBI and Homeland security showed up at my house. I was shooting a wedding in downtown Orlando, which is only about 30 miles away, from my roof. The house was surrounded and guns drawn on me. You see, I live near enough to a major airport that the neighbors mistook it's green color and imposing size as some sort of ground to air missile launcher. I would strongly consider coloring it a light color to minimize thermal expansion during the day, and marking the side "Not A Stinger Missile". Also, it is a nice walk around lens for family trips to the zoo. Low light performance is superb. Most photos can be taken without flash, on a moonless night, following a massive power outage, by simply lighting a fart during the exposure. Experiment with differing brands of beans, as it affects the color temperature of the raw shot.
Doesn't sound legit at all, stinger launchers are thin.
my god if i had $1400 to drop on camera equipment
i'd have like every lens i ever wanted
dont understand how people spend that much on camera kit? i mean if i was offered it i'd have it but i've definitely got better things to buy
It's how people get thousands of dollars in debt.
[QUOTE=Him1411;34979491]dont understand how people spend that much on camera kit? i mean if i was offered it i'd have it but i've definitely got better things to buy[/QUOTE]
Out of curiosity, what would you buy?
[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;34981035]Out of curiosity, what would you buy?[/QUOTE]
well as it happens at the moment i am in the process of buying festival tickets for the summer (Leeds fest and Download festival) but after them i'm going to start saving for a 125cc motorbike to further aid my work hours to earn more money and to give me more range to take photo's etc.
So if i was given about £1000 then that is where it would go :)
[QUOTE=Him1411;34979491]dont understand how people spend that much on camera kit? i mean if i was offered it i'd have it but i've definitely got better things to buy[/QUOTE]
i mean if i had a few thousand dollars of expendable income, I could easily spend it
its not very hard to spend tons of money on camera gear
[QUOTE=Him1411;34979491]dont understand how people spend that much on camera kit? i mean if i was offered it i'd have it but i've definitely got better things to buy[/QUOTE]
it wasn't a kit, he works with a 7D, a ton of lenses, and continues to buy big studio equipment
he still solely focuses on cosplay photography at-convention.
I really, REALLY don't get it.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;34981992]it wasn't a kit, he works with a 7D, a ton of lenses, and continues to buy big studio equipment
he still solely focuses on cosplay photography at-convention.
I really, REALLY don't get it.[/QUOTE]
I think he needs an intervention. His photographic equipment buying addiction has gone too far.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;34981992]it wasn't a kit, he works with a 7D, a ton of lenses, and continues to buy big studio equipment
he still solely focuses on cosplay photography at-convention.
I really, REALLY don't get it.[/QUOTE]
are you talking about ron?
i mean i don't his gear fetish but overall his cos photos aren't terrible, for cos stuff anyways. but nothing he needs more than a nice flash and a 24-70 or w/e
[QUOTE=Trogdon;34986155]are you talking about ron?
i mean i don't his gear fetish but overall his cos photos aren't terrible, for cos stuff anyways. but nothing he needs more than a nice flash and a 24-70 or w/e[/QUOTE]
he's producing the exact same quality he had when he was working with a nikon D60 and an SB800 (I think) flash unit, gary phong bell on and off. I very specifically told him he didn't need to upgrade to the 7D, then an adventure began.
aww i see, that's sad then.
I've been recently having to deal with a family friend who has a "that guy" mentality with everything he does. As much as I like him he's very condescending about everything he does. I went outside onto our porch to take a few pictures of the ocean/city and he decided to join me. The entire time he was criticizing my framing, (Which was fine) how I didn't raise my tripod to eye level, (I don't mind bending down some) and the settings I was using to take the photos. (f8 1/60 at 50mm with the 18-55mm Kit Lens) Mind you he left it on auto because he, "hadn't done photography in a while."
Then he spent the entire time complaining that my photos are only better because my camera can take higher resolution photos 12.2MP to his 6MP) which I explained was not the reason at all and that MPs don't really play that big of a role in terms of quality. I just happily kept on shooting and got exactly what I wanted after experimenting with different shutterspeeds once the sun set.
