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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Categorized under "sad but true"...

Jan 28, 2010 at 04:13 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

The HDR hole, LoL

Jan 28, 2010 at 04:35 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Hah very good chart. I hate when people show me their "awesome" Iphone pics when it's just unviewable.

Jan 28, 2010 at 04:37 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

spentomuch wrote:
The HDR hole, LoL

Jan 28, 2010 at 04:41 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

What it really needs is a spentoomuch marker

Jan 28, 2010 at 04:44 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Great post! I tend to put "gearfaggotry" at the level of a total beginner though, not in the middle. MIght have to add a "Z" axis to the graph to incorporate luminosity's spentoomuch factor.

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Jan 28, 2010 at 04:57 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

haha nice... pretty accurate, luckily I avoided that "HDR hole"

Jan 28, 2010 at 06:41 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Does gearfaggotry = NAS?

I may never get better...

Jan 28, 2010 at 07:44 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Haha...lol. Gearfaggotry

I originally thought this was some elaborate semiconductor response curves

It's still best to start photography at a young age and grasp the essence of it at your twenties. In that way photography and art becomes 2nd nature.

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Jan 28, 2010 at 08:49 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

what is the /p/ point ?

Jan 28, 2010 at 09:21 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

I think though I may be wrong, its saying you could forever get stuck in a gear whore phase, and think you are great at photography?

Jan 28, 2010 at 10:44 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

At /p/ you could go either way, (a) start thinking you are really good or (b) suddenly find that you suck?

Jan 28, 2010 at 12:04 PM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

I believe this originated at reddit.com and their pages are called reddits and usually identified with slashes. /p/ is the photography reddit.

Jan 28, 2010 at 12:28 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

NAS should be constant across the range... As should cat pictures

Jan 28, 2010 at 12:51 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Never fell into the HDR hole; currently looking for an old film camera.

Jan 28, 2010 at 01:32 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Hysterical, and extremely accurate.

Jan 28, 2010 at 01:35 PM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Just wet my pants of laughing... HILARIOUS!

Jan 28, 2010 at 01:58 PM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Love it!

Jan 28, 2010 at 02:01 PM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

Excellent Shutterslam!

Like most of my life, my personal curve is a little backwards. I was handed an old Kodak Duo 620 when I was 11. I was a 'one exposure per motive' photographer until after I graduated High School, got a job and could afford more film. Somehow I slid backwards to the 'my phone has a digicam' about ten years ago and all my pictures looked pretty. Now I'm somewhere on the 'exposure'/'auto mode' slope waiting to fall into the 'HDR hole' Not sure I'm looking forward to that

Jan 28, 2010 at 02:19 PM

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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · A Photographer's Learning Curve

There needs to be an extreme pixel-peeping stage, where any tiny minute bit of noise ruins your day.

For some people, there might be a circular polarizer addiction phase as well.

Maybe a place where one goes "who needs primes? zooms are the best".

And for Canon users, there's clearly a zone where they go "when I get L lenses, all my shots will be awesome!"

For Nikon users it goes from reading Ken Rockwell, to Thom/Bjorn etc.

Jan 28, 2010 at 03:15 PM

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