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Are all people in the cinema industry dickheads?
Been looking around r/cinematography and people there seem to be a mix of audiophile retardation and pretentiousness of the highest order
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I mean at least here on 4chan I get people who love learning from my posts. Reddit never wants to learn, as they just regurgitate bullshit over and over again. And what I write ain't even overtly political like Reddit!
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>>4484205
Cringe
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>>4482143
They're white? They give awards to Spanish/Mexican folk from the guilt of it. Asians took to digital media and dick worship the shallow graves of what's left of the french new wave. It all ended with Kubrick.
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>>4484763
FNW was a mistake. Navel gazing cin*philes.
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>>4482143
>cinephile here, I watch tv like a professional tv watcher bc this formulaic bullshit written at a 5th grade level is serious business worth discussing as "art"
>surely everyone here thinks about me and cares about me and keeps track of where I go and post all of my brilliant thoughts

Hoooly fuck. Cringe doesn't even cover this. Get a fucking friend.

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Posting all his series.

Posting first:
Early Works

(SELECT WORKS)

1984 - 1987
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Holy fuck, I am sorry Andres Serrano for not checking out your work due to memes, I wasn't aware of your game.

Thank you OP for sharing. This shit is gold.
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I want to bust a nut on this >>4483088 series very erotic and fascistic.
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>>4484380
I couldn't upload all his series due to the image limit, but check out his other stuff hosted on his website.
https://andresserrano.org/series/budapest
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Wow, his photography is honestly shocking and beautiful way ahead of his time to be honest
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>>4483069
>Mexican intellectuals

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Give it straight to me, /p/.

Are Leica M cameras a meme? Or are they worth it?
Mainly for portraits, and rock and leaves.
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>>4483597

That was hardly seething, he's right about a few things. Most people with Leicas buy them for the image not because they need something compact, there's a lot of cameras that do the same thing the Leica does and cost a lot less.

wait, hang on i'm doing this all wrong from the get go:

YOU DON'T NEED LEICA THAT COST MORE THAN AVERAGE SOVIET HOUSEWIFE

YOU DON'T NEED IMPERIALIST JAP CANNON OR KNEE-CONE THAT SHOOT 13FPS OF CAT ON AMERICAN LAZEEEEE-BOY SOFA

YOU DON'T NEED SONE-EEE MIRROR-LESS CAMERA OF VAPID YOU TUBING PERSONALITY

BUY SOVIET CAM. FED OR ZORKI IS FINE! IS MADE FROM BASTARD NAZI DESIGN AFTER SOVIET ARMY HUMILIATE THEM. BUY 5CM LENS. LEARN HOW TO FOCUS BEFOREHANDS. LEARN HOW SUBJECT MOVE IN AND OUT OF FRAME

SHOOT BLACK AND WHITE FILM. SMENA IS FINE! DON'T SHOOT SLIDE FILM AND DEVELOP IN DRUGGIST PHOTOMACHINE. THAT MAKES YOU HIPSTER ASSHOLE WHO RELIES ON MISTAKES. MISTAKES GET YOU KILLED LIKE BASTARD NAZI ARMY WHO DECIDE TO FIGHT IN WINTER OF GLORIOUS MOTHERLAND

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>>4482320
How do wedding shoots on manual focus go? Also with more limited capabilities for telephoto, no zoom, no macro ring shots, etc
All the wedding shooters I know are using SLRs or mirrorless with big bruiser sports pro zooms, so you must be really good or have a different style.
DESU, I’ve only handled a leica once, but I really liked it, and it’d be nice to be able to pick up some gigs on the side and help defray the costs.
>>4483480
The temptation is definitely real. I know it’d make more sense to buy Sony or canikon and get hybrid options, good autofocus, etc, but I just want the rangefinder.
Been watching too many Cam Mackey videos, I guess. Shows that you can get nice portrait/fashion editorial style shots with full manual and now I’m feeling the vibe. Also the little itty bitty lenses are very appealing compared to the new Nikon stuff, optical perfection or not
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>X-pro 2 + 35mm 1.4
Or
>m240 + 50mm Voigtlander

Fuji package is half the price, but it’s aps-c, but you do get autofocus
Leica would be $2500 for the combo, but FF, M-mount so all lenses are usable forever, and I kinda like using manual focus
Use would be for travel, portraits, and maybe fashion/influencer photography, I know some people at my gym.