[QUOTE=Duckie;34820188]I know of 'That Girl' in my photography class, she shows up to class with her gear and a portfolio, which consisted of a variety of long exposure highway shots, rings, flowers, a girl posing (the girl didn't even shave her armpits, like 12 o' clock shadow there) and all of these pictures with a horrendous 'JB POHTOGRAPHSYF' ~pro~ watermark. I died on the inside because she really thinks she's all that. We had a group project on Lomo, all the pictures that she took, she took them with out moving from the standing position, she didn't go low or move for an angle, she just stood. What made it worse was the fact that she was bragging already about how good her pictures are gonna come out. Ded, ded, ded.[/QUOTE]
So, we finally got our photos developed from our Lomo project, nothing came out. She was the one who said she knew what she was doing with the film, we got a fat 0 for that one.
Here's two of her photos. I died.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/kEt2g.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/fviNl.jpg[/img]
Feast your eyes on this beauty, too.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ZApSL.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Edthefirst;30070578]So here's my story. It's a story of how my best friend is, "that guy". :frown:
So basically, I've always enjoyed photography. I've loved taking pictures ever since I was a little kid. Obviously I never actually took anything worthwhile until I got older and learned. Still I've loved photography ever since putting my hands on my parents' film rebel back in the mid 90s.
So fast forward to about three years ago. I'm in high school with my best friend. We've been friends ever since the 6th grade, and we do everything together (hurr bromance). He's always railed on art because he's a math science guy. Well he decides to take photography in high school (a real bullshit class in the general scheme of things, but if it gets people to enjoy photography then it is doing well). So he takes the class an falls in love with photography. He decides to buy and SLR, stocks up on stuff, and learns to take pictures. Of course all this time I've never really talked to him about how much I like photography.
Next thing I know he's become "that guy". I buy my D90 around the same time he is getting into photography. Coincidentally I decided to actually learn artistic principals and really learn photography around the same time he did. Well when he finds out I bought a D90 he takes a seriously condescending attitude. "Why'd you buy that? You'll never use half the features on it. You don't even know how to take pictures." He then begins to question why I even like photography and if it is just because he took the class. He thinks I'm following his lead which I don't even think would be a problem, but he apparently does.
Every time I whip out my camera he takes that same condescending attitude, even 3 years later. He looks at me as if I don't know how to take pictures. If he ever catches me with my camera on auto he beings to gawk at how I don't know how to use fully manual mode. Essentially he treats me like a photography sidekick of his. A guy that took up photography because he's so inspirational, but will always be at a low level.
It's a damn shame too, because he takes pretty good pictures. I think he's inconsistent and needs to filter-out his works better, but I'd be lying if I didn't say some of his shots are absolutely spectacular. I think it'd be great to take shots with him, learn different things from each other, and share works and criticisms, but it got so bad with him that I just avoid anything photography related around him. If he's at an event I'm at, I'll try and avoid him. I'll try and have my camera away whenever I'm around him. I've missed great opportunities simply because I'm scared of the embarrassment of having him call me out over photography.
We're still best friends. We still do everything together, but deep down I have a sense of dread anytime photography might be mentioned. I'll never get over it, and I've never had the courage to say anything for fears that it may ruin all the the good times we have together.[/QUOTE]
tell him youre gonna wreck if he keeps sayin dumb shit like hes better than you
huge rant and side-rant; business issues, and proshooter dude, who may inadvertantly reassure my future if people realize I've literally been doing his work for him in every project he's shot for us, [i]even by accident[/i].
[release]My 3D company (My dad and I co-own it) recently got bought out by an architect we deal with a lot. (This is the same architect who consistently hires ProShooter dude to go and mess up some big thing again).
Up until now, we've been contractors- we'd bid against other companies on projects, get hired on after having to lowball our value, then deal with a stupid chain-of-command trying to communicate through people who are either out of the loop themselves or can't keep their shit together and passive-aggressively blame you for all of the shit they cause. After all of that, the chain would mess up payment, and a one-month-deadline on an invoice turns into 6 months of "oh we waited three months til the deadline we set ourselves, then sent a bill to OUR clients who then have a three month deadline, then they send it back to us and we can send you the money whenever someone finds the paperwork again". Your client didn't hire us, YOU hired us, there isn't some mystical rule that money given to us on a project HAS to be from that specific client's hands, it just has to be friggin' [i]money[/i].
