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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

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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Is this weird or just me? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by CaptainGetRad@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I was interacting in a discussion on the threads all and asks the question of what lenses they decided to shoot a certain photo with, they responded that they only divulge that information for a specific tier of this Patreon. Is it just more or is they really weird and gatekeepy? Hell, if anyone asked me what glass I was shooting on I’d happily let them know the lenses and anything else they wanted to know, just seems hella weird to me.

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

Really weird imo. Knowing what lens someone used doesn't at all mean you can take photos like them.

Its a lens, ill tell you absolutely everything about all my gear, just because you buy it doesn't mean you'll take photos like me.

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

While that's true, otoh there are so many lenses out there that esp new photographers feel overwhelmed by choices & don't know which direction to go, so having a starting point is a good thing, even if they will use it differently.