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Off Topic / Re: Brian Evans At Fenway (RANT)

« on: June 09, 2013, 09:07:31 PM »

Jeeeeeeze. Calm down.

Do you know how immature it makes you seem to complain this much about something that you do of your own will for leisure?

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: June 09, 2013, 05:01:46 PM »

psst

its called zooming in

pssst. It's a 14mm prime lens, so unless you want to severely lose quality with cropping the shot and diminishing resolution (also known as digital zoom), you literally cannot zoom in.

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: June 07, 2013, 08:02:34 PM »

14mm is really wide though, I'm just saying. I have a 24 on a full frame (equivalent 18mm on a cropped frame) that's really difficult to use because of how wide it is. Especially for video, I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to have really wide shots all the time.

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: June 06, 2013, 01:21:39 PM »

So, one of my friends is getting into DSLR filming and video, and he's looking for a wide angle lens for his Canon 7D, and he's wondering if this is a good, all-around multipurpose wide lens (mostly for film)

No, that's sooooooooooooo wide. A general purpose lens would be like an 18-55, something in that range. 18 is wide, but it's a decent wide on a cropped sensor that doesn't look bad at all and 55 is a nice focal length too. Depends on how serious he wants to get but an 18-55 kit would serve him well for very casual stuff. 14 would just be too wide and unusable for anything more than like, five feet from the camera.

ps. new content on my blog. Chex it out and tell a friend or whatever

http://nickseitz.wordpress.com/

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: June 05, 2013, 07:00:30 PM »

at first I thought that was a 24-70 2.8 and was like "asdf why buy that for such an entry level, DX camera" but then I realized it was a 70-300 4.5 and was OK with that. Neato

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: June 02, 2013, 11:35:58 PM »

I started a photography blog.

http://nickseitz.wordpress.com/

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Off Topic / Re: what the hell is this

« on: May 31, 2013, 04:23:50 PM »

I too read Reddit.

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: May 31, 2013, 03:30:52 PM »

Wow, that's actually really nice.
Great composition, and the natural graininess has a very professional aesthetic, along with the natural soft focus it seems to have.

The focal plane of a camera with movable standards can be absolutely batty. I haven't played around with it much, but by swinging the front standard you affect the focal plane such that it could be focused along a diagonal plane rather than a plane parallel to the film.

Basically, this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%E2%80%93shift_photography

Which is why the focus is lost farther down his body. The shot was taken with a significant amount of front fall in order to eliminate headroom while maintaining parallel vertical lines. I believe this creates defocusing or at least softening in some capacity around the frame.

also thank you c:

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: May 29, 2013, 11:31:06 PM »

Some of those long exposure shots y'all posted are sweet. I especially like the square ones, but the ball of light ones are interesting as well. Would definitely be interesting to know more about their processes and inspiration.

Anyway, I did another 4x5 shot. Very happy with how this one turned out. A portrait of one of my favorite teachers (btw today was my last day of classes in highschool! grad on Sunday!!!!)

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: May 26, 2013, 05:52:46 PM »

while making art do you also make love with art?

I actually live in a perpetual state of love making to everything I do with my entire life.

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: May 26, 2013, 05:35:37 PM »

Oh, I get it.
That's fancy! Sounds a little fiddly, but fun nonetheless.
Cool picture, too. What do you hope to capture with it?

tbh the camera is loving huge. Case is a foot and a half wide, foot high, half a foot deep and weighs about 20 pounds with the camera in it. This makes it only really reasonable for landscapes done from a road, anything within short walking distance of a car, and indoor studio work. I may rig up an old backpacking frame to try and carry it longer distances, but I don't have aspirations for its portability. It's a fun camera though, it's the kind where you have to have a dark cloth over your head to focus it c:

Also,

Not mine, but I thought you guys might find it interesting. 350 photos, merged into one. The photographer is Matt Molloy.

tbh how I feel about night photography can be summed up as follows: It's one thing to turn the night into the day, it's another thing to respect the dignity of the night.

Long exposure shots of any kind do not impress me at all if they do not form an aesthetically appealing composition. That isn't a terribly interesting composition, however technically difficult it was to accomplish. It's a boring landscape shot of a barn with the star trails around the north star. I'm not impressed.

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: May 26, 2013, 05:29:41 PM »

Atlas, your beard does not look good. I would advise you to shave it. If you like it, keep it, and don't spend your time trying to convince strangers on the internet of anything.

And, since apparently being able to grow a beard is a previous qualifier for beard criticism, here is me and my beard about to hike into the Otter Creek Wilderness in the middle of a camping trip I took through West Virginia by myself a few weeks ago.



It's just one of the many ways my beard and I spend the time not spent arguing with 12 year olds on the internet. Other things include having a girlfriend I love and who loves me, working, making art, and becoming better at things.

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: May 24, 2013, 07:19:23 PM »

Oh wow, that camera looks like a beast! How does it work?

Basically, you have a lens and a shutter on the front standard/plate and a film holder and ground glass on the back standard. You open the shutter and compose and focus the image on the glass. You then raise the glass off of the back of the camera and slip a film holder in. The film holder comprises of a sliding shutter that you remove to expose the film inside the camera. You set exposure, release the shutter for the specific time, close the film holder shutter and take the holder out.

It's simple enough in principle if you can understand how the components of a camera work and not just SLRs, but if you need clarification let me know.

FIRST PICTURE AHHH

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Off Topic / Re: research is addictive!

« on: May 23, 2013, 10:02:46 PM »

research coupled with procrastination is physically addictive in a fairly severe degree. Think about it. If addiction is the idea of repetitive behavior that brings immediate physical pleasure, and an climax is one of the most intense pleasures you can feel (evolutionarily, it makes perfect sense since the entire point of evolution is to select for individuals who have the highest instinct and capability to breed), and if you look at pron to achieve an climax, of course you're going to become physically addicted to research.

Now, personal opinion here. I think that this'll forget you up later in life, degrade your respect for women, degrade love in general, and generally lead to a worse disposition in life than if you didn't. However I wouldn't go so far as to say it'd cause you act in a negative way, rather just cause you to feel generally more negative than if you didn't masturbate.

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: May 23, 2013, 09:43:18 PM »

I was probably in a bad mood when I replied, sorry.

Anyway, this is a picture of me, my new 4x5 camera, and my mexican friend. Just a few of my favorite things.



Going to hopefully take, develop, and enlarge a negative tomorrow (ambitious, but uh, we'll see) and test it out. Wooooo!