Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Chairman Bill on July 16, 2012, 08:20:57 am
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No photos of lighthouses. I feel so inadequate :(
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No photos of lighthouses. I feel so inadequate :(
Don't give up yet. Try photographing cats or kittens!
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Castles? Nearly as good.
Scott, grain bin specialist
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No, not much by way of castles. I'm feeling even less good about myself now :'(
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Cheer up, Bill: you've posted some good stuff here, even without lighthouses. :)
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Cheer up, Bill: you've posted some good stuff here, even without lighthouses. :)
+2.
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No photos of lighthouses. I feel so inadequate :(
Do you have a D800? That would make you a proper photographer regardless of subject matter.
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Do you have a D800? That would make you a proper photographer regardless of subject matter.
That's not helping you know!
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There exist neither lighthouses nor castles anywhere within a reasonable drive from where I live. Worse, I do not own a D800. So I do share your feelings. :-\
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Do you have a D800? That would make you a proper photographer regardless of subject matter.
Right! With a D800 you don't have to take pictures; juat carry it around for the rest of us to admire.
Reminds me of the joy of working with an old 8x10" view camera many years ago. It was such fun just to set it up and look at scenes on the ground glass that I didn't feel the need to put film through it. After several years using a 4x5" it was a joy to see the image Full Size. (That was back when an 8x10" print was a big print.)
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It appears that some D800s are able to give you a selective focus gizmo you didn't know you were buying; that can't be bad, can it?
Oh, there are plenty of castles here in Spain, but I haven't felt any overpowering urge to photograph even a single example - for posterity, as it were - not even one.
Lighthouses are a different thing: like airports, you could get arrested, so I've hung off shooting any of them recently. Anyway, all too phallic for my sensibilities.
Rob C
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Have you considered tunnels?
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Have you considered tunnels?
But a car driving into one isn't the same as a train doing it; size matters. I'd have to visit the Alps.
Rob C
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Here's one for you Bill which will POSSIBLY help you get over your blues? It is situated on the Holy Island just of the coast of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. I have a lot more light house images taken in the Firth of Clyde and I can post them if it helps cheer you up. ;)
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Have you considered tunnels?
His vision of photography is related to one? :) ;)
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Right! With a D800 you don't have to take pictures; juat carry it around for the rest of us to admire.
I was thinking of buying a Nikon strap with D800 emblazoned on it and attaching it to my Nikon D80 . If anyone asks I will tell them a 0 rubbed off on my camera. Does anyone think I will get away with it? :)
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Can't you just paint an additional "0" after the "80?"
I've got a label maker and I'm thinking of making one that says "Nikon D800" to paste on the front of my Canon 5DII. I'd have to get the Nikon strap, too, I suppose.
It's not easy trying to become a proper photographer!
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How wrong can you guys be?
A proper photographer hides the names completely, thinking that he's no sandwich board man. If CaNiketc want to advertise, let them pay us upfront.
As you will always be asked what cameras you are using, you must rehearse the reply in a mirror so that it comes out naturally: "black ones, of course."
These little tricks help smoothe the life of a snapper. Heysoos! the gratuitous help I give you lot.
Rob C
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Hi,
You missed to tape the red bar below the shutter release, it is almost as bad as adding a red dot...
Best regards
Erik
How wrong can you guys be?
A proper photographer hides the names completely, thinking that he's no sandwich board man. If CaNiketc want to advertise, let them pay us upfront.
As you will always be asked what cameras you are using, you must rehearse the reply in a mirror so that it comes out naturally: "black ones, of course."
These little tricks help smoothe the life of a snapper. Heysoos! the gratuitous help I give you lot.
Rob C
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Cheer up, Bill. Go on over to the Continent and shoot the most boring picture of the Rhine you can find. That'll put you in the same class as Andreas Gursky. Be sure to post it here, and let Christie's know you have it.
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the red bar below the shutter release
So that's what that's for...
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Hi,
You missed to tape the red bar below the shutter release, it is almost as bad as adding a red dot...
Best regards
Erik
I could always say it's a Black Nike. Those that need to ask know nothing of red dots or flashes.
Anyway, the red flash helps me find the camera when I'm shooting in low light. Trouble is, neither of the mothers takes 'phone calls, which means I still have to carry that pesky cellpix machine which, since I have to carry it, means I might as well stop using the other three (the F3 stays locked away for posterity and museum purposes in the next millennium) which sets that vicious circle rolling all over again.
And to think someone wanted to help his sister get onto this train.
Rob C
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Have you considered tunnels?
Ah ha! Yes. A bit old now, but son number 2 in a kids' playground stainless steel tunnel. Shot from one end, the tunnel ran at about 45 degrees up a hill. Most kids slid down it, my son had to climb up it. Which is fair.
So, I could be a proper photographer after all (though still no D800 :( )
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Rob C,
Whenever asked what kind of camera I use I say, "do you ask a great chef what kind of oven he uses?"
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Rob C,
Whenever asked what kind of camera I use I say, "do you ask a great chef what kind of oven he uses?"
That's dangerous: they might ask where's the great chef? I wouldn't run such risks!
;-)
Rob C
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It might be more fun to be an IMPROPER photographer.
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Nancy, that's positively perverse!
Rob C
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...It might be more fun to be an IMPROPER photographer...
See what happens when someone is allowed to think out of the box!
Regards
Tony Jay
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What happens, clearly, is that someone instantly pops them back into one - literally - see above!
Rob C
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You mean, as in: "out of the
box
?"
:D
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Eric, you should go far!
(I mean this nicely.)
Rob C
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Not quite a lighthouse - it's an old beacon tower - but clearly I'm getting there. All I need now is a D800 ...
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I thought that this was a lighthouse thread? You have definitely gone of subject and your punishment is to be banished to one without any camera, never mind the D800. ;D
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Bill, I see you are an exponent of the three-eighths rule; I like that in a photographer.
Rob C
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Bill, I see you are an exponent of the three-eighths rule; I like that in a photographer.
Rob C
Yes, but I'm a Newton's three-eights rule sort of bloke. None of that Simpson's three-eights rule malarky in my photogrphy
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Yes, but I'm a Newton's three-eights rule sort of bloke. None of that Simpson's three-eights rule malarky in my photogrphy
There you go: confusing me with science, just like any twelve-year-old would/could do!
In fact, I'm so confused I'm just going to go right out and buy another lottery ticket right now!
Rob C