Who the fuck likes this focal length? What is its purpose?
>>4504868>Exactly. You move. Have to.You only have to if you want the framing the same without any cropping or stitching or don't care about the same framingAgain, it's an important distinction with practical applicationsThe telephoto lenses don't have compression though, standing farther away is a what gives the compression, and using a telephoto just means you get a narrower field of view for a given sceneWhy does a dolly zoom work differently than a static zoom?
>>4504870>(You)(You)(You)(You)
keep in mind, UWAs tend to have lotsa spherical abberration / barrel distortion
>>4499605Canon 18-135mm kit lens
>>4462881Terrible picture>>4476051>Teehee f all the people who take better pictures than me!KYour photos are just "straight" bad
I have noticed that when I feel sad, that completely changes my photography. I then take more photos and I actually care for once. I know it’s compensation for any romantic or academic failures I experience.Maybe you will notice that my photos are all centered around one subject, aside from all being b/w. Maybe that shows that when I feel down, I become selfcentered and that reflects onto my pictures. My photos become the vessel for my negative emotions and sadness, hence low-key b-w motive. Have you ever noticed this with your photography? Share some of your photos that illustrate this.Also I wanted to share some pictures. One was taken today.
>>4504822I truly hate all your other pics but I love smog I always have a hard time capturing it
>>4504905Colored filters for B&W >>4504804Good stuff OP. Maybe you're more contemplative when you're melancholic, and that makes your photos much more intentional. Would love to see your editing pipeline, any curves?
>>4504916Thank you. All the low-key photos were edited by hand. I use the brush and paint the black into the photo.
>>4504804My dad died a few years ago. For months I didn't touch my camera. When I did start taking pictures again, everything ended up dark with shadows after I went through them in Lightroom. Since then, I can call up this editing style when I feel the mood is right. It helped be grow as a photographer.
>>4506219This one really mirrored my mood at the time.
What are some resources (books,videos,articles,ect.) that I can check out to learn portrait photography? I really want to properly learn and develop my skills rather than just browsing the hundreds of instagram accounts posting the same photos over and over
>>4504702>>4505750Based OP you need the develop a way to see the world and then actualize it. Don't do this shit empty headed. If your mind is empty you will create nothing much.
>>4505750>>4505795I do really want to find inspiration, it's just the only place I personally know of is instagram. For the accounts I do find, they either over edit their photos or don't really have much of a style, which makes it hard for me to be inspired. I also want to see the world, I really do, but I live a bit away from a relatively boring city nor do I have the funds to go out and travel. In a way I feel stuck, literally and metaphorically. I know I sound like I'm whining and making excuses, I'm just looking for direct guidance, or someone to show me the paths I can take so I can decide on the one for meant for me.
>>4505912>I do really want to find inspiration, it's just the only place I personally know of is instagram. For the accounts I do find, they either over edit their photos or don't really have much of a style, which makes it hard for me to be inspired. I also want to see the world, I really do, but I live a bit away from a relatively boring city nor do I have the funds to go out and travel. In a way I feel stuck, literally and metaphorically. I know I sound like I'm whining and making excuses, I'm just looking for direct guidance, or someone to show me the paths I can take so I can decide on the one for meant for me.I feel you. I live under the same conditions in the northern part of the planet which means little activity, little light, but a lot of nature which gets boring quickly. Closest city which is rather small does not have any interesting infrastructure either as it was all bombed in the last Jew-war, so only cement buildings from the 50s is what I have to work with. I have adapted to these conditions by focusing on things that are unique instead of copying others. What I do is look for things and structures that are decayed and rotten and plan my shots in terms of lighting and seasonal changes. I have taken a couple of photos I am very proud of. I'd rather take a few bangers than a lot of city snapshits that everybody has seen variations of before.
