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Few more from the Calendar. We did shoot all of these while the shop was still open because the manager didn't want to stay so the patrons got an eye full for 2 evenings. I got asked by at least 10 guys if we were doing it again after the first night. Let's just say the amount of customers doubled 2nd day.
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This is why it's good to have a camera set up and ready, sitting in the passenger seat of your car:
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Nice shots of the turkey Ron :tu
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Man, Ron, your trigger finger is getting really good lately.
HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS when the kids of your model are better than what you came to shoot. Granted, none of the pressure was on the kid, but when mom went to change, I started shooting her kids. Nothing but gold nuggets. And MOM? She did alright. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psfd84b918.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psc8c7fd02.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psa5cab10d.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psc1929dfa.jpg |
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You nailed it with those ones, Brad! :banger You have a real talent for photographing people. And thanks for the compliment, too. I read on a Facebook group that I belong to that this local landmark was on fire, so I drove over there and started shooting. Damn shame that it's gone...
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Hehe, Danger Mouse for sho. Great shots. I like to look at shots like these as a public service...
ITS GONE, and the last shots of it as it passed on were those. Kind of like my shots of New Orleans Arena, before they put the huge SMOOTHIE KING CENTER on it. ech. Here is another example shot from Sunday morning. I told the singer/model once we were into the shooting some, that she should not worry about being stiff or plastic, since I would be sneaking in shots between the shots where her face was relaxed and she would be more natural.....one of those shots here. Damn hand blur. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4b4fa282.jpg |
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it for Thanksgiving. Can't do THAT with the Iphone. |
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HAHA, let me tell you it gets harder. I was shooting Vanessa and told her that with this 24mm lens,
I was going to have to get really low and close, so if she wanted her underwear not to show, she needed to be aware of that. She said, "Oh, I'm not WEARING any underwear." A mother of 4, Nutcracker, I think you are safe. |
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Here's the trouble guys - the amazing looking girls in the lingerie are nice, but the wide eyed fully clothed mom has an entirely different appeal. Not sure what it is - the girl next door, real person look....
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Its all personal preference for sure. When I shoot models in lingerie im selling a fantasy. Portraits is a different game but I do both.
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Very hot looking woman. I dig the shirt and, yes, I enjoy her little "things"! :dr
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One more and I will let this fade away. She is fooling around here, she kissed her 'guns' earlier, but I was out of focus.
And it is really just a laugh anyway, now Ashlee K, the Midtown Violets violin player, she has some guns. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps11495f4a.jpg |
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I think I have given up on Adorama. A LOT of people have tried to warn me off of em from bad experiences, but most of mine
have been positive. But Passover knocked them for a loop. TO much weed or something. I got a used Canon lens from them and it was not cheap, $399 in grade E, so no dust inside, hell two grades above lenses with visible dust inside. But it is littered with large bits. As I use it a lot above f/8-f/11, these are spots I will end up having to paint out. if it had been graded G, or even V, I would have had no complaints. But I paid for E and got G, so I am sending it back. It is almost 9 days since they got back from Passover, having been gone for a week. And they are just not gettin after it. I was looking for a refund of at least $100, and they want more pictures, dragging their feet, and giving up a customer that spent 9 grand on used and clearance material last year. I hate it for em, but I hate it for me even more. Now I have to pay a premium on the same stuff at B&H. Pick any lens and check both places for like used grades. You'll see 15%-20% more in price at B&H for the same used gear. SO as my dad used to say, its gonna hurt me a lot more than its gonna hurt them. But after 20 months of faithful patronage, I am out. I am not suggesting anyone not use them, I loved using them. But this is lame, slow and not worth my time. They were gonna slow drag right through my 30 day return warranty. F that. Bye Bye awesome lens. Well, not really, for $50 more during a Canon lens sale at B&H I just replaced it with new...100mm f/2 for $50 more than I just paid used (and dusty) and free shipping to boot. I am sure Adorama has the same sale on, but bump that. |
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Not sure how many of you are in line for a new lens for your Canon, hell I shouldn't be, I am a Nikon guy, but I just bought
a THRILLINGLY SHARP 100mm f/2 and got almost 70 bucks off of Lightroom. I did not want Lightroom, I have two versions of Photoshop. But for RAW, I can't run these ole timey versions of photoshop and work with RAW easily if at all. Certainly for nothing past the D70-D80. SO Lightroom seemed like a decent idea for $80. SO now I have it, gotta get ready to hate it. But there is a full field of Canon lenses "on sale" now with these coupla bonus software bundles on, just like Nikon did last month or so. If you need it, might be time to think about it. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/promot...s-savings.html |
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Last night at Bocce Smackdown 4, someone brought one of those dogs with no redeeming quality outside it's ability to do this:
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I used to think vignetting was the coolest look, and I still do, but when I was emulating one of my big idols of the photonic arts,
I saw him posting a LOT of great photos with some reasonably noticeable vignetting. SO I took MY PHOTOS that had none and photoshopped it in. Now I realize for the most part, its just Canon lenses, some of them anyway. And it stands to reason, since he was not really packing any serious lenses then. This was a lens I picked up to go with my Canon 5D, a cheap zoom of 28-105 (3.5 max). And it vignettes on both ends, I think. But when I want to direct the viewer's attention to my subject, it is FINE with me. NOW, if only I had paid closer attention to focus. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7c3c7091.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8aff9371.jpg |
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I heard Brad mention guns on a female so I'll leave this here...
