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Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2025 11:39:50 No.4405692 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4405693 >>4405723 >>4405813 >>4405903 >>4407137 >>4408370 >>4409471 >>4411072 >>4412033

Pictorialism was so soulful....
why'd it have to die.
Any of you Anons taken pictorialist photos?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2025 11:40:27 No.4405693 Report

Quoted By: >>4407137 >>4411072 >>4412033

>>4405692
Last gasp of romanticism before the era of mechanical reproduction

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2025 15:21:30 No.4405723 Report

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>>4405692
>Any of you Anons taken pictorialist photos?
How do I do this? I'll do this today if you tell me but I don't have any pinhole lenses.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2025 18:35:31 No.4405750 Report

Quoted By: >>4405785 >>4405852

One of my favourite styles. Hard to do well though. Here is one of my poor efforts.

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/rpt/ Recent Photo Thread Wed 12 Feb 2025 21:38:17 No.4405785 Report

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>>4405750
Care to share some info about your attempt? I've been thinking about giving this a shot after reading into it a little.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2025 21:48:16 No.4405791 Report

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>>4405723
get a body cap for yours camera, a needle, heat it and just make a hole with it.
Wala

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Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 00:18:37 No.4405813 Report

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>>4405692
I try sometimes

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 03:06:03 No.4405852 Report

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>>4405750
Seems like a nice photo to me. Nothing poor about it from what I can see. Maybe you're being a little too critical of your own work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 06:17:20 No.4405871 Report

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need more

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 09:03:44 No.4405896 Report

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>>4405785
For what I remember I used a cheap digicam set to b&w, slightly overexposed, reduced the contrast and slightly added some blur in post.

Recently I've been playing with high iso on cheap digicams to give more of a impressionist look (I think noise and primitive noise reduction is causing this). Then adjusting in post (contrast, adding grain etc). You just have to experiment. The hard part is finding the right subject.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 09:05:11 No.4405897 Report

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>>4405852
Thanks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 09:15:28 No.4405899 Report

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>>4405785
Also by strange coincidence I was just watching the new Steve O'Nions upload on YouTube which talks about 'the softer side of photography'. Worth watching.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 10:49:29 No.4405903 Report

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>>4405692
It didn’t die, bc it didn’t live. It was just another option that was defined. Time didn’t go backward and undefine it, it still exists as an option. You can choose pictorial images to shoot yourself or buy to decorate your tarpaper shack with. All ideas that have existed still exist, and any that don’t you can’t know about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 15:40:45 No.4405925 Report

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>>4405903
>All ideas that have existed still exist
I agree overall but you are incredibly wrong here. So much art and thought is lost, as in if not completely destroyed then relegated to utter obscurity. Wikipedia, as massive as it is, has far less than 1% coverage, probably far FAR less, and that's not counting prehistory.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 18:14:13 No.4405973 Report

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>>4405791
following my own advice, obligatory flower shitpost.

I think that I made the hole way to big lmao, going to look for a smaller needle

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 18:45:49 No.4405983 Report

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just tried the pinhole method why are there like bacteria looking dots all over the place

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Anonymous Fri 14 Feb 2025 04:12:23 No.4406042 Report

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My thread of photographs is related to this. Check it out >>4

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Anonymous Fri 14 Feb 2025 08:14:04 No.4406079 Report

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>>4405983
Tiny aperture will bring out any dust, lint, pubes and smegma on sensor.

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 18:43:11 No.4406433 Report

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am I doing this right /p/?

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 18:44:46 No.4406434 Report

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>>4406433

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 18:46:07 No.4406436 Report

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>>4406434

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 18:47:53 No.4406439 Report

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>>4406436
Lomo Metropolis with a Konica AR 35-70mm/f3.5-4.5 lens

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Anonymous Sun 16 Feb 2025 07:10:25 No.4406681 Report

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AND YOU DONT SEEM TO UNDERSTAAAAAND

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Anonymous Sun 16 Feb 2025 10:24:48 No.4406701 Report

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>>4406439

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Anonymous Sun 16 Feb 2025 17:50:11 No.4406771 Report

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lovely thread

Zach

Zach Sun 16 Feb 2025 19:14:00 No.4406800 Report

Quoted By: >>4406814 >>4407105 >>4407113 >>4407127

>>4406681
I'm a bit confused, how does this guy get a free pass for an unfocused image?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Feb 2025 20:35:25 No.4406814 Report

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>>4406800
it's an artistic choice.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 15:27:04 No.4407105 Report

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>>4406800
it's intent behind the photo, not a mistake

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/rpt/ Recent Photo Thread Mon 17 Feb 2025 15:39:04 No.4407112 Report

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>>4405896
Whats funny is im also doing kind of the same thing. I've been shooting with an old DSLR cranked to max ISO with a red filter and a variable ND filter to dial the exposure in exactly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 15:40:47 No.4407113 Report

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>>4406800
kill yourself

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/rpt/ Recent Photo Thread Mon 17 Feb 2025 15:42:06 No.4407114 Report

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>>4406433
Looks like it.

