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Rud13 · Posts: 3277

sawtooth get a flickr account I demand it.

thatbox · Posts: 816

Rudie, sticky the photo thread, please.

Panoptic · Posts: 291

Had a nice rain shower and the sun came back out so I went and mowed the lawn. Saw no less than a dozen leopard frogs; this one made a pretty good model.

thatbox wrote:

Rudie, sticky the photo thread, please.

thatbox · Posts: 816

thatbox · Posts: 816

Hey IC /p/ - I've wanted a second lens since I got my 5D a few months ago, and now it turns out I may be a REAL PAID PHOTOGRAPHER for an indoor event in October, so I can now justify the purchase.

F1.8/50mm seems to be suspiciously inexpensive pretty much across the board, but that's sort of nice. What do you recommend for my Minolta? Also, I've heard eBay is pretty snazzy for used lenses, so I'd probably poke around on there.

The event is a company (not mine!) party, and will include candid shots to be projected onto a big screen during the thing and potentially pictures of people with an alligator.

glitch · Posts: 216

hey i found that weird End Of Time place from Chrono Trigger:

it's in a park in Norway.

Panoptic · Posts: 291

I just had this for a midnight snack.

...

Why I took a picture of it, I have no idea.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

That looks... really fucking good.

thatbox · Posts: 816

First time playing with RAW and my new 50mm 1.7. I wish Flickr preserved EXIF in the downsized pictures :(

Westacular · Posts: 571

Sawtooth wrote:

You, sir, are an awesome sparkler-artist. I tried doing the same thing -- telling people to draw something while I took a long-exposure photo -- but in all but one case they turned out terribly because everyone kept drawing all the details in the exact same spot.

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

thatbox · Posts: 816

newave · Posts: 616

Silverswordfish · Posts: 64

Japanese beer is ok, Id rather drink it than a lot of other beers. Why are People calling it J-beer? how annoying.

Japanese food:

English Food:

dark steve · Posts: 3002

I was being humorous.

Tough guy.

I keep forgetting they don't understand irony in england :(

Silverswordfish · Posts: 64

You weren't the only person to call it J-beer. I wish i could believe every one was being "ironic"

Also Newcastle Brown was refered to as just "Newcastle" but now im just being facetious.

End of rant.

dark steve · Posts: 3002

They were just going along with me.

Poseurs.

Silverswordfish · Posts: 64

Look what you've started, you've corrupted the internet with your humour. I wouldn't call it Irony though... Satire maybe.

dark steve · Posts: 3002

Silverswordfish wrote:

Look what you've started, you've corrupted the internet with your humour.

Then the day is mine.

Silverswordfish · Posts: 64

If I ever hear some one refer to it as J-Beer from now on i'm blaming you and then i'm adding it to Wikipedia.

dark steve · Posts: 3002

In actual photo news:

At long last, my rockin' prize from the last entdepot contest.

thatbox · Posts: 816

Panoptic · Posts: 291

Another crappy APS shot.

I ought to buy an SLR.

Sawtooth · Posts: 2350

Panoptic wrote:

crappy

you lie :(

rud13 i got a flickr account because you told me to (actually I had one before but I did like nothing with it before now SO have fun in japan or something)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosmosa_bravo/

Sylvestro Buccelli · Posts: 75

Great shots, thatbox. You remind me of David S. Allee.

shinokou · Posts: 84

Me squelching into a microphone and leaning on a keyboard I had no intention of playing.

Looking dramatic while playing hideous skronk.

Looking as close to a standard rock band as we'll ever get.

Two drummers: the new way to get ultra-fucking scene cred.

Cellist Emily looking like the goddamn Crow or something.

thatbox · Posts: 816

Please tell me that skronk is ska, rock and crunk.

Thanks, Sylvestro!

shinokou · Posts: 84

It's more like free-jazz/noise played by charlatans.

aMac · Posts: 103

So I was in Brussels this weekend. Chocolate, beer and waffels! Good times!
We saw this video game store one night which a most excellent set of shutters. However, what the hell is the suggestively looking pink thing on the far right! The current consensus is Worms but I don't know...

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Who's that supposed to be on the far right?

aMac · Posts: 103

That's exactly what I was wondering. A character from Worms just doesn't seem to fit.

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

Moogs · Posts: 928

So I found out that if you walk thru the portal to Silent Hill...

...everything really is covered in a grainy filter.

thatbox · Posts: 816

JPG Mag accepts submissions from anybody and then uses a voting system to determine which photos get published, and which photographers get a hundred bucks. Every issue has a few themes, and you can submit one photo per theme. These are mine for this issue. If you don't mind, and don't find them bad, please give each picture a thumbs up!

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

COKIO TOWER

Totally better than that other thing in Tokyo.

thatbox · Posts: 816

oh hmm who are these dudes

Mr. Business · Posts: 1530

Hey thatbox, what the heck are you taking all of these nighttime snaps with?

thatbox · Posts: 816

Konica-Minolta Maxxum 5D. The one above was taken with the kit 18-70mm lens! Of the three votespam ones, the outside two were taken with the same lens and the middle one was taken with a Minolta 50mm f1.7! I paid for a 70-200mm f4 like a month ago but the guy was in the hospital for two weeks and I'm not sure what his excuse is right now. I still don't have it ;_;

DaleNixon · Posts: 766

thatbox wrote:

oh hmm who are these dudes

Not the most flattering shot of any of us, but hey, CANDID GAMING MOMENT!

thatbox · Posts: 816

I just really liked you and Toups IN THE DARK staring at the TV and Rachel being illuminated by Rocket Slime.

DaleNixon · Posts: 766

Yea, that is pretty awesome looking now that you mention it.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

Resampled 50% and cropped for body shot; no post-processing on color or lighting. Just turned it on and took a picture.

internisus · Posts: 961

Very professional!

Panoptic · Posts: 291

Just because I love LED flashlights:

Psiga · Posts: 3990

Just testing out the new camera.

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

I think my camera is dead.

winkerwanker · Posts: 2414

Good.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

Trying out Adobe's new Lightroom beta.

It has all sorts of fantastic photo modding features, and I pretty much adore it up to the point where it cripples my system with memory use, and then fucks me over by not having a Save for Web feature like Photoshop.

You don't get to see a live preview of the JPG compression. You get a Quality slider from 1 to 100, no file size estimation, no preview of compression. Nothing. I can't really recommend Lightroom until they work that shit out. It's just unacceptable to do that.

thatbox · Posts: 816

It doesn't output standard/compatible RAW companion files, either, which is retarded because Adobe Camera RAW very much does. I think I meant to test it out way back when, but it required SP2 or something (which I won't have until the next format/reinstall!). Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW + Photoshop do me just fine!

Psiga · Posts: 3990

wut

So they make an application for digital photographers and then cripple its output abilities. Great move!

Yeah, this kinda blows. I've modded a bunch of neat photos that I'd like to send to flickr now, but they're kinda trapped in the application. Actually... I suppose I can just save them at a low compression level, just let them be fucking gigantic filesizes, and have flickr do the web-friendly resizing for me.