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Your arms are pretty big Justin!
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That's mostly because I do not handle my camera buying business here at the Asylum, I try to handle it with your company.
What I do HERE is tell people what happened to me when I tried to get my business taken care of but couldn't. You word your statement as if I had not already tried and failed for 10 days (plus all of Passover) through the channels your company has in place. There is no need to stalk me here with a search engine, sign up to the forum, and offer me what you should be offering me on your own website once I alert you to the issue. A lot of people here would consider that 'reaching out" to me and trying to resolve my issue. I tend to see it as too late to be of any help, and definitely in the wrong place. And to be quite frank, YOU HAVE helped me. Your company has a no-questions asked 30 day return policy. If I can't get my issues handled to my satisfaction, I can just send it all back. |
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My role at Adorama is only online customer support to Adorama customers via photography forums, shopping sites, Flickr groups etc. We can't monitor what each one of our CS Call Center Team members is doing 100% of the time and recognize that occasionally mistakes will happen. If you need me to step in, well, you know where I am. |
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Your call center didn't make any errors. You have a fair return policy in place that I was forced to use.
This would be less likely to occur if people who have been off for over a week understand that when they get back to work, its time to get serious and clear the decks. |
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I also want to re-iterate my original statement which has not changed. I am not trying to tell anyone that this
company is not fit to take your money. If you are shopping USED price, you are going to end up there, they are simply the cheapest around on used. And if you want to give them the full benefit of the doubt, they are a VERY large company. Eventually you are going to feel let down if you spend enough money and handle enough used gear through them. This does not make them a bad choice for you. I am talking about ME, and what I am willing to tolerate. I dealt with em for 2 years, more or less, and on the whole, feel like it was a good relationship. This ending with me is over a bunch of subtle clues that things are changing and it is no longer advantageous for me to shop with em. |
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No ma'am, my sincere apologies, but this was sorted out when I shipped the package back to New Jersey. Not to my
liking obviously, I didn't want to send it back. I wanted to shoot with it. But unless someone has expressed to me in writing that I would be allowed to return it for a refund AFTER they 30 days granted me by your policy, and in spite of however long it took to resolve the issue, I would have waited this process out. But no one made any such assurances. SO it had to go back before the time expired. I DO have an assurance that I will be refunded in full for the lens. If that ends up being the case, I will certainly make sure to mention it here so that you can have closure. |
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And as I have stated dozens of times here before, although it is similar to all the big players in the type and duration of
it's return policy, I have never had an issue returning an item to Adorama, exactly as they state, "with no questions asked." This extra business aired in the open here is related to the reason the lens is headed back home. Not to what I think my chances are of being refunded. |
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In my ever increasing desire to further my 'hobby'. I did a ton of research looking for a printer. I have no print shop remotely close to me and the 'photoshops' have no real options in paper. While yes, I am a Canon whore I did not limit my research to just their printers. However, as expected, I did settle on the Pixma Pro-10. It has the B&W capabilities that I wanted and excellent color output. Doesn't hurt that they also lured me in with $300 of fine art paper. Which has the feel of poster board and not photo paper....haha.
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This series of printers performed surprisingly well in my experience. And yours is MUCH nicer than mine. The ink is where
they get you, but ink is what makes the photos, so you are going to have to suck it up and just buy ink if you want to complete the cycle. And boy does that one like ink, shazaam. But the prints it creates are stunning. A lot of us have a new mentality born of 10-15 years of digital photography, and surfing the internet, we tend to just amass pictures in massive folders, and printing is something we'd like to do eventually, when we get stuff we REALLY want to print. But we never really get around to it. These printers are very solid. And paper is a slippery slope, too, haha. A couple of novel papers I like to tinker with are the metallic glossys and the vinyl or semi-gloss sticker paper. Ask any kid...stickers are fun. |
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I read the same thing about ink usage. A lot of the info said it depends on what type of paper you're using, how often you print and a few other factors. Most of the 'pro' reviewers seemed to think it was in line with other quality printers as far as ink usage. The Pro-1 is better, but it's also $400 more and by 'better' I think it's because it has much larger ink tanks and you get a better price per ml. The Pro-10 has 14ml cartridges which works out to less than a $1 per ml. Which is less than half the cost of our HP Photostylus printer.
