official photography thread

[96789carver]

dude ben your pic of the roots was sick, and the bamboo one is really cool. nice job

thanks man!
any other critiques? please?

[summerbum8]

life etc...

[melifont monk]

i'm doing a BFA with a major in photography....yay....love photography and i do a bit of work for a couple of guys in tassie with a focus (bad pun.) in doing live gig work...

these photos have been crushed down to get them suitable for a web application...

[BergaLiden]

@summerbum8: Yeah! Malmö! When were you there?

[melifont monk]

[pithaya]

Cool, a photography thread, I made one aboot my pictures some time ago, here it is...
http://www.silverfishlongboarding.co...me-choose.html

im uploading some new ones right now.

[satori]

nice work everyone, i really like browsing this thread. i wouldn't call myself a photographer but i get some good shots. the colors are messed up in the thumb previews- click on them for the good stuff.

[lexx]

satori, under water housing?

[satori]

nope, waterproof disposable turtle bay, maui

of course when i get more into scuba it will be a different story... but $$$

[longboardorific]

you guys are great
someone please critique mine, ive never had formal training

[fineout]

ive always wanted to dive with turtles! such cool animals...nice pics satori.
anyone got any input on my pics from the last page? i know the quality sucks but i really liked the angles i got in them

[pithaya]

My favorite was the last picture because of the very interesting texture it has. The idea of nature taking over things is good but it is hard to convey because of the details that can't be seen very well. The bicycle shot would look better in color maybe so you could make it out from the leaves and branches. Snails can be interesting, that one looks like it's a chalk and it made a line but the rest of the pet and house pictures are too common, I don't see anything special in them. Try tweaking the last picture with contrast and sharpness, or even color filters to make the texture pop.

Now I need tips on how to get my puppy to like its crate

Here's a snail, you have to really get up in its grill.



And to round out the animal pics here's a puppy, slightly photoshopped to emphasize the eyes.



One thing I'd like to improve is that I crop too much. Most of the time the real composition I want is a small crop of a larger picture. I blame this on my lack of zoom range and how I prefer pictures with more empty space, with a context. But I really want to work on doing a better cropping in Camera to avoid reducing a picture's size with cropping. Also I end up with all sorts of weird proportions when cropping, unlike the usual 2:3 ratio of film

[longboardorific]

My favorite was the last picture because of the very interesting texture it has. The idea of nature taking over things is good but it is hard to convey because of the details that can't be seen very well. The bicycle shot would look better in color maybe so you could make it out from the leaves and branches. Snails can be interesting, that one looks like it's a chalk and it made a line but the rest of the pet and house pictures are too common, I don't see anything special in them. Try tweaking the last picture with contrast and sharpness, or even color filters to make the texture pop.

Now I need tips on how to get my puppy to like its crate

yah, the only point of the animals was to get pictures of them, not for artiscticness
thanks
i just made up the theme after i was done. ill retry the bike one
does anyone know how to make an object in color and not just a color in digital
ill post some more in a sec

[V.B]

Could someone please critique mine from a few pages ago?

[summerbum8]

[lexx]

you guys are great
someone please critique mine, ive never had formal training

you need to learn to gray scale. If you're shooting in black and white contrast and composition are the two most important things to consider. In this thread there are a lot of people guilty of awful composition, but when you're shooting digital (color) you've got no excuse about getting atleast the contrast right. You need more black, more white, more detail in the gray. Don't ever shoot in 'black and white mode' on your camera, and never just hit 'gray scale' on your editing software.

new rule of thumb for everyone - selective color DOES NOT make a photograph 'arty'.

[summerbum8]

[QUOTE=V.B;927058]Some ok ones that I took yesterday.

Critiques are difficult. I'm an architecture student and get them everyday on design. But when it comes to photography, it can be fickle. The one of the dog is interesting. If you were trying to get it just slightly out of focus, you succeeded. I may have tried to get just one part as the concentrating area. tooth, ear, eye etc.. The action seems to be working well. maybe letting the viewer in on what the dog is looking at, somehow, subtly would be cool. reflection in eye/glass/whatever. remember, art of any medium, should be able to explicitly convey a message.

or not. art is everything and nothing. i cant say its bad. i cant say its good. its yours. this is just what i would have done differently.

[Wells]

What Lexx said.

The key to good color pictures is not to have too many colors in the picture. I shoot black and white on sunny days and color on cloudy ones.

Observe:




See how the bright sunlight throws strong shadows? See how the cloudy light is softer and more flattering to faces?

I try to keep my pictures "lean," which is to say that I don't try and cram a whole lot into them. If it's a picture of someone's face, please believe it's just someone's face.

Also, insanely shallow depth of field doesn't make your photographs arty either.

[lexx]

ive always wanted to dive with turtles! such cool animals...nice pics satori.
anyone got any input on my pics from the last page? i know the quality sucks but i really liked the angles i got in them

your composition isn't bad. That bottom picture is awesome, what did you do to the sky?
The other photos though you need to check your white balance, the first is too blue and the others aren't right either. Got to get your colors right or nothing ties together.

[longboardorific]

lexx, i actually like accents because they look cool, and the only way to b&w with digital is the mode itself
just messin around my house



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