Spring editionAll video related questions and discussion is intended for this thread. Here we discuss techniques, gear and anything else related to capturing video footage. Please don't pretend to be an expert if you don't know what you're talking about. Kindly leave your ego at the door.Posting short films/scripts or other work you've done is encouraged.We tend to use and recommend DSLRs/mirrorless cameras because they provide phenomenal picture quality for their price, have large sensors (ie the same size used in high-end cinema cameras, and larger) and have interchangeable lenses.In contrast, consumer camcorders often have much smaller sensors and a fixed lens.>STICKY - https://text.is/QZ1J>Helpful guide, additional books and more in-depth FAQs - https://web.archive.org/web/20200926115310/https://pastebin.com/kG0gRmTZ>NO ONE CARES WHAT AN EXPERT YOU THINK YOU ARE. IF YOU’RE ASKING BASIC-AS-SHIT QUESTIONS, YOU CAN’T BE ALL THAT GREAT. SEE ABOVEPrevious thread >>4493514Quick FAQSComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4508868Every YouTube video on colorgrading I see just teaches people how to recreate the look of some major Hollywood film like joker. Implying you can use resolve to make your shitty footage look like a kino masterpiece. Pro tip: you can’t do it; if you use resolve to polish a turd it will just look like a more colorful turd.
>>4509026>if you use resolve to polish a turd it will just look like a more colorful turdSo, Joker then?
>>4509026Resolve is unironically used in Hollywood, so yes, your movies will look like shitty Hollywood movies. It's a bit of a chicken and egg thing with what made it worse in the first place.
>>4509026People don't realize how much of the look is the light because most of them don't have a photography background
>>4509026congrats on making the dumbest post in the thread?i mean there's some tough competition so i guess it's a true achievement
Soft EditionThe aim of this thread is to discuss compact digital cameras (digishits) and share photos from them.If your digishit has a "soft" picture mode, take some photos with it and share them in this thread. Feel free to share your digishit photos taken in any other picture mode, too.Previous Thread: >>4477534
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this is private property
why are you taking photos?
it's private property
you can't take photos
Thought the sky looked really beautiful and haunting so I took this photo with my phone. An hour later the thunderstorm arrived.
>>4503753What country?
>>4506823Clouds belong in the sky, not on the ground you chud. What the hell did you do? You're going to kill us all.
photos of my cat Rupert that i took on my phone which at least trace amounts of thoughtful composition, as per the board rules I like this shot because it really focuses on his face, which is cute
>>4476309>>4476311>>4476312>>4476313>>4476314so cute. bless you are rupert
Cats wonDogs in shambles
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>>4476309You will never know me but I wanted to say thanks. I was planning on ending things and took one last look online and found the torrent of rupert. I don't know how but it changed my mind. Whatever else happens in life know you made a difference in this world.
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The camera fairy appears! She is willing to conjure a camera plus lenses of your choice... BUT all your future photos are limited to a single aspect ratio. If you try to change the ratio in any way, she WILL strangle you in your sleep.What is your choice and what do you wish for?
>>45085701:1 is the only sane choice.For the fairy cam I would like an indestructible camera with a magic sensor with infinite dynamic range that can capture color without losses and be switched to B&W or specific wavelengths and ranges, both visible and invisible, with flawless autofocus that reads my mind and does what I want it to. It should also effectively and conveniently be able to do what I want it to do in all use cases. Focus bracketing, timelapse, interval, etc. It should also do my laundry and chores.For the fairy lens I would like an indestructible magic lens that repels all unwanted filth on demand that can adjusts to whatever I want, functioning in practice as a super zoom from ultrawide to ultra long but with perfect IQ and no distortion, with tilt shifting and an infinitely configurable aperture. It should be able to add all optical properties of any currently existing and future filters on demand, losslessly, as if they were ideal versions of such filters. Also it must be capable of floating in 3 dimensional space on demand and able to carry the camera, negating the need for tripods. This lens should also cook my food for me and earn me enough passive income to live comfortably in any country on any planet I encounter.
>>4508852Granted, but the camera is only 1MP because you forgot to specify.
>>45086126:7, unc
>>4508640kekhe can't even rotate it for ultrawides because he chose this specificallyThis must be the final frontier for phone users.
9:16 ... and it must capture souls. for power.
every single time
>>4508295yea nobody is coming for that piece of shit man, good luck on the sale though.
