This is my new project, Homemade Piss Christ, inspired by Andres Serrano.

Post photos you like.

Does anyone use GIMP for photo editing and manipulation? Has it become a "photographer's program" yet, or is it still clunky and freetarded?

User:
Can photography become an art like painting?

GPT:
That is one of the fundamental questions in modern aesthetics. Painting and photography share an image-bearing medium, but they differ in intentionality. Painting begins from nothing—it is an act of creation. Photography begins from the world—it is an act of selection. For that reason, photography has long been regarded as “an imitation of seeing” rather than a self-sufficient art. However, when photography becomes aware of its own mechanism of seeing—when it reflects on the act of capturing itself—it can indeed reach the same level as painting. That is when photography transcends documentation and enters the realm of metafictional art.

User:
Painting and literature reached art by having a modulus. Photography lacks a modulus.

GPT:
Yes—that is a precise way to put it. Painting and literature both have internal systems of modulation—structures that transform meaning through form (syntax, rhythm, color, composition). Photography, in its mechanical nature, lacks that intrinsic “modulus.” It borrows order from the external world, rather than constructing it. Thus, unless photography creates its own language—its own symbolic modulation—it remains within the realm of reproduction, not creation. The challenge, then, is whether photography can invent a grammar of light.

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.

Why are photography YouTubers so shit? They mostly churn out boring nontent while dressing like a copy of a copy of a copy of someone who thought he might closet cosplay Ansel Adams. Who are they aping?
Almost all have the cadence and tone of a best buy sales associate either slowly conniving a golden HDMI cable sale or postponing their suicide on a Sunday evening only since their parents are still alive; with no in-between.
I meet smarter and more interesting people IRL at camera club or local stores, so it's not as if this hobby is exclusively for people prescribed Klonopin and SSRIs.
Half of them are just talking head slop direct to camera talking about what gear to buy (micro four nerds)
The ones that do teardowns and repairs of gear are usually fine, but those aren't exactly photo videos at that point.

The only guy that does the "video of taking photos" thing I can stand is Nick LoPresti since he doesn't talk like he's constipated, but lately the lack of constipation has become a problem since he's been diarrhea-shitting up my sub box with low-effort commentary videos sitting in front of a green screen. Idk who he's aping there, 2016 twitch? Don't like it, especially one where he and his wife are politisperging about shit like how "they can't use Google search for inane things because it'll track you" for what feels like several minutes.

Snappiness may be my second favorite even though he looks and talks like a queer (he has kids so I guess he isn't technically). At least he does ridiculous things with cameras that are more interesting than "I walked and took a photo of something and had some ennui about it".

Also, I hate gxAce with a passion, dead horse of a gimmick beaten into dust at this point. 80% of his videos serve no purpose to the modal viewer since they're just a rain-dance to the corporate marketing teams to get them to send him gear. (Also combining sloppy wet deep-throat glazing prose with an aloof tone is uniquely excruciating to listen to.)

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?

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?

ASMR edition

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What’s a decent home printer that prints up to A3 size? I want to print my stuff at home and skip the hassle of getting prints online or at a local store. Yes, I want problems. Anyway, let’s make this a general printer thread.
>What’s your experience been like printing your own photos?
>Did you print them yourself or professionally?
>Have you had bad experiences with any brands, companies or websites? and vice-versa?

Own and have used them all - Sony, Canon, Leica, Fuji. Nothing compares to this little guy. Has reignited my passion to shoot and is now always in my back pocket. Any other shooters feel the same?

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

Where do (you) host your /p/ortfolio?

Currently have the Canon 90D and am searching for an upgrade. Goal was... to purchase the Canon r5, but hearing that the r6 mark 3 will be announced this autumn and for the same price of 2500, I'm not so sure anymore. I love the 90D but I need something for low light photography when doing landscape up north. Also I would like something fast for night rally sessions (CER 2025 was planned at awful times when the sun was gone). Dont like ISO below 400 on my 90D and had to cheat using video mode at 4k and frame grabbing.

What have you heard about the r6 mark 3? Would you pick it over the r5? I really want to get into full frame using my old lenses. Hopefully it's going to be too much of a change.

#1
post ur clouds edition

It's pretty good

lemme see your shots for the moon!
this is mine btw
captured with canon 2000d 55mm i can not remember my camera settings
i gave it some edit with lightroom this is first time with DSLR

at what age and how did you find that you were into photography/videography?

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

Post 80s/90s bathrooms and swimming pools,
Stuff you‘d see in liminal space compilations

Post books about photography that you have enjoyed. This could mean but is not limited to:
>Photo books
>Guide books
>Repair manuals
>Camera history books

I 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.

Sprawl 'em Edition
Previously: >>4470709

>reach edition
Previous thread: >>4475772

2025 Halloween in Itaewon and Hongdae, Korea
10/31~11/1

Out of focus edition

1/100


And if you have some from the halloween you would like to share, please do.

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.

Mirrorless is dead edition

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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?

How do you sell a photo for over a million dollars?

whats ur favourite candid photo? ill go first.

