How would you start WW3 in Photo.net?

My favorite:

 

"What is art?" in the philosophy forum.

 

Discuss ... discuss ...

 

~Joe

<p>My friends and my family say I have a good eye for photography.  I'm thinking of turning pro.  What camera should I buy to take great wedding shots?<br>

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<p>An American Buddhist once remarked he was looking for the state of perfect nothingness...another American suggested Iowa. As i live in Australia i didn't get it...help, please? Oh, and if we lived in more enlightened times, eg the Old West, all Canonites would hang...love from Downunder</p>

<p>I think Ken Rockwell is great and should be made a life member of photo.net<br>

He should be given $5 from every subscription<br>

He should be a moderator on photo.net</p>

<p>@ Mark...Located 1 state west of me, Iowa is known here for it's boring flat expanses of corn fields (Very much like Nebraska next to it).  The joke it that there is nothing there to see 'Perfect Nothingness"...many midwestern states of the US could be used in the joke for this reason.</p>

<p><strong>"How would you start WW3 in Photo.net?"    </strong>Easy,</p>

<p>you're all a lazy bunch of bums hanging around here and wasting your time . You should have better things to do than having your ego stroked by a stranger and jerk off on eachother s mediocre work. You're a useless lot who, had you even one percent of what it takes to be a photographer you would be doing it instead of talking about it ad infinitum. Yappin about film and digital and misquoting real photographers who's name you heard only by accident. If you had any sense at all you would reconsider your priorities, but who am I talking to. You 're all beyond any help. And the mods are even worse. They lure you in and make you respond to worthless topics and you suckers fall for that while they get paid for every hit. They should really get their finger out and start a forum on home repair or anything else usefull. Anything better than this. How can you start t hinking outside of the box if you view life through one. Talking about composition, someone ought to compose you one around the ears. Telling eachother how creative you are. Start painting the bloody house for a change. And the women are even worse. Back to the furnace with them, I need my bloody dinner</p>

<p><em>Hmmm.... i think this is the first thread i have actually read all the way through ...except for all the bits i skimmed over.</em></p>

<p>People not using the shift key for I.</p>

<p>Ton, that seemed to come <em>much</em> to easily for you. :-)</p>

<p>Matt, you know me too well ;-)</p>

<p>Are tripods for old people?</p>

<p>What's better high ISO or image stabilisation?</p>

<p>What's better, a picture of the week or a picture that has an equal amount of 7/7's as it has 3/3's and not much in between?</p>

<p>By the way, Rodchenko is better than Adams, even Casio is better than Nikon, digital crop is better than large format and Ken is a cool guy.</p>

<p>(In cityscapes, in pocket calculators, in light weight photography, in a none too serious way.)</p>

<p>Oh -- I just remembered this one: Lens hoods are completely useless. People just use them to make themselves look more professional. (I swear I saw that comment here somewhere.)</p>

<p>Wow, Sarah (Fox), waydda totally trample over my hopes and dreams of becoming a professional cloud photographer.</p>

Trumped!

 

http://mcdsgroup.com/clouds/

<p>"Oklahoma is just our dusty attic. Every once in awhile we drag out a ragtag football team from the attic and have a game. Sometimes we let 'em win just so they don't get discouraged about having to live in the attic."<br>

Lex, then you and alot of others must let those in Oklahoma win alot! Since, I heard that OU has more weeks of being rated number 1 than any other football team in the country!</p>

<p>"Don't blame me, I voted for Blagojevich!"</p>

<p>What is a good walk around lens?</p>

<p>LOL!<br>

Since I am guilty of the 'I want to be a pro' comment, I figured I would take the advice given here:<br>

"Get yourself a tin can, put some film in it and push a hole through the lid. Your equipment is not important at all, just take the pictures with wathever you have in hand. Maybe you can get good images by using a racoon pelt and a charcoal piece".<br>

and, then I can fix the exposures in photoshop and call it 'art'.<br>

Now, do I need a lens hood for that?<br>

;)</p>

<p>"<em>Don't blame me, I voted for Blagojevich</em>!" Yea and I got screwed out of my senate seat.</p>

<p>Ann Geddes Rocks!</p>

<p>For a photograph to have any value it must come straight out of the camera, the way ____(insert mythical deity of your choosing here) meant it to be. Any photograph that has been manipulated is not an honest and truthful depiction of reality.</p>

<p>QUESTION: I'm just starting out with a Canon XTI, this is all new to me. What lens should I get?<br /> ANSWER: <strong>Only "L" glass is the way to go!</strong></p>

<p>Follow up to above poster who just bought their first SLR (XTI):<br>

And with our L glass, (a 400/2.8 should do) you'll need a Gitzo carbon fiber tripod and Wimberly head. Then you'll need a twenty foot cable release to minimize vibration, and lay your body over the top of the camera. Use mirror lockup even with 1/2000 shutter speeds and since you are lying on the top of your camera you'll have to hang your bag and five cement blocks under it.</p>

<p>When you take photos with the above rig and post them for critique:<br>

"I like how you caught the eagle snatching the fish from the water and that you filled the frame. However, you should have taken the photo in May when the foliage on the distant shore would be prettier. And that river bank is dead space. It would look so much better with a lion taking down a gazelle in the background, but make sure you don't obstruct the lion with the eagle/fish."</p>

 

<p>Ok. If we start WWIII and fight it with Canons, Nikons, Sony, etc. then WWIV will be fought with Daguerreotypes, wet plates, flash powder, and camera obscuras!</p>

 

<p>When I use iso 51.200 and look in ps at 1600% magnification I noticed peppergrain and strange black dots in solid black area's of my canikolymca 1d3s mk VI am... do I need a firmware upgrade?</p>

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<p>Mike Dixon said: "If you really want to start a war, go through the top-rated photos and give honest ratings and critiques.</p>

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<p>Oh man, that sounds like fun-! YES-!<br>

Grin.</p>