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That feels off-balance. The cloud is almost totally featureless and that column on the left is dragging the whole image towards it. Maybe try a different crop, something more vertical.guidoanselmi posted:
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Mr. Despair posted:
I have to agree with the others, this is way more interesting with the clouds. Did you shoot it with the intention of blowing it out? I could see this really popping in front of clearly-defined nimbus clouds. Never posted my own stuff in here before, it's kind of intimidating. Working with a Fujifilm FinePix JV100, trying to save up for a more proper camera but it's what I've got in the meantime.  Exhibit at a local art-hop.  We were having some pretty crazy skies last week, I went a little far with the saturation but it really was candy-colored. Magic Hate Ball fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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I feel like part of the issue there is that you're not really communicating anything, or even telling me why I should care. Almost none of the information you gave in text is present in the photo, and when I first saw it the only impression I really got was "here's two dudes smoking and it's probably chilly", which makes it a snapshot in the tiniest, most banal way. The photo doesn't tell me that they were smoking in a corner of a party, which could be interesting. What you're looking for is probably something along the lines of street photography, which is, by its very nature, "snapshottish". From our very own Street Photography thread: I use this one because it's sort of similar to yours - isolated subject, very little context. But what can you say about this girl? A lot, probably, and most of that has to do with her expression, stance, and outfit. Taking a good snapshot photo doesn't just mean "less polished", you have to capture something, and I don't think you have with your pizza-delivering "cool hat"-wearing smoker. That's a Facebook photo. Of course, I say this as someone apparently so lame I can't even get critiqued here, but that's what I see here. I actually prefer the other photos you've got on your Flickr from (presumably) the same party, because they all say so much more than this one does. You do seem to have an issue with framing, too, which shits all over some of your better photos - tons of headroom, tilted camera (lots of this), etc.
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David Pratt posted:Only criticism is the trunks don't look totally in focus, or maybe suffer from some camera shake. That's probably just motion blur from the trees swaying in the wind.
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I feel like I know where you're trying to go with this and I like your destination but either you need to photograph it in a different way (earlier/later time of day to emphasize shadow? different plants?) or work with the idea in a different, physical medium because right now it just kinda looks like you photographed garbage. You really need the sense of depth, or at least more organized randomness in the frame. Here's the joy of tule fog (Fujifilm FinePix JV100): 
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copen posted:Hmm, I don't know about this one. I feel like I could like the mood of this shot with some different post processing. The foreground is very dark but the sky up top is over exposed and there is some digital artifacting going on. The composition is also kind of dull with the horizon going through the middle and no real area of interest or good eye movement through the scene. Cropping off the top portion of the sky would help eliminate the blown out parts and move the horizon up on the shot. Lowering the contrast might help you bring the brightness levels up to where they need to be on the foreground but you will lose some color. But lowering the contrast also allows you to push the color a little harder and still look natural. Thanks for the advice. Tried out a square crop and mellowed out the levels a bit. Not much I can do about the digital artifacts, the JV100 isn't the happiest customer in low-light situations (or most situations, really), let's just call it "texture":  XTimmy posted:The bleak, scorched palette and high contrast work well for this, as does the minimal post-processing. I would maybe find a way to provide more separation between the ground and the plant in the lower left, as its getting lost and is therefore distracting. What would be a good way to bring the plant out? I love the parts of this photo that are frozen, which makes his hands and feet kind of frustrating. The high-contrast look is fantastic, though. This is great, as is this.
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It's interesting but I really wish there was a subject in there, right now my eye's just kind of being guided towards nothing.
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She's straight out of a Woody Allen film. I really like it a lot, she's got a ton of character and the light is terrific but agree that it needs a deeper contrast, right now it kind of looks accidental. Also agreed on the cup - maybe it could be cloned out?
