An analysis of LOSER/LIAR Ryan Dyar’s fake interview in Aperture Academy, Part Two

An analysis of LOSER/LIAR Ryan Dyar’s fake interview in Aperture Academy, Part two.

LoserPhotographers.com Feature: An analysis of LOSER/LIAR Ryan Dyar’s fake interview in Aperture Academy, Part one.

(See Part one here)

  Ryan Dyar is a good target for a Loserphotographers.com analysis. A drug addict who lives with his well-to-do parents in Battle Ground, Ryan Dyar has spent both a lot of time and a lot of his parent’s money trying to turn himself into a “professional landscape photographer”. He had an “interview” on the bogus Aperture Academy website, which seems to be obsessed with “interviewing” as many losers & frauds as it possibly can. Part one of a multi-part series. Quotes and our analysis follows:

“The biggest challenge for me was learning patience, learning to take my time. I believe that patience is key in almost every aspect of landscape photography.”

Whatever. These losers love waxing poetic about their “philosophies” in these fake interviews they are constantly arranging.

“While hiking or scouting a location, it’s best to take things in slowly, get acquainted with the area. If you hurry to just get there and grab the first composition you find, you may miss something just around the corner."

Marc Adamus or some other photographer has already done the “scouting” (doesn’t that sound so legitimate!) for these bozos. They just have to show up, 5D Mark II and 16-35mm Mk II in hand, the other hand on their member, eager to find those tripod holes and create their very own Exact Copy of Someone Else’s Photo.

“The same goes for processing your images. Slow down and take the time to pay attention to the details.”

Or you could just let Photomatrix Pro do the “paying attention”. By the time these turkeys are done, the images always look like they just left the Photomatrix HDR hangar. 

“It may take an extra  10 minutes, but if you spend the time finely masking your exposure blends you can avoid those nasty halos and harsh transitions.”

Do real photographers talk about “exposure blends” and “halos” and all that nonsense? No! With the amazing dynamic range of digital cameras, there is rarely a need to indulge in any of this nonsense, yet these lame morons are constantly obsessing about exposure blending, HDR, and other crap that has nothing to do with good photography.

“Things like this are what make an image stand out from crowd.”

Pure bullshit. There are hundreds of Ryan Dyar type idiots on Photo.net and Flickr. Taking these kinds of images and messing with them in post is the best way to never be noticed.

“Mountains are my favorite subjects, and though the western US & Canada have some stunning ranges, I’d have to choose the Himalayas in late summer/early fall.”

Ryan Dyar probably just made this up. Has he ever been to the Himalayas in “late summer/early”? Probably not. Yet this pot-smoking LOSER is making it sound like he has extensively travelled the world’s mountain ranges and formed an informed opinion about all the mountains on Earth.

“Fall in Patagonia is a very close second”

Here we go again. We guarantee you that Ryan Dyar has never seen Patagonia, much less in the fall time. 

“I actually have plans to spend some time in the Himalayas later this year”

We would normally call bullshit on this claim, but Ryan Dyar does have well-to-do parents, so if he does go there, he will be paid in full by daddy. We urge him to sample the local “herbs” while he’s in the Himalayas, of course (laughter).

Part Three coming soon; stay tuned!

These lies, fraudulent boasts, and misrepresentations are merely a fraction of the many to be found in anything Ryan Dyar writes. Beware of Ryan Dyar or any of his friends. He is a LOSER who lives with his parents and indulges in illegal drugs. This is NOT the sort of person you should be buying anything from!

Loserphotographers.com Ryan Dyar commentary: Is Ryan Dyar a homosexual who likes Miles Morgan’s penis in his mouth?

Loserphotographers.com Ryan Dyar commentary

Not to worry; this feature isn’t pure speculation. Ryan Dyar, Miles Morgan, and the other bozos who hang out with these two turkeys are constantly spewing their “man crush” jokes, mostly directed at Miles Morgan and Ryan Dyar. So we have to wonder: is there anything to this? More directly:

Is Ryan Dyar a homosexual, and does he delight in the pleasures of Miles Morgan’s cock?

