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03/21/2007 10:18:24 AM · #76 |
| Still a fun interview! And you, me and Kelli all have them little 110 cameras in common - I neglected to mention that in my interview. |
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03/21/2007 10:21:22 AM · #77 |
Don't sweat the typos, Rob. I've forced myself not to burden Mary by asking her to fix some of mine. :)
Great responses, and I'm going to spend some time reading all of the comments on "Placebo."
Oh, and Mary, thanks for picking the "portrait" of me that you did. It conveys perfectly my willingness to laugh at myself, which helps keep me sane. :)
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03/21/2007 03:05:13 PM · #78 |
| Really nice to get to know the two of you gents. Thanks for sharing those neat bits of info! |
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03/21/2007 06:16:14 PM · #79 |
| For the early evening viewers... |
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03/25/2007 07:23:17 AM · #80 |
For Sunday brunch, we travel to central Pennsylvania and a visit with  NikonJeb.
Wake up, Jeb! 
Q. What got you into photography?
My mother, the coolest and most spiritual person I ever met was a pretty decent photographer. She infused me with the desire to take pictures.
Q. What could get you out of photography?
I don't know as anything could take away my passion for wanting to express my sense of awe at this wondrous and amazing world through photographs.
Q. How has the suck league influenced your photography? Show us the best representative photograph of your suckiness.
I came to Team Suck when my confidence was lowest and my frustration was highest at trying to shoot for DP Challenge. Team Suck taught me to shoot what I want, the way I want it, and to enjoy doing the best for me first.I relearned how to have fun with my photography here....and took my personal best the first week I was here. My suckiest example?
I was being lazy and uninspired and put forth ZERO effort.....can you tell???
Q. Which of your pictures best represents your loss of innocence?
This was my first challenge entry. I knew nothing, wasn't very familiar with DPC or my camera, and the semi-rude comments and lackluster scores almost made me quit.
Q. What is the most ridiculous extent you have gone to for a challenge?
Okay, I'm not a handsome guy on my best day.....I was trying to take a self-portrait for a 24 Hour Speed Challenge. The pictures were *SO* bad, I figured, oh WTF, let's see HOW bad I can make myself look....Ta Dah!
Q. What is your sign and how are the stars conspiring against you?
I'm a Leo, and I need constant validation and stroking that I'm not a total loser as a photographer......which I get here. I still lay an egg often enough to know that the stars are conspiring against me......8>)
Q. How has depth of field changed your life? Give a photographic example.
I have actually learned to use it as a tool to accomplish what I want....this is one of my all-time favs for DOF that's wrong in so many people's eyes, but I *LOVE* it!
Q. What activities besides photography help you vent your creative urges?
I restore cars, as a hobby now, and I fix things.....LOTS of things. And I spend way too much time on forums.
Q. Which of your pictures is your favorite and why does it give you a warm feeling when you sit down?
That's easy! This 'un! It was my first attempt at RAW, my first time processing RAW, and my first time processing without driving Sean nuts with stupid questions about PS.....It was all mine! And then to watch the voting!!
Q. Tell us the story behind one of your photos.
I watched this boat rotting on top of a small mountain outside Harrisburg and I just have no idea why it's there. I watched it sit for years, and it was the first thing I went and shot with my branny new Nikon!
Q. Which photo represents the challenge that was your favorite to do?
This was just toooooooo fun! LOL!!!
Q. What picture on DPC most accurately depicts what your brain is like?
I love this shot! Cluttered yet interesting!
Q. If you could send one photograph from the DPC website to President Bush, what would it be?
I'm 51 years old, and I saw friends of mine go to Vietnam, and I heard and felt the results of kids my age burying their friends in places where they weren't coming home from. This was the third place finisher in that first challenge and it hit me like a knife through the heart. I wrote Sean a long message about how much this shot touched my heart as my father and grandfather were in the Great Wars as well......I was astounded that a 26 year old man could capture something that would evoke such feelins from something he had not experienced. It remains to this day one of the most powerful images at DPC for me. I'd want George to see this and feel the futility of a man burying his best friend for some stupid war.
