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Welcome! Don't feel bad getting out there and just using the program auto modes for now and letting the camera do the heavy lifting for you. There's some recent posts in the general photography questions thread about getting started with a new camera and they'll hopefully be helpful. Now post cats.
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Thank you! No cats yet, but I can offer a bird, some sticks, a goat, Two Blokes, and a catsnake. Which is sort of the same. Please enjoy my extremely basic "first go on a camera" content   (He's behind baas, geddit???)   I've also set it up to stream with and hoo boy what a difference it's made already (excuse the terrible hair. Or don't I'm not the boss of you) https://twitter.com/Brainmage/status/1535956206119968774
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We had a picnic with some carrot cake. Carrot taste could not be found, but cake was good. I took some test photos with the Ttartisan 11/2.8 mirrorless fisheye lens.      Friend had a soviet Helios lens in his camera. I took a few photos with his camera and he sent me these. The lens has massive, massive haze and poor resolution, nervous bokeh with clear edges.. I haven't seen a lens with worse coatings. Last photo is OOF and first photo doesn't have the best expression. I think I took a photo with a good smile tho since friend's camera was on continous shooting instead of single shot. 
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Jun 30, 2022 10:10
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That moment you find out that the Flickr plugin for Lightroom Classic has the JPG compression slider and it's been set to 70% by default the entire time and you've been angry at Flickr for compressing the poo poo out of everything.
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Jul 15, 2022 15:24
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That moment when you republish photos and for some reason half of your content on Flickr disappears because of some Lightroom/Flickr desync.
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Jul 15, 2022 23:23
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The flickr plugin is rear end, just good enough to make you think it's the answer but nowhere good enough to rely on. I do it all manually, export to my cloud folder so I can have all my pictures everywhere then drag and drop into flickr.
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Jul 16, 2022 01:13
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I'll probably go that route if it fails on me again. Right now, it's fully synced up and the images look fine finally. I think I was just trying to redo too much at once and moving crap around in Lightroom and everything got confused. I wouldn't have minded so much other than it renamed some of the titles and I had to reidentify a pile of dragonflies and butterflies, and then had to reupload others and reidentify those as well. I should probably be putting this poo poo in the metadata somewhere, but I hate the library mode in Lightroom to do that. Edit: Duh, it has the title under the Default dropdown. Philthy fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Jul 16, 2022 |
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Jul 16, 2022 03:42
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Kind of a weird request here, so bear with me, I wasn't sure where to post this. My brother passed away about two months ago, and he was one of those people who felt like he didn't photograph well, so there aren't a ton of pictures of him around. He did take one self-portrait that he loved, and I'd love to be able to print it and frame it. The problem is he took it a few years ago on an absolute shitbox of an iPhone and it's 1280X960 or thereabouts, or at least that's the largest version of it saved in his iCloud. I know upscaling is a thing, but what's about the maximum I can expect to be able to do with a picture that small? If I have to frame a blurry-rear end mess I'll do it just because I don't have much else, but I've got zero experience with this and would really like some guidance.
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kazmeyer posted:Kind of a weird request here, so bear with me, I wasn't sure where to post this. My brother passed away about two months ago, and he was one of those people who felt like he didn't photograph well, so there aren't a ton of pictures of him around. He did take one self-portrait that he loved, and I'd love to be able to print it and frame it. The problem is he took it a few years ago on an absolute shitbox of an iPhone and it's 1280X960 or thereabouts, or at least that's the largest version of it saved in his iCloud. I know upscaling is a thing, but what's about the maximum I can expect to be able to do with a picture that small? If I have to frame a blurry-rear end mess I'll do it just because I don't have much else, but I've got zero experience with this and would really like some guidance. You might consider trying one of those fractal-interpolation upscalers, like Topaz Gigapixel or On1. 1280x960 isn't a whole lot to work with, barely more than a megapixel, but all the demos and reviews I've seen of that technology says "it's way better than you might expect". Both have free demos available for you to play with, so I would try them out and see which gets you better/acceptable results. If that's "neither" then you're just out an hour or two of download and processing time. I've heard claims of reasonably high-quality 6x-6.5x pixel increase on both, so... if you're lucky you could get up to a 300dpi 8x10, plus or minus a bit?
