Hello,  first time round these here parts, any hints or tips on how to make the most of things here? 
Is there  any specific rules or guidance for the assignments or daily photos?

When is the new one coming out? Lately, I’ve become so caught up with the app that I totally forgot that a new one should be out soon. 

Really need one. I’ve thought the entire bundle of ten and I’ve started rationing reading them on the iPad, lest I run out too soon.

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I was considering to go out to shoot the football fans this evening. Where are the most famous places where people gather outside and watch the game together? Where do people go before and after a football game? In Paris we have some very famous hotspots, so I wondered what are the equivalents in London.

Attempting to learn how to make photos similar to the style of @kyohnam on IG. He is very open about his settings, but I'm not clear how he moves his camera in shots similar to this one? If you are experienced with ICM work, I would love some advice on what to try.

With every one and their dog on a massive 2006 myspace revival. Who was part of the "scene"?

2006 was the best summer of my life. The last summer before I started full time work as an apprentice electrician, 2 gigs a week, underage drinking in lanes or on trains, having a great time. 

Emo, scene, mosher, indie, raver, punk. What subculture did you fall into?

"Why spurn technological progress and journalistic integrity? Because photography has always been an artistic medium as well as a documentary tool. It’s malleable. It’s subjective. There are no rules."

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2026/jul/09/warping-the-world-cup-rise-homespun-photographs

Is it a lil too late for "4th of July" photos? 🤷🏽‍♂️

I regularly edit in Lightroom across my desktop, iPad, and mobile. Today, I noticed something: I think my final images actually turn out differently depending on which device I used to edit them.

Because it’s much easier to be granular on a desktop with a mouse, I find my desktop edits tend to be a lot more subtle and precise. On the other hand, when I'm using a touchscreen and dragging sliders with my thumb on a phone or iPad, my adjustments lean a bit heavier.

Environment is also a factor. Desktop editing happens in a controlled room, whereas mobile editing usually happens on the go, under changing light or in transit, which definitely impacts how I perceive contrast and color.

Does anyone else find this happens to them? Do you notice your style or the intensity of your edits shifting based on the hardware you're using?

This is an oldie, one of the frames from the last roll of Kodachrome (64) I shot.  It was a very hot late afternoon when I came upon this scene, which I think I shot with a Contax T2 (a wonderful dead-end camera!). I just reflexively raised the camera and shot this one frame. A second later the light changed and the whole scene fell apart. The sweat-soaked man  standing next to the attractive woman in the red-hot red dress was just too cute to miss.  No, it's not perfectly-framed but it's one frame that will always make me smile. Moral: Shoot first, think later.

The morning of July 4th, I got to ride along with Rick and Dennis again.

Rick, with the mustache, is 75. He built the boat back in the ’70s and still skis every chance he gets. Dennis is 64 and has promised to teach me how to ski.

They make waterskiing look effortless. Mostly, they just look like two big kids playing on the lake with their toys.

Here are a few frames from one of my favorite mornings of the year from my happy place.

On canon there is highlight tone priority, it sets your lowest ISO to 200 instead of 100 and seems to protect the highlights more in images by extending the dynamic range. I need to do a test with it off an on but on a few images I have taken it's done well at protecting highlights.

Note sure if it's the same but other brands have this, but this could be highlight metering which is different?
Fuji = D-Range Priority (or DR-P).
Nikon = Active D-Lighting

Hi everyone. I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess many of us are fed up of Instagram. 

I’ve been using Glass to share my photos for a few years now and really enjoy it. There’s no algorithms, reels or social media crap such as likes or follow counts. Just a really well made app that puts photography first. 
I think people that try it expect an insta alternative with infinite engagement, but it’s more similar to the experience here - a smaller community of photography lovers. 

I’ve got 6 unused codes for a free year so if anyone wants to give it a go feel free to sign up using a code

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I recently had a lab ruin some film with our of date chemicals, the images were there, barely, so I wondered what would happen if I fed them to AI and asked it to restore the images with the film stock as a reference. I'm typically again AI in image making but in a case like this where the image content is not being altered and it's either that or no image at all, trip ruined, what would you do?

How do i get the 20% discount code for the print magazines?

Hey everyone! Hope you’re all doing well! I’m considering moving from Lightroom Cloud to Lightroom Classic. I have a NAS at home and my current Cloud raws/library is stored on a local SSD. Anyone have tips on executing this switch? Thanks so much 😊

Hi. I'm looking for as many definitions of street photography as possible, so if you have any SP books that attempt to define it I'd really appreciate it if you could take a snap, or quote it and let me know who wrote it. It's for an upcoming article. Many thanks.

I generally shoot in York, England, UK

I'm curious if folks stick to a particular rule or just just freestyle to invoke the feeling they want.

Just a random observation but a lot of legendary street photographers that are still around are well over 80. Gruyaert, Koudelka, Eggleston, Moriyama and Meyerowitz. Bresson died at 95. 

The secret to a long life ?

"For Fan Ho, the photograph started with the negative; the end product was the print."

For those that don't know, the diagonal shadow in this famous photo was added in post. 
If you want the print to match the negative, that's great.
If you want the print to match the image you wanted to create, that's great. 
You do you. Enjoy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/dbucknerphotography/p/the-negative-was-never-the-photograph

I think we need to introduce a level of curation to the dailies feed. Here are options we’re looking at. What do you think?

Any Instagram pros out there? I'm looking for a way to post images with different aspect ratios in either a post or a story. I hate them getting chopped up and when I use LR mobile, they are still sometimes cropped even with a frame border meant for IG. I know there are some apps that allow you to set up a scrolling feature, but don't know the name of any of them.

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this fantastic series of interviews about street photography. The presenter/interviewer Lucrezia Bonarota is a wonderful, thoughtful interviewer and you can catch them all on You Tube. I've learnt things from so many of them.

There are many different genres and approaches within street photography, from candid observation and humour to documentary and abstract work.

My question is what makes a strong street photograph?

Personally, I’m drawn to layered images where multiple elements come together within the frame. More importantly, though, I like photographs that provoke a thought, raise a question, or suggest a story beyond what is immediately visible. For me, the strongest street photographs leave the viewer wondering what happened before or after the moment was captured.

So what qualities do you look for in a successful street photograph? Love to hear from you

Hey all, we've just uploaded a new vid to the YouTube channel where we both look at our favourites from the last assignment and we chat about the new app. Give it a watch and leave some comments.