Alexis Marcou, my long time illustrator crush :(

he's why I appreciate graphite so much

Another day, another tutorial

upload it yet?

Not until Tuesday night to publicize Wednesday morning. Its a long one with website article and whatnot

just did the 60 second version of it but now working on the full length

man isn't it late there? Shouldn't you be sleeping

ah cool, im a night person. sleep is all over the place these days... some days im not able to work cus of my mental health crap, so i try to make up for it...frustrating

whew I'm awesome hehe

@Ryan what did you do

@johnp finished the written tutorial including some bonus content and the video. Just have to let it upload tomorrow

what's on wednesday morning anyway for those who live beneath rocks?

studies (though limited) have shown Mondays and Wednsdays being good days for publishing blog posts and posting to Instagram

Specifically at around 4pm but with no WiFi at work I don't have that option so I can either post at 5pm or in the morning. I've been posting in the morning.

I've also had some good traffic if I post something on Sunday evenings so I might give that more of a try at some point

haha i admire your research!

Gotta stay ahead of the curve. If you plan to be a freelance illustrator you'll have to learn how to market yourself too at some point

gathering research was always my weakness with marketing

outside of google analytics and web stuff

I'll be making tutorials on the subject at some point. Been making notes and figuring out how to best start on the marketing side tutorials. Might start with advertising creation and use that as a jumping off point to even less design related stuff

im very reluctant to chase rabbits and jump to conclusions with limited data

that would be interesting

I made an advertisement at work today and put all of the working files needed onto my google drive so I could recreate it at home in tutorial format. That's not this week's tutorial though

Hopefully I'll get to that for next week

anyhow I'm done with tutorial so no business being on here still. Have a good night

night Ryan

morning'all

good morning

@Luciano code blocks are for code only ;)

oh and morning o/

:)

oh snap! I was trying to remember what was the ` for

that's code blocks then :$

well indent 4 spaces for code blocks and backticks for inline code but yep its for code :)

don't worry everyone does it

they shouldn't though :p

I wanted to highlight that block of info, as it was something from a software menu. What's best, just make it bold / italic?

Yeh for menu items and stuff like that either bold or italic normally. If you look at my edit to your edit I quoted them, the second one is a quote from the spec and the first one is a "greyed out" state from a dialog so quote makes sense there

great, thanks

@Cai no they are also for other things that format code like. Like for example ascii graphics

@joojaa Yeh thats fine, thats the only way you can format ascii graphics... They aren't meant for highlighting or emphasis though

@Cai well to be honest stackexhanges syntax is missing some pretty useful things like captions and tables

oh and thanks for the edit

No probs :)

Yeh I agree the markdown is limited and if you cant do something another way then use what you can but code definitely shouldn't be used for highlighting or emphasis

and nothing is going to change my mind on that :p

Yeah, its also ugly as hell.

I can not for earth of me undertsand why they made gray boxes inside kbd tags

what not-to-do with kbd tags

LOL

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mornin all

another day in office life

morning @Ryan

heya John

After talking about that Minolta you showed me I'm debating about buying a cheapo film camera to play around with. There's two stores that could develop the film around here but not sure costs. One also has a darkroom I could pay to use but I was always terrible at that

oh nice :) well if you're doing black and white i dont think it'd be too bad....i wasn't great at it either but i didnt take it too seriously at the time. there are little things that may help you out with it. there's a darkroom developing timer app you can get for your phone...and there is some sort of cannister thing you can get to put your film into that should make the chemical process a little more straight forward

you dont even need a dark room these days, you can get this kind of box thing...ill try and find it

I think what it'll come down to is how much the place charges for developing the negatives and then either purchasing a film scanner or how much they charge to scan them as thats probably what I'd go with at least starting out

I'm thinking a Nikon F2 could be fun though and I already own and like shooting with old Nikon lenses

if I buy one that comes with Lens I could drop the lens onto my Sony too

nice...does your office have a scanner? unless you need something larger than a 10"x10" or even 12" print, an epson perfection v600 + will do

i think this is it the developer thing....i would try some sort of tank inside a changing bag for extra safety from light leaks...alternatively instead of a scan, you could consider getting a negative enlarger? though I dont know much about those. Maybe photo sensitive paper is expensive?

well its just an idea right now but if I see one for like $100 I'd probably snag it up

a Nikon FE looks good too

bit older though...

