Photography

I love the lines they offer, this one in particular because of the different direction they go in.

Tell me I'm not alone 😂

Saw some ducks here and quickly checked if i still had this one on my phone. Sony a7, Sony 35mm. Foggy day at lake Schliersee in Bavaria.

Mods are asleep, post ducks!

But to keep it on topic, this is a female Rosy-billed Pochard in Buenos Aires. Taken with a Canon R50, which I used for a brief moment before returning to Olympus/OM systems

I liked @blendan@[email protected]'s duck, and I wanted to show this pair.

Cross-posted from "Variable Oystercatchers (Haematopus unicolor) - Carters Beach, Aotearoa/New Zealand, February 2025" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

Pixel 7 pro, Feb 2025

This is the first house I've ever been jealous of. On the side of a canal in Yorkshire.

The photo is a bit shit, the foreground was a bit too dark so I edited it more than I'd usually like to to make it visible.

Of course Darktable is not only a photo sorter, but also does a lot of photo touch up 'darkroom' work. Debian system with KDE desktop. i5 with some bargain basement NVIDIA gpu (No, really it does not even have it's own fan).

Which of the 3 do y'all like the best?

Edit - Update - More details:

I am dedicating a laptop to be my "portable darkroom"- My desktop machine is only an i5, this laptop is a nice Asus Vivobook with an i7 in it. I do have Rapid Photo Down Loader (which works well with my camera connected via USB C) Each photo drive or session goes in to a folder named by date 20250309 for today for example. These go inside a year folder. Inside the day folder I put the DCIM folder from the camera. I sort and grade on the computer. I have now tried Darkroom, and it seems to just pile every picture I have into one continuous unsorted stream of pictured with no grouping. I hope the other two do better in that regard.

Konica Hexanon 40mm f/1.8
Ilford XP2 super 400 recipe

Ok, this may seem a silly question, and I suppose it is a matter of choice. I can put my camera in the case I bought for it with the lens facing down, out (to the right so the lens is against the outside wall of the case, in (to the left toward the other case compartment that holds a lens) or up toward the opening. What is safest? (detail if you need it this is a Canon EOS R50 in a Lowepro "Nova" case)

Another question - When I am to store my camera for a while should I remove the lens and afix covers to the body and the lens or may I just leave it on? Probably 2 weeks to a month between normal uses.

hey guys i need help and i think this community can; so im looking for a beautiful pic of a dark beautiful room of like a teenager or a young man, taken from a pc camera perspective, meaning not showing the setup but taken from it and shows the bed and some cool accessorizes and paintings on the walls. not necessary as described it here but something similar i think you guys know what i mean. i wann it to be real, not ai generated, cuz i wanna use it as a background of my green screen in my videos

In south Florida at this time of year we see lots of beached Portuguese man-o-wars. They can sting like a jellyfish, but are actually a "colony" of 4 separate polyps that all live together. Often just the bladder remains, but sometimes they'll still have their full array of tentacles, which can reach 10 feet (and will most definitely still sting you if you touch them)

Some of the photos I take, to get the subject large enough in the frame I have to use electronic zoom. I don't have money for a nice zoom lens. I tried using an adapter for one of Dad's zoom lenses but it sometimes gives me issues. So I use a 4x zoom - which basically cuts off 3/4 of my sensor then expands the picture to full size (I guess by some sort of averaging math to create the discarded pixels)

Is there anything I can do in post to get some of that resolution back - even if it made up. I am a Linux user, so a workflow in GIMP would be great, or any other Free/Libre software you might suggest?

In the middle of nowhere at Finnish Lapland. No roads insight. No people insight. Just silence and beautiful, calming lake

I took this photo during my vacations.

Took this picture with my phone (thus the low quality) this morning.

I'm not a photographer nor pretending to be one.