>he's backour eyes were not ready, but at last we truly see:https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/skylum/luminar-neo.htm
and the stupidly boring original for reference
behold, the master of cloning is upon us
don't forget to support his growing family
enjoy this beautiful masterpiece and have a nice day!
>ken succumbs to AI sloppagrimI didn't ever like any of his photos but I respected his commitment to doing things his own way
Just saw this one thinking "hey it's actually quite a good shot, maybe we're being too harsh"
>>4455077... but it was the unprocessed shot
>>4455028>it's reallmao
>All it takes is Edit > Color > Saturation and slide it to 100, then Supercontrast and slam Shadows Contrast to 100, and you're done! nigga doesnt care about halos or jpeg artefacts lol, as long as the colors are blastin
>>4455078what teh fuck. the clouds are completely different
Ken Rockwell: The Nikon Z8 is NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME and NOT WORTH IT! It doesnt have cloud detect in auto subject full area af-c! THIRD RATE!Also Ken Rockwell: *turns a $3000 canon RF kit into an iphone*
>>4455078AAAAH THE CHEETO MOUNTAIN AAAAAAAAAAAAH
>>4455097>This KIT LENS is super SUPER sharp right into the corners, it's all you ever need! If you can't take SHARP photos with this it's YOUR FUCKING FAULT NIGGER
>>4455101Disclaimer: the sharpening slider was at 300 when ken rockwell said this
>>4455095see >>4455034
Total NPC death when?
at this point I think it's just satire, it has to be
>>4455026Ken Rockwell is a much better photographer than most of /p/.
>>4455231Dog Hair Negatives mogs that snapshitter
>>4455252dollfag mogs both
>>4455252Thanks, but nah. Ken is better than I am.>>4455253In terms of technical skill not really, but it doesn't matter because we shoot completely different things with their own specific challenges.Please check fgt for my latest dog portrait. It's a banger.
>>4455273ken is not better than anyone here that's the point mr. 3 rungs above branchanon
>>4455231Most of the problems with Ken Rockwell isn't his photography, it's his editing. His photos are often a bit boring, formulaic "nice" photos that don't really evoke any emotion or tell any story (despite his FARTS or whatever he calls it). But as soon as he gets that shit in lightroom he absolutely nukes it with saturation, he never straightens anything, he never uses perspective correction and it looks like he never crops anything. You would have to assume that all he uses is sharpening and saturation. Which does look like ass. >>4455027 This is a really good starting point, but he just can't leave that fuckin sat slider alone.
>>4455274Where are you on this ladder? Can you show me with one of your amazing pictures?
>>4455277he paid for +100 saturation sliders and boy howdy he’s gonna use’m
>>4455274Is branchanon the scanner autist on fgt that seems to have a stick perpetually up his ass?
>>4455280>he paid for +100 saturation slidersYou just know this senile boomer has like 6 or 7 Adobe creative cloud subscriptions going at once because he just buys a new one everytime he can't remember his password.
>>4455026Someone a decade in the future is going to make the equivalent of dehancer but for ken rockwell photography. It's going to be awful lol
Idk why I find his writing so amusing
>>4455026The photo you showed here works, but isnt alot of whats in>https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/skylum/luminar-neo.htm over saturated? I understand that sometimes blown highlights can be acceptable, especially in challenging situations where you'd prioritize skin tones, but blowing highlights due to this much over saturation feels almost sacrilegious to me.
>>4455711>>4455228
>>4455372he's actually pretty funny. his leica articles are great.
>>4455711>over saturatedImpossible, KR would never make such a mistake
>>4455711A lot of what's in there is obviously tongue in cheek. Ken is above all things a master troll, if helpful to those who discern what the kernel of seriousness is.
>>4455844Much like you are an unironic zoophile ken has become the mask. That is his real photography.
Someone post the pasta that was like>kens disposable rolls are what others would call pulitzers
>>4455095> No, cmon it was just taken on a different day...> The birds are the same
How is his digital work that shitty while his film photos are nice?Really makes you think
>>4455026>>4455031>>4455078This is why digital mogs film
senpai ken say z52 best camerais he based
>>4455078Never noticed that was a composite. Really obvious in retrospect, the light on the clouds is coming from a completely different direction lmao
>>4455031That's the type of picture you'd have seen sold at Ikea in 2005. I think Ken is just terminally stuck in the early 2000s
>>4457345It's AI edited. That's what Luminar Neo is.The fact he's posting AI gens as photographs has to be a new low.
