i'm going to be cryptic here, and i don't exactly give a fuck. it's not like things have been wond

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sid:
@smunkybutt Well, this is a military town.  There's like 4 or 5 bases here plus the air force academy.  Most of these guys join the military right out of high school, so they're pretty much told how to live, when to eat, etc.  They've never heard the word "No" in their lives because the younger generation has been so coddled.  I have nothing against military people, hell, when I married my husband, he was in the army, but some of these guys are just straight up douche bags who want to fuck anything that walks on 2 legs (even my husband had friends like that), and they travel in packs, and if you're caught in their sights, you're fucked if you say no.  I carry mace around now because I've had close calls.
smunkybutt:
Holy hells,  walk fast away. Mace is a great thing. I  have a huge thing by the front door and a small one to carry also.  We are one city that went bankrupt.  I have 4 smaller dogs, and they bark at everything. I feel for you, that is awful.

well, i guess this won't be seen until november... it'd be wonderful if it got pushed up! 😉 maybe

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sid:
@deadguitarist Models and photographers can ask for feedback and both are open to the public, it's just they have to ask first, and if they don't ask, they stay delusional.  I agree with you on the limit of sets per time limit.  I've suggested a method to staff, and they definitely liked my idea, it's just implementing it would mean changing the whole way MR works right now, and a lot of extra coding, but they seemed like they'd be willing to give it a try if they can get it working, at least in some sort of beta-test mode.  Like, I was a photographer prior to being a model, so I knew how to find the light to pose, etc.  The only set I shot for this site was my first one.  I get nervous that I might not be good enough at shooting people because I started shooting events like concerts and extreme sporting events (it helped me pay my way through college).  Back then, I was doing most of my work on film, so I'm one of those suckers for getting everything right in camera, and I don't even want to use photoshop if I can help it.  I mean, yeah, I'll shop out a bruise or a cut or a scar if you want me to, but I don't like to go crazy with the levels and all that.  I feel like when I start shooting for the site (because we have nobody in Colorado at all right now), I'm going to keep things as natural and unretouched as I can.  Maybe I'll "hire" out a photoshopper for some sets, but all I want to do is the shooting, not the retouching.  I find that part annoying, and not to my style of photography at all.  I'm going to shoot one of my friends in the not too distant future who's been wanting to be an SG.  She helped me out at Comic Con a couple of weeks ago because of my disability, and since she'd worked in the medical field, I felt like she was great at helping me with my cognitive problems as well as my balance/mobility issues.  The least I can do is shoot her until we're both comfortable with what we've produced.
deadguitarist:
@sid, I am in total agreement. I started out with film photography. I still have my fully manual, ancient Konica film camera that I got as a high school graduation present in 1980. Before that I learned on an even more ancient Argus manual fixed lens camera that my step-grandfather gave me. I wish I still had it. You could make the coolest multiple exposure photos with it. Nowadays I only shoot slide film with it because most of the local places that process film (like Walgreens and CVS) won't return negatives. They give you one set of prints plus a CD/DVD of the photos. I want my negatives back too, dammit! I paid for that film. I need to get a slide scanner or figure out how to do it on out flatbed scanner. For digital, I too try get the photo right on camera before taking the shot because it's the way I learned. I will tweak in Lightroom if necessary, but lately I haven't had to do as much as when I got back into photography a year and a half ago. Once I get my DSLR I expect to do even less. However, sometimes I will process the crap out of a boring photo (saturation, contrast, exposure, individual color saturation, tilt shift, etc.) and see if I can make something cool out of it.

Well, this happened:

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It looks like as of right now, this set is going up in November. *le sigh*. Oh well, such is life.

x0x0,

💀-Sid-💀

littlejohn22:
i can hardly wait
kevinmk:
I am so excited to see a new set from you @sid 
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