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Jul 17, 2022 06:43
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I own Topaz Gigapixel AI and I sent you a PM. I don't really use it too much, and I'm not familiar with printing requirements etc, but I've run really old photos of friends and myself that looked like absolute butt and they came out amazing. I can give your photo a try if you'd like. That goes for anyone else as well. Send me a PM. I don't mind, within reason.
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Lightroom (or was it photoshop?) has a really good upsizing engine now too, give that a shot.
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Ten years ago or so, The Dorkroom had a wedding photography thread. Does anyone here shoot weddings, still? I'm thinking of trying to get a couple gigs as a second shooter to see if it's something I could pursue further. How do you find wedding photographers who need a second shooter? I live in the greater Seattle area, if it matters.
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I got to a point where I followed enough local people that every other month or so somebody will be looking for a second shooter. Probably not the best way to go about it but it's a start.
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Aug 18, 2022 23:52
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lens durability test results! the sigma 35mm 1.4, notoriously made of plastic, filled with sensitive focus-by-wire and aperture motors: flew out of a bag in a mosh pit to land a good 10-15ft away on a concrete floor. worked fine for months after, eventually needed a $100 motor repair as whatever initial injury it incurred finally brought it down the voigtlander 110mm, with an all-metal body and fully mechanical unmotorized focus and aperture controls: promptly detached the aperture blade/rear element/mount segment partway from the rest of the lens, to awkwardly hang halfway outside its housing, after a modest two-foot tumble onto a hardwood floor
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Sep 26, 2022 03:09
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VSOKUL girl posted:lens durability test results! Do the Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 next!
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Sep 26, 2022 18:21
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I've decided we should do a Christmas print swap so here's the thread to join in: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4014463
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Oct 10, 2022 06:16
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 lmfao, this battery grip added like a 1 lb and lasted only 200~ shots. It's just 6 AA's in serial.
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Oct 16, 2022 19:03
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Toalpaz posted:
The 6 aa use it not ideal. It's really built for the two canon lithiums. Having the AA option is nice in the field, but not it's real use.
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torgeaux posted:The 6 aa use it not ideal. It's really built for the two canon lithiums. Having the AA option is nice in the field, but not it's real use. oh, lol!
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Oct 16, 2022 23:54
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Ok, there's a decent deal on the Topaz software for Black Friday. I don't generally think their sharpen is magic on recovering out of focus images, but I wondered if the suite was worth it in general.
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It all works really well, but i've mostly stopped using it. I enjoy the noise on photos now, and if something is too blurry, I just nuke it anyway. The image enlarger is voodoo cool, but it's for stuff like old family photos which is like once a year. I mostly just apply a custom color profile and I'm done.
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Philthy posted:It all works really well, but i've mostly stopped using it. I enjoy the noise on photos now, and if something is too blurry, I just nuke it anyway. The image enlarger is voodoo cool, but it's for stuff like old family photos which is like once a year. I mostly just apply a custom color profile and I'm done. Thanks. I think I'm gonna pass. I see it as something I'd end up almost never using.
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Managed to develop 3 rolls of TMX100 and the 2 Cinestill rolls I took back in August, had to mix new c41 developer but happy I cleared my backlog. I love how flat Kodak film dries, with Ilford it's always a struggle although steaming the bathroom before drying helps. All of that means I'll be able to start scanning tomorrow, hopefully post will go well enough. I'm wondering if the color of my Portra 400 rolls I was agonizing over a while back had anything to do with my developer being old, I don't remember if it was fresh or if the date on the bottle was accurate, if it was it surely could explain a few things. My other project would be a self portrait, maybe I can start tomorrow. I've been putting that off for at least a year. Here's a picture of film drying, because why not. 
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torgeaux posted:Ok, there's a decent deal on the Topaz software for Black Friday. I don't generally think their sharpen is magic on recovering out of focus images, but I wondered if the suite was worth it in general. I've ended up using all 3 (Sharpen/Gigapixel/DeNoise). I probably use DeNoise the most because I often shoot at stupidly high ISO. It's way more effective than the the noise reduction in Lightroom. Sharpen doesn't work miracles but there are times it can salvage an OOF or blurry photo, and if you want to take the time on an already-pretty-good photo it's probably a little better than Lightroom. I haven't used Gigapixel as much or compared it to the LR Enhance-supersize or whatever it is. Sometimes it works like a charm making something out of heavily cropped images but definitely look at your OOF areas because I've had it put weird patches instead of nice subtle bokeh on occasion.
