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Fart Car '97 posted:Talking about why your work is or isn't working for you is one thing. This kind of stuff : Yeah, ok. Fair enough on that. But it's one small part of bigger post about my approach to what I'm trying to do.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 14:09 |
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It's all coming off as post hoc rationalizations. The flickr titles aren't helping either. You're clearly obsessed and very anxious to find something in your work worth holding on to and that's great. Don't worry about uploading photos every few days or weeks. Study your inspirations, keep pushing and building a body of work and you'll start to find what you're looking for in the edit. It'll take time, but it will happen.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 14:21 |
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Mrenda posted:
Just take pictures man. Isn't that what it's all about? 99.999999% of our photos won't get noticed or liked by anyone.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 15:48 |
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Mrenda posted:Street is a strange one for me. I really feel like it's going to take me a lot of effort to get my eye in for it all, and figure out how things transfer from what I see and value, to how the scene looks in a photograph. lol
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 18:23 |
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Choicecut posted:Just take pictures man. Isn't that what it's all about? 99.999999% of our photos won't get noticed or liked by anyone. Switch to film, let bored lab tech who is angry you made them work when you dropped the only roll this week, who will gently caress up developing, critique your photos. You'll never know, but they suffered. But no seriously, to Mrenda, I only post bad things itt but I only like maybe 5% of the photos I take. I share those with a handful of friends, maybe 5% of those I like have value to anyone else, and maybe 1 in 5 of those are liked by more than a couple people. Flickr, this thread, etc, do not matter in the game of findIng your thing, just find your niche and refine it until its natural to you then share stuff with others. You should think less about why and more about pressing the shutter release, then look at the results after a little time has passed, identify what works, and focus on that. Repeat this process until you no longer care what this thread thinks. Then post in this thread.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 19:42 |
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Post in this thread as much as you want. Do your thing, gently caress the haters (but listen to critique and think about your process and your photos and what you make and grow your style).
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 19:53 |
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Hahaha..I keep thinking about trying film, but it seems like a pain in the rear end and apparently lab techs are dicks. You're pretty much spot on though. You have to give zero fucks and keep on shooting. I have yet to take a photo that I really think is awesome. Initially I think some are cool, but two days later I realize there isn't anything special about them and they are poo poo photos like every other "photographer" has on Flickr.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 19:58 |
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Awkward Davies posted:Post in this thread as much as you want. Do your thing, gently caress the haters (but listen to critique and think about your process and your photos and what you make and grow your style). Someone in this thread posted a good opinion. Burn this loving thread down.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 20:01 |
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Choicecut posted:Hahaha..I keep thinking about trying film. Do it.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 22:54 |
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vxsarin posted:Do it. I actually have a basically new Pentax IQZoon90WR that my mom got as a gift in the mid-90s. I don't even think it's had a roll of film through it. Most likely it's a piece of poo poo and I really have no idea where to begin with using it. I suppose I could read the manual.
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Choicecut posted:I actually have a basically new Pentax IQZoon90WR that my mom got as a gift in the mid-90s. I don't even think it's had a roll of film through it. Most likely it's a piece of poo poo and I really have no idea where to begin with using it. I suppose I could read the manual. Insert film. Fire shutter.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 23:16 |
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Point reflective end at cat. Mash buttons.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 23:24 |
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Film owns and dev is easy as gently caress, no need to trust your precious garbage photos to lab techs. Buy an MF camera, shoot film, don't post in the street thread.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 23:26 |
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Helen Highwater posted:Point reflective end at cat. Mash buttons. I have a cat and can mash buttons.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 23:31 |
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big scary monsters posted:Film owns and dev is easy as gently caress, no need to trust your precious garbage photos to lab techs. Buy an MF camera, shoot film, don't post in the street thread. sage advice, every word of it
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 23:39 |
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big scary monsters posted:Film owns and dev is easy as gently caress, no need to trust your precious garbage photos to lab techs. Buy an MF camera, shoot film, don't post in the street thread. Take boring minimalist landscapes and post in the MF thread
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# ? Apr 27, 2016 00:39 |
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Fart Car '97 posted:Talking about why your work is or isn't working for you is one thing. This kind of stuff : Except the B&W one of old people is actually good? The other ones are a bit boring though. On the subject of titling photos, it's hard to do and not sound like a goddamn idiot. I tried it once and didn't like it so now I stick to "untitled" or just a dot on flickr.
