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Not really a flower but it kinda looks like one. >>4492474Now i want to try and take a pic like this... it's so unusual and incredible
Still pretty new to DSLR but enjoying it and have managed a couple okay shots, here's the flower ones, often with buge
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Why are photography YouTubers so shit? They mostly churn out boring nontent while dressing like a copy of a copy of a copy of someone who thought he might closet cosplay Ansel Adams. Who are they aping?Almost all have the cadence and tone of a best buy sales associate either slowly conniving a golden HDMI cable sale or postponing their suicide on a Sunday evening only since their parents are still alive; with no in-between.I meet smarter and more interesting people IRL at camera club or local stores, so it's not as if this hobby is exclusively for people prescribed Klonopin and SSRIs.Half of them are just talking head slop direct to camera talking about what gear to buy (micro four nerds)The ones that do teardowns and repairs of gear are usually fine, but those aren't exactly photo videos at that point.The only guy that does the "video of taking photos" thing I can stand is Nick LoPresti since he doesn't talk like he's constipated, but lately the lack of constipation has become a problem since he's been diarrhea-shitting up my sub box with low-effort commentary videos sitting in front of a green screen. Idk who he's aping there, 2016 twitch? Don't like it, especially one where he and his wife are politisperging about shit like how "they can't use Google search for inane things because it'll track you" for what feels like several minutes.Snappiness may be my second favorite even though he looks and talks like a queer (he has kids so I guess he isn't technically). At least he does ridiculous things with cameras that are more interesting than "I walked and took a photo of something and had some ennui about it".Also, I hate gxAce with a passion, dead horse of a gimmick beaten into dust at this point. 80% of his videos serve no purpose to the modal viewer since they're just a rain-dance to the corporate marketing teams to get them to send him gear. (Also combining sloppy wet deep-throat glazing prose with an aloof tone is uniquely excruciating to listen to.)
>>4500653I mean to be honest, if you told photographers back in the day how modern digital cameras work, they'd probably beat the shit out of you for telling them you willingly dumb your tools down to make your work harder. At that time, people were striving to make the barrier between the gear you're using and what you're trying to create.
>>4500664show them ai and exain what it isshow them mft qualityshow them a 275mp scan of 35mmthey’d return to the past and start stockpiling ektachrome
>>4500122erm birds are cool howeverbeit
>>4500686Nah, they would absolutely lose their shit if you even just showed them auto focus capabilities. Not even the level we have now, but just in general. They'd laugh their asses off people still use manual focus lenses.And they'd beat you up for using something like the Fuji x half. The concept alone would make them laugh their asses off. You take the worst of analog and digital tech and combine it.Nah, if you showed them what even a mid level camera is capable of these days, they'd cry over being stuck in the stone age. They were all striving to achieve what modern cameras can deliver now, they saw how film reacted and looked as flaws back then. It was the same in music production. If you went back to the 60's and told people how music production is now and how you can listen to millions of songs right in your pocket without vinyl, they'd call you insane for buying vinyl instead. It wasn't until after the 80's it dawned on people that analog gear has some "character", but at the time, "character" was an imperfection they wanted to get rid of.
This right here is the pinnacle of all youtube photography videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12LYTZgUOBU
What makes Japan such an desired place for photography? I'm really trying to understand the hype around it. When I visited of course the size of Tokyo itself opens lots of opportunities but I quickly notice that it gets repetitive rather fast. All muh taxis look the same, the buildings have a pattern that repeats a lot. If you've seen a few shrines/temples.. in the end they all look the same. Even if you visit other prefectures you won't see much of a difference. Whenever I see camera vlogs or flickr uploads in Japan I now tend to skip because it's always the same. My current number one location would probably be Germany. Still safe enough to bring your camera with you, every state has it's own architectural style. Towns are usually a comfy mix between old medieval houses in the center with grim 60s bauhaus constructions that look really odd. Also home of Leica where this sort of everyday compact photography started. What do you think? What's your prefered location?
