Why do some people genuinely not see photography as art? It has existed for over 150 years, yet people still see it as nothing more than a reproduction of a subject. We live in an age of images, where our culture is steeped in the ubiquity of photography; the camera is inside everyone's phones, and proliferates on every app. Keep that in mind when you realise that a good photograph is hard to come by; despite an inundation of images, a truly beautiful piece of art, a stunning photograph, is harder to grasp. A photographer only hopes to make about one or two genuinely good photograph in their lifetime. But even if we narrow our assessment of photography to people who buy the right gear (film cameras, full frame cameras, mirrorless cameras, ecosystems of lenses), we find another issue. How many people in the photography community can even take a masterful photograph? The worst thing I see in hobbyist photography is not necessarily a lack of passion, but a lack of vision. A family snapshot with low technical skill is only interesting to the person who took it. You can find people on Lomography, Instagram, Discord, or Reddit just post photographs that boil down to these elements: >lack of detail or sharpness>tonally flat (i.e., no tone splitting, no contrast between highlights and shadows)>no choice in colour or tones>no pre-production elements that would convey vision or ideas>centre-shot>no forethought about depth of field, especially if someone is just using the same aperture all day like Sunny 16>noisy or grainy for no reason>no meaningful use of negative space>no sense of narrative>flat with no sense of visual hierarchy (i.e., how your eye is supposed to be guided, from point to point)>no ambiguity, so the photo is obviously just about a particular theme or subject
>>4493174Retards like you are exactly why the "right" will never have any lasting victory, your inability to properly understand and engage with art and find criticism of the art that isn't just Jews le bad sex le bad keeps you from actually studying classical forms, composition, posing, movement, color and so on and taking art for yourselves (That is the point of works like this). Stop recoiling at this because a jew made it, subvert their subversion, make better art. Study them and ruin them from the inside out. Running away burying your head in anti-jew sand does absolutely nothing to help you or art move forward.
>>4500743>the right will never have any lasting power because you refuse to appreciate disgusting trash on the basis of its maker studying and subverting subtle traditions!You are a pseudo-intellectual idiot. “The right” is the dominant political power and fastest growing culture on earth. Your grandchildren are going to be muslim. This isn’t a threat. It’s not a troll post. It’s not a jab. It’s a fact. The left’s inability to return art to its true form, which is “things made entirely by human hands to be beautiful or preserve culture”, and the lefts preference for art as a pseudo-intellectual circlejerk club based on pretending in-jokes are respectable academia, will coincide with the absolute end of all art. The reactionary movement is reaching synthesis. The dialectic is about to close. Islam is coming, and it promises things for people who are sick of half of TV and every female video game character being borderline pornographic and “art” being flooded with vulgar trash that only appeals to people who have received a pointless education in how to have that trash appeal to them. Your grandchildren will be muslim. Their art will be industrial design, calligraphy and architecture. Their international friends will be communist chinese. Their art will be regulated by state decency standards. Humanity has abused its toys and is going to take them away from itself. The losing war going on right now is the conclusion of liberalism as a philosophy. There will be no second enlightenment because the record of the first is too thorough. When man treads among the stars he will follow confuscian communism and islam, for in the name of internal logical consistency, for finding “principles” as the true form of god, the west refused to moderate itself and was glad to tell everyone who wanted moderation that they were too stupid to get it.
>>4500746I also think its really important for you to realize why this is inevitable. Humans are, no matter what they believe, not trapped spirits who will one day ascend by being maximally good, nor are they looking forward to star trek aliens landing and admiring their cultures intellectual liberty and moral logicality. Humans are just animals, alone in the universe, most of their mind is subconscious and unconscious, and everything they perceive fucks with their dopamine system and affects their life outcome. There is little to no room for free will - even with quantum mystic horseshit there’s only a lite room for free will. The winning system long term will always be one that is absolutely subservient to rules not based on logical ethics and principles of rights and liberty, but the consequences of human nature and material reality. All the greatest gods and allahs of history are personifications of ruthless nature. There is no afterlife waiting for anyone. These religions spread because they force man to kneel before the fact that he is still an animal and demand that he act advantageously as one. That he respect that he is but a dog.
>>4493129Do you like your photos? Do you yourself see your work as art?>>4493141Ultimately they're an art you sell the rights to use and not the originals. Like music, which is undeniably an art form.