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I wanted to take a moment to, not RETRACT things I said that got the Ador-ama rep in here, but to make sure that a
resolution of my issue gets in print where you all can read it. I got frustrated with the long time it took to evaluate my "claim" that the lens I ordered had a condition issue that placed it well below the grade of lens I paid for. There was simply a large field of large dust on many of the inner surfaces of the lens. Lots of lenses I own and you own have dust inside. But I paid for a grade with no such 'feature'. lol. But the folks there were off a solid week for Passover, and then about 8-9 days after they got back, I still did not know if they were even considering a reduction offer I proposed. So while I was NOT concerned that I would be ignored, I WAS concerned that their fair-as-heck 30 day no hassle return policy would expire on me while I waited. Normally this could never be. But this was not normal. They had been gone 7-8 days on a holiday, and I figured by the time they got around to me, fair or not, they might say "Sorry, your 30 days are up. I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere. For $400, I couldn't risk it. But a rep from the company signed up to the Asylum and asked me to please email her so that she could help me. Code for "for goodness sake, shut up and let me help you." , haha. But on a parallel track, I was also getting help from another major C.S. rep. Bottom line is they offered me VERY close to my original idea of what I'd hoped they might offer as a reduction for the dust condition. And my offer was, as you might expect, High to my benefit. SO I was fairy impressed with the counter-offer. Keep in mind this was a used lens, but a pricey one to be sure. Prior to that offer, however, I had sent the lens back with return paperwork. I had to apologize and thank him, but he confirmed that I would be given full value for the return as well, so either way, he hoped I was satisfied and I was. I also need to REALLY apologize for mentioning even in ultra-jest, that they had smoked too much weed on vacation. Obviously this was out of line, but never mentioned by either of them. Reckless of me. So while I may have drawn their consternation of telling you all that I was seriously considering not be shopping there anymore, I certainly went out of my way to be clear THEN that I did not think that anyone else should stop using them. The product is always great, and when it it does not meet your expectations, you have the great return options with no hassle. Those who know me from this thread also know that this did not even mean that I WAS NOT happy necessarily, because I've spent 7-8000 dollars there in less than two years, almost none of it on new gear. Whether they know it or not, I am the lifeblood of the used department. So ignore what I said, and know that I was made whole on my issue. I also know what I can do myself to keep that kind of thing from occurring again. Will I shop there again? I have three places where I shop cameras, so there is no telling. But there is no reason why not. Plus I think I have one of everything NOW. Let's just say we'll see. |
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By the way, I was kidding when I said I was the lifeblood of the used department, I just forgot to put in the smiley face.
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While we are on the subject of buying cameras and other gear used from various online merchants, I also need
to go on record as being not so sure anymore about Nikon being the best thing for me. And by that I mean that I will always be a Nikon shooter, that's just how it shook out. I am heavily invested and very happy. But then came the day that I just had to test out ole Ken Rockwell's impression that the Canon 5D was the perfect portrait and landscape camera. I can't really speak to the landscape issue, but I was pretty shocked that I would be some impressed with the results of shooting this camera. Granted, it is an investment that is tough to swallow, but hear me out. I know a few of you who are shooting Nikon now, but also wanting a full frame camera now. SO let's say for argument that you are FULLY intent on picking up a full-frame Nikon this year, used, and had decided between a D700 or a D600, just to keep it reasonable. Do you realize that you can pay $1400 or more for a good D700, $12-1300 for a fair one, and a used D600 is going to ride about the same level, just $2-400 more. So in order to stay Nikon (so you can use all your lenses) you would pay no less than $1400 for a Full frame camera. But right now, today, you can go to Ado and get a Canon 5D, original version, TWO YEARS older then the D700, for $499, and then pick up one, maybe TWO SWEET fast Canon prime lenses and come out below the cost for just the Nikon full framer BODY you chose to go with? ALL of the full frame goodness, lush, brilliant color, eye-popping lens quality, even without paying the "L-series" lens money. Your choice of the Canon 85mm f/1.8 or the 100mm f/2 would be fine as your only lens ever, if you didn't want to lay out so much cash. This 100mm f/2 is optically stunning for it not being considered a high end Canon lens (even though it is in terms of results). You would never even have to give up Nikon to go full frame. You can keep your Nikon stuff and still have the entire full frame experience for less than the price of just the Nikon body....wow. That is just uncanny to me, and it made me happy. I am in no danger of a Canon slope, but the logic of the premise really had me giddy. SO I sold about 6 old Nikons and picked up a 5D and a $50 lens and a $400 lens. I think a few people here might also think that is a good idea. Even if I came up with it, lol. |
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