SO, for reasons basically listed above, someone got the brilliant idea to say HEY, why don't you just WORK for us or something, then you get ALL the projects and we pay you for the time you spend on-record EVERY WEEK." BRILLIANT.
So they bought up our company, and we're working out details on what to do with getting rid of our current office (which has a lease until august so we're still paying rent), so computers are being taken apart, sold off piece by piece, remaining parts reassembled and taken home for personal use (still more powerful than I really need regardless of taking out parts, but I just had to replace my CPU cooling unit after moving shit around so that's a dig into my money), and my dad now has a cozy job working for the architects at their office down by O'Hare airport.
...but wait, what's that? They only hired my dad? oh.
ok.
Someone at HR must have heard "My son does work for me, and he's a photographer" and thought "good to know you bring your kid to the office now and again and let him play with a camera", not realizing I'm actually like, an integral part of pretty much [i]everything[/i] we do.
So, out of work and not garnering their attention, I've spent the past month and a half in my room working on my junky old laptop, secretly plugging away at my digital painting skills, teaching myself new programs, and actually setting up a mini business through a new deviant art and [several] tumblrs aimed at specific audiences, doing drawing commissions on the cheap. What's cool is I'm attracting a bit of attention from various artists, one (slugbox) even coming to me out of nowhere and fangirling over my work and character design crap I've been doing; we talk a bit now, it's kinda weird given his stuff but he's really informative workflow and business management-wise, and has provided a great kick to advertising my quick little service.
It's working out, I've made ~$50/day on the days I'm working (which I've actually been kind of lazy/distracted most of the time), which is livable, but still falls short of even minimum wage. I don't have much to pay in bills because I don't have a car of my own right now (shared car with dad since he rarely left the office anyways, now he drives to work), so it doesn't matter at the moment. However, due to a lack of car, I can't even take photo gigs and maintain my own business at the moment, so I need to start making more cash to balance out buying some wheels.
[b]SO BACK TO THE MAIN THING[/b], I recently found out that the architects got flooded with work that they usually sent to our company. When my dad couldn't handle it all, they got concerned and asked why it was taking so long to do it, and this brought up the fact that I'm not there to help handle the workload and do my usual detail work. GO FIGURE. So they decided to ask if I knew a program I never dealt with before (Revit Architecture; I know about it, but never learned to use), and they offered to hire me if I could use it.
So I have a book, I download the trial version to start learning, and it turns out my laptop hates everything now. I can run photoshop and paint tool SAI thankfully, but a lot of random programs refuse to work for no reason, including Steam (people keep PMing me about that). This is why I rebuilt my main work computer and brought it home from the office (on monday), spending a good while rearranging my room and setting up an impromptu desk and getting things neatly set up.
then I found out the CPU liquid cooling unit was busted and it overheats in under two minutes of running. Hooray, spending money I barely have right now on replacement parts, and I can't spend the time waiting for delivery learning because the program won't run on my laptop
so I'm drawing more right now.
Now the kicker. They hired pro shooter dink again, this time to go downtown and get photos of a building corner. He shot all of his photos from inside a potbellies sub sandwich restaurant across the street.
Through a window.
On top of that it appears he shot tiny pictures, then to make up for it he resized them in photoshop. I can barely read the name printed in large letters on the awnings above the entrance of the place, and there's zero view of ground level since there's cars everywhere so I can't make any approximations of size, since he ALSO didn't make any notes on measurements of anything.
Quality work once again
so here's the thing. My dad sent me the pictures to see if I could work my fancy approximation magic on them. Turns out, this street corner is where I shot a random photoshoot on my birthday a few months back. I dug into my archive and found all of the pictures I took, and holy fuck, I got ALL of the details I needed in pictures by fucking [i]accident[/i] that this guy couldn't do when they paid him to go and do JUST that.