>>4508510There's already a term for this in the used car market - they call it the culture of "I know what I have"
>>4508900>"anon did not in fact, know what he had"
>>4508900I remember seeing an ad for an absolutely rusted out old "rare" beetle sitting in a field where the seller who had inherited it claimed that their grandad or whoever had been offered a specific sum some 2 and half decade ago, with pictures of the car from back then etc, and they "did not want sell below that". Problem is that back then it may have been worth some money as it was somewhat complete, but sitting outside for decades even with price appreciation as these things have become more popular it was still way more than what it was worth in the condition it was in. Guess that sort of thing goes in the family. It is a shame with all these folks sitting on perfectly fixable stuff that they think they can do themselves, but in reality can't only for the thing to sit and rot until they die of old age.
>>4507713i like this fellas videos about camera e-waste but that half laugh he does in the middle of random sentences that aren't funny is kinda grating once you notice it
Do you have a favourite camera? If so, what is it? Why is it your favourite? I want to hear!I'll start, I think for me it's a Nikon FM. I like it because it's always worked for me, I know how to fix it when something goes wrong, it's well made and it has a CdS meter. Lenses are easy to find, as are batteries. I got it for very cheap and it was already quite banged up so I never feel I have to be overly careful with it, which makes it an easy choice to bring with me.>pic semi-related, my third favourite camera
>>4508845Took the rewind knob off one these and put it on my zenit as a replacement part
>>4508845yuck no thanks
M42 mount, electronically controlled shutter and uses batteries you can find today
currently bessa r2m i have an r2
>>4508896I've always wanted the one with the wide angle frame lines, the r4 I think it is? Pretty cool.
What's the best one you've used? and the worst?What's the minimum amount to spend, and when would you be spending too much?How much of an improvement did you see in your photography when you started using one? Did you get better results, subjectively speaking?Picrel is the uber-shiny ultra D-LUX filter from Hoya and I don't know if I need it. I know I need one of these filters, though. My landscapes have very hazy skies and are overall somewhat low-contrast.
>>4508661>>4508682K&F is notorious for the color issues, I don't know why people still bother with them.
>>4508719Lies.For portraits (in uncontrolled lighting) it can help eliminate shine from sweat and oils on the skin and also give a warmer diffused look to the skin. As light penetrates skin and bounces around inside it makes you glow to an extent, polarizers don't affect this but will cut down on external light bouncing off the surface.>>4508708In general, no. It's not typical to use one.Give it a try though you might like it for some situations. Worth figuring out IMO. Can be used nicely for "wet" photography or anything involving water/sweat/oils/etc or body paint and glitter.
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>>4508684>>4508857this
>>4508708are you hosing bitches down?are they leaping out of the pool?
Theme: RainAll submissions must feature rain/rainy weather or an effect caused by rain.All photos must be taken during the current challenge month. No old or archived shots.And as always be creative and enjoy the process. Unique perspectives are encouraged!Previous thread: >>4504732
>>4508757>leave the multimillion dollar social media marketing company that also orders cameras from china ALONE!>this is clearly a conspiracy against the brand to which i hath pledged mine allegiance, aiming to rip our board in twain! betwixt, verily, these two posts, whomstdve maketh each? but one person, i deduce, i declare, pollute the reputation of our beloved fujifilm, with LIES! LIES! the camera is fine, and $2000 doth truly be a fair debt, for thou art only wanting of an umbrella, or dareth i speak, a hydrocarbon polymer sack! begone, scoundrel!>oh, oh, whats this… no… impossible…!
Contributing with something mediocre, didn't even need to get wet
>>4508814I don't shoot Fuji you spastic.
>>4508766I would like to alter my submission.
>>4508732>an effect caused by rainare plants?
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.
>>4504099How do you deal with normies who never learned how to smile properly? What would you say to get one to smile who only knows how to grimace Any pose inspiration tips? What do you like normies to do in photos? Where do you go for portrait pose and setup inspiration? Landscape photography don’t pay the bills but damn the subject is so much fucking easier to work with
>>4504061What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?Aye matey.
>>4496392You have them shake their sillies out first of course. You can't be withdrawn and stiff while posing if you've spent 5-10min impersonating a whacky arm flailing inflatable tube man before you started.
