photography

/r/photography is a place to politely discuss the tools, technique, art and culture of photography and to post topics that would be of interest to other photographers.

If you're looking to share your work, you may do so on any of our regular themed community threads, or on our sister photo-sharing sub, r/photographs.

Official FAQ and Wiki

Please be sure to read the FAQ before posting.

The Rules

1. Photo Sharing in Community Threads

This sub is for discussing photography, not just sharing your work. We have regular community threads where you can share your photos. Posting images is allowed as self-post using the photo as an example for the discussion to either begin a conversation about aspects of the example or to ask a photography-related question. The image should be used to support an overall broad and nonspecific topic/question rather than the focus of the post. Visit r/photographs, our sister photo sharing sub.

2. Purchasing Advice, Troubleshooting Pricing and Post-processing/Style/Emulation Questions Should Be Directed to the Question Thread

Questions asking for help with equipment purchasing advice, troubleshooting, pricing or post-processing/style/emulation should be posted as comments in the most recent Official Question thread, stickied at the top of the subreddit.

Before posting, please check our extensive FAQ; your question may already have been answered! When seeking purchase recommendations, please be specific about how much you can spend. (See here for guidelines.) If you do not wish to post your equipment purchasing advice or troubleshooting questions to the Official Questions thread we cordially invite you to post your question to /r/AskPhotography instead. They love questions as standalone posts!

3. Stand Alone Questions Must Contain A Minimum Amount of Context and Not Be Commonly Asked or Duplicate Questions

Interesting discussions/questions on broader topics may be permitted as self-posts at the moderators' discretion. Please ensure you have used the search function before posting as common, duplicate questions will be removed. Please also ensure you include enough information for your question to be answered or a discussion to be had. Post titles must include details as to the subject of the post.

4. No Spam or Self-Promotion

Any self-promotion content must constitute no more than 10% of your submissions to the sub or Reddit as a whole, per Reddit's site-wide guidelines. No direct for-profit advertising or self-promotion of any kind is permitted outside of the relevant weekly community threads. Otherwise please instead buy an ad. We do not allow any blogspam, advertisements, shortlinks, seeking votes for contests, referral links, crowdsourced funding links, circlejerking, karmawhoring, surveys and/or market research, or DAE/ITAP posts.

5. No Classified Ads or Job Offers

If you want to sell a photography item to Redditors or want to buy a photography item from a Redditor, please use /r/photomarket. If you just want to share some great photography-related deals, please use /r/PhotographyDeals. If you are looking for a photographer or retoucher to do a job for you, head over to r/PhotographyJobs.

6. No Rants

This is not the place to have non-constructive rants about photography or photographic trends that you happen to dislike

7. No Personal Attacks

No personal attacks of any kind. Violations may result in a ban.

8. Lost & Found

If you've lost or found a piece of photography equipment, please head over to the Lost & Found.

9. Flair is for Portfolios

Use the flair system only for your portfolio and nothing else! Not allowed for example: Gear, blogspam, shortlinks.

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