[swampa]

Elsinore #1 and U-Man #3…is there a way a can vote *against* those entries? Yeesh. 🙂

With a comment like that and a Farktography birthdate in July of ’08 one might think that you’re new here. However, I see that you have been aquainted with Fark since 2003. You certainly know that real photographic talent is recogized and appreciated. But you also know that oddities, humor, WTF and theme twists are frequently rewarded. 🙂

I think it was just the fact you took a photo of you sticking your tongue on the terminals, not that it was a bad photo. I shuddered a bit seeing it!

/It is the one thing I can’t bring myself to do! I just know I will be one of the X people per year that die from doing it!

[swampa]

I’m gonna move to Alaska and find some cute kids, then I’m coming after ya! 😉

You are going to chase down Elsinore with kids from Alaska?? I suppose she wouldn’t be expecting that attack so it might work!

[swampa]

In my mind, the reason duplicate entries aren’t allowed is that it encourages everyone to take new photos each week, instead of relying on one or two great entries that are common to a lot of themes. Yes, you could take two exposures but you are still limited to two contests (I have done this in the past).

[swampa]

anybody can take shots like me. all it takes is moving to the coastal mountains, ingesting lots of various combinations of drugs, ignoring your day job for spending all night prowling the roads and forests, and a fondness for combustibles, rockfish, and tattooed women.

nothing to it, really.

Drugs and tattooed women? Sign me up for the newsletter! 😀

[swampa]

The last concert I went to, I used a 30mm (borrowed it from SClark to have a play :D) and it was great for getting group shots (without having to head to the back of the room or mingle with the crowd). I felt the 50mm gave more intimate photos of the performers, as you could be further away so it wasn’t as obtrusive (with the 30mm, you nearly need to be right up in their face to get a headshot).

It isn’t going to matter too much between 24-85mm, it is more important getting a low f numbered lens (you can always move to get a shot with any sizes in that range but you can’t get more light if it is a dark venue)

[swampa]

For concerts go the 1.8, it will make a huge difference. I have a sigma 2.8 lens and I can’t get enough light for it to be useful most of the time (I have to put the ISO to 1600 or greater which makes the image full of noise).

How far from the stage will you be taking photos? Unless you are going to be about a metre from the band then I feel the 11-16 will be way to wide. The 50 will give you good head shots from a metre away to full band photos from about 5 metres (depend on the spread of the band)

[swampa]

My lolcats are doing much better than my farktography entries…. heeheehee

Mine too. I’m sure I read somewhere* that the votes we got in that comp would count too 😛

* It turns out somewhere is on a piece of paper beside me.

[swampa]

Awww but I wanna divide by zero! I love my NaN. 😛

[swampa]

I have noticed that the voting continues until Tuesday evening fark time, but after Saturday there tends to be only one or two more votes total (for example last week, Lovesandwich managed to pick up one vote after it was called to go ahead of U-Man but that happens very rarely)

[swampa]

Yeah, I don’t want to think about all the comments that would suddenly end in “Swampa2 is a doodie head” 😛

Can you change the timestamps instead maybe? 😀

/Yes, I should have read all the rules, I was just happy to have three photos to enter! And a meerkat is too a cat, otherwise why would they put kat in the name? It would be like saying a black adder can’t actually add stuff up … oh.

[swampa]

You have the adding Elvis, removing wires in there twice. Is that right?

[swampa]

You could have deleted them an hour ago 😛 Instead I now have to submit them down 100 entries!

/Oh you may want to get the 2008-07-30 08:02:35 PM one too 😥

[swampa]

The link boss! The link!

[swampa]

Farktography dueling tradition demands that you take all of your nicest photography equipment with you to gunfights.
Because gunfights are dangerous, you can just leave it with me beforehand.

/me checks his stuff in with staplermofo

So wasn’t I meant to get a little card after doing that??

[swampa]

we do have some Aussies in our midst

Oh sure, blame the Aussies. It is always our fault! 😛

/I will see you at dawn, but I need no stinking pistol. I have … a boomerang!
// Goes back to stealing U-Man’s wallet 😛

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