Only real downside of Leica is spending that much money up front, and needing a whole second camera to shoot sports or action. Granted, the x-pro autofocus probably isn’t up to the task for that either
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>>4481821
Got em
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>>4481813
imagine living somewhere you can't go try one for yourself and decide. couldn't be me

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What's a good way to discover photographers you like, including dead ones? Is Pinterest good?
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>>4484740
>What's a good way to discover photographers you like, including dead ones?
Go to a used book store or your university's library (even if you aren't a student you can get a library card as a member of the public) and borrow photography books. Find something with a focus on historical periods in photography, scenes and movements, or specific photographers. Even if you get one book that is overall on a subject that, after you turn the final page, you have no affection for, you may return it or put it back on your bookshelf at least knowing where you'd like to point your nose next, since you may find an allusion to another photographer or style outside the scope of the book you just read.
>Is Pinterest good?
Maybe. I like Flickr. Tumblr probably has some blogs you might like and there is a hashtag system so you can jump down some rabbit holes there. This is a queer suggestion but pbase and goat.vision are great resources for viewing sample galleries of specific cameras or lenses, not so much for finding specific photographers though.
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>>4484740
Reading.
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>>4484762
+I highly recommend to brief review of each book you read. take a picture of the cover or the most representative picture and write one or two lines of your impression about that book or the photographer.
Trust me, it will give you in the future such great insightful database that any other meme youtuber's bullshit reviews could never give.
This trick applies to pretty much everything in life though.

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It's your 1st amendment rights to use that camera anon.
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>>4484129
Its competitive camera use, not art. If you dont use a leica and a 24mm-28mm its cheating. Like playing hockey with a lacrosse stick.
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forgot about this thread desu

>>4484144
how so?
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>>4484129
You say it's fraudulent because of its pretense that ugliness is beauty that deserves to be celebrated?
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Do you submit to magazines or prizes? I know the meme is that you can only hope to leave just one or two worthwhile photos after you die. But what’s wrong with trying to build a career?
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If I had the money, I'd participate in the Mobile Photography Awards, alas the entry fees turn it into gambling
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Dead board.
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>>4477903
Contests won't help you build your career as much as putting the same effort elsewhere (networking and marketing)
Most photo contests are just rights grabs for a company to get free stock photo, they dangle a modest prize, and get back 10x that in photos they can now use for their own marketing purposes
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If its free to do and you don't lose rights to your images, whats the harm?

I don't do it because my photos are not good though.
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>>4484677
Find any contest and it's easy to see the problems, even OP's has effectively a +$75 entry fee
The only ones worth doing are small community ones with no real rewards, like we used to have here, and like you can find on other photo forums

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Photography has the power to not only document the horrors of the world, but also bear the mark of its maker, for better or worse. It is not simply opening and closing a shutter.

Take this evidence that the SS photographer, Friedrich Franz Bauer, implicated himself with. He usually made propaganda of concentration camps to normalize them against any moral outrage. This was part of the Nazi regime's policy to beautify their camps and "Jewish settlements."

Here, Bauer takes photos of innocent children in a psychiatric hospital. He knew full well they would face forced euthanasia during Aktion T4. But history now sees this photo as a criminal act, a witness to the worst parts of humanity, as well as a bystander who did nothing to stop the rise of modern evil. Again, photography is not merely clicking a button. It has the power to echo throughout history.
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It is time.
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Anyone else like taking photos of mundane shit like stairs when they're on vacation? i feel like no one's taking photos of the stairs and the trash cans so it's my responsibility to.
https://files.catbox.moe/ms28zq.jpg
https://files.catbox.moe/x5znqx.jpg
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>>4484133
use a list of local words as incentive.

eg

skakatcheeeqan idk how you spell it. cool photo, instant updoot

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Spooky forest Edition
Previously >>4476460
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>>4479022
>>4479025
>>4479054
great

>>4479168
GADAM

>>4479932
clipped subject :(
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>>4480060
solid imo. i dig the melo vibe

>>4480288
oh my

>>4480297
yes

>>4480922
I LOVE EM!!! great pair
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>>4480943
>>4480994
nice

>>4481259
>>4481262
saved

>>4481439
this moves me
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>>4481749
>>4481750
great!

