People need to keep their unsolicited advice to themselves. I took photography in middle school. Black and white, school-issued camera, developing the film myself... Loved it. Wouldn't dream of commenting on another person's work... But that's just me.
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Quoth AccountingDrone View PostROFLMAO. <background - I went to a very pricy private school for the last 3 years of high school> I showed up for my senior year's art option, photography and darkroom, with a 1939 Leica 3B, and the boxed set of every filter and lens offered [Hey, my Dad got it as a HS graduation present from my Grandfather. What can I say, my grandfather was a Baron of Industry...] The other students in class who had the newest expensive spiffy crap available in 1970 couldn't understand why the teacher was enraptured by my 'old crappy equipment' and they also couldn't understand why he was thrilled at my matching vintage enlarger, also by Leica. The *cloth shutter* also still timed at 1/1000 second <evil grin>
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Quoth AccountingDrone View PostROFLMAO. <background - I went to a very pricy private school for the last 3 years of high school> I showed up for my senior year's art option, photography and darkroom, with a 1939 Leica 3B, and the boxed set of every filter and lens offered [Hey, my Dad got it as a HS graduation present from my Grandfather. What can I say, my grandfather was a Baron of Industry...] The other students in class who had the newest expensive spiffy crap available in 1970 couldn't understand why the teacher was enraptured by my 'old crappy equipment' and they also couldn't understand why he was thrilled at my matching vintage enlarger, also by Leica. The *cloth shutter* also still timed at 1/1000 second <evil grin>
It can be something simple like a light meter or remote wireless flash controller to something like an extra large sensor that replaces the original film but gives you access to lens that are not available on modern devices.
hat would happen to the minds of those students to see what clearly is an older camera that has better specs than anything they can afford?
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Quoth notalwaysright View PostPeople need to keep their unsolicited advice to themselves. I took photography in middle school. Black and white, school-issued camera, developing the film myself... Loved it. Wouldn't dream of commenting on another person's work... But that's just me.
* CC'ing = Constructive CritiquingMytical: A SC? Make a mistake? Oh goodness no. Must have been the little pink men from the planet parsley in the butternut galaxy. We all know that SC's could NEVER make mistakes.
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Quoth AngloSaxonViking View Post"Great photo! You must have a really good camera".
I lost it once and replied, "yeah, they used to tell Rembrandt he must have a really superb set of brushes".I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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My father in law is a professional photographer, he was a navy shutterbug and one of his duties was as the unit photographer for the Blue Angels. he is retired from teaching [Photography, history and wrestling. Odd combination, but California, eh? =)] and has been doing weddings and sittings as well as shooting whatever on vacation [tax write off =)] for something like 50 years. Rob picked up his shutterbug habit from working with his dad, but hasn't really had much time for it in the past 10 yeas or so. He is looking forward to retirement and shutter bugging - he doesn't know that his present this year is my ancient leica =)EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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Quoth aulocksmith View PostCC'ing* their work is usually welcome by a photographer. It's the inane comments like "you must have a really great camera" and the like that give us the shits.
* CC'ing = Constructive Critiquing
In all the arts - and yes, photography and writing are both arts - the 'rules' are guidelines. You can break them at will; but you'll only get good results if you either know what you're doing when you break them, or experiment a lot.
As for my own photographic skill: I know how to frame shots, I know to offset the point the eye is first drawn to, I know some other such elements of the artistic theory: the ones which apply also to sketching, painting, etc.
Do I have the faintest clue what the various options on my camera (or my phone) actually DO? ... vaguely. Sort of.
I can copy the photo into the Gimp and make it look better. Does that count for anything?Seshat's self-help guide:
1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.
"All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.
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Quoth prjkt View Postthe weekend just passed I had a girl come up and thank me fore uploading a photo that made her "look retarded"I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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