Why are photography YouTubers so shit? They mostly churn out boring nontent while dressing like a copy of a copy of a copy of someone who thought he might closet cosplay Ansel Adams. Who are they aping? Almost all have the cadence and tone of a best buy sales associate either slowly conniving a golden HDMI cable sale or postponing their suicide on a Sunday evening only since their parents are still alive; with no in-between. I meet smarter and more interesting people IRL at camera club or local stores, so it's not as if this hobby is exclusively for people prescribed Klonopin and SSRIs. Half of them are just talking head slop direct to camera talking about what gear to buy (micro four nerds) The ones that do teardowns and repairs of gear are usually fine, but those aren't exactly photo videos at that point.
The only guy that does the "video of taking photos" thing I can stand is Nick LoPresti since he doesn't talk like he's constipated, but lately the lack of constipation has become a problem since he's been diarrhea-shitting up my sub box with low-effort commentary videos sitting in front of a green screen. Idk who he's aping there, 2016 twitch? Don't like it, especially one where he and his wife are politisperging about shit like how "they can't use Google search for inane things because it'll track you" for what feels like several minutes.
Snappiness may be my second favorite even though he looks and talks like a queer (he has kids so I guess he isn't technically). At least he does ridiculous things with cameras that are more interesting than "I walked and took a photo of something and had some ennui about it".
Also, I hate gxAce with a passion, dead horse of a gimmick beaten into dust at this point. 80% of his videos serve no purpose to the modal viewer since they're just a rain-dance to the corporate marketing teams to get them to send him gear. (Also combining sloppy wet deep-throat glazing prose with an aloof tone is uniquely excruciating to listen to.)
1. Panasonic - pleasing JPEG, best QOL - lots of features that work well. 2. Fujifilm - decent but I didn't like the JPEG detail rendering. 3. Olympus / OM system - decent, but I don't didn't like the JPEG colors (tans pushed to red). 4. Sony - lots of features on paper but they're half-baked and riddled with needless incompatibilities.
Think about it logically. The A7C series, despite its warts, is: >responsible for a massive portion of E-mount adoption >bestselling >revealing of an enormous market for compact yet usable full frame stills MILCs Why hasn't anyone else copied the concept? inb4: >A7C bodies are e-waste trash Yes, that's why I want somebody else to try it. >Sigma, Panasonic, Nikon They all pussied out hard and catered too much to videofags. The fp could have been perfectly fine if they had traded the heatsink for IBIS and made the EVF solution less massive (ergo, added a hotshoe and copied Leica's Visoflex). Meanwhile, the bf is the fp but even less functional. The S9 caters to vlogfags above all. Without a viewfinder you're more or less fucked if you want to manual focus. Same for the ZR. For this to work, these faggot product engineers need to get real. A small body, ideally 61MP, with IBIS, reasonably sized grip to not have to skimp on battery life and SD card(s), and a modular tilting EVF. It's really that fucking simple, and Sony has proved that it's not only technically and economically feasible, but also a very good business move. So why haven't they done it?
Can I get some feedback on my latest artistic model photoshoot. This time I tried some heavier shadows with a rembrandt lighting on the model and also created some nice cooler colors with my canon to enhance the mood. I think the blue colors contrast with the models blond hair really well.
I have never created a piece of art that I like. I never came back to anything I did months later and thought to myself "hey, this is neat".
I can't use my hands to create shit. I can draw geometric shapes. I have nice handwriting. I can play open chords and bar chords on guitar. But that's where my physical skill set ends.
I picked up a camera because my hands are no good. Only to realize that it's probably not my hands, it's my brain. I have little to no visual imagination. I can memorize rules that make photos look more pleasing, but I can not get beyond that in terms of intent with my photos.
Over the last ten years, I resigned to the realization that I can't create anything because I have nothing to say. I have no personality. I have no opinions. I have no stories. Just things I point my camera at.
After much positive feedback to the /m43/ general I re-thought the whole thing. Why limit to one mount if the defining defining feature is the aspect ratio?
Let's have a /4:3/ general for all the based chads who shoot in 4:3 ratio!
Welcome: Everyone whose system shoots natively in 4:3!
Also welcome: Those who accept the superiority of 4:3 and crop their 3:2 (cringe) images to the 4:3 (based) ratio.
Not welcome: Everyone else.
Topic of the first /4:3/ general ever: Are 5:4 and 6:7 based, too? Or are they just tryhard?