>>4481921
nice

good rpt
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>>4479188
Too dark. The lighter one is better.

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show me what kind of weird shit you can make with photoshop

Looking for pre-2000s landscape photography calenders. Not having much luck. Anyone seen any around?
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>>4481652
>when I go to a national park gift shop and the calendars are digislop with bad white balance instead of large format velvia
Made me fucking sad.
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>>4481652
as in scans or prints to buy?

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Why are image sensors rectangular when a camera’s image circle is… well, circular?
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>>4483957
So sounds like straight lines are easier then, thank you for confirming
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>>4483891
The wafers are circular to begin with. Just make the wafers smaller and have one sensor per wafer.
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>>4483963
Yes, they are, unless you're a physicist, then they're the fallacy at the root of all your nightmares.
You're welcome.
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>>4484156
>not just using the entire wafer at their current size
sensorlet
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>>4483892
explains why lenses are rectangular and not spherical

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Recently got a camera without a light meter, looking for some tips on how to meter by eye.
I get the principle behind sunny 16, and have the table in my head, but I'm constantly getting different readings from my (phone) light meter than I'm getting from my guesses using sunny 16.
Is it just practice?
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>>4484229
Where's this? You did a fantastic job of making it very ambiguous
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>>4484231
in Lyon, I was gonna take a picture of the street but the guy thought I was gonna get him. So I did end up shooting him.
it's a cool city
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>>4484233
ended up*
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>>4484234
fuck I'm retarded tonight, why did I see a typo there
Also found this picture I apparently never edited, it's completely off topic but that girl is pretty
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>>4481784
Shoot the same ISO for a year using one lens and you'll get a good understanding of sunny 16.

Three sciences about light that'll help you understand: The science of photons, electromagnetic radiation, and bosons

Two technical concepts that'll help you understand how your camera works: How computers work, how chemistry works, and how the mechanics work in a camera. (Anon here like what the fuck computers? Yes anon your digital camera is a damn computer like a smartphone is a damn computer. Hell even in some cases a calculator can be a computer. And the next what the fuck statement is about film photography which is indeed chemistry.)

Last thing is knowing how all the programming and placement of the camera functionality is in your camera. Such as knowing what the hell C4k is in a Panasonic GH5 for example.

You do all this you would know your camera like a mechanic knows a car. Congratulations you are a step ahead in being a photographer or cinematographer.

The most important part about all of this is the hardest part which is does it make sense to you like any other art form?
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>>4477834
>Know the camera like a mechanic knows a car
Yeah if you want to scam single mothers you can either be a car mechanic or a jostens photographer so I guess you're right.
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>>4480588
No. I'll tell you what this is like. When the video game Crash Bandicot came out, the developer knew the PS1 so much he put a hack on the game to allow the game to use more data than it should. From doing that, Crash Bandicot had higher resolution graphics than a lot of games on the PS1. The same thing can happen with a camera. Say you know what am EF mount is. You being the common consumer would (I hate doing this NeoNazi speak but I have to to sell my point on this site) have to go to Jew BHPhoto on this site and Jew Amazon to buy new lenses. So now instead of buying from Jews you can buy a cheap lens from a Japanese guy on eBay (Jannies I tried speaking his language). Now imagine the same with lights. You don't want to buy all this expensive equipment when you know from how light works a few cheap high output lights will do. You know from reading the light meter on your phone at daylight there is enough light under a shade for a photo.
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New info: light summed up is a quantum function like quarks and leptons.
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>>4477837
hi, I've learned this statement by heart, internalised the knowledge and took a picture. It looks like shit.
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>>4484251
Based.


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