The Coffee House

[bribrius]

bought a cheap lighting kit. tired of my portraits looking like crap. i dunno though, triggers, sync, sounding over my head and it isn't even here yet. Gotta do something though. My portrait attempts are looking like crap...

just a cheap one. im not really into it enough to spend serious money and the higher ones well, i cant spend a grand or two on a lighting kit...

You need to see the light. KISS it in the beginning (Keep It Simple Stupid).

Window lighting. No flash, no reflectors, no triggers, no digital ... just a camera and a window.

yeah i have done them. But it is different when i am trying to shoot portraits without having that perfect window light. That is more a casual shot than a background portrait type shot.

 

[snerd]

actually that is still near six hundred or so, add to the other stuff this week i am over a grand somewhere. My wife is going to kill me...I think my hobby became a addiction..

You're gonna love off camera flash. If you're using TTL, even better.

My wife is going to kill me. I spent a grand this week on camera stuff. i think i left the hobbyist phase at this point.. she is already telling me to start earning money back it is becoming too expensive...

Wifey smifey!!!! Good for you!!!

Me- running off to hide cause I'm scared and it's not even me lol!!!


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[bribrius]

You're gonna love off camera flash. If you're using TTL, even better.

i think so.... All i know is i was going nuts. Remember i was trying to do the digital backgrounds too? i basically did everything i could trying to get out of buying the stuff but there really isn't any way around it. And i could use the off camera flash for outside as well.

 

[Designer]

Good luck!

Tell us when you get the stuff.

If you're still alive.

 

[minicoop1985]

My wife has the camera bug too. I show yup with new TTL flash triggers and she asks "Can I borrow them?" She always gets mad when I tell her that her dumb Sony hot shoe won't work with them.

 

[bribrius]

Good luck!

Tell us when you get the stuff.

If you're still alive.

speedlights says three more days. studio kit says a week........ And thanks. I really want my konica film cameras too but u.p.s. says they havent left yet. Oddly enough i have filters that already came in. I will never understand the mail.

 

[minicoop1985]

Post some pics so we know what we got.

 

[snowbear116 47]

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Oh, the tilt. Lemme guess - ya hit the liquor store, first?

i ain't scared of no tilt.

If you call it a Dutch Tilt ... it would be considered art.

And still an overdone cliche technique. </rant>

 

[snowbear116 47]

We should've made our mascot a Walrus instead of a Gnome.

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

"But wait a bit," the Oysters cried,
"Before we have our chat;
For some of us are out of breath,
And all of us are fat!"
"No hurry!" said the Carpenter.
They thanked him much for that."

I am the egg man, I am the egg man
I am the walrus
goo goo goo joob

 

[snowbear116 47]

Second day of the GIS conference. It was cold going in, this morning. I had to scrape ice off of the car and there was a little bit of snow mixed in with the freezing rain.

Former Governor of MD, Martin O'Malley was one of the keynote speakers, along with Robert Cardillo, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. O'Malley certainly is champion of GIS as a management tool in government, but his talk was, at times, leaning towards campaigning.

Please, no political responses. If you're interested in MO'M's support of GIS, just Google Citistat (Baltimore City), Statestat or BaysStat (State of MD)

 

[LakeFX]

Good morning, peeps.

My usual K-Cup (Black Magic, again) then off to DC for the second day of the ESRI Federal Users' GIS Conference. I have a full schedule of workshops planned.

Hey, another GIS professional! I don't get to go to many of the fun conferences though.

 

[bribrius]

what is gis?

 

[snowbear116 47]

Hey, another GIS professional! I don't get to go to many of the fun conferences though.

Wow - there's two of us! I just started - I'm the world's oldest intern. The only reason I got to go to this is because our ESRI rep gave us tickets.

what is gis?

Geographic (or Geospatial) Information Systems (or Science). Computer drawn maps and so much more. Basically it's using geographic information to make decisions.

 

[bribrius]

Hey, another GIS professional! I don't get to go to many of the fun conferences though.

Wow - there's two of us! I just started - I'm the world's oldest intern. The only reason I got to go to this is because our ESRI rep gave us tickets.

what is gis?

Geographic (or Geospatial) Information Systems (or Science). Computer drawn maps and so much more. Basically it's using geographic information to make decisions.

examples?

 

[snowbear116 47]

https://www.arcgis.com/home/

My current projects are rebuilding the Fire-EMS Department's "Run Cards" (what stations go to what calls) on a system based on driving times, instead of linear distances; and a geographic system that will allow businesses to "Adopt a Neighborhood" and provide money for smoke detectors, tracking which homes have had them installed by the department.

I also interned at NOAA, preparing the road and railroad databases to be placed on the Electronic Navigation Charts (ENCs).

Google "citistat' or 'statestat' as well.