Stay out of addictive photograpy discussion groups and get out there
taking pics:)
rg
I hope you will permit me to add to this thread.
When shooting with the camera on a tripod (and always use a tripod when you
can) don't let the tripod cramp your photographic vision. Take the camera
off the tripod and walk around looking at the subject from different
perspectives and angles
Herb Chong wrote:
like i said, Malcolm, are you sure it wasn't her camera you opened?
You may well be right :-)
Malcolm
the
mode you are in. if you are in Av, only the shutter speed varies. if Tv,
then aperture. if P, then the camera does what it wants.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Ann Sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: Just one tip
, 2003 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: Just one tip
Bill said:Tanya, that is bullshit. What it means is that you shoot an
extra
couple of rolls of film on any given job to get the number of hits you
need,
- that is exactly what I *do* do now Bill, it sucks though, cause I really
wish that I could
like i said, Malcolm, are you sure it wasn't her camera you opened?
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Malcolm Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:22 AM
Subject: RE: Just one tip
LOL! It's just gone off to work with her for the third day
Lon Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't let tv touch your equipment. Wink.
Oh TV himself is fine with equipment. He pays assistants to drop his
gear for him!
--
Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
www.robertstech.com
On some jobs, just getting a shot or two that can be considered decisive or
definitive moments can be enough to earn a living.
Len
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* There's no place like 127.0.0.1
From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Just one tip
Tanya
I'll go on record as agreeing with the sentiment that your keeper rate goal
is unrealistic, for event photography. 22 out of 24 for formal studio work I
could buy, but not shooting an event. Unless you're a telepath or psychic
you can't anticipate everybody's every move. And you do good
- but as Tom said anything less than 100% means that I am incompetent as a
photographer. What do you (and others) think IS a realistic goal to aim
for?
It partly depends on the usage of the images. I was taking some shots of honey bees
for a local beekeeper. I was using an MZ-S
I bracket in 1/3 or 1/2 stops when I shoot cars on transparency film.
Half a stop can make a considerable difference in color accuracy and
saturation. When I shoot fashion or portraits with studio lights I use
negative film, and I don't bracket. With negative film a half a stop
plus or minus
That is a freaking amazing shot, tom!
You're being modest with your comment re: that's not the greatest shot in
the world (which of course it's not, but it's pretty damned good in my
books!)
You are, however, being honest when you say it's what makes you you. It's
typical of what I've seen
I have to agree with Frank. Great shot. I don't know exactly why it's
great, but it's one of those I wish I had taken. Nice work.
On Dec 31, 2003, at 3:25 PM, frank theriault wrote:
That is a freaking amazing shot, tom!
From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Just one tip
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:25:02 -0800
Natinal Geographic is, therefore, full of incompetent photographers.
Perhaps that gives you an idea of the weight you can attach to Tom's
opinion
on that issue
frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's one thing for a fashion or studio photographer to realistically want or
expect a near 100% hit rate (that's a new term for me). It's quite
another thing for a nature photographer (especially one shooting
unpredictable animals) or a PJ or someone
this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist
fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Just one tip
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:09:01 -0500
What percentage of your photographs a technically
Give up now! Get rid of all cameras. If you don't you run the serious risk
of becoming enslaved to some aspect of the discipline: the equipment, the
taking of pictures, processing of both kinds, and, last but no least
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Don
___
Dr E D F Williams
Tom wrote:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
Don't drop your camera on pavement.
I did that once. But the alternative would have been an RB67 hitting my
foot, lens first.
OTOH it would have taken less time for my foot to heal than
Learn about light! Both in how to measure it and how to compose with
it.
Bruce
Monday, December 29, 2003, 7:54:39 PM, you wrote:
KW If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
KW what would it be?
KW I think I would say something like try to see the image before you
, 30. Dezember 2003 04:55
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Just one tip
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
I think I would say something like try to see the image before you take it
or something like, always take extra film/batteries
Kind regards
On 30/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
For portraits, don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.
Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
|| (O) | People, Places, Pastiche
||=| www.macads.co.uk
On 30/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
I already offered 'just one tip' so I won't offer anymore as it's outside
the remit of the original question. However, I have a poster up on the
side of one of our
Move in close and fill the frame with your subject.
On Dec 29, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Kevin Waterson wrote:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
I think I would say something like try to see the image before you
take it
or something like, always take
Hi,
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
Don't try to be a photographer. Just be someone who photographs the
stuff you're interested in anyway.
--
Cheers,
Bob
Study your unsuccessful shots as carefully as your successful shots
because you can learn from both.
--
Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
www.robertstech.com
Read the manual of your camera/flash etc. once a year, take it with you
for those moments where you have nothing better to do.
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 04:54, Kevin Waterson wrote:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
I think I would say
BTW, I'm helping a group of girl scouts get a photography badge this
Friday. I've officially started assembling a list of these tips. ;-)
Steven Desjardins
Department of Chemistry
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8873
FAX: (540) 458-8878
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have the damn camera with you.
--
graywolf
http://graywolfphoto.com
You might as well accept people as they are,
you are not going to be able to change them anyway.
Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding
photography,
what would it be?
Always carry the camera (and use it!).
Gianfranco
=
To read is to travel without all the hassles of luggage.
---Emilio Salgari (1863
Subject: RE: Just one tip
-Original Message-
From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
More than once, I have had a kid run past me at a rodeo and
trip on my
tripod, knocking it to the ground, (*tanya wonders if she
should invest in a
monopod for such events
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
Think.
