This is great
The people at the local camera store know you by first name
You keep trying to figure out a clever way to spell photography in six letters for a personalized license plate
When your friends ask you to go shopping you ask them "Calumet, Samy's or Canoga" and they say no, Nordstorm - you say ok then, we will have to go to The Grove so I can stop at Samy's". Your one little bag costs more than their collective purchases and you only bought ONE thing.
You get the daily LA Times for the Thursday Camera Sale Ads.
When you do go clothes shopping you head right for the rack of black clothing.
You buy your bras one cup size bigger to hold lenscaps and lens cleaning cloths.
You no longer need a purse. Every thing you need fits in a Shootsac or Camera Bag. You have one to go with each outfit.
All of your shoes are comfort shoes meant to allow you to climb ladders to shoot from above or zoom with your feet even across a big patch of wet mud.
You cringe when you see someone trying to take a portriat of a friend against a sunset, with a P&S and without a fill light.
You chuckle to yourself when you hear them get upset with the camera for not resolving the people.
You actually step in and give them a 5-min lecture on lighting.
Your SO pickes on your lens-envy by using the following lines:
-- Look how big THEIR zoom is...
-- I bet that person's aperture is bigger than yours
-- My friend said they had a (XX)mm wide angle lens. Do you have one?
You respond by maxing out the credit card on new gear.
When you don't have the proper lighting equipment, you turn into MacGyver and make $3.57 of household junk into a studio lighting setup.
You cringe when you see someone trying to take a portriat of a friend against a sunset, with a P&S and without a fill light.
You chuckle to yourself when you hear them get upset with the camera for not resolving the people.
You actually step in and give them a 5-min lecture on lighting.
Your SO pickes on your lens-envy by using the following lines:
-- Look how big THEIR zoom is...
-- I bet that person's aperture is bigger than yours
-- My friend said they had a (XX)mm wide angle lens. Do you have one?
You respond by maxing out the credit card on new gear.
When you don't have the proper lighting equipment, you turn into MacGyver and make $3.57 of household junk into a studio lighting setup.
Good ones all, but you forgot, "You buy engagement ring with current challenge in mind" .
What's with the duct tape
Shouldn't it be GAFFER's Tape?
We went out to dinner tonight and the people at the next table were planning a party with a timeline :-).
My husband did not allow me to go to the table and ask them if they needed a photographer and to hand them my business card since I have done that the last three times we've gone out.
We went out to dinner tonight and the people at the next table were planning a party with a timeline :-).
My husband did not allow me to go to the table and ask them if they needed a photographer and to hand them my business card since I have done that the last three times we've gone out.
We went out to dinner tonight and the people at the next table were planning a party with a timeline :-).
My husband did not allow me to go to the table and ask them if they needed a photographer and to hand them my business card since I have done that the last three times we've gone out.
I also have done that more than once. My wife just shrugs.
I let that one pass. But good idea for next time because I am sure there will be one! Or I could always send him to the car to get something I left there. Fortunately he is the kind that will go to get me the missing sweater or such!
Kidney..... I guess I can get that Nikon 600mm VR after all.
Thanks Awais
Might even have enough left over for a wimberely head and heavier gitzo tripod
Kidney..... I guess I can get that Nikon 600mm VR after all.
Thanks Awais
Might even have enough left over for a wimberely head and heavier gitzo tripod
Imagine what you can get if you sold both!!! oh wait...
Well I have the photo studio all loaded up in the van for a trip to visit grandson. Have everything except the stands for holding backgrounds. All cameras and lenses because on the way back I am hoping to catch fall colors on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada on the way back home. Tried to talk the wife into a side trip to Bodie, but I think I was pushing my luck. Of course I told her I needed all this equipment for his 1st birthday shots. You can do portraits with 300mm cant you??(Owens Valley Elk hehe or maybe birds around Mono Lake)
Should have seen the eyebrows I got when I ask how much blackmarket kidneys are going for
When you don't appear in ANY family photographs because you are the one taking all the shots---I maybe new at this but already it's like I don't exist, lol.
You're also not in anyone else's photographs because those with a camera think you're no longer a family member, you're 'just the photographer!'
You have a shopping cart on every website (Amazon, B&H, Adorama..) full of gear you will probably never own.
Your dog/cat will no longer look you in the eye, and instead turns it's head in disdain..
You have 2 or 3 of everything because you are constantly misplacing them and having to replace them or lose your sanity.
You no longer want "traditional" gifts for Christmas, only photo equipment because it DOES make you happy.
Lover of God and Fisher of Men for Christ
Bodies: Nikon D300 & D70
Lens: Sigma 28-70/2.8, Nikon 18-70, 50mm/1.4, 70-200
Lights: SB-600, Alien Bees 400 & 800
You no longer want "traditional" gifts for Christmas, only photo equipment because it DOES make you happy.
Already making my list
The trouble is that I have two major addictions, and they're both 'spensive. Cycling and photography. I can't think of anything I want that doesn't cost more than a down-payment on a car.
More:
- You use your own images as backgrounds for your computer and phone.
- Everyone else's driving distraction is the cell phone, yours is shooting with the camera.
- You ran out of hard-disk-drive space because you shoot in RAW (guilty as charged).
I picked up Joe McNally's "The Hotshoe Diaries" on Saturday and I'm half way finished?
I have not skip a single page, including the Acknowledgments.
