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Allow me to amend my previous rant, now that I am completely sober. I should have written I hate these themes because I suck at them. What I want to do and what I end up with are always miles apart, I can do the lighting, the composition, it’s the actual crafting that kills me. My concepts are great, my product looks like an art project from six year old.

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finally I have struck on an idea.

//probably done before. :o( off to look…

nope! Yay! 🙂

When it comes down to it, it’s hard to get creative with apples and oranges!

I hope no one takes this the wrong way: I HATE these themes. I have ideas, but I will be damned if I have the resources to take my ideas from conception to realization.

Were I in a studio with a creative staff, some carpenters, model makers, access to a prop department and a dozen or so capable craftspersons…I would have many great ideas.

I have none of those things, no real ability to improvise them, so…I’ve got nothing. I seriously think this will be the first theme in a long time I am sitting out.

(orionid should not draw nor infer any dislike, disdain, derision, condescension or disgruntlement, just a slightly tipsy rant)

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You know who else banned Jesus? Pontius Pilate, for trolling, calling out forum members and heckling the moderators.

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Looking for some general input this week, I’ve got WAY more shots for this than for a usual thread. Here is a G+ album of my potentials

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/103515623805931649065/albums/5701990388388722193

So any thoughts as to what you good folks like would be much appreciated in making final selections.

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The first looks more like he cranked up the green saturation, but the third does make me wonder. I asked in thread if they’re HDR…we’ll see what he says.

I don’t think they are HDR (I can tell by some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few in my time) but I concur they are edited in post rather heavily. I’m not going to huck rocks though, the Kaaterskill shot has some greater than normal post on it…nothing outside the rules just some dodging and burning to compensate for being down in a deep hole shooting into bright light with a digital camera and limited dynamic range.

gambitsgirl: Don’t hate us because we’re beautiful! 😛

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I like the idea. Personally, I’d like to pick my own photos, but I’d be open to other picking for me too.

I think we should either pick our own or allow people to pick for us, but it should be our choice.

Alternatively, we could allow others to choose from a range of photos we lay out (as has already been tried in this thread). While I have a couple that have scored 4th-6th that I am proud of, a couple others that have tanked are more “iconically” me.

Yeah, until I land a shot on the cover of Nat Geo or photograph some incredibly memorable event and have it all over the news…I pick my own iconic photos. 😆

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Let me set this stage a bit. It was 1992. I was a junior in college at Appalachian State, a small NC mountain school known for it’s hippies. I only had a couple of classes in the way of my degree. I didn’t do math. I didn’t do any class before 10 am. I didn’t do much really except beer bongs and water bongs. I did play mud volleyball once but that is beside the point (I saw photos but I don’t remember it).

Anyways – this is the ONLY computer in the COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVERTISING DEPT

and there were like, 10 of them.

Cameras had film and there were two flavors available to us (black and white and color – although there were tons of grades of film). Digital was not invented for the masses. You had to do the settings and focus and fstop and everything manually with math and memory (both I was totally low on). Only one kid had a laptop and I suspect he was from the future, back auditing life in 1992.

Ok – so this class I had to take was Black & white photography. 7-10 FARKING PM on THURSDAY. WTF? No clue what I was thinking. So we learned the formulas. Then we learned to wrench open the can of film and process it in the phone booth thingy and then we had to go through the space time continuum and set numbers on machines and print and burn and dodge and such by the light of amber bulb (no computers). THEN we had to mat them. Matting is composed of math and rulers and T squares and L things. And Math and cutting and exacto knives and math. Figure and cut back mat. Figure and cut front mat… then WTF – cut the hole with an exacto knife after pregaming the class. Tape photo to back of front mat and then spray adhesive something or another.

anyways to make a novel short – I can’t remember 😳 but I know I’m sober now so maybe can do it well.

Oh hells no, I will shell the money for pre-cut mattes! There is no way I am touching exactos and glue! I would end up with three fingers cuts off, my face glued to the matte and the house on fire.

And your photography experience in college sounds much like mine in High School, I am sure I attended some classes without the assistance of herbal creativity but I can’t remember them. My Senior year I was a Yearbook photographer which meant Yashica Mat TLR was a permanent Hall Pass, so I would go out, smoke and then wander the school shooting “candids”. Thankfully, I did all the developing because many of those candids involved my friends and I doing things which would get us, minimum, expelled.

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That’s exactly what I think of when I think of orionids photos. The second is probably the one I had flash through my brain. And ennuipoet I would choose the little hero dude first and stick with the color version. but you only gave me two choices. That’s my two cents so far.

I have a lovely 11×14 print of him in color in my printed portfolio that I would use then!

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This one

One of these but I can’t decide on color or black and white

And one of my skyline shots, but I’ve so many to choose from it would take some thought.

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A natural stone wall is kosher correct? The stones cut and stacked, perhaps concreted together but definitely natural stone.

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It think this would be an excellent idea for a contest, though the expense and time, even at Kinko’s rates, would be prohibitive to a lot of folks. Perhaps the farktography community could stage a *special event*? Not a contest, but a showcase?

It’s around $10 to get a 12×18 print to your door from artscow.com
If you’re a regular and can’t afford that, I’ll paypal you the $10.

And a nice little showcase website would be nice. We should make one.

I can also make lab qualities up 13×19 at a reasonable price plus shipping, I am betting I can get under $10 if I have more than 5 people. Good paper at the size in the 20 sheet count run around 40 bucks. Ink is variable depending on the quality of ink, Canon ink for long lasting museum quality prints is expensive, off brand for 10 years prints is considerably cheaper.

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Seriously, you will end up spending more money in the long run if you buy cheap. The Slik I mentioned in the first post is around 140 bucks and is built like a tank, the pan head is sufficient for most uses and you can save up to buy a ballhead later and invest the money well after you do the research. I bought six tripods before the Slik, a while itis heavy and hard to tote around it exceeds my needs in every other way.

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Has anyone else come to the realization that they probably lean a bit much on post-processing?
I only went with one of the 3 I originally wanted because the others needed “something.” Finally came up with 4. Took far too long, and was way too much work, but I got my 3 and a B: My B

Reality isn’t always very attractive, selective use of Vibrance and contrast make reality more acceptable. 8)

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About the camera

Recent sale prices

A quick glance from work looks like the biggest dermining factor on price is which lens it has. The 45mm f/1.7 in good working order commands the highest prices.

Also, it’s 35mm. 35mm is cheap and can be developed and scanned at your local *mart for cheap. Check the battery, work the shutter a few times, and take it out to play.

Damn, those prices are triple what I paid for mine a year and a half ago!

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Husband was given a camera by a coworker to give to me. This coworker has had the camera for a while but no longer wants it so passed it on. Doesn’t seem like much, I guess. It’s in really good condition. It’s a Yashica GSN camera. He said it was a collectible? I could probably take a couple pictures of it.

Any thoughts on it? Anyone know if its any good? Given the cost of film and film developing, it likely won’t be used very much (at least for a while).

I have two them, actually! (Bought one and was given the other) I love them, they are a near perfect camera for Street Photography, the Zone Focus on the camera is easy to see and use, the lens it tack sharp and the shutter is a whisper. The camera is easy to rehab with modern batteries and little twist of wire in the battery compartment. A few people have called the camera a Poor Man’s Leica, though I would go with the Canon QL17 GIII for that title.

They aren’t particularly collectible, Yashica made millions of them in the 70’s and everyone had one because they were (for the time) cheap, reliable and damn near indestructible.

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