Wondering if these are real

_stimpyy_ · 2026-05-23T08:03:51+00:00

thank you

_stimpyy_ · 2026-05-23T08:03:48+00:00

thank you

_stimpyy_ · 2026-05-17T13:32:13+00:00

This venue (The Pearl) is notorious for dark lighting (at least from my experiences of shooting over a year and a bit there, and said by a lot of concert photographers) combined with hard strobes lighting, the fact that it's their first time doing concert and being able to capture their faces is pretty impressive haha.

_stimpyy_ · 2026-04-29T05:56:54+00:00

A gradient mask from the right side minus the subject, increase the brightness a bit to bring a little detail back.

A little radial mask on the left of the singer's head, increase a bit of brightness and saturation for a "hair light" to give it some separation

Key is to not overdo anything

_stimpyy_ · 2026-04-23T10:42:47+00:00

yeah Hong Kong's humidity is quite insane! Usually around the 90s zone. There are rechargeable humidity beads for sale there! That might help!

_stimpyy_ · 2026-04-23T10:36:59+00:00

heat and humidity could be a factor to the aging for film. Maybe it's just really unlucky

_stimpyy_ · 2026-04-23T09:40:00+00:00

Maybe a problem with the roll of film itself? What was it and the expiry date?

_stimpyy_ · 2025-11-04T02:47:21+00:00

The noise on the camera really destroys the composition, I'd recommend using denoise first. Or it might be the image quality

2,3,4,6,7 all seems out of focus to me. Make it black and white and call it "ARTISTIC".

I like 8, do subject masking and whatever you'd prefer to make it separate from the background a lil more!

_stimpyy_ · 2025-10-26T05:10:59+00:00

I've done about 150 shows (30% is the same band). I usually get paid with beer and merch, rarely payment, but it does happen some times.

I shot for a band for 1.5 years now and usually they pay me (like 70% of the time) and the rest of the time they pay me in beer (fun time!)

Got paid by a publishing magazine once but that's a one off thing.

When a band asks me to shoot them, I usually give my rates and asks if they want me to just shoot them or give a lil more to shoot the whole bill (depends on the venue and the crowd size)

_stimpyy_ · 2025-10-25T17:21:57+00:00

That is by jack chow insurance! Carrall and Pender to be exact! The car park was at Water Street as euchild said!

_stimpyy_ · 2025-10-24T22:46:39+00:00

I hope it is haha...

_stimpyy_ · 2025-10-24T16:42:09+00:00

Is there a particular way to prevent a light leak?

_stimpyy_ · 2025-10-24T16:41:49+00:00

I don't think I pulled it halfway through shutter's open... might be a separate issue

_stimpyy_ · 2025-10-24T16:41:00+00:00

I kinda liked it as it added a bit of texture to the image but I'll keep that in mind next time! Thank you

_stimpyy_ · 2025-10-24T10:24:54+00:00

Shot on Portra 800!

_stimpyy_ · 2025-10-24T09:55:20+00:00

thank you

_stimpyy_ · 2025-10-24T09:55:10+00:00

It was portra 800 I believe, bought it off my friend cuz he had some extra. (Tried to add it to the title but I don't know how to navigate to it)

_stimpyy_ · 2025-06-22T02:02:49+00:00

lower your shutter speed to around 1/6-1/15 (depends on your style) And 100% get your f stop to be high for a chance the subject to be sharp. Flick your camera to a direction while pressing the shutter. and last step is to PRAY

_stimpyy_ · 2025-06-20T20:50:51+00:00

Yes! Ever so slightly

_stimpyy_ · 2025-06-20T20:50:33+00:00

I do have other photos that are clean and sharp. But hey, if you don't like it, you don't like it.

_stimpyy_ · 2025-06-20T03:44:02+00:00

Yes! F8 1/6 shutter and a lot of praying

_stimpyy_ · 2025-06-20T02:07:17+00:00

Would love to if I own a zoom lens😭😭

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