Bodhrans-Not-Bombs

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[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Unless you're going to get everything drum scanned right off the bat (which won't happen for ten bucks a roll), do not give away your negs.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It's not so much the hashtags themselves, but with the removal of "Recent posts" in favor of "Recent top posts", they might as well be dead.

OP, I've gone back to Flickr. I'm not generating enough leads from there to justify Pro yet, but we'll see.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I wonder how they test as far as writes remaining. Those things have to be have been run hard.

Also, hope you have a friend with a pallet truck.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Doesn't honestly sound that surprising for the age. Give it 20 years.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Nah, the Luddites would've been on our side - they would've been extremely concerned about the offloading of storage and media access to a few private entities.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

A Spotify user.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For boudoir work, I generally engage them in conversation and suddenly they realize they're a lot better at posing than they thought they were. But that's over the course of an hour or more, I couldn't imagine trying to get 5 headshots right with that alone.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not so much the technology here, but the selection. As a photographer, I would 100% not expect the retoucher to be on the same creative page as me, unless the photographer really doesn't care that much. I've cut down portrait raw shoots by a factor of 10, it's just a normal thing I budget into the quote.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'd do this as a boudoir photographer. Probably cheaper than a big stock site.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They need to send you the 350.

 

I'm mostly shooting portraits, boudoir, and maternity on location - I had been using speedlights and shoot-through umbrellas, but I'd like to put back a little of what I've made on recent shoots into a real monolight setup. I'm going with two 400W-S monolights, but I'm trying to decide on what modifiers to go with. I have stands that are sturdy enough to support octaboxes, but is there a compelling reason to go with them for portable shoots over a deep bounce umbrella? I'm often fighting with ceiling heights, so I probably can't get as large of a modifier as I'd like.

Would love to hear your take on this. Thanks!

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Terry Richardson and how he was allowed to be what he was for as long as he was.

[–] Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I've never seen an AF lens with distance scales that were worth a crap. Especially if you're trying to do it with a focus-by-wire lens that has no actual physical connection to the elements.

The classic method for street photography was zone focusing anyway, so you'd set your focus distance a certain ways out (or at hyperfocal, so everything beyond a certain line was in focus out to infinity), usually stopped down to increase the plane of focus.

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