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 08/31/2003 03:06:59 PM · #76
If anyone would like to mentor me i would really like the help, i need mentoring more on the editing side of this like photoshop so if you can help please get in touch


sheesh you go away for a while and look what you miss
 08/31/2003 03:09:18 PM · #77
very nice work. i think you have a great eye for light and composition :) .

Originally posted by traser:
sorry, here is a clickable


here

 09/03/2003 09:28:09 AM · #78
I would like a mentor also. Have been taking photographs for awhile but need help with PhotoShop and the more technical side of picture taking. At present I have no IM mechanism but will download one for this purpose. I have my photos at www.pbase.com/sonnyh
Any help would be great.
 09/03/2003 10:07:11 AM · #79
Originally posted by sonnyh:
I would like a mentor also. Have been taking photographs for awhile but need help with PhotoShop and the more technical side of picture taking. At present I have no IM mechanism but will download one for this purpose. I have my photos at //www.pbase.com/sonnyh
Any help would be great.


Note - You have a $1200 camera and you need a mentor? Sounds like you bought more camera than you can handle, or you need one hell of a mentor... Methinks that's a lot of camera... more than I could handle.

Good luck! - Bob
 09/03/2003 10:20:52 AM · #80
Originally posted by inspzil:


Note - You have a $1200 camera and you need a mentor? Sounds like you bought more camera than you can handle, or you need one hell of a mentor... Methinks that's a lot of camera... more than I could handle.

Good luck! - Bob



Hey, I want a mentor too - and my camera cost a whole lot more. Mentoring isn't just for christmas, its for life...
 09/03/2003 10:46:09 AM · #81
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by inspzil:


Note - You have a $1200 camera and you need a mentor? Sounds like you bought more camera than you can handle, or you need one hell of a mentor... Methinks that's a lot of camera... more than I could handle.

Good luck! - Bob



Hey, I want a mentor too - and my camera cost a whole lot more. Mentoring isn't just for christmas, its for life...


Okay, I'll mentor you Gordon. It'd be like John Daly mentoring Tiger Woods. Anything I could possibly teach you, you already know better :) I'm not volunteering for that one. My person to mentor would have to ask, what does DOF stand for?

:P
 09/03/2003 11:01:24 AM · #82
Originally posted by inspzil:
My person to mentor would have to ask, what does DOF stand for?

:P


Degree Of Freedom ?
Depot Overhaul Factor?
Department of Finance
Direction of Fire
Direction of Flight

Close yet ?
 09/03/2003 11:30:12 AM · #83
Originally posted by Gordon:

Degree Of Freedom ?
Depot Overhaul Factor?
Department of Finance
Direction of Fire
Direction of Flight

Close yet ?


You're a Dork Gordon, but I still admire your work.

"If it's not Scottish, its crap!!"

-bob :)

09/03/2003 11:45:23 AM · #84
Originally posted by inspzil:
Originally posted by sonnyh:
I would like a mentor also. Have been taking photographs for awhile but need help with PhotoShop and the more technical side of picture taking. At present I have no IM mechanism but will download one for this purpose. I have my photos at //www.pbase.com/sonnyh
Any help would be great.


Note - You have a $1200 camera and you need a mentor? Sounds like you bought more camera than you can handle, or you need one hell of a mentor... Methinks that's a lot of camera... more than I could handle.

Good luck! - Bob


I'm not sure what the camera has to do with needing a mentor. I have 10D and can handle the basic technical aspects of the camera and photography in general. Unfortunately my photographic vision and creativity has been damaged by 14 years of corporate work. It will take mentoring/counseling to get the other side of my brain working again.
 09/03/2003 12:19:09 PM · #85
Originally posted by Nusbaum:

I'm not sure what the camera has to do with needing a mentor. I have 10D and can handle the basic technical aspects of the camera and photography in general. Unfortunately my photographic vision and creativity has been damaged by 14 years of corporate work. It will take mentoring/counseling to get the other side of my brain working again.


I think if I had the formula for how to learn acute photographic vision, I'd be a millionaire. I don't know how to get that... If I did, I bet I'd be a trite (or a ton, depending on your current opinions of my work) more successful on DPC, and in my other photographic pursuits. My personal opinion is you need to go shoot more. I'd say you have to retrain your mind to see what you once did. We can't tell what that is, only you know. If you have any kind of archives, dig thru them and try to see what you did. Get the book called "Learning to See Creatively" by Bryan Peterson (I think that's who its by). That may help you.

