>Live in a shitty suburb
>Good locations are half an hour out
>Have shit dynamic range
>Street photography makes me feel like a rapist
>Landscapes are shit because there's fuck off highways everywhere
>Have no one to do portraits
>Mutuals stop asking me for photo shoots
>Post processing makes no sense
>Have no digital portfolio or any online presence
>Hard drive is almost full from Raw (that I don't process) + JPG (that I don't share anywhere)

How do I save my hobby anons?

>>4447331 (OP)
kill yourself

>>4447331 (OP)
Blame the spoiled generation for making the world into an ugly burgerpunk shithole

>>4447331 (OP)
none of those things are a problem. Consider that you have a loser mentality and therefore you will lose

>>4447334
Does that look like winning to you anon?

>>4447335
all your problems are self imposed. I live in a Florida suburb with no photo friends where the nearest city is 30 minutes away. Editing is easy btw. You just hit the auto button in lightroom then lower the shadows and raise the highlights. That's the most basic edit. Just get it done. Nobody is going to do it for you

>>4447331 (OP)
>implying you can’t take good photos in a shitty suburb
>implying limited dynamic range means you can’t take good photos
>implying highways can’t be incorporated into a landscape shot
>implying you can’t do still life photography or take portraits of your family
>implying you need a group to continue photography
>implying you can’t learn or experiment with post-processing software and techniques
>implying you can’t create an online presence
>implying you can’t get another hard drive and chip through processing your old work
ishygddt

>>4447331 (OP)
Take pictures of the highways like landscape. Experiment with different focal length and lenses to find something interesting. I bet you have a bunch of high tension power lines somewhere around there too. They are always good subjects for urban landscapes.

>>4447332
this desu

>>4447346
/thread
most of these are hardly problems. continue your hobby if you feel like it or simply find something else to do if you don't

>>4447331 (OP)
Faggots like you have learned nothing from New Topographics shilling? Also go look at Pond by Jon Gossage.

>>4447346
/thread

>>4447331 (OP)
POST MORE WOJAKS INSTEAD OF YOUR PHOTOS ON THE FUCKING PHOTOGRAPHY BOARD THAT'LL FUCKING HELP WON'T IT FUCKING FAGGOT MARICON
CHRIST

>>4447331 (OP)
You can still take pictures anywhere, no matter how boring it is.
You don't need to go to the "cool" places, just invest in a telephoto and you'll be surprised at how much stuff you can make with one, even in your shitty suburb.

>>4447331 (OP)
>Good locations are half an hour out
How is that a problem??

>>4447368
>invest in a telephoto
I was shocked at how I truly felt like I could take *all* the shots I had always wanted to once I finally got my hands on a 135mm lens. That hit opened doors man.

>>4447331 (OP)
>How do I save my hobby anons?
Pick a different one that you don't just make excuses to not do

>>4447377
he's an amerifat
half an hour drive will kill him, he'll die of starvation if he doesn't inhale 8000 calories per minute

>>4447331 (OP)
>Good locations are half an hour out
Really bro.
>Have shit dynamic range
Lesser cameras are perfectly capable of creating interesting photos.
>Post processing makes no sense
Skill issue.
>Have no digital portfolio or any online presence.
Skill issue x2.
>Hard drive is almost full from Raw (that I don't process) + JPG (that I don't share anywhere)
HDDs are cheap. 4TB NAS drives are like $100 USD.

>>4447440
>Lesser cameras are perfectly capable of creating interesting photos.
high contrast streetshit/lomoshit
>i'm out of meat, i can't make anything good
>UH, VEGAN DISHES CAN STILL BE GOOD!
this is what anti-gear gearfags sound like

>>4447447
Having fun fabricating arguments with yourself anon? You've still got jews, trump, trannies and niggers to bring up for no reason.
Nobody said OP isn't allowed to buy a new camera; faggot could have done so already if he had the money and it doesn't matter either way.

>>4447447
What the fuck are you talking about? You can make a good image with a 20 year old camera. It's really that simple

>>4447463
>You can make a good image with a 20 year old camera
cope
a 15 year old camera sure, but cameras before 2007 were vastly inferior unless you're talking about SLRs

>>4447463
>You can make A good image
Lol self own

If all photography is to you is pleasing others like a whore, then sure. But to a man, pleasing himself, photography is about taking the photos he wants to take, not taking literally any photo that will get attention on the internet.