We have also humbly produced this Public Service Announcement. We want to help Ryan, not hurt him. If Ryan Dyar truly is gay and aches to have Miles Morgan’s penis between his lips, let it be known:

Loserphotographers.com Blog: A response to a couple questions in a comment we received, PT1

A response to some comments, Part 1

On our feature “An analysis of LOSER/LIAR Ryan Dyar’s fake interview in Aperture Academy, Part one” (available here), we got a comment from a user called “Corey”. It’s quite long, so we won’t reproduce it in full here. You can see it at the link above. However, he raises some points (many of which are designed to denigrate our work, actually) that we’d like to address. Basically, the whole thing is a potshot at us, while being designed to seem fair and even-handed, even curious.

Part 1 of a multi-part series.

“I was just wondering, and I’m assuming whoever writes this blog sees themselves as a professional photographer, or someone dealing in the creative industry, how exactly did you gain this title? What training or education did you get? Because in other articles on here you bash those who are recently out of college, those who have any money whatsoever and everyone using a digital camera”

  First of all, asking about my/our education or standing in the photo industry is a red herring. It has no bearing on what is being discussed here. This sort of argument is preposterous. Do journalists need to have degrees in every field they cover? Of course not. 

 Furthermore, what education we do or don’t have isn’t relevant, especially in light of the fact that the LOSERS we talk about don’t have any training in the arts either (!). THUGS who have graduated college should be seeking a career in the field they studied, not running around with cameras, tearing down the photography industry. 

 In regards to “those who have any money whatsoever”, we refer to LOSERS who are typically middle to upper middle class. These MORONS do not appreciate the value of intellectual property. That is why they spend thousands of dollars stealing other people’s images to throw them on microstock sites for pennies, or selling large prints for $50 or $100.

“Large and medium format cameras cost a lot, not to mention all that film, especially if you’re working 10x8 or later. How are you / were you able to afford this?”

This is a ridiculous argument. Digital cameras are far more expensive than film cameras. Let’s look at a Pentax 645 setup. This is actually a medium format film body that’s been used to create entire books.

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Body: $300-400 (645N autofocus body, manual focus is cheaper).

Pentax 45-85mm lens (excellent, versatile all around lens): $1000-1500, depending on version.

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Or maybe a large format system:

Many body choices, starting as low as $400 and going up from there. $750 will buy a great body that will probably last for the rest of your life.

Lenses are more expensive for large format. The great thing, however, as a real professional format (35mm is not a professional format for any serious landscape photographer), is that these lenses have been made for years, are all excellent performers, and can be picked up used cheaply. You can start out with lenses that are a couple hundred each. For the $1600 cost of a single Canon or Nikon pro zoom, you could easily get 3 large format lenses. 

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Now let’s look at a digital system, especially the Canon 5D Mark II loved by so many THUGS & LOSERS:

Body: $2500

Let’s say a 24-105mm lens: $1000 (by the way, this isn’t even a very good lens, certainly not up to the performance of the Pentax medium format mid-range 45-85mm).

And you’re already up to $3500 with just one body, one lens, and nothing else.

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We won’t consider printer, scanning, or film. Any real pro should first, be able to depend on any picture he’s taken. He shouldn’t have to take 20 images to get one with the correct exposure or composition. Losers who shoot only digital and check their LCD’s could never imagine this. This is how every competent pro used to work. With a professional working behind the viewfinder, only excellent images are taken, and only the best are scanned, reducing costs. And for the cost of ONE digital body and ONE lens, you could easily have an entire medium or large format system.

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“In relation to the digital rage, do you feel the same about 35mm? Or darkroom work?”

35mm is not a professional format, except for sports and journalism. It’s the reason 35mm was basically invented, for people who didn’t want to carry heavy large format cameras. Comparing darkroom work to Photoshop is not a valid comparison. The adjustments possible in the darkroom are limited and well-defined. An image certainly couldn’t be cobbled together from 7 different film frames, in the darkroom.

“It seems that a lot of your rants deal with either wealthy families, inspiration and appropriation, expensive websites or photographer led workshops”.

Not wealthy families, but well-to-do upper middle class families, actually. And copying someone else’s image, especially when one goes out of his way to create an exact copy (as many THUGS do) has nothing to do with photography. It’s theft and copyright violation, pure and simple. Expensive websites such as the bogus Wide Range Galleries websites were purchased merely because Marc Adamus has one. And workshops are not a valid method of teaching photography. The great photographers did not become great by taking workshops. 

