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Taken by us, light by...us/me. Processed by me
Strobist
Alienbee B1600 above into beauty dish with sock
Alienbee B1600 above into bare beauty dish
Alienbee B800 to left on wall
Alienbee B800 to right on wall
Alienbee Cybersyncs
Today I enjoyed an afternoon of pure camera geekery, along with these guys and two others. Thanks all, it was both fun and interesting. (We went through every single menu setting and button function!)
Info: Canon 7D, 35mm, f/5.6, 1/60, ISO 500e
What you can't see in this picture is the entire OPB camera film crew to my right, filming my every move. It was a bit nerve-wracking, to say the least. I'm just glad I didn't miss my exposure.
Hasselblad 500 c/m
That ^^^ means no flashy logos or daft graphics please!!
See it bigger!!
***RANT ALERT!!!***
The list:
3x 400D's
3x 40D's some gripped
2x 5D's one gripped
1x 5D Mk II
1x 300D gripped
2x T90's
1x F80 (and 24mm f/2.8)
1x Diana
1x Mamiya C330 (and standard lens)
1 x light meter, Sekonic I think
2x Cyber Sync receivers
1x Cyber Sync transmitter
1x Orbis
2x 580 EX's
9x 580 EX II's
3x Pocket Wizards
1x 12mm ext. tube
1x 25mm ext. tube
1x 1.4x TC
2x 24-70 f/2.8 L's
1x 24-105 L IS
3x 70-200 f/2.8 L IS's
1x 70-200 f/4 L IS
1x 300 f/4 L
1x 200 f/2.8 L
1x 50mm f/1.4
1x Sigma HSM 50mm f/1.4
1x Sigma 24 f/1.8
1x 17-55 f/2.8 IS
3x 55-250 IS
1x 100 macro
1x 50mm f/1.8
1x 17-40 L
(and a load of bits...)
And to think that lot was about two-thirds of what was meant to turn up. There were five other bodies, about eight more L lenses including a 500mm f/4 and towards another ten 580 EX II's due there. By my reckoning, at 'buy-me-new' current prices (in NZ) that's about $84,000 in attendance, with about another $32,000 that nearly showed up for their picture.
So at first glance, you see a shit load of posh camera stuff on the table right? Tools bought by photographers to aid their quest for better pictures. You all lust, we all lust after the latest toys, 5D2's or D700's, the Xpan or an 85mm 1.2, wanting more all the time. We all do it.
And it's with that mentality I get a lot of people coming to the photos I take and not actually seeing the picture, not realising what's going off and why, no bothering, not opening their fucking eyes, and assuming, and expecting whatever photo it may be is a pure product of the equipment used. Granted a lot of the time, you can't take a photo so well unless you've got 'X' piece of kit, but it really isn't, REALLY isn't what makes the photo.
The thought process, the photographer, and the quest for furthering your images is what makes photos. Expensive camera gear does not.
I'll repeat that for those hard of hearing, expensive camera gear does NOT make the photos.
You do.
I am fucking tired of forever being labeled and hassled about this. I get gear nerds whacking off over the latest and greatest all the time, through work, through my photos and through here. Genuinely if you can't see the point of this, and why masturbating over the latest gear isn't on, then you need your head looking at. I spoke to one guy this week with a 5D2 and about five L lenses, a $1200 tripod and a fuck load of fancy lights, all bought to improve his pictures, and yet he's not left his back garden with it yet, and got past shooting whatever mundane shit's there in auto mode. I mean, Jesus H Christ! :-(
So, if you collect pictures of lenses from the internet and stash them away like a replacement for porn, get out more.
If you ask what f/ stop or shutter speed was used every single time you see a photo, and have been shooting for longer than three months, either buy a nice tutorial book or get out more.
If you sit and have conversations with yourself and other (fat American) people on the internet arguing the finer points of noise control in cameras you'll never own or use, get out more.
If you feel the need to wear your Nikon, Canon, Zeiss or whatever logos with pride wherever you go, you either need to leave home because you're 43 and still live with mum, or need to find a girlfriend.
If you think Ken Rockwell makes sense, pick a new hobby.
If you think the forums on dpreview.com are a treasure trove of well-balanced and educated information, please leave the planet.
If you decided to order your new 5D and then cancel the order at the last minute to buy a ****ing Sony because some people took photos of fairy lights over Xmas and found some black dots, seriously, get your head read.
If you think lower and lower noise makes better cameras, step back from the plate for a second, and ask how many genius photographers on this website actually add it all back in? (Answer = lots)
If you think owning a Nikon or a Canon makes you better than your opposite camp owning enemy, get out more. Take anger management classes, see a shrink, then get out some more again.
If you think these rants are illogical and piss you off, take a look at them again and see how many apply to you. I am right.
Seriously,
If you think that cameras and all that expensive shit at the top make the photo, sort your act out.
(Here endeth the rant, and the photo that's taken three years to set up!)
Electricgecko and Ultraviolet being charming camera nerds at Strand Pauli in Hamburg, minutes before the rain began.
On the road to promote the Super 8 screening of The Basement ( filmphotographyproject.com/content/news/2015/07/super-8-h... )
In my bag:
Nizo S40 Super 8 Camera
GAF ST87 Super 8 Camera
Kodak Ektralite 10 (110) camera
Nikon 35Ti 35mm camera
Film:
WittnerChrome 200D Super 8
Kodak Vision 3 500T Super 8
Lomography Color Slide 110 film
FPP Retro Chrome 320 35mm film
Super 8 Blog - filmphotographyproject.com/content/features/2015/07/start...
Joseph Kolbek models with the Pentax Auto 110 Film Camera. The Auto 110 uses 110 Film and is one of the (if not "the") world's smallest SLR camera.
Check out the Pentax Auto 110 Flickr Group:
www.flickr.com/groups/pentax110/
Shot Canon AE-1
Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 S.S.C.
Kodak Ektar 100 Color Print Film
My Photography Blog
Please check out my Film Photography Internet Radio Show
www.filmphotographypodcast.com/
Film Photography Podcast Flickr Group
This is all we do at work. Also, I want an Instax Neo Classic, in case anyone out there wants to get me a present. <3
automat.bluemooncamera.com/index.php?route=product/produc...
Again, I was bored, too much time in hand many sleepless night.
I have decided to chage the colour of this camera. I liked classic car colour such as pastel green,blue, yellow, pink, orange, cream, light brown.....
It looks ok. But this paint cones off very easily.
-> Don`t buy cheap spray paint<-!!!! You should buy good automotive spray paint. Not one I got for 3.00 AUD!!!
I need to repeat long painful painting process again.
White camera was in fashion recently. I have decided to convert one of my Konica C35 AF camera into limited edition white! Leica M8 white is the only rival of this camera.
White camera was in fashion recently. I have decided to convert one of my Konica C35 AF camera into limited edition white! Leica M8 white is the only rival of this camera.
Tried to imitate M8 white promo, shot,,,,, not really
Leica M240, 35mm Summicron
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A production photograph from a TIME Magazine video shoot, "Pittsburgh: The Comeback."
Cameraman Will Atherton prepares a shot in front of PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
White camera was in fashion recently. I have decided to convert one of my Konica C35 AF camera into limited edition white! Leica M8 white is the only rival of this camera.
On my roadtrip to the Olympics, I had my film camera, my DLSR, the disposable Fujifilm, and a point-n-shoot in the trunk that I'd forgotten about.
I think I've got too many cameras. . . .
DSC_0505
Gringo Nick in the land of Boojum.
Photo by Michael Buckner, March 14, 2009,
Baja California del Norte, Mexico.