/p/ - Photography

Why haven't you taken it, anon?

Please help me improve my color grading. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.

Summer's over, did you get shit done? edition

All video related questions and discussion is intended for this thread. Here we discuss techniques, gear and anything else related to capturing video footage. Please don't pretend to be an expert if you don't know what you're talking about. Kindly leave your ego at the door.
Posting short films/scripts or other work you've done is encouraged.
We tend to use and recommend DSLRs/mirrorless cameras because they provide phenomenal picture quality for their price, have large sensors (ie the same size used in high-end cinema cameras and higher) and have interchangeable lenses.
In contrast, consumer camcorders often have much smaller sensors and a fixed lens.

>STICKY - https://text.is/QZ1J
>Helpful guide, additional books and more in-depth FAQs - https://web.archive.org/web/20200926115310/https://pastebin.com/kG0gRmTZ

>NO ONE CARES WHAT AN EXPERT YOU THINK YOU ARE. IF YOU’RE ASKING BASIC-AS-SHIT QUESTIONS, YOU CAN’T BE ALL THAT GREAT. SEE ABOVE

Previous thread >>4450377

Quick FAQS
>what’s the best camera available on a “budget”?
The blackmagic pocket cinema camera 4k, or the Panasonic gh5 (can pick one up for like 500 bucks atm)
>what’s a good beginner video camera?
Anything that works, shoots at least 1080p and preferably has interchangeable lenses. Any recommendation beyond that will cause arguments so read the fucking sticky if that isn't satisfactory.
>What's a good sound solution that won't break the bank?
Zoom h1
>Can I use a zoom lens for video?
Yes
>Do I need cine lenses?
No
>Do I need 4k?
No. 1080 looks great on a cinema screen. 4k looks better.
>Can someone tell me if my video is any good?
Yes, but be prepared to receive harsh criticism. If you're going to waste 5 minutes of our time with a shitty out-of-focus montage of nothing then we'll tell you that it's crap
>Is it okay to dox myself?
...Personally I wouldn't but what do I know?

Mirrorless is dead edition

Previous: >>4477478

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.

Your photo must be at least 5 years old.
If you are new to photography - share the oldest you got.

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

Is anyone else noticing a big drop in engagement on flickr over the last year or 2?
I know its dropped alot since its peak, but it feels like its significantly dropped again over the last year or so.

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

>reach edition
Previous thread: >>4475772

Anon, what is in your travel kit?

Mine see picrelated. Leaving for a 10day trip in two hours. That's what I take with me.

I hope I learn something on the trip and in the future won't take two lenses - but only one.

The official IPhone 17 Pro Max website shows a macro shot. When zoomed in to the woman’s eye, it shows a figure wearing a hat. I wonder who this could be…

Three Color Gum Printing Edition

Please post film photos, talk about film photography, film gear like cameras, film stocks, news, and tips/tricks in this thread.

Also talk about darkroom practices, enlargers, photo paper, techniques like dodging/burning, tools, and equipment related to enlarging, developing, and printing.

Thread Question: What enlarger do you own and do you do more color or b&w prints?

Random photos you took at night

This is my favorite odd lens. It's a a hundred year old Bausch & Lomb Animar C-mount lens that came on some throwaway 16mm magazine camera a seller threw in my box to get rid of. This this has a poor ape range, f2.7 to 16 only, no other controls, no focus, nothing. It is absoluly TINY, this thing is like an inch long, made entirely out of stainless steel and glass, and rotates with the smoothest feel with the finest firm little indexing clicks of any Lens I've ever felt. I keep it on a body just so I can rotate it because it feels so good, like the barrel is just floating along on teflon roller bearings and somehow the very peak of each click is a microscopic metal spring that just clicks over like a timepiece clockwork. I've got a dozen other fancy-ass collectable C lenses for my Bolex 16mm, and yet I put this on and everything looks sharp as shit and the colors are just fucking dandy. So I got a Z-mount adapter, popped it on my Z7, and now I'm shooting with this fucking goofy antique lens but I swear it outperforms all the other third party Z lenses I've got for snapshitz. Of course you're gonna crop, downsize & recalc it anyway when you develop snapshots so idgaf about the coverage, but I suppose it'd be appealing to you MFT nerrrds bc you'd get full coverage of your sensore.

and no of course you can't see the same colors it produces on Ektachrome movie film on a digital sensor so i'm not even going to pretend, but

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?

Spooky forest Edition
Previously >>4476460

Here are some DNGs for you to edit. Feel free to post your own edits or own RAWs.
https://drive.proton.me/urls/248V95HC9R#yPWF9Foxzkmg

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.

photos

Rank the Trump Portraits

Laughing gull edition
Last thread >>4467818

Snoybob Edition

Old thread autosaged. Dumb questions go here.

