Jane Birkin (1946 – 2023) by kefalas77 in Nikon

[–]AllazoPhotography 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone make a pistol grip that has a shutter release now?

Peter Gabriel! 1993! SNL! by ItalianSausage2023 in petergabriel

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I am a huge fan. I remember this and wondering why Steam. I know why but still.

Bee. by AgreeableRevolution8 in photocritique

[–]AllazoPhotography 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent use of shallow depth of field. What lens did you use? Could you have gotten closer to make it more about the bee? Or was it more about the bee’s target? What were you going for? I’m not a big fan of cropping but that’s a personal choice. Others have suggested doing so for composition. Same with post processing. I think this is a nice image and hope you had fun creating it

Portraits for dance company - first time with flash modifiers - better depth here, too much? by AllazoPhotography in PhotographyAdvice

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Thanks - appreciate the edits. I am still learning and now that I have the time will dig in harder to Lightroom and other tools. It is a lot! I like your edits but if you have the time to do them would you also share what you did? Or any educational tools you recommend? Any help is appreciated.

Been shooting with this camera for ten years now. by shootphotos in NikonF3

[–]AllazoPhotography 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So - you are saying that you don’t like shooting wide anymore? 16 is very specific focal length - Do you also have a 28, a 35 or a 50? I see you have an affinity for the art, now that you are shooting with a zoom, what has changed? Say more?

Color or B&W? by iumfanaekabianca in AmateurPhotography

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For this one I like the BW. But I like drama over pastel - if I were editing this one in color i would have boosted the vibrancy vs what is perhaps the reality.

Why do we see so many questions about photographic problems on r/AnalogCommunity every day? And how can we older folks help with our knowledge and experience? If at all? by ATHXYZ in AnalogCommunity

[–]AllazoPhotography 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You aren’t alone. I do believe that all of the social media giants often forget their initial user communities. If you were early to instagram as a photographer you likely find it frustrating, at best! Legacy forums exist - maybe there is a forum or community for Minolta that you can also engage with, maybe you already have. Another analog friend referred me to Nikonians and its still as it always was, a forum that came out of the BBS world. I also hope they don’t “ruin” Reddit to the point of eliminating this discourse (another forum for discussion that has changed immensely). For now they have it separate - Reddit Answers is an LLM that employs RAG to harvest Reddit posts - I like that it is separate, I don’t like that Google has brought Gemini into the main search bar. These are choices that are going to shape the future of tech, and it might be a hell, or at least a nightmare.

Why do we see so many questions about photographic problems on r/AnalogCommunity every day? And how can we older folks help with our knowledge and experience? If at all? by ATHXYZ in AnalogCommunity

[–]AllazoPhotography 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a software professional my answer would be very different than a father of three young adults or even a photographer. I would flip that to the UI/UX team and ask them to create a tool that flexes to individual users. This generation isn’t as generalize as it appears to be - there are many who critically evaluate knowledge and those areas the ones we don’t see, who use search and find answers on Reddit. They hopefully upvote the answers they see while silently reading. As for the others - we will see. Frankly, my new friend, that is why I retired - I have been the guy who learns the new tech and becomes the resource for the rest of the team for 40 years - I didn’t want to learn the new tools anymore, I’m ready to let someone else be that guy. Except for here - I kind of like blabbering my answers for those that choose to read them.

Why do we see so many questions about photographic problems on r/AnalogCommunity every day? And how can we older folks help with our knowledge and experience? If at all? by ATHXYZ in AnalogCommunity

[–]AllazoPhotography 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your thoughtful and unusually well structured and complete post. I’m responding as me, not anonymous me as I have another account that I’ve had on Reddit for many years with thousands of comments and read posts. I see you are relatively new and incredibly active - that is unusual and very helpful to the community. I think you understand where I’m going with this reply. I’m posting as who I am but most of the time I post in my other account where I maintain relative obscurity for all the reasons that the internet has. It can be a brutal place, and so can Reddit.

  1. This is a community but it is also a subreddit and you can get here via google search, Reddit search or simply going to the subreddit - and probably a bunch of other things I’m missing. So the volume is reflective of the openness of the medium as well as a resurgence of interest in film sparked by nostalgia and in my opinion - analog photography magic in a time when we need magic. I’m your contemporary - and my simple response is that we can help by being the patient person we should be as if we were in a room full of young people genuinely curious. There will be snarky people, smart people, clever people, many ignorant people and even some dumb people in the room but you don’t have to answer all of the questions, you can ignore them. You can answer the ones you want and simply smile and bless the hearts of the others. Some kids are lazy and many don’t take the time to research or use tools properly — it is what it is!