“Almost all of the first professional or artistically accredited photographers were from wealthy families. Fox-Talbot, Niepce, Daguerre, all of these people were exceedingly wealthy. Cartier Bresson? His wealthy heritage gave him a basically unending source of income.”

No one has claimed that the wealthy cannot be artists. In fact, it is easier for the wealthy to develop artistic talent, since they don’t have to worry about funding.

But this isn’t really relevant. Marc Adamus doesn’t come from a wealthy family. Neither does Ryan Dyar, Miles Morgan, Kevin Mcneal, or any of the other douchebags exposed on Marc Adamus LIES 2.0 or Loser Photographers. Thuggery and stupidity in photography is strictly the territory of the middle to upper middle class.

For example, a wealthy individual will still demand a reasonable price for his images or prints. He will not throw them on Istock photo.com for 25 cents or sell a 30x40 print for $100. He understands that his work has value. He does not copy the work of other professionals, but often invents and entirely new genre. LOSER, THUG middle-class idiots do not. They are the ones who steal (copy) the work of real professionals and throw them on Istockphoto.com for pennies, and print out copies for pennies on the dollar. The rich always recognize the value of work, money, and property. LOSER amateurs do NOT.

“Your argument over stealing images must mean that everyone who has taken a landscape photograph must be stealing the work of people like Ansel Adams? Or anyone who has taken a low key portrait is in fact a fraud for using a similar technique to 17^th century painter Rembrandt?”

It’s very simple. Stealing a copy of a unique, recognizable image is theft and copyright violation. That’s the law. Trying to dance around with bogus explanations doesn’t cut it.

It’s even more of a violation when the entire intention is to create an exact copy of some composition, as many THUGS do with Marc Adamus images. That is a copyright violation by any standard. If these LOSERS who quote Galen Rowell would have actually read his books, they would have found out that Galen was constantly involved in legal battles with losers who stole his compositions. It’s one thing to apply techniques and ways of seeing to new perspectives. It’s a whole other thing to create an entire army of losers who run around with the goal of exactly duplicating professionals’ images. These losers are not photographers; they are just walking Xerox machines. 

Part 2 coming soon.

Two examples of stupidity from LOSER/LIAR Ryan "My dad will take the bill" Dyar

The Stupidity of Ryan Dyar.

 Ryan Dyar is a good target for a Loserphotographers.com analysis. A drug addict who lives with his well-to-do parents in Battle Ground, Ryan Dyar has spent both a lot of time and a lot of his parent’s money trying to turn himself into a “professional landscape photographer”. We recently noticed several ridiculous errors on “his” blog and “his” interview in the fake Aperture Academy website.

First of all, check out his January 14^th, 2011 news post on his fancy Jack Brauer/Wide Range Galleries site: “…I took a long hiatus to focus on some personal stuff and other endevuers…”: Endevuers? We assume Ryan meant “endeavors”, but we’ll chalk this one up to use of the bong. Below is a Freezepage.com archive of the page in question, should Ryan decide to quickly change the spelling, and claim it never happened:

http://www.freezepage.com/1295825785BAFXRQLUCL

Now check out his fake Aperture Academy Interview. Look at the section on the right, entitled “Ryan Dyar’s links”. The “website” link goes to dyarphotography.com, an equipment review site that has nothing to do with Ryan Dyar. 

In fact, Ryan Dyar also makes this mistake on his “about Ryan Dyar”, linking to dyarphotography.com. What an IDIOT! Here you have a drug-addicted LOSER who can’t even properly link to his own website. Avoid Ryan Dyar, his LIES, and his bullshit.

Here are Freezepage.com archives of both pages:

 http://www.freezepage.com/1295825501ZYDFFAFRIB

 http://www.freezepage.com/1295825607ZQSYLQFBRM

These lies, fraudulent boasts, and misrepresentations are merely a fraction of the many to be found on Ryan Dyar’s website, and anywhere else he posts his trash. Beware of Ryan Dyar or any of his friends. He is a LOSER who lives with his parents and indulges in illegal drugs. This is NOT the sort of person you should be buying anything from!