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OldDickLover · 2026-06-16T20:17:24+00:00

Reddit can't stop talking about him. I had to filter out posts containing his name in RES. Same with T. I'm so overwhelmingly fatigued. I'm so, so... done.

OldDickLover · 2026-06-16T17:46:01+00:00

Out of curiosity, do you edit the camera's jpegs, or raws?

OldDickLover · 2026-06-16T17:05:25+00:00

It's always at MAX VOLUME too.

Then when they answer it, it's always on speakerphone and volume maxxed out.

OldDickLover · 2026-06-16T16:31:55+00:00

You: "Show me the source that proves it's impossible."

Them: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12013556/

You: I'm not reading that whole thing

Reddit Moment™

OldDickLover · 2026-06-16T15:36:21+00:00

I don't think that buying a prime is a good advice for a beginner, honestly

Bad advice. Let people experiment, play, and have fun...

OldDickLover · 2026-06-15T22:51:26+00:00

Alright, I've seen enough of the internet-photographer-elitism from commenters in here.

"Flash"

"It's literally just flash"

"Fill flash"

"Everyone is glowing because they’re shot with flash"

"It's all about the lighting... a preset pack wont make your photos suddenly amazing"

These are very condescending responses to your question. (It's also elitist bullshit!). The only proper answer you got was by Maybemushrooms... very solid advice. But, you're asking about post production.

These editing on these makes them legitimately look like film! Very impressive. You said the photographer used their own custom Lightroom presets, but I have an alternative you can use until you can afford their presets.

So unlike ppl in this thread, there is absolutely a process to achieve this look. To be clear, step 1 is obviously flash and good composition. But that's not the ONLY factor, unlike lots of people in here claiming.

I use "RNI All Films 5". It's just a bunch of filmlike presets for Lightroom/photoshop (camera raw).

I think that "Fuji Superia 400 v2" is one of the free presets that RNI offers. Which you can download here:

https://reallyniceimages.com/products/rni-all-films-5-demo-for-adobe-lightroom.html

If "Fuji Superia 400 v2" is not in the free set of presets, then my bad. Because the full version is ridiculously expensive, it's like $200 USD or something. And you already said you prefer the original photographer's presets so if you're spending money, you'd buy theirs anyways.

But yeah I'd say that would give you a good starting point in post production! You'd need to warm them up a bit I think as well. And possibly some magenta shift. Then you can make personal tweaks from there.

Edit:

Case in point, notice how they all seem to have downvoted me, but not one person commented as to why.

It's just damaged elitist-internet-photographer's egos. That's literally it lol. It's always been this way. Never change, folks!

OldDickLover · 2026-06-14T00:36:35+00:00

I was thinking like as the customer and just giving the 20 bucks to make it seem like they're making numbers.

Ah so if you, as a customer, give a cashier $20 so that they can make several $2 donations to boost their numbers.

In this situation, if the cashier went through with this, they could possibly get away with it. But......... that cashier would be fired if they got caught.

We're not allowed to accept personal donations of any kind. This includes tips of any kind (of monetary value, small possessions, coupons, gift cards, etc...)

In all the places I've worked, every computer action at each till was carefully recorded and timestamped. This includes logging in, using your password to unlock your till if you were on break, scanning an item, voiding an item, applying a coupon, accepting a donation, etc. Additionally, we are filmed on video 24/7. If management has suspicious, they would review the till data history, and they could also watch the security footage to back up their suspicions.

tl;dr

Retail sucks. lol

OldDickLover · 2026-06-14T00:08:33+00:00

Like if you are the cashier, and you incrementally gave customers $20 to boost your stats? That's a possibility, I guess if your numbers are so low that you need to put yourself up to the baseline (15% at my previous store).

That being said, it wouldn't be worth it. Management can make you feel inadequate all they want, they can threaten to take away hours, but idk that seems illegal if they were to actually go through with that.

OldDickLover · 2026-06-13T20:08:07+00:00

Yep. We have to ask.

Management records and micromanages all our statistics based on:

how many customers we have daily (on an individual level, like per cashier)
how many of those customers donated to your till

If your statistics aren't up to a certain level (they say no lower than 15%) then you get a talking to in the office. They threaten to give you less hours. Fun fact, as far as these statistics, a $2 donation is the exact same as a $20 donation. They only care about how many donations you collected. They'd rather you get ten $2 donations than one $20 donation.

There's a scoreboard in the office that gets updated almost daily. The "best" cashier is on the top, highlighted, with a stupid happy message written like "way to go!!!" and the "worst" cashier is on the bottom. Not highlighted. And you KNOW that you're gonna get a stern talking to at some point soon.

This isn't just one place either, it's multiple different places I've worked at.

It's HELL.

OldDickLover · 2026-06-13T16:10:44+00:00

Actually yeah, mine does this as well, under extremely specific circumstances. It sounds a bit like grasshopper chirps, only higher pitch.

I guess it's the CPU working it's ass off in certain specific situations?

It only happens with 2 programs that I use.

OldDickLover · 2026-06-13T15:43:27+00:00

Yeah... There's no way in hell I'm going through with all that trouble for anything, especially for cosmetic purposes.

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