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I feel like the contrast in this is too high. The darker colors could use a little more breathing room - the wreath and posts both look almost black. Anyways, here's a photo I took at the CN Tower yesterday:  (click for really big)
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I get where you're going with this, and it's thematically interesting, or at least has the potential to be, but the pavement is frustratingly almost too clean to take up so much of the frame. It feels like dead space. I also kind of wish it wasn't horizontal, which is somehow stressful to look at. All the action is happening on the left side. What if it was vertical, with the water on top? Maybe the visual weight would make a little more sense? Anyways, I got a DSLR over the holidays and I'm still learning how to use it. Here's a photo I took a couple weeks ago when the polar vortex was really nailing Ontario:  And one of a mountain in Nevada on the train home: 
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megalodong posted:I like this one a lot. It's the first photo where I went out with an idea, rather than seeing something cool and shooting it (even if the idea was only "I like the pattern these leaves would make in the light"). I cropped it to cut out the pot they were in, which made it look a lot more dense. It feels a little washed out though, but I couldn't get it to look better in lightroom without being too dark. I really appreciate the amount of texture and dimension you've managed to capture, it feels like I could pick one of the leaves off and bite it. But it also feels like you've taken a photo without a subject or an apparent sense of purpose. It's the kind of photo that could be on a textbook - nice, but kind of harmless and vague. What does it look like with the pot in the frame? Anyways, here's some crap to look at:  color field 1 by difficult listening on Flickr  a leaf by difficult listening on Flickr  the sunset by difficult listening on Flickr color field 1 (which is directly from the camera with no post-processing) is me dicking around with cardstock and trying to imitate James Turrell's "Aperture/Space Division" installations, which are cool as heck. Unfortunately, cardstock isn't very dense and bleeds a lot of light, and also tears easily, so I might have another go at the concept with some posterboard at some point. It's kinda fun. Magic Hate Ball fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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I really dig this. Toy cameras can be really hit or miss but you found an odd enough subject that it carries the photo, Holga and all. It's genuinely eerie, too, especially with the glow around the pyramid. I don't disagree that the framing is a little high, and I sort of wish you'd gotten a little closer, if just to get the branch on the left out of the way. Where is this, anyways? Geektox posted:
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Entenzahn posted:I don't know how I feel about your second shot. The sky is awesome, but the antenna at first seemed out of place to me. I mean, I get that it's a deliberate design choice, but the mast is so small against the sky and doesn't stand out too well lighting-wise, so... I really don't know, I guess it's one of those YMMV shots. Maybe you could make the antenna stand out a little more without losing the impression of it against the big sky? I sort of wish I'd taken a couple more photos of the antenna that day, because we had the most amazing puffy clouds (I live in Fresno so the sky is usually just a kind of featureless brownish-grey) and probably could have gotten a better effect, but here's a black and white version I was also toying around with:  signals black and white by difficult listening on flickr I'm not sure if it's better but it's a bit different. Also I do like the Toronto photo but I took your advice and deepened the blacks a bit:  from cn tower (contrast) by difficult listening on flickr Mostly I just want to keep the blacks from being true black because I'm a fan of that kind of gentle grey tone. Huxley posted:Not sure on the vignetting. I felt like it needed something other than stark blue field to push your eyes to the middle from the top, not just the bottom. I feel like the vignetting is actually kind of a distraction. My eye is already being slammed right into the center there. Also, the photo is leaning ever so slightly to the left, you can see it in the horizontal slats there. It's sort of maddening. single-mode fiber posted:I'm not sure which of the following 3 pictures is the best one: I love the open, wild sky of the third one, but I prefer the stronger snow path in the second. For some reason the telephone pole isn't doing anything for me, but maybe I'm just crazy. Anyways, I know it's just a culinary booty shot but here's some cinnamon buns I made:  from the can by difficult listening on flickr I've been endlessly tinkering with the curves in Photoshop and it's gotten to the point where I can't tell if it's too much or too little this or that anymore.
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I went back to the start and tried a more unfussy version with a tighter crop: from the can [2], by difficult listening on flickr grack posted:
This is a very respectable photo, but there's almost no surprise to it. I wish you'd framed it a little higher and maybe to the left, because it feels like the focus shouldn't be on the bridge, but on what's beyond it. It's not a very interesting bridge, but the woods are creepy and I wish I could see more of them.
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grack posted:Highlights are definitely better in this pic and the cropping is better, though the bun on the right bottom is still a distraction. Have you tried burning it out as well? Like this, maybe?  I think I'm done messing around with this glorified snapshot. grack posted:Okay, how about this one, then? I find this much more interesting to look at.
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grack posted:I wish I'd had the time to frame this a little better, but this dude straight up threatened to kill me when I took this shot. This is even though I'd asked for and received permission to take his picture beforehand. He's interesting but man, this is a dark photo. Everything's being sucked right into those blacks. grack posted:
It's a cute piece of art but the photo feels like a snapshot, like you saw it from the hiking trail and zoomed in from there. I feel like it would look better closer up and a bit cleaned off, all the acorns on top are distracting. RangerScum posted:Between the composition and the exposure, I think this looks disgusting. Hahaha, thanks.  the light by difficult listening on flickr  lit by difficult listening on flickr and this is a bit silly but  fancy donut 2 by difficult listening on flickr
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There's nothing about this that really jumps out at me, so it kinda scans as a snapshot. She's there, and I'm looking at her, but the photo itself isn't directing me in any way as a viewer. grack posted:
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Marshmallow Blue posted:They probably didn't want to remove a fallen tree or something and paved around it. 