I attribute the remark regarding the camera to some relationship between the skill of the photographer and the complexity of the camera. I can't imagine myself owning a camera that cost over $1000. Maybe its just stereotyping... Good photographer = good camera. But I imagine if there are good photographers struggling with not-so-good cameras, the opposite must also be true.

I'm definitely not the authority here. It just struck me a little odd, that's all. I'm not trying to stir up trouble here, but it seems a bit late to be saying that now.

BB
 09/03/2003 12:54:32 PM · #86
Originally posted by inspzil:
Get the book called "Learning to See Creatively" by Bryan Peterson (I think that's who its by). That may help you.


An aside - I got an email from Bryan yesterday - he is about to have an updated version of this book released, in the next couple of weeks with a load of new photographs and content. I'd recommend holding off on buying this until you can get the 2003 version.
 09/03/2003 01:22:33 PM · #87
Originally posted by inspzil:

I'm definitely not the authority here. It just struck me a little odd, that's all. I'm not trying to stir up trouble here, but it seems a bit late to be saying that now.

BB


No trouble here... I was just looking for some discussion. I like shooting candids and the response, focus and shutter, was driving me nuts, so I bought the 10D. I know there are far better photographers working with much less camera.... but boy do I love hearing that click when I press the button.

Thanks for the book recommendation....

Message edited by author 2003-09-03 13:23:08.
 09/03/2003 02:10:35 PM · #88
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by inspzil:
My person to mentor would have to ask, what does DOF stand for?

:P


Degree Of Freedom ?
Depot Overhaul Factor?
Department of Finance
Direction of Fire
Direction of Flight

Close yet ?

Now I see where you might have got some of those. I myself liked Dept. Of (the) Future from Sweden.
 09/03/2003 02:22:43 PM · #89
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Now I see where you might have got some of those. I myself liked Dept. Of (the) Future from Sweden.


Yup, it isn't like I came up with them myself. Dept of the Future sounded like a Huxley term to me.

Message edited by author 2003-09-03 14:23:32.
 09/03/2003 02:30:46 PM · #90
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Now I see where you might have got some of those. I myself liked Dept. Of (the) Future from Sweden.


Yup, it isn't like I came up with them myself. Dept of the Future sounded like a Huxley term to me.

I think you mean George Orwell. I read them about the same time and get them confused too.
 09/03/2003 02:51:36 PM · #91
Originally posted by Nusbaum:
Originally posted by inspzil:
Originally posted by sonnyh:
I would like a mentor also. Have been taking photographs for awhile but need help with PhotoShop and the more technical side of picture taking. At present I have no IM mechanism but will download one for this purpose. I have my photos at //www.pbase.com/sonnyh
Any help would be great.


Note - You have a $1200 camera and you need a mentor? Sounds like you bought more camera than you can handle, or you need one hell of a mentor... Methinks that's a lot of camera... more than I could handle.

Good luck! - Bob


I'm not sure what the camera has to do with needing a mentor. I have 10D and can handle the basic technical aspects of the camera and photography in general. Unfortunately my photographic vision and creativity has been damaged by 14 years of corporate work. It will take mentoring/counseling to get the other side of my brain working again.


The cost of the camera, aside from being able to make a technically accurate exposure, is largely irrelevant the quality of the end product. I have seen incredible images made with pinhole cameras that were fabricated from pennies with of materials. I have also seen photographers with thousands of dollars of equipment produce absolute crap over and over. It's not the tool, it's the operator.
 09/03/2003 02:54:58 PM · #92
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Now I see where you might have got some of those. I myself liked Dept. Of (the) Future from Sweden.


Yup, it isn't like I came up with them myself. Dept of the Future sounded like a Huxley term to me.

I think you mean George Orwell. I read them about the same time and get them confused too.


Nope, I meant Huxley. Everyone says anything spooky about the future sounds Orwellian, but it sounds more like a brave new world term than from 1984. Orwell didn't exactly consider the future much at all, in the book everything happens now. There is no history, there is no future. We are always at war, it is always the same enemy, even though it changes all the time.

