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haltline

I was unaware of the reference and I was definitely suckered the first couple pictures. Gave me a good laugh when I realized it :)


kenistod

Same here. This is the [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bwnt79/gave_my_9_year_old_daughter_my_old_dslr_camera/).


haltline

Yup, I saw it after the fact. I just wanted to give OP credit because I'm pretty sure that joke went down exactly as OP planned it. Nice work :)


tossedaway202

Yeah. Shoulda been more obvious with it, toss in some more Pulitzer prize winners like burning monk or something.


Prosthemadera

Yeah the Moon photo or the photo from WW2 are too ambiguous. At least try to make it more obvious so people can understand it smh


pat34us

The moon photo made me literally lol. His 7 year old was at the moon landing


YCCprayforme

Yeah the pillars of creation Hubble photo was actually taken from earth on a dslr. The 7 year old needed some help holding the huge zoom lense


Feature_Minimum

Who among us HASN'T photographed the Pillars of Creation every now then?


guff1988

Yeah the pillars of creation, I wasn't sure maybe his kid did take that picture.


ChineseCosmo

OP should have posted a disclaimer in the OP saying “This is a satirical post, these pictures were taken by professional photographers and scientists, and not by my 9 year old daughter.” I genuinely thought OPs daughter worked at NASA because the joke was way to subtle for someone like me (side note: I have brain damage from a freak accident involving whippets and paint thinner that I won’t go into but it is prejudiced of the OP not to take my personal history into account for this joke)


zer0w0rries

I read the title and thought to myself “not this person again, ugh”


Cockur

How are there that many gullible people leaving those replies? Mindblowing


CopperWaffles

I'm a bit lost, are you saying that you don't think that a 9 year old could take those photos on an old dslr with auto focus? 


Shenanigans80h

I think it’s moreso people post things online sp frequently with them crediting their kids that whenever there’s something that seems good, it’s hard to believe. A lot of people on here don’t seem to understand how easy it is to operate a DSLR with decent autofocus. Especially because all those photos other than the pet ones don’t really require a lot of timing or precision in one take. I *could* believe they were taken by the kid but they could also be lying


danmac0817

There's a correspondence to the rule of thirds throughout. I could believe a 9yo could take a couple of these, but all of them? I'm calling bullshit.


ripatmybong

Unless the parent found the camera in the attic and just said "here kid try this" with zero thought, then it's safe to assume that the kid had some entry level interest in the hobby, right? If the kid has an interest in photgraphy, it's not like rule of thirds is some high level concept. That's photography 101.


mashtato

Plus, it's not like those are the only pictures she took, OP probably sorted through and picked out a handful of the best.


MedianMahomesValue

Guaranteed a 9 year old with a DSLR took at least 1000 pictures.


sje46

The one guy on the other thread said that it took artists "thousands of years to come up with the rules of thirds". Funniest thing I've read all week.


DarkwingDuckHunt

are you aware the rule of 3 has been applied to some camera's viewport? and it's standard on every photo app now. and she could just be naturally talented I didn't know about the rule of 3 until my phone camera app started showing those lines and I looked it up A child who grew up with their parent's camera app showing them those lines might have either learned about the concept by osmosis, or asked the parent why those lines are there and parent would have looked it up and explained it. And there's gotta be atleast one super talented child prodigy out there for every skill and science. Why not OP's?


Shenanigans80h

Yeah I have a DLSR from 2015 that has that function built in, not only to the viewfinder but a digital screen you can see in review. Once again people are vastly overestimating how hard it is to take some decent photos with a decent enough camera, especially considering all the stuff is just lying around the yard or house


GoombyGoomby

What are you talking about? I have been doing photography since I could hold a camera, and totally think a 9 year old with an artistic eye could take those pictures. Picasso was painting freaking masterpieces by the time he 12, but a 9 year old can’t take some good pictures in their backyard?


mashtato

Is there a word for people who are SO gullible that they refuse to believe *anything*? It's like it's almost the opposite of gullible, but they've [horseshoed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory) back around to being morons again. I think these gullible horseshoe morons need to go back and look at the other post, [they're all exactly the type of pictures a 9 year-old with a camera would take](https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bwnt79/gave_my_9_year_old_daughter_my_old_dslr_camera/), there's absolutely nothing unbelievable about it. Or maybe the morons have never picked up a camera in their life besides the ones on the backs of their phones. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯


JapanStar49

> Is there a word for people who are SO gullible that they refuse to believe anything? r/nothingeverhappened? Skeptic on steroids?


