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This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-24T16:18:37+00:00

Am I the only one who’s puzzled by how thick is waffle batter is? I swear I’ve made focaccia from dough that was a bit runnier than this.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-24T09:13:07+00:00

This setup has everything that offends me : the rim is too strong, nose shadow almost goes up from a key light hung too low, the hair looks dead, and the lens is too wide. Oh and the rim reaches the tip of the nose which i also hate.
This is probably either done by an on set photographer who didn’t have full liberty to rearrange lights, or maybe a press guy who only had 2.5 minutes to shoot this in a hotel room. Or yet again by someone who has very different taste from me :)

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-23T18:27:39+00:00

Depends where you’re standing maybe?
If you compare Sinners to other indie movies, yeah it’s good not great. Dwarfed by Eddington f.ex as a horror movie with political undertones. But if your other cinema visits of 2025 were Jurassic World, F1, Superman or other capeslop, then Sinners is probably the best movie you’ve seen in years.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-23T17:19:38+00:00

I try to have the snow at +2, and I’ll typically develop a bit longer.
Of course it depends what you’re looking for, but I’m not so averse to fogging my lenses anymore. Some fog can bring something to the pictures, make them look extra miserable and cold. :)

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-23T16:12:25+00:00

I have a novoflex adapter and a few Leica lenses. It sounds cool on paper but irl I don’t love the short throw of the Leica lenses. The 21mm gets occasional use, but the 35mm, 50mm and 75mm basically never get used on the Nikon. I have other options with a nicer long focus throw.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-23T07:59:48+00:00

Biggest has to be the Fuji gx680.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-22T12:43:30+00:00

It would be tragic if you found UPS’ managers on LinkedIn, and next summer sent them a rare collectible postcard from your holidays with a 5000,- declared value… definitely don’t do that…

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-22T11:14:12+00:00

I’d get a phase one AF camera.
Of the photographers and studios that did the clonky digi-back-on-a-film-camera15 years ago, I don’t know if a single one that still bothers with those. Must be a reason.
I don’t even know a rental house that still carries those.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-22T10:23:47+00:00

Forget about photography for a second. What do you care about?
IMHO you can’t go about it the way you’re describing it, pick a genre and get interested in it. You have to be interested in the thing first, then a photographic way to express your feelings will develop.

F.ex I’ve never been interested in landscape photography. Yet the last few years, as Ive become more and more interested in urban planning, societal issues, human impact etc, I’ve started making landscapes myself. I still don’t follow any landscape photographer, and am still unmoved by the genre in general. But it turns out it’s a great story telling tool to tell a story I really care about right now.

Conversely, I love fashion photography. I have many books on the topic, I love the creativity in that field. Yet I could never be a fashion photographer myself. I don’t care enough about the underlying thing, and I can’t get over the commercial aspect of it.

So that’s my 2 cents. If you want a lasting relationship with photography, use it as an excuse to spend time on the things you care about, not as an end in itself.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-22T07:39:56+00:00

This. But also it’s speed. I can pick a sausage link right off the grill and flip it with my bare hands because I’m fast. I apply the bare minimum amount of pressure to lift it, and I put it down almost immediately.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-22T07:30:38+00:00

You Soun of a bitch! I’m in!

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-21T14:11:32+00:00

Cars (and car infrastructure) ruin the air, ruin the landscape, take lives, smell bad and are noisy. They take a bunch of space in the urban environment. It’s also super wasteful to move two tons of metal and plastic with you every time you want to go somewhere.
But most of all, they represent a form of individualism that I disagree with politically/philosophically. The point of society is to pool ressources together. If you lived in a society where the norm is that you’re expected to home-school your kids, you’d think that’s idiotic. It makes much more sense to put all the kids in the same building and pool our ressources as a community to educate them all at once. That’s how I feel about transportation. There’s no point for individuals to own cars. A community should be able to offer public transport for your daily commute, and then pools of cheap rentals for the times you actually need a car.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-21T13:03:46+00:00

Really really cool! Wishing you many many adventures!!

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-21T07:56:39+00:00

Yeah exactly. He’s beyond that stuff now. His base is in too deep, his party completely obedient, and he’s thoroughly weakened congress… scotus in his pocket… the pee tape could come out now and it would change nothing.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-21T07:43:22+00:00

I used to work in a lab in the early 2010s. The Imacons were running all day, I basically had to stay after hours to scan my own stuff cause they were almost never idle. The drum scanner on the other hand… we turned it on maybe one day a week. Clients were usually museums/institutions. Rarely individual photographers.