Message edited by author 2003-09-03 14:56:10.
 09/03/2003 03:36:27 PM · #93
Hmmm ... good points! Although, by your interpretation it could still be from 1984 since in Newspeak, Dept. of the Future would have nothing to do with any actual future, as you point out.
 09/03/2003 05:38:34 PM · #94
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Hmmm ... good points! Although, by your interpretation it could still be from 1984 since in Newspeak, Dept. of the Future would have nothing to do with any actual future, as you point out.


Yup, but when I said Huxley, I meant Huxley....

Maybe Dept of Doubleplusgood present would be more Orwellian. I think the idea of the word 'Future' would probably be the anthesis of the world in 1984, because if there was a future, people would want change - so the word would no doubt dissappear into newspeak.

Message edited by author 2003-09-03 17:43:37.
 09/03/2003 06:00:23 PM · #95
This thread is getting stranger and stranger by the minute.

12/19/2003 06:25:32 PM · #96
OK, I know it's been a while since I've been a frequent visitor to the forums but I totally forgot about the mentor issue. What ever happened with this? Did interest just taper off and everyone forgot? I know it's the holidays and all but I was just wondering. Thanks!
 12/19/2003 06:32:42 PM · #97
ooops !!lol!

Message edited by author 2003-12-19 18:38:08.
 12/19/2003 06:45:28 PM · #98
Rob the Swash or "Rob York" started this and is giving it up (process of pairing em up) but since I was interested in gaining a mentor and also I am a stay at home mom and might have time on my hands to keep it going he sent me some info to get started! Maybe a new thread is needed cause there seems to be a lot of interest! I am still a newbie at DPC but have a good idea of pairing the mentor and mentees! Only I think we need more volunteers for the mentee part! Here is some info He also sent to help get started if anyone wants to help me sort this all out!
Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail
Welcome, tolovemoon2001









1 Mentors

2
3 Name
Handle
Camera
Type of support
Notes
Student
Proposed Student

4
5 David Di Giacomo
sylandrix
Olympus C-3030Z
?? General
ready to go
GrandmaEMT

6 Gary Kapluggin
kiwiness
Canon EOS-10D
?? General
ready to go
C-Fox

7 Olympus C-5050Z

8 Nancy R
indigo997
Canon PowerShot G2
??
ready to go
Bela45

9 Angel P.
Shiiizzzam
Sony DSC-F707
??
Hold til Oct.

10 Franziska Lang
FranziskaLang
Nikon D100
??
No maybe much later

11 Canon PowerShot Pro 90 IS

12 Paul B
bod
FujiFilm FinePix S602Z
??
ready to go
sonnyh

13 Canon PowerShot A40

14 Tim Jensen
timj351
Sony DSC-F707
??
ready to go
shareinnc

15
16 mavrik
Amsmyth

17
18 Esmerelda Helms
boombie
Olympus E-10
Photoshop
hold til mid Oct.

19
20 Rob York
swashbuckler
Sony DSC-F717
Birds telephoto
ready to go (limited)
Everyday Renee

21
22 Kosta Trimovski
pitsaman
Olympus C-5050Z
ready to go
Koriyama


23
24 Paul
GeneralE
Olympus D-490Z
??
ready to go
MrCaN


25 FujiFilm FinePix A101

26
27 Ben
Konador
Blinks


28
29 dsidwell
Harold1066

30
31 Karen Bryan
KarenB
Olympus E-20
general
ready to go
joannadiva

32
33 Anna
OneSweetSin
Minolta DiMAGE 7i
ready to go
WildflowerJoy

34
35 David April
dsa157
Nikon Coolpix 4500
general
ready to go
ttreit

36 Nikon Coolpix 950

37 Karma Shuford
Karmat
Sony DSC-F707
general
ready to go
kim100878

38 Sony DSC-S30

39
40 Brian Yetko
byetko
Sony DSC-F707
general
ready to go
MrAkamai

41
42 Gordon
Canon EOS-D60
jimmyn4

43 Canon PowerShot G2

44 HP PhotoSmart C20

45 Konica KD-200Z

46
47 grigrigirl
Nikon D100
ready
heida


48
49 Nick Borton
nborton
Canon EOS-10D
ready
piscies75


50
51 mk
cross-mentor?
give it a week or two

52
53 Tom Lewis
tomlewis1980
Canon EOS-10D
ready
Calvus

54 Sony DSC-S70

55 Manic
Canon PowerShot S40

ready

56
57
58
59 Potential Mentors

60 John Lambiase
Turbotech
FujiFilm FinePix S602Z

61
62 Jean-Jacques Béguin
jjbeguin
Minolta DiMAGE F300
General
Has two students now