So are you shooting high ISO film or push developing it?

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/rpt/ Recent Photo Thread Mon 17 Feb 2025 15:43:17 No.4407116 Report

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>>4407105
This one feels very much like a 70's advert page from a magazine. The colors and the noise feels very much like a vintage low DPI printer

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 15:52:35 No.4407121 Report

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>>4407114
In this situation yes. Lomo Metropolis is rated anywhere between 100 and 400 ISO. I didn't give any indication to the lab and I suspect they developed it as ISO 400. It also helped that it was a foggy morning.

Pic related is the same film, and the weather was warm and sunny.

>>4407116
Also a ISO 400 film but with issues - there was a green strip on the length of the film and I tried to diminish it with a little post-processing. I''m not very happy with the result, but it is what it is.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 16:12:39 No.4407127 Report

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Sensor dust my beloved, I would do the same with a film camera someday just to see what I get with the same hole size.
>>4406800
It was a deliberated decision, I am taking these with a 3d printed body cap that I just punched a hole with a needle.

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/rpt/ Recent Photo Thread Mon 17 Feb 2025 16:14:22 No.4407128 Report

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>>4407121
The green strip is a non issue.

but thats good to know on the film.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 16:42:01 No.4407136 Report

Quoted By: >>4407145

>>4407128
>The green strip is a non issue.
It's a little too visible for my taste. It gives a vintage look to the film, but it feels distracting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 16:48:05 No.4407137 Report

Quoted By: >>4407147

The stuff in this thread is cool but looks nothing at all like real pictorialist works such as these;
>>4405693
>>4405692
I don't know if it's possible without painting and extensive "post"/darkroom work, but in theory shouldn't modern tools like PS make this a lot more attainable?

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/rpt/ Recent Photo Thread Mon 17 Feb 2025 17:12:37 No.4407145 Report

Quoted By: >>4407167

>>4407136
That almost looks like a light leak. Its extremely consistent though so it makes me think its not. Odd.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 17:22:39 No.4407147 Report

Quoted By: >>4407157

>>4407137

Well if you look into it, pictorialism was kind of all over the place (the constant was a dreamy/memory approach to composition I guess) so I would say that the ones in the thread qualify.

But anyway, printing I think its a very important part of it because they were also experimenting with different processes, not only "traditional" darkroom.

So lets start printing boys! I need to start doing gum bichromate again too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 17:43:01 No.4407157 Report

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>>4407147
I'd argue it's more philosophical than just aesthetic; most pictorialism sought to emulate paintings with no regard for "photographic purity." A part of modern photog dogma is this purity; to most, the brush tool in PS is cheating and wrong. f/64 was a reaction to "cheating" we still can't shake, this thread included. Just printing isn't enough, you have to print in the sense meant by film photography; dodge and burn, heavy manipulation, and painting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 18:02:26 No.4407167 Report

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>>4407145
I think it was because the film might have been re-spooled. This particular roll was Retocolor Aqua, but it had an odd number of frames (27) like some Fuji disposable cameras have. And the strip was consistent throughout the whole roll.

Sugar !egyYvoBZV2

Sugar !egyYvoBZV2 Mon 17 Feb 2025 18:26:51 No.4407183 Report

Quoted By: >>4408215

Fuck pictoralism.

Signed, Group f/64

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 19:08:52 No.4407193 Report

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i made a little hole in some foil and stuck it as close to the sensor as possible and it works kind of like a fisheye lens. it looks stupid but it works. I need a tripod

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Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2025 14:51:45 No.4407852 Report

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>>4405896
Orange One Touch 4015X.

Pant5uit

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Pant5uit Thu 20 Feb 2025 12:34:55 No.4408215 Report

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>>4407183
Nice to see you still have wrong opinions.

