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/p/ First post up here. Shot taken with a D40x and edited in photoshop. Have fun.
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>> Anonymous
selective coloring WHOO!
GO CHRISTOPHER
your like a photography master.
>> SAGE
SAGE THIS CRAP
>> Anonymous
+lern2resize
>> eku !8cibvLQ11s
I don't see a point in this. You had to knew /p/ is going to dis this photo to the lowest hell, and still, you did this?
Get a hobby and give your camera away.
>> Anonymous
>>100764

why thank you. i give lessons too.
>> Anonymous
Would be a better photo without the axe and the change and all that bullshit. You could have pulled off a generic "i need to go to rehab" shot with the pills and the empty bottle of booze, but instead decided to take a picture of your desk.

A+
>> Anonymous
>>100755
You might want to hide your address.
>> Anonymous
kinda creepy he filled it on 9/11

christopher (something) 28 Pequot Trail Mashantucket, CT 06338
>> Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamotrigine

Hardcore.
>> Anonymous
>>100898
He is either bipolar or has seizers.
>> Anonymous
>>100904
It's also used as an antidepressant as well as for bipolar and seizures. But mostly it's used to treat depression.
>> Anonymous
>>100906

Good. Maybe he'll listen to my advice when I tell him to throw his worthless self into a river.
>> Anonymous
>>100908
Not funny. Suicide isn't something to play with.

(And yes, I'm aware I'm entirely on the wrong website on that point.)
>> Anonymous
>>100913

Maybe, but traffic, pills and alcohol are! Go try it today!
>> Anonymous
>>100913
I don't play with suicide, why fail at something else in life?
>> OPFOR !8vKpfCqy8A
>>100913
This is 4chan. The most morbid things are funny.
>> Anonymous
>>100913
Protip: suicide is something you attempt of succeed at. Don't be emo.
>> Anonymous
>>100913
Protip: suicide is something you attempt or succeed at. Don't be emo.
>> Do it Anonymous
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Gneiss man, DO IT FAGGOT
>> Anonymous
>>100755

Don't listen to /p/ anonymous, they are a bunch of quasi-elitist fags who are happy to diss anything that is posted by a beginner but don't post their own work.

We all start somewhere, even them. You can not be expected to be a pro instantly.

Have fun with photoshop and enjoy your phase of selective colouring. Learn that then try other photoshopping. techniques Then learn it's more to do with composition and lighting.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
>>101121
afaik every tripfag has posted their own works, hell for all the mindless slaughtering i do i've posted links to my entire gallery often enough for you to slaughter me.

You're wrong we're right this picture blows goats.
>> Anonymous
No matter who the person is giving the advice,
>>101121
is far more accurate than
>>101124

Don't listen to anyone who tries to tell you that your photography "blows goats". Whether or not it's true, it's not helpful. This isn't a great photograph but you have to start from somewhere.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
>>101143
I wasnt exactly putting forward a convincing argument about the aformentioned picture and its position on performing fellatio on goats. You know what my critisims look like and I'm not going to because no one ever wants to hear them. I was simply defending tripfags against the unwarented accusations of a self proclaimed judge of some stupid anonymous.

That said:

There is no composition, nothing is framed the, selective desaturation is far to overdone and its not even leading the eye to anything because there is no THOUGHT behind it. All its missing is a border and its 200% deviantart A++ material.
>> Anonymous
>>101121
Thats right, don't listen to any post in this thread. They all pertain to /p/.

>>101144
Also the "I got drugs and booze, I am so bad ass." pic is way over done.
>> Anonymous
>>101121

What exactly do you mean by "quasi-elitist"? We aren't elitists really? Or did you think you sounded clever using fancy words?
>> Anonymous
>>101144
i <3 you butterfly
>> Anonymous
>>101144

you need to cry more. for the very reasons you stated this is better than most of the crap posted on here. all this "rules of photography" bs you adhere to is lacking in ANY sort of thought process. ironic?

its why you all hammer that scott guy so hard from behind. the only ideas you have are to emulate fashion and advertising photography staples. all you guys want to do is buy your talent with equipment.
>> Anonymous
>>101121

i have to agree. /p/ dont seem to have a grasp of the difference between objective and subjective.
>> Anonymous
>>101222

>the only ideas you have are to emulate fashion and advertising photography staples.

that's not true. lewis baltz and other new topographers are probably my main formative influence. i don't pay any attention to fashion. hell, i rarely even make with people in them.

>all you guys want to do is buy your talent with equipment.

nah. i don't even own a dslr. i do 80% of my shooting with an FE2 and 50 1.8 that I inherited.

