Previous Thread Image Limit Reached: >>4474697Incidental Northern Mocking bird outside my balcony. Didn't have a picture of one yet.
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>>4488395Ostriches be curious
>>4488413Dang, reversed the posting order
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.)
>>4487613His new gf is a dog? I guess he is from 4chan
The problem is that you're watching gearfag youtubers rather than educational youtubers.
>>4488387>educational youtubersit's funny that normies need three dozens videos explaining exposure triangle lol
>>4466377>why don't people who post on an anonymous hair curling forum to protect their anonymity want to go to a meetup irl and break their anonymity?Because the niggers that go to them are as stupid as you?
>>4481131I kinda like James Popsys desu. His videos are always well produced, he doesn't obsess over gear, and he at least actually takes interesting photos in interesting places. He also doesn't do the annoying YouTuber voice thing that I can't stand and generally doesn't do annoying clickbaity videos.Gear review channels are the absolute worst though. I was looking at getting a Sigma 20mm F1.4 lens that is pretty purpose-built for astrophotography. Every reviewer I looked at was using it to take boring, generic photos of random shit around their house. That or focusing entirely on the "amazing bokeh rendering" you can get at F1.4, again showcasing boring photos of flowers and random objects in their yard. I don't think anyone even bothered to take it out at night.
Last days of 2025 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 higher) 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 >>4467259Quick FAQSComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4488218>what's important are the memories you captureYou can't deliver an executive video package with memories and feelings, you need specs to justify the product under the eyes of suits
>>4487820Mission failed, We'll get 'em next timeI should probably start with super8 or a bolex
>>4488327Since the fuzz questioned me about my crypto profits I can no longer buy cool gear like that. ;-( I guess I’ll go back to using my phone. Lenses and tripod and support shit make stuff like that super expensive. I wish nobody questioned me about my crypto money. Getting gear and toys was super fun, but (for me) it’s over now.
>>4488327$5000 on a 16mm film camera in 2025 is not well considered. All you’re going to use it for is holding the lens in front of the film and running the shutter, and everything else you’re gong to do much better, capably, consistently and practically instantaneously in the software editor after developing. All that beast gives you is a regular service bill high enough you could buy another bolex with the money instead.
>>4487998or you could go full doyle
What the actual hell is wrong with my editing and photo something looks very wrong in the photo and I can’t decide on what it is I’m trying to get like a vibe Juno claspo but it doesn’t really fit that vibe
>>4485288Your face is so lickable
>>4484922>What the actual hell is wrong with my editing and photo something looks very wrong in the photoGet an OLED screen
>>44849220 dynamic posing, prop use or lighting and you still cant see what's wrong? Just give up
This was shot on a Canon 5D 12mp and edited in LR 3.5 on a Pentium 3 1ghz Dell c610 laptop with 2gb of RAM running XP SP3 on an IDE 40gb 4200rpm spinnydiskYour arguments, all of them in this thread, from all of you, are invalid.
>>4488401based blind man
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.
>>4488210>"nazi">"shoot up a fuckin school"Not helping your case, schizo.
>>4488210>Mental problems on sleeve: Promiscuity and gluttony are immoral behavior and glorifying them degrades society. This is just women emulating male vice instead of setting an example. And no wonder this is pushed, companies profit excessively from selling products that support and compensate for unhealthy lifestyles. I wonder why companies are so immoral? All the people who own them look kinda related....>Perfectly sane and mentally stable: you ignorant, paranoid little nazi fuck. Eventually you will either get medicated or removed from this world, depending on whether they get you before or after you shoot up a fuckin school. idgaf which, but have you considered inserting large vegetables in your anus instead?
>>4488296You speak to the sort of goblin that says asking why jews are exempt from ukranian drafts is antisemitic
>>4488296It’s all the idiotic shit you just throw in casually to try to make your point, between your cringe Nazi rhetoric is the part that I like. Apparently in your absolutely fucked understanding of this species, gluttony is a male problem and women are just imitating it? Bc bitches don’t overeat and have eating disorders & turn into whales? You do alternate between sounding like a total fucking moron and like you’re one realization (that education is a Jewish conspiracy brainwashing the children) away from being featured on the news face down.
