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Earth-bound misfit
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My flash...
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Yea!
You tell 'em!
Wait, what?!
Oh no YOU di'int!!!
I'm not sure anymore.
Maybe I should just go Leica.
You tell 'em!
Wait, what?!
Oh no YOU di'int!!!
I'm not sure anymore.
Maybe I should just go Leica.
nnInn
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this is so great -
<object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13081827&server=vimeo.co m&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_port rait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13081827&server=vimeo.co m&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_port rait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/13081827">The iPhone Fashion Shoot - Lee Morris Shoots With The 3GS</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3003221">FStoppers</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
http://gizmodo.com/5580276/professio...-an-iphone-3gs
<object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13081827&server=vimeo.co m&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_port rait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13081827&server=vimeo.co m&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_port rait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/13081827">The iPhone Fashion Shoot - Lee Morris Shoots With The 3GS</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3003221">FStoppers</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
http://gizmodo.com/5580276/professio...-an-iphone-3gs
when they got interrupted.
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the iphone has a great camera, if you have enough light - I don't get where people got the impression it was a "bad" camera. Even the older iphones have great cameras, especially for people shots.
nnInn
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That's pretty much with a lot of them, the right light and they are pretty good. But the phones in the last year or so have really stepped up on the camera.
Big Block go VROOOM!
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but I would tend to think that the lenses (or protective covers) on most camera phones get filthy or scratched in fairly short order. I know the one on my iPhone did. To be honest, keeping my phone in my pocket is more important to me than having a pristine lens on its camera so I've actually never bothered to try and keep it clean.
my post is a response to the video!!
Big Block go VROOOM!
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Damn. Wish I happened to be in Toronto this coming weekend. I just saw that Michael Reichmann is closing his gallery and selling off the prints he has there. $150 for a signed, matted, and framed Reichmann print is a pretty damn good deal in my book. Loose prints for $25-$100 as well.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/cl...int-sale.shtml
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/cl...int-sale.shtml
Big Block go VROOOM!
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That was just a response to phone cameras getting a bad rap in general. To be honest, I actually didn't even remember what you had said. I was just thinking about the results I got from my iPhone camera the first couple weeks I had it compared to what I get now.
heh
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I just typed this out for the big night club photos thread on POTN......... do I pull the trigger and post it.... hmm.... what do you think 
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I will likely come across as a dick for posting this but - I can't imagine going to a photo forum and reading suggested settings, and then inputting them to my camera and taking pictures. Come on, seriously? Whatever happened to self-expression and personal style? How about finding your OWN settings that make YOU happy because YOU found them and perfected them to YOUR liking, rather than using someone else's? This is the equivalent of sampling in music. Well kind of. It destylizes your shots because you are not setting your camera up with what YOU like and prefer - you are using other people's preferences, on your big dollar item which you bought to express yourself. Think about it. Learn how to use your camera.
I learned 100% of everything I know from my own trial and error, out on the field. And I started doing it when pretty much all club photogs were taking pictures that were like 90% black space, and a brightly lit (or sometimes not well lit at all) subject somewhere in the frame. And then there were the no-flash blurred as fawk lighting shots and such. Quite frankly, nobody gave a sh*t about club photos. So they just pointed the camera in a general direction and pressed the button. Ok, there's the picture. Damn, it looks like crap. Well look, there is no light in here, of course it's not going to look good.
This is along the same lines as "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." Your ultimate power with a camera (or a myriad of other similar things, for that matter) comes from being able to adjust to ANY surrounding and condition, on the fly. Knowing what to change, when you are there. Because I guarantee you no 2 environments are the same. You can take the same settings used to get good photos at one place and plug them into your camera and shoot at a different place, and all your shots might look like crap. Now what do you do? You have to know what your settings do and how everything affects other settings. How does the direction and position of the flash head affect your shots? How does the diffusing / bounce method change your lighting? How does ISO affect your shutter speed? What do the different AF modes do and what are they used for?
ok, flamesuit on.
I learned 100% of everything I know from my own trial and error, out on the field. And I started doing it when pretty much all club photogs were taking pictures that were like 90% black space, and a brightly lit (or sometimes not well lit at all) subject somewhere in the frame. And then there were the no-flash blurred as fawk lighting shots and such. Quite frankly, nobody gave a sh*t about club photos. So they just pointed the camera in a general direction and pressed the button. Ok, there's the picture. Damn, it looks like crap. Well look, there is no light in here, of course it's not going to look good.
This is along the same lines as "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." Your ultimate power with a camera (or a myriad of other similar things, for that matter) comes from being able to adjust to ANY surrounding and condition, on the fly. Knowing what to change, when you are there. Because I guarantee you no 2 environments are the same. You can take the same settings used to get good photos at one place and plug them into your camera and shoot at a different place, and all your shots might look like crap. Now what do you do? You have to know what your settings do and how everything affects other settings. How does the direction and position of the flash head affect your shots? How does the diffusing / bounce method change your lighting? How does ISO affect your shutter speed? What do the different AF modes do and what are they used for?
ok, flamesuit on.
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composition etc is something that you can use other peoples ideas to help develop your own style. However, you need to know how to work the camera on your own or else your fawked when things go sideways