Not EVERY potrait must be shot in portrait orientation!

[Village Idiot]

Wasn't it your turn to make the popcorn?

How come there's no link to the TPF mentoring program in your signature?

There isn't? What?????

You should post a link to an NSFW post on TPF that's called "Tits or GTFO". True story.

 

[ghache]

the GWAC's gigiliwaks photographer who responded to the thread actually produice some seriously amazing work that you will never come close to create. you suck. get out of your basement.

 

[Robin Usagani]

this thread is hawtt... cant keep up.

 

[ghache]

"Look everybody--it's my own personal internet stalker, ghache!!! He loves following me around TPF, leaving little comments. Aren't stalking French-Canadians cute!?! lol"

The guy's obsessed with me. He even did a post in which he tried to embarrass me by posting an off-site link to a photo of me and my infant son, but it was reported by Kundalini, and perhaps others, and ghache's post was removed by TPF moderators. He has been following me around here for the past week or so, even going so far as to search through MY POSTS, going back a whole WEEK to call me a "pervert" on a post. Ghache is waging a little personal vendetta against me. I've even left out some of his other attacks on me. It took about three minutes to go to ghache's "recent posts" history,and click on them, and note the URL's of posts where he has done nothing but wage his persistent campaign of personal attacks on me.

So yes, Village Idiot, I know how to use a computer!!! It's easy once you learn how! And the "case" on ghache...you're building the case yourself Mr. Stalker...the attack on an 18-day-old infant being held by his father shows how classless you really are.

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hahahahah! god Derrel, a little bit of self control. yes a called you a pervert! saying stuff like that on a photography forum especially coming from a photographer is not nice..

Attacked a baby? hahah!

Did you eat it?

Sure, with a side dish of potatoes.

 

[analog.universe]

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hahahahah! god Derrel, a little bit of self control. yes a called you a pervert! saying stuff like that on a photography forum especially coming from a photographer is not nice..

Attacked a baby? hahah!

Did you eat it?

Sure, with a side dish of potatoes.

Interesting match... the last time there was a baby on a dinner plate around here it was just garnished with salt and pepper :lmao:

 

[Robin Usagani]

 

[CCericola]

You don't have to always follow the rules of design but, you need to know them be fore you break them.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

I usually I have some great one liner to post, on either subject going on in this thread. Sadly, I don't.

But I do believe beginners don't really need to know anything about composition. So I guess I agree with the OP.

 

[Derrel]

So, for those who have never read a single, solitary article on composition; who have never taken a single art class; never done a single figure drawing; never studied design or art or photography--here is a web article written by one of the true modern masters of photography and fine art printing of images. I'd encourage everybody here to visit the link, and look at the illustrations, because this article is written by a true MASTER-level photographer,and yet, he has some illustrations that have only become possible (easily) due to computer manipulation of images. This is not the same old dumbed-down tripe regurgitated by hobbyists all over the web--this is the kind of advanced theory that you'll find in university-level, 400-level classes in the arts.

Photographic Composition - Introduction

 

[tirediron]

You don't have to always follow the rules of design but, you need to know them be fore you break them.

I think it's a little too late to bring any sanity to this train-wreck!

 

[kundalini]

I think it's a little too late to bring any sanity to this train-wreck!

Sad but true. This could have been a good discussion. Although my examples were a bit tounge-in-cheek, they were examples of atypical portraits. Plus... I thought I looked kewl.

 

[The_Traveler]

I could care less if 90% of self-taught, uneducated, Craigslist and Facebook wedding "photographers" shoot horizontals.

I hate to step in here with a little tiny question. I know that Derrel is really busy reading all those books on design and composition and art stuff and then writing 3 minute essays that will save the world but I was really shocked to find this little malapropism.

Quoted from Wikipedia - a neat discussion on malapropisms -
Unless you feel that language has no meaning. "I could care less" means, literally, that I care more about something than I conceivably could, which is the opposite of "I couldn't care less"; for a pungent simile for the latter, try "the instrument has yet to be invented which can measure my indifference towards ________."

Actually I do admit to a little bit of curiosity about how Derrel comes up with all those statistics about who has encountered him, etc.?
Do you think that Derrel makes little crosstabs about who has posted on the same thread as he has? That must be a lot of work, keeping track of those who may not agree with him.

We probably owe him a big thank you just for hanging out with us and giving us a glimpse of how photography should be done.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Pots and kettles...

 

[tirediron]

I think it's a little too late to bring any sanity to this train-wreck!

Sad but true. This could have been a good discussion. Although my examples were a bit tounge-in-cheek, they were examples of atypical portraits. Plus... I thought I looked kewl.

True, and for the rest of us, any picture of you where we only have to see have as much kundalini is a bonus!!

 

[analog.universe]

Pots and kettles...

there's the one liner!