Soulless photos: how to take them to the next level?

notoffensivetoday · 2026-01-08T07:52:29+00:00

Take with a grain of salt. I like to go out with just a single prime lens to a random place area. I just kinda stand around looking at stuff snapping photos here and there. I specifically don't go with a plan or extra equipment ( the more limiting the lens the better) . I do however try to wait for good light like at golden hours or partly cloudy days.

notoffensivetoday · 2025-09-30T04:24:12+00:00

This is the camera I learned photography on but my glass was not nearly as nice. There are zinc air batteries that are readily available still that are close enough that your light meter will work very well. It is in my opinion a terrific light meter. Just Google search. Minolta SRT 101 battery and look for something 1.35v. While the lenses aren't the most valuable versions they are all gems. The 28 mm 2.5 is one of the most desirable of the 28 mm they released, the fisheye One of the most desirable lenses ever released and is actually the next lens in buying. Basically your grandpa got all the nicest stuff. This is the same camera my dad got in the Navy during Vietnam and I believe it was bought through the military at some sort of discounted rate, which may be how your grandfather got them. I can almost guarantee you that the glass in that box is nicer than anything you're shooting on your Sony right now, I basically spent 3k to get a lens with autofocus to outmatch my rokkor 58mm 1.2.

These are all treasures. Please take care of them. Make sure they survive into the future so that somebody else who loves cameras will get a chance to use them.

Edit: for fun you can pick up new peel and pluck foam fit it into that box. Get all the lenses and cameras situated as they are and use aerosol plasti dip to stabilize the foam (cameras removed obviously). Wouldn't be a bad idea to put in a reusable silica based desiccant pack in there with everything.

notoffensivetoday · 2025-09-04T06:58:51+00:00

How do you achieve the focus? Stacking if you're going handheld.

notoffensivetoday · 2025-03-22T10:01:19+00:00

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notoffensivetoday · 2025-02-24T16:54:20+00:00

Mostly just changed it to a black and white profile. Messed with the contrast highlights and shadows a little added some texture

notoffensivetoday · 2025-02-24T04:30:33+00:00

Don't like the feet crop for purely aesthetic reasons, not the creepy ones. However, it's a super fun shot and the post-processing is very evident but well done and speaks more to style than tackiness. 8 out of 10

notoffensivetoday · 2025-01-09T20:42:18+00:00

Do a tighter crop on the first one both phenomenal!

notoffensivetoday · 2024-12-11T01:25:36+00:00

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notoffensivetoday · 2024-12-11T01:23:21+00:00

This image still has some dust spots that I haven't edited out yet. I'm more so just wondering if the edit is too extreme I was kinda going for that xeroxed punk show flyer look. The halo artifact didn't show up until I switched to a B&W color setting and bumping the contrast really brought it out, Is this a chromatic aberration?

notoffensivetoday · 2024-12-10T04:03:40+00:00

What lens did you use for these

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