Q. What piece of photography equipment are you currently using as a paperweight?
The original Boyd family Fujifilm FinePix A201 2.0 MP P&S. And it's exactly that.....I have a soft spot in my heart for the silly old thing and I couldn't bear to part with it, so it makes a fine desk ornament as a curiosity item.
Q. If you could do a photo session with anyone from history, who would it be? Describe the shots you would take.
Leonardo da Vinci! I was hoping if I got interviewed, I'd get asked this question. What an awesome guy! I would love to just sort of follow him around and capture him just being himself.
Q. Which of your photographs do you believe was the most underappreciated and why?
I got my first taste of how voters don't take kindly to an entry that doesn't conform to their ideals. Jeff even gave me his first DNMC on this. I hate conventional post cards, I think they're tacky as all getout, and I love elegant pictures that are made into post cards. This shot is actually one of my all time favorite shots, and I did make a copy and make a post card out of it and sent it to Sean. I know better now than to commit that kind of faux pas........NOT!!!!!! LOL!!!
Q. Post-editing philosophy, minimal or no-rules or somewhere in between?
NO-RULES, anything goes, it's just a continuation of what I started when I raised my arm with a camera at the end of it. I am equally adept, yet an ingenue with my D70s and my CS2, yet miracles occur every time I fire 'em up!
Q. cameras or cars: which is better? discuss.
I can't pick. They have both been an integral part of my life forever. I remember my Mom's Rolleiflex, and my cousin Ricky Godley's TR-3 as a kid and they both fashioned my passions life.
In 1984, my wife and I took three weeks and drove 8800 miles around the country in our '68 Firebird 400 convertible, and I shot 24 rolls of film.....one shot of which was a sun-scorched antique car in the blazing Death Valley sun.
Q. If you could meet 1 DPC member, who would it be and why?
Sean Mahoney! (cutlassdude70) He's my mentor, hero, a damn fine photographer, a truly nice guy, and a deep, caring, insightful fellow who showed me style, technique, and the mechanics of photography and has been truly patient and supportive of me. The sucker's also half my age, dammit!
Q. If the suck league were to visit you, show us a representative photo of where you would want us to "shoot".
It's cheating a little, but this is my town, the city that's the real deal for me, even though it's just Harrisburg, a capitol city. Everything of mine here at DPC has been shot in or around this town. It's my home and my muse.......and thanks to photography, I see it as more beautiful than ever.
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03/25/2007 08:08:47 AM · #81 |
| I really enjoy these interviews..... Please keep them coming..... Thanks so much for sharing them with us..... |
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03/25/2007 08:24:43 AM · #82 |
| Great interview Jeb! Keep it up Mary! |
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03/25/2007 09:53:13 AM · #83 |
| Great interview Jeb you fellow old-timer. |
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03/25/2007 09:58:24 AM · #84 |
That didn't come out half bad, did it?
I am a better photographer and I have sooooooo much fun as a Team Suck denizen!
Thanks, Mary.....and the rest of y'all!
ETA: Mary, some how, some way, I'll get you back for the couch photo at the top of the interview!.....8>)
Message edited by author 2007-03-25 10:02:32.
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03/25/2007 10:01:40 AM · #85 |
| I guess I'm a fellow fellow old-timer, but I'm far more infantile. Anyway, great work from interviewers and interviewees. Bravo! |
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03/25/2007 10:50:46 AM · #86 |
These are wonderful. I love the humor, the insight, and the fun of them. Thanks to all.
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03/25/2007 11:46:40 AM · #87 |
| Of all the proposed photos for Bush so far, I would send Jeb's (Sean's). And I would send Jeb along with it to give him an earful. |
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03/25/2007 12:08:17 PM · #88 |
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03/25/2007 01:28:42 PM · #89 |
Great job as always. It's so much fun hearing everyone's answers.
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03/25/2007 10:22:57 PM · #90 |
wonderful job again. as usual. great answers jeb, and super work, mary! thanks so much for letting us all get to know people!
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03/26/2007 10:55:02 AM · #91 |
| This is a fun way to get to know our fellow suckers and I truly enjoy all the interviews! Great work Mary and great answers, Jeb! |
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03/28/2007 11:48:53 AM · #92 |
A chat with our mysterious woman of that tranquil place in our minds, New Jersey(?)
 skewsme
 
Q. What turned you onto photography?
There was a rain. A deep, enriching rain. The woods glowed yellow-green. And every tree and every leaf was slickered in a sheen. Their vibrancy was something that my words cannot explain.
