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Beeftweeter posted:also these are a really nice set, technically good but not artsy (which is fine! thats also a style). Beeftweeter posted:what's the story with this place? that's in norway no? so you end up with things like in that photo. the originally swedish coal mining town of pyramiden, sold to the USSR in the 1920s and turned into a model of communist society then abandoned after the fall of the soviet union. because it's so cold it's been pretty well preserved, and in the last few years is being run as a small tourist destination again. the guide for the walking tour i did there was a russian military translator on sabbatical, and the staff at the little hotel were all russian. it's a super cool place, really beautiful since there's not a lot of entertainment up there and the miners apparently spent a lot of time decorating - amazing woodwork, paintings, mosaics all over the interior of the buildings. if you stay overnight you can have the place almost entirely to yourself and just wander around the abandoned buildings (though you're advised not to due to the structural instability, asbestos and lead paint). i had to keep reminding myself i was in norway and not the ussr, especially since everyone is armed because of bears. there's also a pretty little cinema with a huge collection of soviet films, including some that were banned in the soviet union proper - they do showings on request but i didn't have time to see anything some kilometres away there is still an active russian mining settlement, barentsburg. they have their own thing a bit separate from the norwegian settlements but usually they'd come in to longyearbyen to party every couple of weeks and were pretty much just a part of the tiny svalbard community. i do wonder if things are still the same there with the war in ukraine big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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a lot of those insta photos don't really work for me but this isn't dorkroom so whateverbobmarleysghost posted:as an exercise, echinopsis, i challenge you to not repost any horny posts on your story, post everything else that you get inspired from. see what comes of that.
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Megabound posted:Being elitist about sensor size is the dumbest poo poo known to man don't even talk to me unless you're carrying around at least a 4x5 as your point and shoot 
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i also like the fog photo, i think it's one of the best you've posted. i don't mind the crushed blacks as much either, it works with the fog. i would still like a bit more contrast, it is quite muddy, but it's a photo where you don't need the blackest blacks and whitest whites. if i were editing it i'd probably go somewhere between yours and the other edits. that sunny day photo is a good example of where it doesn't work for me - bright sunshine has strong highlights and dark shadows, it looks weird with such grey shadows some dusk fog that i shot a while back   
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actually the dirt was on my phone screen but I cleaned it off and the pic looks alright. unfortunately now I can also see your posts
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he looks like an extra from dawn of the dead, but also he does drink human blood so
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the beautiful viewfinder in my friend's hasselblad 500c/m is what got me into shooting medium format, an affliction from which I've only recently recovered. all smaller format viewfinders look like crap compared to that, but the ones in the last couple mirrorless generations are pretty good for their size
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echinopsis posted:if I had known canon was gonna do what it did regarding third party lenses for their mirrorless range I might not have gotten a canon yeah it sucks. some of the sigma and tamron lenses are at least as good as the canon equivalents for a much lower price and I was looking forward to getting them in rf mount. the ef mount ones work fine with the adapter but still. honestly wondering if i should swap over to nikon before my next nice lens. could get a couple tamron g2 lenses and buy a z7 with the money I'd save over the first party versions
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Achmed Jones posted:what did canon do with respect to lenses for RF? they're preventing third party manufacturers from making AF lenses for the mount.
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larger photosites can also give you have a higher dynamic range but idk how much value you're getting out of that
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phone sensors do suck but the image processing going on in there is insane these days and lets you get way better photos than you should be able to
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Sagebrush posted:I shoot in Av at least 95% of the time and M the other 5% only when I need a locked exposure. same unless i'm shooting birds in bad light cos i'd rather crank the iso and get a noisy photo than one completely unusable with motion blur
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Beeftweeter posted:lol yikes its 27 minutes long the point is that she forgot to test her smoke alarm and now the house is filling up with smoke. when did you last check your smoke alarms? if you don't know do it now and avoid house fires causing low contrast photos in your home
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:went snowshoeing today these are sweet, especially the last one. i love some good snow pics but I'm very bad at shooting snow e: actually the more i look the more i really like the first too
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can't decide if i want to get a 100mm macro to replace my broken 100mm macro or a 70-200mm f2.8 to cover 100mm and also the rest of a pretty nice range for hiking. i don't shoot that much macro, but it is a lot of fun when i do
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my research from the lens' respective flickr groups is that while both take good dog photos, the macro is most used for pictures of insects and of matches being lit and the 70-200 for pictures of trains and of women's arses
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well now you see why i can't decide
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i got luminar ai in some bundle or other and the sky replacement / relighting worked pretty alright when i played around with it, but it's not really an effect i've ever wanted. some of their portrait filters are ok too if you have a light hand on the slider, but again not something i reach for very often. they have some fancy new software out now with a subscription model, but their previous gen stuff comes up for next to nothing in third party sales from time to time if you want to give it a try
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took a sweet hi-res nighttime panorama of the city the other night and i can't get the drat thing to render. affinity writes a 300GB temp file in the process, takes hours to align the thing and then craps out when i try to actually do the final conversion step. anyone have a favourite software for that kind of thing? it's like 75 images, shouldn't really be beyond the capabilities of a modern computer
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i had to stand in the snow with my tripod in -10C for 30 minutes or something to get it so even if the picture ends up being bad i'm not ready to write it off yet
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also ty everyone for the suggestions re: big panorama. i used a long lens to get detail in the city bits and a wide angle to fill in the clouds and sky so i kinda need some blending at the edges of the individual images, which affinity handles for me but seems like it would be pretty tedious to do by hand. going to give it a try doing smaller batches and then stitching the lot together after
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President Beep posted:been working in my editing skills. what do you all think? "Wow!" 
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echinopsis posted:like it's occurred to me that the reason I stick with photography (the way I do it), compared to every other great idea (crime committer jumps to mind) lying covered in dust in the corner, is because I can push a button and it's done. if it required more effort, it's likely I wouldn't do it. it's pathetic I know, and probably is also an exucse, but I am really quite well in tune with how down in the dumps I am these days i get it, but if you do decide to give it a shot sometime b&w film is basically impossible to gently caress up and i think you'd probably enjoy the aesthetic. pull some hp5 and admire those lovely, grey blacks
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f2.8? drat, all my lf stuff is f5.6 or slower. what size film are you shooting?
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it's a good size. the cameras are still just about manageable to carry so you can actually get to cool places with them. although i remember a cool video of this japanese guy who went hiking in the forest with a 14x17 or something over his shoulder
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echinopsis posted:just as a matter of curiosity what does a 4x5 bit of film cost it's been ages since i shot any but i remember b&w a couple USD a sheet, colour at least $5. i bought a load of well expired colour negative film on ebay and developed it b&w. worked ok and ended up way cheaper
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