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Lt Jim Dangle

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  1. long exposure photos are artsy fartsy when they're done right.. but they're almost pointless without a tripod or stabilizer of some sort.. I like the 2nd photo, but they aren't awesome photography.. I agree with you about not staging street photography, but thats what makes it such an art, you still have to make it visually appealing rather ur subjects directed or not...

  2. From the shots they showed it doesn't have any sort of markings designating it a historical landmark. No big signs. Not really anything that I can see.

     

    People get all pissed off when someone does something to a seemingly important place...I dont think this was intentional. You don't see MLK's kids out there with the news media talking about how it's a disgrace to their fathers memory. They could give a fuck.

     

    his sons in the video... friggin idiot.. the fact is everyones just playing there part, writers write, reporters report, and 2nd generations will always bitch about shit there father/mother stood for. none of it matters in the grand scheme.

  3. if you arent looking for anything super fancy,

     

    wal mart has olympus e-420s for $369. i just copped one; its super small, has live view mode so u can preview what certain exposures etc will look like, and seems to take clean flicks, but i havnt tried anything with a higher iso. one drawback is it uses a 4/3 lens system (digital specific), so you wont be able to use your lenses if you upgrade to a nikon or canon.

     

    i posted 3 pics or so that i shot with it a couple pages ago.

     

    my only regret is not getting it online with the 25mm pancake lens...shit is wicked small with it. heres a pentax k20d next it:

     

     

    //has stock in olympus

     

    I'm using a Lumix GH1 right now with the 4/3 system and I really like it, theres adapters for almost every lens on the market. If you like shooting manual 4/3 is sick. Not much in the way of wide lenses for it yet, but I'm sure they'll address it soon enough. just my 10 cents on 4/3.

  4. since you asked, it looks to me like you photoshopped graff onto a garage door; i can see where you didn't erase the stamp in the upper right corner.. a volkswagen hatchback shot in an unused industrial area with graffiti detailing the decadence of the area is only slightly played out. The problem with photoshop is the "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.", now, for all i know, you took a shot of a miniature volkswagen toy in a green box.

     

    I'm not hating, only replying cuz you asked. none of those shots you posted are anything close. shoe shots? word, never seen a pair of nike dunks like those. beer pong shot of dubious photoshop origin/fancy lighting? seen it a cajillion times, on here alone. playing around with the focus on a landscape shot and then deciding to juxtapose the minimal focus with the maximum? word?? just 2 cents, i guess. :o

     

    one more thing, this may just be me being inpersonable, but it gets me uber-vexed when people watermark 600 pixel, mediocre images. get over yourself. even if i did steal it (didn't, and won't), what do you think im going to do: print out a 1.3 by 2 inch passport photo of your shot, and carry it everywhere in my wallet?

     

    deff respect the opinions and the way you relayed them. I'm all for constructive critisism. I had made an all over print of that font and just wanted to test it out, dug the placement and all that so I kept it. the only reason I watermark my work is to tie it all together, people see the name they know it's my work. I make movies, thats my shit, for obvious reasons it's good to tie your photography to your video stuff. thanks for the critisism, always good to hear how different crowds take your photography

  5. dude he's the one trying to call people out, it's a photo thread if ur gonna say it's gone to shit post some photos worthwhile.. thats my only point. I didn't come in here calling people noobz, and never called it a battle thread. wasn't trying to hate, even said I dug his shots I had seen!

     

    aaand now some photos so this isn't a useless post.

     

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  6. Not those, it's people posting a grip 1000px + huge boring ass shots and the bromantic noobz.

    That MN1 shot up top is dope though.

     

    put up or shut up man! I feel pretty confident I could hold my own against your photography (I do like your work however). New to graff, sure as fuck not new to cameras.

  7. how the heck did u do that? can u see what ones bent? if u can and want to take the chance of breaking the camera take the smallest flat head screw driver u can and just pry it back a bit as lightly as possible.. if it's more than one that might get sketch... if that doesn't work I've got a rig I'm trying to get rid of if your interested! haha canon XSI with kit lens and a tele I can't think of right now.

     

    Keh.com is an awesome website for used camera gear too.. could probably find a solid deal on a used rebel xt body..

  8. detail in that cat one is wild! I did a semester of school and realized art school is one of the biggest scams in the corporate world... straight up spitting out cookie cutter styles. Much better off w/ your own research imo. at the end of the day it's all an art and thats as personal as it can get!

  9. for what its worth, here are a couple more of the original grafantasy pieces on canvas

     

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    It just disapears into the building.. you think some gnarly thing like that wouldn't make the building crack a little bit? you can't just add stuff to the photos, you have to think about how what you add will affect the photo on more levels than shadows..

  10. It'd be a good idea.. but for air brushing it doesn't look natural at all.. if ur gonna air brush make it look like it's a part of the photo.. check out a movie like sin city or something with mixed media like that that flows real well.. I think it'd do better. Plus the photos aren't great.... Archetectual photography is all about position of the camera vs. the building.. get the camera as parallell as possible with the building. some of the pieces on the website the perception of the paint is off from the perception of the photo. so all in all I agree with injury, good idea, poor execution. congrats on makin a few bucks off it tho, mine as well!

     

    Try it again with less "stock" photos. go out there and shoot some artistic shit in some grungy area with a gnarly spotlight on a dark wall and have him paint that.

  11. Any ideas on how to build some more rep with this and maybe start making some money? I'd really like to start getting around to different areas and start documenting multiple regions. Anyone with HD camera gear and background doing video stuff PM me too.

  12. do you have access to a tripod? it'd be worth it for you to get a cheap one if u dont have one. I've also learned it's not worth panning to follow the pieces because ur eyes register it, you get excited if it's dope, then do something retarded with your hand and fuck up the clip. good post tho!

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