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09/02/2013 08:12:37 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by sempermarine:
Wow! A whole thread dedicated to making me a better photographer. Thanks Don! :) |
Explore a direction that you'd like to involve yourself with, but feel apprehensive about......you have a comfortable relationship with your camera and your skills, simply apply it to a venue you've not tried.
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09/02/2013 08:27:11 PM · #27 |
To more or less echo  Cory and  vawendy, get out there and shoot wildlife. NOT zoo critters, NOT raptor-park birds, both of which are very acclimatized to people. I tend to dismiss most urban wildlife too, as they are acclimatized to humans. Having said that, seagulls make fantastic flying white cards :-)
Basically I have never learned more about photography than I have shooting wildlife. You will never come across more uncooperative subjects (Oh OK, maybe drunken wedding guests are a close second ;-) than truly wild animals and birds, and if you want good pix of them, be ready and able to adjust your settings within a microsecond. They may not even be where they're meant to be. If you see them they may be backlit, and at a distance. They don't give a damn about the light, and they sure don't take direction! Just learn how to sneak up on them, slow and quiet, and be ready to sit and wait. And wait. And wait some more. I've known Magnumphotography to sit motionless in one spot for 7hrs just to shoot cormorants in flight. |
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09/02/2013 09:04:51 PM · #28 |
boy semper that's the last time you'll make a tongue in cheek comment on a hairy-canary admin thread, eh?
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09/02/2013 09:26:33 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
boy semper that's the last time you'll make a tongue in cheek comment on a hairy-canary admin thread, eh? |
Yep! Lesson learned, but this thread has been great! |
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09/02/2013 09:36:13 PM · #30 |
Actually, I think you should fire your current model and explore other options :-)
And forget that other jarhead... |
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09/02/2013 09:43:39 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by sempermarine:
Originally posted by skewsme:
boy semper that's the last time you'll make a tongue in cheek comment on a hairy-canary admin thread, eh? |
Yep! Lesson learned, but this thread has been great! |
Heheh, repeating everything you already know while feeding the ego at the same time? ;) |
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09/02/2013 10:12:23 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Actually, I think you should fire your current model and explore other options :-)
And forget that other jarhead... |
I do have 7 kids I could photograph. Every once in awhile they let me. |
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09/03/2013 12:25:49 AM · #33 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
To more or less echo Cory and vawendy, get out there and shoot wildlife. NOT zoo critters, NOT raptor-park birds, both of which are very acclimatized to people. I tend to dismiss most urban wildlife too, as they are acclimatized to humans. Having said that, seagulls make fantastic flying white cards :-)
Basically I have never learned more about photography than I have shooting wildlife. You will never come across more uncooperative subjects (Oh OK, maybe drunken wedding guests are a close second ;-) than truly wild animals and birds, and if you want good pix of them, be ready and able to adjust your settings within a microsecond. They may not even be where they're meant to be. If you see them they may be backlit, and at a distance. They don't give a damn about the light, and they sure don't take direction! Just learn how to sneak up on them, slow and quiet, and be ready to sit and wait. And wait. And wait some more. I've known Magnumphotography to sit motionless in one spot for 7hrs just to shoot cormorants in flight. |
I have a feeling that he might find the style that led to this image more to his taste:
20mph, steering with my knee, while wrangling a 300mm f/2.8 and trying to shoot a coyote that was running alongside a parallel ditchbank. Schlake was using a 600mm and was (I think?) sitting on the windowsill and shooting over the truck.
Totally safe, and completely effective. ;) |
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09/03/2013 03:26:49 PM · #34 |
I'm a Finalist for the Photoshop World Las Vegas contest for this shot ...
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09/03/2013 03:35:18 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by sempermarine:
I'm a Finalist for the Photoshop World Las Vegas contest for this shot ...
