Somebody should xpost this to r/clientsfromhell

good luck trying to freeze a ball in the air with 120 or 250 lol , also 250 will be high speed sync

I know what it is. The lights aren’t fast enough to sync with the shutter speed.

The same doesn’t happen with a speedlight

99% when you’re shooting with big strobes/flashes they’re so much more powerful than lights around.

A gym like this is actually quite dim for the camera , that’s why if you go to getty and look at indoor shoots of actual games you’ll notice how much noise there is.

To freeze motion like the photographer is doing you also need strobes with high flash sync , and to be that powerful those must be some expensive lights.

My godox lights for example don’t go higher than 1/400 without adding shadows in one side

There isn’t zero overlap , a pixel will be converted to a dot.

Making that statement makes it easier for people to grasp the concept, and does zero damage.

whoever that photog is , he/she is smart AF

they’re capitalizing on a certain category of people who want all their information pasted into their brain.

whoever wants can find almost infinite amount of information on any lens , a ton of material to find how a specific lens looks.

Asking what lens did you use in this shot, puts you into that category

As a photographer it’s up to you to chose the lens that fits your vision , asking another photographer WHY he/she chose a lens is much better than WHAT lens

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my 2 cents

As usual most people here have no idea what DPI is.

DPI is a translator between digital space and physical space

If you have a picture of 500x500 pixels … how big is the picture in real life ? You don’t know. It can be 500 meters tall if you make 1 pixel 1 meter.

DPI (dots per inch) you can also say PPI (pixel per inch) is a value that you set if you want the highest quality print of your image if you don’t have a physical size limit. Example printing your stuff for an art show.

Now back to the initial image.

If you have a 500x500 pixel image and you set the DPI to 100 , now you have a 5x5 inch image printed.

If you have a fixed size you’re gonna print for example A4 , you don’t need to set the DPI.

What you did is basically tell the printer that you want your image to be printed much bigger than the actual space it was going to be printed, therefore it resulted in cropping .

Depending on the product but i’d shoot it like a coffee or a yogurt. Those aren’t ugly at all

I was going to reply that another 1 sided story as it usually happens here but then i saw the pics that you posted on your profile and wow those are bad. Like bad BAD.

I’d say cut the losses and find another photographer

You can use the best calibration tool in the market if the panel cannot physically produce the result it won’t matter.

After you’ve calibrated the monitor you need to check the delta e , that will show you how accurate the colors that the monitor is displaying are vs what it’s supposed to.

Check some linus tech tips videos on monitors and you’ll see that even after calibrations some monitor just don’t have a good delta e.

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I’ll give you an example, i have an alienware 240hz gaming monitor , it’s a 600-700 euro monitor. I would never try to get accurate colors out of it.

It’s not made for that. It’s made to refresh as fast as possible so i get a competitive edge in games.

You can’t ask a Ferrari to do off roading.

First of all your benQ gaming monitor is going to have shit colors , doesn’t matter that it says 100% sRGB. The panel is made for quick response time and not color accuracy.

Second of all, calibrating a monitor needs to be done with an external device. Something that can read monitor values from the outside. It doesn’t matter how accurate the software side is if the hardware side is lacking.

Now 10 for your sentiment 10 years ago more or less every consumer device had shit displays. Today you have much more variation on high end consumer devices, you have phones and TVs with OLED screens, you have ipads with microLEDs, you have phones with normal LED screens etc etc , some of these displays have HDR capabilities some don’t.

The monitor you’re using is probably way worse than the display you had in your macbook pro.

Color accurate monitors for PCs are expensive and they still need a calibration with an external device since their out of factory performance isn’t the best.

On the other hand you have apple products that love them or hate them, there’s a reason they’re an industry standard. A 1.5k studio display will give you much better performance than any monitor in that price range in the real world straight out of the box.

Youtubers like to compare stats on paper but they never mention the insane margins of difference a panel will have from one to another.

2 years ago at work we ordered 10 32 inch screens (from a well known brand), not 2 of them were calibrated the same out of factory.

If you’re shooting in a studio setting i don’t see how you would need higher than 100 iso , since sub 200th of a second is the normal flash sync, you’d have to go to like f22 to start overpowering your lights.

First of all congrats

second of all, rest you soul in peace since that high feeling you’ll be chasing for the rest of your life. Welcome.

Now since you enjoyed taking shots at an event you need to start making connections with different venues that organize those types of events.

Sam Hurd in one of his podcasts said that after he shoots a wedding in a good location, he’ll go on google and upload those pictures at said location giving a 5 star rating, this way you’ll get on the radar of the owner and managers of that venue.

Most photographers i think get work at events from word of mouth. Same way as you did.

As long as you work, and put your work out there, people will get to know you offer those services.

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Photography as a business is probably one of the most connection dependent careers out there. People won’t hire you just because of your skills, they’ll hire you for how you present yourself, how you look, how’s your behavior on sets, etc etc

good luck