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Anonymous Sun 27 Jan 2019 23:20:31 No.3426391 View View Reply Original Report

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How do you guys find the motivation to go out and shoot?

I like taking pictures but feel out of the loop when it comes to ISO settings, shutter speed, etc. Been out of the game for quite a while. It's also difficult to use my viewfinder with my thick glasses lenses.

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Anonymous Sun 27 Jan 2019 23:45:49 No.3426397 Report

Quoted By: >>3426430

Definitely know what you are saying, especially with it being so dark this time of year. I used to take my camera with me pretty much every time I left when I went out with the only downside that my gf would get pissed off with me lagging behind trying to properly capture something or other..

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Anonymous Sun 27 Jan 2019 23:53:30 No.3426405 Report

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>>3426391
>How do you guys find the motivation to go out and shoot?
I just made it a thing that I had to do every single day. After the first year, it was pretty easy.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 00:39:12 No.3426428 Report

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literally just carry ur camera with u whenever u leave ur house. Don’t put it in ur camera bag or leave it in your car if ur running an errand. Carry it over the shoulder or neck or howevers comfortable anytime you go out. I carry 2 cameras every day with me. A film p&s and a dslr. I usually have my backpack on my shoulder with shit I usually have, the p&s in a really easy to get pocket, and my dslr hanging on the same shoulder. You really just have to make it a habit. Even going to the store for like 10 minutes to get some milk, bring the camera. There are some days where I don’t even take a picture but I still have them ready and on my person. I’ve actually found that the few times this past year I’ve gone out without any camera, I would stubble across a bunch of things I wanted to take a picture of and I felt like a Dick head. Life is funny that way.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 00:41:55 No.3426430 Report

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>>3426397
Get a better gf who doesn’t shame u for doing ur hobby.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 01:12:25 No.3426442 Report

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>>3426405
Pretty much this. Just force yourself to go out. Make it a goal to go out at least once a week, and make sure to leave your cam at home at times as well.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 01:24:38 No.3426444 Report

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>>3426430
>Get a better gf

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 01:45:42 No.3426453 Report

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i went out today at around 1630 and since I live so far north it was pretty dark. it was really windy and cloudy but i forced myself to do it. i didn't get any good snapshits but that's what happens sometimes.
put your camera into P and don't worry about fiddling with settings until you actually need things like narrow dof or motion blur.
can't help you wrt the eyesight problems

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 02:49:12 No.3426466 Report

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>>3426391
I wear glasses and sometimes have a hard time seeing the whole frame and have to shift my eyes around to see the exposure information in the viewfinder (the original canon 5D is the worst).

i've found removing the rubber eyecup helps somewhat. they just pop off canon cameras.

and like someone else said, program mode is where you want to be most of the time, switching to av when you want a narrow depth of field and tv when you want to freeze or blur motion.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 03:18:55 No.3426477 Report

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I like to take portraits of the homeless here in exchange for buying them a meal, I try to do this every week or every other week. I always return to them to see how they're doing, and in hopes of some day seeing them leave their situation. Over the last year and a half I've been doing this I have taken about 17 of them for a meal, two of them have died, most of them are seeing self improvements and one of them took me to see an apartment he had been able to finally afford with his girlfriend after finally getting a stable job at a grocery store. I saw a TedX Talk about photographs being the only proof certain people actually existed. It may sound exploitative but I always go and check up on them to see how they are doing, It is not the only style of photography I do, far from it, but they are part of what motivates me to keep going, to keep photographing and documenting the change I see. A dear friend of mine is also one of the biggest reasons I shoot as much as I do. The first person to ever buy a print from me. I don't do this for myself most of the time, I like to show my work to as many people as possible, to show them things around them. I don't think I ever did it for myself entirely, the first photos I ever took were on a Kodak P&S digital cam my family would hand me to take photos of them with at family reunions.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 03:25:28 No.3426479 Report

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>>3426391
>but feel out of the loop when it comes to ISO settings, shutter speed, etc
Get this book

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 04:18:18 No.3426493 Report

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Real shit do none of u guys know that a diopter comes standard in 95% of dslrs? Literally designed to adjust the viewfinder to ur fucked up eyes so you don’t need ur glasses. Nice.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 04:22:13 No.3426494 Report

