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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.

B and H has new 8x10 Toyo film holders for little over $200.

One can rent cameras and lenses from borrowlenses dot com. Try before you buy. Adorama rents as well.

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.

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.

Are they little or big dragons? States both. 18-200 DX distortion issues fixed easily in post. Same with the FX analogue.

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

JENNYWANDERLUST seems more like a creator of those silly black bordered management motivational posters than social media photographer.

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".

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?

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.

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.

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.

Also note, substantial scalpel/laser art done to his own face. That would be cool to do a food dyed colored eye candy carmel POP-corn series on plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, et al, especially those who have worked on his models, and himself. Homage tribute to unsung artists of a finer art.

http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/original_187697_kbxbAqt68ypWK4aELnHo_3Hq2.jpg Love that one. Anyone notice the catch? That tells me a LOT about David.

Seems to me he is parodying himself and his models, and his and their business. Interesting constructions, say if, Hieronymus Bosch worked for Mad Magazine in the 70s. Awesome Photoshopper. Love the Shell gas station in the rainforest. That's kinda serious. That one set with the jet, I am curious if that was the set from the most recent War of the Worlds.

Distilled water.

The lily is a spiritual symbol of death, in many cultures. By photographing herself with this flower, she is foretelling us the future, that she will die soon. Just like the angel wings metaphorically torn from her body, foretell that she will attempt to fly, and attempt to reach the zenith of photographic artistry, but like those wings of Icarus they will fail to perform, and she will face plant onto the New York sidewalk. The tortoise is a symbol of the appreciation of her art, that it would be a long slow process, as we know from the Greek fable, the tortoise wins the race. Tortoise? What's that? You know what a turtle is? Of course! Same thing. I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. Do you make up these questions, Or do they write 'em down for you?

Photographing naked people is off topic? So we can't talk about Sally Mann, Mapplethorp, or Bob Guccionni? Dang censors.

Watch "The Woodmans [2010] Legendado PT-BR" on YouTube . . .

I actually really don't have any morals in regards to sexuality. I don't think. My discussion was about their parenting abilities. And gave an example of their absentee parenting. Which in and of itself is perfect example of how meaning and interpretation and the resulting imputed meaning can be opposite. I reserve the topic of morality for actions that actually hurt or harm people. No one was or is harmed by the naked model photos. That said, speaking as a 50 year old fat man, I wouldn't be caught dead naked(or clothed) in a photo with a naked teenager. Not that I have some morality about it or against it internally. I know that in the society I live in, I could end up in jail or killed, or jailed, sodomized, and then killed. I'm too cynical to die for art.

Phil, Would you let your 16 year old daughter take naked photos with a fat 50 year old naked man? It was 70s, and all, but seriously. Would you have allowed that in the 70s? People deal with grief differently, but listen to mom and pop Woodman talk about Franchesca' art and suicide. Their discussion of competition with her, their self absorbtion, their guilt and rationalization of it. I wouldn't want these people as friends in real life,.let alone parents. I didn't have model parents myself, growing up at about the same time as Franchesca, they never ever got me to a place where I wanted to swan dive off a roof. Maybe more accurate to say that they were horrible people who happened to be parents? Betty's clay art seems facile and trite to me. George's photography of a model who resembles his daughter, using a style similar to hers, is disgusting and morbid to me.

One thing of note is that the larger part of her portfolio is locked up by her parents (estate). And unreleased. I wonder what they are concealing by doing this. What art, or what trash is contained in that collection. Too bad that "The Woodmans" is no longer available on Netflix. It's painfully obvious these two people were horrible parents. Maybe they are equally horrible curators.