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  Nemoide
  I’m a fan of photography! I’ve largely had the hobby on hold for the past year and a half due to covid, but I’m looking forward to going back out and taking pictures of things!
  I’m strictly amateur and I try to stay as analog as possible. My primary camera is a Nikon F3 35mm SLR, which suits my needs perfectly; it has lots of handy features as long as you aren’t looking for things like automatic focus, automatic aperture control, or automatic film advancing. I like to use a 50mm or 35mm lens for most things. I also have a 135mm lens and a 70-200mm zoom lens but I don’t use them as much. The zoom lens especially is a little too heavy for my liking.
  I also have a Yashica-MAT EM medium format TLR that I love. It’s lacking in some features, but I appreciate its simplicity in a way. I’m usually not using a light meter with it but I also like using slide film (Fuji Velvia 50 can produce jaw dropping results from a purely technical perspective) so I tend to bracket my shots. I love the high fidelity from medium format; if I’m in a low-light situation the larger negative size can make up for grainy fast film.
  I have a couple other cameras too all for simple fun pictures: a point & shoot Polaroid 600, a Holga, and a Diana. I haven’t tried the Diana yet but I used to love using my Holga to get the kind of aesthetic in pictures that later became popular through Instagram filters.
  Yeah! Photography! It’s fun! One of these days I’d like to get a digital camera; I like that if I got a Nikon SLR I could use my old manual lenses with it. I’m generally a “shoot from the hip” type of photographer, so if nothing else I’m sure I’d save money on film. But in the past when I tried digital photography with a point and shoot, I was never satisfied with my results and it ended up bringing me out of the hobby for a while.
  I’ll share some of my pics later!
  fetus8
  kory i still shoot RAW+JPEG but I’m stuck in a mental rut where I don’t trust jpegs. I learned to process RAWs years ago and never trusted my canon’s jpegs and am still in the habit. I’ve been really forcing myself to shot JPEG and try to do everything in camera with the fujis. I’ll get there one day.
  I wish I wasn’t such a data hoarder. It seems all my film scans and most of my digital images are across a couple hdds and a NAS at home right now. This thread is a great excuse to look through all my stuff from over the years.
  Here’s one from a few years ago, when I was obsessed with low light photography and brave enough to go on short little night hikes by myself:
  kory
  fetus8 The vibes are strong with this one…I’ve seen a lot of long exposure traffic shots, but never one quite like this, with lasers piercing a purple haze. I love how otherworldly it looks.
  I’m something of a data hoarder, myself. I actually just invested in a NAS (finally) this past year after many years of anxiety over the prospect of entrusting my work’s existence to the continued functioning of a single hdd. It’s great to finally have most of it in one (reliable) place, and definitely a confidence booster to look at some old stuff when I feel like my creative spark has gone out.
  Before my self-imposed hiatus I was doing a decent amount of long exposure–fireworks and lightning are especially fun.
  fetus8
  kory Thanks, iirc I had read and re-watched Under the Skin and really wanted to emulate the “alien landscapes” of Scotland. Lol
  I love how clean that firework and bridge shot is. What camera did you shot that on? Don’t you need special gear to do stuff with lightning?
  穴 Silly, but fantastic light painting. I love it.
  Oh yea, there’s actually quite a few mobile based RAW editors nowadays. I’m on iOS and use Darkroom on my phone and Affinity Photo on my iPad. I actually prefer Affinity Photo to desktop photoshop nowadays too.
  tokucowboy I looooove good grainy film. Def like the vibe you’ve captured with these. Feels cozy…in a way.
  rejj Are these from the big air force plane museum near Ogden, UT?
  Also, to be frank, I think we’ve hit a point where you can take very fantastic photos on a phone. I use mine all the time for stuff I used to bring a larger camera for. It’s changed a lot in the last few years.
  This is a long exposure shot, and edited on my phone:
  穴
  speaking of long exposure, here are some silly photos that I took when I tried to light-paint a dinosaur while camping at the beach almost exactly two years ago
  kory
  tokucowboy These are so great…these shots inspire me so much more than like 90% of the photos I’ve taken and really make me wish I had the eye for street photography. I really thought that first one was some famous shot from a 1960s protest and didn’t realize that you were showing your own photos at first! Anyway, I’m so glad you’re enjoying the thread and sharing your work.
  穴 I love those dinos! Pretty wondrous astrophotography too (totally incidental to the dinos, though lol)
  穴
  kory I always shoot raw+jpg. I make liberal use of the wifi functions on my cameras to send the jpg to my phone if I want to post on Instagram or to text to someone, let’s say
  I also always shoot raw+jpg for the same reason, my brother went on a trip to europe a cuple of years ago and he also used the wifi feature to send photos or post on instagram, but he used a pretty cool free app by google called snapseed to edit them a bit before posting, snapseed is a pretty competent photo editor that can even process RAW photos.
