It's 2026 - here are my new years' resolutions:I'm going to leave this godforsaken board. This is a fucking highly negative place infested by gearfags, chartfags and the mentally ill. This board sucks all the joy out of the hobby. A bucket of crabs so to speak. I'm also going to leave all other photography related forums and communities. It's full with nophoto assfags who are just frustrated at their own lack of photographic skill and try to pull down everyone and anyone to their own level of incompetence.Cya fuckers.As a parting gift I'm giving you a bunch of shitty firework pictures.
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>>4491554wheeee
>>4491554sparks of joy
>>4491554I'm out. :micdrop:
>homeless retard that spent 2 years telling everyone his gear was better than theirs (non factually) while simultaneously blowing over five grand on ewaste makes one last narcissistic blog post playing the victim and leavesGoodWe can recommend sony cameras without you ruining the thread now
>starting the year off with a mental breakdownKek. Happy New Year, notphotog.
>>4491554goodyou have been stuck at the level of a purposeful hobbyists first outing for over a year and spent literally all your time defending your neurotic purchasing habits, and are the only person in /p/ history to lose a marriage to gearfaggotrylet this be a warning to any new people that are tempted to buy a new camera and a new camera and another new camera to try and make themselves have fun, and anyone who wants to take a million identical photos of trees in the city park just to be “hasphoto”you’ll end up like this guy, putting exif in white borders due to gearfag brainrotperforming as a photographer != being a photographer
>>4491573Why would you recommend Sony? Trolling is not allowed outside >>>/b/ ya know
>>4491582you hobbyist retards chasing the dragon on mpb and ebay always seem to end up hating the cameras pros loveten years ago your kind despised canon while pixel peeping shadow recovery and pros didnt give a fucktoday your kind despises sony while constraining cameras to sooc jpeg w/ unchanged defaults and pros dont give a fuck, but you especially hate sony and fuji for some reason (sour grapes? shoulda-bought stress? fanboy for another brand? basing real life choices on forced 4chan memes?)literally four out of five pro photojournalists use a sony now. i am a pro. everyone either uses canon or sony. weddings 50/50, studio heavy on the sony as dslrs age out (studio cameras normally put on about 300k actuations per year). sports pros are really into canon. ive never seen a nikon. pros personal cameras are increasingly a whole lot of xe/xt 5s, r8s and a7cs. i think, the problem is, cameras pros love are made with a skilled photographer in mind, so unskilled photographers come up with all these insane complaints that only the unskilled even run into and go “camera BAD” without a shred of self awareness. the unskilled are also much more mindful of how to best brag about and rationalize cameras online than they are mindful of actually making photos with them. this thread of clipped fireworks and blurry parked cars really demonstrates how actual photography is only the second priority of a gear queer
>>4491554im going to post on ig again. i know everyone says photography is dead there because of reels but i see greg girard still getting 2000 likes every day and my photos are just as good. i think people just give up and are negative because trump won but i can do this. who is going to post more with me?
>>4491588I don't think "pro photographers" are anything a hobbyist should look up to. It's an incredibly soul-sucking job that turns you into a mere tool for someone else's vision. Those that stick with it usually didn't have a soul to begin with.
>>4491670>im better than edward burtynsky and annie leibovitz because shooting fat retards gay weddings is a slog and im not doing itpros arent the ones that consoom their way through 4 camera setups worth $5-6k while complaining and spouting gearfag delusions the whole time just to take cut off photos of fireworks with blurry blob cars filling half the frame, foggy trees, and random building cornersespecially not studio pros (actual artists)
>>4491670>people who take good photos the first time every time and know how to use a camera? lame. just because people are willing to pay you doesnt mean you’re better than me, the secret king!kek
>>4491673>le motte and bailey Not to say I think these are good photographers, but I'm talking about the Many from your statistics who photograph people and things they don't care about to earn a living
>>4491675Learning the technical side is so easy it's not even a protected trade anywhere
>>4491681Right thats why you’re so successful at it
