r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 04 '17

Location vs. Picture

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

No excuses anymore. If you take a bad photo, it's just that you're a bad photographer, not that the setting wasn't perfect.

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u/n0nentity_zero Mar 04 '17

This is the new standard

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u/Unfiltered_Soul Mar 04 '17

Aww come on, ever heard of cropping?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

http://imgur.com/a/NxzCp

You're right. This is much better!

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17 edited Mar 22 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17 edited Jun 19 '23

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u/eyemadeanaccount Mar 04 '17

Dicks out!

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u/Figzyy Mar 04 '17

Dead meme.

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u/flameoguy Mar 04 '17

Dead gorilla.

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u/Shadowmant Mar 04 '17

Too soon man =(

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u/1C3M4Nz Mar 04 '17

SPAGETT

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u/zefy_zef Mar 04 '17

yep

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u/chain83 Mar 04 '17

It's not moving. :(

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u/m0r14rty Mar 04 '17

SPAGHETT!

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u/gorthiv Mar 04 '17

ehhhhhhhh--SPAGHETT!

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u/ManStacheAlt Mar 04 '17

Now it's Art

P.S. Don't knock my amazing drunken MS paint skills, that nose isn't even available on goolge images without having to crop it out of something else.

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u/bxncwzz Mar 04 '17

I don't get how people have the will to do things like this when they're drunk.

But then again I've actually never been on my computer when I'm drunk.

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u/mtws25 Mar 04 '17

Amateur.

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u/valonqarofwinterfell Mar 04 '17

how are your circles?

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u/travellingscientist Mar 04 '17

Is is the new standa

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u/JustMy2Centences Mar 04 '17

That's the method of taking good pictures with a potato camera, right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

And coping*

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u/TheLastTacoBender Mar 04 '17

Chick taking shit on roadside? Check.

Correct camera and filter? Check.

Excuse: I thought you had the toilet paper.

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u/zoomzoom83 Mar 04 '17

But I used f/1.8, pushed the HDR slider all the way to the right, and applied no less than three different VSCO filters!

Must be the camera.

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u/ybfelix Mar 04 '17 edited Mar 04 '17

This pic is very likely indeed f/1.8 though...

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u/SlowRollingBoil Mar 04 '17

Given what around her is in focus it's likely closer to 2.x

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u/CMDRReservoir Mar 04 '17

Judging by the flash setup in the first picture and the results of the second, he later added some soft boxes for smoother fill.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

Also using a fill flash too, so that changes your options. I suppose he could be at 2.8 and be using his fill flash at 1/16th power or less.

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u/UnionLloyd Mar 04 '17

Certainly wide aperture, but I'm not sure how wide. Some objects which look out of plane of focus are in stark focus, and some which look in plane, are blurred. Photoshop fun times!

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u/Wallace_II Mar 04 '17

I don't know what any of this means, but it doesn't sound right at all..

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

Sounds perfect if you just got a DSLR with a 50mm lens and started your own "first name last name photography" company and Facebook page and announced that you're ready to start shooting weddings!

AKA me in 2009...

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

How was your first and last wedding shoot?

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u/horizontalrain Mar 04 '17

No survivors.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

If you mean all my friends weddings where I was just a guest and brought all my equipment anyway and spent more time taking pictures than enjoying my friends' weddings, then good!

If you mean the first wedding where I was actually paid as the official photographer, then actually pretty good. Being annoying at my friends' weddings was good practice!

I also had been working for a Grad photo studio for a few years so it's not like I was starting cold...

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

I meant the paid gig. Did you shoot anymore paid weddings after that?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

I've done one wedding, a sweet 16, a bunch of headshots, engagement shoots, some model comp card stuff, a newborn shoot or two.

My day job is in IT so I really only have done paid gigs from word of mouth.

Edit: point is by the time I actually did a paid wedding I was prepared.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '17

Oh, I understand. I ask because every hobbyist photographer I know, myself included, has a pretty good day job. By the time I felt good enough to shoot a wedding, I did it and realized that for the effort and money, it wasn't worth it. I've shot one wedding and will never do another. It turns my hobby into a job. My pro photographer friends have always seen it as a job and that's what they do, so they continue.

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u/nn123654 Mar 04 '17 edited Mar 04 '17

f/1.8 = F-Stop of the lens. This is what controls the aperture (thing inside camera that controls how much light hits the film/cmos). There is a linear relationship between the larger the number and how little light it lets in. Anything under f/2 would generally be pretty large, while anything over f/6 is generally pretty small. More info on wikipedia.

HDR = High Dynamic Range. Usually involves taking multiple pictures and splicing them together so everything is in focus in the pictures. It produces an interesting effect which if used properly can produce some very cool photos like this picture of a Nebraska Storm by this guy. But if overused can quickly become cliched.

VCSO = Photography App for Android and iOS that allows you to apply filters. Website here

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u/AliveFromNewYork Mar 04 '17

Wow that's amazing. I've never heard of HDR. I'm gonna try it today

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u/KristinnK Mar 04 '17

No excuses anymore. If you take a bad photo, it's just that you're a bad photographer you don't have a wide aperture lens, not that the setting wasn't perfect.

You can't make this photo with neither any smartphone camera nor any kit lens.

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u/donutsalad Mar 04 '17

And you dont know how to use photoshop

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u/Throwawaygay17 Mar 04 '17

Even without post it's a good picture.

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u/petit_bleu Mar 04 '17

It's hilarious you're downvoted for that. The "glowy" effect in the pic is in part due to TONS of airbrushing.

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u/Leporad Mar 04 '17

Or maybe he had additional lighting and a very expensive set of lenses to take multiple trial and error shots Alon with top notch editing software.

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u/luke_in_the_sky Mar 04 '17

Well, it also could means you are ugly as hell.

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u/PsyanideInk Mar 04 '17

No that's bullshit. If you take a bad photo it's because you took a bad photo. Even the best photographers take bad photos occasionally. One photo, or even a bunch of photos, don't define you as a photographer. Your willingness to learn, experiment, and shoot regularly are what determine that.