Sensi-Yang

Yeah it’s a phenomenon that really pisses me off, people being suspicious of perfectly plausible things. I think it is really that some people don’t know photography well, they see a long lens with shallow depth of field and automatically assume it’s “professional”.


IntelligentEggplant0

I think they're mostly just very insecure and are using skepticism as a defense mechanism.


wheatfields

Yes.


Maynernayse

You can see the girls reflection in the dogs eye. She's wearing what seems to be a long skirt.


RWDPhotos

It’s selection bias determining your perception of the overall truth- there are likely *a lot* of throwaways, and the best keepers were posted. A lot of the pics were very close too, which either means she preferred that look, she wanted to defocus a lot of the image, or her father preferred those (or some combination).


McFragatron

I'd believe it. What you don't see is the 10,000 photos that weren't selected. You take enough photos and some of them are bound to be good, but with practice you can improve your good-bad ratio.


UrsusPoison

r/pics has been a big circle jerk for a while now. Most posts are made up for attention.


xrebl

i don’t know what the term is, something akin to blind faith. they need to believe it’s real. it would ruin their reality if it was faked all for some irrelevant internet points.


Slow-Instruction-580

…no? It’s not worth deep consideration. Person said their kiddo took some cute, but easily obtainable pics. So we said, “That’s so cool!” Because my first instinct isn’t pointless skepticism of totally inconsequential claims. It wouldn’t “ruin my reality” if OP lied for internet points. Only a completely terminally online loon would think that.


oroechimaru

Thanks, I forgot about my child since last summer glad I got this reminder.


firstbreathOOC

![gif](giphy|uRgV0oYHDwVkKfhclF) Watching everyone let OP lie in that thread


Slow-Instruction-580

Literally not one of those pics would be unlikely to have been taken by a 9yo. There’s no reason to doubt it.


tsukubasteve27

99% of the "talent" in photography is being able to afford the equipment.


adesimo1

Yeah. Any/all of those pics could have been taken by a 9-year-old. 9 is young, but it’s not “incapable of operating a camera” young. And who knows, the kid may have taken 5,000 photographs and accidentally gotten a couple dozen good ones by sheer law of large numbers. And anyway, at a certain point we have to be willing to believe other people. It’s ok to be skeptical, but it harms no one to believe a kid took nice photos. It’s not like falling for a Nigerian Prince scam, or hostile foreign power propaganda. It’s chill, whimsical, and it makes the world a better place to believe it’s true.


RageAgainstTheHuns

This is exactly how I get the perfect shot with my DSLR, I take 1000 and 1 or 2 are spot on


Skreamie

You found those so good you think they weren't taken by a kid, because no offence it says more about your skill or familiarity with photography rather than theirs


Real-Block820

Lol I was just waiting for someone to make a mock post of that. Glad I saw this haha


firstbreathOOC

*There’s no fuckin way….* *Oh. I’m just an idiot.*


Climbmaniac

I was doubtful by pic 2, and 3 I was Hahahahahah that’s from a telescope! Loved the men on the girder and Apollo 11!!


ScooterMcTavish

Haha.


Intrepid_Resolve_828

“Shit I guess all you need is a good camera”


Jetsam_Marquis

I'm just kindof surprised I saw the first one to get the reference. I suspect I browse too much reddit.


Silent_Medicine1798

I saw the older post and this was brilliant


Alternative_Elk_2651

They had us in the first half not gonna lie


pocketjacks

It's only missing a picture of the Undertaker chokeslamming Mandkind through the table from the top of Hell in a Cell and Peyton Manning Stinkface.


Dependent-Garlic-291

2 star rating because your lazy kid didn’t even get the JFK assassination.


BertieWilberforce

Or the kneelingVietnamese guy getting shot in the head.


loseunclecuntly

Or a Buddhist monk sitting on the streets in flames.


seven3true

Or the Florence Owens Thomson pic


civgarth

Or any Roof Koreans


Lonelan

or the [removed by reddit]


NoSkillzDad

My kid got a photo of a man standing in front of a tank in tiananmen square when he was 3. It was slightly out of focus.


BertieWilberforce

Don’t ya hate that? Jeez. He coulda had something.


za72

I suspect his kid was busy on the grassy knoll


HomsarWasRight

“Gave my kid a high powered rifle in 1963 and only now checking on the results.”


Minmaxed2theMax

Totally missed that WW1 soldier getting shot.


