Recent content by TheoLeakas2005

Hey folks, some of you may remember my thread "young photographer seeks wisdom". This essentially is a more refined sequel. I apologize if this is the wrong forum or website to be asking these questions. Recently I have taken a mounting interest in fashion photography, and in my research about...

Incredible!! I'm taking a Light & Color / Optics course at university and the professor mentioned the camera system on Voyager II, notably the filters. I remember sitting and class last week and wondering if there were physical lens filters operated mechanically (like on an SLR lens), or...

This is really good to know, thank you! If I may indulge, is there a preferred method (unsharp vs regular -PS user) and optimal amount that's calculable in any real way? Or do you just eyeball it?

Okay, I'll bite. What????

Hey folks! I've only ever owned two cameras, a Canon AE-1 and a Nikon F5. I've been hired by a family friend to take some senior portraits of their daughter, and I'm planning on renting a Nikon D850 for a day (this way I can use my 28-70mm G ED). It comes out to be much more than the cost of a...

Hey folks I have been a happy camper with my Plustek 8200Ai for the past few months now, I scan everything in 48bit RAW for conversion in photoshop and get great results. Dust is not something I necessarily struggle with anymore, but there have been tiny streaks on some of my negatives from the...

Bodie Boy! Nikon F5 | 24-80mm G ED | Portra 160 +0.3 | Plustek 8200Ai

Hey folks, About a year ago I acquired an older (80's-90's?) tripod from a thrift store for three dollars. I never messed with it until recently after acquiring my F5 (almost 6lbs with lens) and stopped trusting my flimsy old one. There are no defining features and I wasn't able to find anything...

Hey folks! For whatever reason, I have always been most interested photos that primarily feature blues, pinks, and magentas, and my favorite photos usually combine all three in even lighting. Obviously, blue hour is the time of day to make these pictures, but all of my prior experience has been...

Thank you so much! I actually did try to do this but ran into a host of problems that eventually made me step away. For one, the demonstrators were released the next day and I returned to the camp to interview them, but (understandably) none of them agreed to an interview or consented to have...

Alex... this is the great advice. A thought that looms over me constantly is "this color photo is gonna cost me almost a dollar, so it *has* to be good, it *has* to be a wow photo." and in that I am getting caught up in freaking out over producing something I'm excited with every single time...

In the hours I have looked at this photo trying to figure out what was wrong with it, I never thought the crop might be an issue. This has been an enlightening thread for me so far! Thank you! Attached is the scan straight out of my conversion software before I tried to "save" the highlights and...

Thank you so much, this was reassuring to hear. The state school I'm starting at this fall has a very lackluster art department and an even worse photography department. I have registered for a photography class but may work with the instructor to try and get dedicated darkroom time. Regardless...

Hey folks! I am writing today in need of some advice about my next steps from you all. I am 19 years old. 2 years ago, my art teacher complimented my polaroid shirt, and a hundred conversations and questions later, he gave me my first camera, an AE-1. Until then, I had never even thought about...

Hey folks! I have been doing a bit of digging into Kodak Technical Pan film after finding some images online. I've mostly only shot color and never been one to bat an eye at expired film, but the results are so otherworldly that I almost need a definitive answer on if this can be done without...