On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:58:40AM +0900, David Savage wrote: > G'day All, > > Okay so it's a stupid title, but it's the first thing that popped into > my head when I saw the result & it's stuck. > > Last weekend me & 2 friends gathered to help set up the lights in the > studio one of our number has gone a 3rd share in. Once the lighting > was dialled in, and after a few beers, it was play time with a couple > of found props: > > <http://flickr.com/photos/disavage/3315426481/> > > Direct link (~105kb) > <http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3530/3315426481_dfc33dd9a9_o.jpg>
One mark of a good photographer is the ability to make a beautiful picture of a less than beautiful subject, a great photographer can make the subject look beautiful too. I'd say you fall just short of greatness. > > D700, Smegma 24-70 f2.8, ISO 200 yadda yadda yadda > > Enjoy. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > P.S.: I showed them both the PDML annual & they were both very impressed. > > One even commented that it's interesting that more time is generally > spent really looking at a printed image rather than the cursory > viewing web images tend to get. > > P.P.S. Here's me: > > <http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3361/3316596755_8b7f7102e5.jpg> > <http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3613/3316596519_72c9fe91df.jpg> For your sake, I hope your friend falls quite a bit short of greatness. Fun shots, well executed. > > :-D > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Every medium suffers from its own particular handicap. Photography's greatest handicap is the ease with which the medium as such can be learned. As a result, too many budding neophytes learn to speak the language too long before they have anything to say." W. Connell 1949 Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