>>4500519Just checked the metadata since the files actually look more vibrant in the image viewer than in the browser, looks like I saved them as straight RGB, so colours are probably getting nerfed on the webNeed to fix that
>>4500520putting my mistake out there, at least it's easy to fix, just batch convert the whole lot
>>4500515>How is it to own a sports car in Japan? Need to be rich?>WRX>Sports car>Richkek>And then all the gaijin exporting muh JDMs increasing the cost of purchase too. Don't forget a vehicle must be at least 25 years old be legally imported into the United States.>space for parkingGenerally you would have a place with parking before even making that purchase. I know a lot of cities have that as requirement and measure out your space especially Tokyo.>always for the lookout on new locations to take pics but unfortunately no fun is allowed here. Can't do any cool mods (not even Volk/advan wheels). And whenever I drive at night and park somewhere I get harassed by police.Why the fuck would the police care about taking photos of your car? I guess Germany really is lost.>>4500517The "Y-Plate" community is one of indignation and broken dreams but we persist. Also fun fact the Y doesn't stand for Yankee but Yokohama because after the war it was the first working port GIs used during SCAP, and I do believe the area by the red brick warehouses and where I took my photo is one of the spots. Police generally don't harass Y-Plates but you are at a higher risk of getting stopped for DUI checks and I guess maybe vandalism.Also ABC over .03 is DUI, any BAC above .05 is a felony in nippon, not only that the passengers can get charged too and the provider of the alcohol (I.e bar).
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>>4484375Nips are autistic about little details in everything, that makes their world photogenic
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>>4499817colors look good, but its too clean imo, dont be afraid of some noisealso i would remove the stones(?) in the middle of the foreground, theyre really distracting
>>4499919I really like it.
>>4499817Queenstown?
>>4499817Crop a little from below, that much close foreground is distracting, at most 10% of width.Also if you have the ability to visit this location again they try doing star trails, i see some bright stars, that will give some good trails.Also the sky would most likely become blue, if you take the whole evening or pre dawn. But i wonder if that purple hue that one gets from a setting sun, if it is possible to capture in a star trail shot, given for how short it exists, maybe fking around with the white balance might do it.Also take a hdr composite, if you feel like adding detail in the hills
>>4499816i think the color adds to the intensity nicely'>>4499919>>4500017thanks for the feedback. i'm not sure.. i kind of like a soime distraction in the foreground. maybe i'll dial it back but leave some space and detail there. i don't have any plans to return soon. It i ever head out that way again, i'll be shooting much better vistas and hopefully human subjects.you can see a tiny bit of star trail already, but that was a 30s exposure. so i'm sure it would be possible to preserve the color on an exposure long enough for dramatic trails. i will not be doing any hdr composites. multiple exposures i can consider, but i hate hdr. >>4500016lake isabella in california
Random photos you took at night
Sony A7 50mm 1.8 6,00s iso100 and Phone light.
Phone sloppa.
cool thread kinda want a new one but no new photos to post (polite sage)
Came into a used F4 and F5 last year and started shooting film, here are some photos I wasted on film.
>>4498083Kino. Why did you include the sprocket holes?
>>4498086was doing that shit for insta desu
i see you camera scan, what's your setup? i'm looking to get into it and i like your results that i see here. is it something like a kit from negative lab supply or just a light table and something to hold the negative flat?
poverty porn photographers destroyed in one scene
>>4480383But this is also true for gentrification aswell. I grew up in a poor part of London and parts that knew to be crime infested shitholes where kids stabbed eachother all the time have now become hip trendy places for middle class professionals. Even in my area I see all the pain and hurt and all the ghosts and these soulless bugeyed npc looking people have no clue and just think they've bought into a cool diverse community with lots of character and flavour and they have absolutely no idea how bizarre it is that on a street where crackheads fiend outside the shop for change there are also cocktail bars and coffee shops (that no old local can afford)That being said, art is art and I do believe if it is done in a respectful way, taking photos of poor places isn't inherently wrong. Poor places do have a certain soul.
