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[olivermoss]

Me on a shoot: Literally kneeling in mud on an unpaved street at 1:00 AM to get 200 ISO shot in the dark

Comment on the image: I'm sure it was on accident but the lighting really turned out great on this, and the angle. Man, photos just turn out that way sometimes don't they?

Why are people?

I finally have a raw file previewer that works with Olympus filetypes working so I can actually see what those massive folders of raw files have in them. Hopefully, this will help me get better organized. But man, I have maaaasssive folder of repetitive, lackluster images. Some with baffling choices for the focus. I definitely did used to 'spray and pray'. Lotta crappy pictures, but somehow I eventually started to learn?

I need to sort through for a few images if I can find the original, but I shouldn't spend too much time on this. I am mostly better off taking more pictures. Life would be so much easier if this was all better organized.

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

Ugh, god. Yeah, the advertising is trash! I was definitely thinking of Samsung... but yeah, such deliberately misleading advertisement of what a phone camera is capable of (much less how easy it is to get that quality) probably impacts what people think is possible.

My little point and shoot sony digital camera kicked the ass of any of the cell cameras I've had. It bit it close to 4? years ago, I think? And I got that one to replace the one that died near the end of high school, so it'd be well over a decade old, and was far from professional grade.

I use my cell phone, because it's what I have, but it's extremely limited in what it's good for!

That's really obnoxious about the "take our picture" tourists. It doesn't work like that! Against the damn AZ sun, you aren't going to be able to see shit! And if your cell camera is able to adjust to keep you visible, the background is going to be so washed out it isn't going to matter!

I think that photography is definitely the art form that gets that treatment the worst. Art and writing theft happen, certainly, but I feel like most people at least recognize that they *had* an original creator and didn't just appear out of the ether.

[olivermoss]

I hate the words 'could you take our picture?' so much by now. It feels rude, almost aggressively so, to turn people down. But I've had so many weird and unpleasant experiences. I seem to give off an aura of 'ask me to take your picture' even when not carrying visibly camera gear.

With those lighting conditions, there is no adjusting enough to make the faces visible. The sensor can't handle the light intensity without a polarizing filter. Arizona sun is brutal.

Yeah, people treat photography like is 'just happens'... meanwhile I've got sore hips from walking on slick sidewalks for ... idk some number of miles last night.

[mistressofmuses]

It does seem like the kind of thing you can't say no to without seeming like a total asshole, but yeah, people get weird about shit like that.

Right? There's too little respect for how much goes into getting good shots!