Porter Sometimes I get struck by something I'm looking at and get the urge to photograph it, can't really say I'm a photographer though. Mostly it's clouds and things like that. Most of my state is flatland, especially where I live, so opportunities are not that common. Photography is an art I respect a lot but I do not really grasp the basics of stuff like framing and perspective, even though I know it when I see it. Mostly I just try and line it up and hope it works.
Fimm Porter I love to take loads of photos whenever I'm out, so some of them must be good by sheer chance.
Gigachad Porter Most of my state is flatland, especially I live in a state statistically flatter than a pancake (Delaware is the flattest by virtue of being so small but I'm in a real state). Best sunsets out here. Nothing in the way. As a consequence I'm deathly afraid of heights. Tallest thing in my state is a 20 story building. Barely even hills here. Opportunity is everywhere. My owls left..
John Titor Fimm Are those eyes in the background...? Regardless, cool pics, especially the first one =)
Theory_of_Everything I was overseas a month or so ago, so I took some photos. Some of them turned out better than I expected
Ayayaya necro'ing this thread with film fumography! Please forgive the terrible quality of my scanner. TwT I have some more but I don't wanna eat up all of Lumeshin's hard drive space and don't want to compress too much either. I also have taken some digitally, although it has become more rare as I've grown more tired. I now usually just take proper camera pictures on vacation. I have normal pictures too, but I'll keep them for later. I have too much to post.
sonoko Perhaps it would be worth starting anothe thread for this, but how do you even get started, gear wise? What's a good beginner camera? I could use my phone, I guess, but I think there's some significance in having a separate machine dedicated solely to it.
Ayayaya sonoko It's actually not as big of a deal as people make it seem, far too much gearfagging for what it's worth. If you get any camera from the past 10-15 years it will serve you perfectly fine as a beginner, especially if it's one with swappable lenses. You can just get one used and play around with it. None of the details really matter at all as a beginner (in my opinion at least). The only thing that does matter a little bit is what you primarily want to take pictures of, which will end up deciding how you value the aperture and focal length of your lens(es): aperture is how big the hole in the lens is, smaller number equals bigger hole and makes the background more blurry focal length is how "zoomed" in the picture is, more zoomed in generally looks nicer and lets you take pictures of things from farther away, but ends up having a smaller aperture (so darker image) Those two things plus shutter speed (how long you let in light, so the tradeoff between more motion blur or darker image) will decide 70% of your image result, 29% will be from the lens more generally (how it's built will affect the image, they get really expensive for the fancy ones) and the last 1% is for all the true gearfagging like your sensor size or whatever.
Ayayaya Fresh roll of film from my visit to Dokomi 2025 (also a blatant excuse to flex my cosplay) Note: I resized the images down to a reasonable size, 6mb for 20 Images The crowd at the Touhou Meetup CHICKEN JOCKEY! A nice older Tohru cosplayer I saw at the car park random Natsuki Remilia! Underexposed picture 💔 I only found out afterwards that film has opposite rules from digital (overexposure better than underexposure) Guy with some Blue Archive banner or something More Touhou Kosuzu (me) Kigurumi Madoka, I was really surprised to see quite a few Kiggers at the con Valve meetup, also very cool Astolfo ordering food This guy had thrown together random stuff for a makeshift Uniform Lain The scariest picture I've ever taken Astolfo, I counted dozens of Astolfos, Astolfo everywhere Reimu Tsukasa Cirno I had a lot of fun shooting with a wide angle lens and taking portraits with lots of empty space, they feel a bit like amateur phone pictures, but also not quite because the lens has a bit of a different feeling and the film adds something too. I could've also shot with my really nice portrait lens, however it's missing the "Meter coupling shoe" AKA "rabbit ears" (a little metal piece that hooks onto something and "tells" the camera what aperture the lens is set to) and I've been too lazy to improvise one or buy one. (the ears in question, picture stolen from Reddit)