Lover of God and Fisher of Men for Christ
Bodies: Nikon D300 & D70
Lens: Sigma 28-70/2.8, Nikon 18-70, 50mm/1.4, 70-200
Lights: SB-600, Alien Bees 400 & 800
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The people at the local camera store know you by first name
You keep trying to figure out a clever way to spell photography in six letters for a personalized license plate
When your friends ask you to go shopping you ask them "Calumet, Samy's or Canoga" and they say no, Nordstorm - you say ok then, we will have to go to The Grove so I can stop at Samy's". Your one little bag costs more than their collective purchases and you only bought ONE thing.
You get the daily LA Times for the Thursday Camera Sale Ads.
When you do go clothes shopping you head right for the rack of black clothing.
You buy your bras one cup size bigger to hold lenscaps and lens cleaning cloths.
You no longer need a purse. Every thing you need fits in a Shootsac or Camera Bag. You have one to go with each outfit.
All of your shoes are comfort shoes meant to allow you to climb ladders to shoot from above or zoom with your feet even across a big patch of wet mud.
Flash Frozen Photography, Inc.
http://flashfrozenphotography.com
SO true! You sound like you have been in my closet!
...and you answer "take her picture".
Hmmm... I was doing that long before I became photography obsessed - I guess it was destiny (or too many years in the theater.... ) :giggle
I am so (literally) laughing out loud at this
This list is hilarious, Heather - I'm really alarmed at how badly I've got the bug this year because I can relate to almost ALL of these
You cringe when you see someone trying to take a portriat of a friend against a sunset, with a P&S and without a fill light.
You chuckle to yourself when you hear them get upset with the camera for not resolving the people.
You actually step in and give them a 5-min lecture on lighting.
Your SO pickes on your lens-envy by using the following lines:
-- Look how big THEIR zoom is...
-- I bet that person's aperture is bigger than yours
-- My friend said they had a (XX)mm wide angle lens. Do you have one?
You respond by maxing out the credit card on new gear.
When you don't have the proper lighting equipment, you turn into MacGyver and make $3.57 of household junk into a studio lighting setup.
http://silversx80.smugmug.com/
Olympus E-M5, 12-50mm, 45mm f/1.8
Some legacy OM lenses and an OM-10
Good ones all, but you forgot, "You buy engagement ring with current challenge in mind"
_________
lol
http://silversx80.smugmug.com/
Olympus E-M5, 12-50mm, 45mm f/1.8
Some legacy OM lenses and an OM-10
http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
Oh the duct tape on the lenses is SUCH a nice touch. Fun-ney
Shouldn't it be GAFFER's Tape?
We went out to dinner tonight and the people at the next table were planning a party with a timeline :-).
My husband did not allow me to go to the table and ask them if they needed a photographer and to hand them my business card since I have done that the last three times we've gone out.
Flash Frozen Photography, Inc.
http://flashfrozenphotography.com
Did you do it while he was in the men's room?
http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
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Surely you can get a tripod AND some good glass for a kidney.
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I let that one pass. But good idea for next time because I am sure there will be one! Or I could always send him to the car to get something I left there. Fortunately he is the kind that will go to get me the missing sweater or such!
Flash Frozen Photography, Inc.
http://flashfrozenphotography.com
We have two of these and only need one - good idea!
Flash Frozen Photography, Inc.
http://flashfrozenphotography.com
Thanks Awais
Might even have enough left over for a wimberely head and heavier gitzo tripod
http://kadvantage.smugmug.com/
Imagine what you can get if you sold both!!! oh wait...
_________
Selling both cataracts wouldn't be too wise either.
I suppose the smart money would be in the renewable resources, like skin, bone marrow, hair, and if you can manage without drink, the liver.
http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
Should have seen the eyebrows I got when I ask how much blackmarket kidneys are going for
http://kadvantage.smugmug.com/
http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
You're also not in anyone else's photographs because those with a camera think you're no longer a family member, you're 'just the photographer!'
You have a shopping cart on every website (Amazon, B&H, Adorama..) full of gear you will probably never own.
Your dog/cat will no longer look you in the eye, and instead turns it's head in disdain..
You have 2 or 3 of everything because you are constantly misplacing them and having to replace them or lose your sanity.
You see the world in black and white.
www.ivarborst.nl & smugmug
You train the dog to stop and sit on command so you can take pictures while you walk her.
You are late for meetings because the light was too good to pass up. Darn construction!
Bodies: Nikon D300 & D70
Lens: Sigma 28-70/2.8, Nikon 18-70, 50mm/1.4, 70-200
Lights: SB-600, Alien Bees 400 & 800
Already making my list
The trouble is that I have two major addictions, and they're both 'spensive. Cycling and photography. I can't think of anything I want that doesn't cost more than a down-payment on a car.
More:
- You use your own images as backgrounds for your computer and phone.
- Everyone else's driving distraction is the cell phone, yours is shooting with the camera.
- You ran out of hard-disk-drive space because you shoot in RAW (guilty as charged).
http://silversx80.smugmug.com/
Olympus E-M5, 12-50mm, 45mm f/1.8
Some legacy OM lenses and an OM-10
I picked up Joe McNally's "The Hotshoe Diaries" on Saturday and I'm half way finished?
I have not skip a single page, including the Acknowledgments.
Bodies: Nikon D300 & D70
Lens: Sigma 28-70/2.8, Nikon 18-70, 50mm/1.4, 70-200
Lights: SB-600, Alien Bees 400 & 800