contributemostly wanted to experiment with the 'natural' setting on the K10DI think I used -2 saturation, 0 contrast, +1 sharpening but I adjusted it here and thereI also played with color correction in the WB but it wasn't too greatalso, /digishit/ general bread
>>4497801Nope lmao. Same hair and body shape and facial profile though which was throwing me for a loop.Looks like it was fun time with the homies though
>>4497750Minolta DiMages seem to be relatively cheap. Anything electronic from 00's assume broken unless thoroughly tested working. (The X I bought at 2002 new kind of works but forgets settings when powered off.)
i was gonna edit this but decided against itk10d + 50mm f1.4 fa 1/125s f4.0 iso 100sooc jpeg with 'natural' settingi think this camera has really bad front-focus issues, im gonna update it to 1.1 and give it a global microadjustment and if that doesnt work keep manual lenses on it
>>4492896thats what im talkin about
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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Color Calibration 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: How much time do you spend post-processing (or printing) a single photo?Previous thread: >>4494610
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>>4499714Wow, I really love that tone of blue. Very beautiful colours.I just watched a music video the other day that has similar tones/hues that I'm trying to use as a reference for my video colour grading.
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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.
>>4499716You need a good director and a good cinematographer to make a good film. A good cinematographer working with a bad director just makes good looking garbage.
>>4499500Today I'm doing the math on the total cost of digital capture vs 6mm Ektachrome, assuming both will be edited in DR. Yes the film is an upfront cost, but the cost of the cameras and subsequent lens options + downstream costs storage, subscriptions of a new modern digital camera is high compared to nonexistent in film gear.The ektachrome image has more than sufficient picture quality & can be rescanned in the future as digital tech improves, whereas in 2 decades, 2 decade old digital images always seem annoyingly poor. In fact there's a quantifiable cost in time and expense to color grade each scene to look as good as the last century of work chemists did to get Ekta to look that good, the cost of which is built into the film.Time to go get some numbers.
>>4499723Man wtf you talking about, you can get any fuckin warm body to be a director. Plenty of great work has been made by actors with zero fucking education or training who wanted to try being a director for a day and viola, shit works bc most people already know how to do their fucking jobs.Fuck up the DP though, and you'll regret your life choices, you'll have one person pulling this way and one person shoving that way and there's just a lot of screaming and crying & violent kneejerk reactions until everyone just wants to pull out at once and then shit goes flying everywhere and it's all a big stinky mess, until in the end you've got nothing you can make a sellable film out of, except maybe in germany, where they're into that sort of thing.Butt fuck directors.
>>4499724>subsequent lens options + downstream costs storage, subscriptions of a new modern digital camera is high compared to nonexistent in film gear.This is a straight up lie and I don't quite know why you've written it.It depends on the length I guess, but the film stock itself alone will almost definitely cost more than a half decent digital camera for any feature film. And that's without the cost of developing/scanning it factored in (which will increase its price substantially). The lens choices are the same, give or take a couple of hundred for a lens adapter. And then saying you can keep the film stock to rescan later, but the costs of storage for digital are too high?Is this b8?
>>4499724Yes but if you use 35mm or 65mm unless you are a trust fund brat or a Nolan digital is a hell of a lot cheaper. If you are a hipster it’s film all the way and Leica lenses.
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.
>>4493620Right? I don't know how OP does it, these are bright and colorful with tasteful halation while any time I shoot vision3 it comes out with weird color cast that can't be easily fixed. Maybe he's using bona-fide ECN2 chemicals or is just better at scanning. I'll stick to gold and ultramax or the de-remjetted vision3, those come out ok.
>>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
Please apply a dithering effect to one of your recent photos using this tool and post the result ITT if you don't mind: https://grainrad.com/
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Only because you asked so politely. :]
>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
poverty porn photographers destroyed in one scene
>>4480383This isn't exactly unique to you, every city has issues that tourists aren't going to see, and is different enough that even the shitty or boring parts are going to be interesting enough to take photos ofWhen you're from somewhere like Melbourne (like me) for example, some basic ass neighbourhood in Japan is going to look cool and interesting when it's completely different to what your own country is like, so for Japs visiting Melbourne or whatever your city is it'd be the exact same
>>4499164Pretty much this. It's also the same with NYC and probably any city you visit. Hell, even the shitty parts of Colombia have beauty to them, but I think the contrast of there being beautiful mountains and forests behind all the slums helps and that is maybe true of a lot of "poverty photography".There's probably also the danger aspect. I'd sooner trust and feel safe-ish around the homeless and poor people of Japan over the homeless and poor people of Baltimore or Philadelphia.
>>4479862Koreans must have a very grudge-based culture. It would explain their hyper competitive nature and their assumption by default that the average person would freely wish their suffering upon another
>>4481618Fixer will dry your skin out and it definitely stings pretty bad if you get it in a cut.
>>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.
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
>ctrl f: sqt>noneI'm going to start this one off with a stupider question than usual. Say you were asked to shoot a few wedding shots at the last minute and all you've shot before was rocks, leaves, birds and the odd landscape or building corner... what do? Asking for a friend of course but pls reply quick.
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How much film to bring on a 24 day vacation? To China if that matters. It'll probably some foggy days in the cities, but I also gonna visit some nice scenery.So far I'm thinking/have:2x Portra 1602x Velvia 50 (lots of it in the freezer)2x Provia 1002x Cinestill 800T 1x Tmax 32001x Gold 200 as backupPlus I can probably get all the shit I don't have in Shanghai. I just don\t want to bring a lot of film just to have it toasted by xrays.
>>4499539Pedco ultrapods are great quality.The strap allows you to securely lash the tripod to a tree branch or narrow trunk if you need it at a higher level.
