Which do you think is more useful for Architecture photography - a Panoramic tripod head? Or A Tilt Shift lens?
>>4480562If you shoot for example a panorama of a public square surrounded by high rise buildings, having both could be a good idea.>>4480961For example point camera upwards, shift to get subject in frame & make perspective worse and tilt to adjust plane of focus so everything is on focus and and your subject has really tiny head & really fat legs. (Or something like that, I haven't tried.)
>>4480961You can use them to stretch perspectives
>>4481433Neat.It's fucked that all the first-party canon tilt-shifts are like several thousand dollars and like 3x the delta of a roughly similar non tilt-shift (that also has AF and often IS). I kind of want one for architectural photography.
>>4481438I sold mine a while back to fund a super telephoto lens, and I miss it a lot. I might save up and get a second hand one again. It adds a lot of fun to photography.
>>4481438Tilt-shift lens needs bigger good quality image circle than not-ts of same focal length, using movements move the frame off the optical axis of lens. That, mechanics and low demand add the cost up.Samyang has less expensive tilt-shift lenses. Also medium format lens to dslr/mirrorless tilt-shift adapters exist (dunno how $$$ wide angle medium format lenses are). If you want a toy Lensbaby may still be a thing. I've only used large format camera movements myself.asjhy
So is everyone using Lightroom or what? I already have Affinity 2 and would like something with a permanent license for library as well.
>>4479604RawPee is pretty cool, easy to learn. But I switched to DT because1.DT has masks, RawPee doesn't2.RawPee is slow as fuck. DT has a dedicated culling mode that's fast and convenient.
>>4462457>>4462457Does it have cloud storage so that you can sync your images and access them both on phone and PC?Also, Linux friendly?
>>4479821Why would I talk like that? That's a bit strange to be a Zach.
>>4462455>be me>trying out alternatives to RawTherapee>download and install darktable>run it>it immediately crashes>kill the process in task manager and uninstall it>download lightroom classic>log into my photo editing software>mfw>read the data collection notification>notice I will also be installing Adobe CC and I have no choice otherwise>yeet that shit off my computer instead of installing it>look at capture one website>download free trialComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4481359least retarded rawtheraPEE user
This is my new project, Homemade Piss Christ, inspired by Andres Serrano.
I love Christmas.
>>4481177Kek this one got me
>>4481177Very nice. Hat needs to be smaller though. And may OP eternally burn in hell.
>>4481177Andres Serrano is a devout Catholic though.
>>4481361Rest in piss.
Does anyone use GIMP for photo editing and manipulation? Has it become a "photographer's program" yet, or is it still clunky and freetarded?
>>4480657UFraw can export to gimp.
>>4480655Does sn0y, lolympus ect. have anything like NX studio or Canons DPP? I use GIMP for shit like making memes unironically, never found it useful for photos. For photos I just use DPP, it handles RAWs well and you can crop and export in whatever size. I don't know why you'd need another program for that simplest of shit.
>>4480655Basic adjustments in DPP 4 (cause only cameras with raw I have are Canon). But yes, I do use Gimp for everything else.
>>4481336Lolympus has OM Workspace (literal garbage), and idk if sn*y has anything. Remember, it's an engineer's device not a camera so you're expected to work it out yourself.
>>4481336https://creatorscloud.sony.net/catalog/en-gb/ie-desktop/index.html?cid=bnr-1
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.
>>4478407sissy cage street
>>4478416mine still only has <20k lol>>4478405>travelm6 is peak travel camera,
>>4481113>non pocketable compact, evf: ugh oversized blob. dont get a mirrorless. get a dslr. >non pocketable compact, no evf: omgay, street photography!!!!The m5 is the same camera but not recommended by gearfag youtubers that talk like they’re on xanax
>>4478405Yes, the first two 5D's do have something special going on. But for me, it will always be the accurate and realistic imaging Nikon D2x and D3x.
>>4480587>Weird way to spell D700A good camera when used with the best classic Nikkors.
As a relative noob to photography, I'm afraid I may have made an early overcorrection. There's a style I'd like to learn to shoot (picrel), and what I've basically gathered is that in order to preserve the details of shop signs and neon lights in dark environments, you can underexpose your images by 1-2 stops to protect the highlights, and then you pull up the shadows in post.I was amazed by how much detail was hiding in the shadows when I tried it, despite my photos seeming unusably dark in preview. But now I've gotten into the habit of basically underexposing EVERYTHING regardless of light situations, and I can't help but feel like I'm leaning too much on post-processing. Barring stylistic choices and just focusing on getting photos to be as 'correct' as possible, should daytime photos generally look serviceably decent right out of the camera, or is it typical to preserve highlights to the point of being dark? Is there a typical amount of information loss that's tolerated in standard photography, or is the goal to only allow the sun to be pure white?