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These trees are really not doing anything for me and in this case the sky is probably interesting enough to stand on its own. The silhouette isn't really telling me anything, which it needs to be doing in a photo like this. It's just kind of a shapeless blob that's blocking my view of the sunset.  the vision by difficult listening on Flickr  the oasis by difficult listening on Flickr  the best seat in the house by difficult listening on Flickr
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I think I get what you're going for, but the long lens and deep focus is kind of squishing the trailing moss into the background with all the other textures. Maybe if you'd gotten up close and really narrowed it down to just the moss? All the tangles are interesting, but they're all the way over there, and I'm way over here.grack posted:
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I really, really dig this. It almost abstracts the subject, so you have to stop and look at the contours and the shape of the shadows and re-examine it. The tone is really lovely too, the low greys, the light coming through the flesh of the flower, it's sort of ghostly.
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Maybe I'm just a sucker for these kinds of photos but I love this, the way the light emanates into the fog is really effectively eerie. thetzar posted:
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I get what you're going for here but I don't think the lighthouse is notable enough to have the image devoted to playing off its reflection, which feels almost distracting, if just because the reflection is so small. I much prefer this photo, because it allows the beach landscape and the lighthouse to integrate - it feels like a feature of the landscape in a much more natural way. The color and tone of all the photos are superb, though.
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grack posted:In both of these pictures I like the framing, the composition and the subject matter, but both have issues due to one problem - you needed to use a tripod. I hate defending my photos by talking about shooting conditions but both were shot from a moving train (hello blotchy brown window).
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I really really really super dig this. It was probably unintentional but I love that there's the pink blouse on the right side, and the blue jeans in the background on the left, and then the baby's swaddled in white with pink and blue. It's just neat, it fits really well. Also, these tones are gorgeous. Very soft.
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If I had to pick one issue, I'd say that it's way too busy. It took me a bit to figure out what I was looking at and, to be honest, I still didn't really know until I saw your other photo of the same event, which I like a lot better. There's more depth and life, and the details (leaves, bricks, people) are much more clear.
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RangerScum posted:First one: Okay because of the name and the pattern of the windshield wiper I'm able to deduce that you are the passenger in a moving car on a stormy day, but beyond that there's nothing else so my interest in the photo stops. What was your goal here? 1: I just wanted to capture the mood of the moment as best I could - it was dark, rainy, I thought it was neat. 2: I might give another edit in regards to color/contrast now that I've got a proper screen to work with. I guess it's more of a background/atmosphere image than a storytelling/subject-of-interest image. 3: I'm not really sure, maybe it'd be better in the other thread - does it evoke anything? Mostly I just like the gentle shift from the bruised-purple fog on the ground to the hazy sky. Also, is the name a distraction? I didn't think people took those into account much.
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I wish this guy had a different head. The body position is kinda fun and I dig fabric caught in mid-swing but his face is an expressionless void and it totally sucks the life out of the picture. The other is a little better if just by virtue of being more visually interesting, though if I had to pick a favorite from that series of photos it'd be this one.
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huhu posted:I think both of these would benefit from something that sticks out from the background. They're both pleasing backgrounds but nothing is really going on in the foreground. The downside of taking photos from a train is that you're basically taking nothing but nice background shots.
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I really like the colors in this, but I wish it pointed my attention in a clearer way. My first instinct is to look really hard at the bridge, but it's kinda featureless, and it makes the industrial building in the background sort of a secondary "also this is here" afterthought. But wow! Those rusty tones against the clear blue sky is gorgeous, so good job on that front.  runny egg over risotto + broiled asparagus by difficult listening, on Flickr  stalks by difficult listening, on Flickr (self-criticism: I was so hungry I didn't notice I hosed the focus on the egg)
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Tricerapowerbottom posted:Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. Here's a version with the stick manipulated out, which I ended up liking more. I feel like this is a situation where I get what you're going for, but you're going to have to put in a lot more work to really nail the effect. Be more creative with the smoke, perhaps, or try alternate lighting styles for the ferns/beyond. Right now it just feels a little subjectless.  the sound by difficult listening, on Flickr (also posted in the low effort dump thread)
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