I'm killing another gear thread to get some advice on editing. I think I'm getting better at framing (?lol) but I'm colour retarded. Here are some samples of the last snapshits during my holidays so fags can re-edit them and snuggly post a better version of them while I try to understand why I'm retarded

I tried taking this picture with phone camera, i'm using pro mode, what should i do to improve my photography?

Is porn photography still a viable career in 2025?

God this photo by Pedro Martinelli makes me feel things you wouldn't believe.

Ah, the open twisted road, cool breeze, bike, sun intensely shinning after a strong rain and thus giving the whole atmosphere a mysterious aura. You can see nothing but the road, you want to drive away from all of the shit, there is only road, all else is black.

>"I licked my finger and stuck it in the air. The wind was coming from the south. From the same direction my life was heading."

-anon on /lit/, post No.24705860

God I love photography so damn much. There is a whole damn novel in this photo.

Long Portrait is Long Edition
Previously: >>4474514

>effortlessly mogs your favorite compact camera
how do they keep doing it?

I'm really lost on how much sensor size matters, because while I read tons of gear stuff here and the most detailed explanations, in reality the photos taken with a small sensor still look good to me because it's about composition, feelings, emotion, subjects and things like that.
So what's the deal with sensor sizes

FILM FAGS! I work at a recycling station and one of my coworkers found me this slr camera. Its a nikon fg 20. I am still a noob who only used point and shoot. But I wanted to know how good this camera is

Were could i find famouse youtuber presets? I am not gonna spend 100£ on some northboarders .xml file, so were could i find them?

>muh full frame dicknamic range
>muh medium format 3d poop
>muh micro four thirds has so many features and reach
>muh smol pp compensation format film tonality
All gearfag cope. I'm a gay furry from brazil, and I take better pictures than you on a 18mp canon EOS M and a 18-55 lens.
>b-b-ut ur po-
Seethe hard. Cope ahrder. You wasted your money and you're wasting your life. Spending more money on better cameras won't matter because no1cur about your boring chudtography of rocks and leaves. Ur failing out of art harder than adolf hitler. If you have less than 100 instagram followers per dollar spent you failed at life.
>b-b-ut I
You're just jacking your tiny dick on your bedroom looking at the boring photos you took of nothing lmao! No one sees your photos so it can't matter how good your camera is. You wasted your money.

Prove me wrong. you can't. U're just going to go zoom in on a picture of your dog or something fucking kek

Rank the Trump Portraits

What's the appeal of this photo do you think that made the editor to choose it for promoting an exhibition?

Absolute beginner here.
After watching tons of yt videos i decided to google best books for beginers amd on almost all sites this book pops up. *Understanding exposure how to shoot great photograps with any camera by bryan peterson*
This nigger shoots almost all his pics at f>16, a vast majority at f22 and even f32
The yt niggers told me that difraction kick in at >f11 and hould be avoided
But this nigger shoots even portrait at f8 or f11
Is this nigger crazy or the yt shills are lieing to me?
Book has very good revies and sold almost 1mil copies.
What is your take and any other good book i should look into to understand exposure and composition?

Why haven't you taken it, anon?

It will rain all week. How do you approach shooting outside in the rain? Do you trust the weather sealing?

This thread is dedicated to close-range photographic captures utilising macro-optical imaging configurations to achieve greater reproduction ratios. Got it? Good now upload some shit.

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>>4376661

When do I use full auto mode?

How do we store our photos? I use the unlimited photo storage that comes with Amazon Prime, but I'm thinking of switching to a RAID hard drive instead.

What's the deal with flashes? How do they help photos?

Brace for my third world tough environment cope thread
>there's IP-rated gaming mice
>there's $200 chineseium smartphones with IP69K ratings

It seems like it's a fully reasonable thing to want to know just how well the stuff you want to buy holds up against the elements.. especially professional cameras

>Go to purchase $6000 "pro body camera"
>Canon
"Dude, please trust us! The Canon EOS R1 is weather sealed! Because our marketing division said so! We don't have any proof of this, or any testing, but please trust us bro look at our brochure look at our website bro it's weather sealed bro please bro"
>Nikon
"broooo it's the Nikon Z9 bro we sealed it just like our D6 bro remember DSLRs??? Remember how tough those were???? Yeah buddy you know you can trust us come one just spend $7000 on this camera we are the wildlife brand!"
>Sony
They don't even try. DPReview turned a hose on the alpha 7 III and it died because there were literally no rubber seals in the battery compartment.

Why do people do this? Do people actually spend tens of thousands of dollars on cameras/lenses that can't prove resistance beyond marketing teams telling you so? Why isn't the industry being forced to back up their claims?
>Le rainbag meme
Useless against dust & sand, and do you genuinely expect me to carry around several rainbags for different lenses, or make my own from a grocery bag and take it around with me? Its cumbersome, and its hassle.
>Le "just don't take a picture! I wouldn't push my camera that hard!"
Sounds like cope to me, works if you consider photography or videography a hobby and not your purpose in life, I want to take my camera to warzone, etc., anything for the picture, but I sure want my camera to survive if I do.

Leica makes IP54 rated cameras.
OM System makes IP53 rated cameras & lenses.
Why don't more companies do so? It's not expensive to get certification, I just want camera manufacturers to be honest & upfront about how far we can push our cameras.