Today's Photography Lesson: (PICS)
 

Today's lesson is "How to lose $5,500.00 worth of camera gear."

A step by step guide.....

Decide you want to shoot a waterfall you've never shot before.

Drive out into the boonies, park your car, and pack your gear into the mountains.

Find a nifty waterfall and proceed to set up. Keep your hat on because it's raining but take your jacket off since you are about to go into waist deep water that will freeze your balls off. Should you get swept down stream, you will be able to swim better without said jacket.

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Get the camera all dialed in with the settings you want, set the polarizer filter to the desired effect......

http://ampcontent.com/pics/TannerCreek002.jpg


Then stand back and stare at your gear while you try to remember where in the hell you put your cable release. Now, you could say "fuck it" and just put the camera on timer mode instead but your frozen balls are steadily creeping higher up while shrinking in size so you aren't exactly thinking clearly nor do you want to wait for the timer as your nads inch closer and closer towards cryogenics.

http://ampcontent.com/pics/TannerCreek003.jpg

Now recall that you left your cable release in the very jacket pocket that you so wisely chose to leave on the creek bank. So you venture back over to retrieve it.....And as you leave your gear, the current almost takes you downstream....

http://ampcontent.com/pics/TannerCreek004.jpg

Now pay attention because this is the final step......

As you head back towards the middle of the creek, watch in agony as your worst fear of the day comes to realization and your tripod slips off the rocks under the water and the rest of your shit goes with it.

http://ampcontent.com/pics/TannerCreek005.jpg

Then thank your friend for taking the pics of your experience, hike the fuck back out of the mountains, change into the dry clothes you were smart enough to bring along, and drive to home for the day.

Ouch!!!!

Taking notes....

reminds me of one of those mastercard ads.

OUCH!! Which camera was it?

Canon 5D.

Great story, sorry it cost you, but at least you have a good attitude about it!

DAMN.. sorry man.. that sucks!

Best photography lesson thread ever...assuming you had insurance - otherwise - sorry for your loss. :(

BTW, good shots by whomever was along with you... :thumbsup

What's with all the nature shots lately? You're not going all Ansel Adams on us now, are you?

Show us the pink...

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:Oh crap Did you lose it, or it just got a bath?

Its a hobby...

I took some good stuff today.

NO fuckin waterfalls or nothin...but nevertheless...some good stuff

I'm gonna go back and read this thread again because for the life of me, I can't seem to recall ever saying that I actually lost the gear....I was simply writing a tutorial on how one could hypothetically lose their gear.

could have been bad

wow that really sucks. is it toast or does it still work?

It's completely fucked.

I poured coke in one old hand held video cam...i turned it on and it starts fizzing and smoking

so I unplugged thebattery and left it...worked fine the next day...


Im sure this wont be the case for a serious current like that

"How to lose $5,500.00 worth of camera gear."

My bad.. that made me think you LOST the gear... Hope you did not..

Oh the failed sarcasm

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=715162

mental note taken ;)

after reading a couple times I am guessing the hardware is still there . . . just not functional . . . but I could be wrong

That sucks.

The 5D is not listed as being water-proof like the 1 series. The lenses might be sealed, but the rest of the body isn't.

Did you retreive the gear or was it lost?

That would be the epitome of the drizzling shits.

lol ahh bit of creative writing gotcha. :winkwink:

Looking at it again and seeing the other thread I am guessing the gear is still OK.. When I read it I was concerned but now I am relieved that it was not washed down stream as I orginally feared...

Ice cold water from the melting snow of the Cascades... Very very beautiful but very painful water this time of year..

Even more so if you lost your equipment..

Shit......

Beautiful area man. SOrry bout your equipment. Sucks.

I bet the shoot would have been just awsome though

condolences. :(

haha coulda been realllllyyy bad

FUCK!

well now I guess you've got a rather expensive paperweight ... or model/photo prop.

Damn! Duly noted.

Holy shit, that sucks !! :Oh crap

very nice!

It's a shame that it happened :( But your guide through this process was very interesting to read Lol

At least you were doing something - I lost over $6000 worth in Kiev a few years ago and I hadn't got a single shot off - i just hung out after that and et caviar and fucked chicks - i admire people who can actually get somewhere remote like that

That's a fucking kick in the ass if i've ever seen one =(

Do people even read full threads anymore ?

Btw, nice pics of the fall :)

Oh I wanna be sick. Sorry you lost your cam bud :(