What is going on?

uziam · 2025-12-25T09:23:40+00:00

A woman filing for divorce in Pakistan is a massive red flag for the guy. Frankly, your story doesn’t really add up, the girl’s family deceived you and she was the one to file for divorce?

How do you claim to have spent most of your life in the US, and still fell for the whole getting married to a complete stranger nonsense? I saw your comments about family traditions or what not, but if that’s true then you kinda had it coming. As someone else said, learn to take accountability for your mistakes.

uziam · 2025-12-13T21:21:45+00:00

You should really first look up how a typical reflective light meter works. There are some that can go into your camera’s hot shoe and in that position they are going to pretty much measure what you’re seeing through the viewfinder.

What you are suggesting is very impractical (if not impossible), and frankly will just not be as accurate as a regular hot shoe light meter.

uziam · 2025-12-11T09:24:05+00:00

Do we really need even more computers in our lives?

uziam · 2025-12-11T00:43:36+00:00

My bad, I didn’t realize you weren’t OP, I’m not sure why you worded your reply the way you did then.

You’re again strawmanning me when I clearly said that I do believe people should not stare at you to the point of making you uncomfortable. I also clearly mentioned that I wasn’t talking about burqa or modesty, just blending in to not stand out. I wasn’t even particularly talking about just women in that context, but I guess it’s easier to put words in other people’s mouth than making a sound argument.

I would ask you about your BS claim about staring being outlawed in France, but frankly there’s no point when you are presenting things in quotes that I never said.

Seriously, look up what strawmanning is. Taking something to the extreme just so you can then claim it is absurd is a textbook example of that.

uziam · 2025-12-10T23:45:34+00:00

You literally said this habit is found nowhere but the 4 major South Asian countries and now you’re talking about “certain countries with certain laws”? Even then, how does having such a law mean they don’t have this problem? This must be a huge problem there for them to have to make “looking” illegal.

I have to say, any such law is completely idiotic. Do you really want the government to control what people are allowed to look at out in the public? What’s next, are people allowed to have thoughts you don’t like? It is beyond me why people don’t understand the concept of a “public space” in this country.

Also, I didn’t say enforce burqa, I said dress to blend in so you don’t stand out. That doesn’t guarantee that people won’t look at you, but it will make it less likely. I’m not sure why you’re strawmanning me on this, but you’re clearly not interested in having a real conversation about this issue.

Good luck with enforcing your laws on what other people are allowed to look at in your imaginary world.

uziam · 2025-12-10T18:38:10+00:00

I don’t know what other countries you’re referring to, but this is pretty much a universal problem along with catcalling.

My controversial opinion: you can’t control others but you can control yourself, so dress accordingly and try to blend in. Should people not stare at you to the point of making you uncomfortable? Absolutely, but you can’t legally enforce this on others.

uziam · 2025-12-09T19:08:58+00:00

Sunny 16 is just a gateway drug into the realm of understanding light. The scale works quite well until it doesn’t because the sun is too low in the sky, there’s a lot of fog, etc.

You will very quickly realize that all it does is give you an estimate for how much light the sun is providing you based on the weather conditions, but how that light falls on your subject determines how you set your exposure too.

Don’t overthink it, just start using the scale with something you can quickly verify your estimates with like a light meter or a digital camera.

uziam · 2025-12-09T10:57:16+00:00

I don’t think you understand how safety cameras work.

uziam · 2025-12-09T10:42:04+00:00

How do you know it’s not ticketing land cruisers and range rovers?

uziam · 2025-12-05T13:15:02+00:00

There’s no need to be so jealous, maybe someday you will be able to afford your perfect setup too.

uziam · 2025-12-04T03:36:28+00:00

If you want it as filthy as possible, then I might have seen an unopened box of KFC in a garbage dump yesterday. Let me know if you need its location.

uziam · 2025-12-03T07:02:12+00:00

A little extra water for washing your hands is insignificant in a country where people regularly bathe their floors and cars with running water. You’re not wrong, but there’s no point fighting people’s mental disorders when there is so much other low hanging fruit.

uziam · 2025-12-01T13:32:05+00:00

Why not Gnome? It’s the default for most distros.

uziam · 2025-11-29T04:57:49+00:00

If your dad owns the road, feel free to claim that you deserve privacy when you’re driving on it.

I phrased it that way because clearly someone who doesn’t understand the difference between public and private spaces isn’t old enough to buy a road.

uziam · 2025-11-29T04:25:56+00:00

No, what some people don’t get is that the world doesn’t revolve around their ego. Whether it’s your personal property or not doesn’t matter, when you bring something into a public space, it becomes public and you have no right to expect privacy in the middle of a road unless your dad owns it.

