Some loving idiot posted:

edit: nah , not gonna feed trolls

Subyng posted:

You could argue that women's fashion ultimately exists in it's current form for the purpose of making women appealing to men. But I wager no female fashion designer would ever tell you they design women's clothes *for men*. I mean isn't it kind of paradoxically sexist to say that women have little agency over what they deem to be the standard of beauty without involving men? Sure there's no mistaking the fact that our standard of female beauty have been historically shaped by men but implying that a woman can't also find the same things beautiful without "actually" just bending to societal pressure is kind of hosed up? At what point do we "allow" women to "own" their own standards of beauty?

Edit: lol just realized those posts were from almost a year ago

Oh well

8th-snype posted:

I assume this was another pointless take on consumer culture that was neither well thought out nor well written but must be defended to the death otherwise you look "wrong on the internet". If it was an attempt at humor please accept this offhand chuckle as an official response "heh".

Subyng posted:

What's funny is calling someone a loving idiot because you were too much of an imbecile to understand what you were quoting, then desperately sweeping up the pieces of your fragile ego by doubling down on insults while pointing the finger back at someone else for not wanting to look "wrong on the internet". Lmao. How pathetically transparent.

Subyng posted:

What's funny is calling someone a loving idiot because you were too much of an imbecile to understand what you were quoting, then desperately sweeping up the pieces of your fragile ego by doubling down on insults while pointing the finger back at someone else for not wanting to look "wrong on the internet". Lmao. How pathetically transparent.

MrBlandAverage posted:

I have absolutely no idea what this is in response to, because we were never talking about fashion, and I was arguing that women should have more agency, not less. If you don't like getting criticized for posting badly, maybe don't post badly? The irony of accusing people participating in a thread of killing the forum when you clearly hadn't read this thread in a year is incredible.

ansel autisms posted:

posting like an unhinged rear end in a top hat to own the unhinged assholes

Subyng posted:

Not having posted in a year =/= not having read the thread in a year. Obviously I just got around to catching up to the thread now.

I know you weren't talking about fashion, but you were talking about societal pressure to conform to standards historically set by men, to which fashion is topically adjacent to, and well I didnt and don't want to write an entire essay, but the question I was trying to pose was how does one evaluate someone to objectively truly want a certain aesthetic vs "wanting" it because of societal pressure.

Also since when are undisguised insults considered "criticism"?

MrBlandAverage posted:

Desire is inextricably linked to societal norms and pressure. There's no "objectively truly want" here.

You obviously weren't contributing if you're only just catching up to posts from a year ago, and indeed before this your last post in the thread was five years ago. You have no room to lecture other people about killing the forums.

You may not like the form of the kind of criticism you're getting, but that doesn't make it not criticism. I'm surprised you haven't learned this somehow in seven years of being on the Something Awful Dot Com Forums.

Subyng posted:

Oh come on, topics dont have an expiration date in an internet thread, especially not from 2 pages ago. Don't think it's a worthwhile post? Then just ignore it, except for one guy who decided to needlessly be a dick.

Subyng posted:

What's funny is calling someone a loving idiot because you were too much of an imbecile to understand what you were quoting, then desperately sweeping up the pieces of your fragile ego by doubling down on insults while pointing the finger back at someone else for not wanting to look "wrong on the internet". Lmao. How pathetically transparent.

Ihmemies posted:

Some Lightroom 10 color grading test photos:

Teal-orange split test photo with two Godox AD200Pro's:

Ihmemies posted:

From same day's evening:









More, larger, sharper: https://hakkarainen.kuvat.fi/kuvat/2021/04-18+-+Ella/

Ihmemies posted:

ImplicitAssembler posted:

This one is cool

Ihmemies posted:

What a surprising surprise! She said she liked my style, so why not ask me...

echinopsis posted:

dude these are excellent. I am really envious of your great work here.
it feels frustrating thinking you're good, and you clearly are, but people don't come to you.
my experience with models isn't generally very good. some are good and some are even great, but most communicate to you as if the photoshoot is very far down their list of priorities, and you often don't get satisfactory feedback in my experience


here are some of my favorite shots from my time over this year doing shoots with people



I got so many good shots out of this shoot, I am wary of posting too many of them in case someone thinks I'm obsessed or something




I really like this shot

this time I really wanted something different, wanted to give a feeling of cold



god drat I like my 135mm lol. the blonde was shot with a canon 100mm macro lens but the rest on a sigma 135mm. I'm one of the only photographers in the local scene that shoots with a lens that long and I hope it helps me stand out.

also would love to get better at editing. I am not stumped at all by the software, it's my artistic ability that poses the problem.

bobmarleysghost posted:

I find the composition in the middle series of images awkward - a lot of bad crops on the hands/body. They also feel very similar to each other, they feel static (except for the last one), the posing is uninspired, it’s too by the book.
There’s nothing too interesting happening within the frames. There’s a lack of emotion in the model’s face, or a lack of range - it’s the same smile in all of them.
The lighting is flat and I don’t think it works with the mood you’re trying to set.

um excuse me posted:

echinopsis's series looks like it could use another stop of exposure. At least on my phone.[/quote

quote:

Trick of the trade, always do full body composition and choose your crop afterwards. It's also just less to think about while shooting. There's already so much to keep track of.

bobmarleysghost posted:

I like how intimate and familial the second image is.

echinopsis posted:

interesting.. see I really dislike the colour in a face to be washed out, and so possible end up underexposing, it’s something i’ve been told before that I do, but when I look at those pics on my phone I actually totally agree, and with the above poster, the lighting is quite underwhelming when I look at them here. I did “re-edit” them last night (just those ones
of the blonde) before I posted on this thread and I do have a sneaking fear I left fuckin fl.ux on when I did it lol. fuckin idiot.

echinopsis posted:

That was the second shoot I had ever done, and it was overcast. But thanks for the feedback, most of the time on instagram or whatever I get no feedback whatsoever and have no idea if what I am doing is ok or not, and I find it quite difficult to judge my own work, I am usually never quite sure what I should be improving.

echinopsis posted:

dude these are excellent. I am really envious of your great work here.
it feels frustrating thinking you're good, and you clearly are, but people don't come to you.
my experience with models isn't generally very good. some are good and some are even great, but most communicate to you as if the photoshoot is very far down their list of priorities, and you often don't get satisfactory feedback in my experience

um excuse me posted:

You whites are flat. Turn them up, turn up the exposure, turn down the highlights and you should get into the ballpark. Those photos are a few entirely reasonable adjustments from technically acceptable. I almost always bump up contrast too, but that's simply a preference I have when I make the previous adjustments to fix flat lighting.