Rude Poeple and the internet

I had the rudest experience this morning with my flickr account. Someone created a flickr account just to leave a rude comment on one of my photos. I'm shocked that someone would waste the time that it takes to create an account just to say some stupid shit.

I take portraits and glamour shots. of women. I usually they've some degree of modeling exprience. Some of the women I take photos of are my personal fetish. Some would call them fat or plump or chubby women.

This is my fetish and the thing that I like. I don't know to much about women except they should be soft and smell good. I don't think there is anything softer then a plump happy woman. It doesn't really matter what I like but that's the long and the short of it.

My rude commenter wrote that I had to be kidding if all the ppl that commented on the photo had to be kidding to think she was beautiful. Well fuck you mr rude commenter. I do think she's sexy. And I don't care about your opinion.

The whole thing that really burns my ass about this is that I went to find my rude person and what did I find. No longer active on Flickr. Like what I won't want to track his loser ass down. It was only posted for like 2 hours. That's some fucking bullshit.

More Pinup Girls

I took so many shoots of her that day, she was amazing to work with. I loved her eyes
And her ready smile. It was a good day for shooting as well . I worked on some more of her photos.
I'm just a bit lazy I guess. but what ever I'm getting them done for next months babes in toyland.

Hand Bells

Hand Bells
Originally uploaded by DrkMage

I'm soo published now. I recieved the post cards that was made from this photo and all I can say is that're hot. and tasteful and really really cool. I'm going to take photos of them later on tonight to publish to the world. Right now you'll have to deal with this one. But imagine it with some words over and it's just hot.

Flash!!!!! It's Photography.

I take a lot of available light shots. I hate the way the flash makes my photos look. It's like taking a bucket of white paint and splashing it all over the Mona Lisa or something. It's just ugly to bath everything in white light and create a unnatural bluish tint. I prefer the soft shadows and the natural look of available light. Give me a wide aperture and available light to shoot my shot. Give me an f/1.8 50 mm over any F/3.6 - F/5.6 zoom lens any day. I'll get nice DOF and the right look. Nothing like a portrait with the face in focus and the fall off behind the ears. I love that look.

The truth is I never really knew how to use a flash on the camera. I started taking photos like everyone else. A little point and shot 35 mm that my grand mom got for me. Use the flash inside she'd tell me. Use the flash it's night. And I always got . . . Well you know what I always got. Those vacation shots a lot of people have. Those family snap shots of Aunt June or who ever. Yuck!!!

So I'm looking at Adorama at the Pentax K20D. I'm going though the Pentax flash on the site and they explain it, all of it. I learned a lot. Why all my photos looked unnatural. I learned when to use the flash even in Sunlight. it was great.

What I learned is that light has 3 qualities. Of course I learned this over time. Some times my photos look warmer (photography word) due to the light. You call that color quality. Some times you use a single light source (AKA Lamp) to create shadows and drama in an image. The definition of direction. Light has a 3rd quality called intensity simply put how bright it is. I have 2 real problems in my past flash photos. Simply the range of the flash is about 3 feet for optima and 15 feet to be out of range. My problem is I put things to close or to far. I need to take my photos at about 3-4 feet if my prime source of light is my flash. I also need to use auto white balance when I'm going to flash. it doesn't take on a blue look of being cool.

I need to remember that due to the direction straight at my target there will be no shadows in my picture. I need to make sure that the other the other sources of light compliment this. This is called fill flash you do this on a sunny day when the sun is at your target's back. You use this to remove unwanted shadows and dark areas.

I'm going to go and take some cool photos now that I learned this and look up the range on my Canon.

Cold War anyone?

Photography is a place with a lot of rules that only seem to apply when you want them to or when they seem to work. Let's look at the rule of thirds. When do you apply it? Well when it works. When do you apply narrow depths of field? When you want to. There seems to be one rule that seems to apply constantly. That rule is the camera cold war.

We've all seen the Camera cold war and some of us even fight it. That's what happens when a Nikon user sees a guy happily shooting his Canon or vice versa.People judge the lenses you choose to use. The tripod isn't microfiber or it's made by the wrong people.

