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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 13, 2016 9:45:11 GMT
Oooh am I the first person to be 'moderated' on here??? Not at all! I think I beat you by three times already You really must try harder.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 10:13:41 GMT
That's a shite photo. Must try harder. How rude I'm a bit lazy these days and use my mobile to take pictures (like that one), as it saves me carrying my Nikon SLR around with me. The other disadvantage with the Nikon is that it's more of an ordeal gettting the pictures onto the web (although I understand more modern SLR cameras are web friendly)...oh and, you look less like a Japanese tourist (not that I have anything agaist them you understand).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 10:17:46 GMT
Ah, I see. So you copied the picture to Imgur. No I did. I did a screen grab of your picture, saved it and then uploaded it to my Imgr account... That's why I answered your post, silly. As I said, thanks to you and Delta. I don't want you to feel unappreciated.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 10:22:31 GMT
No I did. I did a screen grab of your picture, saved it and then uploaded it to my Imgr account... That's why I answered your post, silly. As I said, thanks to you and Delta. I don't want you to feel unappreciated. Strange, when I first responded to that I could have sworn you were responding to Delta. Weird.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 13, 2016 10:56:01 GMT
"How rude!"
Think of my rudeness as free education. Let's face it, you didn't use a tripod, you didn't go there before and work out the angle, you didn't take bracketing shots (eg. +0.5, +1, -0.5, -1), you didn't deliberately choose the time of day - to go there at sunrise or sunset, for instance. Just 'SNAP!' and you expect to win Delta's packet of grilling sausages (best before Sep 18th).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 12:57:29 GMT
"How rude!" Think of my rudeness as free education. Let's face it, you didn't use a tripod, you didn't go there before and work out the angle, you didn't take bracketing shots (eg. +0.5, +1, -0.5, -1), you didn't deliberately choose the time of day - to go there at sunrise or sunset, for instance. Just 'SNAP!' and you expect to win Delta's packet of grilling sausages (best before Sep 18th). Yep. So is that the prize then. Disappointed really. I thought the prize was a day out with GD.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 14:09:45 GMT
"How rude!" Think of my rudeness as free education. Let's face it, you didn't use a tripod, you didn't go there before and work out the angle, you didn't take bracketing shots (eg. +0.5, +1, -0.5, -1), you didn't deliberately choose the time of day - to go there at sunrise or sunset, for instance. Just 'SNAP!' and you expect to win Delta's packet of grilling sausages (best before Sep 18th). Some of the best photographs ever taken are as a result of of impulse or just being in the correct place at the correct time and importantly the use of natural existing light and above all composition, composition, composition. Nowadays if you don't get the composition correct first time of course you can cheat afterwards but it's nice to get it right 'in camera' if you can. Ask Henri Cartier Bresson. It's also not about having all 'the right gear' he was an advocate of carrying a small easy to handle camera (A Leica) that enabled you to be unobtrusive and get some of the best candid shots. Some of the best shots taken in war and conflict zones have similarly been taken by people able to remain unobtrusive and not stand out waving their big fat telephoto lens equipped camera about. (I'm sure some photographers carry all those long lenses in order to make up for inadequacies in their well.....you know what.) I carry my Nikon DSLR less and less these days preferring to keep my small cheap Panasonic Lumix TZ 35 close by or even my phone, the Nikon with it's additional lenses is just too cumbersome really.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 13, 2016 14:43:17 GMT
I don't agree. Yes, you may be lucky to get a 'good' snap if you happen to be in the right place at the right moment - but is that a 'good photograph'? I go along with the Japanese chap who carries a ladder and gets himself up trees in order to capture whole trains nose-to-tail. A lot of effort has gone into images in Amateur Photographer and Practical Photography magazines, time and patience, technical skill and artistic flair.
If you can't be bothered to put your camera on a tripod, is it really a photo worth taking?
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 13, 2016 15:04:11 GMT
Here's some candid photography anyway
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Post by rockdodger on Aug 13, 2016 15:05:57 GMT
Right well I might as well go & buy my own grilling sausages then, quite clearly I'm not in the running - tripod, I thought that is wot surveyors put theodolites on☺
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Post by JohnV on Aug 13, 2016 15:24:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 15:45:10 GMT
If you can't be bothered to put your camera on a tripod, is it really a photo worth taking? Well for low light photography or night time maybe at a push yes. But for normal daylight stuff? By the time you've faffed about setting it up and sorted the lens out you've totally missed the chance of a great shot. Not a competition entry obvs.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 13, 2016 15:50:03 GMT
So is that the prize then. Disappointed really. I thought the prize was a day out with GD. First prize is an evening with mjg. Second prize is two evenings with mjg.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 16:25:38 GMT
The word 'cunt' was invented to describe Iconoclast.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 13, 2016 18:52:54 GMT
Anyway....... back to the thread ........ Where the hell are all the other entries for the competition? Come on you lot .... get cracking
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