I found a hippie in the country who would develop and scan my negatives, but here's the thing, I'm very new to analog photography (new to photography in general, actually) and I needed to know if his offer was a load of crap or not.In this case, he would develop any of my negatives, whether black and white, orthochromatic, c-41 or ecn22, for the price of 5.73 US dollars and would scan them for 2.50 US dollars, that's for each roll, i.e., 36 exposures.I won't know the real quality of the photos unless I test them, but these prices make me very suspicious of this crazy guy.I don't know if it's better for me to develop the negatives at home (if that interferes with the quality of the photo or not) or if I should just send everything to him and that's it.
I asked him for some examples of photos taken using the method we're discussing here, and he sent me these.
>>4496576>>4496577>>4496578Hard to tell if those were properly exposed to begin with, so some of the issues with these might be scan issues but more likely in-camera issues. At the very least, it's cheap. Just send a couple rolls. They don't look to have crazy color shifts, so at least they're getting developed ok.
>>4496576Ask him to send you a scan including the film borders. If the barcode and text on the borders is sharp he's probably doing a good job. Anything else is impossible to tell through WhatsApp + 4chan compression
Rate my snapshits
Post cut because 4chan thinks this is spam.I'm gonna be honest, it's quite bad.Most of these are badly exposed:>>4493929>>4493933>>4493948>>4493935>>4493934and as a result have weird colors >>4493929>>4493945This is mainly because you shot those with very harsh light. You need to learn to recognize when there is good light and expose correctly. I recommend understanding exposure by Brian Peterson.
Secondly, you need to work on composition. Shots like these>>4494060>>4494084>>4493957 are very dull. I have no idea what it is you think is worth seeing here. Photography works by discrimination, you have to isolate the picture you want from the rest of the reality in front of you.
Finally, here are shots I think are better than the rest.>>4494067Correctly exposed (a little underexposed but it was hard because the sun is not directly hitting the land in front of you while the sky is still bright) and colors are good, notice that this is because you shot under good light. Sharp focus on the sea creates pleasing textures.>>4493986Here clear separation between different textures makes a cool minimalist picture. Also, correctly exposed despite the expired film.>>4494349Harsh light but exposed correctly. I like the white arches.>>4494059I don't really like this one but I see you tried to do something and that makes it so much better than any of the random snapshits.Thanks for the photo thread
>shot using smartphoneC&C plox
>>4489559u know u can just hold a camera low right instead of getting on the ground. how dumb are u bruh
>>4489554your highlights look awful, i'll ignore the green tint because its nostalgic to me being y2k af.your subjects and angles are boring and I dont know what youre trying to say other than "I AM OBSESSED WITH AESTHETICS" and vibes. Its half hearted and you dont commit enough at all to anything at all.you have to get lower or get high. get close or dont bother.
>>4489486which phone?
>>4489486It's usually better to have not so much going on in the frame, these shots are busy and want to show everything. A chef doesn't have a dish with every flavour, just a few, 3, 4 ingredients fused together.
>>4489486>>4489487>>4489489>>4489491>>4489492I think you are decent at composing but the contrasts and colors are exceptionally awful. I don't know what was the point of dimming the highlights so much but it creates weird burns (>>4489489) and the photo is just generally too dark. This strange green tint makes the colors very unappealing (>>4489486, >>4489491). Only decent photo overall is >>4489487 where the contrast between the red lights and the street make the colors look ok.
What's /p/'s opinion on one of the most viewed (online) photographers?>Sex And Takeout is an ongoing viral series on the unnecessary and unkind social boundaries and cultural taboos forced upon women’s bodies. By indulging in sex and junk food, Bahbah proposes a celebration of the self. Inspired by her personal battle with disordered eating, Sex And Takeout is a declaration of overcoming guilt and shame. Through this series, Bahbah unpacks expectations of femininity and challenges her own standards of beauty.
>>4488006>Eating garbage "food" in excess, without any cultural occasion, tradition, or symbolism but "STOP! TELLING! WOMEN! NOT! TO! GET! FAT!" (read in the claps) is not a celebration of the self. It is degenerated behavior for anyone over the age of 16, regardless of race, religion or culture.Most of these women (at least the ones posted) are a healthy weight Only 2 are fat.
>>4493296and soldiers in propaganda are fit, healthy, and happyits just vice propaganda targeted at womenthe world does not need whisky and marlboros womanit needs whisky and marlboros man to take a hike
>>4487726>>4487727>>4487729Reminds me of the Black Series by the Mondogo Collective out of Argentina.
