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| Date: 2008-01-25 11:28 Hi everyone. i am registered here as a model.. and over the past year or so have
been looking into modeling.. however i dont think it is right for me. I think
photography is more my style.
I'm currently working with a small point and shoot Kodak EasyShare C360 with 5.0
mega pixels. I realy enjoy working with digital, mainly because i wish to learn
more about photo alterations. I want to buy a new camera.. and have been looking
at Nikons.. anyone have any suggestions? 
Also, Here are a few of my most recent photos. All input, comments and
suggestions are welcome |
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| Date: 2008-01-25 11:30 This photo won 2nd place in a local photography competition for the Close-up
catagory in 2006 |
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| Date: 2008-01-25 11:33 This photo won 3rd in Close up in 2007 |
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| Date: 2008-01-25 11:35 This photo won 1st in the People catagory in 2007
Location: the Grand Canyon |
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| Date: 2008-01-25 11:37 This photo is won 1st in Landscape/Sunset/Sunrise , as well as over all Best in
Show Photo in 2007 |
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| Date: 2008-01-25 11:41 Florida Palm |
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 ID: 199345 Posts: 389 | Date: 2008-01-25 11:53 Hi Kimberley,
Modeling has a lot shorter career span that photography so if you are looking
into either as career options photography can last you a life time. However, it
is also something that you can take up at any age. If you are undecided about
the 2 then consider that you will only get the opportunity to model for the next
10 years.
Once you get to mid 20's it will very difficult to start a modeling career. You
can of course do both as a hobby.
Pics look good for a point and shoot.
Both Canon and Nikon are the best DSLRs to get. Lots of choices of lens and an
upgrade path to pro models if you get really serious. Consider the Rebel XTi as
a start of model.
Regards Mike |
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| Date: 2008-01-25 12:09 I understand how you feel Kimberly. I am in basically the same predicament. I
however, did get a camera...an olympus E 410. Mainly because I was used to
olympus from since I get interested in photography. However, the advice that
Mike gave you in really good. Just follow your heart. Photography is fun!!!! |
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 ID: 182744 Posts: 1442 | Date: 2008-01-26 01:31 The only way anyone ever became a photographer was by loving the camera, loving
what is in front of them and seeing the world 24/7 as if through a lens.
Photographers see better than anyone else.
You have to have a passion that makes you want to keep the camera on you every
single second. You have to have a memory for light and how to capture it. You
have to be a romantic and see the art in everything around.
Continually using the camera is the only way you can start capturing things the
way you see it in your mind. Point and shooting can make a technically perfect
image, but without someone guiding the camera, it does not know what to take a
picture of.
In some ways I feel bad for photographers coming up today. There is something
that educates you very quickly when each bum picture costs you time and money. I
often miss playing in the chemicals each night, teasing images from glass or
plastic negatives and transparencies. You had to be an artist once behind the
lens and then twice for the film and print development stage. Teasing a print by
warming a certain area with just the heat of your fingertip in the developer
took a skill that weeded out the less serious.
I am concerned today that the art is too often being done right in the
machine...be the machine a camera or a computer. I have seen some people with
accidental good shots that they could not duplicate again if pressed. You have
not really been tested until you spend nine hours shooting the same subject in
shifting sun and clouds with a set director making tiny little changes and
adjustments between each burst of shutters and have to keep the lighting and
tone consistent on every image.
Try an exercise like that with your camera and test the ranges of its
visibility. Turn day to night and night to day with your camera system alone.
Always experiment, always remember and always strive to capture what your mind
sees.
You are off to a great start, Kimberly. Now...show us how much you love your
camera...start experimenting.
(Oh, and do move up from that point and shoot. Mike makes a good suggestion for
a beginner camera that has good lens and equipment upgrade ability...even into
your professional years. I started with Minolta for 35mm and in the digital age
migrated over to Canon. 2" work was Hasselblad.)
Is this your camera below? Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should  |
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 ID: 209800 Posts: 380 | Date: 2008-01-25 21:46 Hey, actually I think that is my camera!
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 ID: 183878 Posts: 956 | Date: 2008-01-25 22:45 Quite right, Kimberly, and Karl. His selection of your river shot with rainbow
was the best shot in the group you've shown.
It was a good idea to get down on the same level as the cat, but the background
suffered from too much distraction. That's where you can use the SLRs to view
through the lens and examine your depth of field so you can eliminate
distractions. In this case a slight change of elevation would have put the cat
in an all green bit of grass. As long as you could get the cat to keep looking
at you, you would have had a better image. Not to screw with you or suggest that
the quick and dirty photoshop changes I made in the example below makes a better
image, but it does show what a less distractive background would have done. I'm
no magician with photoshop and it's not what my training and experience required
as an old news shooter, so I apologize for everything in advance.