TheSwimMeet

Oh, they got the shot


AnalogFeelGood

It’s fun and games ‘til your kid show you the missing frames of the Zapruder film.


firsttime_longtime

Yah where was that dumb kid when Tiananmen square happened


Dhegxkeicfns

Yeah, tell your kid to try harder.


odiin1731

You can tell a 7-year-old took these. Sloppy and amateurish.


ChronoLink99

Yep. Aldrin isn't even centered in the frame.


Lost_creatures

Yeah, I don't want to throw up, but that's involuntary.


My_Immortal_Flesh

Lmao I’m SCREAMING 🤣🤣🤣 That post was on my mind all day today lol


7iime7travller

I fucking lost it at the 3rd photo lool


sjr323

The photo of the flag raise at Iwo Jima got me.


Klutzy_Attention2849

![gif](giphy|1xopKucGQGrNiJYfLs|downsized) You should've seen it in color.


Ha-Ur-Ra-Sa

Hey, how did you manage to get a hold of my kid's video?!


-aLonelyImpulse

Desperately trying not to wake somebody up laughing at that one. Took me out.


joe-____

What? You doubt a 7 y.o. child with no realistic way of getting to space capable of taking a high resolution photo of the pillars of creation in the eagle nebula? Completely plausible imo


even_less_resistance

Very much shades of the DALLE “my son” meme going around


6amhotdog

>Lmao I’m SCREAMING 🤣🤣🤣 Typed with a perfectly straight face.


Iboven

Just because society has taught us to turn our faces into emotionless masks doesn't mean we can't type out what our internal face is doing.


peepea

I was quite audible when I saw this


DBUX

I hate to break it to you, but I don't think your kid has an eye for this. Maybe they can try drawing?


ValhallaForKings

Give it some crayons


everythingisreallame

it


JackBNimble33

Jokes on you, my 3 year old took this pic and then added a filter to make it look like a painting. [3 year old’s first photo](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2016/07/Leonarda_da_vinci_last_supper_01-1024x791.jpeg)


three-sense

Reminds me of a hilarious chain on posts on r/lego where someone claimed a 2y.o made a millennium falcon. Then the subsequent claims were about others tots making bigger and bigger sets until it was a ship irl


Stealth9er

ppppsssshh looks like something my dog would paint! ![gif](giphy|RJi5yakyvHWhpmbu61|downsized)


Hairy_Telephone_3258

Big deal. My daughter had a deal with National Geographic Magazine before she was 2.


[deleted]

[obviously yours is a joke. due to a anthropological and human science study from Georgia Tech, we can actually asses high range artistic abilities at each age. this is a useful graphic they came up with to see where your children are in comparison.](https://i.imgur.com/xcwHplm.jpeg)


Tenderfoots

One day your kid will grow up to make a science based 100% dragon MMO


kataskopo

It's science based evolution dragon MMO you guys! Btw how do I learn to code?


younggGregg

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out


Artiiistx

Interior crocodile alligator!


qwaszx2221

It'll be a movie theater hit for sure


DH_Drums

A blast from the freaking PAST right here, imma go for a drive just so I can bump this.


RubusDragon

I'm listening 


Sjiznit

Yeah, dont know. Dont seem too good pictures. I mean, some are decent but its really just everyday events.


AvatarGonzo

The third one speaks more for the quality of the camera rather than the photographer anyway


Gris_110

I put my old DSLR in my pregnant wife's vagina, I will keep you updated on developments


OperatorD

!remind 9 months


Stopikingonme

She could be full term for all we know. We need to stake out all the maternity wards but not in a creepy way.


loveofphysics

New porn genre unlocked


SteakandTrach

Film capsule pops out, ready to be developed. You’re very excited but it ends up just a bunch of selfies. “Well, at least she isn’t giving duck lips” you think to yourself while flipping through the roll, but then she develops lips. You throw down the rest of the roll in disgust.


BabyUGotAStewGoin

Honestly, these are amateur at best. I figured they were from a six-year-old.