>>4487730Asians of this body type and look do something to me that i can't explain.
>>4496624flatest of the flat
Spent two hours at the local book market today. Reached the place a little while before sunset, pushed through my anxiety and tried my hand at taking some photographs.Feel free to post any pictures you /p/ros took at any book fair or local market in your area.
>>4490410courswork books for students. Instead of buying them at full price, you could get a bootlegged version at half price, thats what one of the vendors told me
Based thread
>>4486715>>4488969this smelled so desperate for a (You) I'm giving you one>>4486697OP don't take my question the wrong way, but I see you have a RF mount lens so your camera is relatively new. How afraid are you at any given moment of getting robbed for the camera? I have a R10 and I'm just about to sign for insurance on it because I am, very. It would help to get some outside perspective.
Why is it so orange
>>4496505Because it's in Pakistan.
I will post some more examples.
>>4492532You could always use a technical camera with a 120 back, but I don't really see the point when doing product photography like this unless you really needed the additional DoF that smaller formats afford you.
>>4495844Sir, this is NOT the coomer thread
>>4495844I’d fuck that cheese
i think they're called gay
is ass, I know, but it has suspenseful looks.Any suggestions of how to get nice night photos without a profesional camera?
or even a suggestion on how to improve?
>>4496471A good photo needs good light, which can be faint within limits of your camera and subject. If there is not enough of it for gear getting a "nice" photo may not be possible and you have to do with "evocative imperfection" aka shit. So what kind of camera you do have? Does it have a flash?I'd expect a10+ year old canonikon hobbyist dlsr kit on a tripod or beanbag can take a properly exposed (but likely sucky) photo of a stationary subject almost anywhere in a major city from light pollution alone - with up to 30s or so exposure time and possibly horribly noisy ISO. Moving subjects will be a challenge without using flash.>>4496472Take photos when you find a subject in good light. Or use flash. In situations where your gear is inadequate snap anyway, sometimes the resulting mess is interesting.
>>4496487this. it's all about the light. it's both a meme and the truth.
>>4496471a tripod and an actual subject
Who's all still posting here?
>>4491100>charlie was doing some sort of podcastI remember heading to London for work one time and randomly bumping into Charlie at Kings Cross station. 9 Million people and I bumped into /p/.
>>4496402The jews paid him to NTR you and get her into the sony E mount ecosystem
>>4496416>>4496410>>4496409Never change /p/, trying to make humor out of a rough patch in life.I love you all and hope you find everything you're looking for in life.
I'm still out here.I shoot from time to time.Got involved in an ai startup a few years ago and have been busy.
>Who's all still posting here?Why bother anymore? Everything gets shat on, or ignored.
I need some advice on posing people who are awkward in front of the camera.It's always been my dream to do these kinds of super staged portrait shoots and I've finally built up the confidence to ask some friends to take part in a shoot. However from snapping a few pics of them previously I know that they're kinda awkward in front of the camera and after doing one shoot a while ago I've realized I'm not too confident posing people yet.Making him wear sunglasses helped a bit, but other than that I didn't really know what to do other than instructing him to just look into the distance and that kind of worked.Any advice or shared experience is appreciated. I've heard that you're not supposed to micro-manage your subject's poses to make them look natural, but I'm not quite sure how to actually do that.
>>4496392Okay, also looking at the pic I choose (some random image from my inspo pile) made me realize that maybe some of this feeling of "awkwardness" is subjective, because I know how they look "naturally" and maybe someone who doesn't know them wouldn't realize they're looking off.The guy in the pic might or might not be fully comfortable being photographed, but you can't really tell without knowing him
>>4496392Models needs a bit a time to relax and to assess that they can trust you. I always try to have at least one hour for a photo session, and I go gradually with the pointers.
>>4496392why does he look like he's about to cry then shit his pants kek
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Mostly too wide for me.If I go wide I feel like there should have to be a good reason to. Dwarfing a figure in a frame is usually bad I've found. Like you barely ever see a painting like that.Theres too much going on in the frame and pointless stuff, keep clutter away. Just a few patterns, surfaces and shapes is better.This crop is what I mean but the mast is in wrong place so I'd shift he boat further away from guy. There's like four textures
>>4496309cool>>4496310shit>>4496311shit>>4496312shit>>4496313shit
>>4496314cool>>4496315shit>>4496316shit>>4496317saved>>4496318nice
>>4496319shit. also you have the silhouette of a woman>>4496320im conflicted. theres no subject but the lighting is so nice>>4496321not a fan>>4496324shit>>4496339coolComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
A professional DP shot this. Composition is atrocious. The scene is "lit" horridly, making the bad CGI look even more fake. Color-grading is just plain ugly, everything looks plastic. This triggers my autism more than it should, but I can't be the only one, right?
