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Lazy photographer
I'm so lazy about this it boggles the mortal mind.
I have two lens. I have an 18-55mm zoom and a 55-200mm zoom. I hate carrying both lenses or swapping them in the field. I never take more than one. I take the one attached to the camera. I can get whatever shots I can get with that lens.
I have a bag with accessories but I hate carrying the thing. I never take it with me. I have things like an 8x neutral density filter but I never have them with me.
Most of all, I hate carrying a tripod around. Hate, hate hate. Did I mention I hate that? If I can't get the shot handheld then I don't get it. If my camera didn't come with VR lenses, this would happen even more often.
I should go up to Glacier Point to get some photos. It's the perfect time of year. I could get there before dawn and catch the light as the Sun rises. There would be almost no one there. I could get some good pictures. I haven't gone though. It's an hour up there and an hour back and I would need my tripod and et cetera. There's the gas money but it's mostly just laziness. I just don't want to drive an hour there and then an hour back to take pictures. People come from the Bay Area to take pictures here.
I should be more industrious but at what point does it become an unpaid second job?
I have two lens. I have an 18-55mm zoom and a 55-200mm zoom. I hate carrying both lenses or swapping them in the field. I never take more than one. I take the one attached to the camera. I can get whatever shots I can get with that lens.
I have a bag with accessories but I hate carrying the thing. I never take it with me. I have things like an 8x neutral density filter but I never have them with me.
Most of all, I hate carrying a tripod around. Hate, hate hate. Did I mention I hate that? If I can't get the shot handheld then I don't get it. If my camera didn't come with VR lenses, this would happen even more often.
I should go up to Glacier Point to get some photos. It's the perfect time of year. I could get there before dawn and catch the light as the Sun rises. There would be almost no one there. I could get some good pictures. I haven't gone though. It's an hour up there and an hour back and I would need my tripod and et cetera. There's the gas money but it's mostly just laziness. I just don't want to drive an hour there and then an hour back to take pictures. People come from the Bay Area to take pictures here.
I should be more industrious but at what point does it become an unpaid second job?
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You know, there's an idea. You could always take photos and see if you can sell them to the local newspapers or diners, specialty stores, coffee shops, galleries, ect.
There's a dude and his son who are FAMOUS (and rich) for doing just that with pictures of Lake Michigan and our lighthouses. Nice guy, was my photography teacher at one point. People pay a LOT of money for good photography. Try to get those shots that no one else takes and you would be amazed at the kind of money you can get rolling in.
Sounds like you have a lot of equipment (more than the average hobbyist anyway) so I bet if you had money as your motivator you'd be more than willing to spend a little extra time switching lens or toting around that tri-pod.
You know, they make portable ones just for that purpose. The one-the-spot photography kind of tri-pod. I have a little tiny one that is about...oh...maybe a foot or so when compressed down. Light as can be. Works well for close ups with limited space....and it extends to about....three or four feet? Something like that.
Not much of a hassle to carry around.
*shrugs*Posted May 18th, 2012 at 02:51 PM by Shiroiyuki 
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I don't have that much equipment really. I have an out of date low end consumer digital SLR, the two lenses it came with, a couple of filters and a cheap tripod.
They want good photographs though. Professional quality ones. Mine are tourist snapshots.Posted May 18th, 2012 at 04:00 PM by old hat
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*Shrugs* I thought they were pretty.
Posted May 18th, 2012 at 08:22 PM by Shiroiyuki
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I guess I tend to think of stuff I do as being average and ordinary. There is also the fact that I have seen other photographers join and get ten or more times as many watchers in one day as I got in a year.
Posted May 18th, 2012 at 09:14 PM by old hat
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Yeah, kind of discouraging, isn't it?
I think it a lot of it depends on what your subject matter is. Like...I can spend five days painting an original character and get maybe...100 views in a week.
But someone else digitally makes a freaking Naruto picture in a day's time and they get 5000 view in half that amount of time.
*sigh*
Same thing with photography. Take a picture of a nice pond setting and get maybe...200-300 views. Take a picture of a hot nude girl doing something remotely interesting (everything from just sitting there smoking to laying upside down on a table, seriously) and get 18,000 in a few days. And a DD. And tons of watchers.
Most of the time art isn't about your personal vision, but what sells best.Posted May 18th, 2012 at 09:33 PM by Shiroiyuki
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I remember one who made an account after I had been there for maybe 14 months. She did pretty much the same sort of thing I do but got 15 times as many watchers in 1 day as I had gotten in 14 months. I think that's when I stopped going last time. It seemed like I was just wasting my time and that what I was posting must not be any good. I'm mostly doing it to amuse myself now and using DA for other things. I get maybe 2 faves for a deviation. Maybe. I think I get an average of something like 3 pageviews a day. I was wondering if anyone would even notice if I did a mini-contest.
Posted May 18th, 2012 at 09:47 PM by old hat
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Just advertise.
Look at the one who made an account after you. Did she join a bunch of groups and spam her work? I'm gonna say yes, not knowing either way. It's a common practise on DA to join groups to promote your work. I do it ALL THE TIME. Especially for pieces that I really want people to see -- like the Chinese Takeout contest entry for that t-shirt sham. OR the latest contest (but we saw how well that turned out).
There are a TON of groups just for photography...and plenty more for less mainstream work -- like that one with the snow that I like. You could post it to photography groups AND groups that specialize in snow, forests, certain colors which appear in your work, etc., etc.
There's literally a group for everyone out there
. I'm serious. Even the weird *** fetish people 
Posted May 19th, 2012 at 05:47 AM by Shiroiyuki
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I can't get it to let me contribute anything to groups. I click the little + and it just sits there. Nothin' happens.
Posted May 19th, 2012 at 02:09 PM by old hat
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Guide breakdown:
Step one -- join group.
Step two -- go to Group gallery
Step three -- select button labeled "Contribute to Group" or something. "Contribute to this gallery" maybe. Just find the button that says "contribute" -- if you do not see this button that means you have not be automatically approved by the group to be a member. Your membership awaits the founders (or co-founders) permission.
Step four -- make sure the correct folder is selected in the pop up menu.
Step five -- highlight the deviation you like to submit by clicking on it. You can select multiple deviations but groups have their own individual allowance per so many days, so not all of the deviations may actually go through.
Step six -- either your deviations were automatically approved or they await verification. Check your messages frequently to find out if someone has approved them.
Have fun!Posted May 19th, 2012 at 05:16 PM by Shiroiyuki
Updated May 19th, 2012 at 05:19 PM by Shiroiyuki
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