Sometimes we have to take what we can get, but if it is possible to shift angles
and positions--zoom in or out--we can find a different and possibly better
view.
I was just talking with a student photographer about her having to take a basic
course in photography with a--horrors--film camera. She was buying an old Nikon
N90, not a bad camera, but one that is prone to malfunctioning (it was never
meant for pro abuse). The oldtimers hanging around the camera store agreed with
her teacher that learning film handling is a good way to acquire a basic
understanding of photography. You can certainly become more intimately aware of
what goes into the birth of a new image through the use of film. And each frame
has a cost in time and money which teaches habits that stand you in good stead,
even in the digital world.
Keep at it.If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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| Date: 2008-01-27 10:54 Karl. yes that is a picture of my camera lol. its not great.. i curse it
sometimes for its lack of ability to zoom! but i do agree with in your oppinion
in some repects. it is clear that in the information age we are developing the
use of technology more and more in our everyday lives.. this is causing some old
techniques to be left behind. With photography..i dont necessarily think its a
good thing. its are art in itself to be able to use the chemical alteration
processes in a dark room. But i also feel it is an art to be able to use
computer alterations to their full effect. I think with photography i would
thoroughly enjoy learning to properly use film, dark rooms and chemical
transformations as well as learning more about digital alterations
Also, i agree that you need to have a great passion to succeed in photography.
and this is partially the reason why i think it would be better for me than
modeling. I would gladly carry my camera with me everywhere! but when it came
down to going to modeling interviews i wasnt confident in myself in the sense
that i would want be photographed all day long.. or even for a few hours. Im not
really a center of attention kind of person. Photography allows you to caputure
a moment in time in a way that the photographer him/herself hsa viewed the
situation. |
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| Date: 2008-01-27 11:06 Charles,
thanks for the helpful comments. i completely agree about the cat picture. i
initially wasnt going to enter it in the contest because i was unhappy with the
backgroud. and the contest was for ameteurs so alterations of any kind were a no
no. I was pretty surprised i got my cat to stay there as long as i did.. anytime
i moved she was preparing to get up and run around and play with me. trying
different angles would have been nice.. but i think i only got this shot before
she moved lol. in the future when taking any photo i will keep it in mind .
Thats funny.. but not, about the photography student. im sure it would be
difficult to work with a camera that in some instances wont work for you. It
would be very frustrating. I am actually considering taking a two year college
photography course. i think it would really be beneficial consider i only really
know basic basic things.
P.s. I am very greatful for all the advice both you and Karl have given me. you
both have amazing portfolio and are wonderful photographers. |
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| Date: 2008-01-27 11:09 Thanks Mike for the compliment! .. at this point the idea of even attempting to
do modeling for ten years.. really doesnt appeal. but thanks for the advice
anyways and i will deffinately look into the camera you said to use as a start
model. thanks |
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| Date: 2008-01-27 11:12 Thanks Vern! i tihnk you are very beautiful and would have a good chance in
modeling it would
also be nice to see some of your photos if you are able to attach them in the
forum |
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| Date: 2008-01-27 11:22 This was taken at Yellowstone National park. |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1442 | Date: 2008-01-27 18:54 Kimberly S.:
This photo was taken somewhere in southern United States during the drought this
past summer. I liked it simply because i had never cows under palm trees before
and it was pretty decent considering i took it while we were driving
It is a nice shot, but I hate to tell you this...that does not appear to be one
of the drought regions. From the appearance of the vegetation, you are looking
at the natural state of that area. One of the things a good photographer does is
take notes of everything shot. Memory won't do.
Drought does not mean desert conditions or dry brush. In fact, most deserts on
the planet are not in drought areas. There are numerous types of droughts and
definitions.
The drought occurring in the southeast United States is what in
called a Socioeconomic drought. Cities developed in areas where
there actually was sustained rainfall above long-term averages
that sustained the growth of the cities and even facilitated the sale and
distribution of water across several states. There actually is a meteorological
argument going on as to whether or not the reduced precipitation in Georgia over
the past five years is a drought or simply a return to normal conditions after
decades of above average rainfall.
Socioeconomic drought is characterized as when water reductions
affects the health, well-being, and/or quality of life or when it reduces the
supply of an economic product. In Georgia right now, you are not really seeing a
browning of vegetation. You are seeing a growing population making increased
demands for water resources which have been diverted for use in places hundreds
of miles away.
If this is the south you seem to have taken a shot typical of the Southern Texas
or Arkansas area which typically has greenery only a few short months of the
year. Brown or sand does not mean drought. Yet that scene seems more typical of
Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and even large parts of
California.
