I don't want to buy a new flagship every two years. I just want to have a nice pocket camera and keep my midrange for a while. My old olympus pocket camera lasted for almost a decade. Preferably nothing more expensive than $700
>>4489626>none of them weather sealedluhmow
>>4490750Can we see some of the poor weather type shots you do?
Used Lumix dc tz99e>>4489665This one too
The Ricoh GR 3/3x/4 are the only cameras that remain pocketable with reasonable IQ. The rx100 series are a close second, but you'll be trading down in IQ (but trading up in AF).The GR is notorious for sucking dust into the sensor, so if your target environment has a polluted atmosphere, avoid, unless you have a Ricoh service center close by.I found an LX100 in mint condition for ~360 on mpb. You'll find some decent deals if you're patient, but again, the IQ will be a step down from even the RX series despite the larger sensor.The other models mentioned will only make you want to kys when you compare the IQ and shooting experience to that of a phone.If you are really committed to something timeless with decent IQ, film might be the way to go.Picrel, the GR is the GOAT in pocketable digital compacts.
>>4490075No :(Sounds like you should just use your phone instead :(((
It's 2026 - here are my new years' resolutions:I'm going to leave this godforsaken board. This is a fucking highly negative place infested by gearfags, chartfags and the mentally ill. This board sucks all the joy out of the hobby. A bucket of crabs so to speak. I'm also going to leave all other photography related forums and communities. It's full with nophoto assfags who are just frustrated at their own lack of photographic skill and try to pull down everyone and anyone to their own level of incompetence.Cya fuckers.As a parting gift I'm giving you a bunch of shitty firework pictures.
>>4491670>im better than edward burtynsky and annie leibovitz because shooting fat retards gay weddings is a slog and im not doing itpros arent the ones that consoom their way through 4 camera setups worth $5-6k while complaining and spouting gearfag delusions the whole time just to take cut off photos of fireworks with blurry blob cars filling half the frame, foggy trees, and random building cornersespecially not studio pros (actual artists)
>>4491670>people who take good photos the first time every time and know how to use a camera? lame. just because people are willing to pay you doesnt mean you’re better than me, the secret king!kek
>>4491673>le motte and bailey Not to say I think these are good photographers, but I'm talking about the Many from your statistics who photograph people and things they don't care about to earn a living
>>4491675Learning the technical side is so easy it's not even a protected trade anywhere
>>4491681Right thats why you’re so successful at it
this was the absolute peak of digital photography and its all been downhill after here. seriously look at the shots on flickr with this tag and how good they look. mirrorless is super sterile and fake looking, and older than the mkii just were shit to use and had too much noise. seriously dont sleep on these, 5d mkii and some EF L glass has u covered and then u can spend the rest of the money on travel and taking kino shots.
>>4491209whatever cockroach I ain't reading allat
>>4491209Holy shit, fuck off.>>>/pol
>>4491209based and true
2004-2009 was peak SOVL for camerasshit like D700 with its FAT ass pixelspure SOVLmodern cameras are sterile and LIFELESS
>>4491627premium bait CCD era did not plan to shoot anything at ISO 32000 grayscale ala signora de la notti
Can someone tell me what lightning equipment I would need, to recreate either of those photos?
>>4436289I'm not being facetious. Annoying people is a big part of art.
>>4485502No one wants your shrimp
make love not warring
>>4485827cute.
>>4432774>what does them being naked add to what the photo is trying to say other than incel gooner satisfaction?
5.4 is out, what do we think bros?
>>4490691Try ansel. Its like darktable but not retarded
>>4490689most FREETARD projects are what I call feminized software. men build hierarchies to achieve a goal. every man has a part he's responsible for (and can be blamed if it sucks).most FREETURD projects dont have hierarchies. it's the feminine modus operandi: no one is responsible for anything, no one can be blamed for anything, no one cares about anything - everyone can dumb their shit and they be better praised by the others or the feelings get hurt (which would be a catastrophe)thus you end up with the total trash heap that is most "creative" freeturd software. darktable, audacity, gimp, etc ...the only freetard projects that get any successful either have a strong hierarchy, corporate funding or both
>>4490692Not him but last time I tried Ansel I had it just crash after creating some files in an undisclosed location, had to uninstall it, had to manually delete files, had to hunt for an older version, and once I had the thing working it was sluggish as shit. I genuinely think there's no Ansel users, just people who hate Darktable and are acting as though recommending the fork done by some disgruntled dev is funny
>>4489803slider, it's a slider, it's ok. I like it much easier to use though like I said
>>4491546sigmoid -25 seems to be a good magic point
Why do people shoot terrible, generic hotel artwork landscapes? Why do we want to be Thomas Heaton instead of Robert Adams?