  I used to use a micro usb to micro sd card to transfer RAW photos to my phone and then process and develop them on the phone. It comes quite handy while traveling; on school trips I used to spent the whole way back developing photos on the bus.
  tokucowboy
  Glad this thread exists, enjoying a cruise through everyone’s work. For me, photography is one of the few creative things I can do that doesn’t involve any pressure to pay the rent, so I’ve been messing with Minolta X-570 & Yashica FX-D SLR cameras for the last couple of years. I like to experiment with all kinds of cheap film. That’s what I keep Instagram around for, but here are some varied impulsive cuts:
  rejj
  I’ve never owned a proper camera, and I’ve never really been a big photos type of person. Friends of mine have thousands of pics from times where I maybe have one or two.
  I do, however, carry around a pretty ok camera daily in the form of my phone. Obviously it is not good, but for someone that couldn’t differentiate a f-stop from a doorstop it sure is good enough!
  I’ve always felt like taking photos of people taking photos is amusing
  (pictured is a friend of mine, I’m not just creeping on someone unaware)
  That was at an airshow, another shot from the show — looking straight in to a jet engine turbine
  kory
  rejj These meta-photos remind me of the rare opportunity I had to see the subjects of American Gothic photographing themselves with a cell phone:
  treefroggy
  kory
  fetus8 Thanks! This was shot with my 5D IV using the 24-105 f4, 5.6s exposure at f11 (thanks EXIF!), tripod obvs. I did minimal work in lightroom, but you would be amazed at how well these can come out straight out of the camera! Whenever I set up for shots like this I go in expecting to do a lot of experimenting, though…there’s usually dozens of useless shots while I figure out what works.
  For these what I think I ended up doing was using a cable release (this thing is invaluable btw)…set the ISO and aperture, get the framing/composition just right (I watch where most of the fireworks are popping off so I know roughtly where to aim the camera) and just wait. When I see or expect one about to fire, I manually hold down the shutter on the cable release and then manually let it go. The timing is not precise, I just get a feel for it and watch my results as I go. If this doesn’t sound terribly scientific it’s because it totally isn’t! It makes me glad I just do this as a hobby…if my paycheck depended on this I would be sweating the details way more and probably stressing myself out..
  I used the same general approach recently to get some cool lightning shots–now this exercise sure as heck led to like 95% useless/empty shots, but the good ones are worth it!
  rejj
  fetus8 Are these from the big air force plane museum near Ogden, UT?
  Before the pandemic, there was an international airshow every two years hosted at Avalon, Victoria, Australia. Lots of museum planes on show as well as live aerial demonstrations.
  Airshows always make me feel awkward. I love seeing the planes and the demonstrations, I hate that it is all sponsored by military and ends up being a show of how advanced the tools we have built to kill each other are.
  Seeing the F-22 Raptor utilise the vectored thrust to essentially pivot mid air sure was a thing to behold. I just wish it weren’t a weapon.
  Syzygy
  kory
  this exercise sure as heck led to like 95% useless/empty shots
  Speaking from taking shots of a big thunderstorm just a couple nights ago on my phone:
  tokucowboy
  kory Thanks for the kind words, & shooooooooooooot, on the other hand I certainly don’t have the technical know-how to capture those lightning shots. That’s some National Geographic stuff right there.
  fetus8
  kory the fact that you aren’t using one of those fancy lightning triggers is beyond impressive. I love that first shot so much. I’d buy a print. Lol
  https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1371284-REG/ubertronix_3000_strike_finder_2_without.html
  I’ve never tried lightning stuff before. Maybe it’s time.
  Moon
  I played “G String” recently and was delighted to discover that it had a an “FX” menu that allowed you to adjust the look of the game.
  There’s also a few presets like “film noir”, “vibrant”, and “sin city”.
  As I was playing I snapped some photos, sometimes replaying a level so I could capture the same scene with different FX presets.
  I thought having these options available was very cool and I wish more games had adjustable visual settings like this. A couple other random shots I liked.
  kory
  Moon Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this game, but it looks amazing. I really like the idea of having the ability to choose the aesthetics of the visuals (as opposed to the usual performance-centric options that most games have). This reminds me a bit of Obra Dinn, how you can choose many different color palettes for the low-bit depth dithered graphics, which really change the whole mood of the presentation. It might be worth a whole thread exploring games that have options like this!
  Also, glad to see some in-game photography get represented here! I might have to dig through and find some screenshots I took on my switch.
  kory
  Syzygy haha, that seems about right…I pulled up my lightroom catalog from that night (lord knows why I hold on to all of this garbage data):
  Syzygy
  FWIW you have the option in every PC game, via ReShade.
  Though I take a lot of photos I’m slightly hesitant to post them here for privacy, but “in-game”, nothing to worry about:
  My compositional style is definitely informed by the kinds of photos I take IRL, I notice here.
  Though, those are all dusk or night shots, huh? It’s ironic that shooting in darkness makes for easy good lighting in video games’ simulation while the opposite is true with the real thing.
  rejj
  Some more phone photos, these from a day I spent at the peace park in Hiroshima. By far the most sobering experience I’ve had.