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But…but… My name says “Anal” in it. =O

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Galleywench: That looks like it might just be the design of the bridge, considering there aren’t any other weird seams. Look at the solid line representing the road surface… It’s unbroken, it just goes from being a suspension bridge to a… not suspension bridge at that point. Besides, the overall photograph is too good not to submit it just because you don’t like ten pixels out of it.

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Thing that sucks about NSFW links posts is the NSFW placeholder is what shows up in FSM.

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Sensor dust up in the top center of the screen?

Prolly the one thing I’d do is some color correction, boost the saturation a little bit and use some curves to boost contrast, get some richer tonality in the shadows of the clouds. But that’s just post stuff, good job getting the shot!

Re: Getting a longer exposure… I think it looks perfect. When I’m shooting the sky I actually prefer using a darker exposure to get more highlight detail out of the really bright parts of the sky around the sun. I set my camera’s exposure compensation to -2 stops. I can easily bring the dark parts back in post, especially if I’m shooting RAW at ISO 100. You have so much lattitude in the shadows and barely any noise, and the extra detail you get in the highlights makes it worth the work.

Here’s some sky stuff I shot. Mostly out of the window of my car.

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Try and work with them when they’re bored and not too riled up. They’re a little more likely to pay attention and follow your instructions, look the way you want them, stuff like that (snapping your fingers where you want them to look works great). I’ve also found that a wide angle lens lets you engage them a bit more by getting really close. It also gives you a nice dramatic perspective.

I wanted her eyes to be looking up to her right, but she kept lifting her head when I tried to get her to look that way. Oh well.

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Haha, nice, that reminds me of the time my friend and I were taking pictures of this snow tunnel he and his girlfriend dug in a snowdrift… He’s got these two flashes where one of them can be completely detached from the camera and be triggered by the other through infrared, we would put that at the other end of a tunnel to get backlighting. Well time came to fetch the other flash so he crawled in to get it, at which point I triggered it. Two bright flashes + white snow tunnel + he was crawling in the middle of it. It was hilarious. =D

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Uh, Zeke… Schnee made the FSM. Notice it’s hosted at Schneeworld.net.

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But I’d definitely need a bigger bag..the one I have currently is already busting at the seams! lol

Photography rule #43,232: Gear tends to expand to fill the available space in your gear bag. Or phrased another way: Your gear bag will always be completely full regardless of how big the bag is or how little gear you’re trying to fit in it. Even if you get a bigger bag without getting any new equipment.

I wonder if there’s a correlation between skill at Tetris and skill at photography?

The truck in my first entry tonight is hilarious to pack up, because it’s what’s known as a “dual feed” truck, which means it’s capable of broadcasting two simultaneous shows of the same event for different broadcasters (usually the local TV for both the home and away teams’ markets), so it needs twice as much of some of the equipment as a “regular” truck would need, but with no more room to store it than a regular truck. It all fits, somehow…

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Oh BTW, Picasa recently decided to let users hotlink to their images. Unfortunately by default the most usable images are either 400 pixels wide or 800 pixels wide. What I ended up doing was uploading my pics at 700 pixels wide natively and selecting the “800 px” option, which worked fine. If I want the ability to click for a larger picture I’d have to upload a larger image separately and link to that. It’s a kludge but it works.

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Portrait grip’s not that heavy, actually, it’s mostly plastic (with a rubberized grip) with most of the weight being in the batteries. It does make things a bit tighter in your camera bag though, the portrait grip was the straw that broke the camera bag’s back for me, I just couldn’t squeeze it all in anymore. But the benefits, oh the benefits, stuff like going a month between charges if you put two Li-Ion batteries in there (you can run it off just the one that came with the camera if you want though), being able to run on AAs if you do run out of juice, and of course very comfortable vertical orientation shooting (I shoot vertical a lot at events) make it very worth it for me. It also has a loop to attach a hand strap, which makes the camera feel a lot more secure in my hand, especially when I’m out at a bar shooting rock bands with a drink or two in me.

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Eh, I barely have enough time to read regular Fark, much less Totalfark. The question is whether $5/mo is worth it to get more votes in a photography contest. =P

And yes Elsinore, I’m holding the camera. Took me about 5 shots shooting blind to get a good composition. =D Having the portrait grip on the 30D does makes it a bit easier to do arms-length shots though, with a shutter button on the bottom of the camera.

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GREEN. And damn, 74 comments by the time it hit the main page. Sigh, I guess I need totalfark if I wanna get in on these things early. =(

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What time zone is that 12:01 in? I want to make sure I get my entires in early this time.

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Are shots that we took while drunk okay? 😀

Claff – Try bringing your camera out to a bar, preferably with non-teetotaller friends. I took this photo using that method.

Bonus: That photo was after two drinks. Thank goodness for tripods!

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SWEET. I was worrying about hitting my 250MB limit, I’ve been sucking up my space very quickly.

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