SillyOppertunity

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Got a pair of Sony for cheap, really liked it (alien.top)
 

Got a pair for MDR-Z7M2 for like 250 at some liquidation place, at first I wanted to flip it for profit but I think I might be keeping it.

previously using Hifiman Sundara, I thought the planar magnetic stuff would give it an advantage but I've never heard any. It's certainly good but obviously now compared to a higher price regular driver headphone, there doesn't seem to be any advantage what so ever. Rather, the Sony design guarantees a much more consistent position when worn, seems to have slightly better low range, and is closed back. I thought I wanted open but now I think the hifiman are just way too open with zero isolation.

Anyway, I feel weird using a Sony headphone because often with these enthusiast hobby activities you wanna be using some niche brand most people haven't heard of.

Are my photos any good, perhaps to make income from? in c/photography@viewfinder.pro
Are my photos any good, perhaps to make income from? in c/photography@viewfinder.pro
[–] SillyOppertunity@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I wouldn't even compliment these photos if my mother took them, they're so average.

Really don't understand monitor calibration. in c/photography@viewfinder.pro
[–] SillyOppertunity@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Again, over the next ten years I’ve repeated this process over and over. The calibrated screen just looks too bad to deal with and it makes my images that I worked so hard on, and look good on other screens, look terrible.

if you calibrate a Macbook and it looks drastically different, you've done something wrong.

What am I doing wrong? I do like to game on this same screen but I’ve always just decreased the screens default color saturation and contrast to match how the images look on my iphone, which matches Lightroom pretty closely.

who knows? there's so many steps, you don't even bother to share any of them, nor any comparisons.

Also, the uncalibrated screen I am currently using looks identical to how the raw images look in camera but the calibrated screen looks nowhere near close.

that's impossible and shows you don't understand how RAW works

If there is someone out there who wants to make some money, PM and I will pay you 50$ for your time if you can help me figure out this problem.

a professional screen calibration service cost a lot more than that.

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today in 2023 monitor calibration is NOWHERE NEAR as important as 10 year ago, almost everybody has factory calibration now, to the point where the minor difference in color of any decent quality monitor out of box, is not going to affect the quality of your photo edits.

Any tips for editing low megapixel count photos? in c/photography@viewfinder.pro
[–] SillyOppertunity@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

as it is an older lower mp quality camera and I’m used to editing raw files

a file can be both RAW and low mp

or both not raw and high mp

Minimum shutter speed with a speedlite in c/photography@viewfinder.pro
[–] SillyOppertunity@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It depends on how strong is the flash compared to the environment. If there’s no ambient light at all you can do 30 seconds. The stronger the ambient light, the more you will see the blurred version of the photo imaged without the flash, on top of the frozen image from the flash.