It‘s just like with God. He doesn’t need to prove to you that he exists. He just does and It’s up to you to believe or not. Same with art and photography. Just make photos as art and then it will be up to other people to believe it’s art or not. Be like God. Just don’t care what others say or believe. Inb4, I am not talking about any specific God here, but the very concept of one.
This thread is dedicated to close-range photographic captures utilising macro-optical imaging configurations to achieve greater reproduction ratios. Got it? Good now upload some shit.Last thread: >>4433352
here, enjoy this blurry pos.
Cloudflare a shitWhere were you when 4ch was a kill?
>>4498423Could be cropped to be more macro but I liked the composition
>>4501897sexy camera
>>4505026Water spiders are neato
After much positive feedback to the /m43/ general I re-thought the whole thing. Why limit to one mount if the defining defining feature is the aspect ratio?Let's have a /4:3/ general for all the based chads who shoot in 4:3 ratio!Welcome: Everyone whose system shoots natively in 4:3!Also welcome: Those who accept the superiority of 4:3 and crop their 3:2 (cringe) images to the 4:3 (based) ratio.Not welcome: Everyone else.Topic of the first /4:3/ general ever: Are 5:4 and 6:7 based, too? Or are they just tryhard?Discuss!
>>4504273One of my first lenses. Pretty bad, I'll say. I used it because I had no money during that time.
Something about the top is making my eyes feel weird but the bottom is nice
How can I take nice city lights, night time streets shots, what settings etc? I'm using an EM1-III with a 14-150 f4-5.6
>>4505346Tripod and be there.
Redpill me on the Panasonic GH4.
I have big dreams but very little experience. I’m planning to study graphic design next year, but I don’t want to wait to start learning.I’ve seen so many talented people here, and I’d really appreciate your advice. What are your favorite YouTube channels for photography and editing? Are there any books you’d recommend? Also, what’s your go-to photo editing software?I’m feeling a bit lost and unsure where to begin, so I’d love to hear about your personal experiences and any guidance you can share.P.S. I took this photo on my iPhone 13 and edited it in Lightroom.
holy fk this board is dead lmao
>>4505210We're a gear board now, nobody cares about photos.
I've got some sites for you that'll have a lot of tutorials, since I don't actually have any channels for you:https://strobist.blogspot.comhttps://www.cambridgeincolour.comStrobist in particular is quite extensive.
>>4505321>paying for tutorialsLmao
I don't edit much, but I use DXO
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/
>>4499645This is pretty neat!
>>4499645
Do you ever gift gear to newbies or friends or family who want to get into photography? I sent a 50mm Canon EF lens to a friend because he likes photography and photo editing, but he’s got a shit zoom kit lens. It’s really soul to have a bunch of gear laying around so you can give it to someone else.
>>4505174I am holding onto my APS-C kit to give to my nephew but I am afraid he is turning into the generic zoomer-alpha brainrot kid. If something is not instant success or "lookmaxxed" he is not interested. I had a theme of giving Lego sets as gifts, turns out they are a whole lot of fun for his father and he only looks at them when they are finished and are promptly forgotten. We had a common theme with my cousins of DIY-ing and building things but it is absolutely absent from the kid. I am devastated.
night scenes editionprevious >>4501719
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>>4505097"I've never heard of Kanye West so how can he be famous?" retarded ass reply
>>4505095>There are people in the photo so it's a portrait I know this is bad bait to begin with but at least put in some effort
>>4505074>I meant to ask what are some non-portrait photos that are famous because they're greatHindenburg maybe? Or the Lochness Monster? The thing that makes pretty much every photo great or famous is the story they tell and that always involves people or some event unfolding (such as the first photo of the moon in space because it's the very first).
>>4505107I love Kanye West, he is famous.The Afghan girl = KanyeWinter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada = his Pablo merch
Thought the sky looked really beautiful and haunting so I took this photo with my phone. An hour later the thunderstorm arrived.
>>4503754>>4503753A little blue.
>>4503755Yes it was surreal. In real life it was even more intense. The whole apartment was bathed in this blue hue
its like i was there>>4503755fk off
Anyone know why my Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Lens won't focus past 24mm? I've had it a few months and it just started happening. I'm having issues focusing past a few feet, both using manual and autofocus. The body is a Nikon Z5II
>>4505096Superzooms are trash lenses made from trash with trash quality. Now you know.
>>4505096Because nikon has trash manufacturing done in places like thailand on the cheapUse nikon long enough and you’ll understand how canon always got away with crippled low end cameras and trash sensors. They didnt have real competition.