>>4481186- what i saw in camera with the isoless profile- unadjusted raw- the "result" with a +4ev mask and +5ev in develop tool in camera raw. apply dehancer to cover up/break up the noise with faux film grain.the fact that you can get such results with basically no visible info in the files is crazy...but yeah, i am on the schizo side of this, i took the "film has infinite detail in the highlights, digital in the shadows" bit to the extreme once and this is the result lol
>>4481191also, i dont use any noise reduction, works better that way, no color blotches etc... just cover the digital noise with faux grain
>>4481192A bit of chroma NR would do you wonders. Nothing too heavy to damage colours but just leave luma at nil and it would like more film like.The faux grain is doing a decent job at masking the luma noise but the chroma comes through.
>>4481164Yeah. It's just hard because on film at least with color negative film, they tell you it's better to overexpose, some people even do grossly, than under. Color negative film has a lot of latitude as they say. But then you get people saying on digital to yeah protect your highlights. But if you go too low, you will end up with noisy shadows. I guess the takeaway is this for me:If you care about detail in your highlights (eg sky would be a big one) then expose to protect those. Even if they're overexposed as long as they're not blown out they will be recoverable in post....But if you care about any detail or lower noise in your shadows, expose for that instead and your highlights are going to be a mess. This is where stuff like HDR merges and using graduated ND filters comes into play. Also yeah 25600 is completely usable on the R6II. 6400 isn't a hard and fast rule just something I keep in mind to be aware of if I want to expect a pretty nice image out the other side, and I tend not to use a lot of postprocessing denoise. I could. Maybe I should. But I don't right now. And I like sharp images just as well as blurry film shots.
>>4481186>Casey Matsumotoi thought these were Liam Wong but turns out they worked togther. have you got any of his books? I recognise some of these from After Dark
any fellow third world photography aficionados? how do you deal with the fear of your gear getting stolen? what kind of precautions do you take?
just dont go to bad areasyou cant make pretty photos there anyway
>>4479859Zach's mistake was not getting a tripcode.>>4475750Woah, a cANON post I can fully get behind.
>>4479866I'd rather let people have fun with my name than anything. It separates the real ones from the fake ones.
>>4479866Got a pass instead... Though that may be seen as gay to a lot of people.
>>4473689street criminals are malnourished, underslept, high, and stressed out.
What events/activities/resources do you use to find good subject matter? I don't want to hire models because that's pervy, but I want to take better photos of people. Pic not related
>>4480287ooooh that's a good idea. thanks anon
>cremasterIs that the master cremater?
>>4480026I got a macro lens and it's a lot of fun, there's always shit to take photos of almost anywhere
>>4480326Fun fact, the cremaster muscle is responsible for sucking your balls up into when it gets cold and the like
>>4480026That area had a lot of cute looking bars.
Where do (you) host your /p/ortfolio?
If you are booking paid work you need Instagram, if you are using Instagram and not booking work you are the dictionary definition of brain dead. For all other purposes Flickr does the job.If you have massive narcissism you will need to create your own website but that’s a you problem.
>>4474622this is based but requires to have a social life. something that is rare on this site
I have a self hosted instance of immich. Does the job. Just link to an album
brzi.baThough I only uploaded one wedding on it.
Github pages for a static site. Images uploaded to Cloudflare Images. I just have a simple HTML site with image urls embedded.
photos of my cat Rupert that i took on my phone which at least trace amounts of thoughtful composition, as per the board rules I like this shot because it really focuses on his face, which is cute
>>4480114Tickles my brain just right
Herzog :-)
>>4480848>>4480847The reddit beast
Post books about photography that you have enjoyed. This could mean but is not limited to:>Photo books>Guide books>Repair manuals>Camera history booksI will post what I have, if you want a .pdf of any of these I'm happy to put them up on catbox. I would love to hear what you all have been reading.
>>4480542https://files.catbox.moe/w7jixt.pdfhttps://files.catbox.moe/zgreyk.pdf
>>4480546Thanks!
>>4479680Feininger's The Complete Photographer and just about any Kodak photobook. They're oriented toward film photography, but many of the principles apply.
>>4479691Do you guys have any other greg girard's work. Like the photobooks of snack sakura or JAL-76 or whatever. Cant find it on anna or anywhere on the clearnet. I might be lacking sources, never checked darkweb.If its not available, i will be pleasantly surprised such nice work has not be leaked.
>>4480709Unfortunately I don't, I've also been looking for them. Unfortunately they're incredibly expensive and hard to find.
Sprawl 'em EditionPreviously: >>4470709
>>4474364Please stop posting this
>>4474364I think this is a nice direction but it would definitely benefit from blurred edges, I think it would enhance the “illustrative” effect.
>>4474364I just saw the way you’ve blended the neck with the white background. If the entire image was blended into the background that way, I think it would be a great artistic effect. Also, since it’s supposed to look “illustrative,” I think, sharpness is working against you. Softness could improve the aesthetic quality of the image.
