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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Just curious. I know everybody’s different.

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[–] mtempissmith@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (16 children)

People assuming the "nice camera" is why my photos look so good. Like I am just there to click a button at the right time. :P

[–] Sadsad0088@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Like telling a good cook “Nice pasta, what pans did you use?”

[–] Milopbx@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The funny thing is that cooks are very particular about their pots pans and knives. Especially knives which could=lenses.

[–] iShootLife@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Some of my best photos have been taken on a Nikon D80 that I got at a thrift store for like $10... and my main cameras the A7R V

[–] OneFinePotato@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Well “clicking the button at the right time” is actually a big part of photography :D

[–] 2Dmonster@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

…and they go buy that nice camera (with a kit zoom lens), burst shoot literally everything for a week, never transfer the images or even look at them, and then leave the camera in the closet forever.

[–] Thomisawesome@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

We all know that a monkey can take pictures like Annie Leibovitz as long as they have a good camera. Right?

[–] ChrisMartins001@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate it when my friends ask me this, the second question they usually ask is 'What filter did you use?'

When I reply with 'an ND filter' they look at me like I'm crazy because it's not an instagram filter.

[–] FataleFrame@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The insfagram filters are truly awful though.

[–] FloridaManZeroPlan@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just know that there’s a reason that whenever you’re all taking group iPhone pictures, you’re the person that everyone wants to take the picture :)

[–] RadicalSnowdude@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

And I always say no because I want to be in the group picture too.

[–] Psyluna@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I paint realism (usually based off my own photos) and in one on the art subs someone said they didn’t like realism because “the camera already did that.” They couldn’t understand why that statement was offensive to both painters and photographers.

[–] picklepuss13@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

“Nice camera” “nice lens”

[–] fakeitilyamakeit@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I always thought that too and then I had a “nice” mirrorless camera and then thought its just me lol

[–] vanslem6@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ThatMortalGuy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh man, that's a blast from the past. Are the comics still around?

[–] photoguy423@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The site is still there with the archive of comics. But hasn't updated since 2016.

[–] vanslem6@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I have no idea, but I will never forget this particular one. Haha. Cheers.

[–] ballrus_walsack@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Good gear certainly doesn’t hurt. The brain and eye are most important.

[–] Articguard11@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I mean, yes and no 😅

Can you get that ultra wide, 180 degree effect shot on a disposable versus a camera fitted with that lens? No, it’d be the gear in that case. Lots of gear can achieve super quality versus mediocre quality for IQ and such.

[–] MrMcfarkus79@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I wish I had your camera so I could take photos like that.....

[–] mtempissmith@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You don't need my camera.

You need to develop an eye for color, composition, to be able to see light, shadows and how they interact. Some of that you can learn. It's basic tech stuff that is the foundation of good photos but both of my teacher's they said I had a painter's eye. I got that because I'm a complete art freak. I study art a lot, always have. I do art outside of photography, draw and paint, so I think that really helps.

Go to museums and look at art and see what the painters were doing. How they used light and shadow, form and color. If you can train your eye to see that then your photography will benefit enormously.

[–] Mauzersmash0815@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is true, but i have upgraded my cam body not too long ago and plan to get a great new lens. Its a night and day difference to shooting with my old ass gear. Sure the "eye for it" is No. 1 element for a good shot, but gear gotta be No.2

[–] TimmyC@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

No 2 without No 1 is useless though, how many times do you see peoples’ flashes go off in infinity focus landscape?

[–] UsedNeighborhood7550@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Nobody cares if someone else we don’t know called you an art freak.

[–] fluffy-ruffs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This is funny as I came from a painting background and moved into filmmaking around six years ago. I often think how different much of my painting would be if I thought about light the way DPs do rather than painters. Broadening one's horizons is always a good thing.

[–] aarondigruccio@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

“This meal is fantastic; you must have a great stove.”

[–] vivaaprimavera@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Never heard that, at most: how the hell have you looked to "that" and realised that it would be an interesting shot.

[–] possiblyraspberries@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Dinner was delicious, you must have an amazing oven.

[–] 2deep4u@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

“Nice photos what camera do you shoot with?”

Every single time

[–] ddouchecanoe@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I used to have this line creep into the back of my head. I have been taking pictures as long as I can remember and every so often I would think “is it just that I have a good camera?”

Then I set my xt2 down on a table at my high school reunion. I had recently been taking pictures so the settings weren’t even all that far off but it wasn’t in auto. I looked over and saw a few old friends playing with it and taking pictures.

They turned out terrible lol. It was so validating.