PHOTO THREAD v. 2.15769302

Sheri

I really really really wanted to make this one.

Abracadaniel

Damn too slow.

Here's a flower. No I don't have fancy frames and I haven't played around with settings or any of that. I am lazy.

master_shake

Sheri: I like that one a lot. Nice comp and all that jazz. I would have named the thread "PHOTOGENOCIDE".

Smrt Hero: The photo seems to lack some punch. I personally don't feel like there's enough contrast between the subject/ground. Then again, I've been blowing out highlights left and right lately, so don't take my word for it. :roll:

It might also have somthing to do with the "divided" image, with a lot of blossoms on the right and nothing on the left. It feels unbalanced. I guess this a totally unrelated complaint.









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JRosey

I need to go on another road trip.

erisian pope

Prospicience wrote:

Is there any chance you have a larger res version of this? It's stunning and I would cherish it as a desktop! 1600x1200 would be ideal, but whatever you have is fine.

master_shake wrote:

I'm reading a book on taking better photos, and this is a way better example of movement from the foreground to the background than the one in the book. That's rad!



Sheir, thats a lovely picture of flowers.

Sheri

Shake, that last one reminds me of this photo I took yesterday at the Pita Pit, but it was after I'd already eaten half of the pita. I was just messing around, took the photo, then looked at it and went, 'Man, that is unappetizing.'

It's not that yours looks unappetizing, it just reminded me cuz it was food. XD

Some day, I'll get better at portraits.

Hey look, I focused on the wrong eye. gg fgt

master_shake

Sheri: It's nice to know I can bring out all these bad memories for you. If you thing partially eaten food looks unappetizing, just imagine partially digested food.

About those two portraits. I like the cropping/values/expressions in both of them. Are you focusing manually? If you're using a D50/D70 (which I think you are), manual focus can be damn tricky. That viewfinder is so small and my eyes are starting to go. I'm forced to trust the autofocus because my eyes can't get the job done. ONce I scrounge together some money I'm thinking about buying that new D80 just for the larger viewfinder.


Pope: That's cuz I do everything better than books. I'm perfect like that.

"Dood, do you know shake?"

"Yeah, he smarter than BOOKS!"

I overhear conversations like that every day.

JRosey: Your second shot is really nice. In some (good) ways, it reminds me of a mid-90's Nine Inch Nails video.

Your signature looks like a bird pooped on your border.

Tini

master_shake wrote:

Edit:

Are those fucking gnocchi? If so you are made of pure win.

master_shake

Tini wrote:

master_shake wrote:

Edit:

Are those fucking gnocchi? If so you are made of pure win.

Gnocchi + Vodka Sauce + Fresh Basil + Parsley + Parmesan


It feels good to be made of win.

Sheri

master_shake wrote:

Sheri: It's nice to know I can bring out all these bad memories for you. If you thing partially eaten food looks unappetizing, just imagine partially digested food.

About those two portraits. I like the cropping/values/expressions in both of them. Are you focusing manually? If you're using a D50/D70 (which I think you are), manual focus can be damn tricky. That viewfinder is so small and my eyes are starting to go. I'm forced to trust the autofocus because my eyes can't get the job done. ONce I scrounge together some money I'm thinking about buying that new D80 just for the larger viewfinder.

Blasphemer, I'm a Canon user. D60.

Also, yes, I am focusing manually, which is why I miss so often. I figure it's better to practice and get it wrong than to depend on autofocus all the time.

Tini

master_shake wrote:

Tini wrote:

master_shake wrote:

Edit:

Are those fucking gnocchi? If so you are made of pure win.

Gnocchi + Vodka Sauce + Fresh Basil + Parsley + Parmesan


It feels good to be made of win.

...I...I love you.

Gnocchi is my favorite food, vodka sauce makes it even better...

Marry me?

master_shake

Tini wrote:

master_shake wrote:

Tini wrote:

master_shake wrote:

Edit:

Are those fucking gnocchi? If so you are made of pure win.

Gnocchi + Vodka Sauce + Fresh Basil + Parsley + Parmesan


It feels good to be made of win.

...I...I love you.

Gnocchi is my favorite food, vodka sauce makes it even better...

Marry me?

Sorry. I'm already married. Thanks for the offer though.



I can add you to the waiting list! :winky:

erisian pope

Graptopetalum paraguayense (or some other Grapto/Sedum ... it's hard to differentiate these).

Nucsh

Puddle in the building.



The same puddle that started leaking through the front door when it was bigger.

Sheri

Pope, I need you to start identifying the ones that I post, cuz I don't know wtf they are.

erisian pope

Ok! I'm gonna call that one at the top of this page "flower."

I, uhhh, I don't know much about plants outside of the ones I am growing on my porch. This happens to be one of them.

Sheri

erisian pope wrote:

Ok! I'm gonna call that one at the top of this page "flower."

I, uhhh, I don't know much about plants outside of the ones I am growing on my porch. This happens to be one of them.

You are no goddamn help at all.

erisian pope

Lemme check under my avatar .... "Available to help others?" .... Nope! It's not there!!

:P


It's a recurring them in my life. I am retty much a dum-dum. Then I get a little interested in something and somehow convince everyone else I know something about it. Then I invariably disappoint them and it often results in a kick to the nuts.