Butch
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself.
Hermann Hesse (Demian)
Wow! Back in the late sixties, when I was hanging out with a lot of photogs,
the general consensus was ONE keeper from a roll of 36. Maybe we were looking
for different things then, hard to say. Looking at the contact sheets of some
great and current photogs, as well as some from the fifties
This one time, at band camp, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow! Back in the late sixties, when I was hanging out with a lot of photogs,
the general consensus was ONE keeper from a roll of 36.
I still go with that, sometimes 2 per roll if its a good day.
For me, a roll of 36 is
This one time, at band camp, Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
Just thought I would pop this in
Bracket!
Kevin
Knarf,
Quit yer bitching g. You should try getting 4x5 BW developed in Charlotte. $5
a negative, and they grossly under develop them for you. And here in Boone you
can not have them done for love nor money.
On the other hand, I have finally (today) light-proofed my bathroom and set up
the
results... I still very much have a ways to go before I am happy with my
strike rate...
tan.
- Original Message -
From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Just one tip
Wow! Back in the late sixties, when I
You were thinking of works of art, Tanya is thinking of salable pictures. There
is a big difference. Any pro who does not get a salable picture with every shot
except where the subject did something the photographer has no control over is
not very competent.
--
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Wow!
When I'm shooting on the street or doing landscape photography, I
generally have only a few keepers per roll. When I'm shooting an
assignment with setups and predetermined images, I usually hit about at
a much higher percentage rate, particularly with negative film where
bracketing isn't so
On 30/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
Just thought I would pop this in
Ne'er truer words spoken.
Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
|| (O) | People, Places, Pastiche
||=| www.macads.co.uk
- Original Message -
From: Tanya Mayer Photography
Subject: OT- Strike Rate (was Re: Just one tip)
Yeah, but Shel, I am mainly referring to when shooting weddings etc, where
you need to punch out a high volume of usable prints per roll. Having only
a
couple of shots per roll
: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Just one tip
Maybe I should clarify this. I am speaking specifically about event
photography.
graywolf wrote:
You were thinking of works of art, Tanya is thinking of salable
pictures
Bill posted:
I remember the cliff face, but hadn't heard about in front of a moving car.
What is it about professional wedding photographers that they're always
damaging their equipment? :-)
Presumably because wedding photography is very hazardous work? (next to combat
photography?)
I'd
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Just one tip
I totally agree graywolf, which is why I think my strike rate needs
improving. At the moment, like I mentioned, I am getting probably 18
salable images from a roll of 24 exposure film. Of those, probably 4 of the
rejects are due to eyes closing/subject
Message -
From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: Just one tip
I totally agree graywolf, which is why I think my strike rate needs
improving. At the moment, like I mentioned, I am getting probably 18
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Bracketing? What do you photograph that you've got time to bracket exposures? Are
you using one of those new cameras with automatic bracketing, that do it all for
you electronically? If so, what's changed when the camera brackets - aperture or
shutter speed?
BTW,
- Original Message -
From: Tanya Mayer Photography
Subject: Re: Just one tip
- when I get to
consistentantly producing 22 salable shots per 24 roll, I will be happy
to
some degree with my own competency level. But until then, I still think,
basically that I'm not worthy
Bill said:Tanya, that is bullshit. What it means is that you shoot an extra
couple of rolls of film on any given job to get the number of hits you
need,
- that is exactly what I *do* do now Bill, it sucks though, cause I really
wish that I could be confident that I could open the package straight
]
Subject: Re: Just one tip
- but as Tom said anything less than 100% means that I am
incompetent as a
photographer.
Message-
From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 11:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Just one tip
I totally agree graywolf, which is why I think my strike rate needs
improving. At the moment, like I mentioned, I am getting
- Original Message -
From: Tanya Mayer Photography
Subject: Re: Just one tip
What do you (and others) think IS a realistic goal to aim
for?
If we are talking weddings, your hit % is a lottery.
There are just too many factors at work.
I have had perfect shots ruined by things
This one time, at pdml camp, Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- easier said then done. I feel really bad expecting people to pay for my
mistakes, so generally, I just wear it, and hope that I continue to
improve...
I agree here to a point, then I look at Peter Lindbergh___s
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
I think I would say something like try to see the image before you take it
or something like, always take extra film/batteries
Kind regards
Kevin
Kevin Waterson wrote:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
With the *ist D, check your ISO and white balance before you start shooting.
Bill
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Waterson
Subject: Just one tip
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
Look at lots of pictures.
William Robb
hehehe, or over a cliff face, OR in front of a moving car...
tan.
- Original Message -
From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:03 PM
Subject: RE: Just one tip
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Waterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
Take some damn pictures.
--
Ask not at whom the Chimp smirks - he smirks at you.
www.smirkingchimp.com
www.gregpalast.com
www.monbiot.com
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Waterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29-Dec-03 19:55
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Just one tip
If you
frank theriault wrote:
Shoot Lots!
Film is cheap. With digital, shooting lots is even cheaper
(after the initial investment of equipment and peripherals).
Well, I've done just that! 5 rolls sent off for development last night.
Development isn't as cheap though g.
Malcolm
Edit, edit, edit. Then show your favourites to others and edit some more.
chris
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Kevin Waterson wrote:
If you could impart just one tip to someone regarding photography,
what would it be?
I think I would say something like try to see the image before you take
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