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Pant5uit Thu 20 Feb 2025 13:37:48 No.4408219 Report

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>>4408215

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 15:06:55 No.4408231 Report

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>>4408219
holy kino. And just ignore the fat retard

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Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 16:29:58 No.4408242 Report

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>>4408231
Thanks anon. And its ok he’s always been that way and its actually sort of comforting knowing some things never change even after years and years.

I say this with no malice. Dont be sour, shug.

pant5uit

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pant5uit Thu 20 Feb 2025 16:42:52 No.4408249 Report

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>>4408242
Forgot to namefag.

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/rpt/ Recent Photo Thread Fri 21 Feb 2025 01:18:01 No.4408367 Report

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>>4408249
This has a good vibe.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 01:59:27 No.4408370 Report

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>>4405692
I was working on something similar, here

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Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 02:00:53 No.4408371 Report

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>>4408370
GK2AT4

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Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 02:08:03 No.4408372 Report

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>>4408371

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 21:27:10 No.4408681 Report

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>>4406433
Sorta nice

Take 100 more and choose the best 10 then the best 3

XD

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 23:52:28 No.4408712 Report

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>>4408370
I quite like this one. It definitely has pictoral energy.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 16:03:35 No.4409320 Report

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>>4408681
thanks anon. lately I've been trying my hand at still life. more misses than hits, but this is one of the nicer ones.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 21:35:56 No.4409431 Report

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I'm a bit of a sucker for taking photos like these. Look back at them a lot expecting them to be cringe shit but often find them a bit charming I guess, feels like when the sun is just down on a cloudy day.
The textures digital noise can bring out are cool, its interesting that I can take one with certain settings and it looks like nothing and then hit the sweetspot and it's suddenly a lot more interesting.
I just use a pixel 4a with opencamera to be able to adjust the ISO and shutterspeed, but I'm considering buying a early gen M43 (crucify me) because they're super cheap, I hate adjusting stuff with touchscreen and it'd be nice to have a bit more breathing room with fl quality.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 21:37:05 No.4409432 Report

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>>4409431

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 21:38:23 No.4409434 Report

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 21:39:34 No.4409436 Report

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 21:43:23 No.4409437 Report

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Anonymous Wed 26 Feb 2025 00:03:36 No.4409471 Report

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>>4405692
>>4408370
>>4408372
>>4409436
no idea what pictorealism is supposed to be but these are gorgeous photos
the last one with the waterfall is lit and composed especially beautifully, its like I'm looking at a painting from when they still made them good (pic related)

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Anonymous Wed 26 Feb 2025 00:32:11 No.4409479 Report

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>>4409471
>>4408372
thanks, here is one i dont post it on instagram yet. it took a lot masking and i end up liking a lot the trees, i think they look really painty shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Feb 2025 11:44:01 No.4409650 Report

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>>4409471
One way to think of it is an impressionistic or painterly style. But not always. For example see the differences between Léonard Misonne, Robert Demachy and julia margaret cameron.

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Anonymous Wed 26 Feb 2025 14:38:16 No.4409665 Report

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Anonymous Wed 26 Feb 2025 14:52:43 No.4409670 Report

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 07:03:58 No.4411072 Report

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>>4405692
>>4405693
Thanks for making this thread, OP.
You inspired me to take photos again.
Picrel is based on the Steichen images you posted.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 11:23:13 No.4411096 Report

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>>4409670

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 12:47:15 No.4411099 Report

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>>4406433
>>4406436
>>4409665
>>4411072
These are all really beautiful. Good job guys.

>>4406434
>>4406439
>>4406701
I like the vibes of these a lot, but the framing is weird to me. It feels like these were taken without looking through the viewfinder

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 06:52:46 No.4412033 Report

Quoted By: >>4412084

>>4405692
>>4405693
How do I do this with film

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 11:21:30 No.4412084 Report

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>>4412033
Go to Archive.org, search for pictorialism and start reading all the old books / magazines.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 19:40:05 No.4412251 Report

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not sure if it's 'pictorialism' but a fuckup with my film advance on my camera gave me some nice triple++ exposures

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Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 19:47:06 No.4412264 Report

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picture taken with a dogshit petri rangefinder

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Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2025 07:59:31 No.4412579 Report

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>>4411072
i like this one! i love underexposed photography
>>4409437
this is what i love!

i tried some 'pictrorialist' high iso work a few years ago. ill send some.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2025 08:02:27 No.4412582 Report

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