The Nikon F2 is what most say is the best with the F4 getting cited a lot too. Only thing i'm not liking about the F2 is maximum 10 second shutter.

I'm checking if any other F can go longer than that

the FM10 which is their current one has Bulb so its just a matter of finding where in the lineup they introduced it

i dont think the minolta cle does long exposures either...but there's a nikon adapter for it

i would love to try out a rangefinder for focusing sometime, seems interesting. supposedly it's very accurate

I've got 2 Nikkor lenses and 2 Pentax K lenses so I'd either go with Nikon F or Pentax K1000

You can buy rangefinder Argus on ebay for less than $50 to try out rangefinder

thats what I did back in college. Argus C3 "Brick"

lol

ebay.com/itm/Argus-C-3-35mm-camera-/…

casualphotophile.com/2015/11/25/argus-c3-camera-review

there you go $20

hehe the pouch it comes in is cute

yeah mine came with that too. I gave it away to a friend two years ago

what did you like/dislike about the c3

I really didn't end up using it too much to give a good opinion on. All I remember was the one I had was very very stiff to focus like that article you linked mentions some of them can get. One of the only times I took it out was to the beach with friends and I remember really bad chromatic aberration from the harsh light too

But I think I only shot maybe 4 rolls of film with it in total.

i sees

I was visiting a friend in NYC and went to B&H and they wouldn't let me see an old Leica. I just wanted to see what the deal with Rangefinder was. So when I got back to my friend's apartment I went on ebay and order the C-3 and it was waiting for me when I got home

haha nice. aside from the camera itself did you like focusing with the rangefinder? or was it weird compared to a viewfinder

focusing was really cool other than being a really stiff knob

It starts out kinda like seeing double vision. You'll have the entire thing twice offset horizontally. Then at least on the Argus there was a circle in the middle too. As you rotate the focus knob the two images move closer to each other or further from each other. You try to line them up

that's what i read....sounds fun! i wonder if it helps much with night focusing

on newer cameras

focusing on Sony A7 is far and away the best I've used for manual focusing. The Electronic Viewfinder and features of it is just amazing

@Darth_Vader I've been sitting here for the last 15 minutes trying to figure out why my WP is throwing alert popups every time I add a featured image...

turns out its the code I was testing for your WPSE question, totally forgot about it lol

@Ryan Yeah, a good viewfinder would be one of my main priorities if i ever get a new slr. the bigger and brighter - the better

I'm now looking at the Nikon L35. Its only $60 and has a 35mm f/2.8 (non removable)

lol we're at it again. i was looking at a yashica electro rangefinder....35mm/1.7g

bout 50 squid

well to be fair I just finished an advertisement and am writing a first draft for a press release. I get my job done

what's my excuse?!

Now I remember why I was never too big on darkroom and film. So expensive so quick

BW Ilford HP400 which is what I shot with in school is $5 a roll. The local shop charges $6 to develop the negatives without prints or scanning. That's $11 a roll and I'd still need to get it scanned in

develop it yourself

and use ur dslr instead of a scanner

You've developed film BW yourself at home?

i did it in college

b&w is easy, it's colour that can get a little tricky with temperatures of chemicals n stuff

I remember in school, with the reels and equipment and a drying machine and whatnot it was still hard and messed up many a roll that way.

if i was to start again id probably get an extra roll so i can mess up and refamiliarize myself with it

if you do decide to get that macro lens you mentioned it'd probably be perfect for film scanning, you can get near barrel scan quality supposedly

ilfordphoto.com/Webfiles/200629163442455.pdf