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This reminded me a little of Dantes pictures of Hell. (No not the Simpson's TV show as I'm quite a fan) but the piled up figures in this vending machine.
Oh and watch out. there are more shots to come...so many vending machines at Butlins mwahahaha. Bokeh wednesday be on guard!!
How well do you really know your child's best friend ??
shot in a homemade light box. made out of elmer's foam core boards. the two sides and top are white,while the back and bottom are black. there is a round hole in the top for my flash. the flash placed at different angles and power settings gives some pretty nice results. plus you can bounce the flash off the sides of the box.
Nope! I'm not showing you the box. I'm not even going to show you a photo (of mine) of the lens. I didn't take one. I had a feeling I'd regret it if I did take one. I was right.
*steps up onto soapbox podium*
I bought the "El Cheapo" 50mm 1.8 II NON-USM ONLY because my $5 scratch ticket netted me $50, and ONLY because I was interested in trying something that had a wider aperture than 3.5. Two days later, I hauled back to the store, dropped down on my knees and begged the salesman to "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take this piece of crap back!!!!!!! I'll pay YOU $20 to take it away!!!!" He gave me the cash w/o even a question and no signature needed. And I would have taken it back the same day if I hadn't been out of town!
I haven’t felt this bad about a product since…since…well…
THIS!!!, where even the guy in the music store said “my bad, I should have warned you first.” [That was back in the days where they had these things called "records stores" where you'd go and buy music and most of it was good, kids.]
Again, I'm talking about the "el cheapo" 50mm, not the USM version. I tried taking portraits with it on the canal walk in Richmond on Saturday and nearly fell in the doggone water because I had to be 40 feet away from my subject just to get her EYE in the frame!!!! I pretty much knew it was going to be that way but goodness...
The focusing was slooooooooow (and loud) AND the results were blurry. The build quality felt like a used dollar store flip flop. The BEST thing about the thing was its weight. That's because I'm sure there isn't any REAL GLASS in there! My XTi was like “Why are you doing this to me? I’m so humiliated!”
But forget the build quality. Even if you have the fastest focus and clearest glass, it still doesn’t solve the problem of that its 50 freaking millimeters (But you and I know good and well that it's a LIE. It's 80mm once you attach it to a non-full frame body. And 80mm is worthless), or the problem below.
If you need to lose weight, the "el cheapo" EF 50mm f/1.8 II is the lens for you! This applies even if you use the USM version or the L-series version. Don't even THINK about kneeling for a shot unless you plan on staying there for a while. Any change (and I mean ANY change) in angle or perspective at all and you have to get your butt up and MOVE significantly. If you're the studio person taking the same shot over and over again, you're okay. Maybe this should be called the “achy breaky lens” because that’s how you’re going to feel if you use this thing and move. Knees, back, neck, arms…you’re going to feel it. Maybe this is a great lens for kids or whippersnappers with energy.
Walk around, shmalkaround. So WHAT if it’s light? Just make sure you’re not near anything you want to shoot, yet, not too far either. Just because you can’t get a tennis ball in the frame from 20 feet, doesn’t mean that you can try to use it for far away subjects either. Fischer Price uses higher grade plastic.
I’ve heard all of the arguments for prime lenses and I’ve tried one myself. SAVE IT! I know it wasn’t a quality lens, but that’s not the point. If I can’t even compose anything with it, there’s no use of it for me. If you ever see or hear of me using one again, please applaud me because it means I have become wealthy enough to afford a nice studio and have the wealth to blow money on L-series lenses that don’t zoom. I’m not telling you not to get it. But I hope no one ever tries to tell ME that I just have to have it ever again. I'll just spend the money on a REAL lens that has a wider aperture one of these days.
Don't Do It
I'm currently in Las Vegas right now attending the International CES Electronic Trade Show. I got tired of taking typical shots of the booths, so I went to the Canon booth and tried the Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L Prime lens. I started taking candid shots of people around the place, but boy, this is one sharp lens! I'm dying to get it now!
"Our time is fix'd; and all our days are number'd!
How long, how short, we know not: this we know,
Duty requires we calmy wait the summons,
Nor dare to stir till heaven shall give permission."
- Blair : Grave
In celebration of Nationial Bump A Random Photo Day
i'm hoping i spelled that right. bizarre. maybe it's supposed to be bizzare?
anyways. these red light thingys were supposed to let people see our driveway better at night, but they don't work. so i borrowed them for this on a random whim. (actually no, it was because i had nothing better to take a picture of.) sorry for crappy photos. i don't take them like that on purpose: crappiness just seems to happen!
thank you to every single one of you amazing flickr friends who always comment on these. it's funny how something so little can mean so much when you've been having a really bad day. i love you all!
330 days left......not bad, hahaha :P
You know that scene where Amelie gets back at the mean grocer-boss, Collignon, by messing with everything in his apartment... Yep, that one. The idea sprang upon me while doing a diaper change this morning when I picked up the down tube t that so resembles a tube of toothpaste. And who needs foot cream when you've got butt paste?! Shot with a Sony NEX-5T Mini+ app.
Sorry, these account is on strike. I'm not gonna post more pictures.
If Micro$oft buys Yahoo! I will delete my Flickr account.
She warily eyed the finger...knowing that he'd indulged in the pasta e fagioli the night before and uncertain what he meant by "...pull my finger..."
