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100 signs you're a GWC
N8R Photography wrote: They wouldn't own large format camera anyway, so they dont need to know about bellows compensation. right? May 29 06 01:37 pm Link You have an OMP tatoo on your penis. May 29 06 01:46 pm Link N8R Photography wrote: Time exposures for boobie shots ?? You are sooo NOT a GWC !! May 29 06 02:38 pm Link Im a GWC!!!!! proud of it, why cant the photographer date their models? I dont have any stuffed snakes, or chessy props, but I do like beautiful girls.. My 2 cents Chris May 29 06 02:43 pm Link gsvb wrote: touché ! May 29 06 02:45 pm Link You wouldn't know bokeh from sushi, and think the parked cars behind your model should be in razor-sharp focus. May 29 06 09:25 pm Link Lustbel wrote: Large format = 35mm-sized sensor? May 29 06 09:46 pm Link ***Your business card comes in one-inch strips of torn paper and you greet models with the line "do you prefer man on woman, or woman on woman." When the model then gives you a blank stare, you rudely blurt out "what, you don't do that sort of thing... well fine!" in a disguisted manner, then rip your 'business card' out of her hand and move on to the next woman who catches your eye!*** Laugh, but this actually happened to me. I nearly fell over in laughter at HER exasperation! lol. Another favorite.... **** you bring your cell phone to events where models will be present. Upon seeing a model who catches your eye, you slowly and inconspicuously lower your cell phone until you are on your hands and knees on the floor, in an attempt to get a glimpse of the merchandise under her skirt. When busted, you claim you dropped a contact. Only problem is, you don't wear any!**** Yeah, that one happened too! *rolls eyes* May 29 06 09:54 pm Link Shawn Ray wrote: My sentiments EXACTLY! I know people who have the LATEST high-tech, SLR cameras money can buy and STILL come up with crappy shoots. At the same time, I know people who can only afford a Holga camera (what?!?!?! you don't know what those are? hmmm... maybe you're a GWC May 30 06 02:05 pm Link #1 You don't know what, let alone the difference between f stops and shutter speeds. May 30 06 02:38 pm Link your portfolio includes a picture of a girl in hot pants, combat boots and a tarp as the background (seen it, and i couldn't help but cringe) Sep 23 06 03:05 pm Link Reitz Photography wrote: wow! really went back in the archives here. Sep 23 06 06:32 pm Link Bob Hubbard wrote: I use rubber chickens, they're cheaper. Sep 23 06 07:26 pm Link Jose Luis wrote: I gotta stop wearing the bikini to shoot the hot chicks Sep 23 06 08:28 pm Link Scott Einuis wrote: I have a Mamiya lens that I cant use with a flash as it is stuck in "M" rather than "X" ---anyone have a box of flash bulbs I can use? Sep 23 06 08:37 pm Link 99, your last model shoot was of your mum. Sep 23 06 08:40 pm Link 10. You shoot out of your basement Sep 23 06 08:55 pm Link Vegas Alien wrote: i shot out of my basement once, there was a 6ft snake down there, never moved so fast. Sep 23 06 08:59 pm Link #57 - You specialize in "Hotel Glamour" and your studio is a Motel 6, and your shots still have outlets, lamps and hotel phones in it Sep 24 06 07:43 am Link Bob Hubbard wrote: hey now with hair as long as mine you need a leaf blower...lol Sep 24 06 07:57 am Link 17. You don't have a "camera." You have a "rig." 27. You try consistently to humilate your friends who still use film. Sep 24 06 08:00 am Link wait wait wait okay i noticed on some of the posts that I actually do some of those things among them: my studio is in my home (no it's not the basement) it's the ballroom of my fourth story apartment i don't always use the "best that money can buy" lighting only because I might want a certain look or feel to it i say "that's perfect" or just "beautiful" once and awhile during a shoot I don't have the most expensive equipment...I use the best my money can buy and yes, I sometimes run a filter (with adjustments mind you) over parts of a photo...(but not your typical photoshop filters either) mmm...please tell me this doesn't make me a GWC (girl with camera) Sep 28 06 12:51 pm Link isn't the term "GWC" solely related to the person's intent rather than experience, resources or skill level? Sep 28 06 07:44 pm Link What's wrong with the tool belt?  