Oh, 13/10 to 23/10 is the Syd motor show... I'll try to get down during press day but I don't like my chances.. but I'll be at the stands at Subaru on the first Thurs night.. and the following Thurs during the day.
Oh.. before I forget.. the first Thurs is an Industry day... I'll be there early to take pics of the cars and models with the press.. hopefully. I'm going to try scamming an entry early.
Yes, cars, girls (best on the first day), cars, and cars.
That's coz you go in when the public goes in... Ever watched the reports on the news the day before the motor show kicks off? Oh.. the European marque do such a good job of getting the eye/camera candy on display for that day.
and they have really good courses and I met some really good people
It may cost a bit more than Mick's workshops, but I find that I learn heaps from the course over 10 weeks and I got motivated to try different things
(Ed, I am no marketing director of ACP)
Zane which course are you doing, have you started with a more basic one and moved up or just got right in with the harder ones Also most of their courses seem to be filmed based are you doing mostley digital or film
Chris, I am doing my first course there, Camera Craft 3. Well you just need to do a test before you can qualify for CC3, otherwise you got to start from CC1 or 2. The test was easy, anyone of us here can get 15 out of 15...
CC2 is the prerequisite for many advanced courses there, eg Photoshop 1,2
; B&W 1,2; Colour 1, 2; Portraiture; Landscape; Documentary; photojournalism............
Yeah, looks film based, but most of my little classmates are digital users, some of them shoot both film and digital like me
The film base is what I didn't like about it ... I don't have access to a dark room nor do I feel like sitting in a lab of chemicals.. better to sit in the radiation of a CRT monitor instead.
Zane Yau wrote:
Yeah James, ring flash?? the crop is very tight or did you have to get in really close to your cute subject??
Yep, Broncolor ring flash.
The crop is 100% - you need to get very close to get the catch lights like that. I don't have the exif handy but it could have been something like 100mm from a distance of 30cm or so.
Ed W wrote:
yeah, I think it's better for your health, too.
I've noticed a big improvement since I stopped drinking the left over Stop bath...
In all seriousness however I am a little concerned about reusing fixer, since when a fixer is exhausted it really just means it is saturated with silver. Dumping that down the storm water can't be good for aquatic life I reckon.
Anyone heard of a more environmentally safe optioin for fixer disposal?
I wonder if there is a way to dummy up a ring flash... it'd look really good in the eyes if you get them right in the middle of the eyes... Then again, you could PS it in.
yeah, the ring flash on portrait is pretty impressive, but it looks pretty scary if you have to stick it right in front of the model's face, 30cm or so, especially with a non-pro model
SmellyTofu wrote:
I wonder if there is a way to dummy up a ring flash... it'd look really good in the eyes if you get them right in the middle of the eyes... Then again, you could PS it in.
There was a thread a while ago - maybe closer to the start of the year? - where a fella made one from some tin and a couple of hot shoe flashes. I tried searching the boards but the search & archive here are glacial and I gave up...
Ever watched the reports on the news the day before the motor show kicks off? Oh.. the European marque do such a good job of getting the eye/camera candy on display for that day.
Also most of their courses seem to be filmed based are you doing mostley digital or film