>>4447467
not coping about anything. I like using old cameras for fun. You're just another person that gets their opinions from youtube videos

>>4447474
Totally non sequitur zoomer response. "A good image" is an image I deem good. Retard

>>4447475
>You're just another person that gets their opinions from youtube videos
No I've actually used cameras and unless you just manual focus everything it's really annoying to use a DSLR

>>4447475
>Listen bro, you can still take great pictures
>like these vibey photos of trees
>vibes
>i get so many likes on insta
Then I take your attention whoring machine to take pics of my kids soccer game and it cant focus on shit or get a sharp photo because all it can do is fill an instagram feed
lol

>>4447331 (OP)
"Photography" isn't a hobby

Photography is how you catalog and preserve your actual hobby

If you have nothing going on you have nothing to use a camera on

Or you can be like the anti-gear gearfags. THEN its as close as the meta gets to "photography is a hobby". Make your purpose in life "using old cameras for fun". take boring as fuck photos of benches, trees, fences, and building corners and yammer about "the look" and eventually schizo shit about 3d pop. make mentioning which camera you used an essential part of every photograph. this is what the vast majority of social media and /p/ fags actually do. it generates a safe, inoffensive content stream that is very easy to fill if you simply step outside. car bumper, bench, lamppost, streetsign, as long as you bought a new camera (FROM JAPAN!) last month and mention what camera you used it'll be interesting. and then, to drum up more engagement, start saying that people with nice cameras dont need them, no one who isnt a professional does, and show off your montage of car bumpers street signs stairs etc
this guy is a great example of how to do it (yes he posts here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI3DEWjohSY

>>4447477
It's not annoying you're just neurotic and can't accept different user experiences. That doesn't mean they're objectively bad
>>4447478
I don't know who you're talking about

>>4447482
>"user experiences"
oh great, more hipster babble

yes your piece of shit camera that always makes the sky white and cant focus on shit is objectively bad. get over it. there is more to life than snapshitting cats and street signs.

>>4447482
>That doesn't mean they're objectively bad
It means they're objectively worse than newer cameras, yeah. I can take good pictures with my 2008 DSLR, but it's much easier and less annoying with my 2024 mirrorless

>>4447485
And it's more possible to get more "oh shit" once in a lifetime, unpredictable moments on camera

But look at /rpt/, these people say "you can still take great photos" and then look what photos they are taking...

>>4447483
mental illness
>>4447485
I never said new cameras weren't better. I'm asserting being stuck with an old camera is no excuse to take pictures

>>4447489
post a good photo

>>4447493
>being stuck with an old camera is no excuse to take pictures
Yeah, why bother if your desired output just can't happen 90% of the time due to inferior digislug technology. A $25 autofocus film SLR would be more usable.

>>4447493
>not to take pictures

>>4447489
>But look at /rpt/, these people say "you can still take great photos" and then look what photos they are taking...
Nigga it's a board meant for people to share photos. We're so sorry the autistic and deranged 4chin hobby board isn't providing you with a constant stream of nat geo quality bangers. Go back to your high-engagement gear thread.

>>4447499
I'm just saying most of you clearly have no friends and family and mostly just aimlessly wander around public parks and subway stations and take photos of buildings and shit

When you have a life it takes better tech than a nikon d300 to reliably produce photos that are better than your wife's phone.

>>4447500
having friends and family are completely irrelevant to taking good photos. You seem to be stuck in a guilt by association thought loop.

>>4447502
They are relevant. I posit that you can not take good photos unless you have a life outside of wandering around on the way to get coffee or show up to community college, which you clearly go to because only CC students try to pretend to be psychologists.

>>4447500
Nobody remotely sane is going to post photos of anyone they care about on this shithole. That's why rocks and leaves are /p/'s greatest fallbacks.
Interesting threads get made all the time. You've literally chosen the random snapshit thread to pick on and then gone "wahhhh you're all shit".

>>4447346
Cope and seethe

A blurry pic of Patagonia on a Canon 1200D by a complete moron is better than your boring suburb on the newest Hasselblad by a master of photography.

A pic of your girlfriend that looks like Sydney Sweeney on an iPhone 5 is 100x better than by the best portrait photographer on earth with a Leica M11 of your girlfriend that looks like of Zendaya.

Gear barely matters. Skill matters only a little. Subject matters the most.

>>4447513
I'd take zendaya and the m11 any day, bimbo fetishist.

>>4447514
I just threw up, is this thing even human

>>4447514
The specifics don't matter. Take whatever equivalent from your hometown Bombay, India you like.

The point still stands. Photography is 95% subject and 5% skill&gear.

>>4447516
I'm not from india at all, my father is from changzhou and my mother is from finland.

A photo taken on a better camera will always take precedence. The entire "photography is art" world is nothing but lecas, big film and expensive shit because no one wants to look at a photo their mom could have taken. I use m43 to snapshit but I also use medium format for photos worth saving. One day you'll be mature enough to admit that yes, gear matters. In fact it matters the most. It is the difference between a nice idea done with a childrens paint set ("so, this is the draft, right? right?") and a proper oil painting on canvas. This is a hard fact that lies at the foundation of photography not being allowed to be considered high culture or real art which is why photofags furiously deny it as reality passes them by.

If you don't have a girl like picrel and summer in places like that there is nothing you could photograph that interest anyone. Your life isn't even worth living anyway. Kys.