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Has anyone moved/starting using Mastodon? I never got into Instagram and have been looking for a place to share with other photographers. I set up my own instance a few days ago and have it running well enough, if anyone has questions about it I could probably help out.quote:Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service, which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances, each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy policy, privacy options, and moderation policies.[6][7][8] digitalist fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Nov 30, 2022 |
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Nov 30, 2022 19:30
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mastodon sucks, it tries very hard to be ~something~ and it fails at being anything. i've signed up for cohost to experience social media without addictive tech behind it.
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All social media sucks. How does cohost differ from mastodon? Looking through the features they're headed more or less in the same direction, I'll guess they don't have the same federation issues although I would imagine that will be fixed eventually. edit: I signed up to cohost to have a look and it seems pretty basic but polished enough. I guess I can see what you mean intent, it seems more focused. I'll have to keep an eye on this. As for mastodon it seems like everyone in my field has already migrated toward it so I'll be using it for that if nothing else. If anyone else is using it for photo things and wants to connect, let me know. digitalist fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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Dec 1, 2022 02:27
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Yea cohost I think is more organic, and it's apparently built and maintained by communists
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bobmarleysghost posted:Yea cohost I think is more organic, and it's apparently built and maintained by communists I'm looking through their manifesto and I'm not sure the "apparently" in your sentence is all that necessary.
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I've moved to Cohost, it's nice. Mastodon sounds like twitter for Linux users who compile their OS from source.
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Megabound posted:I've moved to Cohost, it's nice. Mastodon sounds like twitter for Linux users who compile their OS from source.  Is there a list somewhere of people of people I should follow on cohost? The tags seems sparsely populated.
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I'm just looking at #photography and some decent stuff there. I'll give it a shot, I guess. If it dies, it dies. I keep everything on Flickr anyhow. Edit: lol 25,000 people in front of me waiting to be verified. yikes Philthy fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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On a side note. It's in the mid-teens temp wise now. It's loving cold. It's dark by 4pm. All I want to do is go shoot, but motivation is kaput. Four months of this. Thinking maybe trying more urban stuff since all the wildlife is gone, maybe go to Chicago or Milwaukee over a weekend.
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Get some long underwear and a scarf, layer up properly and you won't feel the chill. Unless you grew up in warmth. Then you might be screwed. But I fuckin' love photographing in the cold, I can tell when I'm having fun because I stop feeling the elements. Can't wait for a proper snow to finally hit.
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Yeah as someone who's winter is just occasional rain and half-assed greening up I'd love some actual winter.
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I'm in the in-between right now. Cold, but not real winter shooting conditions. So, no motivation, it hurts to get out, but haven't got the best elements to make it worth it yet. Soon. Soon.
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So what are some winter subjects to focus on? Normally I'm drawn to colors, and right now everything is brown. Soon to be white and brown, and some grey in between. It might make for some really contrasty awesome urban B&W photos. What about hiking? I'm used to finding flowers, moss, etc. The occasional snowscape is going to be cool, but what else do you seek out?
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Snow creates huge contrast with anything that does not have snow on it, so focus on shapes and lines and stuff. You don't have to make black and white photos, but it helps to think in those terms. If you can get some fog or hoarfrost or freezing rain subjects should jump out at you all over the place. Frozen waterfalls are always fun. If you have any nature preserves, coyotes and deer get much easier to find in the snow.
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i really love shooting in the winter, especially in places that don't look normally "cold". the day itself is also so much shorter - light closer to the horizon all day - that everything is closer to golden hour. the only downside of course is your fingertips being so goddamn cold it's hard to turn a knob
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Many months ago I used a 35mm to 120 take up spool with a roll of Kodak TMax 100. Sadly I screwed up most of the shots, probably because I didn't attach the film to the takeup spool properly (use tape), which may have led to the film getting snagged. I should probably try it again. Thinking back on it it was difficult to estimate what would actually end up in the photo, with more practice I could have probably avoided the trees in the bottom right. Anyway, here's the first photo and probably the best that I got from the roll.  The takeup spool was pretty similar to this one, https://www.printables.com/model/228999-120-takeup-spool-for-35mm-film digitalist fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Dec 2, 2022 |
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