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>>3426493
Even if ur a filmboi u still have options. These exist. You screw them into the viewfinder. I know at least Nikon made them for their film slrs. Stop being a cuck and handicapping urself.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 04:33:50 No.3426495 Report

Quoted By: >>3426497 >>3426507 >>3426630

>>3426493
1. It's annoying to have to take off your glasses every time you look through the viewfinder
2. If your glasses are so thick that they block your ability to use a viewfinder, there's a good chance they'll be beyond a built-in diopter's ability to correct, too.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 04:46:18 No.3426497 Report

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>>3426495
>>3426493
>>3426466
Just wear contacts. I gave up on glasses bc they fit weirdly under my motorcycle helmet. It's so much better

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 05:30:30 No.3426502 Report

Quoted By: >>3426504

>>3426391
How do your glasses make it difficult?

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 05:36:39 No.3426504 Report

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>>3426502
Asking with -11 eyesight and have no problems with Fuji.
And add a lazy eye for viewfinder to that, it's almost eye therapy forcing the lazy eye to be in command for a change.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 06:13:34 No.3426507 Report

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>>3426495
Well shit if number 2 is the case just shoot at f8 or f11 all the time and get a camera with AF or maybe just a new hobby. Buy a medium format camera with a waist level finder. Buy an f3 with a waist level finder. It’s not this hard.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 06:32:40 No.3426511 Report

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>>3426391
>It's also difficult to use my viewfinder with my thick glasses lenses.
>>3426466
are you sure you're using your dominant eye?
I'm left eye dominant and use -4.5 eyeglasses and have absolutely no problem viewing thru the finder. can see the full image just fine. even with the rubber eyepiece.
however, if I try to use my right eye I just can't see the whole frame. have to fish around for the exposure info and just can't get both frame side edges on view at the same time.

>>3426493
the built-in diopter adjust is mostly to correct small sight errors. the one in my camera only goes down to -1.7 according to the manual. not enough for my needs.
I'd have to buy a $15 eyepiece to get to -4.5 but it makes no sense to me as it'd be a real hassle if I have to take my eyeglasses off every single time I want to take a picture, and I just can't go around without eyeglasses as I won't be able to see shit.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 07:27:48 No.3426517 Report

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>>3426428
I usually do the same. I live in a university, so there are plenty of subjects. I carry a crappy point and shoot in my backpack and use the photos to develop an idea, capture something that looks interesting as I'm walking, or remember a location with nice lighting and angle. Most of the time I'll have a film camera around my shoulder, and I'll use it to revisit the photos I took with the P&S so I don't waste film.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 11:13:16 No.3426536 Report

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>>3426391
I dont.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 16:52:55 No.3426630 Report

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>>3426495
What about a custom made strip like a contact lens that you slap on the viewfinder glass?
I think it's a genius idea I just came up with it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 18:13:05 No.3426648 Report

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>>3426391
>It's also difficult to use my viewfinder with my thick glasses lenses.
can't you use the little spinny dial to focus your viewfinder? put your glasses down if you have your camera on your face.
or alternatively get one of those rubber viewfinder cover things to suction cup your glassess. or use the screen like everyone else

>I like taking pictures but feel out of the loop when it comes to ISO settings, shutter speed,
All the more reason to go out and shoot. test things out. read up on the exposure triangle.
Go for a walk, look at a tree and then guess the exposure, shoot in manual with your guessed settings. then if wrong dial up the shutter speed or iso or aperature. compare your guessed picture to this one.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 18:15:00 No.3426650 Report

Quoted By: >>3426674

>>3426504
can't you then get a camera with beepy focus points?

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 20:52:07 No.3426674 Report

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>>3426650
I don't have any problems with focusing, automatically or manual.

I don't understand what the problem is supposed to be with people with glasses using cameras, -11 and no problems.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Jan 2019 23:30:44 No.3426723 Report

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>>3426391
You can adjust your viewfinder focus right? I'm far sighted in my left eye and still use my viewfinder with no glasses.

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