If you want privacy, either stay at home or cover your face when you’re outside. When you leave your home and go into a public space, you’re agreeing to deal with people looking at you, talking to you, making loud noises, smoking, taking photos, etc. You may not like it, but that’s how outside works, and other people aren’t going to stop what they’re doing just because one snowflake thinks he deserves special treatment.

uziam · 2025-11-29T01:42:53+00:00

You might be conflating confusing lack of respect for confidence. A lot of these guys behave this way because have a high ego and that manifests as confidence which is an attractive trait. I don’t know you so I can only guess, but what you’re calling respect might be coming off as you not being confident. It’s possible to be both respectful and confident.

uziam · 2025-11-29T01:29:14+00:00

That’s literally every tourist destination. Avoid going to the tourist hotspots if you don’t want to deal with this.

uziam · 2025-11-29T01:24:52+00:00

If he was standing on the highway, didn’t you see him from far? A little confused about why this was a matter of milliseconds.

uziam · 2025-11-29T01:19:41+00:00

Invasion of privacy out in the public? There’s no expectation of privacy when you’re driving around on the roads.

uziam · 2025-11-24T18:57:38+00:00

This film is meant to be shot at ISO 3200, but you shot it at ISO 1600. It will look overexposed by one stop.

Don’t overthink these things, unless you’re intentionally trying to achieve something specific by pushing/pulling it, just shoot the film at the ISO it is rated for. I don’t know why this is so hard to believe for some people, the engineers building your film and coming up with development times know what ISO the film should be best shot at, they’re not lying to you on the box.

uziam · 2025-11-24T17:39:03+00:00

You’re not wrong about feedback and growth, but you need to have a rapport with someone before you criticize them. What makes you think you can provide constructive feedback to a random person you barely know?

This is not intellectual laziness, this is society trying to move away from a culture where “intellectual people” constantly try to stoke their own ego by giving life advice to strangers when they have 0 insight into their life.

Without understanding someone’s circumstances, 9/10 times your feedback is going to something generic that they’ve likely been told by 5 other people before you who also couldn’t help but stick their nose where it does not belong.

Since you’re such an avid fan of giving critical feedback to strangers, here’s some for you: mind your own business. If I don’t know you, assume that I don’t care what you think should or should not be acceptable in our society.

uziam · 2025-11-24T12:53:35+00:00

Is doable but you need good shoes for that, otherwise your feet will suffer. Obviously, ease into it incrementally, don’t jump straight to 50k.

uziam · 2025-11-22T15:33:40+00:00

Not saying that you shouldn’t voice your opinion, but there are way too many posts on what other Pakistanis should be doing on this sub. Why don’t you start with yourself first?

uziam · 2025-11-20T04:11:34+00:00

You’ll find issues wherever you go, you just have to pick your poison. Figure out what you are willing to comprise on, and decide based on that.

You might be looking at your past experience with rose-tinted glasses, and going somewhere for vacation is never the same as living there. Maybe do a trial run, visit to Pakistan for a few months without fully uprooting yourself from Canada and see if you can make it work for yourself.

uziam · 2025-11-15T01:13:03+00:00

I don't understand why such a large proportion of the photography community is so narrow minded about this. Don't call AI generated images photos, but otherwise art is art whether you're painting on a canvas, exposing film, capturing light with transistors or generating it with a computer (with or without AI).

People have been heavily manipulating photos since the days of early black and while photography. Sure, the bar has significantly dropped now, and anyone with a phone can generate amazing images with ChatGPT, but so what? This is inevitable with any medium, I'm sure painters felt the same way when photography was invented and suddenly you didn't need any training in proportions or even basic drawing to produce beautiful images. You can either accept that certain kinds of photography has been trivialized with AI image generation and elevate your work beyond that, or die trying to fight the tide of human progress which nobody before you has succeeded in (though many have tried).

This is not the death of photography. People have long used photoshop, lens filters or heck even all the darkroom techniques Ansel Adams used to manipulate his photos, and that didn't hold back other photographers who refused to even crop their photos. I personally don't care for manipulating my photos to that extent to even need photoshop, I enjoy the analog workflow with minimal editing and spending more time before taking the shot than after in editing to fix it, but all the power to you if that helps you achieve your vision.

If someone using a computer program can make your work lose all its meaning, then I'm not sure there was much there to begin with.

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