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I’m at buckwalterphotography.com

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Yeah so at 7:48 or so we drove out to the neighboring field and watched the sun descend below the horizon before any part of the moon obscured it. Hopefully no one got any ticks.

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Yeah whatever. Too late now to make it worthwhile to fix.

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None broken I can see

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Can I get an OBO please:

Light & Shadow
The Green Staircase

Light & Shadow
The Red Garage

Something Recursive
Cactus Reflections

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I did the $100/year subscription but I use Flickr to host my images for Fark. When that expires I may do just Zenfolio for it. I like it so far.

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It would be nice to see if there is a correlation between order of appearance in the thread, i.e. speed of posting, and vote getting. Might be hard to isolate that variable, since the people who put more effort into making good pics probably put more effort into posting them rapidly. Is there a statistician in the house?

That’s actually the reason why schnee started the FSM. There is a statistical advantage to early posting but it’s in the marginal .2-.5% range. Posting on Thursday however makes the most difference. If you post later than noon EST, your rate of voting decreases substantially.

CISS has lots of charts available on Bibliostats now that show voting trends and when the majority of votes come in. Not surprisingly, it’s Thursday morning, when the thread is high on the main page.

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My new 50mm f1.4 arrives tomorrow, and I have plans for it. 🙂

Yay! New toys!

Are you going to leave it out in the rain so it rusts and then make a photograph of it? That would be cool. Stupid, but cool.

I did that with a 50mm f/1.8. I tried to salvage it. Had to throw away the aperture blades. Now it’s only a 1.8, but it’s still racked several farktography top tens.

wasn’t it soosh who left his Tokina in the snow overnight and when he dried it off it still worked so well he felt compelled to write Tokina and tell them about it….?

Yes it was

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Also a random question, not sure where to ask. Is it legal to take a color photo and make it black and white on the computer before submitting?

Yep that’s fine. Generally image corrections that affect the whole image or correct small blemishes are fine. (Remove a stray hair, red eyes or a pimple. Don’t add Elvis or remove the tree growing out of Grandma’s head. Convert to b&w or bump up vibrance, but don’t mess with saturation to get unrealistic or cartoonish results.)

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But the problem is that art is tied to technology. We’re at the point it’s inseparable. I mean, you’re shooting with digital and processing on a computer aren’t you?

Instagram is to real photography as a child’s watercolor is to Monet. Just because we like the Monet and deem it “real art” doesn’t mean the child’s creation isn’t art, it just has a different value. MSM is embracing Instagram because it’s hip and cool, a fun fad with millions of users (and it’s really cheap. Why pay people when you can get it for free? You can’t blame corporations for doing the same thing 95% of the population would do). Like most fads (Shaquielle O’Neil’s acting career, goldfish in shoes) it will die out eventually, only to get resurrected again some time in the future (My Little Ponies, Bell bottoms).

I see this as the same controversy that happened in journalism in the 1890s – yellow journalism. We got away from it for a time, then we descended into propaganda in the 40s and 50s, then got back to some real journalism for a couple decades, but now it’s back (from outer space. it just walked in to find you here with that look upon it’s face).

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I think Uranus]/b]’s point was the idea of what a person of Walmart is might be unintelligible to non-Americans (although Walmart apparently exists in 40 countries now). That’s why in my list I changed it to trashy people.

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I sympathize with the ranting here but art movements like history itself are extremely cyclical. When you compare what they produced during the medieval period compared with the works of the Greeks and Romans, for example, I think you can agree that it’s crap by comparison and it had little to do with technology since the ideas behind mixing paints and making tiles were still present. Hell, even in the 50s, IMHO there was a downturn. Andy Warhol aside, I mean, Jackson Pollock? Really? How the fuck did that guy get famous?

And tech isn’t all bad. Peter From on G+ transforms photos into amazing works of art in CS5. When he does post an actual photograph, it’s not any better than what we can do. But his creations are worth money imo.

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Well no offense to others in foreign lands but 1) you don’t have to find all the items on the list, and 2) there are plenty of places in the world with things you’d expect to find in Florida – flamingos, palm trees, cruise ships, bikini girls, Cubans, old Jewish dudes, Mickey Mouse, hurricanes…

People of Walmart, maybe a little confusing but things in Florida is pretty easy for anyone

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We won? Who bought Drew enough beer to change his mind?

Or there were threats to withhold the beer…

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Are old “funny” votes being turned into regular votes or just disappearing?

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