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Seriously, who’s the psychopath who came up with this torturous theme? If we were well adjusted normal people that got along well with the public at large, we wouldn’t be participating in Farktography, or Fark at all, as a substitute for real live social interaction. Just face it, half of us are most likely deranged, be it Aspergers, ADD/ADHD, OCD, or just an unspecified geekiness and general all around psychosis. They shouldn’t let us out of our cubicles. I suppose I can get some shots at the Career Faire that’s going on tomorrow. At least that has some ground rules regarding the roles everyone plays in the social interaction and chit-chat. I’m guessing the 28mm f/1.8 would be the best choice for the university ballrooms.

That’d be me 😛 I honestly chose it because I love competitions that make me do something different, something completely new to me, and push me out of my comfort zone. No need to push as close as like a 28mm (portrait style is usually done with something around 80-100mm – I like using my 50mm, but with sensor size that comes out to about 80), the point is to just not get a 300-400 lens and telephoto in on someone.

Also, everyone, there’s no need for it to be “street” style photography. Just portraits of strangers. Most of the shots I’ve been doing, I’ll force myself to go up to someone, tell them why I’m interested in shooting them, ask them if I can have a few minutes, and then try to give them instructions like a new model. I never like photos when they are looking in the camera, so the instruction is usually “keep doing what you were doing,” and then I offer that I’ll send them the good photos afterward (explaining I’m backed up though so it could take a few weeks), if they want. Exchange e-mails, then done. Trust me, my heart felt like it was going to jump out of my throat the first time I did it, but as I kept going for it, it got easier.

/Edit to say: FWIW, this is the wording of my original suggestion on the hopper:

Beautiful portraits of complete strangers. Just go for a stroll and find people on the street to take pictures of (asking permission, of course). Difficulty: each subject can only be used once.

Suggested but not mandatory: grab their e-mail and send them a copy so they can appreciate your photo(s) of them when you’re done.

It was later decided that asking permission wasn’t completely necessary, nor was grabbing their e-mail.

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This reminds me I need to go buy fruit and start working on my set design.

My set design is a cutting board and some flashes 😳

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I am also afraid of approaching people at random and don’t want to end up doin’ time, so I’m curious if pics of people in public settings would fit in here? I didn’t actually talk to them, but one photo that I had in mind is of a couple getting married in a park where it wouldn’t have been appropriate to talk to them anyway. I’m not sure if the focus of the theme’s wording “get close to, or get to know” requires direct interaction or if it is even appropriate to post pics without consent.

Like others mentioned above, the photos should be relatively intimate. The idea of the theme is to have portrait-style shots. That means getting up-close-and-personal, out of your comfort zone. Whether that means asking their permission or not is entirely up to you, but I personally have been asking before I shoot for most settings – only time I don’t is if it’s more of a crowded thing with one person in focus…then they have no idea I’m shooting them anyways.

So yes, portrait-style close-up photos. Not just photos of “people” in general.

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bag of mixed fruit: $1.97
Bag of googly eyes: $1.99
Cardboard: free from dumpster

Recreation of your favorite movie scene / fark meme using fruits and a badly drawn set with perfect lighting: priceless.

Look at the bright side, though. I have ideas but haven’t carried them out yet. I need to figure out witch box my trigger and strobe are in, then buy some ammo. Probably won’t happen, so I’ll be doing googly eyes and movie scene, too.

Pretty much this. I have 4 ideas, and two of them include some crude drawing with permanent marker. I guarantee they aren’t going to turn out professional, but meh, it’ll be fun throwing them together and seeing what I get. I like the themes that make me do something different 😛

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Not sure, but he’s shooing wide at 5.6, so I’m assuming you’d just use the same shutter speed that you’d use anyways, so a bird in flight could probably be captured if it’s bright enough outside.

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ND filters? I’ll just leave this here…

What ND Filter? by Farktographer1, on Flickr

Cropped

Effect by Farktographer1, on Flickr

Also, I keep thinking about trying black card photography for the gradient ND filter effect. Anyone else ever try this? I remember looking it up when someone suggested it as a theme a while ago.

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I used to scour the San Diego antique stores looking for oldies but goodies like this, but all they ever had were the cheap $5 ebay items for $25 🙁 Need to give this new area a try, but awesome find!

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I don’t think the funny category has much benefit when it comes to farktography’s needs…

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I like “apples and oranges interacting”.

1. – I can use my photo.
2. – It at least pushes us to do something more creative than snapping a pic of an orchard.

This theme isn’t an archive dive (for sane people).

I was planning on doing a few different planned shots for this – a battle is definitely one of them, just wanted to make sure my other ideas would fall into the kosher category.

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The only experience I have with matting was destroying some cheap old photos I had previously bought so I could mount my own in their matted frame. Looks great from the front, but the back of the frames are…um…ugly, to put it lightly. Lots of scotch tape and glue holding those things together. Perhaps I should learn to do them properly if I want to continue doing that in the future 😉 Is it difficult?

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Oh, I previously interpreted this theme as photos of apples, or oranges, or battles if we wanted. Didn’t know battles was more of a suggestion than the others.

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Just realised today was posting day – went to sleep too early last night, blast!

Went through and voted – finger is sore from this one. So many good entries this week, good job everyone. Lots of participants too.

The Andy Shirley postings by vuprop, though – I don’t know much about spotting HDR or photoshopping, but they seem a little *too* colourful. Maybe it’s just being at the right place at the right time to capture something so ethereal? They just strike me as too good to be really taken with just one click of a camera and no heavy post-processing.

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Glad you like them 😀

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Having seen it happen and my friend saying he couldn’t pee for 3 days I will believe him first and the Mythbusters only when they show me in person. When I watch one of them directly pee on a electric fence and not get zapped. I remember that one and they used human analogues didn’t they? aka ballistic gel dummies.

I think it came down to it not being a “steady stream” so the current couldn’t continue to travel up the flow, but I guess if you *really* need to piss, you’re going to have more of a flow and OH MY GOD AM I REALLY DETAILING SOMEONE ELSE’S PEE?

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^You lot are all so friggin’ awesome, haha.

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