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Pro ID Photo Tip ( self )

submitted by defover21 Warning: 0%

Hello all,

Most people don't know that a lot of colleges/universities offer free DSLR camera checkouts (or at least rental for a small fee). As DSLR photos are much better than camera phones and such, I thought it would be useful for people to know this.

They're really not that hard to use as they usually have a dedicated portrait with flash setting.

Source: I'm a photography nerd



Upvoted: i_main_darius, defover21
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21done Vendor —

I'd be very careful about this. You're probably using their SD card to take pictures of you, your friends, and your signatures. It is pretty obvious what this is for, even without the signatures, in my opinion. Even if you hit delete on the SD card, it is extremely simple to recover the pictures from the SD card. Also, as some have built in memory, you could accidentally be saving the files there, which can also easily be recovered. If the next person who checks it out is even mildly tech savvy and curious about what the last people took pictures of, this could spell disaster. OPSEC


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defover21 [S] —

Sure, and you could cover up all those things if you wanted to (using own memory card, refilling the camera buffer... etc). But I think most people aren’t going to care about the security of that and it’s somewhat unlikely that unless someone specifically was going after you that this would happen.


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shoshosho —

Lol I doubt this would ever happen. Plus you don’t really have any proof of anything with just pictures of faces and sigs


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21done Vendor —

Just something to consider.


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dovecs CS Rep —

Okay photography nerd, you’re giving knowledge which is great but honestly that’s just too much. Like deadmigit said about the iPhones, a 6 and above is just fine. I do photoshop for portraits. Having to open a high res pic can take a little longer, plus it can be so high def that adding color halftones for blur come out like shit because I have to apply 9-10 times just for a slight blur. Just take the pic on your phone and it’s going to make the PS needs happier. Plus, I absolutely hate customers who take a picture of a shitty sig on paper. Snapchat, white brush to color screen, small black one to sign, save and done.


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nattyice —

wow, did not think to use snapchat. i'd recommend putting this on your FAQ on the site so that people know better


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dovecs CS Rep —

Actually not a bad idea. I’ve seen so many Snapchat sigs, at this point I figured most everyone knew it at this point. I’ll talk to the boss.


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deadmigit —

So, frankly there is a sweet spot I have found. People doing ps don’t love it but it looks better imo. Remember the dmv doesn’t have a 2000 dollar camera, it’s like a nice web cam at best. For small scale a iPhone 6s or 7 is right about there as the nicer phones start to take too good of pics. If ur doing 100 more a week this isn’t practical but at that point u have ur own system


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vishmonsta IDHurry.com - IDgod.to - Already21.com Scammer —

there camera worse then a gas station surveillance camera LMAO.


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HomeDepotEnthusiast —

I actually switched to an hd webcam I bought off amazon for all my pics for this reason, just have the smartphone flash going as well.