>>4473351Did you use any flash or reflector so they are not underexposed? By the angle of the sun that guy should look like a nigger
>>4473341you missed a major opportunity not having them kiss so that the sun is between the two of them, and metering off the sunset>>4473342do you have bad knees or something? why shoot from eye level for this?>>4473351this is the best of the series>>4473465>>4473482these are fucking dope>>4473679everyone knows the key to great photos is to leave parts of the body sort of out of frame, not center OR use the rule of thirds, and make sure the horizon's not level
Maybe nobody cares and maybe I'm dumb to be surprised but I just want to stress how unglamorous actual pro photographers - and creatives in general - are.A lot of them are kind of losers. The image I had of photographers being cerebral, well-rounded and cultured guys has not proven to be true at all.I work in healthcare but I run a small business doing sound engineering work. I do very specialized work recording live concerts and classical music, usually working alongside photographers/video crews. A lot of them are honestly just fucking weirdos, at some point I probably was too. It's a bit like pic-related (apologies for normie meme)I mention this because prior to this I did much more paid photography gigs, but I got sick of it because a) the profit margins are a joke and b) I didn't fit in with the people there and they knew it. I'm not saying I'm better than them, but it was not the focused, intellectual crowd I hope for.An anon here once saidA that he got into photo-journalism because it is a field that vagrants and ne'er-do-wells can get into and I 100% see it.Older guys are good though, they're always helpful and polite.
>>4480033>forever alone pretends job is womanSad!
>>4479485>. My personal feelings on that industry is that it takes advantage of people that have a passion for it and squeezes them for everything they have until there's nothing left.that is all creative industries sadly
>>4474356dont really have much time to groom yourself when you have to be at x or y place by a certain time or before a certain time of day in terms of people traffic.
>>4480378>wake up to text message>"Anon we need you at this location in 40 minutes">rinse and repeat pretty much every dayI pretty much couldn't make plans since I never knew if they wanted me somewhere.
>>4474383Hello, I also play the piano and I know what you're going through. This is induced by bad technique in piano playing. Learn the taubman method and use it all the fucking time, not just in piano. Your hands will thank you for it. I implore you anon to please learn it if you care about your hands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47w_6IKHA1M
Three sciences about light that'll help you understand: The science of photons, electromagnetic radiation, and bosonsTwo 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?
Fake zach melty. Kek
>>4477834Yeah, you shouldn't operate your digital camera without a phd in quantum mechanics
>>4480516However, understanding light does help you understand how your camera works.
>>4477834>Know the camera like a mechanic knows a carYeah if you want to scam single mothers you can either be a car mechanic or a jostens photographer so I guess you're right.
>>4480588No. 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.
Mirrorless is dead editionPrevious: >>4477478
>>4480473I'm the guy actually takes photos and knows OP is complaining just to complain A Z5II has a 2.5 stop lowlight AF advantage over an R5II and a +4 stop advantage over an a7RVIf it were actually an issue with lowlight AF, we should be seeing an awful lot more complaining about bodies like thoseOP just wants something to complain about since they don't actually take pictures or understand lowlight AFWhy are you mentioning unrelated apertures and an unrelated camera and even framing things dishonestly?
>>4480492It doesnt matter because nikon wont get anything in focus anyways. Its just a worse sony a7iii in an uglier body complete with equally bad color science.
>>4480509yeah thats true. niggors are just even more autistic snoys. no one ever said their r6ii’s low light AF held them back, but a lot of people say their z8’s shitty autofocus (and its better! than the zf and z5ii) missed great action shots that even a mid tier snoy would have nailed.
>>4480492>unrelated aperturesThere are no unrelated apertures when discusing Maximum Aperture Live View. If you want an f/8 exposure to have a chance at being in focus in low light you're going to get it faster and more accurately by focusing at f/1.8 on a z50>unrelated cameraBecause like some people here, I don't read a spec sheet and pretend I know things about a camera I haven't used. This is the camera I experienced this issue with first hand. I have had people here try to convince me that it was simply user error that focusing at 1.8 produced better results than at 5.6+ and the camera is fine in low light (because they read an EV chart saying it should be)>framing things dishonestlyThere's no dishonesty here. The Z8 didn't get this feature for no reason. Nikon felt it important enough to include in the firmware update, despite me seeing very few people online talk about it. It's a good feature. What's the harm in adding it? And ultimately, what is dishonest about wanting a feature on a camera that costs almost 2k, that you know through experience would aid you in your personal shooting environment?A knee-jerk "you're a retard" response to a genuine concern over interest in a feature is worth far less than an on-topic complaint.
>>4480482A few years back I bought some seats from an old Mercedes and they had the original first aid kit still attached underneath, and I sold that for a few hundred dollars online. You can get insanely lucky with used shit sometimes.