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>>4499164I'm from Scandinavia and I was amazed that everything, even down to the grass, was different in Singapore. It was the first country outside Europe I visited.Everything was interesting in a strange way when even something as tiny and normal as grass was different. How can you not just wander around in amazement in a situation like that.
>>4500213We have a bunch of "street photographers" here and elsewhere who see the externally visible act of taking the photo as primary and everything else as derivative. Hence proliferation of photo youtubers, vlogs of aimlessly wandering who cares where, flashing people in the face, endless talks on what you are and are not allowed to photograph depending on your oppression level and so on.
>>4500220Those people exist, but there are also people who are amazed by how different an area is and take photos because they enjoy it and not for some vague reason. It's not always so negative all the fucking time.
Could anyone give me a noob intro to editing and color grading photos?I have no idea what I'm doing.
i feel like i definitely went to photo editing 101 by professor rockwell and i deep fry the fuck out of my photosleft is unedited sooc jpeg right is me hitting auto in lightroom to get myself 90% there and adjusting the sliders to suit (adobe color profile?)
>>4497575>deep fried catChinese perchance?
>>4494087The exposure slider is by far and away your most important color grading slider hence why its first.The white balance slider is 2nd and is not surprisingly the second most important slider.If you get those two correct, you should be 99% done.Then just add a tiny bit of contrast.Always have a folder of ref images you compare you photo against to make sure you are not doing something dumb with your colors.The colors in the scene you photographed are 99% of the work.And finally use capture one, it produces far nicer colors than adobe hence why it is the undisputed industry standard raw converter for the last 30 years straight.
>>4494087just shoot film
>>4494088>Kenrockwell.com for tutorials.dude just has game.
Haven't posted in a couple of months but got a few rolls developed recently and I'm slowly going through scanning them.Exif: Leica M3 + Nokton 50mm f.1.5 + Vision3 250D (for the first seven ones), then Aerocolor IV for the remaining four.
>>4487005Bro did you just post a pic of your mrs on a chins?
>>4487005are you supposed to get models to bend their knees in a way that doesn't cause this?
How are you scanning these OP? They look pretty nice!
>>4487758>Leica body with a voigtlander lenswhere is the contradiction? these are both the best value you can get in their respective categories before making practical compromises
>>4499827If a Leica body is value I'd like to hear what a premium body would be
What's the secret to digital b&w photography?
>>4496500I guess you are kinda right. I almost fell for the GRIV monochrome. Instead I did a month of shooting only b&w and realized it's just a meme. My family ask me to send a color version of photos "but why is it black and white??". I compare both and color is always a bit nicer. The warmth of sunlight, deep greens in nature, skin toans. It's such a pleasure to see color. Probably why all movie directors immediatelly abandoned b&w when finally color film was around. It's just more alive.
ha people say this and that about art but black and white photos are rly good for home decor, easier to match with stucco n sutffall b&w, contrasty, got stuff in every incel adams zone, put a matte around it, keep it small, get a few, mostly boats and womenmaybe some mountaintopsi like montaintops, they're the tits of the earththat's the stuff i like, sets of them>>4491707square crop, hasselblad it, then that's the stuff lol cant beat the classics
>>4496502>It's such a pleasure to see colourNot to be a pretentious fag but idk, I don't think that a photo should always simply aspire to be "pleasant" to look at. Black and white creates an effect that can be used artfully. I agree, I "enjoy" looking at colour photos more than I do black and white photos 9 times out of 10, but sometimes I do see a black and white photo and realise "colour wouldn't work for this". Picrel is an example, I've seen pics of this place in colour and idk, the B&W just works imo. Maybe I'm just being a pretentious wank though, should never rule that out.>>4491122What's said here about how it forces focus on form and tone, which lends it to architectural photography where maybe colour might be something you want to sacrifice to emphasise something else.
>>4491118>What's the secret to digital b&w photography?using a flash.