>>4457358even the article is written by chatgpt
>>4457419>chatgptthe latest member of his growing family
>>4457419Jesus. You're right.>Yawn!>—>I snapped this by holding my Phone 13 Pro Max out my open sunroof; art is where you find it.I've never read his stuff before, so I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, but it has a lot of GPTisms.
>>4457439RockwellAI singularity takes over and over saturates every picture on the internet.
>>4457472>—Nah I went over his review of the D780 to check, he already used it there, and it's from 2020
>>4457507Good find. That one is probably a weak signal. There are more signs of ChatGPT though.Something I forgot to mention as well (perhaps it is so incredibly obvious to everyone that no one thought to mention it) is that this is a paid promotion for Luminar Neo, pretty clearly.>I'd get Luminar Neo directly from Skylum.He mentions this three times exactly like this with his affiliate link throughout the article.
>>4457585>I GET MY <whatever gear> FROM HERE HERE AND HERE.>EVERYTHING IS SOUPER SHARP OMFG SHAAAAARRRRP>PERFECTLY CLEAR, NIGGERS
>>4457585I wonder how much he gets paid for his "reviews", between money given by brands and resellers - there might be other sources too
I know some people who needs to crank the saturation up 50% more than an average photographer. Their eyes probably have less color receptors or some shit.
>>4460831The opposite is even worse (people who edit on poorly configured gaming/"pro" monitors who post shit with zero contrast and zero saturation because their color management is fucked)
>>4460831It’s probably their shitty windows pc screens. Edit on a Mac or even an ipad and you wont have any problems.
>>4455026I thinks he's an ok resource for learning about Nikon lenses. The only photos of his that I view are associated with lens reviews. I don't care about the rest of his stuff.
>>4455026This dude has some of the the worst eye for composition that I've seen out of renown people in photography.
>>4461517Still better than the average /p/ gwac
I'll guess less real like photography and more like real art?
>>4456821his film photos are overedited too it's just less obvious
>>4455026>ren kockwellkek
>>4455026Based Ken.
>>4461512Yeah, there is no other review resource for the hundreds of excellent Nikkor lenses. He’s an egomaniacal lunatic in his copy and an absolute arsonist when it comes to his own photography, but his Aspergers is quite useful when picking out just the right 1970s lens.If neuNikon gave half a fuck about their users they’d have all their lenses archived online themselves, with even better examples and data for review.
>>4463222Ken’s nikon reviews:Every lens is sharp if you use my settings and go +10 sharpness in your jpeg settingsEvery lens has great color with saturation +20
>>4457585He brings money in to California.
>>4457491>rocknet triggering nuclear war to pump the saturation and slam the super contrast of your retinas briefly to 100.
>>4457507>d780 >not d850ken you are disappoint
ren kockswell
>>4468556Your mother's porn name.
>>4455026>Ren KockwellThat poor, poor, delusional retard. And I mean that literally and from the bottom of my heart. He's "anti-talent". He has no eye for it. No feel for tones, lighting, and composition. No sense for beauty or aesthetics. He's as dumb as a sack of shit. That's the artistic side. He's equally as retarded regarding the technical side of things. 20 years ago I used to laugh at his work, and mock his little affiliate link hustle and his retarded blog and his idiotic takes on photography meant for an audience even more clueless than him. Nowadays I just pity him. He's like the mall-ninja of photography - lots of second hand embarrassment, lacking any and all ability for self-reflection, growth, and improvement in his field, and utterly incapable of getting in phase with reality. Over the past 20 years he has learned fuck all, and I've grown enough during that time to realize that this is is actually sad.
>>4469066did you laugh as hard as i did when mr. all anyone needs is a d5something went on a tirad about how the z8 wasn't good enough for him and he was buying an r5, and then proceeded to claim an iphone was capable of the same image quality as an r5
>>4469066He's paying for BMWs with awful photos and insipid opinions. His family has grown beyond reckoning despite his being a talentless hack. Most of us can only dream of such success.
>>4469066I love him and every flaw of his can be attributed to irony.
>>4469072most of the people here are too afraid to even post photos
>>4469072and it's still growing
>>4469072Rockwell is a better photographer than 95% of /p/
>>4469216By the looks of it 95% of photos on /p/ are posted by rockwell
>>4469216The average kid with his phone camera is also a better photographer than 95% of /p/
>>4455026from color slop to ai slopthis man has it all figured outsupport his growing family
>>4469217Yes. 95% of /p/ is too scared to post a photo and/or doesn't own a camera aside from their phone.>>4469221>t. Average kid with his phone camera
>>4469232Thanks I guess
>>4469233You're very welcome, kid.
