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I can ask Kari (Lady_Nocturne) later this evening if you like. I know she’s used a rental company a few times in the past…

I’d say the 10-20 would be a good bet. Looks like you’ve got most of the range covered, but something else I’d consider would be picking one or two of your favorite lenses and make sure you both have one 😉

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Nancy Kerrigan? Paging Ms Kerrigan to the white courtesy phone, please.

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/I’m not even 30 yet and already turning stick in the mud…. *sigh* Get off my lawn.

I happen to know a guy who makes some awesome sticks.

But, yeah. I know Kes was thinking more about a voluntary basis, bu that makes for a couple of points. My top ten this week, for example, was great for Farktography but otherwise, crap.

Which is the second thing. What would the threshold be for something that makes it into the shop, and who’s going to police that? It certainly couldn’t be a Farktographer.

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I love the dude with the bunny ears. And this lady with a hat, especially. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennuipoet/5650343052/in/set-72157626567327608

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Okay. I think I was just assuming ‘no candids’ because I don’t think about that when I think of portraiture. Good to know 🙂

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Awesome. I suspect you’re going to have a helluva lot of fun with that.

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I just started a new topic to show a couple of test shots I made hand-held yesterday.

Cool 🙂

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For general photography (if you don’t have anything specific in mind) I’d probably recommend the 35/1.8 AF-S as a starter prime lens in preference to both the 50/1.8 and 24/2.8. It’s a much more versatile focal length than 50mm on a DX camera, and it’s cheaper and it’s more than a stop faster than the 24mm.

There is something to be said for that.
/a 35mm is going to act like a 50mm on a film camera due to the 1.6x factor of the smaller sensor

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“snip” But I also like the challenge of keeping that lens on all day and forcing myself to frame with it. I think I’ve grown a lot from making myself do that.

I think I need to do that more. I tend to switch lenses if I am not happy immediately with what I am seeing through the view finder. I love my f1.8 50mm lens but I don’t think I use it enough.

It forces you into a perspective. You only have a box ‘this big’ to play with, and you have to figure out new ways of looking at the same old stuff. I find I carry that back into the telephoto lenses too, and I think it’s helped me work around the limitations of whatever I have on the camera at the time.

I’m just getting ready to head off to the mining ruins right now. I’ve been playing around with a macro setup of two enlarging lenses (one at a time) on an old vivitar bellows macro rail coupled to my dSLR that seems to be pretty damned amazing, from my test shots around the house.

Oooh. Cool. I’ll be looking forward to seeing the results.

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That could have a lot to do with it. I can’t use my camera at all without my glasses, and even then there are certain focal ranges where I just have to use AF and pray. I’m thinking about getting a diopter or two and seeing if that helps (I suspect the glasses fark with the focusing process a bit)

At the same time, my memory of most of your work is awesome sweeping panos or tight interiors – the abandoned mine stuff for example – and a 50mm is really difficult to do any justice with in either situation, from my experience. I use it for tight head/torso shots and medium-distance street shots, mostly. But I also like the challenge of keeping that lens on all day and forcing myself to frame with it. I think I’ve grown a lot from making myself do that.

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Just for the record, I’m presuming we’re looking for defined, posed portraits of either single family members or groups. Not snapshots of Uncle Willie by the pool in a speedo.

Correct?

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You seem to do a lot of wide open, or tight spaces, both of which lend themselves to a wider angle, soosh I can see that.

I tend to do a lot of street work and studio work, and the 50mm does pretty well in both cases. I wouldn’t mind something wider (like a 24mm) for the studio sometimes – particularly when I’m trying to do full-body shots. I usually have to use my 17-85mm for that, which I’m not as crazy about lens-wise (kit lens 😛 )

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Congrats ennuipoet!

And, really, everyone. This was a pretty epic contest in terms of submission quality IMO.

(and I didn’t get to take my third picture in time, dammit. I still like the idea but I’m going to have to come up a contest to use it in now 😛 )

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Cool!

SilverStag, I’ve been thinking about making one too, or at least a ‘home-brew’ version of it. If we dropped the fancy box and got several people together that wanted one, we could save a few bucks. I have all the resources to do it, but it’s not worth-while to build less than three – below that the kit is is going to be cheaper (I haven’t run the actual numbers in a while, but that’s about the magic number for the circuit boards)

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Drew owns the Fark trademark though, and I would expect that he would take exception to us using it for profit – particularly without his approval. So, some sort of deal would have to be worked out, either through the Fark store or elsewhere to keep it within the ‘Fark family’. I don’t know how his trademark is written, and whether ‘Farktography’ is covered in it expressly, but I’m pretty sure a solid case could be made that it’s covered. Doubly-so since the contests are on his site.

Again, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad idea – just that it’s a really, really complicated one. From issues like these down to administration, billing, order processing, tax issues, etc. A lot of things could be spared if it were done as part of Fark.com because a lot of the business and legal issues are taken care of, but it would require one or two employees (or volunteers) to handle all that sort of thing (even if they’re on a part-time basis).

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