No it's not?

your quite judgemental nick

nice photo kyle crisp, will look @ your blog, what lens is it with!

Monitor is switched on?

You do a lot of hating i've seen, but i haven't seen 'much' from you at this point




Nice pics Kyl3, especially of the commodore

Well.. to me her head is huge















and she looks like a vampire.

Nick.. You need to learn to bite your tongue.. The model isn't up for c&c here.. she is in fact a friend.

You and your mrs must be princesses.

My apologies Kyle, I didn't think about what I was saying nor did I know the model was a friend. To be 100% honest, I was stating the truth, brashly I'll admit and I can see perhaps may be due to large hear and open mouth. I sure am a princess, i even wear a tiara in the shower.

7OXIN, I'm not hating - I'm commenting, I guess I'm one of those people who tells the truth however harsh it may feel. If I hated I wouldn't even be looking in this thread, I was merely making a point at something that seemed very striking to me albeit rather abrupt and to the point. Perhaps it's only me who see's this, not of consequence. There is no ill intent towards Kyle and definitely none towards the model who is braver than I, as you wouldn't catch me modeling for anyone or anything. I'm on the other end of a camera for a reason.

Casey, judgmental would be saying, geez she looks like... an alcoholic because she's wearing orange, I shall believe she's an alcoholic. As above, I was merely stating something that was very striking to me albeit rather abrupt and to the point.

And lets move on.

Kyle, did you purchase more rx units? I noticed you said you used 580's and two Elinchrom studio strobes, I assume that is 4 lights in total?

Well there's a couple of contradictions right there.

What does it matter if the model was a friend or not, it was a totally useless statement. It offered no critique on the image and no useful comments on why you thought that result was obtained.

Aside from that, swearing in threads like that is certain judge of character.

I don't think vocabulary would ever be a reputable window into ones character, after all, our politicians speak well but are forever negating to omit the truth. Also, this is the internet - who is really "themselves" on OR off it?

In meaning I don't think about what I say - What I think is what I say, I'm not one for censorship, If I say that can is blue, that's what I think.

Adam, you all know my posts are 99% useless comments anyway. I was merely trying to tell Kyle I was sorry, and that means honestly sorry and it was a rude thing to say without consideration or thought of consequence.

and speaking of useless statements, why is everyone else joining the bandwagon? Isn't your post technically a useless statement if it isn't pertinent to the photos? I'm going on holidays, back in 3 weeks, later.

time to move on kiddes... nothing fun about fighting on the internet.

There you go guys... F1.2

Found a use for the mk3's non AF live view.. camera on monopod, liveview on, pick face area of homer, zoom in 10x, adjust MF and then hit the shutter

how much did the 85L cost man?

Lol please tell me that was on top of your wedding cake???

Yep they were.. emma asks me what our cake toppers should have been.. I'm like let me handle that shit!

Could not get them anywhere in aus due to copyright/trademark restrictions but found a lady who hand makes them out of porcelain in the states... $180 later I was sold And even when viewed up close they are 100% accurate.. not dodgy fake shit.
Sidestory, my cricket shit has 'homer' nickname on the back of it.. massive simpsons fan etc etc

85L is currently $3k @ DDP

Apologies for quoting these images, but it's the easiest way to give some feedback. I usually don't give detailed c&c unless I'm asked to, but I've really appreciated Kyle's honest feedback and thought I'd return the favour. Cheers

I like the choice in background for this front on shot but I don't like the way the garage door intersects with the lines of the car in this one. It makes the composition feel too tight.


I do like hard lighting, but the hard lighting in this one makes "sparco" difficult to read, would have been better to bounce the flash off the cars roof.


The lighting is pretty good in this one but the composition makes me feel uneasy. It looksas if the car is going to fall off the screen. Just a bit too much angle.


Like a few other photos in this set, this one is about 1/2 stop underexposed.


Nice work on the lighting in this one, I think it's the strongest in the set.


all of the different background elements are distracting in this one


the uneven spacing on either side of the car really huts the composition

I like it, if i can only see it on my palm but it still looks good.

I use live view like that too kyle.

