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.)
>>4484303It’s a bad use of bokeh since I still wanna look at the guy’s face first anyway, since I’m… you know, human…?
>>4463667That fucking Tom Calton guy. I want to punch his face in so fucking hard.
>>4463667>click on video about "why leicas are so expensive">scroll and read the first comment>congrats on the collab with leicaFucking hate this shit. Was really hoping there would be an honest look at how Leica can exist in the market as a company slapping their logo on existing products and charging a markup, but nah. Just an ad.
>>4479890>watching a guy that looks like this
>>4473148Pretty alright, he's one of the OG's and doesn't seem to push gay shit like presets or paid tutorials like everyone else.
Anyone else like taking photos of mundane shit like stairs when they're on vacation? i feel like no one's taking photos of the stairs and the trash cans so it's my responsibility to.https://files.catbox.moe/ms28zq.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/x5znqx.jpg
>>4484133use a list of local words as incentive.egskakatcheeeqan idk how you spell it. cool photo, instant updoot
Posting all his series. Posting first:Early Works(SELECT WORKS)1984 - 1987
>>4483428Go /p/ro.Want:• Expect criticism regarding your uploads.• /p/ is for photos: so feel free to post them as often as possible, even if "image unrelated" to your text.• Use "Recent Photos" threads if you are shy or only want to post a small number of photos.• Raw Files which can be collectively edited for discussion of post-processing techniques are encouraged.• Please check the catalogue for similar topic(s) before creating a new thread.Do Not Want:• Go to /wsr/ or /r/ for specific Photoshop requests.• Gear threads are discouraged but permitted. Keep in mind that many users simply hide these threads.Want to learn more?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4483437This is weaksauce. The jannie couldn't be fucked retyping the sticky properly after the hack earleir this year. It's missing a few points and they reworded it poorly. It is noticably shorter than it used to be.
Holy fuck, I am sorry Andres Serrano for not checking out your work due to memes, I wasn't aware of your game. Thank you OP for sharing. This shit is gold.
I want to bust a nut on this >>4483088 series very erotic and fascistic.
>>4484380I couldn't upload all his series due to the image limit, but check out his other stuff hosted on his website.https://andresserrano.org/series/budapest
Spooky forest Edition Previously >>4476460
>>4479022>>4479025>>4479054great>>4479168GADAM>>4479932clipped subject :(
>>4480060solid imo. i dig the melo vibe>>4480288oh my>>4480297yes>>4480922I LOVE EM!!! great pair
>>4480943>>4480994nice>>4481259>>4481262saved>>4481439this moves me
>>4481749>>4481750great!>>4481921nicegood rpt
>>4479188Too dark. The lighter one is better.
Random photos you took at night
>>4473841>>4480828This is a serious question. What is it about gas stations/convenience stores that looks so cool at night? Is it color temperature of the inside vs the outside?
>>4484218It's what they call the "gasser allure".Basically they take us back to a golden era that's mostly gone now thanks to EVcucks and zoomer behavior.
>>4484218good light. they are open later than most other businesses and usually very brightly lit. often bright enough to shoot handheld and they'll be the only thing you can shoot at night in a lot of neighborhoods.
show me what kind of weird shit you can make with photoshop
Looking for pre-2000s landscape photography calenders. Not having much luck. Anyone seen any around?
>>4481652>when I go to a national park gift shop and the calendars are digislop with bad white balance instead of large format velviaMade me fucking sad.
>>4481652as in scans or prints to buy?
Does anyone use GIMP for photo editing and manipulation? Has it become a "photographer's program" yet, or is it still clunky and freetarded?
>>4480655Basic adjustments in DPP 4 (cause only cameras with raw I have are Canon). But yes, I do use Gimp for everything else.
>>4481336Lolympus has OM Workspace (literal garbage), and idk if sn*y has anything. Remember, it's an engineer's device not a camera so you're expected to work it out yourself.
>>4481336https://creatorscloud.sony.net/catalog/en-gb/ie-desktop/index.html?cid=bnr-1
>>4480655Still clunky and freetarded, but fits my needs along with DxO Photolab.
>>4480686>That said, none of the mentioned software (including Photoshop) handles RAW files well at alIsn't photoshop using the same module as lightroom though (camera raw)?I'm also surprised that we don't have an Affinity thread now that is free. I've downloaded it but haven't used it much
Why are image sensors rectangular when a camera’s image circle is… well, circular?
>>4483957So sounds like straight lines are easier then, thank you for confirming
>>4483891The wafers are circular to begin with. Just make the wafers smaller and have one sensor per wafer.
>>4483963Yes, they are, unless you're a physicist, then they're the fallacy at the root of all your nightmares. You're welcome.
>>4484156>not just using the entire wafer at their current sizesensorlet
>>4483892explains why lenses are rectangular and not spherical
Recently got a camera without a light meter, looking for some tips on how to meter by eye.I get the principle behind sunny 16, and have the table in my head, but I'm constantly getting different readings from my (phone) light meter than I'm getting from my guesses using sunny 16. Is it just practice?
