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I think you should have put a corn cob pipe in Popeye’s mouth. 😀
Maybe you could have rotated the camera to straighten up the face to make it a bit more obvious.

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Ok, I fixed the link. A few of the pics are Canon CR2 raw format. (I suggest Irfanview w/ plugins.) Switch from thumbnail view to detail view to see them listed. I switched to small format when I noticed there was room for only 8 pics left on the card before the bar crawl. I’ve also got a video of the second act finishing his “Chicken, Monkey, Duck” song, but it’s too big to upload (>100MB). It was pretty good, but Nug (Mustard Man) was was the funniest. Mike Andrews has a few more pics posted on his Facebook page if you want to see them.

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FarkCon did happen. I have the pics.

http://tinyurl.com/8a7bojb

Long story short: the 28mm/1.8 and 18-55mm EF-S were too long for the close range shots in the hotels and restaurants, plus I didn’t want to have to carry around my lens bag. I used the Tamron 10 – 24mm f/3.5-4.5 almost exclusively with Canon Speedlite 580EX II to overcome the small aperture and dim interior lighting in the casinos. It was definitely worth the money for the flash.

Edit: Fixed url code to avoid need to copy and paste.

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It’s not that hard to get a picture of Drew. It’s not like we don’t all know where he works. You could just lay a trap for him by placing shots of whiskey somewhere w/ tasteful lighting near the office. On the other hand, a pic of Drew w/o a beer in his hand, that’s the shot you have to wait for until the moment is just right.

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Sucks to be you guys. I can find severe darkness easily within a two hour drive from home. NM & west TX skies are so dark, you can see the glow of El Paso over the horizon 75 miles out on I-10. Of course, the mountains can block things low in the sky, but they also block light pollution and give a several thousand foot elevation bonus.

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Holy crap @ dude #20!

I have seen guys at parades and such here in NYC nearly this bad! Back when I had two bodies I would put a wide on one and tele on another but dudes with three and four cameras swinging, giant lenses, all I could think is “We get it, you have a LOT of money!”

I am hoping this fellow is a pro.

You would think that a photographer with that much gear could afford to hire a caddy for the day on the links.

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It seems like the Canon and Nikon have different size sensors since the width of view id slightly different between the two of them even though they’re supposed to have the same lense on both. Also why spend so much time comparing the video modes, when you can get a decent video camera for much less than $3k. I will say that the Canon makes the dancer look much better. The Nikon seems to have added about 80 pounds, at least.

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Secondly, has anyone experimented with opening up the aperture on a Holga-for-DSLR? I was taking my pics in Arizona mid-day cloudless-sky full sun, and it was still almost impossible to see through the viewfinder. I assume the original Holga range-finder cameras had a sufficiently bright viewfinder, but I’m itching to take a drill bit to the back of mine to improve framing, low light performance, and increase bokeh. I was planning to take pics of FarkCon with the Holga, but it was way too dark in the casinos, even with my new Canon Speedlite 580EX which I got specifically for the Con, and I love it. I’m sure the beaver shot could have taken first place for funniest.

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Ok, my shots are now posted to the thread. Getting back home from the FarkCon took longer than first imagined. You can also see pics from the weekend at my Flickr stream. Anyway, get to voting for my shots while travelling across Arizona. There is really some very hipsterific scenery in Arizona. How hip would it be to actually sleep in a wig-wam?

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Yeah, I’m scratching my head over this one. Seems like participation is good this week, but I also don’t remember seeing such low voting. Maybe all the voters went to Vegas and didn’t want to pay $10/day for interwebs?

Yeah, I’m that guy. But, I lost the FarkCon thread from my browser cache, and hey I didn’t come to Vegas to save money.

Regarding the actual topic, I agree that this week is not our best work. Good luck everyone, and bon apetite!

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I called my employers employee assistance hotline to speak with a counselor. Of course, I need to call back monday to friday 8-8 to make an appointment, but it’s something.

“Suicide hot-line. Please hold.” I must admit, I LOL’d.

I too have been unmotivated over the past month regarding Farktography. Generally lazy about all sorts of things. I think however that my upcoming travels, including FarkCon and Honolulu, will help me shake off this funk. Best of luck to you!

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I understand how this photo of the tricycle was groundbreaking in making color photography accepted in the realm of fine art photography, but this critic in the article states that the first is not necessarily the best, and I would say there are much better examples of color fine art photos out there or more recent antiquity(?). As a documentary photo of suburbia, I can concede that this is a good work, and certainly shows the sort of deolation described by the critic (not that I agree that suburbia is desolate). I would also say that there are better works of art showing the desolation of suburbia as well as most other areas of human residence, both earlier and later. As is stated, art is ever changing, I would say that it is precisely the originality of photo in terms of technique (color) and subject (suburbia) that make this photo valuable at all. If this photographer were not the one who broke this new ground in art photography, then the shot would be worthless.

Regarding the short film commentary about art by Mr. Youngman, I love it. Way more artistic than the trike photo, in terms of being ground breaking (cinamatography).

In conculsion, it is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

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This is a really neat trick. I actually tried it out myself while watching the video.

I’m really happy with the results achieved by a cheap (~$78) set of extension tubes. (My new flash and remote cord work wonders for macro shots also.) This is the full frame shot with millimeter scale included. You can see more detail with the large size crop also on Flickr. I used a EF 50mm f/1.4, with 3 extension tubes totalling 65mm, Speedlite 580EX II on manual 1/8 power, 1/200 shutter, f/22 aperture, ISO 100.

pepper-w-mm-scale by Kimo Sully, on Flickr

The width of view here is about 17 mm (a bit smaller through the focal plane since the ruler is behind the sprout), and the sensor is 22.3mm wide, so effectively the multiplication factor is 1.3. I could possibly focus a bit closer w/ the 50mm or switch lenses to get 1.5x or possibly better.

The nice thing about the extension tubes is they allow full electronic control of aperture and focus (not the my T2i auto-focuses well at macro distances). This shot took all of 2 minutes to get, and I started w/o the flash at 1.4. It was way too dark, so I added the flash and started stopping down the aperture, and then the flash as well when I hit the lens limit of f/22.

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…got them to smile by promising them that they wouldn’t have to fight for uncracked stoppers like Laotian orphans for kelp on their barge ride to servitude in Singapore.

Wait…they come in an UNCRACKED version?!

Thanks, all, for the kind words. Regarding the redhead in blue with bokeh’d background – she was so scared that it was going to just shout “I’m an alcoholic standing in a bar!” I guaranteed her it’d be barely noticeable, hah.

Ok, 2 things:
1. I thought I went to a cheap school, but at least we had stoppers that were not cracked. Oh, wait, that was the Chem. Eng. department, not Chem. dept.
2. Of course she looks like an alcoholic. Aren’t all chemists? (Or at least all the one’s who aren’t dropping acid?)

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Love the bokeh on the redhead in blue.

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