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It's an Adventures by Disney trip, they take you around (place) and teach you all sorts of things and show you all sorts of things and we start in Fairbanks and end in Anchorage and see just about everything we can see in 8 days!
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Here are some macros I did for a wallpaper pack on dA (don't hate me)
Those two have the 'subject' that is in focus near the edge of the frame instead of at the center which gives it a bit more intrigue and asymetricalness. The first one doesn't have the contrast with the sky (or whatever background that is) and it just feels so very centered even though the part that is out of focus is in the top third of the photo. I'm not sure that makes much sense but thats just how it feels to me. I also really like the vignetting and focused light in the third one. I'm sure these are much darker than they seem on this monitor. :\
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Pope: Your cat looks furious. Also, I'm not really into macro photography, but I love those shots from the last page, simply awesome, well done.
When I get some time, I'll give it another shot with the whole thing in focus.
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This is AWESOME.
Virum - I think you are my doppelganger or something since we always seem to like completely opposite things.
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More from christmas:
Cranberry vodka
Business talk
In the garage
A friend
Table salt (at approximately 6:1 magnification):
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@jake: What kind of bush grows that red? It's pretty cool especially against a sky that rich.
@no: I like 'garage' and 'friend', the lighting helps keep the focus where it's supposed to be and the noir-vibe is great. 'Business' probably needs a different crop for the subjects, should bring them up towards the center some.
Anyway more chandelier (It's actually my aunt's and I have dinner there a few times each year)
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NO: That garage shot, have you tried cropping it vertically?
self portrait, ish, kinda.
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Sonick - the second one looks a little like a heart pendant.
Jake! - no, no crop. I like the details, the balloons, the boom box on the wall. It tells a story.
On the self portrait - background's a little bland. Texture would help. Otherwise - looks natural.
So yeah, crap picture but it's neat to see how big I can make one grain of salt. Well, to me anyway.
In other news, it seems even birds can suffer the occasional marital spat:
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I'm trying to learn about black and white photography but I don't think I'm doing a good job. Here's one of the shots.
I ended up going past the breaking waves and taking a few shots from there, but I kept getting water on my lens..
I will have to get some 120 film and play around with it some when I get back home.
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Time of day, angle, composition, weird crop, and last bus not least- subject matter.
Is that about my photo? Can you explain how I can make it better? Still learning here..
Crits comments etc needed to improve thanks!
I have to say I disagree with both nO and Aldo on this. I like the image because of the contrast between the rider and the water. His expression and gesture add to that contrast which I think works.
This gondola takes you up and down Grouse Mountain in Vancouver.
I did a doubletake when I saw this shape moving down the river. The orange and blue popped nicely here, I think.
Shot at night, hand-held (thank you Super SteadyShot). I burned the bottom of the image in an effort to remove some distractingly bright foreground material.
It's one thing to technically expose a photo, yet completely another to create something I might like on a wall. I realize that's not all we post here - snapshots and all, and that's ok. But it's a surfing shot, so there are certain characteristics one expects.
Look at some photos from http://www.jackenglish.com/
In terms of the photo and what could be made better... well, I don't know. It's very static. He looks like he's standing in place, the wave is small.
The frame is copped, yet I don't see how the crop helps the composition.
It's black and white, yet there are no benefits to it being black and white. We are not lead by the shapes or shadows...
Well, I certainly won't say it's a world class photo, but I disagree on several of your points. I didn't see this as a "omg amazing surfer" shot at all which is why I wasn't expecting Jack English. I think the black and white helps for the same reason his goofy expression and awkward stance does: it doesn't look like he's in his element. I think the high contrast expounds on that. I could be wrong, maybe he's an amazing surfer, but I think this shot works regardless or in spite of that because it tells me something different.
I'll grant you the cropped frame doesn't help anything though.
What does your lighting setup look like?
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Downtown canal in OKC, taken with my Asahi Pentax Spotmatic then scanned
Too much?
I pulled this one back to reduce the overall blown highlights.
Too far?
What do you guys think about this dock pillion?
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The last one is very interesting, but I would have pulled the focus a bit more on the twig growing out of the pillion, maybe putting it slightly above the horizon or in line with the horizon so it looks like the twig is actually a big tree.
Anyway.
These pictures were taken with a point-n-shoot camera, huh? You have beautiful subjects, but the limits of the camera are very apparent.
1st has the windows overblown, 2nd has a white sky that was (probably) blue, 3rd is fine, though, 4th is slightly moved and again is overblown, 5th looks slightly moved and it's very yellow-ish, 6th is the most artistic of the bunch, even though you just greyscaled a picture you took.
To give a bit more feedback on the 6th one: you have an interesting subject, with a lot of interesting contrast, but also with some interesting surfaces, these come out good in the photo. I do not like the cropping, though: there's a lot of 'noise' in it, most notably the beams that go over your head. I think this picture would have been more impressive if you had put the door in the centre of the image or if you had put the two beams crossing each other in the centre. This kind of depends on how the rest of the building looked, of course.
It would have also been interesting to make a picture of just a bit of bare wall or just the door.
edit: oh, and anable - you need some negative space around those bottles of drunkedness. Other than that - clean stuff.
Thanks. My setup was a black backdrop next to a window in late afternoon. Seriously. I tried some with my strobe as well but I didn't like them quite as much. There's one on my flickr if you want to see. It feels a bit too aggressive for me I think.
Cecil - I feel like I should like that shot more than I do, but it's just not quite doing anything for me. You have some nice lines and curves there but I think the quality of the shot ruins it for me.
Uncle - What Aldo said, plus that first shot is really, really good. I took me a second to figure out exactly what I was looking at, but the whole land vs sea thing is great. I'm wondering what a shot would have looked like from underneath the bars though. I don't recall you doing many symmetry shots, but I think that would have been amazing as well.
Craw - Shots 1, 4, and 5 look very touristy. Not bad for remembering things, but they don't interest me much objectively. Also, like Aldo said, there seem to be some limitations of your camera that lower the quality of all of your shots which doesn't help. Still, I like that last shot quite a bit. Good exposure. Nice texture. Interesting composition. It's definitely the best of the bunch, in my opinion.
PS: Anabel, looking at them, I would have to agree; I think that that was what worried me initially about putting stuff up, comparing them to what other people had posted. In my defense, I suppose, those were the ones I took most as a tourist--I'm living in Jaén at the moment, but those shots were during visits to Alhambra in Granada (number 4), and Cordoba (1 and 5).
Cotija:
Calle:
I think your original shot is fine. The first redo is too flat and the second has unnecessarily high black levels. Also the framing in the original is much better.
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