>>4491118Focus on form, light and subject. Enjoy not giving a shit about not getting the color right. >>4496531Kek
Have you ever exhibited your work at a gallery?
>>4493866>but hey, at least one show in new york i guess, right?Nigga what the fuck? This is cool as fuck
>>4495812>You should send to the Aperture Portfolio Prize.Have you gotten any response from them?
In 2017 I unknowingly entered an Eastern European graphic design competition curated by a well respected Russian graphic designer and had a poster I created in 10 minutes exhibited on a touring exhibition and in a Russian art magazine. I'd like to try and find and import a physical copy of the magazine, but there appears to be at least 2 that have the same name, and I can't figure out which exact publication and issue contained my print. I am not a professional designer of any kind.I've never had any photos exhibited and I don't know where I would start
>>4499820It's crazy that despite getting acknowledgement you faggots don't follow up by creating more work in that field or getting in touch with the people in the field.
>>4499832I play around in photoshop alot and enjoy doing so but I believe my success here was just luck. I live on the opposite side of the world to the guy organizing it and don't have any friends involved in that industry
Posting all his series. Posting first:Early Works(SELECT WORKS)1984 - 1987
>>4490275Who wants to look at this horrid trash? Staging blood cult ritual slop isn't a real skill and all this appeals to is edgelords and pedo elites.
>>4483261The Klansmen looked based though.
>>4483425This fag was in the files, Epstein was a fan. I guess cANON won... again...
From the historical perspective alone, this stuff is pretty cool. That Nomads series is something I can 100% imagine a fashion designer these days looking back on it and straight up using it as inspiration.
>>4490359Fuck off retard. Aesthetically these photographs are ballin. I don't care if the dude is a peado or a subhuman.
Furry Critters EditionPlease post film photos, talk about film photography, film gear like cameras, film stocks, news, and tips/tricks in this thread.Also talk about darkroom practices, enlargers, photo paper, techniques like dodging/burning, tools, and equipment related to enlarging, developing, and printing.Thread Question: Do you prefer color or black and white photography?Previous thread: >>4489677
>>4497413>Only complaint is the white borderI'm just an idiot and uploaded the uncropped WIP version, but thanks!>>4497425Those edges are a disaster, but I guess that's hardly surprising at that price point. Still a nice shot, good job.I'd kill for a film setup to do pano shots on that isn't a $3,000+ timebomb.Anyone have any experience with any of those jank 35mm pano conversions on medium format cameras? They're interesting a much cheaper than an XPAN, but they all sound like a pain to set up/load properly.
>>4497690>those jank 35mm pano conversions on medium format cameras?I thought about getting one many times but every time I remembered that a roll of 120 costs basically the same as a roll of 35 and cropping is free
>>4497714yeah but 35 is generally longer than 120 so you get more shots per roll
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>>4494615Very cool
>solves 90% of your color grading problems>makes muh colur basedence a complete meme>never talked about on this boardgo figure
>>4499524>taking 1 extra photo to ensure consistency for a scene is so much work
>>4493776this is why i do not shoot color>oh no my white balance! everything is green lmaowhat an absolutely boring and irrelevant process
>>4493777all of these look exactly the same to me
>>4494542I have noticed thus ever since I started taking an interest into start sharing some photos on Instagram. I tend to try and set my camera up to show colors I like and use the right spot metering for exposure, it's basic shit but I like to take the photo and see the results and like them then and there, and the only editing I do is maybe some linear grading or some color work. But then I see poeple fully admitting they take just medium grey bland photos and then sit down in lightroom and basically create a completely different photo, and yes, they are 90% Sony users. I guess this is the reality of photography now, I mean ai topaz shit is already doing it, might as well try and beat it?
>>4499524shoot the card after you shoot the model
Dumpin' some recent concert photos
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>>4499628Camera is the Fujifilm X100VI.Mainly ISO 800-1600, sometimes 3200.
far out! i consider thsese promo material-wirthy.who is she?
>>4499627I really like this one, anon. Nice thread
