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My photography.

Locut0s

Locut0s

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I've shown some of my fav shots to some on these forums (recently 2 or 3 people) and may even have posted these shots here a long time back but I thought I'd do so again. Photography is something I've thought off and on of getting into as a career. As many of you know I'm really in depressed anxious limbo land right now with no job and no idea what I'm going to do. Anyway despite rarely doing it one of my hobbies (I have many) is photography. The shots you see below are a collection of some of my fav shots over the years. Like I said I rarely do much photography. I take my camera out mainly on vacations and the rare day trip outing. Even on vacations I tend to shoot no more than 2-400 shots. So I think this is a fairly good ratio of total shots to good shots. A lot of these were taken with my old Canon G2 camera back in the day. The more recent ones were taken with my Pentax K20D. I know very little about the details of photograph beyond what I know in terms of composition, lighting and the like. I shoot in aperture priority and I know how to roughly control DOF but beyond that I'm a newb. I now shoot in RAW+JPG mode for everything but most of these were shot just in JPG mode. Anyway take a look and let me know what you think.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v333/Locut0s/Favs/
 
I've seen those pictures before, and I like them a lot. You have a good eye for what makes an interesting picture :^)

Playing around with Gimp. Not exactly what I wanted, but I'm too tired to really fool with it too much.

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If it interests you I'd highly suggest looking at lots and lots of other pictures and reading some books for inspiration. You have some nice shots in there.
 
Not bad at all.

With photography, most of the money is in portraiture - weddings or otherwise. You can do real estate stuff but that I don't think is as easy to get into. The other places would be working for a newspaper, product photography or working for some sort of magazine.

None of these are easy to get into and some will not make you much money to start.
 
What are the odds that two ATOTer's would travel to the same country, the same city, the same place in that city, stand in nearly the same spot, and take a picture, at almost the same angle? Of coarse, yours truly waited for the damn touristas to GTFO of the frame.

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runzwithsizorz said:
What are the odds that two ATOTer's would travel to the same country, the same city, the same place in that city, stand in nearly the same spot, and take a picture, at almost the same angle? Of coarse, yours truly waited for the damn touristas to GTFO of the frame.

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cool :thumbsup:
 
runzwithsizorz said:
What are the odds that two ATOTer's would travel to the same country, the same city, the same place in that city, stand in nearly the same spot, and take a picture, at almost the same angle? Of coarse, yours truly waited for the damn touristas to GTFO of the frame.
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Nice. Well it's a famous place. The tourist is my father though. 😛
 
lxskllr said:
I've seen those pictures before, and I like them a lot. You have a good eye for what makes an interesting picture :^)

Playing around with Gimp. Not exactly what I wanted, but I'm too tired to really fool with it too much.

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Needs a texture layer to finish it up.
 
Nice pictures. I tried photography once. I spent a lot of money and ended up with nothing but cheesy snapshots.
 
Rastus said:
Nice pictures. I tried photography once. I spent a lot of money and ended up with nothing but cheesy snapshots.
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Ya, it's definitely an art. I've had a couple pictures turn out good, but it was purely by accident. I just don't have the eye for it.
 
I thought this thread was about Locut0s' pornography. I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or relieved.
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
Why would you start with fancy gear if you don't even know if you like the hobby?
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Back in the day, just a half way decent 35mm, lenses, etc, purchased at pawn shops, or overseas could still run an easy 2 grand, been there done that. Who'd a thought that in a few years you could buy a camera for less then 300 bucks that shoots 12megs, stores over 500 pics, has auto everything, and fits in your shirt pocket. No more visits to the Deans Photo Kiosk, lol
 
runzwithsizorz said:
Back in the day, just a half way decent 35mm, lenses, etc, purchased at pawn shops, or overseas could still run an easy 2 grand, been there done that. Who'd a thought that in a few years you could buy a camera for less then 300 bucks that shoots 12megs, stores over 500 pics, has auto everything, and fits in your shirt pocket. No more visits to the Deans Photo Kiosk, lol
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Really? I though relatively affordable 35mm cameras have been around for along time. By affordable I mean in the 2-300 range or a bit more. And these can take fantastic shots. Again it's 80-90% about technique and not the camera.
 
What I discovered from photography is that the more money you put in your equipment, the better your pictures are going to come out. Throw your money on a D3x or a 1Ds so you don't have any excuse left.
 
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