Thread 4455026

>he's back
our eyes were not ready, but at last we truly see:
https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/skylum/luminar-neo.htm

and the stupidly boring original for reference

behold, the master of cloning is upon us

don't forget to support his growing family

enjoy this beautiful masterpiece and have a nice day!

>ken succumbs to AI sloppa
grim
I didn't ever like any of his photos but I respected his commitment to doing things his own way

Just saw this one thinking "hey it's actually quite a good shot, maybe we're being too harsh"

>>4455077
... but it was the unprocessed shot

>>4455028
>it's real
lmao

>All it takes is Edit > Color > Saturation and slide it to 100, then Supercontrast and slam Shadows Contrast to 100, and you're done!
nigga doesnt care about halos or jpeg artefacts lol, as long as the colors are blastin

>>4455078
what teh fuck. the clouds are completely different

Ken Rockwell: The Nikon Z8 is NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME and NOT WORTH IT! It doesnt have cloud detect in auto subject full area af-c! THIRD RATE!
Also Ken Rockwell: *turns a $3000 canon RF kit into an iphone*

>>4455078
AAAAH THE CHEETO MOUNTAIN AAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>4455097
>This KIT LENS is super SUPER sharp right into the corners, it's all you ever need! If you can't take SHARP photos with this it's YOUR FUCKING FAULT NIGGER

>>4455101
Disclaimer: the sharpening slider was at 300 when ken rockwell said this

>>4455095
see >>4455034

Total NPC death when?

at this point I think it's just satire, it has to be

>>4455026 (OP)
Ken Rockwell is a much better photographer than most of /p/.

>>4455231
Dog Hair Negatives mogs that snapshitter

>>4455252
dollfag mogs both

>>4455252
Thanks, but nah. Ken is better than I am.

>>4455253
In terms of technical skill not really, but it doesn't matter because we shoot completely different things with their own specific challenges.

Please check fgt for my latest dog portrait. It's a banger.

>>4455273
ken is not better than anyone here that's the point mr. 3 rungs above branchanon

>>4455231
Most of the problems with Ken Rockwell isn't his photography, it's his editing. His photos are often a bit boring, formulaic "nice" photos that don't really evoke any emotion or tell any story (despite his FARTS or whatever he calls it). But as soon as he gets that shit in lightroom he absolutely nukes it with saturation, he never straightens anything, he never uses perspective correction and it looks like he never crops anything. You would have to assume that all he uses is sharpening and saturation. Which does look like ass. >>4455027 This is a really good starting point, but he just can't leave that fuckin sat slider alone.

>>4455274
Where are you on this ladder? Can you show me with one of your amazing pictures?

>>4455277
he paid for +100 saturation sliders and boy howdy he’s gonna use’m

>>4455274
Is branchanon the scanner autist on fgt that seems to have a stick perpetually up his ass?

>>4455280
>he paid for +100 saturation sliders
You just know this senile boomer has like 6 or 7 Adobe creative cloud subscriptions going at once because he just buys a new one everytime he can't remember his password.

>>4455026 (OP)
Someone a decade in the future is going to make the equivalent of dehancer but for ken rockwell photography. It's going to be awful lol

Idk why I find his writing so amusing

>>4455026 (OP)
The photo you showed here works, but isnt alot of whats in>https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/skylum/luminar-neo.htm over saturated? I understand that sometimes blown highlights can be acceptable, especially in challenging situations where you'd prioritize skin tones, but blowing highlights due to this much over saturation feels almost sacrilegious to me.

>>4455711
>>4455228

>>4455372
he's actually pretty funny. his leica articles are great.

>>4455711
>over saturated
Impossible, KR would never make such a mistake

>>4455711
A lot of what's in there is obviously tongue in cheek. Ken is above all things a master troll, if helpful to those who discern what the kernel of seriousness is.

>>4455844
Much like you are an unironic zoophile ken has become the mask. That is his real photography.

Someone post the pasta that was like
>kens disposable rolls are what others would call pulitzers

>>4455095
> No, cmon it was just taken on a different day...
> The birds are the same

How is his digital work that shitty while his film photos are nice?

Really makes you think

>>4455026 (OP)
>>4455031
>>4455078
This is why digital mogs film

senpai ken say z52 best camera

is he based

>>4455078
Never noticed that was a composite. Really obvious in retrospect, the light on the clouds is coming from a completely different direction lmao

>>4455031
That's the type of picture you'd have seen sold at Ikea in 2005. I think Ken is just terminally stuck in the early 2000s

>>4457345
It's AI edited. That's what Luminar Neo is.
The fact he's posting AI gens as photographs has to be a new low.

>>4457358
even the article is written by chatgpt

>>4457419
>chatgpt
the latest member of his growing family

>>4457419
Jesus. You're right.
>Yawn!
>—
>I snapped this by holding my Phone 13 Pro Max out my open sunroof; art is where you find it.
I've never read his stuff before, so I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, but it has a lot of GPTisms.

>>4457439
RockwellAI singularity takes over and over saturates every picture on the internet.

>>4457472
>—
Nah I went over his review of the D780 to check, he already used it there, and it's from 2020

>>4457507
Good find. That one is probably a weak signal. There are more signs of ChatGPT though.
Something I forgot to mention as well (perhaps it is so incredibly obvious to everyone that no one thought to mention it) is that this is a paid promotion for Luminar Neo, pretty clearly.
>I'd get Luminar Neo directly from Skylum.
He mentions this three times exactly like this with his affiliate link throughout the article.

>>4457585
>I GET MY <whatever gear> FROM HERE HERE AND HERE.
>EVERYTHING IS SOUPER SHARP OMFG SHAAAAARRRRP
>PERFECTLY CLEAR, NIGGERS

>>4457585
I wonder how much he gets paid for his "reviews", between money given by brands and resellers - there might be other sources too

I know some people who needs to crank the saturation up 50% more than an average photographer. Their eyes probably have less color receptors or some shit.

