Hey ya’ll! We looked at your adventure photos this week which was not nearly as popular as landscapes.
Folks: don’t somehow acquire Tony or Chelsea’s phone number and call or text them about photography. That’s terrifying.
We don’t have a live show next week, but the week after, September 15th will be on car photography with a guest.
SDP now has closed captioning on the videos, so if that’s something you need, there you go!
Some photo news:
- Instagram now lets you zoom! Which isn’t great.
- submit your “Stop It!” photos to us at sdp.io/stopit. We’ll make fun of your worst or most cliche photos.
“Bokeh that pepperoni.”
Let’s get into some Chit-Chat, Chelsea’s favorite segment where people say mean/weird/funny things to us and we give them positive reinforcement for some reason:
- Tony should be the president because he’s nice
- Annie Leibovitz, like Harry Potter, lived in a closet
- this just in: men criticize talented women
- Tony’s goatee makes him look like a crazy jazz musician
- Smaakjeks is our favorite commenter
- Also this just in: Tony is chill “I’ve never seen people rally so well to bust someone’s balls”
What should T&C do a video on with Chris and Jordan from The Camera Store TV? Give us suggestions. Chelsea’s is knife fight. “Canadian, too nice, learn to sharper a tooth brush.” “Cut me with your apologies.”
Ok, let’s look at some of your adventure photos! I’ll highlight some of our favorites:
- “that’s the appropriate dog” “yeah, like if you bring a wiener dog to the top of a mountain, you’re out. Thumbs down.”
- “oh no, this is a danger“
- “was this taken by the front row of oxen?”
- beach camping
- “this is actually the devil“
Tony pauses to make everyone upset. He’s sciencing. He’s also B.F. Skinner’s kid.
- efficient vacuuming
- dirt run
- flying kid
- base jumper. Naturally, Justin knows what it stands for off the top of his head.
- winner of the night! Cave diving.
- lovely B&W
- “I free dive now, wrestle a shark while I’m down there, get the bends eight times.”
- “woah, this baby’s an adventure“
- Krampus tradition “this is a true adventure, when your town dresses up like brooms.”
- through the ice
- poor bull
Over to me for some of your comments, questions, etc:
- sun flare was real, diver was underwater
Now to a portfolio! Skip the landing page, put as much as you can on the front page. Ditch the watermarks, they don’t work. Someone called Annie a “rake.” “Is that a bad thing? Rakes have only ever been good to me.” Back to the portfolio. Pare down your images in the music section, focus your portfolio on what you’re trying to sell. Pick all your best photos and put them on the main page.
Back to me for your questions:
- how can you add adventure to your photos if you live in a flat, boring place? Add an exciting element! Boring can be a good backdrop.
- can you use a studio umbrella as a scrim? Yup!
- setting the white point on photos; it can get too bright, should you sacrifice contrast? Depends on the image. You only need a tiny amount of black point and white point.
Let’s get back to photos! Tony was editing some while I asked questions:
- gorgeous shot in Oaxaca, Mexico
- storm chasing!
- this guy
- “you guys: Venice. Is it going to be here in a few years or not? Let’s talk the real issues.”
- bike jump!
- bike ride!
- from above
- cave
- Sierra adventure
- jet ski
- Instagram hike
- Dracula plane
- mountain silhouette
- “I’m gonna give it a pick. So ‘merica.”
- bridge to nowhere
Back over to me for some viewer questions:
- the hay people are from Krampus celebration! They’re called Schab and they are holding whips
- Chelsea seems to have made up a holiday tradition of beating your parents awake
- Hubble space telescope focal length is insane
- Photokina meet-up!
Bonus portfolio, ’cause all the cute animals.
Pre-announcement announcement! T&C are doing a photo trip to Thailand and you can join them! Stay tuned for info.
Tony flipped through the remained of your photos and highlighted a few:
- down the barrel
- train baby
- swing chairs
- pink sunrise
- rodeo
- desert sky
- dunes
- parasailing
- “that seems unsafe” “they love hugs though” “no, that’s really not right”
- was this one meant for Stop It? “I want this airbrushed on the side of my van.”
- “horse in a shirt, what’s more adventurous than that? Dude’s fully dressed.”
And we made it through them all! (Except for the ones I didn’t let through.)
We’ll be back in two weeks looking at your car photos!
If you were wondering, after the show ends and you hear Chelsea chastise Tony, it’s because of him breathing on the lens.