>>4491203more like a reeetard shooting at night without a tripod
Why not? Bland stock photos are still needed for now.
>>4484725Making your photos black and white does NOT make you sophisticated, bum.
It's because the bucolic appeals to people's deepest sensibilities.
>>4484726>>4484756cool>>4484725composition not defined enough for the blur this time.
What makes Japan such an desired place for photography? I'm really trying to understand the hype around it. When I visited of course the size of Tokyo itself opens lots of opportunities but I quickly notice that it gets repetitive rather fast. All muh taxis look the same, the buildings have a pattern that repeats a lot. If you've seen a few shrines/temples.. in the end they all look the same. Even if you visit other prefectures you won't see much of a difference. Whenever I see camera vlogs or flickr uploads in Japan I now tend to skip because it's always the same. My current number one location would probably be Germany. Still safe enough to bring your camera with you, every state has it's own architectural style. Towns are usually a comfy mix between old medieval houses in the center with grim 60s bauhaus constructions that look really odd. Also home of Leica where this sort of everyday compact photography started. What do you think? What's your prefered location?
>>4484375overrated dirty shit hole filled with indians. yawn
>>4486309>>taking photos in public is illegal if other people are capturedThat is not exactly correct.
>>4484375Fewer niggers so no undesirable skin tones in the photos.
>>4491437>Fewer niggersCould have stopped there.
>>4486309yeah germany is trash. nothing new here. only idiots will defend this godforsaken piece of land. germans were a mistake. the lands should be split up between franks and slavs.
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First attempt at using Pixinsight
>>4485115Very nice.
>>4490909if you have a dslr the adapters should cost you under 50€ but you should be also make sure you will reach infinity focus, you probably are using a 6" newtonian ?
>>4490909Very nice, what phone? I took around 50 pics with my s25 in manual mode using different settings, even tried a few free apps to make it dimmer but this is the least brightest I could get Jupiter. Going to try again tonight
>>4490909For planetary, you want to use videos instead of images. Software like PIPP will average the best frames of the videos and stack them together in order to make the image. Not bad considering, though.
Well nobody else is gonna so here we go, here's a RAW/EDIT thread. I've provided some of mine, a few of which I've edited in the past but also a few I've never touched. Links:>Daylight Landscape with Semi-Challenging Lighting. https://files.catbox.moe/9lc3dk.CR3>Backlit Wildlife (bin chicken) Scene. I was never happy with any edits.https://files.catbox.moe/ctd0mg.CR3>Interior Low-Light Figurines. https://files.catbox.moe/l1fmr2.CR3>Panning Motorsport Scene.>also pic rel own edithttps://files.catbox.moe/c84va5.CR3>This thread is less about the merits of a particular photograph, and more about how to edit and change them. CONSTRUCTIVE feedback is great, but aimless shitflnging is for the other threads>I wholly encourage more of you to post RAWs, as I enjoy giving it a crack myself, as do some other anons otbComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
last oneall done in darktableas to what I did, nothing fancy:1. denoise, lens correction, sharpening, checking white balance2. setting appropriate exposure3. working on tones in contrast equalizer, where needed3. setting dynamic range in AgX4. cropping5. further work on contrast in color balance RGB, some very slight color grading sometimes6. softening or adding micro contraststill have a lot to learn about colors and composition so any criticism is very welcome
>>4489506post your raws anon
>>4490589I'm quite new to this as well, so take my advice well-salted, but something I've been trying to do in my own post-processing that I think yours could use more of is crushing the dynamic range down a bit to make details more visible, specifically in the highlights/whites. Even if the whites don't happen to be blown out and there's still technically differences in the pixels, if they're extremely close to being the same values, then one might not be able to tell just by looking at it.For example: in this lego photo, the specular highlights in the blonde female's hair, or the specular highlights in the sitting female's shoulder. Those regions are so bright that there's almost no contrast with the actual specular reflections of the light source. >>4489033 is my edit, and while I wouldn't confidently say my version is some great example to look to, I will at least point out that I tried to preserve all of the contrasting details in the image. Every specular reflection is a small detail, rather than large regions being extremely bright and basically white. I like that yours is brighter overall, but I feel like reigning in the exposure a bit will help keep details visible. I think of bright specular reflections almost like stars in the sky, and you want less light pollution so that the stars are more visible. If that makes sense..I think I like your edit of my cows the most, but I might just be biased :)
>>4491111that's useful critiqueI am still not sure if it is fine to blow out the highlights a bit when it has no negative effect on the subjectBut I tried bringing back some details without making it look less exposed or dull and I think it works
If I ask some college students to help me model for my photography do I have to pay them or is giving them the pictures for the instagram enough? What is your guys experience in this?