Q. What could turn you off photography?
A time or place of rigid mind and absent grace.
Q. Have any advice on how to take great photos?
Let your camera find something, despite the limitations of its sphere, inanimate, syntheticâ€Â¦ it is freer to represent the nuances it's shown, beyond your drape of expectations blown.
Q. Let's gear geek for a moment. What was your first camera?
In my childhood home, the walls were mirrors and the mirrors were walls and the flashes would ricochet, ricochet, trapped inside until spat out and hung like a stuck tongue that we would wave, wave, wave until dry.
What do you shoot now?
I brave Dead Man’s Curve. I sport Brylcreem. I molest the moody tool that names James Dean.
Q. How did you find out about dpchallenge?
There was an Earth-shattering  kdKaboom.
Q. What is the most ridiculous extent you have gone to for a challenge?
Q. What's the coolest thing you've ever seen on dpchallenge?
  
Q. Which photo represents the challenge that was your favorite to do?
Q. Which challenge photo of your own do you believe was the most underrated?
Q. Tell us the story behind one of your photos.
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Oh wait. I didn’t take that picture yet.
Q. What photograph would you like to deliver to President Bush?
  
Q. Has your photography changed since being involved in dpchallenge?
Yes. Now I’m doomed to second-guess, to wonder whether camera tricks are no use but to snag a six.
Q. What is your sign and how are the stars conspiring against you?
I lay in wait, a beaked bug, I am a squash blossom thug. I bridge the pickets of the fence, rotty, spotty, mildew-dense. I live in yellow maple trails, swirling like the swallowtails.
Q. How has photoshop changed your life?
It allows for more efficient transposition of the cows. 
Q. What activities besides photography help you vent your creative urges?
Fusion of flavors and frisson of words.
Q. What piece of photography equipment are you currently using as a paperweight?
My joie de vivre, my devil-may-care, and an anvil.
Q. If you could do a photo session with anyone from history, who would it be? Describe the shots you would take.
Emily Dickinson and Dorothy Parker collaborating on a poem. My grandmother catching moths with her butterfly net by the bright lights of a popular nightclub. The Buddha on a stick.
Q. Do you take your camera with you everywhere?
No, but I take Savoir Faire. I wish he’d answer these questions for me.
Q. Tell us something about posthumous nobody knows.
He’s a part-time florist, wears his hair in dreadlocks. He’s a racecar driver, fixes antique clocks. There’s a gold ring through his nose. These are the things not anybody knows.
Q. Pastures, cows, horses - if team suck comes to New Jersey will we see the real thing - you know, the toxic waste sites, strip malls, Jimmy Hoffa?
If NJ is the armpit of America, I live on a stretch of soft shoulder. There’s a creek, a mill, and farms. My house is older than your father’s father’s father. We’ve vasty fields, goats and pigs and little bother to keep things open twenty-four and seven. The landscape rolls and rock formations shelter bears and foxes. Those who dare to slur my state do not stray from their boxes.
   
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03/28/2007 11:54:32 AM · #93 |
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03/28/2007 12:09:17 PM · #94 |
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03/28/2007 12:48:28 PM · #95 |
| And all this time I thought Don was the poet. |
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03/28/2007 01:51:24 PM · #96 |
| Wow, I don't know what you said but it sounded cool. I have a funny story about poetry. Remind me and I will tell you about it later. |
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03/28/2007 08:49:05 PM · #97 |
Message edited by author 2007-03-28 20:49:29.
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03/28/2007 09:48:17 PM · #98 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
And all this time I thought Don was the poet. |
Many have made the same mistake... |
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03/28/2007 09:58:15 PM · #99 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by Melethia:
And all this time I thought Don was the poet. |
Many have made the same mistake... |
Now you tell me...:) |
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03/28/2007 10:08:27 PM · #100 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by Melethia:
And all this time I thought Don was the poet. |
Many have made the same mistake... |
Should we be worried that posthumous never brings us flowers? He doesn't love us enough to show that he cares? |
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