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xzzy posted:Seems like a really sound business model, toss your prices into a blender every so often and spend a week getting poo poo on by the internet for doubling the price for no reason. When you have the monopoly that adobe have you can do what you like.
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Big McHuge posted:I'm headed to Ireland for the first time on vacation in a few weeks, and I'm trying to figure out what, if any, additional gear I should get before. I only got into photography last year and am still inexperienced (although happy with the way my shots of Iceland turned out last fall). Ditch the 50mm - I love mine but for travel it's not worth the weight when a good mid range can fill its role. Ditch the lens brush - just get a pack of cloths off amazon. Consider ditching the 10-18mm wide angle. how heavy and big is it? Your 18-55mm can reporoduce a lot of the same shots with some repositioning, it's a great focal length to own but its something I'd consider leaving it at home if I was travelling. Don't bother with the cable release - unless you get seriously into landscape the timer on the camera will be fine, if you really want one maybe get a wireless remote (if your camera supports it) amazon basic one is like £6 and works fine. Maybe leave the flashlight depending on what your doing? - I used to always take my flashlight but except for the one time we explored some caves on holiday, I've not used it once while travelling. As for filters, as others have said it takes some learning to use them well and decent ones are more costly than you would think. To add to all this, make sure you have a really good bag, from the sounds of things you're gonna be walking a LOT and none of those cool looking peak design messenger bags are gonna cut it. If you haven't already invest in a solid respected full backpack with all the various extra straps to proportionally spread out weight. You look like a dork but your back will thank you 3 hours into that hike. Helen Highwater posted:I'm a big fan of the Sigma/Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 as a general purpose walking about lens for APS-C. It's not crazy expensive and it's a definite step up from the 18-55 kit lens in terms of image sharpness and the fixed aperture through the zoom range. Seconding this. I own the Sigma AF 17-50mm f/2.8 and its a really truly great lens for APS-C, probably the only negative you can put against is its a little on the heavy side compared to most kit lenses of the same focal length but the quality is so much better its worth it. It stays on my camera probably 85% of the time.
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Nitramster posted:I'm taking my a6000 with a 20f18 35f18 and the kit 18-55 to the Sequoia's this weekend. Any tips for shooting in the forest? How do I get cool sun streaks through the trees? (I'm a n00b) A Tripod. When taking pictures in a forest, low light is the biggest obstacle.
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Helen Highwater posted:Got a new phone and reinstalled the Flickr app (Oneplus 7 Pro, Android 10). I use the Flickr app to download images from my Flickr account to my phone so that I can then reupload them to Instagram (or share them on Line or w/e). The old version of the app has been deprecated and there's now a completely new one. Ok, I got that and signed in as before. For me flickr creates a folder in the DCIM folder called flickr and dumps it there.
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Helen Highwater posted:Hmm, so it does, however that folder is only viewable via file maangeer and not via the gallery app. Do you know how to make it visible so that it behaves like any other app media folder? It's viewable and sharable in my gallery app which is the default one on a oneplus5 which I'd assume be the same as yours? Just looked and you can also share it from the Google photos app.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah that’s where I was expecting to find something, but all I get is generic stuff. Are you using the current Flickr app or the discontinued one?
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Dr. VooDoo posted:I’m planning on getting a computer just for editing photos. I wanna setup an area away from my main computer dedicated just for it so I don’t get distracted with all the games loaded on my PC and so the hard drive is just for photos. I was looking a iMacs because of the big 5K displays but there’s so many options and I feel like a lot of them would be over kill for just PS/Capture One. I also know Apple tends to overprice as all hell for what you’re getting. Are iMacs good for photo editing and if so what kind of model should I be looking at or are there cheaper options that work just as good if not better? Any reason a second hard drive you duel boot into wouldn't also fulfil your needs? To play games you'd have to shut down and boot into the other HDD, id think that be just as much effort as changing seats would be and substantially cheaper? I have this exact setup for programming for similar reasons (but also because windows sucks for that).
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Only issue with Flickr for back ups, it doesn't back up raws.
