Photography Thread

[nutcracker]

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....
humph.

More slaps

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[meatcake]

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.

[OLS]

Another one from Vanessa

[Dave128]

Very hot looking woman. I dig the shirt and, yes, I enjoy her little "things"!

[OLS]

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.

[shark]

Originally Posted by OLS

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.

Oh yeah I'd kiss her all over.....

[OLS]

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.

[OLS]

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

[OLS]

Last night at Bocce Smackdown 4, someone brought one of those dogs with no redeeming quality outside it's ability to do this:

[OLS]

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.

[emopunker2004]

I heard Brad mention guns on a female so I'll leave this here...


punch by emopunker2004, on Flickr

[Remo]

Your arms are pretty big Justin!

[emopunker2004]

Originally Posted by Remo

Your arms are pretty big Justin!

Har har. Bet my wife could kick you ass

[Remo]

Originally Posted by emopunker2004

Har har. Bet my wife could kick you ass

I would let her

[emopunker2004]

Originally Posted by Remo

I would let her

[OLS]

KaPOW!

[HelenOster]

Originally Posted by OLS

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 was so very sorry to read that this was your experience, but can't identify your order without additional information - if you could please email me: Helen@adorama.com I will give this my immediate attention

[OLS]

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.

[HelenOster]

Originally Posted by OLS

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.

Not all; it sounds from your feedback that WE failed you - and I'd like to see whether there is anything I can do to make it right.

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.

[OLS]

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.