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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 2 years 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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[–] barfridge0@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

If you can't hand your camera to a novice and have them shoot on your gear and be confident that you will take a better image than them, then you are a shit photographer and should not be charging money for it.

A good example is look at how many Michelin star chefs host cooking shows where they freely give away their methods and processes. Yet their food still tastes better than yours. In this situation everyone gains knowledge, the overall skillset of cooking improves and nobody loses money either.