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Share your work, knowledge, tricks, tips, etc: the weird, the unexpected, the interesting, and anything you like to share that is related to photography or videography.
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Just like with music: you try different things and something interesting comes out sometimes.

In this case, I wanted to know whether the point of focus of a reflected object is the object itself or the reflective surrface it's projected on. So I focused on the object [lamp in my little room] and look what happened. It's as if the lamp is protruding out of the display of my VCR [3D effect]!

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Not related: a few shots. Among other things, this is what my pics will look like if/when I ever sell something on eBaysmile.gif

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Quote Originally Posted by Purity_Control View Post
I'd love to be able to do stuff like that, but if you did it in the UK they'd try to arrest you as a terorist or a paedophile if there were any kids in it frown.gif Everything here has got so paranoid frown.gif
I think that's bound to happen here too sooner or later. Like always it's going to take a few high profile incidents and it'll all change.

I have no doubts about KWs intents for the record.

I dropped my flickr account because of the number of kids (obvious CP esque material) that are posted there and the posters have this sort of "hey I know you use it for porn, but I have the right to free speech too, so don't get me in trouble" sort of attitude and that just creeps me out. It makes me think to the of the one creepy guy walking around the beach with a telephoto lens.

No offense KW..

But anyway I moved onto picasa at google and most of the people on there are from europe and the pictures are fantastic.. I'll have to upload some of my artsy ones and post them here
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I'm not even really a photo hobbyest, but some things I do is always shoot pics and video on "VIVID" color modes... yeah yeah I know, but is anything we do ever REAL? smile.gif And been messing with HDR (LDR?) photos which I think are really cool for so many reasons. it brings out so much more detail that is usually lost in digital photos - more of what the eye really sees that got lost in dark or washed out parts of pictures. Bought the Canon S90
QTPFSGUI does some amazing stuff for free. even to one single exposure
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtpfsgui/files/

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Great thread! I love photography (I even took photography at university and want to pick it up again) and there's some really nice stuff posted here already. What a creative community this really is. Hasn't Carbon111 even written a book about this subject?

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i am horrible at photography, and i certainly can't top kW's post, so i'm just going to post pictures that i've taken that i think are funny for some reason or another that are maybe music related.

recording in abandoned buildings with forumite goldy mcjohn floored out:

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the most hilarious studio ive ever visited:

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the double dog:

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i would love to remember the story behind this:

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no more

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Quote Originally Posted by Tomkeen View Post
Yeah I saw that too biggrin.gif

And you just made the picture look a whole lot better :p
That's from that free program I posted. Also, PICASA works well to enhance and/or correct picture tones. Even its one button AUTOFIX works great most of the time.
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Quote Originally Posted by wwwjd View Post
That's from that free program I posted. Also, PICASA works well to enhance and/or correct picture tones. Even its one button AUTOFIX works great most of the time.
Thanks for the tip! Picasa does a great job of enhancing indeed!

My dog:

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Quote Originally Posted by ChristianRock View Post
What a ridiculous thing to say. You must have an agenda.

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with those pictures.
i don't see anything inaccurate with what rath said.

if your definition of art is photographing other people's family moments on a beach with a telephoto lense and then sharing it with the world, then you as the 'artist' have to realize that other people are going to make their own interpretations and draw their own conclusions. that's part of the whole 'art' thing.


i can only say that if i discovered my family was the subject of such art, i wouldn't be real happy. i'm sure many people would be fine with it, but that's why consent is important.
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Quote Originally Posted by scenicsquare View Post
i don't see anything inaccurate with what rath said.

if your definition of art is photographing other people's family moments on a beach with a telephoto lense and then sharing it with the world, then you as the 'artist' have to realize that other people are going to make their own interpretations and draw their own conclusions. that's part of the whole 'art' thing.


i can only say that if i discovered my family was the subject of such art, i wouldn't be real happy. i'm sure many people would be fine with it, but that's why consent is important.
What you're saying is a bit different from what rath implied, which was that KW is some kind of pervert...
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I agree with both you guys.


But at least here, KWs photos are harmless (relatively, barring consent) and they are posted amongst a small group of friends.

Now consider that in contrast to the guy who has to keep posting his daughter at gymnastics meets in the politics forum and people have told him it was inappropriate to post those openly and he's all like what me worry? facepalm.gif

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