D2's Fun Friday Five, Photography Edition

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[Poll #1381179]

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[sageautumn.livejournal.com]

I took sort of a narrow view on "familiar". There were several more terms that I sorta of know what they are... ...but either wouldn't know how to reproduce them (daguerrotype), or don't really know how to USE them/what they do.

And it won't let me clickly now, but I'd've rated my skills at about a five? Average.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Well, my polls are supposed to be fun, so you can interpret them as you'd like. I also have average photography skills! =)

[fub.livejournal.com]

I'm not much of a photographer myself. I did design two websites that are focussed on photography:
- leinligt.nl, featuring ingiechan's art photography;
- KlikTikFix, featuring a photo by ingiechan and a haiku by babarage every day.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

ingiechan's art photography would make for some great icons! Now if I could only understand Dutch...

[fub.livejournal.com]

I have one of her photos as the background of my bankcard. :)

[elf-fu.livejournal.com]

Daguerrotype
Sabatier Effect
Schlieren photography

I didn't know those :3 I will now have to go know them. Up, up, Google away!

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia helped me make this poll. ^_^

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

I love looking at the photos I did as a behind-the-scenes photographer for a local independent movie I was heavily involved with.

See, I shot two rolls a day (this was in 2000), two days a week, over 10 or 12 weeks.

Every Monday or tuesday, we went over the photos I shot and picked 5 or 6 to put up on the web site I created for them.

When I look back at my album, I'm always amazed at how clear the learning curve is between the weeks - the first week, I had a few good photos almost by chance, and I see dozens of ways I could have easily improved them.

By the time I get to the final week, the difference is vivid - the pictures are saying more, the composition is better, the lighting mattered.

Anyway, it's the process of learning that I find so cool.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Experience is the best teacher! ^_^

[baronbrian.livejournal.com]

I think my most amusing story was when I was trying to take a picture early one morning with a tripod and the exposure was longer then I thought. I thought my mirror had frozen open (it was really cold) so I stuck my head in front of the lens to see if I could see the mirror or not. I didn't... then I did see it as the exposure finished. Bingo, ghost photo of my head.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

LOL! Very nice story, sir! =)

[ikeda-ren.livejournal.com]

...okay, so maybe I didn't know the difference between a photograph and a snapshot after all. >>;

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Do you now?

[ikeda-ren.livejournal.com]

I checked the dictionary right after I did the poll, so yes.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Then my work here is done! ^_^