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whoa!! Impressive!! I'd love a tutorial on that one. I wouldn't even know how to begin... |
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09/03/2013 05:02:18 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by Cory:
20mph, steering with my knee, while wrangling a 300mm f/2.8 and trying to shoot a coyote that was running alongside a parallel ditchbank. Schlake was using a 600mm and was (I think?) sitting on the windowsill and shooting over the truck.
Totally safe, and completely effective. ;) |
This seems a bit incongruous with what this guy said recently:
Originally posted by Cory:
I say any distraction while driving should be outlawed.
No radio, phone, GPS, Maps, Texting, talking to friends, etc....
So, for those who wish to outlaw this: I support you - but don't stop with just this half-measure. Distractions are distractions, no matter what the source, and distractions kill. |
Perhaps you two should get together and discuss this. |
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09/03/2013 05:06:37 PM · #37 |
| STABILITY: Facing the same contradictions year after year. |
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09/03/2013 05:07:30 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by markwiley:
Originally posted by Cory:
20mph, steering with my knee, while wrangling a 300mm f/2.8 and trying to shoot a coyote that was running alongside a parallel ditchbank. Schlake was using a 600mm and was (I think?) sitting on the windowsill and shooting over the truck.
Totally safe, and completely effective. ;) |
This seems a bit incongruous with what this guy said recently:
Originally posted by Cory:
I say any distraction while driving should be outlawed.
No radio, phone, GPS, Maps, Texting, talking to friends, etc....
So, for those who wish to outlaw this: I support you - but don't stop with just this half-measure. Distractions are distractions, no matter what the source, and distractions kill. |
Perhaps you two should get together and discuss this. |
Back road, law basically wouldn't have applied there anyway - and it was just me and my passenger, not another car/person in sight.. Still totally dangerous. fricken exciting though. (and I had my head on a swivel - not just in the viewfinder..)
Don't forget what I said here:
Originally posted by Cory:
I've got a few...
Probably my best are a cool UrbEx video I made in Galveston, and a big Flash Flood.
ETA: Apparently my superpower is living through risky behavior. |
Message edited by author 2013-09-03 17:10:22. |
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09/03/2013 06:02:15 PM · #39 |
| Sempermarine, let's go and have a beer together sometime and talk about this, okay? Ask my brother Bear, my cuzzy posthumous, my son Cory, younger brother Ken-Art Roflmao and if we must, a few of the ladies, to join us! Tiberius must also attend as driver and bodyguard. No forget the ladies they will only distract us in trying to talk shop, that is photoshop. Any one specific you want to invite? |
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09/03/2013 07:13:15 PM · #40 |
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09/03/2013 07:34:03 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by docpjv:
Sempermarine, let's go and have a beer together sometime and talk about this, okay? Ask my brother Bear, my cuzzy posthumous, my son Cory, younger brother Ken-Art Roflmao and if we must, a few of the ladies, to join us! Tiberius must also attend as driver and bodyguard. No forget the ladies they will only distract us in trying to talk shop, that is photoshop. Any one specific you want to invite? |
What am I chopped liver???
=P |
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09/03/2013 07:44:15 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by JulietNN:
Originally posted by docpjv:
Sempermarine, let's go and have a beer together sometime and talk about this, okay? Ask my brother Bear, my cuzzy posthumous, my son Cory, younger brother Ken-Art Roflmao and if we must, a few of the ladies, to join us! Tiberius must also attend as driver and bodyguard. No forget the ladies they will only distract us in trying to talk shop, that is photoshop. Any one specific you want to invite? |
What am I chopped liver???
=P |
You're one of the guys, and scarier than most of them to boot :-) |
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09/03/2013 07:46:52 PM · #43 |
| Okay, good bail out! Knew I loved you for a reason! xoxo |
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09/03/2013 08:17:11 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
photography is perhaps the most zen of all the arts. a sand mandala is supposedly zen because they work so long and diligently on it and then throw it away in an instant...
but photography is created in an instant. a good photograph is a haiku, finding the moment that twists between moments.
sempermarine leans toward the studio school, the shot that is manufactured before it is taken. There is nothing wrong with this approach. My favorite photographer is Man Ray.
