Who else has many copies of this photo in their photo library? #IYKYK

@siracusa sensor dust inspection?

@atgw Yep.

@siracusa I was waiting a while for Mastodon to load the picture it in the blue placeholder.

Anway, my annual Long Island vacation photos are up on Instagram, starting here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CvAKHvfOnJN/?igshid=YzcxN2Q2NzY0OA==

@siracusa
John. Why do all the commentators whom I most respect, who all *uniformly* rail against the #Facebook machine, also blithely and happily use #Instagram?

I just don’t get it.

It’s all connected to the same humanity destroying machine.

@kraigschmidt It’s a complicated world.

@siracusa do you have any tips/guides/youtube channels for someone that would like to improve their amateur photography skills? Thanks.

@_rob I don’t, sorry. Most of what I watch on YouTube are gear reviews, but that’s not really what your priority should be when looking to improve your skills.

@siracusa Some fast hands changing lens there

@siracusa @atgw as someone brand new to astrophotography, I have a LOT of photos of pure black (lens cap on, at varying ISOs and exposure lengths = dark and bias frames to subtract sensor noise), and similar numbers of grey (my dimmed iPad screen resting atop my dew guard = flat frames to subtract dust in the optical train). John, I think it might be a hobby that fills the cockles of your nerd heart. Though I could see Marco going full send on it.

@siracusa Nope. Us amateur photographers have more Live Photo shots featuring a quick pan down to our feet.

@siracusa Instagram? Yuck lol. Sorry, I meant Zuck.. Wait..🤔

@adonis Also on Glass https://glass.photo/siracusa

@siracusa

I appreciate that you replied! 👍

However, is this *really* one of
those complicated cases?

Respectfully, I would suggest, it is not.

@_rob @siracusa it’s hard to get good at photography in general but it’s a lot easier to get good at, eg, taking pictures of your friends laughing (or whatever you love). a lot of it is asking yourself (and being really critical about) what you want to accomplish and giving yourself the freedom to experiment enough to be able to identify what you vibe with. this is basically Developing A Practice™️ which is not really photography-specific but it is a very solid way to Git Gud that gives you lots of latitude to be loose in what you do day-to-day and still provides room for meaningful introspection and improvement.

@siracusa I have an album worth of photos from the inside of my pocket of every pair of pants I own.

@siracusa
Not going anywhere near Instagram, but I enjoyed the photos on Glass. 😊

@siracusa @kraigschmidt
The funny thing is that I sense that we have very similar viewpoints on social media, politics, capitalism, etc., but you make more, um, pragmatic choices than I do, lol.

@siracusa dust reference acknowledged

@siracusa how happy are you with the size of the A7III compared to the A6600? Is the increased performance worth the larger size?

@jpowell It’s worth it to me for low-light or up-close situations.