/p/ - Photography

Those are two different focal length lenses also.

>>1570

I have no idea who this guy is. But given the cramped "studio", the easily-identifiable-product-placement-gear, his chins/physique, and the overall amateur-hour setup, I'm going to guess that he's an opinionated gearhead whose videos are all monologues-to-camera and he never ever talks about composition. He looks like a low-rent Ted Forbes, which is sad, because in the last few years Ted Forbes has become the low-rent Ted Forbes.

And I'll guess that this guy makes sure to tell people to "hit that like button" and "be sure to subscribe" and "make sure to click that bell".

And I'll further bet that 99% of his photos are creepy-guy-with-camera TFP shoots in his home studio with half-naked nervous girls a third of his age, and that he's never gotten up before dawn to shoot a sunrise landscape in his life, let alone gone on a hike anywhere.

And I'm 100% fucking sure that he posts multi-page screeds on dpreview forums. He just seems the type.

All this is just guesses though. I genuinely have no idea who he is.

>>1618

Wow, he's even more of a loser than I thought. It takes a really special kind of asshole to get banned from "we specialize in opinionated assholes" dpreview.

I'm really out of the loop on youtube people. No great loss, it seems.

>>1619

There's some decent YT channels on photography but he isn't one of them.

Another one I'm a bit tired of is Kai. Fucking clickbait tier crap, half his videos are him running around Soho with his (apparent) boyfriend screwing around with a Leica like it was a Kodak fixed-lens.

>>1622

Yeah, Kai is ungodly irritating. To his credit, at least he actually goes outside and takes photos. Sad as it is, even that's more than most photographer-youtubers bother to do.

I've been looking around youtube this weekend for interesting photographers. There's a British dude named Thomas Heaton that caught my eye. He doesn't seem like a gearhead at all, his videos are typically about his in-the-field creative process, and he keeps videos down to 10-15 minutes. I'm not usually one for landscapes but I think I'll keep watching his stuff.

Another one I kinda-sorta like is a guy named Sean Tucker, another Brit. I appreciate the "focus on the art" approach he takes, and I love street work, but I think he needs to do some trimming during his production planning and video editing process. 20-25 minute long monologues-to-camera can get dull, even if the subject matter is very interesting.

But aside from them, I didn't find much. Clickbait and gearheads and meandering unscripted opinionated monologues-to-camera as far as the eye can see.

>>1628

>However, if you instead go looking for videography channels there's shitloads of good ones.

Quite true. Of course, video is their bread and butter. It's basically one skillset that those videographers learn and apply to all their projects, both the daily-bread work for hire, and their youtube channel. Photographers who want to present on youtube (or elsewhere) need to learn two somewhat-related but quite distinct skillsets, and a high level of skill in one doesn't always translate to the other.

Even in this age of technology, I'd argue that the superior format for the display of photographs is quality paper - either individual prints, or a big hardcover monograph.