SO, based on the fact that the client was exactly my height, I began to build, and build, and build, including snippets of my own photos for better reference on details. Here's a little in-progress snip of it.
[t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10572953/web_important/approximatified.png[/t]
(don't mind the white border at the corner, I didn't notice I moved the layer whilst working with it in photoshop)
that's genuinely the size and quality of the god forsaken image they sent. The smaller pictures on the right are snips of my own shots for detail's sake. The only reason I even used his picture was because I didn't get a full shot of the side of the building, only details as happenstance hit, and that's just it-
In my pictures, without even thinking about the background when I took them, I can [url=http://i.imgur.com/FArF7.jpg]see dents in the plastic letters on the theater marquee[/url], [url=http://i.imgur.com/GdKw0.jpg]read the banners out in front of a Sears two blocks down the street[/url] and I don't need a giant tilt shift lens to do it, let alone to be paying attention. Those details are in a [i][url=http://i.imgur.com/qUqNL.jpg]misfire[/url][/i].
They pay this guy enough money that I could take a trip out to town, have dinner at a famous restaurant and stay in a ritzy hotel overnight, and he does NOTHING to what they pay him to bring to them, which is ultimately specifically meant for my and my dad's sake anyways. the guy who's already asking for the details he's supposed to go and capture. If the architects don't understand this after tomorrow, I'm going to have an existential crisis as a photographer and CG artist. Literally, there's no way this guy can keep getting business like this, he has to be like, the owner's brother or something, and nobody seems to care because he has a huge repetoir and 20 years' experience [i]according to his website.[/i]
If I find the only reason they still haven't done anything with me is literally because someone thought the "my son works with me" line was seriously like being cute about a little kid coming in and playing on the computer, my voice will run hoarse with the amount of furious swearing that will go down as I pace back and forth alone in my living room.[/release]
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oh great I just found out they wanted the entire corner, not just that wall, and the guy never even shot the edge of the building. DON'T WORRY I GOTCHA COVERED THERE TOO
[t]http://i.imgur.com/t3hiE.jpg[/t]
the only thing I can't blame him for here is actually shooting that face of the building, there's kind of an entire el-train system in the way of that.
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well, I wouldn't blame him if he actually made an attempt to leave his seat at the sandwich shop.
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oh nice they sent us another photo to help
it's the same shot I have
except with a truck
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Dfh49.png[/img]
I think you should take a portfolio of your work into the company, compare your job to the "pro" photographer's and show them exactly what they're paying for and what they aren't getting.
that's kind of what's happening with this particular incident. Problem is, I don't do architectural photography outside of the few things I've been sent out to do because other architects did even worse jobs of getting pictures of an area; all of my 'portfolio' for this is either just a bunch of snaps from walking a circle around a generic building or unusable because they deem the construction photos 'confidential' because seeing a building half-completed is [i]so[/i] damaging if someone sees or something.
I COULD theoretically go out and just randomly snap proper photos of a sub shop inside a wal mart, and the face of another random building in Chicago, lord knows there's a better chance it'll be useful by sheer coincidence again.
-eh snip, don't like being mean spirited-
[QUOTE=bopie;35159859]-eh snip, don't like being mean spirited-[/QUOTE]
I saw it already, and I can understand the frustration when ya get clients like that. [i]Especially[/i] if it keeps happening with the same one, or the same things keep happening with all of them. If I went off about how vague/badly coordinated some of my arch clients have been, I'd need to make a clients-from-hell style tumblr and feed all the stories into it over the course of several months.
Yet another case of 'that girl'.
She's also in my college, she has a D7000 with some really nice lenses. Guess where that all went to?
[h2] 10 albums of self shots with a combined total of 1619 photos[/h2]
Sometimes I die, then I want to stay dead.
[img]https://p.twimg.com/AoOsOmtCIAIe_qr.jpg[/img]
This was posted on Kevin Pereira's Twitter. Is that who I think it is?
I was on 9gag and saw an image that I thought you might like.
[img]http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/3382480_460s.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=.RedPanda;35184354]I was on 9gag and saw an image that I thought you might like.
[img]http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/3382480_460s.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I think the bad part about this is that you were on 9gag
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