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All right, Generalites, Ruffy has this little competition going on with someone from school about who's better at digital photography (believe me, our egos can't fit in the same room together), and I'm really not getting any good ideas.

I'm asking you for suggestions/ideas and if I use them, I'll post the picture here.

I need a still life, and a portrait.

Go.

All right, Generalites, Ruffy has this little competition going on with someone from school about who's better at digital photography (believe me, our egos can't fit in the same room together), and I'm really not getting any good ideas.

I'm asking you for suggestions/ideas and if I use them, I'll post the picture here.

I need a still life, and a portrait.

Go.

I suggest a provocative picture of Nanatsu for the portrait...

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff315/Sarothai/Smileys/EMOPOyes008HL3.gif

A picture of a bleak urban/industrial landscape shrouded in fog/mist, contrasted with a picture of a bright, crowded city centre

I'm asking you for suggestions/ideas and if I use them, I'll post the picture here.

I need a still life, and a portrait.

Dead body. Two birds, one stone.

I suggest a provocative picture of Nanatsu for the portrait...

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff315/Sarothai/Smileys/EMOPOyes008HL3.gif

This thread got a whole lot more interesting.

This thread got a whole lot more interesting.

*yelps, runs away, is deathly afraid of the camera gods*

Picture of a bare, overcast forest, no snow on the ground, and two dirt roads leading down into the distance.

For the portrait: Well, don't ask me. I'm not much for portraits, and Nanatsu has already been mentioned.:D

Wow... you must be a really good photographer.

There is more to it than pushing a button... things such as finding your own inspiration. I suggest you stop looking for ideas on an internet forum and look into your soul.

Wow... you must be a really good photographer.

There is more to it than pushing a button... things such as finding your own inspiration. I suggest you stop looking for ideas on an internet forum and look into your soul.

Wow.. you must be new here.

I have no soul.

Wow.. you must be new here.

I have no soul.

Wait, I thought you were renting one. :confused:

Wow.. you must be new here.

I have no soul.

Yes i'm new. But to be honest, i doubt i'd find someone who can't even think of an idea for a picture to be so captivating that i'd take the time out to learn anything about him, even if i had been here for a decade.

Wait, I thought you were renting one. :confused:

He fell behind in his payments and I repossessed it.

Yes i'm new. But to be honest, i doubt i'd find someone who can't even think of an idea for a picture to be so captivating that i'd take the time out to learn anything about him, even if i had been here for a decade.
So photographers can't take commissions?
He fell behind in his payments and I repossessed it.

If you had given me just a few more days.. :mad:

A good photographer doesn't need to.

This is a competition between you and your friend. I wonder if he decided to cheat too.

If you had given me just a few more days.. :mad:

Well I had already given you two more months! Maybe if you stopped taking pictures and got a real job! :D

A good photographer doesn't need to.

This is a competition between you and your friend. I wonder if he decided to cheat too.

Its not cheating unless its expressly forbidden.

A good photographer doesn't need to.
:wink:
This is a competition between you and your friend. I wonder if he decided to cheat too.

Getting suggestions about what to do and interpreting them in my own way is cheating? I'm not asking for NSG to compose the photos for me. Simple suggestions can and have inspired me many times.

Anyway, shoo, no one cares about your irrelevant boohooing.

Well I had already given you two more months! Maybe if you stopped taking pictures and got a real job! :D

:eek::$

*mumbles cuss words*

On with the suggestions!

On with the suggestions!

Oh, I see, my suggestions aren't good enough for a artist of actual talent!:mad:

Its not cheating unless its expressly forbidden.

Maybe i'm just missing the point, but there is more to being a photographer than being told what to shoot. It takes creativity, and if he can't even come up with something interesting to photograph, he can't have very much of it.

Oh, I see, my suggestions aren't good enough for a artist of actual talent!:mad:

I don't have the time or the resources to recreate that scene, and my Mexicans refuse to work until I start feeding them (haha, the nerve).

*yelps, runs away, is deathly afraid of the camera gods*

I'll show you mine if you show me yours. :tongue:

Really all I want to see is your camera.

I have a long telescopic lens that is extendable :p

I'll show you mine if you show me yours. :tongue:

Really all I want to see is your camera.

I have a long telescopic lens that is extendable :p

*blinks twice. Washes eyes out with hand sanitizer*

*blinks twice. Washes eyes out with hand sanitizer*

Dude, you were the one who was covered in gooey stuff at the Office party.

Dude, you were the one who was covered in gooey stuff at the Office party.

