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

Strange, I suppose I see both sides though. I personally probably wouldn't use these services from someone with that sort of mindset, but I also don't see the entire interaction.

The truth is it's tough out here for those of us trying to make a living, and you have to draw the line somewhere about what to charge for. I don't think it's the end of the world to answer a question about general focal length in a community forum though.

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

I think I found it weird because she demanded that more people follow female photographers because apparently threads is a “male dominated space”, which I would disagree as it’s a bit of an even split (at least for my feed) and then pushed her print store and patreon in the same post, I can see her not wanting to divulge information if she has a specific business mode around that but I don’t think it’s necessary if she’s selling as many prints and she’s claiming she does.