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# ? Apr 27, 2016 02:10 |
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Choicecut posted:Hahaha..I keep thinking about trying film, but it seems like a pain in the rear end and apparently lab techs are dicks. Repeating chant of do it. big scary monsters posted:Film owns and dev is easy as gently caress, no need to trust your precious garbage photos to lab techs. Buy an MF camera, shoot film, don't post in the street thread. On the flip side I kind of feel like the chance of the lab loving up is part of the process. Zen of photography bullshit and all. The first roll of 135 I loaded into the new camera, I was super selective about shooting, and when I finished it and went to rewind it, I bumped the advance lever and the spool jammed, and I lost the roll because it did not occur to me to use a darkroom/bag to try to recover it. poo poo happens.
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8th-snype posted:On the subject of titling photos, it's hard to do and not sound like a goddamn idiot. I tried it once and didn't like it so now I stick to "untitled" or just a dot on flickr. Yeah my titles are my least favorite part of my photos (but 500px likes titles). I should probably stop.
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# ? Apr 27, 2016 03:56 |
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8th-snype posted:Except the B&W one of old people is actually good? The other ones are a bit boring though. On the subject of titling photos, it's hard to do and not sound like a goddamn idiot. I tried it once and didn't like it so now I stick to "untitled" or just a dot on flickr. I just use the name of the location of where it was taken, like the suburb or city and leave it at that.
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# ? Apr 27, 2016 04:13 |
Yeah, mine are all just the name of whatever album I put them in. ie. 99% of them are titled either Snapshots or Whistler2016
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Schneider Heim posted:Yeah my titles are my least favorite part of my photos (but 500px likes titles). I should probably stop. Are these your photos? You should stop putting those filters are them, they really don't look great, the reds in your colour photos are practically neon.
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Geektox posted:Are these your photos? You should stop putting those filters are them, they really don't look great, the reds in your colour photos are practically neon. Yes, they are mine. Thanks for the feedback.
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# ? Apr 27, 2016 10:09 |
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big scary monsters posted:don't post in the street thread. Not posting in street thread. Waiting on John Doe by Eli Misel, on Flickr Some lady with a bag. by Eli Misel, on Flickr loving Blocked Again! by Eli Misel, on Flickr Choicecut fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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An offering to the poo poo thread. From when I was in Beijing about a month ago. Truck dude Beijing, China Beijing, China Beijing, China (x-posted from 35mm) Awkward Davies fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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Awkward Davies posted:
This one's dope, the others are kinda meh.
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# ? Apr 30, 2016 03:55 |
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47mm crop mode on my ricoh gr. how the hell do people get close pictures of people in 28mm without getting pushed away? blowing my mind Untitled by Sean Beck, on Flickr
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Karl Barks posted:how the hell do people get close pictures of people in 28mm without getting pushed away? Sociopathy.
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# ? May 1, 2016 18:34 |
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Karl Barks posted:47mm crop mode on my ricoh gr. how the hell do people get close pictures of people in 28mm without getting pushed away? blowing my mind You can ask people. "Hi, I'm real sorry to bother you, but I love your [hair/hat/makeup/whatever feature you are interested in]. Would you mind if I took a picture?"
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# ? May 1, 2016 20:51 |
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hi liter posted:You can ask people. yeah, I'm cool doing that with my slr, but it seems stranger with the ricoh. I use it more for snap shooting.
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# ? May 1, 2016 21:56 |
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When i was in the city saturday night there was a dude using what drunk me thought was a ricoh. He literally waited until my group walked past and just hit the shutter. Still not sure if he was a street shooter or a perv but just do that I guess.
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:street shooter or a perv Pretty sure these are synonymous.
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# ? May 2, 2016 13:38 |
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elgarbo posted:Pretty sure these are synonymous. Milan
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# ? May 2, 2016 18:17 |
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It's a perfectly normal thing to stand in a spot and take pics of people that walk by tho??
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# ? May 2, 2016 19:20 |
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Fart Car '97 posted:It's a perfectly normal thing to stand in a spot and take pics of people that walk by tho?? perfectly normal?
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# ? May 2, 2016 19:31 |
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100%
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Karl Barks posted:47mm crop mode on my ricoh gr. how the hell do people get close pictures of people in 28mm without getting pushed away? blowing my mind did you shoot this from inside tasty burger?
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# ? May 2, 2016 19:57 |
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Thoogsby posted:did you shoot this from inside tasty burger? hahaha, yes. you can see my reflection in the left side of that picture. I sit at the window bar and shoot pictures sometimes.
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# ? Jun 4, 2024 06:20 |
When did the thread title get changed? Because the new one is amazing.
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