This is really the worst part of photography. I like to take the photos. I like to show them to my friends and my fans.I just hate comparing my equipment to someone else's. There is always more expensive and better stuff. The photo is the only thing that matters.

Since the photo is all that really matters anyway. I've seen good photos taken with the cardboard box disposibles.I've seen excellent pictures taken with point and shoots. it's not really the camera it's the photographer.

5 Of My Photos Which Need To Be Seen

Not all of my photos get the same amount of attention. So I decided that I'll show the ones that I believe need to be given more love that I personally like. I figure the others will be found by the people looking for them.

&MoreCandles
Mom
12th Street
Becki OverExposed
2 Street Lights

My Other Camera is a Pentax

I have a really cool Flirkr friend. Her name is Steph. We talk from time to time and we're really geeky into photography and taking pictures. I'm truly a big fan of hers. I love her self portraits and her cat pictures.

One night we're talking about lenses and fantasy stuff that we want to buy. She tells me about this classic Pentax glass. Asahi Pentax Takumar Super multi coat Lenses. she wants like the 50 F/1.2 and some others. Steph knows her glass and she's talented. So it's not that I don't take her word or nothing but I really do have to look at this stuff. I mean to try and buy something from 1972 in the Y2K+8 it's gotta be special right.

I cruise over to flickr and do a quick search. The photos taken with this glass is amazing. They're clear and the colors are brilliant. They're fast and manual focus. There is a group devoted to them and ppl are mounting them to all kinda digital SLR's. She tells me about her Camera the K10D and the feature set. and I'm thinking I paid what for my 30D.

So I start thinking in about a year or so I can buy a used k20d or so used. Pentax always go cheap mostly because ppl not in the know want nikons or canon's because they are "Better". I can then shark them and get a cool camera and some of this rare glass. I think that the collecting and the hunting will be the most fun of this project. I mean it is possible to have 2 camera kits and figure out what one you like the best. Let's call this learning.



After taking pictures for 4 years I've come to the conclusion that it's not the name or the camera or the serial number it's the person be hind it that makes the photos memorable.

Where I'm Going

Well kind of....

This is a repost of an article I wrote first on my Live Journal. I wrote it to publish the idea of the perfect SLR camera kit for me. Talking about how I shoot and the results that I like. I'm republishing it as a way point on the road that I want to travel.

It's firmly my belief that you can't reach a goal unless you have a firm knowledge of where you're going and where you been. You also need a time limit. I sat the time limit for a year. That was back in Febuary of 2006. I failed but I keep shooting and learned alot and things have changed a little bit. Also there is no rule that says you can't try again so here is Fantasy Camera Equipment List

I have a new list of fantasy camera gear that I want. I know it sounds stupid to want strange camera gear but it's kinda like computer gear. The more you learn and the more you have the more you want. I mean no one really wants a PII-350mhz machine as there main piece but it really will do everything you want it to do. You can go online with it you can play games but not the newer ones. It's just slow with windows XP, Linux or FreeBSD or any UNIX it's not to bad with. But... Even my FreeBSD machine is has atleast one 1ghz in this day and age.

Point and shot cameras and SLR bodies.

1 Canon G series Powershot. - The G Series are average zoom optical zoom of 3x but take the canon BP-511 battery and allow for RAW digital photos.

1 Canon 20D Body - This would be my new main camera body cool in camera editing features and built in Filters.

1 Canon A2E Film Body - This would be to learn to shoot with a film SLR.

1 Canon D30 Body - This 3.11 megapixal body would be the standard back up camera and replace my digital rebel in my bag. Since I'll have 2 DSLR's if I don't sell my rebel.

Lenses

1 17-50 F2.8 sigma DG lens - Standard lens for 1.6x crop Digital SLR cameras. Also standard EF mount so it will fit the film body as well and give me some wide angle ability for the film body.

1 sigma 28-70 sigma DG F2.8 Zoom - Standard walk about lens.

1 canon 70-200 F4L - long tom zoom

1 Canon 50 F1.4 - portrait lens

And that's the stuff I want in my camera bags.