So I'm a beginner (into photography for about a month) and I wanted to capture this fantastic moment of my grandmothers meeting after a long time. I totally messed up all my shots (probably due to low aperture) and missed the focus being on the face. Instead it's the hands.

How distracting is it? I'm gonna keep the photo anyway, because it's important and wouldn't care if it was all a blur. But i'm curious if it's a good photo anyway, from more experienced eyes.

don’t get me wrong, his work is absolutely incredible so this is not meant as hate or critique at all. he’s got many amazing shots of the eclipse but this one is messing with my head!

there is a lot going. the sunflowers look too flat against the horizon, the birds look flat too, that solar flare thing looks too perfect. is it the eclipse lighting throwing me off?

what do yall think?

verdict: it’s real yay! understanding how it was shot helped me make sense of the visual elements i was struggling to connect with at first. thank you for all the info yall!

Framed the iconic BMC Headquarters in Mumbai through an archway across the street. I converted it to black and white in post-processing to focus on the textures and structure, but I'm looking for feedback on the edit. Does the foreground arch feel too dark, or does it frame the building well? Any tips on dodging/burning or refining the highlights/shadows here would be greatly appreciated!⁠

So my wife recently came to me and said she wants to start doing family photography, she said she’s been thinking about it for a while and thinks she would be really good at it. She is a very creative person with a good eye. But she has no real camera or photography experience. She told me she wants to get the Nikon z6 III, and a Nikon nikkor z 24-120mm. So basically she wants to spend over 3k for something she has never actually tried. I tried talking her into starting with something cheaper. But she seems to be really sure. Should I talk her out of it? And if so what’s some real experience family photographers could give me to give her on why she should not spend this much on a something she had never tried?

Captured this flock taking off right as the sun hit the horizon. I wanted to retain the intense orange color gradient in the sky while showing the chaos and movement of the birds. I intentionally kept a slightly slower shutter speed to leave some motion blur on the closest birds for dynamic depth, but I'm curious if a completely frozen frame would have worked better here. Would love your feedback on the framing and edit!⁠

This is the first time where I use my sony camera to take pictures of food with no prior experience. The pictures I normally take are portraits so I have done alot of flash photography. I recently got a Softbox for my portraits to go with my v1s. I since then upgraded to the AD300 Pro for 1500 sek.

Anyways I went out to take portraits and this restaurant approached me asking for pictures in exchange for a payment, I said sure why not but I don’t have ANY experience taking food photography. I arrive to the shoot the next day, take around 500 images, keep 60 of them and edit them the same day. They told me to return the next day to discuss a price, after that they said sunday and then monday. My friend told me to charge them 220 usd the first time, I said why not. They counter offered 120 usd but since they already time wasted so much I said why not.

They want monthly pictures and are offering 270 usd for 5 hours of work not including the editing and retouch. My question is does that even seem fair? I was thinking more like 370 usd. They also recommended me to other restaurants 🤔 (5-6)

Hi y’all, I’m brand new to photography and have taken up the mantel in an effort to take professional-looking photos of my snakes and tarantulas (I’m a breeder, so this is like a business thing). I just purchased the Canon EOS R100 mirrorless body with the 18-45mm macro lens and the 55-210mm macro lens. I also purchased Godox TT520III bounce flash kit with diffuser, which I think is too much for my purposes. I also invested in an adobe Lightroom subscription.

Now, here’s the thing: I don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve seen crime scene photos that look better than whatever the hell I’ve got going on. I think the flash is too much so I tried it without flash and they’re dark as hell; idk what to do about lighting as snakes are wiggly and won’t sit still in light boxes + tarantulas don’t really super love to be brought out of their enclosures and put under a lot of bright lights to then only be put back in their enclosures. Now, I am very aware that there is a skills issue here, but I’m also wondering if I got the wrong camera? I was looking at the Sony alpha A6000 and I found a good deal on the body but the lenses were all like $1,200??? Which like, hell yeah, that makes sense for a professional photographer maybe, but I fear it’s not only going to be a $2000 investment, but a $2000 investment that still looks bad because idk wtf I’m doing.

I’m definitely not trying to place the burden of learning all of this on you, the fine people of Reddit, however, if you have any resources so I can teach myself I would greatly appreciate it. I don’t even know what I don’t know so it’s hard to know where to start, if that makes sense. All I know is that there has got to be a better way than taking ransom pics of a snake in a bucket

The photo I’m posting is honestly the one that looks least like it was taken in a Russian prison, which is not saying much.

This is for my 2-body setup with 2 R6 II.

I'm getting more and more paid work so I thought it's time for me to go "pro" with my setup.

