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Why worry about noise when a pro earns money from this shot?

Postby leek on Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:21 pm

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Postby johndec on Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:10 pm

Taken with the new Canon sensor?? :lol: :shock:
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Postby Atorie on Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:11 pm

Oh so thats why they shoot with canon :lol: :lol: :lol: :P:P:P


Sorry, i'll disclaimer this before canon corral hunt me down :).. it was only a joke... not tryin to start a flaming session.. my Sony
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Postby Glen on Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:13 pm

Leek, saw the same shot aqnd thought he might have seen my pinhole lens. About the same quality!
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Postby avkomp on Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:28 pm

hmmmm that shot looks like it was taken by one of those cameras they used to use in the Flintstones.
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Postby Andoru on Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:37 pm

You guys got it all wrong.

It's a pro shot with additional noise effects! :wink:
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Postby Atorie on Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:47 pm

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I managed to take this shot of them.. i had to bump up my ISO thou
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Postby gstark on Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:40 am

I think the point here, though, is that when it's a matter of simply getting the shot - any shot - being better than no shot at all, then this may well have to be an acceptable compromise.

Those people who you sometimes see bleating about noise @ 200 ISO would never make it as professional photographers because they'd be too concerned about getting a noiseless image, rather than completing their assignment, which would be to get an image.
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Postby thaddeus on Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:04 am

the saddest photo i saw was her cowering in the back seat of a limo
why on earth hide on your wedding day?
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Postby Link on Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:16 am

I think the point here, though, is that when it's a matter of simply getting the shot - any shot - being better than no shot at all, then this may well have to be an acceptable compromise.


Very true, and one can remember many European magazines published double spreads with images of the London bombings aftermath that were taken on cam phone... They were very 'noisy', dark and pixellised but they showed something that no dslr captured.

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Postby gleff on Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:43 am

damn.. I wonder how much they got for the shot.. I think i'm in the wrong line of work.. If I had known you can make money from crap photos, I would have been a millionaire by now :lol:

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Postby Glen on Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:47 am

gleff wrote:damn.. I wonder how much they got for the shot.. I think i'm in the wrong line of work.. If I had known you can make money from crap photos, I would have been a millionaire by now :lol:

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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:41 am

There is not one photo taken that is crap if it shows the story - are we to believe that if an event happens that we ask everything and everyone to freeze until we can set our camera for the perfect pic - I think not.

Take a look at the millions of photos taken in war zones and then let me know how many are technically perfect shots 8)
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Postby Glen on Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:42 am

Chris, I have a cheap pinhole lens which might suit you :lol: Special price for you :wink:
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Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:29 am

Next time a newspaper editor sees that, why not save himself the trouble and get a department to render the same scene in some nice animation, PS it, and then print it.

Geeze... I saw that shot last night and thought 3 things:

1. "Huh. Slow news day."
2. "Who cares?"
3. "Nice noise. Lol."
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Postby Link on Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:39 pm

I'm quite sure celebrities mag editors are familiar with the PS methods to blur or bring up noise in a shot; it allows them to make the pictures look like "stolen" and "unauthorised"!

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Postby Onyx on Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:30 pm

They could be body doubles for all we know... such is the lack of distinguisable features in that shot. I bet devoid of other tabloid knowledge, the picture wouldn't warrant any recognition.

To our American or other overseas forum members - how many of you know WTF that image depicted?
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Postby embi on Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:20 pm

To our Australian Forum members how many of you GAF about those in the picture :)
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Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:03 pm

GAF?
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Postby wendellt on Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:07 pm

is it a shot of Bec Cartright and Leyton Hewitt's wedding?
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Postby embi on Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:10 pm

Nnnnsic wrote:GAF?


Give a @%&#
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Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:12 pm

Riiighhhtt... you know, you can say "fuck" here. :)

And in answer to your question, I'd say very few do.
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Postby Grev on Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:45 am

I don't think the overseas people would know what it is...

But the point is, that must be a really small crop of the photo that they took, and I thought there were pictures better than that... =s

Second of all, who cares, it's a tennis player and a C grade actress (E grade singer...) that's getting married, I guess we don't care but in actual fact all the others care about this shit, oh well. :shock:
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Postby gstark on Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:03 am

wendellt wrote:is it a shot of Bec Cartright and Leyton Hewitt's wedding?


Who??


Who bloody cares???
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Postby gstark on Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:05 am

Grev wrote:I don't think the overseas people would know what it is...


I would like to think that they don't want to know ....

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