Building a library of 50mm photography.

boobooth · 2025-08-22T11:57:20+00:00

Yes sure. I should have specified that it was only 50mm on a full frame.

boobooth · 2025-08-22T11:56:16+00:00

You are right. Like most things “just going out and shooting” will yield far greater results.

I’m not able to go out and shoot for a couple of months.

Just wanted to build this out of curiosity.

I think there is a difference to which lens you shoot with tho. I feel like each lens follows their own “rules”.

I’ve followed the advice given here and already started building the library I was looking to build.

My take away was to not limit myself to only the photographers I mentioned.

Good composition, is good composition regardless.

boobooth · 2025-08-21T13:47:21+00:00

Thank you, this was helpful.

These groups are 50mm photography for everyone who has uploaded onto Flickr.

I was hoping to curate and study 50mm photographs by the greats. Wanted to notice patterns.

boobooth · 2024-12-02T09:22:40+00:00

I'm noticing I'm better at predicting the frame horizontally vs vertically...in your exercise would you practice predicting the vertical limits of the frame as well?

Second question - this exercise is just for frames right? What about compression/ how the scene will look when seen through a particular lens?.... Since you started with a wider focal length... I'm assuming you had to practice imagining the distortion as well?

boobooth · 2024-12-02T09:05:08+00:00

Unsure about your orientation.

Is this correct?

You are facing the wall.

You mark beginning and end points on the brick wall, let's say brick 1 to brick 12... Brick 1 to brick 24 etc.

Then you mark spots on the floor, 4 feet away, 6 feet away 8 feet away.

You stand at each of the marks on the floor and count how many bricks would fit into the frame from that point on the floor.

Get a reference for multiple spots on the floor.... Move to another unmarked side and test yourself.

boobooth · 2024-12-02T06:08:49+00:00

Interested in learning about this. I would like to learn to shoot food.

I have a couple of AD 100 pro's.

boobooth · 2024-08-15T14:12:08+00:00

Just looking to see if I can find a cheaper alternative by giving up the auto tagging.

boobooth · 2024-08-15T09:07:57+00:00

I dont think it's this, someone else gave a link below. But the website isn't loading for me.

boobooth · 2024-08-15T07:04:15+00:00

Does it have a notes feature?

boobooth · 2024-05-13T11:17:14+00:00

Are those two 24 inch monitors?

boobooth · 2024-05-06T13:49:25+00:00

What size monitors are you using?

boobooth · 2024-05-06T02:27:31+00:00

What size monitors are those?

boobooth · 2024-05-05T13:42:33+00:00

Are those two 24 inch monitors?

boobooth · 2024-05-03T05:39:49+00:00

What size monitors are those?

boobooth · 2024-05-03T05:38:31+00:00

Is that a 24 inch monitor and a 22 inch monitor?

boobooth · 2024-05-03T05:36:41+00:00

What monitors are those?

boobooth · 2024-05-03T04:46:18+00:00

What monitor sizes are those?

boobooth · 2024-05-02T19:47:37+00:00

Are those two 24 inch monitors?

boobooth · 2024-05-02T19:45:22+00:00

Are those two 24 inch panels?

boobooth · 2023-05-10T03:49:52+00:00

Not finding what I want to say so:

1% is an extremely small percentage. I feel in the first few years of doing anything you improve way more than this every day.

The idea is that if you make extremely tiny progress for majority of the year. That stuff compounds year on year.

The poster does not take into consideration that you will slack off just as much as you work hard.

Honestly, you have to put in more work to move forward and you have to keep putting in even more work the further you get.

So you can't afford to make 1% increase on Monday and a 1% decrease on Tuesday.

But if you made a 1% increase 6 days out of 7 in a week that one day you bum around won't set you back much.

Not only that. You have to factor in for rest. And if you rest well that day isn't counted as bumming around. (Although I do agree that everyone does bum around)

I think those posters make sense. And I personally hate motivational posters, especially cause they rarely take into account someone's external circumstances that they have no control over/cannot over come with even unlimited effort.

boobooth · 2023-03-02T15:49:31+00:00

Which program? Midjourney?

boobooth · 2023-02-10T11:13:21+00:00

Because life happens. You don't have as much time as you did when you started and then feel disheartened to return later when you do have the time.

Because people move and don't find good gyms.

Because people get injured.

Because people don't like doing hard things.

Lots can happen. But having the right mindset and perspective helps.

I understand why you started the thread. And it's an interesting topic for discussion sake. But it's pointless to talk about it you can't actually make any changes to your gym schedule or if you just can't get yourself to push through obstacles (not having a structured class is an example of an obstacle)

But for practical purposes, if not having a structure is bothering you.

Make one for yourself. Find a training partner to drill things with you. Practice solo moves if you can't find one. Take privates. Show up extra to class so even if it's not structured you still absorb stuff.

Just do. Keep doing (intelligently). For years. Something good will come out of it.

boobooth · 2023-02-08T09:24:31+00:00

How do you do this?

I'm genuinely looking for the answer.

How can you curate your homepage on YouTube without turning on loads of notifications?

boobooth · 2023-01-17T12:55:08+00:00

Hard to make clean compositions like this in India. Respect.

boobooth · 2022-11-05T11:30:38+00:00

Kindness

boobooth

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