>>4488370Gluttony as a glorification of the self IS a male vice.>I am the manliest man here. I can eat more, and worse, food than anyone else. I eat pizza every day. I eat burgers for breakfast and steak for lunch. Beer is my water. Whisky is my blood. Salad and quiche are for gay fucking bitches. I'm having a great time. Et tu, BITCH?This is distinctly male. It's a masochism ritual adjacent to eating whole hot peppers raw. It's a low grade pain/eating bitterness test. It is distinctly masculine.And regardless of what it is, it is BAD FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED AND SHOULD NEVER BE ENCOURAGED.>that education is a Jewish conspiracy brainwashing the childrenOh, certain facets of education are absolutely jewish conspiracies. Critical race theory and modernized equity (each maintain jews as a people who deserve to remain distinct and privileged) are distinctly jewish concepts. They are mandated by jewish religious belief. Another jewish aspect of education is framing all american wars as for global peace when they only advance israeli interests and establish central banks which inevitably tie back to 100% jewish families that owe their wealth to charlamagne. You know jews exist and aren't a boogeyman right? They are the white privilege you heard so much about.Until they're sick of non-jews, then they're not white. They're oppressed.
Should dishonest photography be shunned?
>>4488290>I must have missed where you suggested it was something else causing the distortion?I didn't, what I cared about was dispelling the fiction that the lens was distorting the shadows.
everybody taking about the moon itt needs to be executed also what the fuck is dishonest photography? any image at all could be considered dishonest because it is a single view of a single instant of a subject or event, its like how people talk about how much they hate "bias" or "indoctrination/propaganda" when what they really mean is they dont like it when others treat a perspective other than the mainstream perspective on a topic as truefor example: >teaching kids in school to be liberal capitalists = cool and normal>teaching kids that liberalism and or capitalism might be bad = evil indoctrination and brainwashing literally every perspective is biased and its the same with photography literally every image could be considered a lie based on the intentions of the person framing the imagei think the only thing that could actually be considered dishonest is how people use an image to make their audience feel, if i took a photo of a dead Palestinian killed by an israeli JDAM and the zog used the photo to say it was actually hamas who killed the kid or to say it was somehow the kids fault he god the bomb dropped on his head that would be dishonest but the photo would not be
>>4488318Capitalism does not exist. It was invented as a strawman to propagandize neo-feudalism aka the unending struggle towards real communism. And its greatest triumph is convincing americans that its real and business are the equals of the state or else the entire country is logically obligated to go full commie. You will also find this “jedi” mind trick in other debates. And not just lefty insanity like veganism and population replacement either. It is also used by the right wing. You must adhere to ____ or your world will end if you ever stop being a hypocrite, and anyone can do anything they want and you cant logically complain. Know this trick. Fear it. Hate it. And remember the more you acknowledge ISM dichotomies the more powerful they become.
>>4488318>also what the fuck is dishonest photography?The Bahbah thread is a great example of it. Photography done with the pretense that it's presenting some deep truth when it's just navel-gazing erotica peppered with some critic bait. The faux rebellious aspect of it is also part of the dishonesty. The photographer is playing it safe while pretending to be some daring maverick. The idea that it's speaking truth to power when it's actually just power talking. It's corrupt to the core, there's no sincerity in it. Another example, hobotography.
>>4488206lol they forgot to shoop in the stars
let's see them
>>4482004That's a 3d render you fucking retarded liar
>>4486936Are you fucking blind? That's clearly AI generated. You can tell by the mist distance effect it pulled from a video game
>>4486936>>4487112Neither of you idiots know how to reverse image lookup? It's built into 4chan. Start with the triangle next to the [Reply] link."Tower of Terror", DisneySea Tokyo.
>>4488202Yeah, that's obviously the location he used to build training data for his AI model. Glad we're getting somewhere
https://www.flickr.com/photos/michigan_mister/Based - this is the future of photography
>>4488224The slop wars have begun, the next few years are going to be something else.I dont think this board will even exist within 2 years time as this very topic will destroy it from the inside out.
>>4488225putting your own photography watermark on ai creations is the cherry on top of the slop.
>>4488224I dont think you understand what the word photography means.>photoDerived from photon, aka light>graphFrom the greek word graphe, meaning paintingGenerating an image that was never real is fundementally not photography.
>>4488233The images were derived from light they just had some extra math involved to combine many photos into one creation.
>>4488224holy sovl
[# DAY 1]Hello! Say hello to Mr. Smile, he is a guy who hopes to put a smile on your face! ⊂((・▽・))⊃ :3PS: I will upload an image a day of this man.XD.
Will any of the images be good?
Hello! ò-ó
Which do you think is more useful for Architecture photography - a Panoramic tripod head? Or A Tilt Shift lens?