>A professional DP shot this.It's 90% greenscreen. Barely anything was actually "shot"
>>4495965>It's 90% greenscreenStagecraft is more likely. Pic related was shot in a studio, before a massive LED wall. By a DP who understands light, composition and color, and it earned him an Oscar nom.
>>4495957Anon, those movies are the definition of slop, they know the only people still watching those are kids and retards. No one cares.
>>4495957No idea what movie that is, but my rule of thumb is that if a movie looks this obviously shit, especially if it's a big budget one, chances are the people doing the actual work are painfully aware of it, but just weren't given the time/budget to make it to the standard they would have liked to.People love to complain about bet CGI, but I don't think anyone clocks in in the morning thinking "I'll make some ugly CGI today". More likely it's some poor underpaid overworked artist trying to make the best with what they're given
shot is fineit's for kids not everything needs to be two tone, it needs to stay somewhat faithful to the game palettebetter than the yellow green trashlighting is fine both the CGI and the actors are backlit5/10 bait
anyone else lost the will or enjoyment to take photos? i dont know how to get it back and even all my fave youtubers are saying similar things. that makes me worry that its over : (
>>4495559Don't listen to him and continue honing your craft of analog film photography and printing. The pendulum always swings back. Just watch.>>4495542Vit D supplementation can help with SAD.
>>4495540>90 hours a weekYou need to look at maybe getting a different job mate. Working extremely long hours is not good for your mental health. I know, I've done it. I know that switching is undesirable and stressful. But it would give you a new freedom in life if you did at least shorten your hours.I switched from working long and lonely hours, to working with a few other people, on shorter hours, for the same money, and it was a far better experience.
>>4495561I'm trying but it's just one thing after another. I'm getting a new clutch apparently and that's 5k. I'm breaking even at best and I need to get some money saved up so I can get out of this thing and have a life again. Every time I get a little bit of money something breaks and I'm broke again.The good news is, at this rate I'll have a new truck by the end of the year. The clutch was one of the last wear items left. All I have left now is the injector six pack and the gearbox itself and the engine internals.If I did the inframe, six pack, new cylinder head, new oil cooler, EGR cooler and 13 speed upgrade, I would basically have a new truck good for another 1m miles. It will cost me drastically more than that to buy a new truck. The good news is, now I'm going to have to come home at some point and move my Jaguar now that I got it repaired so that will give me a shot to do some shooting.
>>4495572Fascinating! Can I read more about it on your blog? I'm so interested in your car rebuild.
Yes. Had a year and a half break. Then I got a nice camera and begun taking photos every day again to justify the purchase. Got me back into the rhythm of it. You probably just need a break OP
"Fuck This Captcha" EditionPreviously: >>4491869
New thread>>>4495770
>>4493952>>4493951im obsessed
>>4495531>take photo of a protest in the town you live in>think people protesting about anything on the exact opposite of the world is retarded>"GUYS THIS GUY IS MALDING ABOUT RUZZIA OMG GO BACK TO /POL/"Dude fuck off. Sorry to say but this kind of shit happens day-to-day. Sorry that posting a photo made you butthurt.
>>4495813what too much anime does to a MF
>>4495815Posted the same pic on multiple threads with the same complaints but yeah that's totally your issue :^) You can take shit photos of whatever you like. I actually deliberately left out my critique of your shit composition because I wanted to emphasise that it wasn't about the photo but your response to it.
Anyone else here working a regular job/day job as a photographer? I've been working as a real estate photographer for a while and still do side jobs for things like corporate portraits/events, and I'm curious if anyone else on /p/ works in photography too.