>>4460831
The opposite is even worse (people who edit on poorly configured gaming/"pro" monitors who post shit with zero contrast and zero saturation because their color management is fucked)

>>4460831
It’s probably their shitty windows pc screens. Edit on a Mac or even an ipad and you wont have any problems.

>>4455026 (OP)
I thinks he's an ok resource for learning about Nikon lenses. The only photos of his that I view are associated with lens reviews. I don't care about the rest of his stuff.

>>4455026 (OP)
This dude has some of the the worst eye for composition that I've seen out of renown people in photography.

>>4461517
Still better than the average /p/ gwac

I'll guess less real like photography and more like real art?

>>4456821
his film photos are overedited too it's just less obvious

>>4455026 (OP)
>ren kockwell
kek

>>4455026 (OP)
Based Ken.

>>4461512
Yeah, there is no other review resource for the hundreds of excellent Nikkor lenses. He’s an egomaniacal lunatic in his copy and an absolute arsonist when it comes to his own photography, but his Aspergers is quite useful when picking out just the right 1970s lens.

If neuNikon gave half a fuck about their users they’d have all their lenses archived online themselves, with even better examples and data for review.

>>4463222
Ken’s nikon reviews:
Every lens is sharp if you use my settings and go +10 sharpness in your jpeg settings
Every lens has great color with saturation +20

>>4457585
He brings money in to California.

>>4457491
>rocknet triggering nuclear war to pump the saturation and slam the super contrast of your retinas briefly to 100.

>>4457507
>d780
>not d850
ken you are disappoint

ren kockswell

>>4468556
Your mother's porn name.

>>4455026 (OP)
>Ren Kockwell
That poor, poor, delusional retard. And I mean that literally and from the bottom of my heart. He's "anti-talent". He has no eye for it. No feel for tones, lighting, and composition. No sense for beauty or aesthetics. He's as dumb as a sack of shit. That's the artistic side. He's equally as retarded regarding the technical side of things. 20 years ago I used to laugh at his work, and mock his little affiliate link hustle and his retarded blog and his idiotic takes on photography meant for an audience even more clueless than him. Nowadays I just pity him. He's like the mall-ninja of photography - lots of second hand embarrassment, lacking any and all ability for self-reflection, growth, and improvement in his field, and utterly incapable of getting in phase with reality. Over the past 20 years he has learned fuck all, and I've grown enough during that time to realize that this is is actually sad.

>>4469066
did you laugh as hard as i did when mr. all anyone needs is a d5something went on a tirad about how the z8 wasn't good enough for him and he was buying an r5, and then proceeded to claim an iphone was capable of the same image quality as an r5

>>4469066
He's paying for BMWs with awful photos and insipid opinions. His family has grown beyond reckoning despite his being a talentless hack. Most of us can only dream of such success.

>>4469066
I love him and every flaw of his can be attributed to irony.

>>4469072
most of the people here are too afraid to even post photos

>>4469072
and it's still growing

>>4469072
Rockwell is a better photographer than 95% of /p/

>>4469216
By the looks of it 95% of photos on /p/ are posted by rockwell

>>4469216
The average kid with his phone camera is also a better photographer than 95% of /p/

>>4455026 (OP)
from color slop to ai slop
this man has it all figured out
support his growing family

>>4469217
Yes. 95% of /p/ is too scared to post a photo and/or doesn't own a camera aside from their phone.

>>4469221
>t. Average kid with his phone camera

>>4469232
Thanks I guess

>>4469233
You're very welcome, kid.

>>4455031
>>4455077
>>4455078
>(Oversaturated) Orange and blue
Is that the new black?

>>4469981
I mean it's not just that, it's the heavy editing and composite shots that while yes, I still believe is a form of photography, is a bit fucky to pass off as reality and/or your default photo output.
Like, it's consistently the same thing which treads a fine line between integrity and being overdone.

Kockwell would be a better photographer if he laid off the sat slider and the predictable colours, but unironically it would make him a less pronounced figure in the community.

>>4469995
He understood the power of memes before anyone else

Ken is incredibly based, and I'm tired of pretending he's not. An engineer who is into photography and supports Trump is rare.

>>4471275
(((Ken)))? Is his growing family another of our greatest allies?

>>4471275
A good chunk of people who are into photography have an engineering/scientific background, myself included

>>4471317
you're nothing without a growing famiy, chief

He's a weird looking dysgenic freak. Being an opinionated retard who's wrong more often than not doesn't help his case.

>>4471344
delet

>>4471378
Where's YOUR growing family anon?

>>4471344
Unfathomably based.

>>4471344
Grossly unethical. Gather your litter and apologize to subjecting your doomed offspring to the lifetime they're going to have to live in this garbage culture just bc daddy & mommy got horny, or worse, wanted a few years of an animated stuffed animal around the house to make their empty pointless lives seem worth the work, bc with all their wits, they never found a higher purpose. Sad fucks.

>>4471466
TRYING TO GET ONE GOING WITH YOUR MOTHER

>tfw you walkin thru a beautiful autumn park and BOOM a sudden reality shift
>look up and realize you are now in Kenverse.
what do

>>4472687
Rejoice as all the minorities are gone

I took a picture with my Pixel one night in the village.

>>4469995
>consistently the same thing
My point exactly
Blue and yellow/orangy faggotry
>>4470011
It's annoyingly retarded pising as genius, to the point of being despicable.
>>4471275
Just kys.

>>4472768
phones are still terrible taking photos of the sky, fucking AI post processing.
No pure black night sky, all artifacts.

No hate to you, just me ranting that phone makers are twats.