They Give Us Those Nice Bright Colors
The traditionalists, Ross Halfin among them, decry the advance of digital photography because, "It's about taking photos, not fucking around on a laptop and putting any old shit out and claiming you're a photographer... any idiot with a digital camera thinks they're a photographer."
I would agree that it is much harder to take a good photograph on film. Having played with film all of my life and now using digital, I prefer digital. I'm still learning. I'm not claiming to be a photographer, but I do enjoy "fucking around on a laptop and putting any old shit out."
These are from the weekend. The first is when I happened upon the Fighting Pink Shirts vs. the Illegal Immigrant Brits in a local soccer match. I like the action of the cleat to the groin - and the motorcycle in the parking lot in the background.
The second is just a nice contrast. When you envision Zep-Heads in the park, you don't generally picture them reading "Smart Money."
(Click 'em - they get bigger)
I would agree that it is much harder to take a good photograph on film. Having played with film all of my life and now using digital, I prefer digital. I'm still learning. I'm not claiming to be a photographer, but I do enjoy "fucking around on a laptop and putting any old shit out."
These are from the weekend. The first is when I happened upon the Fighting Pink Shirts vs. the Illegal Immigrant Brits in a local soccer match. I like the action of the cleat to the groin - and the motorcycle in the parking lot in the background.
The second is just a nice contrast. When you envision Zep-Heads in the park, you don't generally picture them reading "Smart Money."
(Click 'em - they get bigger)
Labels: digital photography, Led Zeppelin, Nikon, photography, randomness, Ross Halfin, soccer
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What kind of cam did you get? When my boy was playing a lot of club soccer I bought what I thought would be a good digital camera to immortalize those adventures, and it was a great camera -- for everything but sports. The shutter lag was horrible. I learned to see three seconds into the future. I think the new ones pretty much eliminated that.
I have to say, there's one undeniable advantage to digital, which is you can shoot as much as you want without going broke. When I shot for a tiny town newspaper I'd always shoot as many as possible to get the best shot, especially with sports -- or anything with people or animals.
When they get digital HD video cams small enough, we can just shoot video and pull our stills from that.
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Anonymous, at November 19, 2007 at 7:38 AM
Yeah - the ability to waste shots all day long is great. As is, of course, the instantaneous revelation that a shot sucked and you can pitch it right there.
Using the Nikon D50, which is pretty versatile. I still keep my old Pentax K1000 around though.
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RFB, at November 19, 2007 at 7:55 AM
the zep guy is using the magazine to conceal the drugs he's selling. it's a signal to prospective buyers. smart money—get it?
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HighJive, at November 20, 2007 at 3:25 PM
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