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Well, I can only speak for myself.

My life has gone through so many turns for the last year and a half… I wouldn’t know where to start.

Some weeks I really wish to participate, but I have sold my digital bodies and most of my lenses too, I’m spending too much time on the road, had to relocate, maybe in a couple of months I could plan on getting another digital body, but I’m not sure. Using film for contests would be very hard because of my traveling and the turnaround times for developing.

Still, I follow the threads, cause I know I want to get back. And I will.

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What orinoid said.

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Several times.

But it’s getting worse around here. A few years ago nobody would care that much. These days, with everybody happily shooting everything around them with their phones and tablets, I’ve been facing the cops twice in a month.

The thing is, the cops get called by some overreacting moron, they get to me, ask me what I’m doing, most of the times, the chat turns friendly and I end up giving them some tips on what point-and-shoot to get for them to photograph their kids. I figure they have been called so many times that they no longer care, and show up just to confirm that no harm has been done. They don’t even ask to see the photographs I’m taking, which is good, since I’t’s been months now with me shooting film exclusively. I can’t believe the cops are the reasonable ones about this whole situation.

But the general population are the real issue over here. I’ve been denied access to malls and stores because I’m carrying my old film SLR while, again, everybody gets to do what they want with their phones. I understand it’s private property so I have to keep my money and go spend it somewhere else. Public parks and squares have been recent sources of frustration too, a warden walks up to me, sees my old camera, smiles while thinking ‘this poor bastard can’t even afford a phone’ and walks away. But I know he was sent my way by some paranoid. Have they even hear about google glass?

It’s a really sad state of affairs.

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Are billboards ok?

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Awesome man just awesome!

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OK… rant over.

While I do agree with you on the whole Win8 rant (the search feature is nice though) cars have also been “upgraded” with a whole lot of unnecessary shiat. I could write a book on the topic but I’ll keep it short: Built-in obsolescence.

Sorry for the threadjack =)

Btw, is it Thursday already? Dammit, have to go and search for this week’s entries.

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A friend of my wife does that Yugoboy. He outfitted the place quite nicely and has it available for rent. You can book it for a few hours or a few days. It’s great because for a rather small increase in price you get to rent lights, backdrops, stands and even some props. The guy has been a pro for quite some time now and used to do a lot of studio work, if you’re lucky he sticks around and gives you some free advice.

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Cool, as expected, the higher the power, the less shadows you get.

I shot this one using three rather weak, garden-variety flashes (two sb600s and my disposable yongnuo) in a setup very similar to yours, with the front flash shooting one step above the background ones. As you can see, there are a lot of shadows and the girl’s face and shoulder are overexposed due to the light sources being a bit too small to evenly lit the subject.

A friend of mine says I should be using one 800w strobe upfront and two 400w to the sides (with 40′ softboxes), in order to get rid of all the shadows, but such setup sounds rather expensive to me.

You are spot-on on the available space, the more, the better, I go above 70mm (85 at the least) every time I can when doing portraiture, though the above one was made with a 50.

I like the two last ones of your samples better, the lighting is great on those, the mat balances the scene and there’s detail in the clothes of the model. Black/white clothes always give me headaches! =)

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