Learning Photography
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- HijoDMaite0
Good video to watch
- HijoDMaite0
Holy shit this is a great Flickr pool!
(Hardcore Street Photography)
- pinkfloyd0
Best Fucken Thread Ever
- HijoDMaite0
I have in my possession a 1960s Nikkormat FT 35mm film camera. It's very clean but the advance lever is stuck so I need to get it fixed and cleaned up. I figure I will pay a repair shop to get it all perfect for me.
Then I will look at Ebay and probably buy an old manual focus 50mm 1.4 Nikon lens.
I will use this set up to learn film photography and use it for street photography. I am just confused at the moment as to how the editing works. I guess my print shot will be doing the printing and dodging and burning? Then do I receive the photos and tell them to do it again if I don't like? Do I pay again?
Also do I receive digital scans of the whole roll? Are these scans able to be edited by me?
sorry maybe some dumb questions here...
- nb0
^ Cheap method: develop your own film (easy if it's b+w) or pay a lab to develop (if it's colour film). Develop only the negs. Then, scan only the best ones. Photoshop them and post them online or print digital.
Better method: If you want to dodge/burn, it'll be expensive and a hassle to get an edited print from someone. The best way is to either build yourself a darkroom (find some old used darkroom equipment and convert any old room into a darkroom) or find a darkroom rental in your city. The prints will look better (with some practice and patience) and you'll be learning more about film, if that's what you want to do.
- HijoDMaite0
Man, listening to this guy talk, he makes it look so easy. In fact I think street photography is sooo damn hard.
- benfal990
I'm so tired of my cheap lenses... They're doing crappy pics quality.
I'm still using the default 18-55mm Canon as a main lense... what a waste!
But good lenses are SO expensive, this is nuts!
- noneck0
> But good lenses are SO expensive, this is nuts!
You can afford $130.
- benfal990
I'm waiting for Canon to release a light DSLR full frame camera that is tropicalised AKA rain, moisture, dust resistant. My Canon 60D is tropicalised.
- noneck0
I picked up a Sigma 18-250 for outdoor stuff. The glass isn't nearly as nice as a prime lens, but I've gotten some reasonable shots from it. $389 is a pretty do-able price too. http://www.amazon.ca/Sigma-18-25…
I took these pictures just before I dumped it into a lake. After sitting it in rice for a week, the lens is fine.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/taylorgarries/14690614731" title="Grassi Lakes by Taylor Garries, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3890/14690614731_95a7d32091_b.jpg" width="678" height="1024" alt="Grassi Lakes"></a>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/taylorgarries/14690529671" title="Grassi Lakes by Taylor Garries, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3900/14690529671_d70e67d1a8_b.jpg" width="1024" height="1024" alt="Grassi Lakes"></a>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/taylorgarries/14691364724" title="Grassi Lakes by Taylor Garries, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5578/14691364724_8b2ae13447_b.jpg" width="1024" height="1024" alt="Grassi Lakes"></a>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/taylorgarries/14507327627" title="Grassi Lakes by Taylor Garries, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2928/14507327627_5a2c3ee0c3_b.jpg" width="1024" height="1024" alt="Grassi Lakes"></a>
- noneck0
They're not stunning or anything, but it's a $350 lens. So fuck it.
- benfal990
thanks noneck
- vaxorcist0
Canon has some sharp primes for cheap...28mm F2.8, 24mm F2.8, 50mm 1.8, the 50mm F2.5 macro is nice, as is the 135 F2.8 Soft Focus, which isn't soft focus unless you set it to soft focus..... All these are less glam, less silent, and use the older buzzy AF motors but can be great bargains for people who can work with primes....
- nb0
In an attempt to get this thread away from talking about gear...
Can anyone suggest good art/photography RSS feeds? I've drifted away from RSS since Safari stopped allowing rss bookmarking. But I've since discovered feedly, and would like to get back to reading.
My favourites include A Photo Editor, Colossal, NYT Lens, etc.
NOT interested in gear blogs or review sites. I only want to see photographs, discussions of photographs, or industry talk.
- is there an RSS feed of explore from flickr? there are some great pics on there, but also some not so greatcruddlebub
- featureshoot and juxtapoz come to mindjaylarson
- if you have an ipad, I recommend Flipbook for feeds.jaylarson
- http://www.booooooom… is still goodjaylarson
- sorry, i meant, Flipboardjaylarson
- BH260
Benfal this site is good for knowledge photo gear etc.
http://petapixel.com/2014/10/02/…
maybe this link will help your lens budget issue
- read on and found this gem of lens review: http://petapixel.com…uan
- thanks, i'll take a lookbenfal99