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It's less useful now that Flickr has eliminated photo notes, but the Astrometry group (https://www.flickr.com/groups/astrometry/) is still a good place to get automated analysis for questions like that.
so, my Pro account was up for renewal and it did it automatically... Last time I used Paypal and it must have been set at auto renewal by default... Fine whatever, I'll let it go this time... so I went to my settings because I do NOT want the auto renewing and that options is NOWHERE to be found, and it's NOT letting me delete Paypal as a method of payment until I add another one... This just pisses me off because I don't like NOT having to choose WTF Flickr??
Australian landscape photographer Peter Lik has taken the crown for most expensive photo ever sold. “Phantom,” the picture shown above, was sold to a private collector for a staggering $6.5 million. The record was previously held by Andreas Gursky’s “Rhein II”, which sold for $4.3 million back in 2011.
“Phantom” was captured at Arizona’s Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon that’s popular among landscape photographers, and shows a beam of light resembling a “ghostlike figure” (hence the name). It’s a black-and-white version of a photograph that has also been printed in color with the title, “Ghost.”
Lik also announced that the same buyer purchased two other photographs for $2.4 million and $1.1 million (“Illusion” and “Eternal Moods,” respectively), giving Lik four photos in the list of 20 most expensive photos of all time (he previously sold a separate photo for $1 million back in 2011).
It's so funny...when the photography tours go thru the canyon, I've read that the tour guides throw the ground dirt into the air to create that "ghosting" effect in the light streams.
this is the FotoPro version of the MeFoto Road Trip (same identical tripod, they are marketed through different companies/names in other countries)... I wanted something more compact with the mirrorless cameras so I wouldn't need to lug around the Manfrotto 055, this thing when folded up, is only around 15" long!
I know Rubin adviced against the colored models because of reflections in the window but 1) I rarely shoot through windows of high rises, 2), I wanted something more personal and instead of black, so I went with the orange because Sony cameras have that orange accent ring around the mount
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Basically. I like this better than the gary fong sphere. With the GF sphere, it has like a barebulb effect where it can look very direct flash-ish towards the subject while throwing a bunch of light everywhere, where as this produces better softer light. Plus it folds up like those car shades and takes minimal space.
Yes, you point the flash straight up.
The inside is all reflective, so most of the light goes forward.
Also on the back there's a 18% grey card and a black and white card for white balancing.
Haven't had a chance to use it because I need to charge my 1Ds NiMH batteries
I have heard that the light loss is about a stop or so thou
But if you use a modifier, you usually lose light anyways
Yeah i heard that too, but imo if you are complaining about losing a stop of light because of shooting at full power and still not getting the right exposure you want, you probably need more power and probably bigger than a external flash. In which this would look idiotic putting on or not fitting
Depending on what I'm shooting, if the ceiling and walls are white, I sometimes still prefer bouncing (off ceilings and walls). The Flashdisc really comes in handy when you have nothing to bounce (perhaps an outdoor event) or the room has some kind of weird colors. Sometimes bouncing off walls and ceilings, the light that it produces is actually very soft, however, it usually forces the flash to work harder thus eating up the batteries and/or causes overheating (but by upping the iso, this can be avoided) Whenever I enter a room of whatever event I'm shooting, the very first thing I look at are the walls and ceiling. With group photos, IMO bouncing is better, produces a more even lighting (of course, the height of the ceiling matters too)
I actually have pretty much all of the diffusers out there now. There's another good one call the LumiQuest 80-20, it's basically a combination of a softbox and bounce card. There's the top part that can be left open to bounce (off ceiling), thus 80% of the light goes up (and bounce) and 20% goes forward, OR you can cover the top and it's basically a softbox, and it comes with gels to balance the white balance, which is awesome if you're shooting in mix lighting, which you are in most events.
There are pros and cons to all of them IMO, just depends on the setting
Last edited by is300eater; Dec 25, 2014 at 10:55 PM.
they eliminated this -
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