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The Cliché

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I put it to you that photographs of people walking parallel to a wall in long light (or silhouette) is the most played out trend in street photography. Once you notice it, it is fucking everywhere. And it's not even very good. It doesn't actually require all that much skill. And yet it wins awards all the damn time. It doesn't actually communicate anything, it's just "LMAO look, that person looks like they are interacting with the scenery a bit". What's the fucking point.

Some examples.
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If I ask some college students to help me model for my photography do I have to pay them or is giving them the pictures for the instagram enough? What is your guys experience in this?
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photos of my cat Rupert that i took on my phone which at least trace amounts of thoughtful composition, as per the board rules


I like this shot because it really focuses on his face, which is cute
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/bpd/ - Bird Posting & Discussion

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Incidental Northern Mocking bird outside my balcony. Didn't have a picture of one yet.
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Photography qua Art

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Why do some people genuinely not see photography as art? It has existed for over 150 years, yet people still see it as nothing more than a reproduction of a subject. We live in an age of images, where our culture is steeped in the ubiquity of photography; the camera is inside everyone's phones, and proliferates on every app. Keep that in mind when you realise that a good photograph is hard to come by; despite an inundation of images, a truly beautiful piece of art, a stunning photograph, is harder to grasp. A photographer only hopes to make about one or two genuinely good photograph in their lifetime.
But even if we narrow our assessment of photography to people who buy the right gear (film cameras, full frame cameras, mirrorless cameras, ecosystems of lenses), we find another issue. How many people in the photography community can even take a masterful photograph? The worst thing I see in hobbyist photography is not necessarily a lack of passion, but a lack of vision. A family snapshot with low technical skill is only interesting to the person who took it. You can find people on Lomography, Instagram, Discord, or Reddit just post photographs that boil down to these elements:
>lack of detail or sharpness
>tonally flat (i.e., no tone splitting, no contrast between highlights and shadows)
>no choice in colour or tones
>no pre-production elements that would convey vision or ideas
>centre-shot
>no forethought about depth of field, especially if someone is just using the same aperture all day like Sunny 16
>noisy or grainy for no reason
>no meaningful use of negative space
>no sense of narrative
>flat with no sense of visual hierarchy (i.e., how your eye is supposed to be guided, from point to point)
>no ambiguity, so the photo is obviously just about a particular theme or subject
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anyone else lost the will or enjoyment to take photos? i dont know how to get it back and even all my fave youtubers are saying similar things. that makes me worry that its over : (
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New color film!!!
lucky 200 has finally dropped.
Anybody shot it yet? waiting for my order to arrive.
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Darktable thread

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5.4 is out, what do we think bros?
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I'm a much better photographer than all of you here. This is literally my first editorial lmfaooooo

look at your fucking photographs ahahaha im sure you all studied this shit ahahahaha
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Bought over 50kgs of vintage cameras and this one was in the lot

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I can't find any information about it online. Found some old websites where they have showcased the progression of the Iloca lineup, but it doesn't show this particular variety. Perhaps it is some obscure "in between" model which is not unheard of when it comes to German mid-century cameras.
Iloca Electric Texograph 2, T2
If anybody is interested I want a million dollars.
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