i'm sure that wank would say that tilt-shifts are to be used for architecture and some product work. not that he'd really know, of course, what any kind of genre of photography dictates ...
but i find using different types of equipment -- besides using sixhundredfouroh's for portraits -- for their unintended purposes kind of fun.
fun to me is not shooting the brush in some boring canyon. fun to me is not shooting a brick wall. why do they do this? these "internet reviewers." why? because they know absolutely nothing about composition. perhaps they know "a bit" and "a bit" is very loosely defined in the context of their work. so ... they will keep shooting mundane photos which mean absolutely nothing in the context of whatever they're reviewing.
i will take a well-composed photo which is perhaps not tack or unsharp over some f/16 sharp-ass photo of bullshit.
thing is ... people like wank will never "get it." he has -- to be sure -- some little group of sycophants with their tongues firmly planted in some posterior location which may result in said tongues coming out brown. i'm sure there are people with absolutely no talent telling him he's "got talent." so far from the truth.
i'd rather listen to real shooters like
thorsten or
darren or my other friends. i'd rather talk gear with ap shooters, reuters shooters ... perhaps even some getty shooters ...
but many of you don't get that opportunity.
that's why i'm here. i'm here to help. whilst i may have some sort of advertising i will not post a link begging for handouts. that amazes me. thanks for pointing that out
thorsten. in fact, i know a handful of passionate and talented amateurs i'd rather discuss gear with .. than anyone like wank.
see ... wank sucks. he couldn't get a photo-assignment from a legitimate publication to save his life.
and ... because of that ... he's so jealous he can taste his own bile.
anyway ... sold a mark 2 and decided to get the canon 45/2.8 TS (manual focus). friends said the 28 wasn't all that good ... and for me the 90 was just a bit tight. i know idiots who don't know any better would say a 45 or 50 is too wide to shoot people but ... they don't know shit. ;)
i have some on my card but i don't have a card reader at this location.
have a beautiful photo of j! :)
lets see ... c looked pretty cool ...
such a cool in-camera effect. fuck filters. fuck star bokeh filters. (you know who i'm talking about).
non-equipment ... so ... the next contest here on uber ... yes ... it's gonna be a street contest.&nbmn_block_index}]
UPDATE: see those last string with block index? uber ate my post. i didn't see the rest of the photos when i went to look at the comments ... so ... instead of bitch about some bug ... i'll just repost the photos ...
love this view of c.
she did a pretty good job.
homage to
puts ... had to include a brick wall. ;)
still pissed my post was cut by 7/8 and i have to repost. sucks.
oh, yeah, puts ... if you want to be taken seriously, why the fuck do you have a fucking cat in your banner?
love this. don't love burbank but i love this.
love this, too ... but ... not because of what they're offering. the sv valley ... ah.
crazy. a year ago you would have fought someone for a space to "be a consumer." now ... the trees are lonely and this parking lot's only inhabitants.
such failed policy. it's really sad when you think about it.
she doesn't make me sad, though.
she doesn't either.
amazing eyes ... that j. :)
amazing twinkle. poster-child for coca-cola. ;)
*thinks that having no save draft in edit post mode kinda sucks*
he's nice enough but he freaks me out. dunno why.
semi-feral.
food-motivated.
i know. so is c. ;)
our waiter the other day.
his, too.
plastic-looking person in a plastic world.
love how you can isolate someone's moment from everything going on around. i llike doing this with dof but it's now very interesting to do with a shift as well.
so ... my original post ... dunno ... went to edit and it showed an abbreviated version of what i originally posted. normally, i'd be pissed off because wasting my time is the worst thing one can do. anyone's for that matter. whatever.
so, yeah, new contest coming. great judges. a great prize! a prize i would use myself any day of the week.
and ... oh ... just saw this:
"
You people who know Flickr: Who is this guy? He's not me. Is he a fan, another guy named Ken Rockwell, or what?"and then ... this ...
thought that was funny. full-view and look at the public groups. i don't advocate spoofing someone but ... since it happened ... it's funny. ;)
have a great weekend. even you evil uber blog editor. ;)
cheers from the now-baking-l.a.!
sorry ... one more thing ... check out
cory's last blog. i think it's amazing that the very top of a site (e.g., glenna at uber.com) comes from a background which includes major exhibitions. there is such a different result coming from an "art-first, then community" mindset than another which perhaps has a community-first, then art mindset. i think it's interesting, at least.
