The Photography thread!

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From one of the later photoshoots I did. the quality got effed up due to sherdog restrictions
 
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I do not use grain very often but here it seemed appropriate.
Filmed in an apartment with very shitty lighting, but I like the result.
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Have some of my work I'd like to post but wouldn't have a clue how to post images if someone could point me in the right direction.
 
Hey all, wondering if y’all could help me out. Wife doing good with photography, few paid gigs but really wanting more and to turn it into a small profession. With tax return season here to borrow against to then pay back into our own savings account as she makes more from her photography, she’s looking at upgrading her Nikon D3400 to something more professional.

Sounds like she’s pretty sold on a Sony Mirrorless, bearing out Cannons due to the availability of 3rd party lenses that aren’t stupid expensive. Here’s where it’s getting confusing to me and her tho with all the different model lines and which are better overall and which better for what.

I think it may be between A7R3 and A7R4. A7r3 looks like it’s still for sure holding its own at a more affordable price, but to put it in gaming pc terms, would the R4 be more “future proof” down the line? I would say camera desires for her are a good autofocus system (she’s missed a few good shots as the crisp focus plane doesn’t end up exactly where she wants it) and pixel rate as her sin is pixel peeing during post.

Also a big help could be pointing me to where buying quality used ones would be? eBay or Facebook marketplace feels sketchy for something with 4 digits.
 
HockeyBjj said:
Hey all, wondering if y’all could help me out. Wife doing good with photography, few paid gigs but really wanting more and to turn it into a small profession. With tax return season here to borrow against to then pay back into our own savings account as she makes more from her photography, she’s looking at upgrading her Nikon D3400 to something more professional.

Sounds like she’s pretty sold on a Sony Mirrorless, bearing out Cannons due to the availability of 3rd party lenses that aren’t stupid expensive. Here’s where it’s getting confusing to me and her tho with all the different model lines and which are better overall and which better for what.

I think it may be between A7R3 and A7R4. A7r3 looks like it’s still for sure holding its own at a more affordable price, but to put it in gaming pc terms, would the R4 be more “future proof” down the line? I would say camera desires for her are a good autofocus system (she’s missed a few good shots as the crisp focus plane doesn’t end up exactly where she wants it) and pixel rate as her sin is pixel peeing during post.

Also a big help could be pointing me to where buying quality used ones would be? eBay or Facebook marketplace feels sketchy for something with 4 digits.
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I have no idea where to buy used cameras reliably.
As for the sony models, there would be little to no point in overpaying for an R4. R3 is an excellent camera, better to invest extra money in lenses. You can buy a high quality lens now and 2-3 years later use it with a new camera body of the same system.
 
Not sure how helpful this will be to others but I found it interesting,

 
Mostly going for trees with interests skys lately, exploiting a late spring with less foliage.

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The skies look dramatic, I like your works.


I bought an RGB strobe panel, will try to experiment with it this weekend. I have been so lazy with my shooting recently:(
 
ssBaldy said:
The skies look dramatic, I like your works.


I bought an RGB strobe panel, will try to experiment with it this weekend. I have been so lazy with my shooting recently:(
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Cool with the RGB panel.

I haven't done much terrestrial lately, but I've done a ton of astro. Astro is an entirely different animal. I thought I'd have no problem processing astro since I've done photography so long, but that's not the case at all. It is ridiculously hard at times.
 
ssBaldy said:
The skies look dramatic, I like your works.

I bought an RGB strobe panel, will try to experiment with it this weekend. I have been so lazy with my shooting recently:(
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The two best locations for skies I'v found, the fields behind my house and southern Patagonia 7000 miles away.

Honestly I have considered trying to get into your kind of portrait shooting, not so much on the conventional commercial side but on the art side. I'v tried both macro and wildlife shooting but honestly I'v not really gotten along with them well and I tend to think part of it is that your more limited compositionally, it becomes more a technical exercise in catching the subject. What I'v actually enjoyed most besides landscape is street shooting but that does have a problem in terms of how commerical is it, just selling prints at a non famous level I'm not sure theres a great deal in it. Model shooting does seem like something with both compositional potential and sales potential.

rj144 said:
Cool with the RGB panel.

I haven't done much terrestrial lately, but I've done a ton of astro. Astro is an entirely different animal. I thought I'd have no problem processing astro since I've done photography so long, but that's not the case at all. It is ridiculously hard at times.
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I'm guessing your really coming up against limits of dynamic range/noise with astro, it is pleasent with landscape these days that sensors have gotten so good that you don't need to do nearly as much of that kind of work. I rememeber spending ages trying to take noise out of manipulated monochrome skies, having to smooth out then add finer grained noise back in.
 
moreorless87 said:
The two best locations for skies I'v found, the fields behind my house and southern Patagonia 7000 miles away.

Honestly I have considered trying to get into your kind of portrait shooting, not so much on the conventional commercial side but on the art side. I'v tried both macro and wildlife shooting but honestly I'v not really gotten along with them well and I tend to think part of it is that your more limited compositionally, it becomes more a technical exercise in catching the subject. What I'v actually enjoyed most besides landscape is street shooting but that does have a problem in terms of how commerical is it, just selling prints at a non famous level I'm not sure theres a great deal in it. Model shooting does seem like something with both compositional potential and sales potential.



I'm guessing your really coming up against limits of dynamic range/noise with astro, it is pleasent with landscape these days that sensors have gotten so good that you don't need to do nearly as much of that kind of work. I rememeber spending ages trying to take noise out of manipulated monochrome skies, having to smooth out then add finer grained noise back in.
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You are doing good work with landscapes, nature and a good eye give a lot of opportunities to make very different photos. Also I like how you make those B&W's, picking out detail and making the shots dramatic.
 
rj144 said:
Nice. Have you ever tried Darktable and Rawtherapee to edit? They're free and very good.
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No, I havent. I have an Adobe subscription, so mostly use Lightroom + Photoshop.
 
ssBaldy said:
No, I havent. I have an Adobe subscription, so mostly use Lightroom + Photoshop.
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Check it out and you might ditch the subscription.

I also use Affinity for astro. It's $25 now with no subscription. I think it's excellent too.
 
rj144 said:
Check it out and you might ditch the subscription.

I also use Affinity for astro. It's $25 now with no subscription. I think it's excellent too.
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Will do, thanks for the heads up
 
I just found my external hard drive with most of my backup raw photos and LR catalogs. I'm not longer into cityscape/landscape photography, but I did some quick adjustments in LR/PS on these 3 of the Tower Bridge in Sacramento that haven't been processed yet. I use to take photos of this bridge often when I use to live in Sacramento and we didn't have kids yet. Always during sunset though. Always wanted to get in a epic sunrise shot from this side of the bridge, but never did it.
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