ProxyMan

Underexposure
(pose could've been better, but it wasn't planned out or anything; just some guy)

ENERjAKzero

Underexposed treet with light in the back



And a fence in front of the local high school's soccer field



Late afternoon lighing kicks ass.

I'll post more when I get a chance to resize.

Doodmann

Waterskiing trip at Lake Shasta raw photos btw











And because I am a camera whore and this is an awsome shot of me

bsjezz

A few from the weekend - nothing spectacular. I'm still waiting on delivery of my 50mm F/1.8D.





P.S. Woo arbitrary cropping

Omega Dynamics

With a New thread I decided to come out of my lurking shell and grow a pair. So critique away, because I'm pretty new at this, and ya no borders.

This is St. Patrick's Catherdal with Atlas in the foreground from a recent road trip to NYC

master_shake

Agent Cooper

I gotta say, Shake, usually I love mirror shots

but that one

is

kinda creepy, actually.

I dunno why.

Maybe it being a public area makes it seem voyeuristic.

Sheri

I dunno why people feel the need to comment on borders or the presence (or lack) thereof.

bsjezz

It's Friday afternoon, I'm ready to go out and see live music, I've got beer, and my new lense made it here before the weekend. Life is fucking good.

benz0rs

Sea World. San Diego, CA

Phonehand

holy saturation batman

ShiverZ

Those Seaworld photos are awesome, especially the one with the seal and the crane (?). Great colours and clarity

Syphilisaurus

Phonehand wrote:

holy saturation batman

Yeah, I would turn down the saturation on a few of those, especially the second shot. I like the black and white one, though I'd prefer it without the people in the top-right.

Nucsh

Went rumaging through my hard drive this morning and found this shot of Trunk Bay in St. John from a cruise a few years ago. Before I really got into photography (even in the least bit), but I thought it was a gorgeous shot regardless.

Prospicience

erisian pope wrote:

Prospicience wrote:

Is there any chance you have a larger res version of this? It's stunning and I would cherish it as a desktop! 1600x1200 would be ideal, but whatever you have is fine.

I do have a larger version... buuut don't really know how to host/link it I just have a free photobucket account and if I can do it with that I haven't figured it out yet :? if you know how lemme know and I'll put a link ASAP

EDIT:

ProxyMan wrote:

Underexposure
(pose could've been better, but it wasn't planned out or anything; just some guy)

I love this shot man, the composition is kickass.

erisian pope

Prospicience wrote:

erisian pope wrote:

Prospicience wrote:

Is there any chance you have a larger res version of this? It's stunning and I would cherish it as a desktop! 1600x1200 would be ideal, but whatever you have is fine.

I do have a larger version... buuut don't really know how to host/link it I just have a free photobucket account and if I can do it with that I haven't figured it out yet :? if you know how lemme know and I'll put a link ASAP

In your account settings in photobucket you can change the max file size to 1024k (1mb). If you're using photoshop and "save for web" instead of "save as" you cna lower the quality to ~85% and you'll see below what the file size is. Between 85% and 100% should get you to 1mb or less.

Otherwise, I can receive emails up to 5mb or so, I'll send you my email addy in a PM.

THANKS!!

Tini

Nucsh wrote:

Went rumaging through my hard drive this morning and found this shot of Trunk Bay in St. John from a cruise a few years ago. Before I really got into photography (even in the least bit), but I thought it was a gorgeous shot regardless.

I've been there. Great snorkeling. That photo is one of the top ten photos to be take in the world. So I read in a magizine. Still very nice though.

benz0rs

Syphilisaurus wrote:

Phonehand wrote:

holy saturation batman

Yeah, I would turn down the saturation on a few of those, especially the second shot. I like the black and white one, though I'd prefer it without the people in the top-right.

Yeah saturation is pretty bad on the batman one haha. I just thought the colors might go well with it, but thanks for the crits I'll fix some right now..

I was thinking about editing the b&w photo, but I got lazy. I should try that today.. or soon, cuz those people in the corner bother me, too.

Shiverz: thanks that seal was straight up gangster. his eyes were always lows and he just sits on that rock and howls/waves his flipper all day.

superglue

Some variety here, I'm hoping my server fixes it's damn self in the next day or so, my PHP gallery is kicking my ass.



This Dragon here is a road blocker thing at FSU. Very cool and I'm glad it came out the way it did.


These two were from a stunt show at where I work, I have a lot more like this but the pictures came out... sub par.

I have yet to do anything to these pictures, but I have something in mind for the stunt ones.

Edit:

This is kind of it. It still needs a bit of tweaking.

erisian pope

I'll leave you all to ponder what the subject of the photo was.

master_shake

Everybody knows glow-in-the-dark anal beads when they see them. Am I right? 8)




Am I right? :?

Sheri

master_shake wrote:

Everybody knows glow-in-the-dark anal beads when they see them. Am I right? 8)




Am I right? :?

Knowing pope, probably.

erisian pope

I ain't sayin.

[spoiler:5bca3f3b1b]Yes.[/spoiler:5bca3f3b1b]

[spoiler:5bca3f3b1b]No.[/spoiler:5bca3f3b1b]

[spoiler:5bca3f3b1b]Maybe.[/spoiler:5bca3f3b1b]