Red-Ringed Tupperware Party with (ineffective) Tin Foil Hats (2)

We had a guest speaker at our last photo club meeting...23 years old...spent last year in Europe on an honors program from the Rhode Island Institute of Design. She brought about 30 pictures that were her thesis. It took her two hours to try and explain her work, including a 30 minute dissertation on the significance of her mostly out of focus shot of a horse's tail. Perhaps it is just me...but if you have to explain your work...your work isn't very good.

Permagrin wrote in post #3571511
Hey David, I was hoping to run into you. We're going to be up in your area next month if you want to get together at some point.

I'd love to try it. We do have some vacation planned for part of the month, though. I'm about to check out for the night, but if you PM me some dates, I'll get back to you tomorrow.

three wrote in post #3571525
Sorry.. was just playing catch up from part 1 of the thread.. (i had to have my say!).

Are you totally caught up on the details of part 1?

Woolburr wrote in post #3571538
We had a guest speaker at our last photo club meeting...23 years old...spent last year in Europe on an honors program from the Rhode Island Institute of Design. She brought about 30 pictures that were her thesis. It took her two hours to try and explain her work, including a 30 minute dissertation on the significance of her mostly out of focus shot of a horse's tail. Perhaps it is just me...but if you have to explain your work...your work isn't very good.

true.. kinda like a joke that needs explaining.. i hate that :P

Too good to let go by. . .

Woolburr wrote in post #3571538
...It took her two hours to try and explain her work, including a 30 minute dissertation on the significance of her mostly out of focus shot of a horse's tail...

Are you sure it was the tail she was trying to comment on, and not the more general horse's ass?

Woolburr wrote in post #3571545
Are you totally caught up on the details of part 1?

er.. not totally :S

you guys post way too fast :P

I need your advice. It's soon (in less than two months anyway...) my birthday. I'll have to decide what I ask for as a gift. I'm thinking of 2 things to use with my 100-400: a TC or a set of extension tubes... With which one would you go? Right now, I think I'll give the 2 and wait for the surprise

ibdb wrote in post #3571550
Too good to let go by. . .

Are you sure it was the tail she was trying to comment on, and not the more general horse's ass?

I have to say that after she got all done...I was wondering who the horse's ass was that signed her up to speak.

I'm one of those shooters that sees a flahr and just shoots it...if someone were to ask me why...I would say because it looked cool to me...not because I saw in it the inner most sanctity of a child...perhaps one trying to hide their repressed fears of Faustian visions of Satan, but more likely a self-indulgent voyage of self-discovery about the greater meaning of pond scum on the moon.

Both tubes and teleconverters have benefits. I probably use them equally for my version of photography. In fact, I often use them in conjunction with each other. Put both on your list and be pleasantly surprised!

I knoe that in th elong term I'll need both I guess I'll let them decide which one will come first...

This is with a tube.

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This one is with a TC.

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What did you do to it's head

And this one is using both a Tube and a TC.

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DDA wrote in post #3571597
What did you do to it's head

Glued it to the inside of the flahr so the stupid thing would hold still!!!