>>4505912>I also want to see the world, I really do, but I live a bit away from a relatively boring city nor do I have the funds to go out and travel.NO! That's not what I mean by "seeing the world". I am saying that you should develop a vision, a philosophy, see which aesthetic tradition you want to be a part of, what kind of aesthetic universe that you want to create. Traveling won't do shit if your thoughts and vision have no substance.>I live a bit away from a relatively boring cityThis is a total fucking cope. In city you can find people to photographs. For example if you want to practice portraits ask the uni students that you'll give high end photos in the exchange that they model for you. Just hit up people on Instagram. Learn from limitations. I literally live in a 3rd world village and I have taken thousands of photos. Here's what I did: searched for photographers(all of them are from 20th century and from different countries) everywhere which worked in similar landscape to mine and mimicked their shit until I developed my own style. I also took deep dive into local history of my village and surrounding areas so lots of cool and obscure things came up. If not anything you can learn to balance composition literally anywhere so maybe try that. >it's just the only place I personally know of is instagram. IG can be a good source for finding cool stuff but it's hidden under a heap of shit, try tumblr and look for old master photographers. Checkout /p/ wiki there are bunch photographer recommendations so check them out. >I'm just looking for direct guidance, or someone to show me the paths I can take so I can decide on the one for meant for me.There's no path. You have to develop your own style and say things through photographs. But tell me what kind of aesthetics you are interested in and I'll give some recommendation based on that.
>>4505912>it's just the only place I personally know of is instagramPinterest or Lomography or dedicated photo groups on Facezucc. Don't expect perfect pictures but it might help you narrow down what you like/dislike.>they either over edit their photos or don't really have much of a styleThis is most people with a camera. Identify what you dislike and then just don't do that. If you don't know what you like then ruling out what you don't is a good place to start.>I also want to see the worldWhat the other guy said but also you will find travel does not lead to much unless it involves things you already have passion for.My travel photos are mid, generic film photo holiday snapshits (nice for memories but nothing special), but the photos I took of the armoured train I went travelling to see I liked a lot more as worthy photos. The same for my flaktower pictures from Vienna.tl;dr worry less about going lots of random disconnected places, go find things that actually interest youIf all else fails, I assure you that a set of macro tubes will significantly increase the range of things you can photograph and can help with actually finding things you are interested in when the larger objects mean nothing to you.
i took many tasteless, try-hard photos as a teenager uninhibited by tactfulness. please feel free to share some of your own old edgy teenaged angst fueled photography.
piss christ recreation
I've been figuring out which camera body and lens to get. I want something that takes really nice pictures. Over the years I asked /p/ a few times, but each time they just ranted about consumerism and skills and how only the elect are worthy of nice thingsCan someone just give me some real world recommendations? Based on cameras and lenses you have or have used.
>>4505859Recommend me a camera and lense. Please nothing used, I am not rolling that way
>>4505280Please comment on this reply I posted.
>>4505842>will it make better pics than the latest iphones?No. Unless youre shooting f/1.0 on a FF mirrorless brick, modern day smartphones are 99% as good and will even take better pics instantly as they dont require manual editing.
>>4505842no, phones are far far better than even phase1, mind you
>>4505251OP, R6 MII is an absolutely excellent camera. I don't even want to upgrade to MIII despite better video options (i might get C50 just as dedicated video camera).Autofocus is apparently second best to sony, but I still find it loses eyes all the time and has trouble getting them back, especially when shooting kids who are always moving around.
I am going to post random images I made which I have also edited and I would love my /p/iss bros to give me feedback on my composition, but mostly editing style... or direct me towards an editing style that would fit me.>feedback on composition>feedback on editing>direct my towards my own styleStarting with opening image...
>>4502365The electric windmill would likely look better with some more tonality. As is now it feels a bit flat, with just black windmills/black foreground, light sky and then just a tiiiiny bit of additional tonality beneath the windmills Feels like you should have been closer to the ones nearest to you, to create more depth in the shot and get slightly less sky. When it comes to B&W I personally prefer grey tones, the darkest being dark grey rather than crushed black. Like Bryan Schutmaat. Your foreground isnt that far off from dark grey, just a tiny tiny bit too dark imo. But just some tiny changes to your composition/tonality and I would 100 % believe it to be one of his images if I saw it.