Thats gold!!

ive never used live view on my 40d

Here's one of my fave picks from this mornings quick shoot


1d3, 85 1.2 @ 6.4, iso200, 1/125

Used a pair of elinchrom monoblock's one with a 90x90 box and the other bare as rear fill at 1/4 ratio from main light.

Very happy with the results!!

Looks nice kyle, great lighting and colours

I think he wants ur 85L

u want anyones gear

Here's another one of the little dude

Added some more shizz to my blog... www.kylesharp.com.au

great work kyle..definantly strobe envy man..fuck you dnt how bad i want some of them haha!

I have added a stack of info on my flash setup for drag racing on my blog.. feel free to read/steal comment

http://www.kylesharp.com.au/

*clicks*


As for comments, I thought I'd post my comments here as not everyone on the interwebs know's i'm dumb but everyone here sure does.


Mate do you use Stofen (or other brand) of diffuser on your strobes? Was thinking about how you mentioned the hotspots and those little cheap guys help cut that out a bit - but of course will kill the flash power. I've got one coming for the SB-25 to play with. First shot on blog is killer.

Nah I don't.. the 580ex's have inbuilt bounce cards but I rarely use that either.. I had a omnibounce and sold it I foudn that i used the gary fong thing more.. and I don't even use that now haha

Reason for not using it at the drags is it's designed to spread the flash wider for closer distance to subject scenes, won't make any difference for the distance my flashes are travelling

Not a bad idea though !!

Yeah was just thinking about softening it a little as everyone knows straight strobes are harsh but i guess you know what you're doing!

All a stofen omnibounce does is widen the flash's angle of coverage, it won't actually give you a softer light when shooting direct flash.

The reason for this is because the stofen size is exactly the same size as the flash itself (ok it's a tiny little bit bigger).

In order to get a softer light you need to increase the size of your light, so say a shoot through umbrella or softbox.

Here's a perfect example



http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/5358043...33276838c_o.jpg

Say that's a handy little page. My ebay diffuser reckons it reduces the power of direct flash by up to 1/3rd of a stop (more power, less reduction but that could be from merely having to go through the plastic) and it also bounces the light so perhaps they just tried to make a stofen-like omnibounce product, made the plastic too thick and called it a diffuser instead and made it out like some sort of flash speader.. oh well $8.. Still got my STU's anyway if i want to use them.

Hey kyle, throw on some umbrellas at the track!! and watch your 580's float like mary poppins .

I reckon the track crew will have them quicker than the wind will take them! :D


Confirmation of ANDRA silver accreditation came through today too!

All I want for Christmas......




And an F2 shot just for kicks

just checked under my tree and santa has failed yet again

Nice work mate.

I have a feeling old mate in the last photo is now thinking

"Yeah time to fucking bail me thinks!"

I'm coming to your place for christmas next year

damn you and ur gear whore equipment lend me some.

Nice drag racing shots... where are the nighttime ones??

Awesome work mate, looks action packed!

#1 and #4 are epic. Did the dude in #1 come away alright?

Hahaha... BYO sunshine! Some of these are sunshine matt


More to come, today was rained before nitro came out so tomorrow we go nitro

Just put a small write up on my blog with photos from the last two days... www.kylesharp.com.au

More to come too with todays racing postponed due to weather

*clicks*

Cliff notes posted in the blog!

Found an epic photo from the weekend, wasn't sure how the look would tun out but i'm pretty happy



Hillary's hazing the tyres, her car and martins car are both down on a couple of cylinders, in the next shot of the sequence martins car throws the blower belt and Hillary just gets through before him.

that does look sick, thinking out of the box. I like

If only that dude wasent standing there and there was full crowd

Hard to get a full crowd on a rain date Matt

yep if only we could control the crowd, but we can always dream about perfect background

Have chucked a slideshow of all photos from the drag meet on youtube, can be seen on my blog!

www.kylesharp.com.au

1 mk3 for sale, if you're interested post up

May I ask what you're moving to?

still moving to nikon kyle?

i remember you saying something about you wanting the D3 at jambo last year

D3x