• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I shoot with a refurbished $600 Canon EOS Rebel T7. I use two lenses for the majority of my work: an 18-55mm, and a 75-300mm.

    Fite me irl, Nat, my shit’s gorgeous and I know it.

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      5 hours ago

      Nice shots but if you’re wanting gorgeous candid shots of fast moving action (like weddings/events), you’re gonna struggle without the expensive glass/body.

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        4 hours ago

        I’ve got a nifty fifty which can open to 1.6, and that’s pretty good for getting as fast as 1/250th in dim light, and I got it for free! :D

        Catch is, the zoom controls are at the bottom, on my feet.

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        It’s a preference. I’m biased away from cool light as a person, and like my work to be a bit warmer.

        I turn off QRedShift when I’m working, then I ultimately end up re-creating it by hand, cause I’m just like that.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah but for all we know she’s a wedding photographer, photographs wildlife or something uncooperative, unlike a bridge which tends to sit still most of the time.

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        6 hours ago

        Man, I wish bridges sat still. Shit bounces.

        That said, wedding wildlife does sound notoriously uncooperative; trying to get a bridal veil on a rhino sounds, well, difficult.

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      Those are really nice! I especially like in the first one how you captured the city lights on the water and filled in that potential darker space on the left with the bridge span.

      Of course, there’s scenic photography, which is basically having really good composition skills, knowing good locations, and timing, and then there’s people photography, which is… extra. I don’t blame photographers for charging more for that shit lol

      ‘I want our wedding photos to be the two of us on a cliff at the beach at sunset with really pretty clouds behind us!’ And you’re thinking, okay, drive time, waiting for a good colorful sunset instead of a cloudless or too cloudy or foggy one (always a fun game of roll-the-dice in Oregon at least), and they want their backs to the sunset, so that’s extra lighting (that you’ll have to carry to the location) and extra time in photoshop to be sure you can still see their faces clearly…

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        Yeah, I don’t do people cause they’re hard to look at, what with the brain damage and all, so scenery’s more of my thing. Scenery doesn’t stay put, but it’s a hell of a lot less wiggly than people.

        And I mean, I’ve never seen the Oregon Coast look bad, you just have to take what it gives you when you show up, no expectations.

        Fuuuuck, I think I’ve gotta go there this weekend, just to get out of town.

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      Hey man, I support your hobby, but uh, this is embarrassing to boast about. Be humble, you’re an amateur and that’s okay.

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          They’re not even out here identifiably.

          I’m out here with my legal name up front, making art that I like, and being really, really proud of it.

          I, uh, don’t have a website though, just a Pixelfed account that I update with new work fairly often.

          I’m gonna start posting more work, not just because I like the work I post, but now with an added layer of spite! (Nothing functionally will change except my spirits will continue to be undampened, despite their recent attempts at doing so.)

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        Seriously, I don’t care if you’re Gregory fucking Crewdson, you do not say that shit to aspiring artists.

        Cultivate us goddammit.

        DO NOT DEMORALIZE PEOPLE OUT OF THIS FIELD.

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        Hey, you might want to reset the password on your account, someone used it to post something absolutely idiotic under your username. Just letting you know, so that you get this sorted out.

        Actually no, I’m preserving the text of what you said here so you can’t do a dirty delete: @[email protected] said “Hey man, I support your hobby, but uh, this is embarrassing to boast about. Be humble, you’re an amateur and that’s okay.”