>>4499603you're going to china, just buy it there, hell i'd even tell you to develop it there if you're there long enough
>>4499603If you’ve never been to China, you’re going to find out what investing in manufacturing capacity for like 50 years straight by a country looks like.Last time I went, I spent some time in Shenzhen and I stopped by a part of the city where they had entire giant multi floor buildings dedicated to specific electronic components or whatever else. I don’t mean malls, I mean like entire buildings just to sell circuit boards, or electronic tooling, there was a whole ass floor just for mechanical keyboards. This was an entire section of the city that could have been a town within itself.I walked into the audio and video building and they had dozens of variations of any one thing. I saw camera bags there that were probably built in the same factories as anything we make here, but they were better and cheaper.All that to say, literally just buy it there.
New Ken Rockwell just dropped! Time to dial those saturation sliders to 11, babyhttps://www.kenrockwell.com/trips/2026-02-route-66/index.htm
listen here nigger, i have no idea what i m doing in photoshop or lrc, but my pictures don't end up like thisdid he use the airbrush toll in paint to get this?
Skylum Neo made it easy to boost this snap from yawner to awesome from just one JPG file. All it takes is Edit > Color > Saturation and slide it to 100, then Supercontrast and slam Shadows Contrast to 100, and you're done! (see my user's guide.)fucking hell
>>4499472What program is that?
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New color film!!!lucky 200 has finally dropped.Anybody shot it yet? waiting for my order to arrive.
Been out for ages Ive got some in 35mm and 120 just haven't used it yet
>>4498213They stopped making it around 2010 and reintroduced last year... some slight tweaks on the formula too. I think they even commented that they were some how able to reverse engineer some of the kodak formulas though that probably just means they bribe insiders.China might be able to save the film market with affordable prices...
>>4495514bro you should develop your first roll to see if it's fucked and your camera actually works before shooting your next 9, goodluck enjoy the nervous thrill of getting those scans
>>4498645I can't wait to feel that anticipation of waiting for the photos.
I think they just announced a 400 speed color coming out this year as well
Have you ever taken a still life photograph? What did you learn from it? I am not good at it yet, but it is my favourite genre of photography. I like the idea of trying to execute a concept, telling a story with visual grammar and narrative, but there are many factors that can ruin a still life photograph. Pic related needed better composition, angling, leading lines, better props, a better background (preferably with a backdrop because the white wall does not add much), and maybe a better table. It was fun nonetheless, and I think I learned something during the shoot because I tried so many arrangements under a time constraint and learned about workflow.
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This is a prototype, because I'm still waiting on items to arrive, but it's going to be all about the American Dream.>>4499287Nice angle.>>4497502Love the leading lines and forms here.>>4497511Great colours and composition.>>4499255This is very well done. My only critique is that you could have gone deeper with the angle or made the egg sit a bit higher, but you have a fantastic idea and it's executed almost perfectly.>>4499479>>4499480>>4499481>>4499482>>4499483These are beautiful. What lighting do you use? The yellow light works really well.
>>4499553thanks Anon. you're too kind. as for the light - it's just a normal desk lamp with a philips 2700k lightbulb.I hardly play around with it. I generally place it left side, a bit above and tilted mostly downwards, not directly on the subject. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. also different lenses and different film stocks. as an example >>4499481this was taken with the daguerrotype lens from lomography which tends to be very soft even stepped down. pic related is among the first pics of still life that I took. It's meh (the stem pops too much imo), but the film stock is great Adox HR 50.
>>4499553Thank you. Here is another test shot with a bit more refinement to lighting and composition that I took using photographic paper rather than film.My stupid film holder has a light leak, which you can see at the top. The shadow cast on the egg won't be there in the final image either.This test was to see how a shallower DoF would look compared to having everything in focus. I'm going to try and get everything in focus for the final image.
Who the fuck likes this focal length? What is its purpose?
>>4499333>>4499330What do your guys landscapes look like?
>>4499333>>4499335irrelevant to the topic. The 35-100 remains useless, no matter if you replace it with a 90V + wide angle or with a 90V + tele. Whatever floats your boat. But the 35-100 remains useless.
>>4483516The older I get the more I find this appetizing. I guess its because women look less cute as they get old.
Widest focal length on the kit lens
>>4462866that's also why I hate all these "elevated kit" lenses. Bro, fuck your 24-70 f2.8. It sucks. It does not have the quality of a 50mm prime and its not a useful zoom range either. Give me 20-100 or a prime. Everything in between is a waste. Unfortunately, no manufacturer does this.
I was hiking last week with my camera and when I reached the summit this couple approached me and asked me if I could take a couple pictures of them and asked me how much it would be. I've never charged for a picture so I said it was free, but they insisted and gave me $20 for like 10 pictures. This left me wondering and I started doing some research. I found out people pay THOUSANDS for shitty wedding pictures, also those shitty car pictures with tons of filters on them, people actually charge money for that stuff. What the heck? does this mean I can actually make money with my camera?
>>4494123I have similar memory>Be me >Roaming around club street or something at night>Entrance room before a public toilettes, funky graffiti>Owooooo im gonna street shooooot>Some mildly drunk middle eastern? or spanish dude exits from the toilettes>He notices me and i let him move along first but he insists>Ohh take picture me! picture me! >So we go a 5 minutes photography session around the entrance and near stair>Download the pics to my phone via app, send the pics via airdrop>He asks me how much for the pictures?>I say no money >He says thank you a dozen timesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4494540>>Be meas opposed to who else?
>>4494123It's a lot of work (that you can do in a smart way) and takes a bit of entrepreneurial hustle, but you can make a good living being a wedding photographer.
>>4494540It gets easier closer to 30. Then you just shoot strangers and it doesn't matter
>>4496837a tall, succesful extroverted sexhaver abusechad