This photo seriously sucks, and you can't possibly be defending it, can you? see, making photos is a lot like writing. you can bend the grammar of photography willingly, like ee cummings or james joyce did with english and how Joel Peter-Witkin or Philip Lorca-DiCorcia (what is with photographers and hyphens? it's bullshit!) do with photography.

but that's not what this photographer did. this photo is the visual representation of "lol i'm in you're cabinet, drinkin you're booze"
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>101222
It's a cliche shot of some random crap on his desk. "Ooo, it's pills and alcohol. I AM SO EDGY." Why is there a bottle of deodorant in the shot? Why the jar of pennies? Why the box of film? They are distracting elements. They distract from the composition. In an effort to deal with that, he has selectively desaturated it so that the only colored elements are the pill bottle and the Bacardi. A good photographer would have drawn the viewers' eyes to the subject using the composition, or even optics (e.g., manipulating the DoF so that the things he wants us to look at are sharp). Using selective desaturation for it is barely a step up from MSPainting in a big red "LOOK AT THESE THINGS THEY ARE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AND SHOULDN'T BE USED TOGETHER HERE'S A WIKIPEDIA LINK TO THIS DRUG IM EDGY KTHX" on the frame.

In fact... this is so obviously bad that I think I've been trolled. Successfully. Dammit.
>> Anonymous
>>101222
I hate the fashion and advertising photography styles, but pskaught's work is good. Good art transcends whatever style it happens to be in.

Honestly, when pskaught first started posting, I had a dislike of him and his work. All the early stuff he posted was fashion photography full-out, and it all gave me the impression he was some old, cynical, corrupt professional advertising photographer raking in hundreds of thousands and working his camera like an assembly line. Turns out he's the exact opposite: a great guy and a great photographer who just happens to dig crazy strobework.

On the other hand, bad art, no matter how good the style is (and this isn't a good style) is bad. Throwing up a view camera and shooting a mountain with great tonality doesn't make you Ansel Adams.
>> Anonymous
sell your camera for more pills, then OD
>> Anonymous
>>101225
Your works sounds pretty interesting. Please let us see it.
>> Anonymous
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>>101236

here's a quick, crappy scan of a print made with a crappy scanner (hp photosmart s20!!>23!!@# for-the-loss). i should track down the negative, but the last 7 years or so are tossed in a big gallon ziploc bag right now.

FE2, 50 1.8, portra 400nc (i'm willing to bet, i can't remember for sure. might be fuji superia.)
>> Anonymous
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>>101240

MAXIMUM BALTZY!
>> Anonymous
>>101240

Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht g'rad an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und dass so was von so was kommt

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man für Ufos aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn es so wär
Dabei war'n da am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons

99 Düsenjäger
Jeder war ein großer Krieger
Hielten sich für Captain Kirk
Das gab ein großes Feuerwerk
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft
Und fühlten sich gleich angemacht
Dabei schoss man am Horizont
Auf 99 Luftballons
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
>>101222
I dont do rules of photography, I mostly do sports which is nothing like anything else posted here, my landscape/architecture all sucks so I dont post much and my commercial work is just that.

I personally have little to say about pskaught, If i was so in love with him you would have thought I would have bothered to get a postcard no?

You cant even troll me very well, please try harder.
>> Anonymous
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>>101243

last one. repost of something i put up on /p/ in the beginning of october, but i had to include something robert adamsy if i'm going to be a douche and namedrop the new topographers.

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>> Anonymous
>>101246
lul ur dum
>> Anonymous
nice shot Chris
>> Anonymous
wow, trolls on /p/ are really hard to detect

almost had me going
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>101273
Yeah, we really have the best trolls here. They're a lot more subtle.
>> Anonymous
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Butterfly hit it on the head. I made a bad shot. Part selective coloring practice, part "shock value" (and I use it loosely, 4chan after all), and mostly curious to see where /p/ would go with it. That being said, selective colorization is a nice DA trend that needs to die, no i don't mix controlled substances, no it is not an emo picture, no i'm not trying to buy skill, yes I know good (at least decent) composition, yes/no ect ect typical bullshit people say to a community who will most likely keep saying they are retarded.

All that being said, here is a more legitimate photo. Saturated and ect ect. Large ass resolution but im too lazy to change it right now.

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>> Anonymous
Wow, that's even worse than OP
>> Anonymous
>>101458

etc.
>> Anonymous
>>101228
so,
OP... or should i say, Christopher
you have epilepsy according to your prescript
>> Anonymous
>>101458

tl;dr
>> Anonymous
>>101591

Nope. Low dosages are used to treat mood disorders.
>> Anonymous
lol what a dumbass, full of vile doctor dope, liquid government taxed poison.
>> Anonymous
>>101591
But he probably smell good
>> Anonymous
axe smells crap.