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https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-att-us&source=android-browser&q=zack+arias+seamless Zack Arias had a great tutorial about seamless white backgrounds. Additionally, white becomes any color background with a strobe and colored gel. Alien Bees have great beginner strobes, and they hold 90 to 95% resale value.
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cambo 8x10 film back..simple question if you know the answer
black_silver replied to nick_peplow's topic in Large Format
B and H has new 8x10 Toyo film holders for little over $200. -
Looking for a good beginner dslr
black_silver replied to cecily_lafrance's topic in Beginner Questions
One can rent cameras and lenses from borrowlenses dot com. Try before you buy. Adorama rents as well. -
Looking for a good beginner dslr
black_silver replied to cecily_lafrance's topic in Beginner Questions
I'm a Nikon digital/film camera user myself. But, if I were starting out again I would seriously think about getting a mirror less camera. The lens style QX1 E mount camera by Sony especially, because it then opens up usage to Zeiss lenses. With full auto abilities, that the ZF.2 lenses lack. And one uses a cell phone or mini tablet as the remote viewer. Which would come in handy in a crowded concert. -
Take Fred's image, there above. If I saw a real person that color, that grey color. ... I would expect the person to be dead. Black and white photos, especially, are not about truth. They can't be. It's about tonality on paper or some monitor. Viewers have to interpret those photos, change black and white tones to color in their mind's eye; based on experiences with the real world. Also, the person in Fred's photo would be about 8 to 10 inches tall, as sized on the monitor screen I am using. Photos are not truthful.
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Where does it say photographs are truth? I think I overslept for that class. I was going to enumerate a list of how photographs are not truthful. But it got too long fast, and made my head hurt.
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Are they little or big dragons? States both. 18-200 DX distortion issues fixed easily in post. Same with the FX analogue.
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Random Lens Flare on 70-200 mm f/2.8 on Nikon D800
black_silver replied to kobi_omenaka's topic in Nikon
UV filter? I wouldn't fault the camera, you're shooting into the sun. Obliquely, but enough to catch a reflective/refracting surface. What to do to fix it? Change angle. Block sun with hand. Take off Tiffin filter, put on a PRO B+W MRC/Kaesemann filter -
Vintage Cameras, plate, etc - old techniques?
black_silver replied to ross_boyd's topic in Extreme, Retro, Instant and More
Pinhole camera made from a cardboard box. Foil pinhole aperture. Silver Gelatin bw paper. Learning curve on paper developing only. Minimal cost. Authentically old process. Wet plate would be cool too. -
Plenty of MF examples of superior grips, than this ridiculous contrivance. Which takes a novel product and makes it empirically worse in design. Rollei, Bronica, Hasselblad, et al. Many available in the 60s prior to "2001".
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Judge says man had right to shoot down drone.
black_silver replied to Mark Keefer's topic in Casual Photo Conversations
What happens when law enforcement is using their drones over your property? If they aren't now, they soon will be. A shotgun is not particularly lethal at 200 feet, unless buckshot, slug, or sabotage are used. What if the marksman used or uses an air rifle, paintball gun, airsoft gun to bring down a drone? -
WEEKLY DISCUSSION 2.0 #11 - David LaChapelle
black_silver replied to Norma Desmond's topic in Casual Photo Conversations
Anders, No I don't think most viewers care, or know enough to care. These are the same people who look at an Ansel Adams print with blackened red filtered burned in "photo-shopped" skies, and say, "He was in the right place at the right time to capture the sky like that". I admire a great Photoshopper as I do a great red light, wet darkroom, enlarger lit, silver gelatin photo-shopper. The work is such that some photographers can't tell, and the general viewership certainly can't tell...that is the signature of an awesome Photoshopper. My noting it was not a disparaging point, but a compliment. I try and appreciate art irrespective of the others in the audience, or the customer base, or the artificial value placed on it by that audience and customer base. I try to keep the channel between the artist and myself, uncluttered by others' opinions. -
WEEKLY DISCUSSION 2.0 #11 - David LaChapelle
black_silver replied to Norma Desmond's topic in Casual Photo Conversations
I question his veracity regarding not using Photoshop. Unless he is using semantics, say uses Lightroom instead. Maybe has an assistant does the Photoshopping, not himself. How does he stitch his images, the aspect ratio of MF digital is usually 6x4(6x4.5)? No input or output sharpening? No increased saturation? Doubtful. -
WEEKLY DISCUSSION 2.0 #11 - David LaChapelle
black_silver replied to Norma Desmond's topic in Casual Photo Conversations
http://www.davidlachapelle.com/video/ Awesome links to on set, look behind the curtain, stuff he does. Cameras, lights, computers, tricks, techniques,,assistants roles, etc. Check the PhazeOne Land Scape vids. Wonderful. I like him, I need more time with him, but I think I am going to really like this guy and his work.