David Anderson
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Nice shots Zach..
Nice to see some optimism from Scott in there as well.. 😉 😀
Like Clark, I find the cowboy bar appealing.. 😎
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Thanks Eric but after seeing Will’s work I may just toss my rig in the trash :-*
I like the shots you’ve posted – as someone who’s never been to that river, I can get a fair idea what’ there from your pictures and that’s a great starting point.
Photography is like fly fishing, if you try to take it all in from the first time, you will get nowhere, it’s a life long journey..
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
That’s an awesome frame Ben.. 😉
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
I use white most of the time for it’s nice soft natural look, and silver if more grunt is needed, but gold looks very average IMHO.
Bigger is better for fleckys except in the wind.. 😉
The 5 in 1 I had didn’t last long and was heavy, though for occasional use they would be a good deal.
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Bugger – Pajero Vs. Skippy.
And here I was thinking myself clever for saving weight on a bullbar..
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Like Chad, I would recommend bouncing the flash.
If you have a room with white ceilings try there first.
Also, a little bump in the ISO to 200 or 400 and a faster aperture setting like f4 or under will help with adding ambient light to the flash for a better look..
(hard to say without seeing the room)You can check how much ambient light is in the shot by doing a test without the flash and you can make adjustments to the exposure before doing the shot with flash.
I like the flash to do most of the work on the subject, but think you need enough ambient light to avoid black areas around the subject.www.dsaphoto.com
A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
David, I find it interesting how Micheal’s paintings have depth and appear very flat/2 dimensional at the same time. He has a nice use of color as well..
He uses some ceramics in some of those along with paint – not sure how it works, but the surface ends up like it’s coated in thin glass in some places – I think a blow torch is required somewhere in the process.
His color is 100% Australian high country in summer in that series – it’s a unique thing..I really want one, but they’re fairly expensive.. 😮
Great thread BTW.. 😉
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
My favorite painter here in Australia is Michael Ramsden.
He’s a fly fisherman and a lot of his paintings are landscapes based on trout streams – many have been inspired by Mosies photos.
http://www.rayhughesgallery.com/exhibitionDisplay.asp?exhibitionId=55
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Anyone play any Jeff Buckly ?
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Wow, that’s different – the heat and the flash have not mixed well and I don’t know if there’s much that can be done to fix it other than what Neals done above.
Thanks for sending it through, I’ll have a look at it in detail and see what I can do..
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Looks a bit strange..
I’m happy to have a closer look if you can email me the highest rez and most original form you have the shot in..
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
I like shots off the Holgas, they have a lot of emotion & feel and are sort of anti-geek..
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
My advice would be to keep your photoshop work to a minimum with a view towards getting the picture right at the time of shooting.
Getting color temp and exposure right is vital.
That way, when you get to the post production point, you’re starting with good material.Some common faults I see from new players is overdoing things like sharpness, contrast and saturation.
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
That’s a nasty picture of Rupert – thankyou very much Getty… 😉
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
John & Neal, I’m going to come work for you guys… 😕
I just spent 2 long days shooting kids in the supermarket and a kitchen with various dairy products and I think I’m loosing my will to live..
My advice now to the new guys is going to be – learn to shoot everything and anything, be a jack of all trades with a camera,but most importantly, avoid kids and animals.. ;);Dwww.dsaphoto.com
A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Neal, thanks for not posting the medical stuff… ;D 😛
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Good points Zach..
I think the party for entry level photography as a paid full time profession is over for anyone who’s not very very good or very connected, and that should cut numbers of people doing it full time way down – maybe, in the long run that’s a good thing..
Simple market forces and another turning point in the industry.. 😉
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Yep, that’s a winner ..
Nice when you have camera around for it..
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
The price of gear is another interesting aspect of this, in the film years a top of the line SLR was around $5000 here, now, the same body with
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Pro, amateur, hobbyist: it doesn’t matter. If someone uses your work, whether they requested it or not, you need to be paid (promptly and fairly).
If everyone will stand firm on this principle, we can reverse many of the disturbing trends that are beginning to crush the freelance photo business.
I agree.
My concern is that photos are, in the digital age, becoming like music and something people expect for nothing.
The problem started before digital really hit the masses though.
Getty images an an example, are pricing out freelance shooters at the printed publications by offering subscriptions where they use what they want for a monthly fee.
Why hire a photographer to shoot a picture when you can get it cheap from Getty ?A while back a guy I know who shoots music stuff here was bragging too me that Getty had sold 50 of his shots around the world in a month.
I asked what that paid and he came back with $560.
He ended up a little disappointed when I told him he should have got around 10 times that even after an agents fee.All’s fair in love & business and you can’t blame Getty for trying to make a profit out of photography.
But – now that the value of an image has come so far down, they’re not really making much money anyway – so what was the point ?To put the price into perspective –
In the last couple years of film and first couple of digital my syndication around the world was worth about 10 times what it is now.
We got paid a fair fee too shoot and then, because we owned copyright on our work, could make more money on future sales.
Now, if you can keep copyright from the publications, it’s not worth anywhere near what it was, so it’s harder to make a living from photography.
The battle over copyright started about 10 years ago when the big companies like Getty and Microsoft (through companies like Corbis) started their battle to corner the image market and made deals with the publishers to gain copyright.The magazines have all stopped making money with the exception of a few special interest titles.
Part of the reason IMHO is that they’ve turned their back on quality one off photography and gone with anything they can get on the cheap.
Now their magazines all look the same and less people buy them, and less money comes in advertising because they all buy their images from the same pool.
While the GFC might be a timely excuse for the bean counters at the big publishers too use now, the business has been going down for a lot longer.Another price perspective –
20 years ago, the Australian version of People paid $500 a day to the photographer, plus all costs including film with a mark-up.
They also paid you as much again if the story ran over a certain number of pages and you got much more if you made a cover, plus, after 3 months the photos were returned to the photographer and we could syndicate them.
It was good money and a system with a lot of incentive to do great work.
The competition was SAVAGE to work for them.
The magazine did very well ad made lots of money.Now, they pay $500 a day + costs, but keep copyright and from what I understand there’s nothing extra for the digital element or extra space in the magazine.
(there are some exceptions)
The magazine is now a crappy rag like all the others and does little quality work and makes little money.
Now, if you could be bothered to take your 100,000 + dollars worth of gear to do a shoot for them, you certainly wouldn’t brag about doing it to the other photographers.Anyone else out there taken a pay CUT from what they earned 20 years ago for the same work??
One last example, and it’s my favorite.
Before digital and the big agencies, a freelancer could go shoot something like a film premiere or big concert and expect to make $500 – $1500 dollars if you got great shots and made a good sale at a magazine – again, it was VERY competitive.
On the odd occasion, you made much more if you got something a bit exclusive or made a good sale overseas.
This work was almost all done by freelance photographers and it’s still some of the hardest shooting I’ve ever had to do – very fast and unforgiving.Now it’s a different story, there’s fewer freelance photographers at a red carpet and always a cluster of Getty or other big agency shooters, they tend to have crappy gear, and seemingly little of the killer ambition that you needed in my day to get the great shots.
The reason is they’re paid very little, and their work is just thrown into a pile that gets thrown around to subscribes and generally printed with no photo credit.
They also don’t get any (some exceptions) syndication and have no chance of ever making a living IMHO.Being near the end of my career as opposed to the beginning I have been able to work around all this crap by targeting clients that don’t do the Getty thing and that still value the image – it’s harder than it used to be, but still a living.
But –
God help anyone looking to get started as a full-time freelance photographer and make career of it.
((sorry for the rant. ;)))
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