>>4495588>I've come across so many people whining with absolutely horrible and negative mindsets about lifeNot me, I went in as bright eyed as you can imagine and I couldn't wait to get started. To me, it was the dream come true and nothing could sway me from it. Then after about 6 months I was feeling total misery and my personal gear gathered dust in a closet, and my girlfriend really noticed how my camera never appeared on any vacations anymore.It can be this way for musicians as well. There was a pretty infamous Scottish band in the 80s that recorded a stellar debut album and it was played in record shops to show off the sound quality of products, as it was made with pure and meticulous love. When they got a label deal and a follow up was demanded, all the drive disappeared as they kept getting squeezed for more tracks and more progress. The label gave up on them eventually and when the pressure to make more vanished, they put an album together in just a month from scratch and it was even better received than the debut. That's something I think about a lot with anything creative. The best results are when people are left to their own devices, while pressure and things having to be a certain way ends with disappointing results for all involved. Popular musicians discographies are plagued with cases like this where it's obvious some albums exist just to meet obligations.
>>4495684That's a smart observation. Productivity culture is 150 years old now, and while it works for some things, it utterly fails for a lot more. People don't grasp that economic booms have been built on lies and money stolen from future generations. That made it look like really broken things were working great. Music is a great example. Photography is trickier.In all cases civilization went from prioritizing morality to prioritizing physical results, so everything non-immediate became twisted and results are more important than humans, who are supposed to benefit from them in the first place!
>>4495684Yeah, you can't force creativity and it's good to also know when to quit or at least give it a rest. Not everyone becomes successful, even people who work extremely hard for it, so it's good to know when to quit so you don't kill your passion at the same time.That being said, I still hear a lot of people (especially here, because let's face it, you're not where you want to be in life if you're here) who do nothing but whine, bitch and talk down to people who have the drive to give it a shot. I'm just saying life isn't so fucking grim and some people do succeed too. So do what you can to make sure it's you when you have the time/means to pursue it.Creative and documentary aspects of photography are basically polar opposites. You can't force creativity, but you can still have a decent living as a photographer being a "documentary" photographer (weddings, events, gigs, journalism etc.)Like with music. I don't like playing cover songs, but when I have writer's block or just don't have any creative juices, then I can still find fun in playing some cover tunes. Learn some new styles and stuff. You can always evolve.
I forgot to add>>4495684>The best results are when people are left to their own devices, while pressure and things having to be a certain way ends with disappointing results for all involvedSometimes yeah, but not always. Necessity is the mother of all invention or breeds creativity or however that quote goes. It's very true. Some people stall and get burnt by pressure, while others find a way to meet the deadline or demands in a creative way they simply wouldn't have thought of if they just had to sit in their room for five years.But it also depends on the individual how you best work, although being a hermit will make it difficult for somebody to actually get paid jobs or any jobs no matter how good you are.
>>4495739I'm very glad I gave I tried it, as I'd forever wonder what could've been. It didn't work out but it also means I can move on and find something new, with my love for photography and cinematography being retained. It did take a little time to pick it up again after leaving but I'm feeling good about it all again.I don't want to put people off making it their job; but just politely warn that it might not be all it's cracked up to be and it's definitely not for everyone. I really don't know where I want to be career-wise now either but I'll just work a day job while I figure it out. >>4495740>Some people stall and get burnt by pressure, while others find a way to meet the deadline or demands in a creative wayI think there's confusion about pressure or deadlines being the same as limitations. When dealing with just what tools you have, that can breed a lot more creativity than if you had all the tools in the world. And in those circumstances, I'd still expect everyone under no pressure from someone else would produce better results whether they're limited by their equipment or have everything they'd ever need. Someone above pressing you to get something done by a deadline rarely has the best results and that's something seen constantly with things like cars, tech, movies and videogames where the time crunch leads to issues that could've been avoided with just a little more time.I think there probably was a time where the balance was just right for pressure and limitations, but the last 20 years or so have just had things like videogames for example being pushed out before they were ready because executives wanted to make returns for stock holders and get things out for the holiday season.
I put it to you that photographs of people walking parallel to a wall in long light (or silhouette) is the most played out trend in street photography. Once you notice it, it is fucking everywhere. And it's not even very good. It doesn't actually require all that much skill. And yet it wins awards all the damn time. It doesn't actually communicate anything, it's just "LMAO look, that person looks like they are interacting with the scenery a bit". What's the fucking point.Some examples.
>>4495306Another option would be still parallel, but to ceilings
>>4495308Call silverwitz, rothstein, shekelberg, and noseman. This could get change photography forever.
It's a bit like the "walking towards the camera while singing" shot in music videos. It's cliché, but it works and looks good.
Nah, that would be prettyGirl[semi]Naked
>>4495421I'm gonna need some examples.
