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11/28/2003 03:16:28 AM · #51 |
Originally posted by wwjdwithca:
To say it's merely "technique" is an understatement. The studio shots that are winning ribbons on these challenges are completed with thousands of dollars of studio equipment. That's more like 80% equipment and 20% technique. |
Interesting assumption, I would really like to know if you have anything to support that or if it is pure conjecture. Sounds more like someone portraying something they believe as being a fact.
My last entry didn't get a ribbon, but was very close to one in fifth place, just after Quad's gun shot (a friend calculated that 5 more points would have put it third as I was only .04 under the ribbons, so it is close enough to a ribbon to be covered by the comment here I believe).
Cost:
Camera/lens - part of the standard process and the photo would have worked just as well with a cheap camera.
Flash: No Cost $0
Lighting: Just the fluro light on the ceiling in the garage. Cost $0
Additional equipment required: Nil. Cost $0
Oops, sorry
Cost of Jam: 12.74 cents (approximated, will calculate more accurately later).
I hate when people make assumptions and then present them on forums as facts.
Message edited by author 2003-11-28 03:18:20.
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11/28/2003 03:23:19 AM · #52 |
| I would also like to add...although Kiwiness DOES likely have all the studio equipment a person would need; to recreate most of Kiwiness' winning shots here at DPC (Ice fall, can of worms, H2O, overpainted) would NOT require a studio with high $$$ lights and backdrops. |
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11/28/2003 04:31:03 AM · #53 |
I think I've worked it out. All these people have EOS-10Ds.
Therefore, to make all challenges fair we must either (a) ban people with cameras worth more than mine, or (b) send everybody a 10D.
Personally I vote (b) :-) |
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11/28/2003 04:37:49 AM · #54 |
Originally posted by ganders:
I think I've worked it out. All these people have EOS-10Ds.
Therefore, to make all challenges fair we must either (a) ban people with cameras worth more than mine, or (b) send everybody a 10D.
Personally I vote (b) :-) |
Hey, we're just living in frugality trying to recoup some of the money we spent on the 10-D. :D |
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11/28/2003 05:10:06 AM · #55 |
Originally posted by ganders:
(b) send everybody a 10D. Personally I vote (b) :-) |
If you make up a petition to send to Canon to give everyone here a 10D I'll certainly sign it. Hmmm... then I'd have two 10D's... Wonder if I could send two 10D's in and have them send me back a 1Ds. Nah, would probably have to send them 4 or 5. ;) |
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11/28/2003 03:44:24 PM · #56 |
"" The studio shots that are winning ribbons on these challenges are completed with thousands of dollars of studio equipment. That's more like 80% equipment and 20% technique.""
Now this is bunk. Equiptment is the smallest part of photography. There is this weird "equiptment" thinking today, that the difference between an amateur and a Pro is equiptment, and the difference between a good and a bad shot is equiptment. WRONG!!
Lots of equiptment will actually make shots worse if your not ready for it. If I handed you 16 studio flashes, booms, stands, softboxes, backdrops, etc. I guarantee that your photo for that shot would probably be worse.
The pure beauty of still lifes and digital cameras is the lighting doesn't matter. It could be 3 studio lights at 1/200 of a second or 3 desk lamps at 2/3 of a second, but the exact same shot.
Quit making wrong assumptions, start making creative photographs. Most of the beautiful work on this site is done with very little equitment and adapted lighting.
No Virginia equiptment doesn't make the photographer. and remember the best camera is the one you have. |
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