Oct 08 06 11:54 am Link  Oct 08 06 11:59 am Link Steven Bigler wrote: (chuckle) Oct 08 06 12:24 pm Link # 31 or whatever the hell # we are up to: You exclusively use myspace to get models because you have been banned from every model/photographer site that exists. You claim to be 31 years old on your mysapce when in fact your in your mid to late forties. You have created a large number of fake profiles of "models" on myspace who leave many positive comments on your myspace profile, and you also have restraining orders out on you from at least 3 models. You sent a friend request from one of your fake myspace model profiles to someone who is actual friends with the girl in the pictures in the fake profile (who you happen to have had some stalking issues with) The person you sent the requst to calls the girl, who then calls the police. The police come knocking at your door and politely tell you to take down the fake profile or they will arrest you... Not naming names... Adrienne Aurora wrote: Bill Tracy takes some really nice photos in his basement. Patrick Shipstad wrote: Those home depot lights are great for shooting still life and product photography. Also when properly diffused and with the right gels they are great video lights N8R Photography wrote: LOL, I dont think they even teach inverse square law in photo classes anymore Adrienne Aurora wrote: I let the model take the meter readings herself . I give her (or him) the meter and instruct them what to do. (assuming its one of those rare occasions where I shoot with film) Oct 08 06 12:43 pm Link bump Oct 08 06 12:48 pm Link Rock on Reciprocity failure Oct 08 06 01:05 pm Link Some of these have been good, although I'll admit I am guilty of a few of them myself.  I had to share this one, it was too funny. I work at at local camera store/pro lab and we had this GI come into our store that wanted to gets prints of him and a girl that he had taken pictures of. He said Walmart would not print them and wanted to know if we would. I told him that we do do nudes as long as there is no sexual acts in the pictures. He said ok. Just then one of my female coworkers walked by and walked back into the lab. He asked if she was the one printing those pictures, I said yes she is. He wanted me to ask her to come out and look at the pictures and to see which ones she liked. He wanted a "female" perspective. She rightly declined. Once she started printing them, it was him and girl in a public bathroom somewhere. I guess he was trying to impress her. Now that is a perfect GWC. Oct 08 06 02:59 pm Link You have a nude self portrait in your online port and more body hair than bigfoot. In your nude self portrait there is a can of Budweiser off to the side of the shot in total focus. Your models all have the "am I about to be axed?" look in all of their images on your port. Which by the way, are all nude of course. Your camera is 6 megs but your CF cards are 4GB and you go through 4 or 5 of them per session....in jpeg mode.... You consider a thong a prop. Lifestyle images mean homosexual to you.... Commercial work means naked chicks. Editorial work means naked chicks. Portraits mean naked chicks. High Key means placing a white sheet 1 ft behind your model. Oct 10 06 01:23 pm Link Tracy L Province wrote: I'm with YOU! Oct 10 06 03:12 pm Link RudeFood wrote: Right here... Pre-auto-focus, fully manual non zoom film cameras, of which I still own one. Oct 10 06 04:48 pm Link Patrick Shipstad wrote: I just upload some CAUTION tape series thinking they were the blast.... Oct 10 06 05:42 pm Link Anha Nguyen wrote: Dance for me!!! Oct 10 06 08:12 pm Link Tracy L Province wrote: Oct 10 06 08:21 pm Link Takes shit photos with no hope of improvement. But then again, that was never the point. Oct 10 06 08:27 pm Link someone told me this joke: "which are the 3 lies of the photographers? 1-This is the last roll 2-Don't worry, i can't see anything 3-I'll send you a copy" I would add "their models look like anything but the ones in the magazines" Oct 12 06 09:28 pm Link you think internet models are the future of the industry Oct 12 06 09:43 pm Link I think being critical of everyone elses work is something you forgot to put on your list. GWC is guy with a camera and most photogs are gwc but a pro is not critical of others work. As one photog said to me it's all in the eye of the beholder. Oct 12 06 09:50 pm Link |
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