63 Canon PowerShot S20

64 Minolta DiMAGE F100

65
66 Jacques Doucette
Jacko
Canon EOS-10D
?? General
Later!

67 Canon PowerShot G2

68
69
70 Students

71
72 Kimberly Nigbor
kim100878
MagicImage 500
Software
soon Olympus D-600L

73 SHARI MALIN
shareinnc
Sony DSC-F717
photo
inanimate subjects

74 Carol Fox
C-Fox
Canon EOS-10D
general
wildlife, wants portrait

75 Irene Lenihan
GrandmaEMT
Olympus C-4000Z
photo/Paint Shop


76 Amsmyth

77 Renee
Everyday Renee
Sony DSC-F717
general

78 MrCaN
FujiFilm FinePix 3800
cropping/framing

79 Blinks
Panasonic DMC-LC20
technical, details

80 Anabela
Bela45
Canon Powershot A70
post processing
inspiration, motives, creativity

81 Koriyama
Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
visualise and 'see' good shots

82 sonnyh
Canon EOS-10D
indoor photography
strenth is outdoor photography

83 Nikon Coolpix 990

84 Steve Dunn
piscies75
Sony f707
photographing people
recently purchased PS ELements
//www.usefilm.com/photographer/20414.html,

85 Atashi Penatax k100

86 Esmerelda Helms
boombie
Olympus E-10
Lighting and poses and angles
hold til mid Oct.

87 WildflowerJoy
Olympus C-2100UZ
technical camera, photo edit
like outdoors and family type

88 Tammy Treit
ttreit
Nikon Coolpix 5700
Using light effectively
new to digital

89 post production
MSN Messenger

90 George
Harold1066
Canon PowerShot A40
odd picture that has that WOW factor

91 Greg Wong
MrAkamai
Sony DSC-F717
Composition Lighting

92 Jimmy Nicholson
jimmyn4
Canon EOS-10D
Lighting, focus, use of Photoshop

93 Noah Arliss
narliss
Nikon Coolpix 5000
technical sides of photography
//www.pbase.com/narliss

94 Joanna
joannadiva
Kodak DX3900
camera control, composition, light

95 Dan Hseuh
traser
Olympus D-550Z
new
willing to go places

96 heida
Canon EOS-10D
lightning,sharpness & color

97 maxpower
Sony DSC-F717
original, creative ideas, lighting, setup

98 Marj Shockley
Marjo
Sony DSC-F717
portrait shots...leaning toward candid.

99 KevinRiggs
would like to mentor, too

100 uabresch
would like to mentor, too

101 Robin L. Holden, Sr.
Calvus
Canon EOS-10D

102 Olympus C-3030Z

103 Mikael Andersson
Incarlight
Minolta DiMAGE 7i
Use of light, post processing

104 rickhd13

105
106 Deannda Neufer
Neuferland
Olympus D-380
//community.webshots.com/user/tdmeneuf1




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Message edited by author 2003-12-19 18:47:52.
 12/19/2003 09:08:14 PM · #99
I would like to be considered....I certaintly can use a mentor. Sometimes I feel like I have an " eye" for photos, but not the skills to create what I want or how I want the completed photo to look. I uploaded some photos to my portfolio, but I'm not sure how to link to them in this forum. I see from the responses to your question you have a long list of talented interested people, and whoever gets to mentor with you will be a lucky individual...indeed!
 12/19/2003 09:11:50 PM · #100
So how is it decided who is "good enough" to mentor and who needs help as a student? There are plenty of folks I'm sure who know less about photography than I do, but there is also an awful lot I need to learn- as I'm sure is the case with most folks. Can we have advanced shooters helping intermediate shooters who are helping beginners??
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