I had multiple 50mm f1.8 s copies with different autofocus speed, noise, and edge/corner IQ and two Z7IIs because the first one had a tilted EVF screen. just nikon things.
AF-D / AI chud here. Never had such issues.
>it now cost $20 to develop film only with no prints or scansAHHHHHHHHH
>>4411869Shoot digital
>>4504984Holy fuck it has, how is the board moving this slowly now?
>>4487718I thought it'd be fun to shoot some colour film in my 35mm snapshitter, film cost me 14 euros, develop and scan costs me about 20 euros, that's almost 1 euro per frame.So I made the move to black/white medium format film and learning to dev myself. Which is a fair bit cheaper and more fun.
>>4411869Kentmere 400 $7,50One batch of rodinal and fixer <$1Time to start developing at home!
You can get your C41 roll developed for 20 RMB ($3), so someone's probably making a profit.
Looking to transition from still photography to moving. The Sony NEX-VG30 was on a list of potential firsts. Now available to me for a few hundred. I'm looking to make short films, mostly narrative. From what I've researched, I don't think I will mind the quirks. I'm intrigued at the prospect of using a strange and uncommon camera. But I would hate to be wrong. I'm dead broke and just beginning. Anyone had experience shooting with it? Insights? Suggestions?
>>4505082Just use your legs to move.
Don't mind that it's not 4K. I don't like images overly clear or sharp anyway. But I am worried that it won't necessarily have a "cinematic" quality. As well as performance in low light. Footage is hard to come by and all of it is utilitarian. Everyone talks about using it for news, documentary, etc. I assumed I could make it "artsier" in the edit and investing in some vintage lenses. Which is its main draw
>>4505082Vg20 is more superior. The vg30 has a worse sensor.Get the 18-105mm pz and its killer.
Should've taken the newest Hasselblad.Basically a night vision device with 100mpx HDR.
>>4504065nikon is still the most common camera in laboratories, which is probably why it gets the nasa nod
Nikon is okay.
>>4503439>>4503427space deniers are manufactured posts created by ZOG and the CIA in order to muddy the waters and cast all "conspiracy theorists" as retarded schizos in the minds of the cattle so they don't question anything when in reality most common "conspiracy theories" are in fact completely true and perhaps even worse than people believe
>>4504940>Sony Pictures Releasing International>Nikon
I saw online the 0.03 megapixel camera and was kinda curious so i snapped a few pics and modified them in gimp to reach a similar effect, including the resolution.I honestly having quite a bit of fun with these and i'm enjoying the results quite much
>>45017681.4MP might be the output size, but you'll rarely see a thermal sensor with more than 640*512.They're hard to make and fall under ITAR restrictions.
>>4503286Yeah. Shows up as 0.3 MP now. Idk where I got the 1.4 from. I swear I didn't pull it out of my ass.
>>4500590Family in bomb shelters?
>>4500590berg
I want to buy a Christmas gift for a girl and I thought of a polaroid as a great gift for her. My question to you, /p/ederasts, is whether it's worth it and not just a meme
>>4482270>gift for a girlsay no more
>>4482270>Christmas gift>it's April 1st
>>4502842>>4502843He cute
>>4493284From searching it looks like it cotss around £35. Is that what you're finding too?Do you know what stuff they do or don't have? A filter, a tripod, or some batteries can make a good camera related present.You can also get a camera clip in that sort of region of expense.
Congrats on making the most lame thread ever
5.4 is out, what do we think bros?
>>4502591Wow, anon, I had this Windows desktop for 6 years now and also had no issues. Mindblowing, I know.
>>4502605>richard stallman, the founder of the linux operating system, was pals with epsteinThere's no way in hell Stallman was ever invited to anything more than some sweaty nerd fest. Guy is a wackjob completely detached from reality, but he's definitely one of the people NOT in any Epstein files.
>>4490510How did you "develop" your workflow? Did you actually study the elements of a photo and decide what you think would look better if you were to change it?I'm an amatuer photographer and I tend to just fuck around on dt until I think the image looks good.Also I don't use any graphs/anything that isn't a slider, should I? Pic rel is the last picture I've taken and edited
>>4490529>the biggest issue for me is chromatic aberration. none of the modules i've tried seem to get rid of it>>4490532>Handling CA is tough and I don't have lots of practiceI recently tried the RAW Chromatic Aberration tool and it seemed to work quite well with no sliders to fiddle with - not using the lens CA corrections at all.Any ill effects I'm not noticing?
>>4504833Manual lens geometry correction is missing from latest version of Darktable.
