Don't hate.
Suck it up. Get the work done - you'll learn more through the process looking back than you realise.
I don't know if I'm just being a whiney child but I spent ages applying for this degree, writing my personal statement so it was great, came to an interview and I'm now putting myself into debt all in the hopes of this course giving me great skill set in order to work in a competitive industry but all this module is doing is pissing me off by making me do tasks that I doubt I'd ever have to do otherwise.
[editline]3rd March 2014[/editline]
Can't wait to get home, play spyro and have a brew
[QUOTE=Him1411;44115079] making me do tasks that I doubt I'd ever have to do otherwise.[/QUOTE]
This is a fact of life.
Don't see it as just the technical knowledge that you're learning.
It's a 3 year degree, no?
The degree isn't just this module, it's a combination of things that make up the whole.
And if you really do feel strongly about it, raise those issues with your seniors, but be polite, firm and political about how you do so.
I felt the same about some modules that I had at Uni. As a class, we banded together and raised some issues with my lecturers, and now the younger students are studying modified modules which were adapted after we voiced our concerns.
University is not school. It is not as top-down and un-malleable as it sometimes seen.
It's a relationship between lecturer and student that is a lot more mature than high school, and you'd be surprised to see how far a bit of dialogue can go.
Communication is the key to everything in life. Nobody is a mind-reader.
Photography is a technical subject that is changing incredibly quickly and often younger students know more about some topics than most lecturers.
This is true, I understand the technical knowledge I'm being forced to self teach through this (I taught myself how to use the pen tool to create curved selections today). I'll scrape by and get a pass, first year doesn't go towards my BA and the digital imaging module, in fact all the modules are, next year more open and interesting according to 2nd and 3rd years.
is it frowned upon to edit out pimples and stuff in pictures of people that are like candid or not formal portraits
candid should be raw and no photo manipulation
but then again it's personal preference to do cosmetic retouching
i edit out stuff if it's a good enough photo
no one likes pimples and they aren't a permanent thing so i get rid of them.
[QUOTE=Him1411;44114999]Uni say I have to take screen shots to show my computer based work (demonstrating technical knowledge of software like camera raw, photoshop and bridge) but every time i use the screenshot function on the uni macs it breaks due to errors, the fact that uni give us such little amount of space to store them (I'm talking like 20 screenshots then it completely stops working) or the fact that sometimes it decides to save them as blank files that contain nothing.
h8in uni[/QUOTE]
take a picture of the screen duh
[QUOTE=dwt110;44115296]is it frowned upon to edit out pimples and stuff in pictures of people that are like candid or not formal portraits[/QUOTE]
I do this on a lot of shot. Especially when I'm in them. Why not?
[QUOTE=Trogdon;44115413]i edit out stuff if it's a good enough photo
no one likes pimples and they aren't a permanent thing so i get rid of them.[/QUOTE]
i feel that my true self can only really be defined by my pimples
ordered from b&h thursday night
shipped friday
in transit in my town at 6am today
transferred to USPS at 11am
waiting at USPS to be delivered tomorrow presumably
shipped from brooklyn (a <60 minute drive)
takes 3 business days to deliver (expected delivery actually says wednesday so idk)
i hate shipping ugh why am i impatient
What did you get?
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;44116416]i feel that my true self can only really be defined by my pimples[/QUOTE]
I add pimples to every pic I take, equality for all.
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;44117608]What did you get?[/QUOTE]
nikkor nikon 50mm f/1.8g swm af-s aspherical g usm is d af vc
I was wondering how did you guys get your start in photography and where did you guys learn most of this stuff? I feel like I have a lot to catch up on and it's kinda daunting on the many aspects of photography I still yet to know.
[QUOTE=Rammaster;44120846]I was wondering how did you guys get your start in photography and where did you guys learn most of this stuff? I feel like I have a lot to catch up on and it's kinda daunting on the many aspects of photography I still yet to know.[/QUOTE]
here
[QUOTE=FlippR;44120925]here[/QUOTE]
This
I was a nobody when I came here, and I would have given up the craft entirely if not for this subforum.
