Hog

the picture didnt make me laugh. however, the turbo pinger she gave me and the resulting sound of my cock ring pinging off my desk did.

Indeed, right across her coupon ; )

Bogner are indeed the business!

Tascam US-122 usb preamp.

Comes with Cubase LE. 60

I also have a Canon EOS3 film camera. Decent condition. It does have a couple of scuffs but nothing that would affect the image quality 100. This camera can be calibrated to your eye has 45 focus points! Many other features and great build quality.

Worst drummers are all those metal guys who could blastbeat all night but wouldn't know a groove if it raped them in the tits.

Yep, it's tiresome.

And... when somebody goes on your website the photographs they see are yours.

Yep, all taken by myself Bob. Not a selection of the best images taken by photographers from a national franchise.

Baritone or 7 string (or even 8 string)

Tuning down with a pedal....not so much. But well, it might be the kind of "tone" you're looking for.

that's a load of tosh. particularly the bit about attending a course at your own expense, that's a lie. although photographers are assessed continuously, same as in any job, if they're not up to standard then of course they may go through extra training. i don't understand why training staff is a bad thing.

the frames are not irrelevant, you go to venture to buy the whole product. that's their thing, if a customer doesn't want a venture frame they don't go to venture. that's the direct reason why venture costs so much.

as for the hard sell thing, no one forces anyone to buy anything. certainly the aberdeen studio didn't do hard sells when i worked there, instead focusing on wowing the customer with a high level of service. customers came in to view their photos and were offered various options for them, if they weren't interested in any of the pictures or framing options they got their freebie and off they went. most of the critiscm of venture comes from customers who didn't realise they had to buy venture frames or weren't aware of ventures price point and became frustrated that they couldn't buy the pictures they wanted.

anyhoo, venture closing didn't impact me in any way as i'd already left though some of my friends lost jobs. this was entirely down to the franchise owners rather than venture.

Sorry Dave, I disagree with a lot of that (I do agree with some points as well though:up:)

I agree that wowing customers with high quality images and providing decent customer service is a massive part of the experience. However, the prices that Venture charge is laughable. Of course, nobody has to go to Venture.

Many Venture studios have gone out of business in the last year or so. They seem to be dropping like flies.

I had a portrait customer who showed me their photo taken by Venture Aberdeen. Shocking lack of basic photographic knowledge, terrible lighting and composition (It wasn't you Dave..)

A frame is part of the overall presentation but charging 1000 for it, IMHO, does turn it into a piece of wood.

Pixie Photo in Mothercare have a sign saying that they have jobs and shall "train you up". Didn't do a good job with the lady who works there. The examples of her work include basic mistakes like shadows in the eye sockets.

49 for a sitting and a 12x16" print. That's what I charge.

Thank you Bigsby for the recommendation.

Yes, I do portraits and charge a fraction what Venture charge.

Scott Hogg Portraits

I shall pop you a PM Kittycat.

When's Shutterspeeds next gig?

Hi Alan, could I possibly purchase your latest offering? Been too long since my last KC fix.

Pete had a great sense of humour.

In which case, if people truely wanted to support the industry, they should go out and buy new from one of the undiscounted shops. Not buy from the op second hand.

Maybe the op by your reasoning should try and sell it in a shop and not online. Online it would not be successful, because people ( Like me) can see its not good value)

Give me proof on a change of factory and i will rescind my comment, either way the spec is the same on paper apart from the move to Chrome hardware. And the only factory change i am aware of is moving from Indonesia to Korea, of which are similar quality.

OP, is this LTD a Korean or a Indonesian one?

You need to get out more.

Hate Event pawns your soul regarding ESP knowledge.

Origin of the Faeces was a quality live album

It's confirmed. He has died.

Apparently he has passed away at the age of 46.

Gutted.

I met him at Donington 96, Korn signed for 10 minutes, he signed for 3 hours.

Hi guys,

We hope to record a live tune. Just wondering if anyone in Aberdeen can record on location?

How much for the Ibanez?

Damn good shit:up:

If she looks that cute in such a crappy photo, just wait until a professional gets a chance to take a couple of shots.

Hoho, very good:up:

The wife is still inj hospital so I get to to live like a batchelor for the next 12 hours.

Totally agree about the pint.

Thanks

Hope all goes well for you as well Mr Bigsby;)

Here she is...

Amy Hogg

Pantera- Drag the waters (Rex is an expert at carrying groove under a solo).

Type O Negative- Anesthesia

Megadeth- anything! Dave Ellefson carries songs so well under mustaines single note choruses.

Down- bury me in smoke

Anthrax- got the time. Love the bass tone

Metallica - The god that failed

Corrupted- El Muendo freio

Metallica- Anethesia

Korn- twist

Fear Factory- Christplotation

Strapping Young Lad- Almost Again

Ulver- For the love of God

As long as she doesn't say a word.

I hate it when the adverts on Sky are way louder than the programme I'm watching.

Cheryl Cole, fuck off.

Jordan.... Where do I start?....

Go compare... Go compare... Go and die.