>>4504061why snoyny doesnt make any mfturd?bcuz god doesnt punish 2 times
>>4496392I take a huge shit on the floor right in front of them while making direct eye contact and then smash it through my fingers
starting a new one since the last one is reaching limitI recently bought myself a new softbox, the exact one in pic, and it works surprisingly well. The issue is that it won't stay open all the way, so I need something to prop it open. I've found that using a credit card and ID card work pretty well, but I don't plan on using that for obvious reasons. Anyone have any suggestions to help a retard like me, something light and small?
>>4508692I mean if i will open the lens to clean it, if during the next 4 years the lens motor or something fails they might cry that i opened the lens so they can refuse to repair it under waranty. That is the only reason i didn't open it already. Seems like the front cover has some glue spots that will need to get removed after so will me easily visible it was opened
>>4508693>Is only visible at >f9 against light areas, sky white walls etc.Well good thing it won't ever be visible in practical shooting then
>>4508704Except landscapes or when you more dof or max sharpness which for this lens is f8-11 at max focal
>>4508771You don't need to go past f8 on FFCare about dust and "max" sharpness of f11 on your Tamron tele, but diffraction ain't real?
>>4508785Did not notice any drastic iq reduction <f13. But i did not pixel peep
hi. I'm making an evangelion:death and rebirth styled LUT and kinda need some RAW files of japanese foliage of whatever to color match. I wanted the LUT to be as faithful to the reference as possible and the only foliage that I can work with are equatorial ones like palm, narra and yakal (i live in the philippines), so having actual japanese foliage for reference would be a big help.thanks in advance :3picrel (latest version of the LUT. I can send the .cube file if you guys are interested).
>>4508753https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S3Q2nofK4amPwTQgp5noE2BXNPzRqpCh?usp=sharingBonus Owakudani photos since you mentioned NGE
>>4508754hi, just just looked into the NEFs. Even edited a few ones using the LUT.
>>4508754anyways, the NEFs were very helpful as a reference for the LUT. noticed that the temperate trees all swayed towards the cyan tones rather than the yellows, I adjusted the LUT accordingly. picrel
>>4508754sulfur vents :)gotta sleep now. thanks anon.
>>4508799forgot to put a grain overlay on this one :(
Since I'm unlikely to ever get any kind of Xpan camera, I thought it might be interesting to post some wide crops from two cheap digicams and a phone (Fuijfilm J20, JX500 and Nokia Lumia 520) taken over the last few years. The JX500 has a scratched lens but nice colours and I think it does OK.Some of these I've posted before, some I haven't.
>>4501043That is a very good use-case indeed, look really good!Putting three together often works really well when the subjects match this well
I enjoy these threads when they appear.Though I usually crop to 12:5.
>>4495236As I've not taken any 'XPan' photos recently, I thought I would post a 16:9 image I took this morning by poking my Fujifilm Finepix J20 through a building site's fence.
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Which is your favorite photobook/s of all time that you can recommend to others? Which photobook/s are your least favorite ones? > FavoritesNew York in color by Ernst Haas. GOAT. Good quality and amazing photography.> Least favoriteMarvin E Newman Photographs 1949 - 1983. Shit binding, a handful of great shots (2-3?), some decent and a lot of shit. Some seems to have really fucked up colors (degraded color negative film?). I dont think whats shown in the book is good enough to be published in this format, a big Coffee table book with many pages. Should have taken the decent shots and put them in a small cheap pocket book. This is a cash grab. Honorable mention to; Ara Gülers Eye of Istanbul, saw a few images from it and was stoked before ordering but those 4-5 are the only really strong images. Lots of boring photos.
I hate any photobook that's "le epic alternative underground of new york"Fuck off with that shit
>>4505359The work of his that I like is very idyllic and a bit vernacular, much of it reminding me of a Texas that I can hardly remember; From Uncertain to Blue is touchingly nativist. Ezekiel's Horse is also fantastic, horses are quite difficult subjects and his composition there is great.
>>4505410Lots of younger american photographers are photographing the shit out of Texas these days. Why is that? Are they nostalgic about 19th century wild west? Lots of cowboys hats and horses. >a bit vernacularHow does he pull this off without falling into cliches?
I'm considering printing one with family photos, but it seems that binding it would be a pain. Seems better to either get it printed somewhere and loose out on QC / ability to fix and reprint individual pages, or print it normally and just put it into a document holder of some sort.
love looking through issues of B&W my mom and aunt have from the 90s and 2000s. I've looked for large archives or scans of them and havent really found any besides a small number on internet archive.
