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8/27 http://www.flickr.com/photos/acornsarebitter On a scale of 1-10 (10=best), how good is this flickr stream? How interesting is it. Be honest please. Please post your comments directly on flickr if possible. \_ while we're at it, can someone critique this one please? http://www.flickr.com/photos/polvero/sets/72157611811908959 This is not mine. I'm just baffled as to why he has so many followers, for taking pictures that look the same... 200mm f/2 with bokeh, at night. After a while it gets really boring and I just want to know WHY he has so many followers. What do *you* like about his set and why would you follow him 365? \_ 365 people all follow each other. And contacts on flickr are mostly about how much you schmooze; some people will always set you as a contact if you set them as a contact. -tom \_ sorry it doesn't do it for me. Awesome camera, lousy photographer. People with 300D and kit lens take more interesting pictures. \_ he just bought a Panasonic GF-1, which means... he'll be taking more crappy pictures. \_ He's one of my contacts; met him at the OCVB awards. I think he does some interesting stuff, particularly in low light. Most of it is only OK. (And the vast majority of his stream is shot with a 450D; you might want to look at more than the first three pictures, which are just him trying out his new camera). If he's a soda person, that's news to me. -tom \_ what is your flickr id? I'd like to follow \_ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tholub -tom \_ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tholub/3413190904/in/set-72157614269910859 This is amazing. \_ Thanks. Funny, it started out as a mistake (blown out highlights), but I cranked up the brightness and contrast to emphasize the texture and pattern. -tom \_ what did he win the award for, photographs? Shit, maybe I should start uploading my pictures as well. \_ The Oakland Convention and Visitors Bureau has a yearly photo contest for pictures of Oakland. He got a merit award for a shot of the Grand Lake Theater: http://www.flickr.com/photos/acornsarebitter/119705907 (which is a pretty good shot, I think). -tom \_ if his other 99% of the shots are like this one, he would be more interesting to follow. \_ Why do you care? -tom \_ I was getting frustrated that bozos with subpar looking pictures are getting lots of comments. FOR WHAT? Just look at his sets. They're mostly just patterns, circles, bits and pieces of buildings. There is hardly any living things, any movement, and little emotion. Nothing. But as you said before commenting is more of a social thing than anything else. Even your photos have more dynamics than his. \_ The amount of comments you get is mostly related to how many groups you participate in, how many friends you have on flickr, and how much schmoozing you do. Oh, and whether you're a female who takes self-portraits. -tom \_ Case in point, Rebecca: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/3866531623 Oh she's quite something ain't she? ***droooool*** \_ Rebekka is actually a good photographer. There are plenty of crap photographers who get lots of attention because of self-portraiture. -tom \_ She's cuter IMHO: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24567277@N00 \_ http://www.modelmayhem.com/pics.php?id=431145 |
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| www.flickr.com/photos/acornsarebitter Slideshow Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. If you're sharing photos from a set, you can create a Guest Pass that includes any of your photos marked as friends, family, or private. If you're sharing your entire photostream, you can create a Guest Pass that includes photos marked as friends or family (but not your private photos). why not sony by 1600 Squirrels why not sony Sony announced the first sub-$2k full-frame DSLR today, the A850. The photo above illustrates why I'm not immediately exchanging my 5DII, though. And it's not because of the quality of the photo, but rather the lack of it. I focused near the bottom of the frame where I've put a note. If you look at the full-size version, you can see the background is not in focus. That's the first thing I've discovered about moving to full-frame: it is no longer trivially easy to achieve sufficient depth of field. With APS-C, if I wanted to guarantee everything was in focus in shots taken with a wide-angle lens, I just stopped down to f/9-13. Everything would be more or less in focus, and I would be straddling the diffraction limit, so the lens was at or near peak sharpness. With full-frame, even f/16 isn't near enough to keep everything in this 55mm frame in focus. Yet, because the 5DII's pixel size is similar to APS-C pixel size (it's the same as the 20D's) its diffraction limit is also about the same. My 6-megapixel 300D's limit was around f/13, my 12-megapixel 450D got fuzzy past f/9, and I figure the 5DII could get away with f/11. But as you can see in the photo above, f/11 is sometimes not enough. A type of lens that Canon, and now Nikon, makes, but not Sony, called a tilt-shift. Yes, there is something a typical camera from 1859 could do that the overwhelming majority of 2009 cameras cannot: tilt the plane of focus to something other than parallel to the sensor/film. This was absolutely critical on large-format cameras of the 19th and 20th Centuries; as much as depth of field shrinks noticeably going from 22mm to 36mm sensors, you can imagine what happens with a 250mm sensor (ie, 8x10 sheet film). With 35mm cameras, tilt/shift has traditionally been deemed necessary for only the most technically demanding tasks like commercial product and architectural photography (and even then, often only for shift, not tilt). But as we continue to push full-frame cameras into producing larger and larger prints once only possible with 8x10 or larger film, the technical demands on 35mm lenses begin to surpass those of larger format lenses not subject to as much magnification. If I can't buy it by September, I'll rent it for my upcoming New England