It's gasoline. He helped me replace my fuel tank a few weeks ago, and we needed to do something with all the old dirty fuel. It really didn't burn that well, so it wasn't quite as dangerous as it looks.

8/15/2012 3:20:09 AM

been shooting a fuckton. these are from the past week or two. sry facebook compression.
















[Edited on August 15, 2012 at 11:50 PM. Reason : .]

8/15/2012 11:43:26 PM

Just noticed Mtan Man214 won that Gizmodo Food challenge from a few weeks ago

http://gizmodo.com/5926483/35-saliva+worthy-photos-of-food-porn

Congratulations, sweet photo. I also actually just realized I came in 2nd place with the coconut cupcakes



[Edited on August 16, 2012 at 12:18 AM. Reason : link]

8/15/2012 11:59:42 PM

^ Thanks. Did you use to work for The Technician and The Agromeck?

Also, here's a picture of an Emu I saw when I took my kid on a farm tour yesterday.


[Edited on August 16, 2012 at 10:24 AM. Reason : by request]

8/16/2012 6:52:08 AM

I haven't shot much at all recently, and every time I do my 40D shows her age. The photos just don't look right any more. Everything looks... flat. And dark, even when exposed properly. Bleh.

8/16/2012 9:15:15 AM

you know I'm a fan of the golfer pic

8/16/2012 9:50:40 AM

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DAN!!

8/17/2012 3:48:25 PM

Is that zxappeal's shenanigans at Jeepman's compound?

8/17/2012 8:23:36 PM

Correct. It's me. Good times.

8/17/2012 8:54:41 PM

I'm glad to see the Crest Road Wrenchin' and Fabrication is still alive and well! Im gonna have to stop by and holler at y'all next time i'm down there.

Here are some new pics from my latest happenings:









































[Edited on August 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM. Reason : .]

8/17/2012 9:32:18 PM

I would seriously frame the giraffe pic!!!

8/17/2012 9:51:23 PM

Plz to provide your e-mail address and I will send you a full resolution file you can print and frame.

There are moAr animals from this trip here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/igordmitry/sets/72157628532684355/with/7805184352/ nothing really National Georgaphic-worthy, just some beautiful animals looking into the lens. Although we did see a baby gazelle being born, taking its first steps, and then almost being eaten by a passing hyena. We were all holding our breath. I got it on video and will have to put together a video with dramatic narration, Discovery-style

8/17/2012 10:03:20 PM

Igor, are all of these with the 60D? What glass?

8/17/2012 11:47:09 PM

Where did you go, and why? Awesome shots.

8/18/2012 11:12:46 AM

This has probably been mentioned before, but what lens/body rental sites do you trust and use frequently?

8/18/2012 12:13:42 PM

i've used and enjoyed lensrentals.com

8/18/2012 8:43:04 PM

^I have used them too. Also if you are in the Triangle Southeastern Camera rents glass as well. Mainly at the Raleigh store, but even some at the Carrboro location.

8/18/2012 8:52:25 PM

So tempted

http://slickdeals.net/f/5067994-Canon-T3i-with-EF-S-18-55mm-lens-EF-S-55-250mm-Canon-PIXMA-Pro9000-Photo-Paper-687-after-400-rebate

8/18/2012 10:09:21 PM

love those shots, Igor

8/18/2012 10:16:41 PM

Thanks for the compliments, everyone. These were the shots I brought back from my trip to Tanzania and Zanzibar, which I did mostly for selfish reason of climbing Kilimanjaro. Since I was already in Tanzania, 3-day safari to Tarangere, Ngorongoro crater, and Serengeti national parks, as well as a side trip to Zanzibar were a no-brainer. There was definitely a ton of photographic opportunities all over the place, although I could not take advantage of all of them, mostly because we had a really packed schedule and couldn't really stop every time I wanted to take a photo or shoot some video. But I sure tried, and I brought back something like 100 gigs (pics were all JPEG, but video took a lot of space of course). I feel like i would have done better given a slower pace though. If you have the flexibility, I recommend to go with a small group of friends or family, or with a dedicated photo safari group, if your primary goal is photography. Because it is really hard to take a quality photo (let alone video) from a 1987 Land Cruiser bouncing down a dirt road at 60kph.

Pics were all from the 60D. Safari pics were shot with Canon EF 70-200L f/2.8 IS or the EF-S 10-22 f/3.5-4.5 I didn't take the big lens up the mountain, so the pics from up there is 10-22 or the EF-S 18-200 f/3.5-5.6. I think the mask was done with EF 50 f/1.4. I applied some Lightroom presets to some of the pics, like the giraffes, and others were left alone. All of these were shot in JPEG due to memory space considerations.