>>4484229Where's this? You did a fantastic job of making it very ambiguous
>>4484231in Lyon, I was gonna take a picture of the street but the guy thought I was gonna get him. So I did end up shooting him.it's a cool city
>>4484233ended up*
>>4484234fuck I'm retarded tonight, why did I see a typo thereAlso found this picture I apparently never edited, it's completely off topic but that girl is pretty
>>4481784Shoot the same ISO for a year using one lens and you'll get a good understanding of sunny 16.
Three sciences about light that'll help you understand: The science of photons, electromagnetic radiation, and bosonsTwo technical concepts that'll help you understand how your camera works: How computers work, how chemistry works, and how the mechanics work in a camera. (Anon here like what the fuck computers? Yes anon your digital camera is a damn computer like a smartphone is a damn computer. Hell even in some cases a calculator can be a computer. And the next what the fuck statement is about film photography which is indeed chemistry.)Last thing is knowing how all the programming and placement of the camera functionality is in your camera. Such as knowing what the hell C4k is in a Panasonic GH5 for example.You do all this you would know your camera like a mechanic knows a car. Congratulations you are a step ahead in being a photographer or cinematographer.The most important part about all of this is the hardest part which is does it make sense to you like any other art form?
>>4477834>Know the camera like a mechanic knows a carYeah if you want to scam single mothers you can either be a car mechanic or a jostens photographer so I guess you're right.
>>4480588No. I'll tell you what this is like. When the video game Crash Bandicot came out, the developer knew the PS1 so much he put a hack on the game to allow the game to use more data than it should. From doing that, Crash Bandicot had higher resolution graphics than a lot of games on the PS1. The same thing can happen with a camera. Say you know what am EF mount is. You being the common consumer would (I hate doing this NeoNazi speak but I have to to sell my point on this site) have to go to Jew BHPhoto on this site and Jew Amazon to buy new lenses. So now instead of buying from Jews you can buy a cheap lens from a Japanese guy on eBay (Jannies I tried speaking his language). Now imagine the same with lights. You don't want to buy all this expensive equipment when you know from how light works a few cheap high output lights will do. You know from reading the light meter on your phone at daylight there is enough light under a shade for a photo.
New info: light summed up is a quantum function like quarks and leptons.
>>4477837hi, I've learned this statement by heart, internalised the knowledge and took a picture. It looks like shit.
>>4484251Based.
Are all people in the cinema industry dickheads? Been looking around r/cinematography and people there seem to be a mix of audiophile retardation and pretentiousness of the highest order
>>4484194>calling the tv tards stupidthat's not what the post says, it says to go there and talk about filmmaking and see for yourself how stupid they are in response. lol are you illiterate or just a dipshit being overly defensive bc you're one of them?
>>4484201Photography *can* be art, but not all of it is. >>4484203It's hardly a secret I have a /tv/ presence. Cinephiles tend to do that.
Yeah those guys take themselves too fucking seriously. I didn't like that community since it turned into a jerkoff fest to liberal politically correct film industry bullshit and expensive camera equipment. Literally let me tell you a story, I posted the most hipster bullshit in the world on r/Filmmakers with a 16mm film camera and it got 500 upvotes. Just goes to show how pretentiously retarded they are. Fucking just posted a picture of a god damn film camera and instantly got likes. Compare that to talking about real advice on how to operate a camera or the insides of it, and you got a douchebag industry that hates learning.
I mean at least here on 4chan I get people who love learning from my posts. Reddit never wants to learn, as they just regurgitate bullshit over and over again. And what I write ain't even overtly political like Reddit!
>>4484205Cringe
It's your 1st amendment rights to use that camera anon.
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>>4484129Its competitive camera use, not art. If you dont use a leica and a 24mm-28mm its cheating. Like playing hockey with a lacrosse stick.
forgot about this thread desu>>4484144how so?
>>4484129You say it's fraudulent because of its pretense that ugliness is beauty that deserves to be celebrated?
what the hell happened to lighting? 40 years ago you'd have a nice controlled hairlight even on a presidential portrait
Ever since the producers of commercials did a study a couple of decades ago and found out that children and people with lower intelligence paid more attention to video if the camera was constantly moving, good cinematography and lighting no longer mattered as long as you had a shaky image. Then it moved on to television programs where it looks like everything was shot handheld. Cheap background synthesized music followed. Works out well for the production company because it saves them money. That migrated into still photography where proper lighting no longer matters as long as you grade your images.
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>>4482153Back then you had to get it right in camera. Now every fag thinks they can fix it in Photoshop. That's all has gone to shit
>>4482615You haven't ever met gen alpha. They make ChatGPT do all their homework.>t. Once a Teaching Student
>>4484160yep. we fail them.They were remodeling the floor I'm on and were going to remove the old 1800s copper ceiling panels from the hall, said we'd finally have cell reception out there. I asked to have them installed in our photo lab under the guise of eliminating EM interference with all the sensitive photo electronics. :)No one can get a cell signal in the photo lab.
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>>4484117Wow!