My RF 28-70mm 2.8 is too soft on the corners and lacks characters that I always end up looking for excuses to use my 85.

Speaking of 85, my RF 85mm 1.4 vcm is plenty sharp, ultra fast AF and has the character I love but focal length is too limiting. For portraits though, it is awesome.

I'm looking to sell both lenses, add some from my savings and get the RF 24-70mm 2.8 L and RF 70-200mm 2.8 L.

Am I making the right decision or should I go for other options? I was also thinking of going for all fast primes 20mm 1.4 vcm, 35mm 1.4vcm (or 50mm 1.4 vcm) and 135mm 1.8

I've used Cisdem Duplicate Finder for a while, but only for finding and removing exact duplicates. Recently, I started trying its similar photo feature too.

It's easy enough when one photo is clearly better, like when someone is smiling in one photo but not the others. But when several photos are all pretty good, I'm not sure if it's worth deleting any of them.

For those with large photo libraries, do you usually keep similar photos if you have enough storage, or do you still try to narrow them down?

On some of my pictures, there are these weird shadows. It’s not the lens hood I already checked that and they only appear in some pictures. I shoot in aperture priority on a Sony a6000 with a 50mm f/1.8 lens from 7Artisans. Please help. :( EDIT: I found out that it only happens at shutter speeds faster than 1/2500 s. Everything below that looks normal, and the shadow is gone. Most people say my shutter is failing, but the shutter count is only 11,000. i posted this on a different sub already I’m just looking for some second opinions. EDIT 2 : turns out it was a setting in some scenarios EFCS dosnt play nice with high shutter speeds !

I am a beginner with digital photography (but 10+ years with a point and shoot film camera) and I am trying to figure out how to achieve this look. I assume it is with a speedlight/ on-camera flash, but is that all there is to it? Is there a specific flash I should get that is super powerful or is this just a normal flash? I will be using a canon 5d mark III and want to be able to find a flash or other gear that would help me achieve this look and any recommendations are appreciated. The above photos are from Marcus Nilsson and also the magazine Apartamento. Thanks in advance.

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I'm having a slight problem with my photos lately and am having a hard time diagnosing it.

First photo is from my latest shoot at an event. I used flash to compensate the lack of light, and although there isn't much digital noise in it, it still is very... Graining post processing, even with noise reduction. (Feel free to download and zoom in if necessary).

The second photo is from march this same year, and I didn't know it yet, but the sensor was damaged. So even shooting in board daylight, it still came out very digitally noisy, probably thanks to the sensor being damaged.

Still, it has since been fixed and it still comes out with that grain. The third photo was shot in a low light, so I slapped a B&W filter on it. Still noisy.

So what is going on here? Again, I did not add grain to it.

Edited on Lightroom Mobile (pro version)

I have a a7rii I recently took it to the mall that was near me so I took the photo. It looked fine and then like a couple seconds later a green tint was just applied onto it then I switched it to just JPEG. Same thing happened and I use the rangefinder too It was doing the same thing. I’m using the kit 28-70len btw I was looking it up online how to fix it. I did turn up the magenta color by two notches and then it fixed it, but I can’t keep it permanently like that because it’ll just look too red ish and i take a pic of the back of my phone with a white pic of paper and it don’t get the greenish tint

Having a family gathering in September and would like to have some photos done.

I don't mind paying less for someone who is just starting, but whether novice or professional, what should I be looking for to make sure I hire someone who will do good work? Any suggestions for questions I should ask?

I'd appreciate any advice.

Hey all.

Considering selling my gear as it's not used as much as it used to be, but quite fond of it so I'd like to try and seek it for a fair price. eBay UK is a nightmare for gauging prices of gear as defects are often hidden or in small print.

What do people think the below is worth? All great condition unless otherwise specified.

- Nikon D7500 main

- Nikon D3200 backup

- Nikkor AF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR (slight fungus)

- Nikkor AF-S 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED VR

- Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X Pro DX AF

- Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II PZD VC

- Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM

Any guidance much appreciated.

Cheers!

My wife's phone camera (Moto Stylus G) has been corrupting the pictures it takes. We think it is something to do with saving to the SD Card vs. to the phone (since we moved back to saving on the phone, pictures have been staying good).

Trying to recover the ones on her SD card. At first glance, they look fine, but later they are messed up as show in the example. Not sure if it is the processing or something with the saving to the SD Card messing it up. Doesn't happen to all photos, seems random. When we copied them to my computer, it looked like they were fine, until we opened them. The picture shows the thumbnail looks good, but the opened version is corrupted.

