Any Guilty Pleasures?

"latex, leather and lace" goth type shoots in graveyards works very nicely. One of the reasons I moved into my present home is that there's a very nice quiet graveyard accross the road that makes a perfect outdoor studio 😉

The only guilty pleasure I will admit to here is that I (sometimes) forget to tell my wife that there's another camera due for delivery any day soon. oooops 😀
 
TPPhotog said:
"latex, leather and lace" goth type shoots in graveyards works very nicely. One of the reasons I moved into my present home is that there's a very nice quiet graveyard accross the road that makes a perfect outdoor studio 😉
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Lucky you! Wish I had that kind of location. At least, I only have to drive about 5 minutes to get to the largest cemetary in Quebec. Over a milllion people are burried there. It's an incredible location.
 
Marc Jutras said:
Lucky you! Wish I had that kind of location. At least, I only have to drive about 5 minutes to get to the largest cemetary in Quebec. Over a milllion people are burried there. It's an incredible location.
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You beat me on size with that one & it sounds really good. I just wish the local parks department would stop cutting the grass quite so often.
 
Marc, i like alot of those pics in your gallery. Are they all shot on delta3200 in small format? Some of them have very coarse grain but some not.

Sorry for derailing guys🙂

Bob, 'Multipass' yes, i think that was the movie that made her very popular amongst us...
 
To do a photo-shoot of a Playboy Bunny, lounging on the back of a custom Harley.
~ ; - )
 
not photography related (altho I suppose it could be).. I'm a huge fan of tube hifi gear.. unfortunately, it gets just as expensive (actually, even more so) than RF gear.. imagine paying $1200 for a pair of speaker wires.. and $500 for a power cable to upgrade a $6000 cd player.. (which I can't afford in the first place.. at least not yet)

not to mention that Mullard tubes are getting significantly harder to find these days.. which means paying $400 a year to retube a 40 watt amplifier

I suspect many of you can understand this other form of GAS
 
Pherdinand said:
Marc, i like alot of those pics in your gallery. Are they all shot on delta3200 in small format? Some of them have very coarse grain but some not.

Sorry for derailing guys🙂

Bob, 'Multipass' yes, i think that was the movie that made her very popular amongst us...
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I didn't help things out either Pherdi...
 
Pherdinand said:
Marc, i like alot of those pics in your gallery. Are they all shot on delta3200 in small format? Some of them have very coarse grain but some not.
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The series in the bar (with the girl wearing a white shirt, black tie and wrapped up arms) are Delta 3200 shot at 6400 and processed at 12500.

The "Davy" shots (guy with hat) are Tri-X 400.
 
Brett, I was the same untill just recently with regards to HI-FI gear. It just got to the stage where I just can not justify it to myself any longer, anyway my ears can't tell the difference.
But I do have a spare Pink Triangle that I wouldn't mind trading for RF gear.
Mike.
 
hmm...not photo related, but good wine, great rum, good food, and abusing my country's medicare system through rugby.

oh, and the occasional cigar and my pipe, but those are increasingly rare, as i can't take the getting yelled at by my partner 🙂
 
Ok, now I had to Google something in this thread. I immediately felt like an idiot for not figuring it out. Back in high school I saw the film every Saturday at midnight for about 2 years. My wife and I have gone to costume parties as Brad and Janet.
Maybe I'm just slow today....
 
CleverName said:
Back in high school I saw the film every Saturday at midnight for about 2 years. My wife and I have gone to costume parties as Brad and Janet.
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LOL! When I was in high school it wasn't even out yet. The group I hung out with in the late 70's used to go to it weekly. Then we would manage to get thrown out of just about every after-bar breakfast place in the area for interacting too much with the normals. 🙂 🙂 I used to do a fair Magenta myself. 🙂 (I'm lucky! He's lucky! We're all luckeeeeeeeeey...!! BONG! BONG! {show us your grandmother, Riff!}) 🙂 🙂

Ok, I'll shut up. 🙂

ObPhoto: I sure wish I took more photos back in the RHPS days!
 
We once went with my son (who went every Sat. night). Pretty tame theater, only rice, no water allowed.
A friend from San Diego said they let real Harleys into the show he attended (like Meat Loaf) with full costumes for everyone - LOL.
 
nwcanonman said:
We once went with my son (who went every Sat. night). Pretty tame theater, only rice, no water allowed.
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In the early 80's it got to be very rowdy. Open flame, water balloons, and people filling squirt guns with stuff other than water. Not to mention MIP and drugs.

Then theaters started banning about everything, even rice 'cuz it harmed the rats -- lol! 🙂

A friend from San Diego said they let real Harleys into the show he attended (like Meat Loaf) with full costumes for everyone - LOL.
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Well, some people I knew were trying to think of a way to get a bike in there, they were gonna open up a fire door right at the deep freeze scene, but it never happened. Oh well ... 🙂

ObPhoto: I'll try to find an old pic of me as Magenta and post it ... or do I want to? 🙂
 
Guilty pleasures...I've been reading View Camera magazine lately, Beautiful images but YIKES the gear is $$.
One other: there is a fire hydrant in the middle of the courthouse park that I have been trying to get a good picture of. For several years. The hydrant is yellow and red and sited in a large green lawn. Guilty because:
It's such a mundane idea and I haven't got it (yet).
I have shot a bunch of film and I haven't got it (yet).
I know there is a good photo in this but I can't seem to see it.
I will keep shooting this dern thing until I get it when I could be doing something else.
I ain't giving up soon.
My pleasures, in general, aren't guilty(maybe illegal in some states but that's another story 🙄 ).
Oh, I admit to going to a Bay City Rollers concert a long time ago in hopes of impressing a girl(we were both in 8th grade). But I've learned better since then! 😀
Rob
 
JoeFriday said:
not photography related (altho I suppose it could be).. I'm a huge fan of tube hifi gear.. unfortunately, it gets just as expensive (actually, even more so) than RF gear.. imagine paying $1200 for a pair of speaker wires.. and $500 for a power cable to upgrade a $6000 cd player.. (which I can't afford in the first place.. at least not yet)

not to mention that Mullard tubes are getting significantly harder to find these days.. which means paying $400 a year to retube a 40 watt amplifier

I suspect many of you can understand this other form of GAS
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Well, I am into tube audio also, and I can't understand your need to "re-tube" every year. Properly adjusted tube amps with good capacitors and correct bias can give you decades of life on a good set of NOS tubes. I don't spend the big bucks on wires. Never understood that. I do use BIG wires, though. I have Macintosh tube amps and preamps used throughout the house and studio. Klipsch speakers, also.
 
rbiemer said:
Guilty pleasures...I've been reading View Camera magazine lately, Beautiful images but YIKES the gear is $$.
One other: there is a fire hydrant in the middle of the courthouse park that I have been trying to get a good picture of. For several years. The hydrant is yellow and red and sited in a large green lawn. Guilty because:
It's such a mundane idea and I haven't got it (yet).
I have shot a bunch of film and I haven't got it (yet).
I know there is a good photo in this but I can't seem to see it.
I will keep shooting this dern thing until I get it when I could be doing something else.
I ain't giving up soon.
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When Edward Weston lived in Mexico, he fell in love with his toilet. He wanted nothing more than to take a photo which showed the beauty of this toilet. After taking many photos, he finally took the one he wanted. He called it "Excusado". He showed it to his friend Diego Rivera, who then told him that it was the best photo he had ever seen.

Don't give up, just look at it from another angle.
 
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