You seem to be thinking of Meteorological drought which is a
period of years when rainfall amount is substantially below what has been
determined as the normal average for that period of the geological life
cycle. Even these types of drought are not always characterized by browning
of greenery.
And if you have ever seen wheat or alfalfa fields, it does not matter how much
water they get, at a certain time of year they will go brown.
The other two standard types of drought are Agricultural and Hydrological
drought. I won't go into the definition of those. But hydrological drought is
one of the Georgia arguments.
My main point is that a photographer also has a journalistic responsibility to
get facts right and not make assumptions. You see, words and pictures have a
powerful sustaining influence and many, many times inaccurate information sticks
in peoples heads and gives them the wrong impression which is hard to counter
later. The east-west orientation of those hills and the sloping plain is what
mostly clued me that your regional identification is off. Plus I drove through
the drought affected areas this summer and they were lush and green. Parts of
Florida which have not been officially declared as droughted look more browned
and desolate.
I like your landscape shots...just remember to log all information accurately
since captions have enormous influence and power. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 199345 Posts: 389 | Date: 2008-01-27 21:37 Karl,
How did you determine the orientation of the hills to be east - west facing ?
It looks to me that that sun is fairly high in the sky based on the fairly short
shadows cast by the tall palms. I would estimate the time at around 10.30 am or
1.30pm, depending on which side of noon the image was taken. This would mean
that the sun was currently in a southernly direction (+- 20 degrees). The
shadows of the palms run almost parallel to the horizontal plane of the image
from left to right, so that would imply that the leftmost side of the image was
facing to the south. I would therefore suspect that the hills were more south to
north in orientation. That would put to tog facing West when the image was
taken. But I'm pretty sure you'll prove me wrong 
Regards Mike |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1442 | Date: 2008-01-27 23:09 Mike Jones:
Karl,
How did you determine the orientation of the hills to be east - west facing ?
It looks to me that that sun is fairly high in the sky based on the fairly short
shadows cast by the tall palms. I would estimate the time at around 10.30 am or
1.30pm, depending on which side of noon the image was taken. This would mean
that the sun was currently in a southernly direction (+- 20 degrees). The
shadows of the palms run almost parallel to the horizontal plane of the image
from left to right, so that would imply that the leftmost side of the image was
facing to the south. I would therefore suspect that the hills were more south to
north in orientation. That would put to tog facing West when the image was
taken. But I'm pretty sure you'll prove me wrong
Regards Mike
Because the sun cannot cast such shadows on a north-south mountain in the
southern latitudes where those palms survive in the wild. Put the run
east-north-east or west-north-west in early to mid morning or mid to late
afternoon.  I was making a subjective guess. I put the photographer facing north west if
afternoon and south east if morning.
Curious, though, at taking another glance at the picture. The palm trees would
uphold your time frame. The mountains, no more than 10 to 20 miles distant, tell
a different time period. They indicate either earlier in the morning or later in
the afternoon than the palm trees do.
Curiouser and curiouser. I am guessing only Kimberly can tell us if she can
recall specifically what state she was in. I must confess to never seeing that
kind of scenery in the south east United States where the drought is. Plains and
then mountains? That's way, way west of the Mississippi River.
Someone may prove me wrong. Maybe someone who can identify that range by site?
But why do I keep thinking Middle East when I see that picture? Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 199345 Posts: 389 | Date: 2008-01-28 06:03 Carib Goodies:
Curious, though, at taking another glance at the picture. The palm trees would
uphold your time frame. The mountains, no more than 10 to 20 miles distant, tell
a different time period. They indicate either earlier in the morning or later in
the afternoon than the palm trees do.
Curiouser and curiouser. I am guessing only Kimberly can tell us if she can
recall specifically what state she was in. I must confess to never seeing that
kind of scenery in the south east United States where the drought is. Plains and
then mountains? That's way, way west of the Mississippi River.
Someone may prove me wrong. Maybe someone who can identify that range by site?
But why do I keep thinking Middle East when I see that picture?
LOL. I had exactly the same thought. When trying to calculate the height of the
sun I drew an imaginary line from the shadow and the top of the palm. It was at
about a 45-50 degree angle. I then did the same for the hills and the angle was
much lower at around 30 degrees. It did confuse me but I put it down to the fact
that the hills on the mountains would cause a different shadow pattern due to
the angle of the slope. As long as the slope was steeper than the angle of the
sun then the slope would be in shadow.
As for the scenery I would never have guessed this was the US. I would have said
north Africa or Middle East. But that's mainly because I don't see any evidence
of signs or golden arches. |
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