Do you have any photos saved that inspire you?

>>4423178 (OP)
I don't find dishonest "photography" (slop) particularly inspiring

>>4423178 (OP)
is this ai-slop

>>4423490
i saved this too, the dude is a lurker here and he took this pic with a tiny ricoh gr iii and it's the best pic I've seen on this site.
This pic makes me question if you really need all that stupid and expensive and heavy Canon gear to take good pics.

>>4423494
This looks like a Temu Edward Hopper

duh. what kind of photography fan doesn't have a few inspo folders?
>>4424496
?? everyone knows good pics can be taken with simple, compact cameras

>>4424496
>This pic makes me question if you really need all that stupid and expensive and heavy Canon gear to take good pics.
You don't. You don't need any of it. I ready something recently that opened up my eyes to just how far up their asses photographers are, especially ones that are obsessed with parroting their favorite social media influencer in hopes of recreating their work.
This is an anecdote relating to watches, but I'll be damned if it doesn't apply to cameras too.

>"Seiko is a luxury brand" is what a coworker told me seeing my seiko presage.
>I asked "why do you say that ?"
>She answered "well, Seikos are known to be expensive watches"
>To which I asked "How much is an expensive watch in your eyes?"
>"Anything that costs more than 150€"

Unless you're a war photographer or a photojournalist for NatGeo and need highly specific gear, or maybe work in a very high-end studio with a massive lighting setup, you absolutely do not need the best gear. You don't need a Sony A9III. You don't need a Hasselblad. And you most definitely do not need a fucking Leica.
I work at a film lab and I regularly see people come in with their M6s or 500CM and it is some of the most dogshit photography I've ever seen.

>>4424511
Tell that to an entire generation raised on consumerism-mentality thanks to social media.

>>4424506
lmao

>>4424496
to leave the boring af lofi street genre, definitely. you actually do. function is function. the only cope available is just not taking the photos your camera struggles with. cameras are tools. just because you don’t need a chisel to bake a cake doesn’t mean chisels are useless.

or just seethe at bigger sensors on /p/ that works too (and saves you from wasting your time taking photos)

>>4424543
consumerism was pervasive in the us long before social media or even the internet existed.
>>4424496
iirc the poster said it was x100v

>>4424496
>a thing: >:/
>the same thing, but in Japan: :0

Benoit Paille's old work used to really inspired me to learn editing, I remember threads here where everyone was trying to get the same look

>>4426611
the HCSP flickr was always good inspo for street, but hardly gets updated anymore

>>4426612
eatenbyflowers always inspires me for clever composition

>>4424543
>need need need
These are cameras, you literally do not need them period. You're spouting straight marxism.
>From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
Where property is distributed according to who can serve the party with it

The reason the "worst" photographers have the "best" gear (leica, 500cm) is because they are successful people and ergo will never, ever, ever once in their lives buy the lie that photography is/can be an art form, compared to real rat like painting and music.

>>4426614
trvke

>>4426613
amazing, its literally just eliott erwitt rehashed with some american edgelordism

such self expression
such human spirit

street photographers are spiritually bankrupt

>>4426615
they do look neat though

>>4426621
But artistically it has been the same thing forever and ever, plus some trendy gearfagging
>I got the film colors bro
>tick tock
>I got the fuji colors bro
>tick tock
>I got the leica look bro
>tick tock
>I got the film colors bro

Street photography has never actually been art, it's a weird sort of sport and low-value journalism.

>>4426624
looks more neat than a lot of real art

bump for more inspo

>>4424496
Wow, you don't need the biggest gear, what a revelation!
It's not like I use a DSLR because it costs 7 times less than this guy's camera!
So ALL you need is the most expensive gear after all, truly a revelation and no one suspected that.

>>4426613
Trash

>>4427921
Great opportunity for you to participate share some of your inspo

>>4424496
>wow you just need aps-c and a super sharp prime to shoot in black and white?
yeah, bare minimum actually
(sorry micro four thirds people)

>>4427944
>sorry micro four thirds people
I wouldn't call them people.

>>4427942
Lmao yeah because that would make you feel better?
What if I show whatever picture from a magazine, will you put on a smug face and get your feelings unhurt?
What if it's something you like, would that make you cry?