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While I agree Flickr isn't a storage site, the sharpening is only applied to the resized images, not the original upload. And they added a bulk downloader some time ago. Personally I'd love it if they expanded into this space, I'd be happy to pay an extra few £ on top of my pro to backup raws but whenever I've emailed them about the idea they have very much said its not something they are interested in. Right now I use amazon prime for my raws, as I'm already paying for it anyway for other benefits.
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Any $20 reader on amazon will do fine. It won't be the fastest speeds but it will certainly be better than what you get through the camera. I have a cheap Chinese one (uGreen) and it happily churns out pretty close to 5Gbps. You can get better than that but you have to go up market to big memory brands like SanDisk etc who charge far more.
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Oct 7, 2020 22:27
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Bioshuffle posted:How often does the adobe photography package (photoshop/lightroom) go on sale? I'm interested in getting back into some photography, but I wouldn't mind waiting for a sale. I managed to grab it for £89.99 a few months back for 12 months. So it does happen from time to time but I don't think there's much rhyme or reason.
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I've just recently started being super aggressive with deleting. If I'm not gonna process it and share it, I'll just delete the raw. Once I've processed and shared it, i move the raw to a new location, separate from my mass storage. I only recently decided to start doing this after realising I have thousands of raws, taking up terabytes that I've not looked at in years and it made finding those I actually liked and wanted to go back and edit impossible.
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xzzy posted:I like to savor my failures, so I import in lightroom onto a NAS, wait to let it build previews on my SSD, and then cull 99% of everything I took. You really start to appreciate how bad you are when it takes an afternoon to go through all the trash. The worst is when your coming up to a shot in your import which, in your head thought was gonna be amazing, and it's a dud.
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ExecuDork posted:Darktable is one that gets good reviews but is not available (and probably never will be) for Windows - poke around the website and the FAQ includes "Windows?" with the answer: "Install Linux" Darktable has had a windows release for 3 years now. For many peoples needs darktable is good enough. Personally I pay for lightroom as I don't enjoy post processing and lightroom allows me to spend as little time as possible doing it. Also of note, you can buy 1 year subs of "Adobe photography plan" (lightroom classic + Photoshop). I hunt around and often get them for around £90, making it £7.50 a month instead of the usual £10. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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That drat Satyr posted:I'm having a galaxybrain moment and can't seem to find it, if there is one: If its APS-C sensor then my go to recommendation is always the sigma 17-50mm f2.8. The price/performance of that lens is just wonderful.
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It depends what part of the hobby you enjoy. If it's just the end result then a phone is fine for most photography. I personally enjoy the actual taking of the photo the most and with a phone that feels kinda soulless to me, everything is either automatic or incredibly fiddly.
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I use the rear screen for odd angles only. I feel too detached from the image just looking at a screen on the back. I picked up a fuji x10 for a small quality camera to have on me at all times and it's lack of view finder made me end up selling it, just took the fun out of taking pictures for me.
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Well they are wrong, digital dwarfes film but film has had a resurgence in popularity. You can get lots of high quality equipment incredibly cheaply and it's kind of a back to basics experience. It's fun to not know what you got until you develop the film and cameras are often mostly manual so it's sort of a test of your skills. It's kind of like how some people enjoy model aeroplane kits, why not just buy the model pre-built?
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Also who doesn't like collecting toys. Look up nikons old AIS lenses and tell me they aren't gorgeous.
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Twenties Superstar posted:I'm only trying to advocate more thoughtful discourse. Thinking differently about photography is not a bad thing! You are welcome to ignore me but I thought there was purpose to our discussion Could you do it via the edit button instead of making multiple posts though please? Unlike film, editing posts aren't destructive, you can edit them as much as you like! Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 11:04 on May 23, 2022 |
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Personally I use manual with auto iso as I found aperture mode failed me for anything that wasn't still life, which as a dog owner, is a lot of my 'work'. And cranking the dials is faster in my nikon than switching modes so I ended up just using it for everything. I also think there is some real value of learning on manual. The modes definitely have their place in your tool box, and anyone why claims pros don't use them is speaking our their arse. But manual forces you to learn how shutter, aperture and iso work together to balance light. And when the modes arnt gonna work for you. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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No Nikon 870 then. A lot of people were holding out hope. Makes sense though R&D is expensive and Nikon just do not have the money to do both.