...blessedly didn't kill the cat this time.
After draining and cleaning the jacuzzi I obviously started refilling it. I got a very curious visitor!
Oil and water. Peanut butter and fried eggs. Single malt and anything else. Some things just shouldn't be mixed. I hope Lucy learns this without getting wet. ;)
the mission
san francisco, california
leica m6 ttl
leica 35mm f/2.0 summicron-m
fujifilm neopan 400 (pushed to 1600)
kodak xtol (1:1) 14 minutes at 20C
Montreal, Quebec
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The lingerie shop on Floral Street was offering 50% off Christmas thongs. Ever wondered what a Christmas thong might look like? Well, now you know!
... however, if it's one thing I learned over the weekend, it's that these things are complete wastes. If you're looking for images that have zero sharpness and are choc full of blur, use a tele-extender. I rented this thing. I wish I hadn't. If you're going to rent something for a longer reach, just rent a big @$$ lens instead. Hardly anything I took with this came out worth a fart.
Maybe in 2 or 3 years, I'll have saved up enough spare change to get a 50-500 or something.
BTW, this is not my photo. I wouldn't take a pic of this.
It's after midnight. I just got home from work. In less than 6 hours, I need to get up and do it all over again. And as I was leaving the office, bleary-eyed and foggy headed, I thought, "At least it's not too late." Everything is relative. Someday, I will look back on this and truly appreciate how screwed up it is to think 17 hour work days are normal.
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I need to try to sleep some tonight so that I am not a babbling moron in a pants suit tomorrow. I'm sad that I haven't had much time to visit your streams or play in any of the fun sandboxes (aka, groups) this week. Or to post anything I'm particularly exicited about. Eh. I'm hoping to get out with the camera in the fresh air a bit this weekend... Till then, you get this.
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Regarding the title: that's what my dad always said to me after I've had an outburst about something. What can I say, I get fired up easily, cool off slowly, speak my mind, and have a terrible poker face (except when playing poker.) I took one look at this SP with its completely unrestrained facial expression & heard my dad's voice...
This is posted at the pool in my apartment complex. It's funny how people here are so into rules, while in the Mainland things are so devil-may-care.
Shared some chocolates last night and managed to save the strawberry cream (not my favourite) and the white chocolate one as well, which is one of my faves. Also for the Scavenger Hunt - "Don't do it!" I know I ought not to eat chocolate but I can't resist Thornton's
The Common Man by Clet Abrahams on the Ponte alle Grazie
Clet Abraham’s street art is frequently shown by the alteration of common street signs throughout Florence. But his anarchic acts don’t stop with a few signs. In a town mired in a 500-year-old artistic patrimony, Clet continues to bemuse residents and visitors alike. Now the Common Man is back on Ponte alle Grazie.
Common Man (Uomo Comune) bears a striking resemblance to the black cut-out figure on Clet’s altered street signs. The bridge-jumping statue, which from a distance looks like it is made of heavy iron, is enjoyed by all (except perhaps the die-hard cultural naysayers) with photographs going viral on the internet. In 2011, Common Man was removed after seven days later city officials, taking weeks and a Facebook campaign to get the statue back into Clet’s possession.
Alexandra Korey of arttrav.com asks “Is lack of permission an essential part of Clet’s art? Position and surprise are elements that contribute to the meaning of the works. Common Man walks perpendicular to traffic on the bridge, proud and determined as he takes the first step in his battle against bureaucracy and the daily grind. His removal, Clet admits, is part of the plan but ‘one can always hope that they might see the light and leave it up, at least for a little while longer.’”
Alexandra continues by quoting Clet: “The Common Man statue is intended as a stimulus to take an important and risky step. It represents one of those moments on one’s life in which one needs to make a decision even not knowing its consequences (the void below him is this unknowingness). So Uomo Comune decides to take this step, and invites everyone to do it. The irony lays in being part of this dangerous spectacle from the safe side of the railing. The act is permanently frozen in limbo, being a sculpture that doesn’t move and will never finish stepping out, and so will never know if his choice was the right one or not – the only way for us to know is if we were to try it ourselves.”
Courtesy of the Tuscan Traveller.
As you can see by this elegant exhibit, the Walker Museum of Modern Art is only for the ultra-sophisticated, aesthetic connoisseur.
"DO NOT DO IT" At the age of 32 {back in February 1989} and with a liver the size of a football, after being on a daily diet of bottles of scotch, and strong lager that doubled as paint stripper,I weighed in at 6,1/2 stone thats 91lb or 40.6 kilo.
Thats what that shit alcohol does for ya. I was desperately ill, but in total denial. I needed someone to tell me how bad a state I was in. Fortunately, on the 6th of Feb I ended up in hospital, after an accident at work. The doc gave me a thorough exam, then told me the truth about my shot to bits body. Give it up or you will be gone in less than 2 months. Could not argue with that.
This photo was taken in November 1988, by the time I stopped drinking alcohol in Feb 1989, I had lost another 14 lb. The exact time and date of my last drink was, 17.36hrs/ 10th February 1989.
Thankfully, there was a huge light at the end of a very long tunnel. I just had to find it, and in the fullness of time, {just before death was gonna visit} I did..{If you are desperate enough, if you need it enough, so can you} God bless..