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

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

*snap*
got yo heart, bitch

It's your 1st amendment rights to use that camera anon.

Which photographer made the better plea for nature?

Have you ever paid for a workshop by a photographer? They cost like $2000 just to have them critique your photographs for a few minutes.

Post photos you like.

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

is it /p/ approved

It's pretty good

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

Orion looks so sharp tonight. Always makes me wonder how far those stars really are.

im preparing my gear for a very important product shoot tomorrow and just as i was done my camera decided to fuck with me for the first time since i bought it, just because it can...

whats the problem?
>a7iv
>100 ISO, 1/100 shutter speed and f1.4...
>the room im has lights on and is lit enough even for a chinesium phone to take a properly exposed image.
>my camera? both VF and live view are darker than the general population of London
can barely make up stuff in the image, its so dark... even when i point it into the light on the ceiling, its just a feint ball of light... the image is so dark, its like someone ran down the exposure scroll bar until everything got black...

i have to go up to ISO 8k+, just to get to 0.0 exposure reading... like what the fuck is that?!
worst part is... every time i press the focus button, the image goes light and gets properly exposed for under a second until the camera focuses and then everything goes dark again...

1. first i thought its only VF and live view that show a dark image and that the shot will actually look normally exposed but nope... even when i take an image, its just as dark as it is on live view or through vf...

2. then i thought the lens died or got damaged so i changed the lens but nope, same shit...

3. after that i thought exposure comp... but exposure compensation also is not it, since i cant change it in the options while the camera is in M (manual) mode.

4. then i tried switching the camera into A (auto) mode and sure enough, the image instantly got properly exposed... i tried taking an image to inspect which settings the camera chose to get proper exposure but the values were nearly identical as what i set myself on M mode (shutter speed 1/80, ISO 125, f1.4) and yet the image was not dark, it was properly exposed, whereas when i am on these same exact ISO/shutter/aperture values, i have to go up to ISO 8600 just to get to normal 0.0 exposure reading... wtf?!!

please help... i have to wake up in 7 hours

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.

poverty porn photographers destroyed in one scene

Long Portrait is Long Edition
Previously: >>4474514

>We are still continuing sensor development. However, we are still in the "technology development phase" and have not yet begun actual sensor design. We are currently working on pixel architecture design.
>To be honest, the development project is a little behind schedule. This is because each time we prototype wafers and manufacture a prototype sensor, we discover new technical challenges. Since we have never designed a sensor independently before, we are currently learning through trial and error.
>While the Foveon team was previously at the forefront, the project is now primarily led by the engineering team at Sigma's headquarters in Japan. Fortunately, technical issues are gradually decreasing, and we feel that the challenges are gradually being narrowed down. Once we are confident that the sensor is technically feasible, we plan to officially move on to the sensor design phase and begin preparations for mass production.
How confident are you Sigma can make the full-frame Foveon happen, anon? Even if they can get it to market, how likely are you to invest in it?

I get hired to take these photos by bodybuilding competitors, fitness influencers, and personal trainers.

>Sony a7III
>Combination of 35mm 1.8, 50mm 1.8, and 85mm 1.8 prime lenses.
>

Insta thread
Will follow anyone

>horgen_foto

Had anyone got tips on how to find less popular content?
The algorithm is just feeding me terrible tiktok reels with millions of views all day long.

Which do you think is more useful for Architecture photography - a Panoramic tripod head? Or A Tilt Shift lens?

Only a select few will understand this photo and the man behind the camera.

What is HDR in files? Can I export any RAWs as HDR in RawTherapee? Or do I need a special camera that captures extra data in the RAW? Do you use this?

I like the aesthetics of tobbaco, zippos and leather

heyy hii

I am going to be honest anons. I am highly ambitious photographer and have a strong desire for critical acclaim for my work but I am not getting it and it is causing me lots of mental stress. I can't mange to live with myself. There are very minimal prospects of getting published from where I am. There is a deep rooted fear in me of fucking up and making mediocre art. I am not even "putting myself out there" because I loath myself that you still haven't forged your style, your education and practice is not complete and also because people scare me. I keep saying to myself one day things will fall into their place then I will be ready to take my shot.

I don't know how to get myself out of this pit.

contribute
mostly wanted to experiment with the 'natural' setting on the K10D
I think I used -2 saturation, 0 contrast, +1 sharpening but I adjusted it here and there
I also played with color correction in the WB but it wasn't too great

also, /digishit/ general bread

Film photography is better due to low sensitivity in dark areas. No one needs to see what is in dark areas most of the time. Just imagine this photo with unnecessary crap in shadows.