>.>

<.<

It was blueberry pie... I hope.:p

>.>

<.<

It was blueberry pie... I hope.:p

lol, never fall asleep during a party with people who can do all kinds of things to your body.

Just be glad that your wallet is still in your pocket and your pants aren't around your ankles.

lol, never fall asleep during a party with people who can do all kinds of things to your body.

Just be glad that your wallet is still in your pocket and your pants aren't around your ankles.

Oh, right. Yep, my wallet's still in my pocket...

Hey, wait, where's all my money?

Oh, right. Yep, my wallet's still in my pocket...

Hey, wait, where's all my money?

I spent it all on booze...

Maybe just a picture of a dead, fallen leaf on the snow, and next to it green grass with a new plant coming out of the ground?

I did something like that for my photography class a few weeks ago.

Oh, right. Yep, my wallet's still in my pocket...

Hey, wait, where's all my money?

I spent it all on booze...

Thanks for the booze CM.

I spent it all on booze...

As long as it went to a good cause. :p

I dunno which is funnier...

Ruffy being accused of cheating, or caring about being accused of cheating. o.O

This thread got a whole lot more interesting.

I second this.

A good photographer doesn't need to.

This is a competition between you and your friend. I wonder if he decided to cheat too.

Maybe i'm just missing the point, but there is more to being a photographer than being told what to shoot. It takes creativity, and if he can't even come up with something interesting to photograph, he can't have very much of it.

Wow, aren't we judgmental.

Ok, let see what kind of photograph you can produce.

a flower arrangement in a cow skull on a ghetto sidewalk would certainly be a smash bang, rockem sockem still life.

for a portrait, i think the thing is, the ultimate portrait is a canded shot of someone engaged in what they find most gratifying uniquely to their particular selves.

Dead body. Two birds, one stone.
I agree... and I can pose for you, but I'm thousands of miles away.

I need a still life, and a portrait.

Combine still life AND portrait, à la Arcimboldo (quod vide, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcimboldo).

All right, Generalites, Ruffy has this little competition going on with someone from school about who's better at digital photography (believe me, our egos can't fit in the same room together), and I'm really not getting any good ideas.

I'm asking you for suggestions/ideas and if I use them, I'll post the picture here.

I need a still life, and a portrait.

Go.
do you have snow on the ground? snow in bright sunlight can be a tough shot with digital. so....empty park at the end of the day where people have been playing in the snow...

portrait... old homeless guy. so much more interesting than the stupid baby/toddler pics that always win the parade magazine photo contests.

portrait... old homeless guy. so much more interesting than the stupid baby/toddler pics that always win the parade magazine photo contests.

Why do stupid baby/toddler seems to always win? In America's Funniest Home Video (A title that should make you want to commit suicide after you've seen the show), the "Cute" baby/toddler video wins the vast majority of time.

Why do stupid baby/toddler seems to always win? In America's Funniest Home Video (A title that should make you want to commit suicide after you've seen the show), the "Cute" baby/toddler video wins the vast majority of time.
it drives me crazy. sometimes i have the urge to send a pic in to one of these contests (but i never do) when the winning pics are show they are almost always kid with a puppy pics.

yuck

it drives me crazy. sometimes i have the urge to send a pic in to one of these contests (but i never do) when the winning pics are show they are almost always kid with a puppy pics.

yuck

Now puppies and kittens I do find cute, I just have a problem with human babies.

Now puppies and kittens I do find cute, I just have a problem with human babies.
oh im not saying that they arent cute or that the pics arent cute.

its just so freaking predictable that the judges would go for "cute" instead of any of the more sophisticated measures of what makes a pic worthy of winning.

portrait... old homeless guy. so much more interesting than the stupid baby/toddler pics that always win the parade magazine photo contests.

But not as interesting as provocative Nanatsu pics...

But not as interesting as provocative Nanatsu pics...
havent we had enough threads hijacked by a nanatsu flirt-fest?

oh im not saying that they arent cute or that the pics arent cute.

its just so freaking predictable that the judges would go for "cute" instead of any of the more sophisticated measures of what makes a pic worthy of winning.

Eh I doubt the judges would know fine photograph if it bit them on the ass. I think most of the judges are either homeless people, bored Execs., or Celebrities.

havent we had enough threads hijacked by a nanatsu flirt-fest?

No :p

Eh I doubt the judges would know fine photograph if it bit them on the ass. I think most of the judges are either homeless people, bored Execs., or Celebrities.

OR a homeless bored celebrity! :p

Do a portrait shot of Elvis. You get a picture of the King and nobody's got nothing on you. Seriously.