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If you are taking pictures with a camera , you're a dork. Everyone seeing you taking pictures thinks you're a dork. Accept it. I personally have both a sling and a backpack. The sling is for the camera + 2 lenses. Usually take this for city stuff. For hiking etc I take the backpack as even if instill only take 2 lenses, the weight is much better distributed. Both these setups have the side entrance for the camera itself which I prefer for quick access.
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Just make sure it's the G2 and not the G1. Huge difference in quality.
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If a lens comes with a hood I use it. Lots of benefits with very few downsides.
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I don't have any hoods that aren't attachable reversed to the lens, so bag space has never been a problem for me.
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I've traveled back to 2009 and am mostly using Flickr again. It takes some cultivating, you need to prune groups which are just picture dumps and follow people you like. Explore is also completely hit and miss, but there is good stuff in there and lots of goons to follow.
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Capture one pro is the goto for high quality but not subscription (all though it has that option) Best free options are rawtherapee and darktable.
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Flash street does look cool but I think I read once that if you took away the camera your effectively just sneaking up on people and shouting boo in their face. So if you want to be that kinda person, go for it I guess? But be prepared to take a punch or have your gear smashed.
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If you took my picture I wouldn't care. If you blinded me with a flash I would care.
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Maybe an example would help. https://youtu.be/kkIWW6vwrvM I think you probably can do flash without being an arsehole. But Gilden definitely is one.
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jarlywarly posted:This debate started about unexpected flash photography, I don't generally have a problem with street photography, but I would not like to have a flash go off in my face without my knowledge. Yeah it's this for me. I think 99% of people don't care about street photographers and if I saw one I'd think 'neat'. However someone jumping into peoples paths, putting a camera and flash right into their face, blinding them and probably scaring them half to death in the process? (what Gilden seems to do to get some of his shots) Yeah I'm gonna think they are an arsehole. And I wouldn't care if it's for Art. However I get the impression some others are against any photography without strict consent? Which to me kinda makes a lot of photography (not just street) impossible.
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When starting out I think it's always a good idea to shoot raw+ jpeg. It takes up more room but memory cards are cheap and will allow you to share stuff with friends instantly but have the raws to come back to when you wanna try and improve the photo yourself. With this you can also try matching your cameras output with your raws as a way to learn. You say you use darktable? Its great but complicated to begin with, lots of duplicate modules. https://pixls.us/articles/darktable-3-rgb-or-lab-which-modules-help/ This was written by one of the devs of darktable, you don't need to read it all, just skip down to the recommended beginner workflow bit, it helps a lot. That last image with the purple whites, the chromatic aberration module should help with that. There is also this channel which does very good tutorials on each module and what it does https://m.youtube.com/@audio2u If you like film styles then try these https://github.com/iblazhko/darktable-filmstyles Just remember to have the box ticked to replace the previous style as you go through trying them out, otherwise it's gonna apply them on top of each other and look weird. Megabound posted:Has anyone ever taken your photo before or are you just that delicate of constitution that any time someone takes a photo of you you need someone to rush over with smelling salts? 
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I got the impression that a lot of people got a DSLR for a specific need then tried to play around with photography to justify the expense, rather than justify the expense to pursue the interest in photography. Now phones fulfill the general need the latter doesn't happen.
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If you want to shoot with people, look up if your town/city has a photography club. Mine does even though it's not q particularly large town, I went to a meet once and it was a good 60+ people. I ended up not joining though, I prefer shooting alone and the competitions and talks didn't interest me much personally. I should probably reconsider, would probably help me get better.
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No it's locked at that. It's an intentional limitation of the camera to keep it away from the z6.
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Just don't use Instagram. It sucks.
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I don't share my hobby with friends except in person, but to be honest I think barely any of them even still use Instagram.
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