/p/ - Photography

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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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.

More like continuous out-of-focus

Wow this camera is a total piece of shit
I got it for its durability, but after using it for a while it really is just awful
The images are mushy and low detail and just horrible

is there a specific name for the type of photography that pau buscato and vineet vohra do?

>Same as M11
>Only difference is EV1 has an EVF(same with Q3, SL3) instead of Optical Range Finder
>9000 USD

Thoughts?

What is lomography?

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

Any Anons printing their photos?
If so, do you prefer larger or smaller prints?
I've just started getting some small somewhat crappy prints, but so far I really enjoy having my photos physically.

Okay so in short, I'm part of a horticultural society that has a yearly photo contest. The voting for the contest recently ended a couple of days ago but the winners won't be announced for a while. I want your opinion on the entrants to the contest. I'm not going to tell you which are mine, because I don't want your bias to taint your analysis. I will tell you that 6 of the 34 pictures are mine, so feel free to guess which are mine. I do have a fairly consistent style.

Here's the images: https://www.ahsregion4.org/photos/PhotoContest/2025/2025_R4-Cat_1-Single_and_Multiple_Blooms-no_names.pdf

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…

Got this Osmo for a decent price, is it good for vlogging?

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 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

photos

*snap*
got yo heart, bitch

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.

is it /p/ approved

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

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.
>

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

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.

Here are my bad photos of a theme park. I only took a 20 year old digishit with me. Enjoy

A photo of the hotel is mandatory

Anyone else here working a regular job/day job as a photographer? I've been working as a real estate photographer for a while and still do side jobs for things like corporate portraits/events, and I'm curious if anyone else on /p/ works in photography too.

I need to see flat earth.

If it's wrong, why is it so good?

Any love for the Game Boy Camera and printer here?
Sure nowadays even the chinkest of cameras and printers may be better with printing via phone bigger and clearer photos but there's a certain charm and fun in doing with with a Game Boy of all things.

Can someone tell me what lightning equipment I would need, to recreate either of those photos?

Post your man bags

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What is it with people that shoot on film?
Film is expensive to film, develop and scan.

Yet what do they do? They film the most mundane bullshit.
Traffic lights. Or some mediocre bullshit to some obscure indie song.

Why do they all do this?

If you're gonna spend hundreds of dollars. Atleast film something good. But it's like they think the vintage aesthetic will make their shit good.

It's like they just want to see what their mundane boring life would look like on film.

What are some landscape photographers for the 21st century?

Do you print your photos, anon?

The findings reveal that landscape pictures on Instagram echo Romantic era paintings, using similar motifs and aesthetic strategies. Instagrammers, like 19th-century Romantic painters, emphasize themes of solitude, mystification, sublimity, and nostalgia, contrasting sharply with contemporary issues like ecological crises. By staging and aesthetically transforming nature, Instagrammers medially reverse the destruction of nature and create idealized landscapes that evoke a bygone, pre-industrial era and an intact human-nature relationship. Accordingly, landscape images on Instagram can be interpreted as a new idealized, romantic reality or as a postmodern reinvention of Romanticism. Instagrammers seek out photo locations based on their ability to synthesize as many physical elements as possible into an ‘instagrammable’ scenery, creating a stereotypical romantic landscape image.

Alright, /p/. I got my first nice camera JUST IN TIME for a 2-week vacation where I shot over 14,000 photos in various levels of motion, light, and subject type. Throughout my trip I experimented a lot and really started to internalize the exposure triangle to the point where I'm perfectly comfortable shooting manual without any confusion or issues.

At this point, I feel like I've learned enough that I just need to practice practice practice, but I have almost zero experience with post-processing photos. I have over a decade of casual experience with Adobe programs, so I'm at least familiar with image stuff, but it was mostly UX design and motion graphics. I'm a bit colorblind, so I fear I'll never be able to do any decent color grading, but I'd really like to start dipping my toes into post-processing photos so I can start shooting in super low light, and generally just touching up my favorite shots.

What tips do you have for a beginner here? What software, workflow, techniques, etc. do you use, and what things should you always do, or avoid doing in post?

How important is it to study photography through the library? What books do you recommend for beginners? What are the best photo books?

Do you submit to magazines or prizes? I know the meme is that you can only hope to leave just one or two worthwhile photos after you die. But what’s wrong with trying to build a career?

What's the best film grainy emulation halation dreamy vintage type x mount lens? Just bought an XH2S and want to shoot kino. Preferably under $600 and I only really shoot like somewhere between 16-24mm or something. Thanks a lot

Where can I learn about optics and optical science? I want to know more about cameras to the point I could know everything about a camera’s settings without looking at metadata. I want to know if I can work out a camera’s settings or lens just by looking at a photograph and analysing it.
For instance, can you work out the shutter speed or aperture through deduction if you already know the ISO or focal length or distance to subject or depth of field? My question is about the exposure triangle and knowing whether one element in a camera’s setting can give you clues to the other elements.
Surely there have been forensics used on this level, in some sort of criminal case. Or do they usually only look for manufacturing clues for the camera’s build and make?