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Does anyone else like to experiment with their camera lens and body? What is the coolest shot you ever did while fucking with the setting?

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Behind the scenes featurettes attached to movies like Jurassic Park and The Lord of the Rings inspired Joey Lawrence, or popularly known as Joey L, a Canadian photographer and director, to pick up a camera when he was very young. "When I was a kid, I would make dioramas of my Jurassic Park toys, set up in a natural landscape. This is how I learned photography and Photoshop -- 'Dino-Ramas'," Joey brings to mind his first shot.

I went to the art gallery expecting my snaps to come out clean, raw, emotional, inspiring. But I couldn’t get into the last room at the back because several gorgeous women were recording the artworks on high end mirrorless cameras suspended in the air on avant-garde gimbals that stabilise themselves using motion sensors and electronics.
I walked through, hesitatingly, a budget DSLR on my person; they laughed as I awkwardly trudged by, on account of me having a Pentax camera slung around my neck apres snapshitting session.
>“Who is he? Is that, ew, an old Pentax?”
I could hear them chide…
>“Does he think the interchangeable lens makes him a kinok?”
They tried to whisper but their scorn and derision and mocking filled the cool gallery air.
They were walking through the exhibits with gimbals that corrected themselves with motion sensors, and I promptly left the Gallery with two dozen blurry snapshits on my measly 2GB SD card…

>f4.5
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>ISO 400
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Hey gang, got a new to me car recently and i want to take some nice photos of it, but i've never really shot cars. any of you here do it? is a CPL necessary?
what focal lengths are recommended, certain angles or views of the car, etc?
picrel, last photo i could find of trying to "shoot" a car, its ancient i sold my Contour in like 2011. I can't remember ever being happy with a car photo i took.

I got the chance to go to South India last week, and figured it'd be a good time to try my hand at street photography. I typically shoot landscape, so this was my first real effort at using people as subjects. All of these were shot over the span of a two day guided tour, on a Sony a7c and a single 45mm f1.8 prime lens. Most of these were taken through a car window, since the majority of the trip was spent sitting in traffic, working, or dying of food poisoning. I tried to focus primarily on capturing what I thought were interesting subjects and compositions, but found myself taking and deleting lots of boring pictures simply because I wanted to capture everything that gave me culture shock. Critiques are very welcome.

What went wrong?

Everything that ruined photography is documented in this one brand. There cameras paint a picture of a beanie wearing, bicycle riding, tik tok addicted youtuber desperate for attention. It's this single piece of drunken tech bafoonery, the mirrorless camera, that sapped all the creativity out of photography by showing people that they too can pretend to make money by photographing unwilling participants walking around the city with faux-aggressive filters slapped on top in lightroom. And if it doesnt get any likes just buy them, the world is yours when you are only spending your parents money.

Metaphorically, everything that's wrong about modern life is found here. Sony in all their Japanese Boomer addled wisdom thought that, instead of coming up with something interesting spec wise, the mundane feature of "improved color science" would resonate more with the hip-hop culture of mainstream America and, unfortunately, they were right. This was the key element that was needed to allow angry suburban youth and chart reading basement dewellers to convince themselves they were part of a new movement. The zoomer era of photography has arrived and the banner flying proudly above the parade states one word in giant letters 'Sony'.

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