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You know, I am kinda bummed I just received an Argus C3 that would’ve been perfect for this theme.

Those actually have a pretty decent lens on them if it’s in good shape, I’m not sure it’s low-fi enough to qualify.

I just took it out of the box and it is surprisingly great shape! The lens looks nice and shutter seems to sync. So, I think you are correct. The Seagull, on the other hand, is the perfect camera for this theme. What a piece of crap! I was shooting at f8 through f11 on TriX and the three I posted are the only ones I didn’t trash.

I really miss my Yashica Mat!

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You know, I am kinda bummed I just received an Argus C3 that would’ve been perfect for this theme.

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This: http://www.petapixel.com/2012/04/03/canon-60da-an-astrophotography-dslr/ seems to relevant to your interests.

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It’s amazing how bloody accurate that thing is for pretty much any forum surrounding an activity that requires some sort of equipment.

That is one of the things I love most about you folks, no gear grinding in the forums.

(OK yes, we mess around about Canons and Nikons, but that is only because down in their coal black little hearts the Nikonians KNOW that Canon is better. 😛 )

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Congrats to Ennuipoet for his “Funniest” category win this week, and thank you to everyone who voted for my marbled Easter eggs–I never expected that one to win, so it was a nice surprise 🙂

I’m not sure how I am supposed to feel about winning Funniest…yes, I intended it be funny, but somehow I still feel dirty 😆

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The only problem in charging professionals is who decides if you are a professional.

I think in this case that’s pretty clearly spelled out. If you are being paid to take pictures on their property they want a cut.

Relying on the Honor System is a great way to find out most people have no honor. 😀

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The only problem in charging professionals is who decides if you are a professional. Clearly a photographer shooting wedding/engagement photos on the grounds is being paid for their time and should pay…but what if you are doing a favor for your best friends as a wedding present and you aren’t making a dime off the shots? Should you pay? In NYC most venues have a no tripods, not lights rule, which is actually a pretty good rule since the Pro Shooters (fashion industry by in large) use public parks as locations constantly and they must pay for taking the park away from use peons. A big fashion shoot on the High Line can have three photogs, six assistants and a dozen models, monolights, reflectors, computers and camera spread out over a huge amount of space.

But, this also makes an amateur shooter have to dance through hoops to set up a tripod at night. I was trying to shoot the Xmas tree a Lincoln Center at night last year and had to plead with security that not only was I NOT a professional (look! No Model!) but that I would only be two minutes if they would just give me a break. They did, but they weren’t thrilled.

A professional should always pay and factor those fees in their costs, because it is a cost of business. You can itemize on an invoice!

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Fark’s Definition of Derp:

/NOT trying to make this about politics! I am just posting a representative sample of what Fark would say Derp is.

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Holy crap @ dude #20!

I have seen guys at parades and such here in NYC nearly this bad! Back when I had two bodies I would put a wide on one and tele on another but dudes with three and four cameras swinging, giant lenses, all I could think is “We get it, you have a LOT of money!”

I am hoping this fellow is a pro.

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We’re actually going to have an open thread on Fark to make suggestions for the list.

So, here are the things we will be shooting for:

A bad caricature of a black man carrying looted beer through dirty water

Breasts

Bacon

Squirrels with large testicles

Breasts

Bacon

Cats

Dogs

Libtards

Derp

Fark Independents TM

Bacon

Boobies

Kittehs

and Drew Curtis

Take shots of any of those things now and I promise you they will be on the list later.

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How detailed do the recipes need to be? I have some shots I did as a commission and I am planning on using the B Sides from that shoot (the ones my client didn’t pick) but I was working as a photog not a chef. In short, I have no freaking clue what the exact recipe is. Can I just wing it?

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So, initially, I was planning on using the above title for a long, thought-out commentary on Farktography and how we’ve sort of shifted from simple, easy-to-play themes with whitty titles to strangely esoteric and specific themes with rediculous difficulties and restrictions. .

This.

As some of you may (or haven’t) noticed, I’ve been a little absent from discussions recently and my postings have simply been rote “oh, I need to post something.” I can’t explain it (though I can certainly point fingers at, say, DFAs and the Treasury Department), but I’ve been in a growing funk lately and haven’t even felt a desire to pull out, let alone actually take action. So, today I took action. I called my employers employee assistance hotline to speak with a counselor. Of course, I need to call back monday to friday 8-8 to make an appointment, but it’s something. I’ve beat worse funks than this before, and I’ll do it again. Just wanted y’all to know.

Good, as someone on the bare backside of a long funk, I know finding your way out is hard. Hell, I am still in the shadows of my long night, but I am getting a little better every day and finding hope in places I never thought to look. Go forth and Bring In Da Noize to deal with tha Funk.

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I would also say that there are better works of art showing the desolation of suburbia as well as most other areas of human residence, both earlier and later. As is stated, art is ever changing, I would say that it is precisely the originality of photo in terms of technique (color) and subject (suburbia) that make this photo valuable at all. If this photographer were not the one who broke this new ground in art photography, then the shot would be worthless.
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In conculsion, it is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

The rest of the lot that sold http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/william-eggleston-untitled-1970/5536829/lot/lot_details.aspx I find much more compelling. There is something about the Tricycle that I find just…boring!

You are very correct in your conclusion, though!

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Interesting story ennuipoet… we REALLY have to meet sometime…
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I know, for all we live in the same state, we might as well be cross country! 😀

I signed up and waited for nine months to get my job, although part of that was waiting for me to graduate High School, but only three months of it. I knew what I wanted to be (in as much as any high school kid does) and it still ticks me off a little that I waited that long and still didn’t get it.

The strange thing is I HATED the soldiering side of my job in the AF, I hated being dirty, tired, running around with kevlar helmets and flak jackets. Yet the job I really wanted was doing that plus camera gear. Sure 99% of my life would be taking photos of officers for their personnel files or shooting bake sales for the base paper, but I wanted to do combat photography…Full Metal Jacket came out the year I went in the AF and while I NEVER wanted to be a Marine, I fell in love with the idea of shooting in combat with a camera instead of gun.

All things considered, it is probably for the best. The best case scenario for me would have been a few years doing that, then leaving for a job with a newspaper…working for ten years and taking a buy out as the newspaper photographers started getting canned in cost cutting measures. The worst case, and I mean this, is me ending up dead on some Afghan mountainside in 2002.

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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june12/warphotog_03-06.html

A small News Hour profile of a modern war photographer and her commitment to peers and craft.

Thanks for this, it hit me harder than I thought anything military related was capable of. For two reasons:

The obvious one, I’m a Veteran and an Air Force Vet at that.

Second, this was supposed to be my life. When I went in the Air Force, I had a job as a combat photographer. It was my raison d’etre in the Air Force. In my 5th week (out of six) of Basic, the admin people came to me and said “They are realigning the tech school, and aren’t taking any more classes. You can either get out because we violated your contract or pick another job”. I was done with the hard part of Basic, had this been week two, I probably would’ve jumped at the chance to get out. So, I listed out six jobs I thought I would like, and that was the end of that.

I often wonder how my life would be if I went the AF a month or two sooner. Would I still be there, though I would be pretty old for combat missions. Would I have seen real combat? Would I have gotten out and gone into photojournalism, that was my plan. Chances are I would be out of a job today if I had.

Still, I look at SSgt Pearsall and see a little glimpse of the life I almost had. And I am jealous. When I was young, I would’ve been the kind of idiot that ran toward the shooting, so I am damn sure I would injured…maybe dead…and I am still jealous.

Still, well done SSgt, well done, particularly your work with and for other Vets.

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