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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • Don’t fall for the influencer tribalism gear trap. The majority of big YouTubers get paid/sponsored to use a certain brand. Nikon is perfectly fine nowadays. The reason they still get some ‘hate’ is because they were a bit late to the mirrorless-party. And they just don’t work/advertise a lot with content creators like the other brands do.

    Whether you buy an 2000$ Nikon or 2000$ Canon/Sony, they will all have somewhat of the same features and can achieve the same results. All brands are somewhat on the same level because they are all still around and competing with eachother.

    That said. I’d look into getting a beginner model Canon/Nikon, combined with a kit lens or the likes. I wouldn’t invest too much as your first piece of gear, because perhaps you won’t like photography as much after using a camera compared to a phone, as they are vastly different.







  • Selling prints or even just random digital photos is extremely hard these days. The market is extremely sarurated: millions of stock photos, hundreds of thousands of photographers, AI-tools that can create photos better than the average Joe,… Unless you have a dedicated following or are very good at online marketing, there’s little chance of selling prints or digital copies of your work, no matter how good you are.

    If you want to make (decent) money with photography you have to work-for-hire. Just shooting things and then trying to sell them is… very often not worth the time and effort.

    You could just add them to your digital portfolio or just store them offline somewhere.


  • Why Topaz? Topaz isn’t the same as Lightroom. Topaz is more for ‘special’ things like noise reduction, upscaling, sharpening,… It’s not an organizing and processing software like Lightroom is.

    Just use Lightroom Classic. It’s nearly the same as the other version but a bit more feature-packed and the interface is way better. Works on all devices however if you tend to post-process a ton of photos daily/weekly, a better machine is recommended. You tablet will do fine for family and travel photos…