trip. Is it really necessary to make top-quality landscape photos? All I know is I've seen one too many poster-sized landscape prints that were obviously taken by a 35mm camera not to attempt to do better. But for those of you who've only been following my stream for the last year, consider checking out my other 4300+ photos. Upon upgrading, I discovered full-sized, high-quality, ISO 100, 5DII JPEGs won't fit within even the Pro account upload limits. Is Flickr aware that 20+-megapixel DSLRs have been around for over two years now? Note: This was just a test to see if the camera/lens/memory card works; I didn't go out of my way to make sure the camera was perpendicular to the wall, which at least partly explains why the left side is out of focus. It looks like the lens has some field curvature, with the corners of the focal surface being closer than they would be if it were a focal plane. BTW, I find Live View focus to be more difficult with this new LCD, rather than easier as reviews led me to believe. At 10x the real-life magnification is less (possibly because the LCD pixels are so much smaller) making it hard to find the exact sharpest point--at least with a fairly slow lens like this one. |
| www.flickr.com/photos/polvero/sets/72157611811908959 Slideshow Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. If you're sharing photos from a set, you can create a Guest Pass that includes any of your photos marked as friends, family, or private. If you're sharing your entire photostream, you can create a Guest Pass that includes photos marked as friends or family (but not your private photos). |
| www.flickr.com/photos/tholub Slideshow Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. If you're sharing photos from a set, you can create a Guest Pass that includes any of your photos marked as friends, family, or private. If you're sharing your entire photostream, you can create a Guest Pass that includes photos marked as friends or family (but not your private photos). |
| www.flickr.com/photos/tholub/3413190904/in/set-72157614269910859 Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. If you're sharing photos from a set, you can create a Guest Pass that includes any of your photos marked as friends, family, or private. If you're sharing your entire photostream, you can create a Guest Pass that includes photos marked as friends or family (but not your private photos). |
| www.flickr.com/photos/acornsarebitter/119705907 Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. If you're sharing photos from a set, you can create a Guest Pass that includes any of your photos marked as friends, family, or private. If you're sharing your entire photostream, you can create a Guest Pass that includes photos marked as friends or family (but not your private photos). |
| www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/3866531623 I'm finally moving into my own place w my kids in a few days, after "temporarily" having moved back home into my parents basement 8 years ago (eek), and will be busy packing in the next days, and busy knitting sweaters in order to make ends meet, BUT.. my head is crammed with wonderful ideas that i'll slowly be coaxing into existence in the next months, so bear with me. Pro User says: great contemplative bnw sp bet your boys are excited about the move - hope all goes well Posted 13 hours ago. The lighting is Rembrant like, isolating you in darkness but also illuminating your face. The light feathers and caress your face as if it wants to take away the sadness. Pro User says: Rebekka, out of all of my contacts, there are a select few, that I really enjoy the wonder of their images. I always comment to people that what I look for is stories, a feeling one is trying to portray. You images always bring me pause, to sit and look at first your wonderful work, but the emotion and excitement into creating such fine works... Pro User says: fantastic))good luck with the moving and we'll be waiting for new works from you Posted 11 hours ago. For now i'm relatively content with at least being respected and admired by a lot of people (apparently) , and able to make some money from creating stuff. Or being unemployed completely, as a lot of people are having to deal with here in iceland , who unexpectedly lost their jobs after last years economic crash. Pro User says: I'm in a similar rut regarding photography... I've been telling myself that I need to stir my creative side, because my career needs it and I need it. With that attitude you will live a happier and more rewarding life. Pro User says: this portrait has a lovely and vaguely wet collodion look to it - love that! I just moved myself this year and wow - I'm still on a cloud! I find it amazing how people share their personal world's with a bunch of strangers..... have we not learned how wild and untamed the real world is, how dangerous it can be? As someone who deleted my almost 1900 images and blew off countless contacts to find something real, to me the question begs to be asked? DayLove says: I have just move back out of my moms home 3 months ago LOL I kind of know what you mean by *eek* :) btw: lovely pic Posted 2 hours ago. ADA_S3 says: Good luck, I guess it will be a refreshing change Awaiting for the "awesomeness" Posted 79 minutes ago. Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. If you're sharing photos from a set, you can create a Guest Pass that includes any of your photos marked as friends, family, or private. If you're sharing your entire photostream, you can create a Guest Pass that includes photos marked as friends or family (but not your private photos). |
| www.flickr.com/photos/24567277@N00 Slideshow Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. If you're sharing photos from a set, you can create a Guest Pass that includes any of your photos marked as friends, family, or private. If you're sharing your entire photostream, you can create a Guest Pass that includes photos marked as friends or family (but not your private photos). |
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