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And then there was the homeless-looking guy who complimented me on my camera and asked if it was the rebel series, but wasn’t too disappointed that it wasn’t. And the three gang-bangers who seemed to give some calculating thought to the possibility of witnesses before letting me be. 😯

Somehow I feel like I could work this into a really strange version of the 12 days of christmas….

Hmmph, sounds like my walk to the Subway stop! I often get a queasy feeling in some neighborhoods, and find myself tucking my camera inside a coat. At least the local thugs all think I am a cop so the leave me alone.

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My B Sides
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennuipoet/4460161815/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennuipoet/4460161543/

I was stopped down to f32 for these shots—every single speck of dust since the Universe was formed showed up, and was added to by the wind and the trains throwing crap up coming into the station. On top of this, I had to get in, shoot, and get out, before someone called the cops on me. Keep in mind it is perfectly legal to shoot from Subway platforms, but somehow the NYPD and the MTA (tranist authority) never seem to get the memo. I actually had a copy of the Transit authorities memo in my pocket in case I had trouble. (More than one photographer has been arrested recently for shooting from the platform, DSLR=Terrorist.)

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Sixty exposures: one usable photo. Add to that an hour cleaning lenses and removing dust on the shot once I arrived home. Way more work than three votes deserves. 🙄

On the other hand, I learned how to do this, which I THOUGHT I knew before. (I didn’t) I was not arrested while shooting. (I was worried I might be) and I’ve the fairly unique perspective photograph of something I see every day.

I’ll post some B Sides to show what I mean about the dirt—thirty mile and hour winds can grind it in.

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Heh, I really wish I could made a way without Photoshop for my Photographer RPG Character Sheet idea. I mean I would’ve had Manfrotto’s Mighty Monopod of Stillness, A +3 Lens of Sharpening, a Camera Bag of Holding, and, of course, my Flash of Continual Light. I am just wondering if I could have squeaked the Canon +5D Holy Photographer, not that I have one but maybe I could’ve found a sweetheart DM 8)

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So I’ve had a couple of really good ideas for this week. One of them was the really great low angle shot of some first edition D&D books, with dice scattered across the table, gloomy shadows in the background, perhaps something like a Gothic college hall…however, I needed two things to make that happen, A Tilt-Shift Lens and a Gothic College. I have neither of those two things, though the college hall would be easier and cheaper. The other idea was shooting an actual game of D&D in which I was ALL the players, but that requires Photoshop. Based on how I looked in them, my self portraits are out.

I guess my question is, if I submitted shots I took at last years New York Renaissance Festival, would that qualify in the theme? While I am not IN the Festive I did, after all, GO to a Ren Fair, which is VERY HIGH on the Geek ladder. 😳

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I would certainly not argue that HDR isn’t photography, but the idea behind Farktography was that we limit our use of heavy post-processing so as to create a more firm line between photography and photoshop contests. We’d rather see what you can do with your camera, not all the other ways you can mangle the pixels into something different. Hell, it’s only been in the last 18 months that we’ve allowed very minor retouching for blemishes.

Nor would I disagree in principle, and certainly not for the simplicity of managing the mountain of malarky that a Fark thread inevitably turns into! I was in the realm of philosophy, not practicality. 😉

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Just to toss my two cents in. By definition photography is: the art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface (as film or a CCD chip) A scanner has all the elements of a camera, particularly a digital camera, light, lens, a CCD, and the toner produces the image not unlike, say, a Polaroid Instant. The image is produced by multiple exposures compiled by software into a recognizable image. So by technical definition, an image created on a scanner would be photography.

Now the line between the camera and the computer is so completely blurred that for all intents and purposes it does not exist. I could, I think, make a convincing argument that HDR and stitching are valid entries in the contests as well. (Not that I am, here). If the photo fits the context of the contest and was created utilizing the modern equivalent of a camera, then go for it. In this case the intent was to create an original work of art, not a copy of some created in another medium and transferred to pixel via technology, utilizing light and a light sensitive medium, directed through a lens to form a coherent image.

(Before I went digital, my answer to this question would be the opposite of the above. The Digital Darkroom Revolution has changed much.)

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I was so desperate for something, ANYTHING, to post tonight, I mutilated a series of innocent Easter Candies. I went to so far as to decapitate a peep and stick it’s head on a stake. This is how low Fark has brought me.

BTW: the green in front of the bunny is supposed to be vomit, in case that wasn’t obvious 😈

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I believe my entries this week will reveal more my mental state than any talent I may possess. 😉

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(And, if you use the UV Haze/”Protective” filter a lot, it should be an expensive fully multicoated one…)

So I’ve learned…all of my lenses are used and most came with the UV Haze on them. Was I in for a surprise when I took them off.

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I’m wondering if tchau‘s shots are posed? Especially the first one…

If those shots aren’t posed I’ll eat my filter…one of the UV Haze, not an expensive one, just in case.

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On ennuipoet‘s shot, she’s posing, but he didn’t ask her to pose. That’s the tough part. Some people will just start posing when they see you point a camera their direction. Or they’ll smile or do something they otherwise wouldn’t have done. I can see an argument for allowing the picture on the basis that you didn’t ask her to pose/you didn’t actively pose her in any way. On the other hand, to the casual observer, the photo sure looks posed, so it will look like it’s not in keeping with the rules. So if nothing else, it would be something you’d almost have to post a note with your photo saying you didn’t pose or ask the gal to pose in anyway.

I’m not so committed to the photo that I’m going to post it to make waves, I’ll use my back up. If there is one thing my four years of Farking has taught is that if a door is cracked open, someone will walk through it. I’ll leave the posing door closed. 😀

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I like Farktography for the free abuse. For example, I have to play $20 a picture to have it ignored by the State Fair 😉

and ennuipoet that’s a great shot. We have something on a smaller scale with Old Sacramento – I’ve used a number of pics I’ve taken in the area in the past, and will probably use another this week. There’s some special crazy down there too, but fortunately they’re not my neighbors 😆

I miss The Big Tomato! I lived in Yuba City for seven years, Sacramento was like a metropolis by comparison. I spent quite of bit of time in Old Sac, unfortunately at lot of that time was under the influence of alcohol so I don’t remember it was clearly as I should. 😳

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This kind of shooting is definitely uncomfortable at first. But it’s good to push the boundaries of comfort.

I have to admit before we go live, I am almost cheating. I live in Manhattan, any time I want to do street work, I head for Times Square. Indeed, two out of the three I am posting tonight are in Times Square. Everyone there has a camera, no one pays attention to you and it is full of people doing interesting things. My third tonight (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennuipoet/4385734158/ is on my street. I swear I never met this woman before the day I took this shot. I was a little drunk, shooting my neighborhood and she just started posing for me. Now, I can’t walk down the street without her wanting me to photograph her, she’s, uh, special. Interestingly, immediately after I took the shot a drunk old man, came up to me, grabbed my lens and starting screaming at me in Spanish. I kept trying to explain to him that I didn’t take his picture and he just kept yelling, yanking the camera until finally I had enough and hit his arm as hard as I could to make him let go. He screamed, let go, and I took off. This is the first, and hopefully only time, this has ever happened. I don’t shoot in my neighborhood anymore.

ETA: Elsinore if her unrequested posing is out of bounds, let me know and I will sub a shot.

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That may be an argument against parade participants in general…

I can see that. Perhaps, a theme is required, and after a brief search of the FSM, one shall be submitted.

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