What are the best socials or search engines nowadays to discover relatively good photography?I've found Pinterest (without the adds) to have the best recommendations by far until now. What the hell happened to Instagram? Something that was born to be focused on photography in the 2010s became some sort of life people's blogs. Not even that, the recommendations are absolutely horrible, worst than things like Youtube. Sadly, it's one of the only ways for some kind of online social presence, and if you opt out of it, you regress to anonymity.I remember there were some online Russian sites who used to archive good stuff, like gallery.ru
>>4491265NOT AROUND HERE!
>>4491265Behance still has decent stuff500px has good stuff but tons of garbage nowSometimes niche / specific flickr pools have good inspo
Go to archive.org and peruse through some of the photography books.
>>4491265>What the hell happened to Instagram?enshittificationi mostly look at tumblr now
For me, it's PBase
>>4491265Mark zuckerberg decided that videos were more psychologically addictive AND enabled more profitable forms of user data extraction, plus gave meta inc more sophisticated AI training data (meta legally owns everything users upload to IG) so his indian slaves forcibly deprioritized photography on instagram while pushing video hard. The first person to say “photos are dead, do videos if you want to be relevant, get with the times unc” rather than noting this forced change and pushing back made him chuckle>heh, we call them goyim (cattle) for a reason alrightAnd when everyone concurred he started laughing his ass off while getting a few billion dollars richer, and his closely related friends kept on doing photography with their leicas regardless
You just search in IG 'night' or whatever. Someone posted a zillion instagrams of good photographers here once, it was quite scary thinking there are so many great photographers all doing interesting things who are further along than you, we're talking millions of people here
Yes, but the problem is the whole algorithm of recommendations. Instagram used to have hashtags or labels to make it better, but now it seems to place heavy emphasis on the network of followers, which is not a good predictor. I don't know how this SEO and discoverability works honestly. Maybe it is better for Travel and Fashion photography and that's it.
Nowadays I use nothing but flickr film groups.I have come to realize i actually like photography not digital slop/digital art/photoshop creations.I just like seeing the actual real world as it is. Zero editing or staged fakeness. Even just more everyday scenes have a certain beauty if you dont stage or overedit and just capture it as it is.Maybe digital could do that, but 99.999999999999999999999999999999% of the population cant help but stick their grubby mits on a slider somewhere and start trying to make it "look better"For me good photography is just a person making a genuine effort to capture the world around them realistically on film cameras, and having a good eye for light, composition, color etc but always, always keeping things real.
>>4491753The other part to this is I think for 99.9999999999999999999% of the population, they see their photographs as something to wow or impress people so never allow themselves to just take an everyday scene just as it is, they are always trying to make it something more.I didn't realize it for ages, but I think I must be in a small subset of people who don't care about wowing anybody. I couldnt say exactly why, but it seems alot of people who shoot on film are like this.
>>4491753>>4491754All film on the internet is edited to have weird colors by the lab tech/gearfag doing the scanningIf its not an optical print its digital editing
>>4491756its more than just the color I guess.Here compare these 2.Kodak porta film group:https://www.flickr.com/groups/477426@N23/pool/Nikon z9 mirrorless group:https://www.flickr.com/groups/nikon-z9/pool/with/55016153072Its hard to explain but its everything, the film cameras generally dont do bg blur or tons of zoom, they dont have that weird oversharp unnatural contrast, somehow the film just feels more lifelike. Everything just feels unnaturally too bright on the z9 photo group.
>>4491758Film labs edit on reference displays and have been editing for 20 years. 40yo nikon gearfags zoom in 300% and edit to the histogram and for max sharpness to prove their third rate camera isnt junkThis has nothing to do with digital and everything to do with every nikon user being ken rockwell, especially on flickr. The portra group would mostly pass for canon 5dIII jpegs but a lot of people are sharpening their grain and fucking with the color cast because darude sandstorm and the matrix = cinematic filn look. The average nikon user is very insecure about their flimsy camera with bad colors so they oversharpen and boost saturation and shadows>A CANON COULD NEVER! LOOK! CANON CANT DO THIS!
>>4491758Not having taste and expensive nikon go hand in hand. You could have picked any other camera. High end nikon always = garish photos. Like a fucking d300s group would be better on average than a d850 group. Better yet go s5 pro. The most expensive sony shoots more natural colors than the most expensive nikon regardless of raw converter or jpegs and i do not mean to compliment sonyAlso fuck flickrs sign in walls and ads
>>4491761holy shit I thought you were talking shit so looked up the s5 pro.https://www.flickr.com/groups/fujis5/pool/with/54494318943That looks so much better than the z9 photos its not funny. I even had to look up what was going on sensor wise, its a CCD. Why the fuck isnt this technology getting pushed? this is the type of thing I would actually want
>>4491762An s9 photo.This is very good color for digital, some of the best ive seen.
>>4491762CCD isnt doing the colors its limited editing latitude (CCD has almost no DR) making the manufacturer write good data instead of lots of data and the users having better taste on average (digital MF and nicer canon DSLRs write lots of data but the users shoot and edit better as well)
browse the PDF outputs of FIAP salons. endless fun seeing the best of the best boomer photographyhere's a list. just look at the previous years winners and stuff. endless hours of entertainment.https://www.myfiap.net/patronages?field_fiap_patronage_number_value_2=&title=&title_1=&name=&field_profile_org_name_value=&custom_category=All&custom_section=All&field_cntst_sched_closing_date_value_op=%3D&field_cntst_sched_closing_date_value%5Bvalue%5D=&field_cntst_sched_closing_date_value%5Bmin%5D=&field_cntst_sched_closing_date_value%5Bmax%5D=&field_cntst_sched_exhibit_date_value_op=%3D&field_cntst_sched_exhibit_date_value%5Bvalue%5D=&field_cntst_sched_exhibit_date_value%5Bmin%5D=&field_cntst_sched_exhibit_date_value%5Bmax%5D=&has_salon_catalog=All&has_salon_file=All&items_per_page=50&order=field_cntst_sched_closing_date&sort=desc&page=1
>>4491761your a fucking snoy using nigger bitch