Just keep in mind that studio photography is closer to the other arts. you have complete control over your finished product, but control is a kind of death, so you must seek ways to give up that control. the Surrealists experimented with many different methods of accessing the unconscious... collage, randomness, even holding their breath.
Introduce an element that is beyond your control. By capturing a time-period of light, your camera is essentially a window into another world. don't just paint over the window. look through it and see what you find.
please contribute your ideas and schemes to make sempermarine a better photographer. |
I'm inspired by this outlook on photography.....its where I feel I'm heading! out of control! |
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09/03/2013 09:27:50 PM · #45 |
Originally posted by sempermarine:
I'm a Finalist for the Photoshop World Las Vegas contest for this shot ...
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congratulations! nutty image! |
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09/04/2013 01:00:21 AM · #46 |
Originally posted by JulietNN:
Originally posted by docpjv:
Sempermarine, let's go and have a beer together sometime and talk about this, okay? Ask my brother Bear, my cuzzy posthumous, my son Cory, younger brother Ken-Art Roflmao and if we must, a few of the ladies, to join us! Tiberius must also attend as driver and bodyguard. No forget the ladies they will only distract us in trying to talk shop, that is photoshop. Any one specific you want to invite? |
What am I chopped liver???
=P |
Oh c'mon, you know you have bigger b____s than most of us, you MUST be one of us. Love you. |
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09/04/2013 09:48:58 PM · #47 |
*ahem* If I might get this thread back on track...limit yourself to one lens, and shoot everything with it.
And I do mean EVERYTHING. I've used my 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 for (in no particular order) wide-angle shots, portraits, weddings, all manner of horse shows, food, macros, landscapes, studio work, wildlife, astro, lightning, sunsets, street photography..damn it's a great all round lens!
So. Go forth, with only one lens, and shoot for the next 200 or so challenges with it. You'll learn how to make the most out of it. |
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09/04/2013 10:03:35 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
*ahem* If I might get this thread back on track...limit yourself to one lens, and shoot everything with it.
And I do mean EVERYTHING. I've used my 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 for (in no particular order) wide-angle shots, portraits, weddings, all manner of horse shows, food, macros, landscapes, studio work, wildlife, astro, lightning, sunsets, street photography..damn it's a great all round lens! |
Gee, I always thought when that exercise was proposed it was to use a some prime lens exclusively -- I hardly think a range of 18-200mm qualifies it (functionally) as "one lens" -- the whole point of zoom lenses is to give one piece of hardware the functionality of several ... of course I got a camera with similar functionality (about twice the length of yours -- 36-432mm) just for that versatility, plus it has two macro modes which allow it to shoot very close-up. |
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09/04/2013 10:49:29 PM · #49 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by snaffles:
*ahem* If I might get this thread back on track...limit yourself to one lens, and shoot everything with it.
And I do mean EVERYTHING. I've used my 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 for (in no particular order) wide-angle shots, portraits, weddings, all manner of horse shows, food, macros, landscapes, studio work, wildlife, astro, lightning, sunsets, street photography..damn it's a great all round lens! |
Gee, I always thought when that exercise was proposed it was to use a some prime lens exclusively -- I hardly think a range of 18-200mm qualifies it (functionally) as "one lens" -- the whole point of zoom lenses is to give one piece of hardware the functionality of several ... of course I got a camera with similar functionality (about twice the length of yours -- 36-432mm) just for that versatility, plus it has two macro modes which allow it to shoot very close-up. |
+1!
Snaffles, that's a CRAZY thing you just said! (Beats head on wall...} |
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09/04/2013 11:22:26 PM · #50 |
| and not only a single prime lens, but one with manual focus - or USE manual focus. |
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