It's not really about gear bro, my street photography thread I made was shot on a d200 lol it's about people actually taking photos and people giving a shit..

I shoot heaps now but theres no point posting stuff on here because no one really cares.

so true
and that's the very same reason why I've stopped posting stuff on here too
well I have seen people shooting d200 with 200mm f2 VR

This post was edited by Futurama on Dec 13 2012 03:10am

well, there's just no discussion about photography.. just gear talk or shit slinging lol

ah! well it has been like this for quite awhile now and I am sure I was one of the contributors to this as well
Though I do wish there are more people like you posting in here. If I remember correctly you were the one who told me back then that my landscape shots needed wider dynamic range
and I have remembered that advice at least try to when shooting landscapes.

So what happened to eek and onepage? They both used to post quite a lot in here in fact there weren't many threads in this forum without their posts

This post was edited by Futurama on Dec 13 2012 03:32am

Yeah maybe that was me, I remember telling people a landscape isn't a sunset with everything else black. Not sure if that sunk in or helped anyone.

I rather give people advice or share work over PM to be honest.

Haven't seen eek in ages and onepage doesn't shoot anymore.

lol chantal you sound butthurt. i myself just too busy with work and most of it i find boring to share.

rly should find some time to shoot off work.

lithfkn you should post more, we all value your advice and opinion
and obv your work is far superior to any of ours

i have loads of reasons why i have not shoot much lately, but all they really are, are excuses, i gotta get out and shoot more for myself
besides that i never really post on here anyway as too may ppl on here do not actually know what they are talking about, they just try sound smart and fail imo
as i said i would only value lithfkn opinion really and 1 other person

talking about gear etc, i really want the 200-400 f4 1.4converter lens (when it finally comes out) but at an estimated $10k i guess i gotta wait

I value a lot of people opinions on here. you should value everyones opinions. Just because they are not professionals dosent mean there opinion dosenrt matter.

Ever tried to talk to people and get "nah nah nah nah" with fingers in the ears... ?



My opinion/advice is only valid because I've made so many mistakes and learned from them in the last ~10 years, I can help and am happy to with people who genuinely gives a shit!


You just need to find a project to shoot. I found when I was much younger I got bored of photography if I would just go out and take pictures of random things. If you have a concept about a series of images you want to create, your photography becomes much more enjoyable.

The problem people have is that they expect to get better by just "taking random pictures" Yeah, technically, but what's the point if the rest of the image is garbage? Flowers and pets are nice, but boring as hell and aren't even worth time acknowledging here. As I said just now, and plenty of times in the past here, there is a concept, a story, a thought process behind every photo and every series one makes.

There are a million that come to mind that anyone here can shoot..

Series on:
Stray animals in your neighborhood/animal shelters/pounds
Abandoned shops and workplaces in your area
Elderly people in the street
LIGHT (sunsets/sunrise/diffracted light from glass/how light reacts in the local streets/shadows)
Do a story on your locally owned pizza shop (not a chain). Go in and ask them if you can do some documentary type shots for a project. Take 6 awesome images. Establishment shot (maybe of the building), portraits of the owners/chefs, details, action, people eating, then an empty restaurant at night. It's easy!
It's winter for all of us.. Go out of your comfort zone, get out in the cold, go for a hike, take the car to the middle of nowhere, hitch a ride, who care.. take your camera and ONE prime lens, a ~50mm and shoot the landscape around you. Distant shots, wide shots, closeups. Keep the same focal length though.

And that's just off the top of my head.. Get creative people. Do visual research. Get off those silly equipment forums. Buy magazines, get visually stimulated. You are all stagnating. Take risks. Try things. If you fuck up, you've learned something. If you kill it, great success but you've still learned something.

This post was edited by lithfkn on Dec 13 2012 09:49am