>>4485103>What is your guys experience in this?An acquaintance who is aspiring to become a professional photographer just posts on his instagram or asks in his social circle when he needs models. He specifically advertises those shoots as TFP (time for print) so there is no false expectations.He once even shot me like that, it was really fun and made me interested in portrait photography, which previously I didn't much care for
>>4485103>What is your guys experience in this?idk, I only shoot tickleporn and tell them it's tickleporn. $100 an hour seems to be the differencemaker.Any of that help?
Tread lightly.
I almost fucked myself because of this. I asked for a girl's nude for cash. I'm doing an engineering degree brazil and I had to transfer to another federal instulitution. Didn't help that someone saw my collection of david hamilton books. I had to go to lawyers even, so yeah, be careful. I guess everything worked out in the end.But the girl was somewhat afraid and the principal was a mother with a daughter, so yeah... you can imagine that.I was not afraid of going legal however.
>>4485103It's whatever you all agree to do for compensation. Money, the images, you buy them lunch, whatever.
dude talks 20 minutes about colors, and he uses pictures of a guy with a very weird color, like how the fuck do are we supposed to know what color this guy is supposed to be?is he half black half white? is he indian? is he pakistanese ?what the fuck this seems like the most ellaborate troll video ever madehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PLMnUf0Gc
>>4490657instant coffee with milk complexion
>>4490657Did you actually watch the video?He explains that he applied the same preset to all and then tried to tweak them afterPhotos aren't about whatever reflects the most "accurate" colorsIt doesn't matter what color he is, the only thing that matters is which color you like best
>>4490657Nice bait, your screen cap is from the SOOC unedited comparison part
>>4490711>actuallyWhat does that mean vs watch it
>>4490657white american confused about non-white face, the poststay angry, magat
poverty porn photographers destroyed in one scene
>>4481645The vinegar stink is what etched the darkroom into my memory from high school, highly recommended
>>4481623Advantage of acidic stop is it stops developing immediately (which matters if using fact acting develoer) and it keeps fixer PH down if you reuse it.
>>4480501based
any other tv shows with photography as a prominent plot device?
coming across a lot of darkrooms in k-content recently
What makes pic related so uncanny and unpleasant to look at? Is it the lack of shadows? Why would a photographer go for such effect?
>>4490219There's a significant percentage of women whose entire self-worth has been based on the market value of their vagina. Nothing is a stonger denial of their self worth than someone who places their poop hole as more important than their life giving slimy hole. Most humans are simple animals.
The lighting setup has been designed to provide maximum coverage from all angles.The photographer likely wanted to work fast and cheap, so he's not shooting this like an artistic shoot. He's trying to get the maximum number of ok shots in as short a time as possible. What you end up with is the very flat 80s Style porn mag look that we see here.
>>4490043It neither provokes lust nor is an irrelevant question in my view. Color accuracy matters
>>4488991I went round to sex my ex and took this. We all know why this is better.
Posting all his series. Posting first:Early Works(SELECT WORKS)1984 - 1987
>>4483069>Mexican intellectuals
LMAO most of this is just edgy shit. Technical skill really doesn't matter if it's ugly>but that's the pointDon't care, fuck off hack "modernity" shits
>>4489589>Technical skill really doesn't matterSubjectfag filtered
>>4490275Who wants to look at this horrid trash? Staging blood cult ritual slop isn't a real skill and all this appeals to is edgelords and pedo elites.
>>4483261The Klansmen looked based though.
