The Photography Thread

[Cyclist33]

Sister ship at Naples last year:
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This skyscraper was in the next berth:
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There were three more of similar size in the docks.

That top one os a cracking picture

Stu

 

[Rezillo]

Thanks - there's a cropped hi-res version in this link.

Here's another ship picture from the same holiday (with Bay of Naples smog and Vesuvius).

 

[Boon 51]

Just messing around...

 

[Andrew_Culture]

A client just posted a link to the last band shoot I did before quitting and selling up, I'm quite pleased with some of them:


Alices_Evidence_2nd_shoot-October 30, 2010-_ASL5825 by Andrew Culture, on Flickr

The rest of the shoot is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/lawsie/sets/72157625149672771/

 

[Doseone]

A client just posted a link to the last band shoot I did before quitting and selling up, I'm quite pleased with some of them:


Alices_Evidence_2nd_shoot-October 30, 2010-_ASL5825 by Andrew Culture, on Flickr

The rest of the shoot is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/lawsie/sets/72157625149672771/

I really like those. Why did you quit and sell up?

 

[Lee_M]

I get that, I had to go look at some pics I did before I gave up wedding photography and realised that I was a bloody good tog

Just got fed up of the hassle

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I really like those. Why did you quit and sell up?

I'd had enough! I shut down my business and as tends to happen I got hit with the biggest tax bill of my life so had to sell everything I own bar my bass guitar and my amp!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I get that, I had to go look at some pics I did before I gave up wedding photography and realised that I was a bloody good tog

Just got fed up of the hassle

Not just me then! I only did a few weddings as a favour to a fellow photographer who helped me out with lighting occasionally (like with that old car shot above).

I liked doing the music stuff but it's just got so tough to get paid for it, the corporate work was okay but just not terribly exciting.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

It also totally killed my love of photography; shooting technically correctly is everything, art is nothing. I haven't missed photography at all.

That being said I helped out on a shoot a couple of nights ago and was amazed that all the old knowledge came back!

 

[Doseone]

It seems like it would be a hard business to make money at, especially with digital photography and editing getting easier and easier. Weddings must be a bl**dy nightmare.

 

[Cyclist33]

It seems like it would be a hard business to make money at, especially with digital photography and editing getting easier and easier. Weddings must be a bl**dy nightmare.

I dunno... one I went to last year the photographer had a couple of iMacs set up and ran a slideshow of the wedding photos continuously through the reception. Neat touch.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I dunno... one I went to last year the photographer had a couple of iMacs set up and ran a slideshow of the wedding photos continuously through the reception. Neat touch.

Ah, the old 'get drunk relatives to order prints' wheeze! I never did that.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

It seems like it would be a hard business to make money at, especially with digital photography and editing getting easier and easier. Weddings must be a bl**dy nightmare.

Fortunately I'm quite assertive and not bad at getting myself heard and understood, sometimes I might have got a little power crazy when I realised I had the entire crowd at my control. At the last wedding I did I had the entire guest list chase the bride across a massive formal lawn outside a stately home, they were running towards my second shooter and the poor chap nearly fell in a fountain with the shock. I got the coolest shot out of it though!

 

[coffeejo]

A lonely apple, up high in the tree

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Is that a gravity defying apple?