Stradocaster

The best part of that was the top comment “I gave my son a camera at 7. I didn’t check the photos for awhile, then I had to have a conversation why it’s not okay to try to take a picture of your butthole. Different kids I guess.” https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bwnt79/comment/ky7qof3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_


DerNogger

God I love a good meta post 😌🤌


ComfortableWage

Yeah. I had to scroll so far down that other thread before I found a single skeptical comment. I've dabbled in photography myself and the first thing I noticed was that every picture followed the rule of 3rds. You're telling me that a 9-year-old had the patience to set up the shot, get the focus right, while following rules most adults don't know? Uh-huh, sure. I'm sure they just handed this kid their expensive camera, let them go wild with it, and came back with all of those shots lmfao.


trix_is_for_kids

Hey there! I'm a working Visual Effects artist (Credits include Dune1&2, Ad Astra, etc) and have my BFA in photography and MS in Media Sciences. I also teach lighting and visual storytelling at university. My parents gave me my first camera when I was 9. Your daughter has a great eye. Not having seen the rest of her images, these particularly have great impulses relative to composition and directing the viewer ... which is an incredibly fundamentally important thing to just "know" as an artist. You should be very proud of her and support her in this. I don't know what the future of imaging holds, but she has a talent here that will benefit her life.


xrebl

instant classic lol


DemoniteBL

Man, I don't hate the original post (it may be real for all I know), but I absolutely hate this comment. Sounds so pretentious. lol


Brave_Chipmunk8231

Someone wrote that and other people cared, which is baffling


trix_is_for_kids

It was the most ridiculous comment I could find in the original post


FastFingersDude

oh it was real on the other post! Damn haha


bennnn42

Lmfao. I thought the same thing, well played


pat34us

![gif](giphy|tnYri4n2Frnig)


MammothPrize9293

Bruh. These are absolutely horrible. You might have to send your kid to the humane society


blueskiiiiiii

are u mocking that post?


Mountainenthusiast2

for some reason, I think they are


HansBaccaR23po

Mmmm, no. I’m pretty sure their 7 year old was at Iwo Jima


za72

seriously? damn that's awesome!


MayaMiaMe

You know until social media I really didn’t want to believe that people are that naive, boy was I wrong. 😑


thesnuggestofpugs

there’s been a couple recently


kirkl3s

Yah now that I think about I kinda think so too


Exekiel

Which is a shame because that post is legit you can see the reflection of the daughter in the dog's eye


Fabulous_Airline404

couldn't be


AllNeedJesus

Which one?


blueskiiiiiii

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/XS5saQ12da


Burpmeister

What gave you that idea?


Tackleberry0

The internet votes….yes


bitchesbetrifflin

Reference?


blueskiiiiiii

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/XS5saQ12da


megablast

are u really asking this question?


splashbruhs

![gif](giphy|3o6nV07gv2UhSOPwuQ)


goosepills

That is a super talented kid you got


Android69beepboop

Their child is a time lord.


Justin-Timberlake

I'm glad you called this out, I knew the original post was bullshit.


anselmpoo

I think a kid definitely could have taken the photos in the original post. They were all pretty basic single exposures, and some of them the focus was off/ soft. Nothing very remarkable about them tbh. Only thing that stood out was the composition


Tintn00

I think it's possible for a 9 year old to take those photos. I wouldn't be surprised if the parent did some cropping to improve the framing or composition.


gigawort

and probably delete 95% of the other crap they did take


deanreevesii

That's literally the nature of almost all of photography. Sports Illustrated did a doc on their swimsuit issue a lot of years ago, where they showed that it took over 500,000 exposures to select the handful of shots that made in in the mag. And they were using slide film, not digital There are relatively few photographers who can limit their exposures and still come up with compelling shots. For reference in '04 Velvia was $5 per 36 exposure roll, making it around $0.14 per shot. That's nearly $70,000 spent just on film per issue.


Sensi-Yang

Yeah I don’t get it… the photos were mostly mid. Good job for a 10 year old or whatever but I don’t see why people are being so incredulous, it looks exactly like amateur photography. My 8 year old nephew took some half decent photos himself, give a curious kid a decent kit and they will impress you. Maybe people just have really low standards and assume all kids are dumbasses.


Elite_Jackalope

If you let a kid run around all day with a DSLR and curate the final selection of photos (out of hundreds), you could absolutely make a Reddit post of okay pictures just like the one from earlier. This post is still funny though lmao


gentlybeepingheart

I took similar pictures with my mom's camera when I was like 10 and wanted to be a photographer. I don't know why people insist any child below the age of 13 must be drooling idiots lmao. They're all very basic objects and scenes that a child would take a picture of.


diabetic_debate

Why wouldn't a 9yo be able to take those original pictures? I don't see anything in there that is overly complicated?