>>4502365A fleet of old Siemens wind turbines. Cool. Where at?
Anon, I like your style, mine is the same. I like desolation and lonely scenes that are semi abstract. I really like how the black and white enhance that theme. Good shit anon.
>>4502365I cannot answer because 4chan consider my answer spam but thanks for the photo thread.
>>4505935There’s a limit on how many posts you can reply to at once. Anything over the limit is spam.
New Davinki version includes what looks like a very solid looking photo editor, what do y'all think about that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKgfytA0lg>https://petapixel.com/2026/04/13/davinci-resolve-21-is-now-a-lightroom-alternative-raw-editing-tethering-masking-and-more/
>>4504924How long have you been on 4chan?
>>4505783On site since 2006ish, on /p/ since 2009ish
>>4505783He’s sony’s biggest fan. Its the guy who ignores that sony colors are weird (pukey greens, blotchy red skin tones, dull everything else) even after editing because he knows that without a reference (ie: seeing it irl) people cant tell if his heavily edited photo is actually of something that was that ugly and says “yeah but you cant tell if i used a sony!”He’s been here forever because sony always needs defending
>>4505792My editing comment has more to do with the state of editing threads in general on the board, I think anyone, regardless of brand should spend some time editing to really make their photos as good as they can be, and it's sad to me that that part of the process has become largely ignoredWe used to have editing threads quite often, and they would be quite popular, and we even had more editing focused trips tooMost shooters now don't edit as much as we used to in the past, same is true for making use of more technical approaches at captureGranted a part of that shift was having to find solutions when working with not great gear, where as all the gear nowadays is generally awesomeI just don't see the virtue in not knowing how to edit
Tried it yesterday , didn't work with my raw ( LUMIX S5II )But i have to say, i tried to work with a jpeg of mine, and i was very lost, i used davinci before but i forgot how complex that software was, if you want to go into the real color game.Overall im pretty sure that in two-three year it will be the best for color ,it would be nice if they can give us a workflow as fluid as other software, the node system isn't that different of using masking in LR , but it's confusing especially with all the tools for colors , you just feel lost
Ones you've actually used.Give reasons.1. Panasonic - pleasing JPEG, best QOL - lots of features that work well.2. Fujifilm - decent but I didn't like the JPEG detail rendering.3. Olympus / OM system - decent, but I don't didn't like the JPEG colors (tans pushed to red).4. Sony - lots of features on paper but they're half-baked and riddled with needless incompatibilities.
>>4500480You do know you have to be a specialized technician to use those cameras right? It isn't like a Leica DSLR camera where you can just flip through the settings and get a beautiful image.
>>4497140its subjective, but here is my ranking:1. what ever i have handy for the right shot at the right time, be it a cellphone or a potatoe. That said for me: if i want to do landscapes or fruit and shit, i'll go with canon 5dm2, raw setting plus mid level jpg for ease of use on the computer.If i want to do urban shoots, building and shadows or even sporting events, there is nothing like my fuji x100. it looks like a leica and does not cause a creep/perv alert if doing public photography of crowds etc, or even pretty women or men in biz attire. My favorite outing with photog groups is hitting the main train stations in nyc or other urban places.during floyd riots, i was able to use fuji x100 to take shots of mosly peacefull looting and burning of cities. honestly 2020 was comfy, free gov money, and happenings every night. tldr: 1. what ever i have handy. 2 canon with nice glass, fuji x100.
>>4497140• Pentax: — Cameras Used: — • K10D— • K-S2— • K-5 IIs— • Optio S4i— Opinion:>They’re reliable yet somewhat prone to manufacturing issues, like faulty solenoids and “sudden death motors” in AF lenses. They have simple button layouts and menus. They have sturdy build quality, as well as IBIS, even since 2006’s K10D. They’re compatible with 50 years of K-mount lenses. Autofocus leaves a lot to be desired, especially in the tracking department. A little heavy and bulky compared to mirrorless cameras, especially compared to full-frame MILCs. Fairly good JPEG creative styles with options for customisation, especially in the newer bodies. — • Would I Buy One Again?>No, if I buy another camera body, it’ll be a MILC. There are too many practical advantages compared with a DSLR.• Sony— Cameras Used:— • a7IIComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4499423I’m still waiting for your Q thread, anon.