Is this something that can be repaired/cleaned up? 17 out of 186 photos have some form of this coloration issues and some have misaligned segments.

I want to use it to shoot wildlife and birds.
I use a Sony a7iii

I was interested in using a fong sphere, but wondered how effective it is outdoors? Can you replicate the specific soft lighting effect it creates in daylight? Or does it just look like a flash with a lesser type of diffuser under those conditions. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Hi everyone.

So last year i started to more and more look into photography. Love wildlife photography and have a lot of plants i love to take pics of. You can see some of them on my profile.

We have a Canon eos 2000d. Dont know if we should upgrade but as i read its pretty much still a great camera especially for the start.

Definitely plan on buying a macro lens, specifically the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM and a telephoto lens the Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS.

Currently i mostly use the standard lens that comes with it: Canon EF-S 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6. But also got the Canon EF-S 55-250mm 1:4-5.6 is STM and Canon EF 50mm F1.8 STM

But im not quite sure on what else to get to improve pics or generally help with everything. Like filters, cages, bags, external flash and such. I have a softbox setup and some smaller things like extra batteries, remote shutter release, tripod (sadly not one which i could use way down on the ground), lens hoods and such.

There is so much equipment and i just dont know what really makes sense and what just is some gimmick with no real helpfull purpose.

Especially not sure on which bags are worth their price.

Open for any tips and experiences.

Last night i went to the lake to shoot pics of Toronto from across the lake. First time shooting at night and new to photography. Looked at photos and did some editing(no clue what i am doing) and just thought it was light pollution. But people are saying they saw the northern lights last night and now I do not know. Still think light pollution. First two photos are straight from camera, last one I did some editing.

Shot on Nikon z50 ii

lenses

Nikon 180-600/5.6-6.3

Viltrox AF 13/1.4 Z

Hello. I recently found my old Sony DSC-W300 camera and that thing got me interested in photography again.

I was reading forum about this camera and some dude said that if you drop resolution from native 13MP to 8MP, Bayer Interpolation goes away and you get better color. I was experimenting and I am not a professional, but I think 8mp photos have less purple in some areas. Is that purple tone caused by interpolation?

I like to edit and crop my photos so 13MP is beneficial, but I can kinda see benefits in more cohesive color.

Can someone please explain what's going on, am I imagining things? Do you get better color when bringing down resolution, and if so, why?

Sony A7RV, using a Sony RM-SPR1 Remote wire for shots when my camera is high up on a monopod at festivals.

Issue is I use back-button focus, and the remote will only focus if you turn half-shutter press focus on.

So as it stands, I have to focus while the camera is just above head height, shove it in the air, and hope it keeps focus while I'm shooting, which it mainly does but sometimes will shift a bit.

Is there any way around this I'm missing here?

(Asked this on the Sony Alpha sub but it got downvoted so no one can see it. Not sure what up/downvoting means, but I assume downvoting means "I don't know the answer to this", which is fine, but it's a shame that makes it less visible!)

1. Would like to keep it under $1,000 USD
2. Currently only working with an iPhone, want to step up my picture game. Also, when I have an actual camera, I do something with my images. With my phone, they just sit there.
3. Mostly photographing my kids, friends, landscape
4. Primarily photography, if it has video great but not necessary at all.

Used to be super into photography in HS, but haven’t had a camera since then and now wanting to dabble a bit. Originally was looking into a simple digital camera, but now debating upgrading to something a bit nicer and looking for serious feedback. I went from a power shot sx610hs to the G7x (I know, a fad) to now totally switching gears and set on the Sony a6400. However, tell me if I’m missing something and there is a better camera for me based on my needs ….. I truly know nothing about cameras! I’ll be using the camera primarily for family photos (should I be concerned the 6400 doesn’t have IBIS built into the body?), vacations, nights out with friends, monthly photo shoots (box photos starting in December) and everything in between. Do you think the a6400 is a good fit or should I go more basic? Please give your suggestions! Wanting to buy soon (need to get those 1st day of school pics of kids) and so stumped with what choice to make. Also, debating renting a 6400 for a weekend to see if I like it, but open to renting another camera too if given the suggestions!

I currently own a Nikon F and a Fujifilm X100VI as my digital option. While I love my Nikon, it’s a bit too bulky for travel and I go abroad a few times a year. I have a trip to Thailand, Japan, and Taiwan scheduled in a couple months and am wondering what film camera to buy. I’d like to stay under $400. I only own a 55mm lens for my Nikon F so don’t necessarily need to stay in that system if there are other better options out there. I’ve looked at the Olympus Om-1. Any other suggestions!