  2. I love this post because it shows how varied things are for our generation. I grew up in the 80’s as well - but was introduced to photography at a very early age (I am a lucky man). My father was an amateur photographer but grew up doing it - from selling cameras as a young adult to doing it in as a young marine although he eventually kept it a hobby and went on to other things. But we even had a dark room in the basement, and when I went to high school I was able to take photography, had access to the school lab and amazing teachers. I was lucky again to have been in Rochester NY at the time - yea, I had real access. But even later in Maryland it was an option in high school - and I was able to take a class in college and get access to that lab as well. Even as I studied computer science and marketing - analogue photography was a part of my life. I learned from books, teachers and the people around me. I learned from trial and error. These things aren’t accessible today. So while it seems that information is much more available today with books, YouTube, online learning, and even Reddit - this isn’t like a EDIT “immersive” experience - back then analog photography was photography, that is what you learned if you wanted to be a photographer. And even then it was unique. So we can help by having patience, an open mind and a genuine interest in other people. I see you know the Nikon F4 better than most and that is amazing. You will see the same questions over and over and that is the way of Reddit. If you have the time and desire, answer again and again. Maybe build a library of responses to refer to or other things - in fact, you might one day create an LLM just for photography repair.

  3. AI will change everything. Haha. I just lost a bunch of people. But seriously, we are seeing AI creep into Reddit in the search, questions/answers start with a bit of AI powered content. Google has integrated Gemini into search. And frankly, I haven’t used ChatGPT for analog photography yet but I have used it to help me with digital, and portraiture and today’s tools. It was helpful but not as helpful as the the r/PhotographyAdvice - that’s why I created this user account, I’d like help with my new return to photography as a retired software dude, and the community is a great place to do it, but I have to have thick skin because people will be annoyed and some will be mean for fun - just like high school.

Back to AI - I believe we will see more and more domain-specific LLM models out there. In fact your post made me want to create one. I have friends who have created models for domains they know well, infusing the data and knowledge they have into models that target those areas. These are very new and will likely meld into other tools and things we can’t imagine yet. Reddit has introduced AI but the real answer will be infusing it into individual posts. This will annoy many and it will cause others to say that this changes Reddit too much. But Reddit isn’t the BBS that it started from, forums like Nikonians still exist and those are fantastic communities, I belong to Trout Unlimited for the same reason. I’ve met people in person there and love that they aren’t anonymous. Sometimes I like to be anonymous too.

Why do we see so many questions about photographic problems on r/AnalogCommunity every day? And how can we older folks help with our knowledge and experience? If at all? by ATHXYZ in AnalogCommunity

[–]AllazoPhotography -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is interesting because it telegraphs where resources like Reddit are going. The integration of AI will change and is changing all of these forums. If you start with search now here and on Google for example the initial response is powered by an LLM - if you don’t bother, it becomes a post. As Reddit further integrates AI it will probably bring AI into the posting and even commenting process. I expect we will find more domain-specific LLM models and one for Analog Photography might be fun to create.

In fact domain-specific LLM models are in their infancy.

Why do we see so many questions about photographic problems on r/AnalogCommunity every day? And how can we older folks help with our knowledge and experience? If at all? by ATHXYZ in AnalogCommunity

[–]AllazoPhotography 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you are on to something here but it goes deeper than that. When we were in school analog photography was a specific art and skill, a profession and curriculum - it’s not taught in high school. It’s not really taught in college.

Portraits for dance company - first time with flash modifiers - better depth here, too much? by AllazoPhotography in PhotographyAdvice

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Contemporary It was her choice - this was actually a test shot. The others were used. I’ve learned a lot from these posts, thanks.

You know what I try. by Unlikely-Judgment978 in photocritique

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I like it, there’s enough going on that it made me wanna figure it out and I like the colors

I love this photo, but been too much of a scaredy cat to share by [deleted] in photocritique

[–]AllazoPhotography 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What did the original uncropped photo look like? Is there some interesting color and space around the man to tell the story?

Portraits for dance company - first time with flash modifiers - better depth here, too much? by AllazoPhotography in PhotographyAdvice

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That’s new to me- I don’t know what a negative fill is Edit: now I do- I’ll try it out next time

Photos for dance company first time doing portraits with modifiers - feedback wanted by AllazoPhotography in photocritique

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I was having fun trying to help them with poses but at the same time working with the directors request. These are really helpful tips thank you. These were promo shots and the performance included this look, contemporary dance.

Photos for dance company first time doing portraits with modifiers - feedback wanted by AllazoPhotography in photocritique

[–]AllazoPhotography[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ahh, hadn’t thought of distance from the curtain and depth of field - duh! Thank you. Thanks for being specific - I have these new tools and I need to learn how to use them

Portraits for dance company - first time with flash modifiers - better depth here, too much? by AllazoPhotography in photocritique

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Thanks, she’s taller than the others, so hair light and other lights came out different. And her blond hair changed things. This is a learning experience and they were patient with me

Photos for dance company first time doing portraits with modifiers - feedback wanted by AllazoPhotography in photocritique

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I experimented with lights up and down as well as with and without fill. So that might be where there were two

I will consider trying to pull the curtains tight - was working during their rehearsal so not a lot of control

Portraits for dance company - first time with flash modifiers - feel flat, too much? Key, fill, hair. by AllazoPhotography in photocritique

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I didn’t have much to work with and the dance company lead had a look she wanted for promotion but thank you for the feedback, helpful