Noobie photographer here, what is a panoramic tripod head?Does it have angle locking, because it seems like the thing in the OP does, and I'm considering that for what I say in >>4486909
>>4488024Have you ever tried using the search bar on a web browser to find info about unfamiliar things? (I suggest trying duckduckgo before Google cause platform decay slop.) A $€£ 5 round bubble level might help getting camera pointing straight down with whatever tripod+head you have. (Fancy head will not help if your tripod is a wobbly toy.) If you need to scan documents / books borrow, rent or buy a document / book scanner. From quick glance to a € 104.40 one on sale at Amazon(de) the bundled software can flatten and split pages and remove background and fingers. (Dunno if that scanner is any good or +1000% tarifed in Murica.)
>>4488217I did a lot of searching on this a year or so ago and wasn't able to find much at the time, but since I'm not knowledgeable on photography I figured it was possible I simply wasn't using the right terminologyI'm not just wanting a level, because that still introduces room for my tweaking to be slightly off if by eye I don't notice the level not being actually entirely level. I'm wanting something that actually locks itself to different angle increments so there's no room for error.
>>4488024Panoramic tripod heads are so you can shoot panoramas while keeping the nodal point the sameIf you pan direction on a normal tripod, differences in nodal point can give you some distortionIt doesn't have much functional benefit outside of panoramas / composite>>4488232You can get geared heads which offer precise angle adjustment as the knobs are "geared" rather than "locked/unlocked" like most heads, but they are generally quite expensive.Any decent tripod will lock at whatever angle you want, and you can usually be fine with relying on the cameras built-in level.
>>4487884See A and B of >>4488285If you don't account for parallax, you can end up with a slightly different perspective
In order to achieve this kind of black does it got to be underexposed or overexposed? and how many stops?Point the light meter at the subject or at the empty space?thanks in advance
>>4488039>the degens on 4chin say the moon is made of cheddar so it must be trooNice self report schizo.
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>>4487994It depends on what you are trying to achieve. That looks like a record sleeve and will therefore have been printed from cmyk inks. Get your lighting right and convert to monochrome in Photoshop The covert back to cmyk and fuck around with curves until you get it how you want
>>4488007you seem angry that you're not creative. you're probably good at something else, so maybe do that instead :)
>>4488007>if you knew who I am you wouldn't be saying dumb basement shitAnon pulls the classic nepo 'DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" boomer-grade rebuttal
I like the aesthetics of tobbaco, zippos and leather
>>4485326Tobacco is thirdie, not manly.
>>4473779It has so much aura
>>4485326The best is cedar sticks. Using butane is preferable to a zippo type lighter because lighter fluid also has a bad taste to it.
Not sure what the name of this aesthetic is. I have the same journal but green, I have a matt silver zippo with a cigar lighter insert. I also drink Jaeger but only on holidays. Listen.. we are in a photography forum with a bunch of other performative clowns. Just lean into what you like, but dont go full fedora. Never go full fedora.
I'm really lost on how much sensor size matters, because while I read tons of gear stuff here and the most detailed explanations, in reality the photos taken with a small sensor still look good to me because it's about composition, feelings, emotion, subjects and things like that.So what's the deal with sensor sizes
>>4486390agree, you're going to put fake grain on your pic regardless, just reduce the chroma noise leave the luma and voila you saved a step processing
>>4486385I don't like this it's bad
>>4486371Nice shit post lol
>>4486368>>4486367>>4486363>>4486385Cute doggies. May the children of heaven be blessed at heaven's gate when they all pass into the after life.
>>4486110this is HYPERKINO
lemme see your shots for the moon!this is mine btw captured with canon 2000d 55mm i can not remember my camera settingsi gave it some edit with lightroom this is first time with DSLR
>>4486463You have the focal length right, like 640 adjusted for the crop factor. it was a T6i with a 70's rebranded Tokina 400mm.
>>4477184k i n o
Mars (left), waning crescent Moon (over Lumen Field, Seattle), Venus (up, right of Moon) rising Sept. 11, 2015.Nikon D5200, kit 18-55mm at 55mm, f/8, 2sec, ISO-1000
>>4488213Oops. Sept. 10, 2015.
Rank the Trump Portraits
>>4475946>did get my jabsKWAB
>>44321141 looks cheap, background is real bad2 is bland but inoffensive3 has some of the worst lighting choices I have seen in my life4 is trying way too hardSo I guess2>1>4>3None of them are good.
>>4475946>wasn't a maskfag, did get my jabsdumbass
>>4482684Getting jabbed is like tattooing, you get addicted to the feel eventually.
>>4432114He has let his evil side be photographed.He knows it doesn't matter anymore.
