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  1. Browncoat

    My sharpness test results for the Tamron 150-600

    Thank you. I've been looking for a reason to post this for awhile now. ;)
  2. Browncoat

    My gear is just tooo heavy to use

    Sounds like they should've bought the pink Hello Kitty camera instead.
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    Godzilla 2014

    Saw the midnight showing last night. My stepson is a HUGE Godzilla fan (at age 12), he has most of the movies on DVD. He was stoked when I surprised him with the tickets! I'm not a Godzilla fan per se, but I'm a big movie buff. I have to say that I was skeptical after the 1998 Godzilla...which...
  4. Browncoat

    Time once again for summer senior sessions

    The end of May is rapidly approaching. That means the very busy spring and summer photo season is upon us! In contrast to what a lot of my competition is churning out for high school seniors, I've gone with a much more edgy look that is especially popular with the guys. Here's one that got a...
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    Anyone ever buy from Phototools.com?

    Browncoat's BS Detector Step 1 - Find out about the physical location. Given the claims on this website, they should have a large facility. I've found similar sounding claims on websites only to discover that the address led to an apartment complex, which is an obvious red flag. These guys pass...
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    Hey DaveW and other home printers... light adjustment Q

    Off topic: A friend of mine is visiting overseas, and last night he sent me a photo. Couldn't help but LOL, it reminded me of you:
  7. Browncoat

    Amazon Patents Studio Photography

    Agreed, and you do have a point. However, I disagree regarding their lawyers being able to successfully argue against a claim. In order for Amazon to be able to fulfill the "novelty" requirement of patent filing, the patent office researchers would've had to try to find existing documentation...
  8. Browncoat

    BOOM! Someone finally sticks it to Getty

    A picture is worth a thousand words. Or in this case, about 1.2 million dollars. Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter | Reuters "We believe that this is the first time that these defendants or any other major digital licensor of photography have been...
  9. Browncoat

    Truth In Photography

    The spectrum of photography has two extremes: Art Historical record At one end you have total creative freedom and artistic interpretation. At the other there is realism and accuracy. It's where the lines begin to blur that this debate surfaces. The most obvious of this blurred line is in...
  10. Browncoat

    Truth In Photography

    It sounds like you're advocating that photographs advertise the level of editing they've received. I made this for you: There is no truth in journalism, and that is a fact. You can not place the value of truth on perception, because your reality is not my reality. You can not reasonably...
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    Truth In Photography

    Just to drive this home, I submit to you OJ Simpson: When Time magazine ran this cover, they gave their illustrator "creative license" to artistically interpret the image. This practice has been common with magazines for decades. All those beautiful women who grace magazine covers are...
  12. Browncoat

    Whence came you?

    Just began a journey down a very interesting path. I've been initiated and will be earning my Entered Apprentice degree next week. Curious if there are any brethren here on the forums?
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    4K and the Future of Photography

    I've often taken great pride (and personal amusement) at laughing at photography's doomsday prophets. Digital was going to be the end of "real" photography when it first arrived on the scene, and you don't have to look very far to find old school film guys still clinging to this mantra...
  14. Browncoat

    Please Visit & Review my Brand New WEBSITE!

    @WhiteLight Looking good! Props on a mobile-friendly site!
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    Illegally obtained photographs

    I would love to go back to Gettysburg and Washington DC...went there on an 8th grade class trip many, many moons ago. I still have my photos, taken on a Kodak Disc camera (remember those?). Never did get to visit the White House, it was locked down because there was some summit meeting and...
  16. Browncoat

    Image Protection 101

    PART I - COPYRIGHT If you're the anxious type who doesn't like to read walls of text, here's the Cliff's Notes version: Are your photos REALLY protected by copyright?: In a word, YES. Let me preface this post by stating the obvious first: I am not a copyright lawyer. All the information...
  17. Browncoat

    Nat Geo Readers Submit Pictures for 125th Anniversary

    Yeah, I agree. Any time I see this kind of crap, this is what I think of: Prince was in a legal dispute with Warner Bros. over creative control of his music in the 90's. For a long time, he appeared in public with the word "SLAVE" written on his cheek.
  18. Browncoat

    #TheMineCar

    Yeah, the new one is a silver GT 2.4 turbo. Got a few mods on it, currently sitting @ around 250hp (stock is 180). Probably won't invest anything else in it, because going up to a Stage 3 turbo is some serious coin.
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