>>4497140As a literal snapshitter my ranking would be:1. Snoy - by mere luck i bought a NEX-3 camera for about 50 USD on ebay (seller though the screen was bad but it only suffered from delamination) and got me into the system. I went from NEX-3 to a6000, then to a7 (OG) and now i'm using a ZV-E10. I really hated how slow the a7 was and felt on my hands a lot worse than the a6000. I thought on going back to the a6000 but i found a cheap E10 and i'm pretty happy with it. I found it easy to use and has pretty good image quality. Videos are also excellent. If i even switch again i'm going full retardo over an a7iv but i cant spend that amount of money on cameras at this moment.2. Canon - the first DSLR camera i used was a Canon T3i/EOS 600D. Not exactly mine (it was a work tool) but it was the camera actually motivated me to buy a digital camera, it blew of the water my GE camera and got me into the RAW world. I used it mainly as a documenting tool (taking pictures for a project) so i never used it for personal stuff but it made a good enough impression on me to get into the tryhard camera world.3. General Electric - my first non-meme camera was a General Electric X5, a pretty neat bridge camera. My brother uses it from time to time for family photos.4. Agfa - i own a ePhoto 1280 that i use from time to time, it has the late 90' low res vibe that Charmera can't replicate.I really don't have anything terribly bad to say about any camera i owned. I'm pretty sure my opinions wuold be the same if i have found a Nikon or Canon or Fuji chance.Also, >>4497166>more of a computer than a photo tool.Maybe that's why i like the sony ecosystem. Pic related
I'm going to post some stuff I've taken and you guys can tell me how much I suck.
I think that's about all I wanted to post. Thanks for looking at my shit
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
>>4498443You’re right. The rx100s shouldnt be more than $50. What the camera market puts up with is unjustifiable when applied to mass produced plastic electronics. Those shitters aren’t even better than a phone, just more philosophically palatable to anti-AI slacktivists. The pocket camera market offers you two sane choices:Ricoh GRwhatever working PNS you can find for <$50
>>4505499>they are no longer being produced at all except for some chinese cameras that are equivalent to budget cameras from 2006you lost me there. rx100 is still in production.
>>4505559Well, yes, but how old is it and at what price?
>>4505640The latest one was released 2019. or have a ricoh gr iv from 2025, they're the same price.personally i don't care about cameras being that small. at that point it's a fashion thing like a phone.
>>4491769Of course, a GR-series camera would be excellent for OP, but it won’t cost him $700 or less. Maybe a GR1? If that’s the 16MP one, I just found a listing for one… $899… let alone the ones you’ve mentioned.
New Ken Rockwell just dropped! Time to dial those saturation sliders to 11, babyhttps://www.kenrockwell.com/trips/2026-02-route-66/index.htm
>>4504322Come to think of it, I haven't seen Eggy post in a pretty long time now.
>>4504336It's not a hyperfixation. It's called a creative constraint and it has been a great idea to focus on one incredibly based subject for so long. Try it. >>4504337I've been too busy with my doggie daycare and growing senpai... I mean growing farm! Farrowing season was like a month ago.
>>4504341Based, I liked seeing your threads around and always hoped I'd be in a pic, but I probably don't dress well enough kek.
>>4504314Literally >SAGE in that picture. He also references the anal probe schizo posting from time to time
>>4499456man this is some horrible processing
>>4501272I haven't used it yet, but this was the last good picture I took with it. Thanks for the encouragement, anon.
Screwdriver and Patience
>>4501020they just feel nice to use, but I started on nikon
I did so many stupid thing to my Nikon - for example once I tried to clean the sensor with a vacuum cleaner, suprisingly my camera still works like nothing happened
>>4500885>buy dslr in 2014>face camera down when changing lenses>not a single spec of dust on my sensor with thousands of exposures
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.
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
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.
