r/AskPhotography

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!

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)

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!⁠

E 70-350mm F4.5-6.3 G OSS,
ISO100, 525mm, 0.7ev, f6.3, 1/100s

Beginner in photography here, I attached a teleconverter to an extension tube that had no release mechanism, the only release mechanism is on the teleconverter FOR the other side. I can’t release/separate the teleconverter from the extension tube, Is it a goner? Any replies is greatly appreciated💔

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

Shot with Nikon D80. The first one is what I saw on my screen and 2nd one is the exact same jpg copied to my iPhone. The jpg is straight out of the camera and unedited. Why the color so different? ChatGPT said my monitor is altering the color profile without me knowing it. But I only noticed this with the shots taken by this Nikon camera (never had any issues with Sony A6000). Anyone knows why?

Hi everyone, , this is my first camera, the NEX-6 with the TTARTISANS 17mm 1/4f lens , correct me if i’m wrong.

So i hope learning manual and i will use it for my outdoor trips and astrophotography mostly, and also some street photography.

So , any tips?

It seems like every reel, influencer post etc has people using cages for mundane things like landscapes, basic steeet photography etc.

Are newer cameras really that vulnerable? Or are people just less attentive to basic equipment care?
Or is it, as I suspect, just a rat with a gold tooth to make people think influencers are more skilled than the average photographer..

Haven’t done anything since getting these scans back from the lab. Any advice on what to do post processing would be helpful.