Did they really need this much lighting, I mean, come on!.

Well nobody else is gonna so here we go, here's a RAW/EDIT thread.
I've provided some of mine, a few of which I've edited in the past but also a few I've never touched. Links:

>Daylight Landscape with Semi-Challenging Lighting.
https://files.catbox.moe/9lc3dk.CR3
>Backlit Wildlife (bin chicken) Scene. I was never happy with any edits.
https://files.catbox.moe/ctd0mg.CR3
>Interior Low-Light Figurines.
https://files.catbox.moe/l1fmr2.CR3
>Panning Motorsport Scene.
>also pic rel own edit
https://files.catbox.moe/c84va5.CR3

>This thread is less about the merits of a particular photograph, and more about how to edit and change them. CONSTRUCTIVE feedback is great, but aimless shitflnging is for the other threads
>I wholly encourage more of you to post RAWs, as I enjoy giving it a crack myself, as do some other anons otb
>Use catbox.moe to link uploads as there is no way you will upload your RAW with the board's anemic 5MB limit
>If you post a RAW, thank you.
>If you post an EDIT, it's handy to give a quick run down of what you did, how much NR/sharpening etc., and what software you used.
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What makes pic related so uncanny and unpleasant to look at? Is it the lack of shadows? Why would a photographer go for such effect?

Posting all his series.

Posting first:
Early Works

(SELECT WORKS)

1984 - 1987

If it is pleasurable, why is kitsch considered worthless?

I have been contemplating buying a real camera for years, but never managed to figure out which camera and which lense to get.

/p/ always discourages me further, with their very mean comments, gate keeping, recommendations of only cameras that are not in production anymore, etc

Why are you people like this ?

He starts his day with his beautiful photographic tool, prepared the night before in hopeful anticipation of a day full of visual wonder. Every lens, camera, and sometimes film, combination explored in his mind for the plethora of scenic possibilities that may confront him during the day at hand. He awakes, proudly slinging his camera du jour, venturing to a local café where he may map out his “photo walk”.

Reality sinks in with each sip of his oat milk latte. For months, even years now, he has attempted to capture beautiful, fleeting and increasingly disappearing moments, of a world growing uglier by the day, for a narcissistic audience growing more jaded, self-absorbed and increasingly negative. His images must compete with a digital bombardment of auditory, textual and video excess: algorithmically perfected to a new golden ratio of 1/3 talking-head to 2/3 rage-inducing stimuli. What right does he have to add another speck of white noise to the swarm?

He sighs and takes out his iPhone 17 Pro, carefully composing a tableaux of his static, unused camera with the Leica-red coffee mug, which is sadly one of the reasons why he frequents this cafe. With a click of the iPhone’s screen, 15 raw images are captured instantaneously, stacking them to maximize dynamic range, remove noise, enhance details, followed by the processor’s detection of the subject, auto-masking and then blur effect to simulate “bokeh” and finally a pleasing film-like color science filter is overlaid.

Which camera bag do you currently own?

Does anything currently compete with the McKinnon Sling in terms of price+quality+features? Trying to find one of a similar size that will be comfortable enough for moving around.

Snoybob Edition

Old thread autosaged. Dumb questions go here.