>>4447516
A photo taken on a better camera will always take precedence. The entire "photography is art" world is nothing but lecas, big film and expensive shit because no one wants to look at a photo their mom could have taken. I use m43 to snapshit but I also use medium format for photos worth saving. One day you'll be mature enough to admit that yes, gear matters. In fact it matters the most. It is the difference between a nice idea done with a childrens paint set ("so, this is the draft, right? right?") and a proper oil painting on canvas. This is a hard fact that lies at the foundation of photography not being allowed to be considered high culture or real art which is why photofags furiously deny it as reality passes them by.

>>4447526
>a skeleton with balloons on its ribcage
It must be horrifying without makeup or its "shaping" lingerie

>>4447331 (OP)
A personal project would do you good.
For instance,
>Have no one to do portraits
means you don't know who you want to portray.
Let's say you decide to take pictures of dog owners in relation to their pets. Now you have a sense of direction. You can ask a vet clinic or a dog training center if they're interested in being involved with your project.

You just need to take pictures that make sense to you.
It could be anything.

>>4447506
lol more guilt by association. Why don't you post some superior family having pics then? Oh wait you wont because you're making up realities just so you can be right in them

>>4447526
Instagram bimbos in europe is one of the most boring photos you can take

>>4447526
>>4447514
no wonder ya'll negroes never post good photos
you have zero aesthetic sense at all
these bitches ugly fr fr tho like ZAMN

>>4447541
Based 22 year old barista enjoyer

>>4447514
anon...

>>4447331 (OP)
>whining about wanting to go to point B from point A
>point B literally one step ahead
>"i don't wanna walk"
Get your head outta your ass

>>4447481
>dude microphone attached to wacky object
wow so epic xD

>>4447481
low IQ take

>>4447331 (OP)
>Good locations are half an hour out
well then drive for half an hour and stop crying faggot.
>WAAAH I GOTTA VROOM VROOM FOR 30 MINUTES

>>4447382
I once had a Canon 135/2L, what a lens!

>>4447481
he's generally correct but I wouldn't recommend a 5D2 to a newbie. Good enough IQ doesn't mean good enough UX. A slightly newer (2011 or so) camera will be orders of magnitude friendlier to use.

>>4447603
as long as you can change the 3 setting that matter that's really all you need

>>4447603
It's down to the photographer, really. It's the best in that price range used and can still be used professionally today.
9 point AF is the same as any entry-level camera. If you can't focus on that camera it's the lens or skill issue.

>>4447481
it sounds like someone's enjoying their hobby and you can't handle it. maybe if you posted a photo i'd feel differently. sad!

>my hobby
>can't be bothered spending 30mins going somewhere to engage with it

>>4447410
Muttmericans drive a half an hour out just to go to Walmart you don't know what you're talking about

>>4447608
I wouldn't waste my time fucking around with that blurry photo ewaste just because some nerd with weird political beliefs thinks spending more money than is required for the bare minimum is le ebil
>LUXURY BAD!
>*orders doordash*

>>4447608
That's the thing, the way the 3 settings that matter work isn't the most reasonable out there. Especially ISO.
>>4447609
Anon, I'm not talking about the AF

>>4448100
dslrs are not ewaste. If you think this you're either mentally ill or you've never held one before

>>4448105
par for the course for every DSLR hater out there, they hate them because of their dumb concept of them that's not rooted in reality

>>4447513
this is true but doesn't contradict the anon you responded to. there are plenty of good subjects to shoot in suburbia

>>4448115
you can find the only subject worth a damn, LIGHT, fucking anywhere.

>>4448099
this is post-covid world they order their food off grubhub and pay for it in a 30 year payment plan

>>4448115
There are good subjects in suburbia but none good enough for anyone to care. It's irrelevant. It will rot on your hard drive and be forgotten.

>>4448152
>It will rot on your hard drive and be forgotten.
wrong
I take tens of thousands of pictures of my suburbian dog every day and have posted thousands of them here

>>4447526
Why did mods delete the most on point description that summarized OPs problem? Did it hurt feelings because it hit too close to home lmao

>>4448152
2/1o. here's your (You)

>>4448154
Did anyone cap it?

>>4448165
no cap on god

>>4448166
fr?

>>4448154
Our one jannie gets real pissy at times. He's probably a deranged m43 cultist with four incest brain cells in a permanent conga-line.

Travel.

Shit changed my life.

Either get busy living or get busy dying. Stop making excuses, make reservations.

>>4448178
Did you meet your gay lovers on your travels saar?

>>4448178
how did you cope with balding?

>>4448180

My hair just moved south like everyone else when they get old.

>>4448183
Name bald photographers. I want to cope.

>>4448185

Balding is pretty much the prerequisite to being a good fine art photographer.

>>4448187
I am an anti-ansel but from now on I won't say a word against him.

Ansel Adams is the king.

>>4447541
Lol this is supposed to be good aesthetics?