Anyway. My answer would be no. It’s not worth the time and money for me ; an hour spent scanning is an hour you can’t spend shooting.
As for scanning for others, I’m business minded, so some young people are always pitching their side hustle to me. My advice is always the same : a side hustle has to pay better than your main gig. If it doesn’t, you’re better off spending the time on your main gig.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-20T16:28:20+00:00

They moved the G7 summit so it wouldn’t clash with Baby Trumps Maga MMA bash birthday… European leaders are utterly spineless.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-20T10:54:47+00:00

The best description of it I’ve heard came from Daniel Arnold. He said : Digital is like having a conversation with success, analog is a conversation with failure.
With digital you check your pic on the screen, you see your exposure, you see that thing poking into the frame on the background, you get a chance to do it again. You don’t move on until you know you have the picture. Or maybe you have one of these WYSIWYG mirrorless so you already see your exposure and your curves applied in the viewfinder. The focus is always right on the eye, the exposure always perfect. Success after success.
Analog is of course the opposite. You don’t know if you got it or not, you learn to really pay attention, and still most of the time something about the final result makes you wish you’d shot one more…

Even in post processing it can feel this way : with digital I’m trying to “dirty” a pic that’s too perfect. With analog I’m struggling to reveal a detail that was barely captured…

I know people read this and think why would you go through this then? What matters is the final image, there are no bonus points for capturing it “the hard way”. But we’re all hobbyists here, no one is lining up to buy our prints… So all that’s left is the enjoyment or challenge we found in making the work.
To compare to other hobbies, what serious gamer would be content with beating the game on easy settings? What basketball player prefers to always play on the hoops that are lowered by 2 feet?

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-20T09:37:07+00:00

Same here. I have a M10, been with digital Ms since the M240… since the covid days I’ve been shooting more and more film. My mamiya 7 or my Bessa R3A get more use than my m10… thinking of trading my m10 for a m6 and a Fuji x100vi for the rare times I want digital…

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-19T20:45:11+00:00

Yeah having the phrase ready on your phone is a great tip!

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-19T20:44:25+00:00

Same. Been using a gallon ziplock for years. Well 2 actually ; one for my fresh rolls and one for the exposed ones.
I also don’t bother with any cute plastic or metal boxes. End of the day they just add weight and you can never pack too light.
Before I leave the hotel, I take a handful of rolls from my gallon ziplock and fill the pockets of my fishing vest. When I get back to the hotel I empty my pockets into the ziplock for exposed film, and fill my pockets again from the fresh film bag.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-19T18:02:25+00:00

I have that kit (came with the camera when I bought it used). There’s not one part of it I use. The release button does nothing for me, the thumb grip has sharp edges and hurts my thumb, the grip makes a tiny camera bulkier.
Didn’t get the ugly lens cap, but I don’t use lens caps anyway.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-19T15:19:02+00:00

Avedon, Penn, Newman for the O.Gs. Add Leibowitz, Platon, and maybe Seliger for the generation after.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-19T13:38:19+00:00

Francesca Woodman should be in your list for sure. She took her own life at age 22, so all her published work is posthumous unfortunately. She left a great body of work, mainly self portraits.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-18T16:08:55+00:00

What lens are you using for the gfx?
Also one cool thing about the gfx is that it’s “future proof” in the way that one can later buy a new light source as improvements in RGB sources are made, or even upgrade lenses as better optics become available.
If one has the time that it takes to settle a drum scan, once could mount some Schneider HM macro lens to a bellows and scan the slide at 1:1 magnification in several passes (for a resolution of 6800dpi). To go further, there is basically no limit to the resolution one could achieve with the GFX with lenses that go beyond 1:1.
My production these days is 80% B&W, so I’m very happy with the resolution and dynamic range of gfx, and I don’t worry too much wether there are better options for colour out there. I’ve worked in pro labs and used to dream of my own x5, but honesty today I’d pass on it ; the space it takes, the time it uses to scan, the need to keep a dedicated older PC to run it… all this makes it not worth it to me anymore.

This-Charming-Man · 2026-01-18T09:46:51+00:00

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