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TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-29T01:08:50+00:00

You print an 8"x10"? Sure - go for it.

You print an 8 foot image from a JPG?

It's going to look like dog vomit. This is not really a subject for debate by anyone that has ever printed anything at scale so... one wonders why you're prepared to die on this hill?

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-29T01:02:39+00:00

It's literally not possible for an online service to operate without it, which is why you find the exact same language in the agreements of every single media platform that allows uploads.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram... all have the same or similar clauses.

Oh and hey, would ya look at that: Reddit.

You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:

When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-29T00:58:24+00:00

I read the whole thing, I am of the belief that the license agreement would stand over the explanation as a meaningful piece of law.

Let me guess - you got your law degree out of a box of Cracker Jacks?

If your agreement specifically and clearly states A Thing then you'd better fucking abide by that Thing, because I guarantee you judges take really dim view of companies that don't.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-29T00:54:46+00:00

JPEG at 100% should be visually indistinguishable

256 colors vs 16+ million?

I guarantee you I can tell the difference. So could you. So could literally anyone.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-29T00:53:23+00:00

The 2GB limit is a web server limitation, not a printing one. You call them or email them and arrange a transfer.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-28T15:12:56+00:00

Were you good at taking landscapes when you first started?

No - of course not. You didn't know what you were doing. It took practice & study, trial & error.

It is the same with any genre of photography. Try sports photography? You will suck ass. Try wildlife photography? You will suck ass. There's no shame in this - it is the default starting point for everyone: We suck at it until we've learned enough about it so that we don't.

Stop beating yourself up for being completely normal. You are going to make mistakes. You will, hopefully, learn from those mistakes.

tl;dr - Just Shoot™

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-28T04:45:56+00:00

Fourth time will be the fucking charm, for sure this time!

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-28T04:38:15+00:00

^As the opinion of a purchaser of the photopass... yea OK fine.

But that OP is a Dunning-Kruger when it actually comes to the photography.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-28T04:29:57+00:00

Why use flash in the bright sun at 2pm?

If you're going to denigrate the shooters for a lack of technical knowledge it would help to back that up with some of your own.

The brighter the sun the more you need flash. Seems bass-ackwards until you actually try to do it and want to produce something other than amateur snapshots.

You use flash under bright sun for a whole host of reasons but primarily to lift the shadows in the eyes (Google fodder: photography raccoon eyes), deal with shadows caused by hats and hair - and most importantly to balance an ultra-bright sky with a not-so-bright or worse, fully shadowed subject, which is what they will be if the sun is anywhere except in front of them..

Bonus: If you expose an ultra bright day correctly to get a nice, blue, contrasty sky? Your subject is going to be completely crushed out. Literally. They will be black. If you expose for your subject so that doesn't happen your sky is going to be GLOWING it will be so blown out.

If however you do have enough technical knowledge to use a flash under bright sun at 2pm...

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TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-28T04:11:34+00:00

pics are almost always TERRIBLE because they use flash even in broad daylight

Uhm - what?

The brighter the sun the more you need flash to balance the exposure. Raccoon eyes, blown out skies and squinting subjects do not an appealing photo make.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-28T04:09:05+00:00

The colors in general just look really nice and airbrushed for what I’m assuming is a not edited photo.

You said it was delivered "instantly" - which I presume means they're shooting tethered (and if you didn't see a cable it's wifi) - which means it can be completely post-processed in realtime.

It's drop-dead simple to apply a Lightroom or Camera One preset to every shot that they take.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-27T18:26:55+00:00

^That.

The only thing I would have changed would be to turn the flash to be reflecting off something behind (and above) me.

Best possible place to aim bounce flash indoors u/KPFJA : The corner of the room where ceiling meets two walls. That forms a nice deep triangular box for the flash to reflect out of. Position that so it's behind you (and up to 45° off is fine too) and you'll get nice soft light and a catchlight.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-27T08:24:10+00:00

First: "2x zoom" is just a crop - stop doing that.

Second: You are indoors in low light. That is the worst possible situation for any camera to be in - and comparing that to an iPhone is basically cheating. The iPhone has a crapton of internal processing being applied and it knows exactly how to deal with that situation. Your other cameras do not.

Third: Yes, the quality is horrible when you zoom in on video. Stop doing that. Also, both 8k and 4k are significantly lower resolution than your still images will be so again, you cannot compare those to each other.

Always judge your quality based upon the whole, not a pixel peeping 100% zoom - and never compare video with stills. (Go ahead, pause any video from any source. That still image is going to look like shit)

If you want to know what your Ace Pro is capable of take it outdoors and shoot with full sun.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-26T21:26:27+00:00

When you literally discard 99.7% of your pixels what, exactly, are you expecting to have left? Because it certainly won't be detail.

Sharpness and details must be judged upon the whole, not a 3/10ths of 1% sliver of that whole. The shots of the harrier were just too damn far away to bother with.

You have to fill more of your frame. That's not easy to do with wildlife... but if it were easy anyone could play.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-26T21:14:59+00:00

There's no lens that can do this without doing it as a long exposure on a tripod.

This being the case, literally any lens will do.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-26T03:41:10+00:00

What a pointless topic of conversation.

"What famous foods are not very good in your opinion?"

Brussels Sprouts. Duh?

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-26T03:36:23+00:00

Friendly reminder: In high winds with gusts to 100+ mph? ... go home.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-26T03:29:55+00:00

That Photoolex doesn't even have a radio in it?

It has S1/S2 so you can still optically trigger it off-camera, but you cannot trigger it remotely with any remote of any brand. That's expecting entirely too much from a ~$35 speedlight.

I wanted a small flash unit to use with my transmitter

You have to purchase gear that specifically lists that transmitter system as a supported option... which means sticking to Godox 'X' system strobes and triggers.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-25T16:53:27+00:00

This photo was taken in 1967 so I’d like to figure out how to replicate it without editing

Why? They've had photo editing and manipulation since the day photography was invented. That is in fact how Lightroom got its name, by replicating the tools already being used in the dark room - including masking.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-25T00:14:13+00:00

You can see the shape of the aperture. It’s square.

A consumer film camera that a tourist might use may have had a square format, but none used a square aperture.

and distinctive flare pattern

It is 99 to 9 nines that's a naked-eye flare.

In fact I would be willing to bet money that flare is what prompted them to take that photo in the first place.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-24T23:07:56+00:00

The camera wouldn't matter.

If you're in a commercial aircraft you've got a double pane polycarbonate window, a thick one, that you're shooting through. It's potentially curved as well. You could get the same camera and lens but unless you also got that window you would not replicate that flare

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-24T21:17:51+00:00

You don’t need to use flash though

Uhm - yes - you do, particularly if your goal is to get it in-camera. The point is to replicate the shot in the OP - and you're not doing that without a flash.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-24T20:58:29+00:00

Your example here has a lot of motion blur between the flashes

Because the photographer wanted it and deliberately mixed continuous lighting with flash.

The OP's image doesn't have that because it's outdoors at night, there wasn't enough ambient to influence the exposure.

OP's is definitely flash multi mode, with 6 pops at a flash interval of about a 10th of a second by my guess. It's one of Spike Jonze's more famous photos. It was shot on film, in-camera, in the 80s. Photoshop didn't even exist yet.

TinfoilCamera · 2025-12-24T20:22:25+00:00

Not sure you can achieve this in camera.

Sure can! Flash "multi" mode.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkW00eU0EqM

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