I also bought this awesome Manfrotto monopod with a ball joint at the bottom and a fluid cartridge for panning, and it was worth every penny, especially for video but also for the safari pics (70-200 gets heavy on hands really fast): http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=434422&Q=&is=REG&A=details Easy to expand and collapse, light enough to where I took it all the way to the Kili summit, and the ball joint is stiff enough to hold the camera upright with no external assistance (only at the lowest setting though, and I was still spotting it, in case the wind blew it over or something). That's how I got the nighttime pic of the Barafu campsite, it was something like a 20 sec exposure.

I brought one speedlight with me, but I only used it once, for a nighttime portrait pic at the safari camp. For most of the trip, it was run-and-gun type of scenario, so in the future if I had a choice between bringing a speedlight or an extra lens, I think I would have gone with the lens. A small LED light panel, on the other hand, was instrumental for nighttime interviews at the camp, as well as using it as a lantern around the camp (and a "high-beam" light on the trail on the way down)

I brought a bunch of charged batteries, I think 5 for the 60D and two for Canon HF-S200 camcorder. I also charged batteries and phones (mine and other peoples') with a 12V solar panel and a universal charger along the way.

To answer the question abour rentals, I also used Lensrentals.com with great success, although if you only need the lens for a day or a weekend, local rental is cheaper (at least here in the DC area).

[Edited on August 20, 2012 at 11:16 AM. Reason : .]

8/20/2012 11:13:29 AM

Did you make the video yet? Looking forward to checking it out

8/20/2012 11:22:26 AM

Igor how close were you to that cape buffalo?

8/20/2012 11:25:25 AM

The company I used to work for is having a photo contest if any of you are interested:

http://www.facebook.com/Bookbyte/app_451684954848385


Looks like pretty good prizes (macbook or dslr)

8/22/2012 8:32:43 PM

^ Looks like a rights grab.

Quote :

"Publicity Rights – By entering the Contest (except where prohibited by law), entrants consent to the use of their names, pictures, likenesses, voices, biographical data, and/or any information contained in their entry in advertising, promotion and marketing materials throughout the world, including on the Internet, by the Sponsor, its promotional partners and third-party marketing entities, without additional compensation, notice, review, or approval. Nothing contained in these Official Rules obligates Sponsor to make use of any of the rights granted herein and winner waives any right to inspect or approve any such use. "

8/22/2012 11:25:08 PM

Some shots I did for my buddy's band last week.



Misc.


Assassin's Ball last Friday.

8/23/2012 12:07:29 AM

Igor Those shots are amazing.

Ditto to Ronny. If you're in town let me know if you ever want to get together for a shoot. I've been getting out a bit more now and am looking for anything to take pictures of other than kids on slides.

Also, thanks to DivaBaby19 for getting us into the Jimmy V tournament this morning. I still havent gone through all the photos I took yet, but here's two I grabbed from early on.





and I had to leave a little early to get to my Godson's first birthday party. A shot from that:

8/26/2012 11:16:18 PM

recent photowalk I went on

8/27/2012 7:34:51 AM

Igor I really like those shots from Africa. Forgot to comment on them earlier. Great stuff.

I put just a couple shots up from the V. I will put up some more and do some editing later. Here is a link to them:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151125729769547.464795.500029546&type=3&l=a713a74fb0

In the meantime though, I wanted to share this gem from yesterday. While Mtan Man214 and I were shooting yesterday, we walked to the 18th hole, where one of the sponsors was Hooters. They had 4 Hooters girls up there, and a fair amount of people and photographers hanging out. While standing there Mtan Man214 made the comment "Hey do you remember iphotou that used to post on TWW? Some of these guys remind me of him." I said "Oh yea, that Charlie's Images creep with his shitty model photography" and had a laugh. When I got home and was going through pictures, I found this:



I thought nothing of it, just one of the creepers showing off, until I zoomed in on that shit on the speedlight, which is a lost and found tag. And the email address listed for the photographer is none other than charliesimages@gmail.com. Under that Hooters All Star hat is the one and only iphotou! I checked out his FB page and sure enough, Charlie posted 100 pictures from the Hooters tent at the Jimmy V on Sunday. Lucky ladies had him there all day long. Apparently he loves him some Hooters as every other post on his page is checking in from there, eating there, or talking about them. Couldn't believe that Mtan Man214 brought him up and we talked shit about him and he was right there the whole time.

https://www.facebook.com/photos.charliefranks

[Edited on August 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM. Reason : ]

8/27/2012 9:52:14 AM

I also want to thank DivaBaby19 for getting me into the Jimmy V classic. I'll go through the pics tonight and hopefully have some edited by tomorrow.

Nighthawk/Mtan Man214 - who are you? did we meet?

