Ken Rockwell Facts

[Pierro]

I sometimes wear a corsett if i plan on reading anything by Ken. I'd hate to lose a rib

I have no venom towards the dude, i dont know him, but some ( not all by any means ) of his posts cross between strange ( ' the whole world knows me from my website ' ) to hilarious ( ' real photogs dont use teles ' ) and to just plain wrong. Its like a quality US soap drama. ( cheers , friends, etc )

 

[fotojack]

Many of us have known for some time now that KR is cerebrally challenged! lol He makes a living off of gullible people.....especially newcomers to photography. He's a legend in his own mind.

 

[Pierro]

I was a legend in my own lunchtime, so i know where he's coming from jack

 

[Dave_W]

I'm curious how much this guy pulls in from his $5 pitch. It could be that he's making some very serious money. Given the totality of the internet, even if a very small percentage of people reading his blog (or should it be "blah") sent him $5, it could add up to a very large chunk of change!

 

[AC016]

If you've been around the internet for awhile, odds are you've stumbled across the awesome power of Chuck Norris. However, I don't think he's ever met Ken Rockwell.

Ken Rockwell's camera has settings similar to ours, except his are:

• P[erfect]
• A[wesome Priority]
• S[uperb Priority]
• M[ajestic]

Ken Rockwell doesn't color correct. He adjusts the world to match his vision.

Ken Rockwell deletes his bad photos, too. You and I refer to these as Pulitzer Prize winners.

Ken Rockwell doesn't adjust his DOF. He adjusts the space-time continuum.

Ken Rockwell doesn't wait for proper lighting when shooting landscapes. The sun rises and sets just for him.

Ken Rockwell doesn't flip his camera into the portrait position. He flips the earth.

Ken Rockwell is the only person to have photographed Jesus.

When Ken Rockwell brackets a shot, 3 versions of the photo win first place in 3 different categories.

Before any new camera is released, they go to Ken Rockwell for review. The best cameras get a Nikon sticker, the others get a Canon sticker.

Once, a camera was tested and Ken Rockwell couldn't even put a Canon sticker on it. That's how Pentax was born.

Ken Rockwell only used flash once. Today we refer to it as the Chernobyl Incident.

Only Ken Rockwell can take pictures of Ken Rockwell; everyone else would just get their film overexposed by the light of his genius.

Ken Rockwell is the only photographer who can take self-portraits of you.

Ken Rockwell portraits are so lifelike, they have to pay taxes.

On Ken Rockwell's desktop, the Trash icon is really just a link to National Geographic Magazine.

For every 10 shots that Ken Rockwell takes, 11 are keepers.

Ken Rockwell never uses auto-focus, everything just moves into position for him.

I would be very interested to know when you first came up with this?? Seems to me that this is a copy/paste job and you should give credit to the person who originally came up with it over 5 years ago. Just saying...

 

[N_Addy]

This has been all over the net for years. I believe it was actually a compilation of posts from a freenode.net thread that ran in 2007. Multiple contributors.

Still funny.

 

[Eye-level]

You all know you'd secretly like to be as popular as Ken! He has a D4! LMAO

 

[N_Addy]

He's so far ahead of us he has a D6.

 

[Eye-level]

Hey no one is supposed to know that. It is so secret even his family doesn't know that!

 

[Browncoat]

I would be very interested to know when you first came up with this?? Seems to me that this is a copy/paste job and you should give credit to the person who originally came up with it over 5 years ago. Just saying...

If you happen to know who originally came up with some of those, please enlighten us with some credentials. This stuff has been floating around the net on several different forums for many a year. Dunno why you would attempt to troll a thread this old, this late in the game. Just saying...

 

[AC016]

If you happen to know who originally came up with some of those, please enlighten us with some credentials. This stuff has been floating around the net on several different forums for many a year. Dunno why you would attempt to troll a thread this old, this late in the game. Just saying...

July 6th was the last comment before mine. How does me looking at a post that was recently commented on, constitute "trolling"? Just as we do not like people using our pictures without permission, the same goes for written work. Since i did not post the original post, why is it up to me to provide you with the source of the material? I do beleive that responsibility lies with you. I know you know how to use Google... Seeing that you don't like KR for various reasons, does posting all this tripe make you a better man? Think about that.

 

[Lscha]

 

[Pierro]

I've got the seat next to you Laura

 

[Browncoat]

This thread is a year old. It's often been at the top of the forum, so why you chose now to impart your infinite words of wisdom upon us is anyone's guess. Perhaps you're interested in being the front runner for the next round of trollers, or maybe your post is in memorandum to westmill and bluenoser, who paved the path before you. At this point, I'm starting to believe it's a Canadian thing.

Since you insist on arguing pointless semantics, you should know that forum posts are not considered credible reference material, nor are they scholarly works, nor is this a college Composition class. I can think of no less than a dozen other places where similar threads exist. Like I said before, this stuff has been floating around the web for a long time. The only thing that's really left is that this is some thinly veiled attempt to discredit me personally, or you are a closet fan of KR. In either case, sadly, there is no immediate medical attention available for what ails you.

As for your final comment, there is actually an anti-Rockwell post on my blog that ranks high in a Google search for his name. Also now a year old, I had to disable comments on it due to the overwhelming response. I still get daily emails from photographers of all walks of life who happen to agree with me, just as many here have. In case you're looking for more "credible" photographers who are on the anti-Rockwell bandwagon, they're not hard to find: Jared Polin (FroKnowsFoto), Zack Arias, and many, many, many others have gone on record about what a quack KR is.

You call it tripe. I call it being in good company.

 

[jdeg]

The original intention of this thread was to highlight those "facts" floating around the internet.

I think this thread has run its course.