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Silly fun--but chance to win gaffer tape.
Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Central Jersey | NJ | USA | Posted: 5:53 PM on 08.18.09 |
->> A random conversation with fellow editor Mason Resnick has morphed into a silly little photographer's haiku poetry challenge:
http://su.pr/7LPnMt
You're potentially just 17 syllables away from winning a nice long roll of gaffer tape!
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Oh how I love gaffers tape. And I reckon I'm not alone:
On my podcast, Gaffer tape has been mentioned as one of 3 things that is always in a guest's camera bag on 4 of 16 episodes. That's one quarter, or 25 percent of the episodes.
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In the past three days I have used gaffers tape to secure a carpet-stay to an area rug, to keep an orbis ringflash secure on a 580EX while climbing a ladder, to keep a Think Tank Pixel Sunscreen V2.0 still while using it as a reflection-blocking dark tent on my deck, and to fix the handle on a tree trimmer. How have you used gaffer tape recently? |
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Mike Vander Veer, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Cheney | WA | USA | Posted: 8:31 PM on 08.18.09 |
| ->> Posted a reply. I hope I win gaffer's tape. Because I have none. ;-) |
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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Sycamore | IL | USA | Posted: 8:03 AM on 08.19.09 |
| ->> Only 24 hours to enter? That's not enough time to register my work with the Copyright Office. |
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Louis Brems, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Moline | IL | United States | Posted: 9:46 AM on 08.19.09 |
->> I used gaffers tape to rip of the hair on my sleeping brothers right leg. Honestly this is not a good way to be awakened. But it was hilarious to watch his reaction.
cruel yes but fun none the less. |
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Wally Nell, Photographer
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CAIRO | EG | EGYPT | Posted: 9:59 AM on 08.19.09 |
->> A few months ago, we stumbled on a bargain leather sofa, chair and loveseat. Pretty hard to find good leather furniture here in Egypt that is not only affordable, but also comfortable. Furniture tend to be nice to look at but hard on your butt to sit on. I am still coming to the gaffer tape thingie....
So we get this 'bargain', half the price of one in the stores. Soft and nice to sit on. I spent the equivalent of about $150 to have it moved by an Egyptian pro-mover company about 2 miles, in order that no rips get to it and carrying it up 6 flights of stairs (won't fit in the elevator... nice big couch, chairs and loveseat remember!). It gets done, and the guys break a window on the way up, but since they did it, I was not liable. OK, that is not yet where the gaffer tape comes in.
Fast forward about 2 months. All of a sudden these little cracks start to appear in the leather (or what we thought was leather) and soon the little cracks become tears. The people we bought the set from moved out of Egypt and so now we are stuck with this comfortable but unsightly set with tears in them. So, yep you guessed right, since the 'leather' was black, I hauled out my gaffer tape, and used up almost a whole roll to cover the tears in such a way so the gaffer tape seems like it should actually be there. I made some 'interesting' patterns with gaffer tape. All I can say, we now have an ugly, very comfortable couch with lots of attitude!
Only in Egypt!
We would have it reupholstered for about 1/3rd what we paid for it, but then it hurts too much to think we should just have bought new! And then there is the trip up and down 6 flights of stairs again!
Gaffer tape saves the day!!
A couch with attitude! |
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Wally Nell, Photographer
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CAIRO | EG | EGYPT | Posted: 10:03 AM on 08.19.09 |
| ->> Bah, no way I feel like making that lot only 1000 characters! |
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Dave Breen, Photographer
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Somerset | PA | USA | Posted: 10:53 AM on 08.19.09 |
| ->> Wally, I think you have surpassed acceptable syllables by one. |
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Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Central Jersey | NJ | USA | Posted: 10:55 AM on 08.19.09 |
->> I'll admit to using Alien Bees and White Lightning strobes for lighting hallways and corners while painting and lighting up outdoor areas while doing nighttime work like building a BBQ grill that took MUCH longer than expected to assemble (just ask Tom Sperduto about how much fun this can be!), and having some antique cameras around the house as decorations, but Wally, man, a Gaffer tape couch? That has some serious photography street cred!
Only thing I can think that's more hardcore than that would be to use a giant pluck/pull pelican case as a guest bed... |
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Wally Nell, Photographer
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CAIRO | EG | EGYPT | Posted: 12:53 PM on 08.19.09 |
| ->> Jack you gotta be in Egypt to understand the madness! |
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Wally Nell, Photographer
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CAIRO | EG | EGYPT | Posted: 12:54 PM on 08.19.09 |
| ->> Oh, and yes, I have a pelican case in my office some people use as a chair... |
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Eric Seals, Photographer
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Detroit | MI | United States | Posted: 8:14 PM on 08.19.09 |
| ->> Beautiful outside, Editing inside not fun, Please come rescue me! |
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Lindy Dugger, Photographer
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Rome | Ga | | Posted: 10:45 PM on 08.19.09 |
->> What kind of super cool photography street cred do you get for a gaffer taped bra?
Not that I really wanted one. But, you know... you're covering an electric high school football state quarterfinal game and your strap breaks, well, the strap's broke and you gotta fix it, be it a camera strap or bra strap... :) |
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Daniel Berman, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Seattle | WA | US | Posted: 11:01 PM on 08.19.09 |
->> Lindy,
On a similar note, I once used gaffers tape to to repair the flip-flops I was wearing. The toe divider ripped off the sole -- gaffers tape saved the day. |
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Lindy Dugger, Photographer
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Rome | Ga | | Posted: 11:45 AM on 08.20.09 |
| ->> Daniel, were you working? One of our shooters here wears flip flops at work in the summer a lot of times. I never figured out how anyone manages that without busting their rear. |
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Adam Vogler, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Kansas City | Mo. | USA | Posted: 1:42 PM on 08.20.09 |
| ->> There really is only one problem gaffer tape can't solve. Being out of gaffer tape. |
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Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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