Your Own Photography
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
opiate82
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Thanks, I am very amateur but every once in a while something turns out for me. Quality by volume works well for me. My parents are both also very good photographers, I will have to ask them if I can post some of their work, it is very good.
One more from me. This was taken with my cell phone so wasn't much I could do with it, but considering it was a cell-phone picture I thought it turned out nice. Last time I checked Two Beers Brewing was still using it on their website.
opiate82
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I'm just the opposite, I have a hard time finding the motivation to go out and take pictures (most of my pictures are when I had my camera with me, but hadn't necessarily intended on trying to take pictures), but I will spend hours in Lightroom tweaking one picture. Ansel Adams always said, "you don't take a photograph, you make it." (Although I'm sure it was just as much in reference to prepping for the shot as it was processing it).
Go thank your parents, it seems you have an eye for creativity. Christmas is coming up, you should ask them for some gear.
Depends on the shot and what it needs.Zodiac_sl said:
(I just noticed on the bottom right, some lady with a really red coat snuck in the picture....)
opiate82
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Who I really have to thank is my great-grandpa, he is my dads influence. My parents have a slew of gear, 5DII, 7D and a ton of lenses. I can pretty much borrow from them at any time which is nice since I can ill-afford yet another expensive hobby.
My dad ended up with a lot of my great grandpas slides and negatives and has been working to digitize them all. There are easily 10,000 pictures to go through, probably more. Here are some of his shots:
He got a chance to actually climb the Golden Gate bridge and has some amazing shots from there.
This is a shot of my great grandma racing cars.
Shot taken at a jeep jamboree. I can also trace my love for 4-wheeling back to my great grandpa.
Great shot!Might as well =/
Was playing around today, tried some B&W and some bokeh (kind of for jokes, there is no subject so its nothing special). Let me know your thoughts on the B&W ones, if I need more/less contrast ect...
I haven't seen much HDR photos in this thread. The first photo is a 6 minute exposure, processed as a sudo-HDR image. I'm big on the post-processing
edit: if you're wondering, I shoot with a bottom of the line Canon Rebel XS from 2008.
edit: if you're wondering, I shoot with a bottom of the line Canon Rebel XS from 2008.
The B&Ws could use a bit more contrast. The fact that the composition is so bad makes the lack of contrast seem worse than it might have otherwise been though. Put up a B&W with content that you like and it'll be easier to judge.
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This is great. Makes me want to try to get a similar shot of my dog. I freaking love dogs.
Go to imgur.com and upload them (you don't even need an account) and then copy/paste the bbcode links here.
Love it.Shot taken at a jeep jamboree. I can also trace my love for 4-wheeling back to my great grandpa.
How about this here.. Thoughts? Btw - I like the composition
Shot 1 -This is great. Makes me want to try to get a similar shot of my dog. I freaking love dogs.
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I like this shot but it's too centered, I keep wanting more space on the right hand side. Awesome DOF though.
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I love this concept, it might be difficult to do but you should try the same shot but have the things in the foreground in focus.
Post more photos!
I have a bunch of that the dogs, did you see the one by the water? It's my favorite (its on the previous page, or just look at my posting history, I have only been posting here).
Sorry about that - I took your comment in the original post as "none of these are significant" rather than "the random bokeh ones aren't significant".How about this here.. Thoughts? Btw - I like the composition.
I think the way you processed the picture was fine - I like a little more contrast, but that's just a personal preference. As for the composition, the particular angle that you captured makes it feel like a bunch of jumbled lines going in random directions to me. Usually when people do the "B&W lines" thing, there's some sort of pattern or effect created by the lines. Since your strongest line kind of leads the viewer's eye off of the picture rather than guiding it to the center/right, it feels a bit off to me. Most of the yellow lines in my marked up version also draw your eyes to that upper left side. The lines that come in from the right are very much out of focus (yes, I know it's intentional), so their ability to influence the viewer's eye is reduced.
Of course, this is all a matter of opinion... if you enjoy it, that's all that matters. I hope you don't mind my explanation. I enjoy looking at other peoples' photos. I'll put some of mine up later and you can tear them apart if you'd like.
This is great, I like having constructive criticism. The last thing I'm going to do is get dickhurt and rip your stuff apart. I'm sure people have looked through this thread but have been too timid to post in fear of the "lol you take that with a potato!? picture sucks" comments. I would like to encourage people to post, getting into a fight with you (specially after I asked for further comments) is not going to do that.
Thanks for the feedback, it is greatly appreciated.
NOPE. I would be so scared of that shark biting me.Feien_sl said:
Okay, here are some pictures from my first outing with a DSLR:
Random guy jumping off of a small ledge at the top of a steep sand dune:
Some flowers. It's not perfect, but I kind of like how it came out.
Two closeups of bees... I like macro-style shots (these were taken with a non-macro kit lens though).
Random guy jumping off of a small ledge at the top of a steep sand dune:
Some flowers. It's not perfect, but I kind of like how it came out.
Two closeups of bees... I like macro-style shots (these were taken with a non-macro kit lens though).