[QUOTE=FlippR;44120925]here[/QUOTE]
To be more specific, you can learn all the technical junk just by asking the right questions here. As for photography as an art form, I guess all I can say is to pay attention to what other people are doing. In the photo thread, in the inspo thread, whatever it is. I feel I've learned more from observation than anything else. Take in what you can and apply it in creative ways etc.
[QUOTE=Trogdon;44114390]i got email invited to this portfolio creator thing, idk if it's any good or not but thought i would pass on the information
[url]http://dropr.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
A bit late to the discussion but I got an invite sent to my personal email, too. I think that's a bit suspicious. I mean, where did they get this data? Who sold it to them? Cargo, flickr? How did they send a mass email like that?
so glad to be home, never appreciated home cooking more than coming home from food poisoning on holiday
the weather here is more fun for photos :~]
[QUOTE=Rammaster;44120846]I was wondering how did you guys get your start in photography and where did you guys learn most of this stuff? I feel like I have a lot to catch up on and it's kinda daunting on the many aspects of photography I still yet to know.[/QUOTE]
Started it at 16 as a subject at school and then found this place. You'll genuinely will learn so much just lurking around here.
[editline]4th March 2014[/editline]
and bopie, thinking about it cargo may have been the culprit because I've never seen integration for it before
I was walking across the Manhattan Bridge last night after leaving a bar and I finished a roll of film that had all these great shots of the Brooklyn Bridge at Sunset and a bunch of self portraits.
I started rolling the film back and it snapped and I opened the back and ruined the film.
It was late at night - took me half an hour to walk the length of the bridge and I was the only soul on the bridge - so I ripped the film out of the camera and threw it into the East River in a moment of acceptance and release.
[QUOTE=bopie;44122824]A bit late to the discussion but I got an invite sent to my personal email, too. I think that's a bit suspicious. I mean, where did they get this data? Who sold it to them? Cargo, flickr? How did they send a mass email like that?[/QUOTE]
I'm wondering that as well, that was my main reason for posting. Did everyone else who got one have a cargo?
[QUOTE=Pickwickian-;44123878]I started rolling the film back and [b]it snapped.[/b][/QUOTE]
How? Did you forget to turn off the rewind lock? :(
[QUOTE=Trogdon;44124709]I'm wondering that as well, that was my main reason for posting. Did everyone else who got one have a cargo?[/QUOTE]
Anyone up for a class action lawsuit? (if it violated privacy policy and cargo sold our data)
[editline]4th March 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Pickwickian-;44123878]so I ripped the film out of the camera and threw it into the hudson in a moment of acceptance and release.[/QUOTE]
Classic.
get a sweet payout, 1dx's all round
[QUOTE=bopie;44125138]Anyone up for a class action lawsuit? (if it violated privacy policy and cargo sold our data)
[editline]4th March 2014[/editline]
Classic.[/QUOTE]
its probably in eula that they can do w/e they want (especially if dropr is made by cargo, then the privacy agreement we wont share ur data with any1 else doesnt mean shit)
[QUOTE=bopie;44125138]Anyone up for a class action lawsuit? (if it violated privacy policy and cargo sold our data)
[/QUOTE]
we just need to find something that we all have in common who got them, i'm suspecting flickr or cargo.
plus idk about you but i've got my email visible on my cargo, so there's that as well.
i use 500px, flickr and didn't get one. might be cargo i guess, not jumping to any major conclusions just yet though
[editline]4th March 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Eltro102;44125271]its probably in eula that they can do w/e they want (especially if dropr is made by cargo, then the privacy agreement we wont share ur data with any1 else doesnt mean shit)[/QUOTE]
end user agreements often don't mean anything if laws go against them. depends where the offending business is located (if any)
[QUOTE=Trogdon;44125804]we just need to find something that we all have in common who got them, i'm suspecting flickr or cargo.
plus idk about you but i've got my email visible on my cargo, so there's that as well.[/QUOTE]
My email is too, but it's my business email, Dropr email came to my private email that I signed up to cargo with.
Also I don't think it's flickr, I used a yahoo mail account to sign up there.
[editline]4th March 2014[/editline]
We should gather up what we know and make a post to r/photography. This kind of thing ususally picks up traction there until the problem is solved or someone can explain what's going on.
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