[Edited on August 27, 2012 at 12:41 PM. Reason : ]

8/27/2012 12:35:56 PM

Oh wow more TWW photographers out there. Makes 4 of us then (if we count iphotou)
I didn't think to ask Erica if anybody else took her up on the offer on here!

8/27/2012 12:52:50 PM

^^^HAHAHA That's great!

^^So funny that you ended up being a wolfwebber!!! Nighthawk I didn't know the TWW connection until she arrived to our Friday event. We were happy to have you & Mina over the course of our event!

Can't wait to see some more pics (but not ones of me...I was a hot hungover mess on Sunday lol)


[Edited on August 27, 2012 at 12:58 PM. Reason : e]

8/27/2012 12:52:59 PM

^So are you running the FB page? Somebody posted my Scotty pic on it.

8/27/2012 1:24:19 PM

Jeah!

That was totes me

8/27/2012 1:48:01 PM

I can't believe I was in the presence of iphotou and wasn't quick enough to realize it so I could make sure he knew how creepy I find him. I can only hope he overheard us.

I think I've edited through most of everything I took that day and put some favorites on my flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingd/sets/72157631276336558/with/7874846924/











TenaciousC I only talked with one other shooter, Andy from the Raleigh Telegram. Don't know if that was you or not. If not, you may have recognized me as the big ginger guy in the black polo crawling around through the grass.

Also, if anyone wants to get together Wednesday for a shoot, the Raleigh Outdoor Photography Club is going to meet-up at Lake Crabtree at 7pm to shoot some mountain bikers on the trails. I think it's a partnership between the two meet-up groups so there should be some good collaboration.

8/27/2012 3:45:07 PM

^Nice shots Austin. And yea I was thinking about that shoot Wednesday. Dunno if I can make it, but might check it out.

8/27/2012 3:49:55 PM

Quote :

"CELEBRITY GOLD TOURNAMENT"

Nice shots!

8/27/2012 4:00:38 PM

Quote :

"Quote : "CELEBRITY GOLD TOURNAMENT""

Oh the shame. Thanks for catching that before I linked it to professional groups

8/27/2012 4:36:35 PM

iphotou has posted photos of the hooters hole (haha) all over our facebook page.

Luckily they just show up on the side stream and not on the main wall

8/27/2012 6:33:54 PM

Omar, your 4th pic has an annoying piece of sensor dust but it's still my favorite! Where is that?

8/27/2012 10:52:59 PM

williamstown - suburb west of melbourne, australia

8/28/2012 7:46:27 AM

Went out to the meet-up at Lake Crabtree and threw a few images on my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingd/

It got really dark, really fast. Panning was pretty much it, though I had a few succesful images holding my flash off camera. Here's my top pick:

8/30/2012 3:46:17 PM

Good stuff dude. Glad you're shooting again.

8/30/2012 5:27:42 PM

^You need to hang some. We've been hoping you'd come out once.

8/30/2012 5:34:46 PM

8/30/2012 8:07:26 PM

^^Sorry, I don't mean to be flaky. I'd love to get together for a group shoot/talk shop or whatever. I've got a few lights to play with.

8/30/2012 10:43:34 PM

That no diving sign is incredible.

8/31/2012 3:15:46 AM

8/31/2012 1:07:13 PM

what

9/1/2012 1:41:41 PM

Just checked out a 70-200 for a gig on Monday and I really want to get out and play with it before then. Anyone want to shoot this weekend?

9/1/2012 3:40:20 PM

I just saw the part earlier where DoubleDown and Mtan Man214 won the food porn competition! Congrats yall!

Ronny, great photos, even the 40D ones, I do not think they look flat at all.

OmarBadu, also great job, especially the third one. Did you do any color correction or did you just shift white balance in-camera? Either way, looks cool!

Nighthawk, great investigating skills. Although I met a lot of tDubbers and they are not like that at all, iphotou totally fits the internet creep stereotype. That's not how I imagined him but LOL.

Mtan Man214, I would definitely come out and shoot with you guys, not this weekend but maybe at least once before the leaves come down. Enjoy the 70-200! Also, for those MTB photos, try setting your flash sync to second-curtain. That will move the motion trail behind the rider, which will look more natural. Off-camera flash would be even better, of course. Panning is always fun, feels good when you match the speed just right!

EMCE congrats on picking up a DSLR and joining the club! We expect nothing but the grizzliest photos form ya. In the meantime, read up on composition rules before you get too deep into the technical mumbo-jumbo. http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/basics.htm is a good start.

[user]TreeTwista[/user] I am terrible at measureing distances, but I think the buffalo was 20 to 40 yards away.

[Edited on September 1, 2012 at 5:02 PM. Reason : .]

9/1/2012 4:35:32 PM