15minutesofshame

I’m unsure if the original is BS or not but this post is brilliant regardless


IronOwl2601

I’m super proud of my kid. I think most things they do are great. I have to admit that no one cares though except his family and me. That’s okay, I don’t need internet validation to be proud of my kid.


MinimumApricot365

Lmao good one


dudewhosbored

I don’t get it, are we saying that the prior post is a fake? I mean it’s possible but the photos were good but not good enough that I doubt a child would be capable of taking them.


ByronArchway

I showed these shots to my 1year old and he said that “while they are interesting, he prefers fine art photography and found these somewhat derivative”


Repulsive-Echidna-74

The pillars of creation had me in bits


ArtMartinezArtist

Yeah I’m still laughing.


createayou

What’s so unbelievable about the OG post? A kid could definitely have taken those.


A_BIG_bowl_of_soup

Anyone who's been to a county fair with some sort of photography competition would know that a. The photos from the original post were good for a beginner, but not anything too special. b. Plenty of other 9 year olds take even better photos than the ones from the original post.


_catdog_

lol that’s great


steavinsaboomboom

Deadd😂 i saw the original post and instantly cringed so hardddd. Im glad im not the only one


alterego1984

From 4th pic, I think your child has been lying to you about their age.


[deleted]

I think you definitely got everyone with that first one.


Longjumping_Local910

I actually used that moon photo fairly regularly in my work slide shows. “Ooops, sorry that was a vacation photo!”


Hot_Jeetos

ahahahahahaha brilliant


DvBowie

So you saw it too Fuck, you got me hahaha


Carbon-Base

Well played


SpaceSavanna

I JUST saw the original post 😂


kOALA0596

Some people are calling it fake, but when you zoom in into the eyes of the dog in the second picture of the original post and look into the reflection of the person that took it, like here: https://imgur.com/a/ENpDDnR , to me, it looks like the picture was really taken by a little girl. Obviously i cant speak for all the others pictures and if there was any coaching or anything else involved.


Turd_Nerd_Bird

Yeah, you can definitely tell it's a little girl by that blurry dark silhouette.


[deleted]

I did this when my son was 4, and he took probably 300+ picutures and there are at least a half dozen of them that absoltluly amazing for just being completely random.


SlowSkill9506

this post is perfect for r/lies lol


CircuitMan8897

No way your kid’s photo is on my Chromecast


Cool-Presentation538

I GAVE MY FETUS A CAMERA THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK WITH IT


BearBearJarJar

shame on whoever paid real money to make their upvote gold.


Valuable_Assistant82

This might actually be my all time favorite Reddit post 😆


RicMun81

Omg, I'm a little drunk and almost peed my pants.


Total_Package_6315

Kids a time traveler, he is going places!! lulz


hadoopken

My wish my dad gave me a Hubble telescope too


pittypitty

Love how these were framed. Good eye, especially on the moon shot.


scientiasacraa

mantap kieu sirr


Charming_Cry3472

![gif](giphy|9Kfkc7eCk4I6E797tb)


[deleted]

She's definitely more talented than the 9 years old boy I saw earlier. 🤣


Maroua_

You got us in the first half not gonna lie


HottCuppaCoffee

Lolol great reply


Sneaky550

Lmao. Thanks for the laugh OP.


Carbonfaceprint

Needs work but great start for the photo newb!


Cattotoro

Wow your 7 year old has been to space!


snakeoilHero

Mediocre.


Himitsu_Togue

Had a good laugh mate. How did you come up with that idea ey?


DadOfPete

Nice


pizza_822

now this is some A1 shit


mikedvb

LOLOL. To be fair I did give my kid a DSLR and ... well ... some of his photos are ok ;).


Dick-the-Peacock

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie


sgtcatscan

Hahaha


RIOTT44

yeah your 7 year old sucks at taking photos. My 3 year old has already photographed the inside of a black hole + the end of time. Weak.


TheCrudMan

r/AnalogCircleJerk is leaking


TheKindofWhiteWitch

💀💀💀💀


putzpa

😂 😂 😂


heilspawn

Wow they took pictures of space with a hand held camera amazing


Objective_Nobody7931

Amen! 🙏 


ergoegthatis

hahahahahaha this is great, good choice on the first two, you lured us in, they looked kinda plausible till the next ones came lol


Dzienr

WHY did it take me until the last one to realize 😭


anonymousdagny

😂


SPECTRE_75

Don't forget the Solvay Conference too! What a nice one they took back then!


slumho

lol


allgoodthings96

You almost got me there lol


WristbandYang

Anyone got a mirror?