>>4427499
here
>>4426612
i remember being impressed by those same pictures looking at their flickr several years ago. that was one of my earliest introductions to street

>>4423491
looks like a movie poster
>>4423492
sik

>>4427921
still better than 90% of the photos I've taken

>>4428229
only 90%? what pics have you taken that are better than eatenbyflowers'?

>>4428151
So there are no photos or photographers you find inspiring at all? What are you doing in this thread?

I love this photo, I don't really know why. The expression on the girl's face, the open window, the surrealness of the giant snoopy. It looks fantastic.

>>4426514
>it was x100v
you are correct, i confused this pic with pic related, my bad.

>>4424543
>greggs employee and european serf doesnt know how much real things really cost
the idea of a functional watch being affordable for poors is more recent than $8k timepieces believe it or not

poors are simultaneously entitled to the efforts of their betters and angry at us for having what they cant, insisting that we dare not own what they cant lest we make money (projecting their own pathetic servility and submission. dogs.)
and yet the average poor spends enough on drugs over their lifetime to outfit their family with a rolex at least. they would never. of course. they’d sell the rolex to buy a tv and another shitty crossover "car" or lifted truck if they did, for one moment, manage to put a single valuable item to their family name.

>>4428569
*lesr we use it to make money

surely you have noticed this
poor people get angry is something they cant afford isnt being used to make money
they are conditioned into employment and servility such that everythings purpose is to serve others

you know for certain that someone is poor, for example, if they state everything in terms of what others will think. the poor have no agency beyond entitlement and begging.

let them have their inevitable communist revolution and starve i say

>>4428269
Maybe he took pictures of a shit he saw on the sidewalk, that should top that guy's catalogue

>>4428280
There are, did you get confused? I just said I won't post any for you just because you need validation

>>4428652
>why yes, I do enjoy actively making this board worse
please leave

>>4428653
do not waste (You)s on b8 lords who have nothing to contribute. you cannot convince a nophoto to post an image and trying to convince them only clutters the board. the only one whose posts you can control is your own so i suggest you keep a high standard

>>4423178 (OP)

more

this was from an rpt i think

Bill Brandt

What goes into taking a picture like this? absolutely crazy.

unsure if im allowed to post something like this but besides the tasteless watermark i found this photo very moving so i will share

crazy to see one of my photos posted in here. love you all <3

Not inspirational, strictly speaking
But some anon made this picture ages ago and I find it incredibly funny. Especially with the blur.
>>4434014
Which one?

>>4434043
beautiful

>>4434114
why the fuck would you frame this and hang it in your house

why

>>4434114
I would punch that stupid husky in its stupid face

>>4434114
Hahaha what the fuck, why did you chose these ones and why would you frame this on your wall

>>4424705
Thats a brilliant shot

Tore Johnson, 1949

Love it because I've been in there

>>4424705
>>4434132
Well of course it is, it’s the ideal woman.

>>4434142
wtf is this real

Of course. I "work" 100% from reference images, that's how I know what I want to be able to recreate

>>4434114
Is this art? Kinema? Is this the peak of /p/ philosophy, the ultimate in creative intent?

I have a tumblr full of inspo photos since like 2009

>>4423496
Classic

>>4434475
share pretty please

>>4424496
>Canon gear
Almost had me there

>>4424511
>photography fan
CRINGE ALERT

>>4434555
tumblr.com/poppedoutveins
very inactive rn but I still post

>>4423178 (OP)
Flic server error images

>>4434801

>>4423178 (OP)
Yes. Every picture I take of my dog inspires me to take more pictures of my dog.

>>4434804
>t. this guy

>>4434425
this is a cool one

>>4424496
Big camera is fun. I would use a big ass medium format cam if I was rich

>>4433985
Nikons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cameras_on_the_International_Space_Station

>>4427944
Based gearfag knower

The ricoh GR is really high end. 26mp, large sensor, fixed ultrasharp prime, 3 stop stabilization. It's actually a very good camera since 28mm doesn't really need autofocus.

>>4434987
day ruined

>>4426624
Art sucks.

>>4426615
Street photography rules. Go take a picture of a tree you fucking pussy.

>>4428434
Very magical

>>4423428
Dick so hot I gotta fan hoes when I fuck em

>>4423492
Makes me think of this
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-_U9AAhL0e0