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Yep, played around with it in photoshop. There was a bit of light falloff happening naturally, but I def. took it up a notch or two.
Uhh.. boobs. It adds boobs to the shot.
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Just joking. Seriously, I hate that whole "journalists just point the camera" thing..
What's wrong with having a journalistic shot that's also a great picture on its own?
"f8 and be there."
Capturing the image is the top priority, however, all things being equal, the image of higher technical quality will be accepted over those of lesser quality.
Now, to be hopefully a little helpful to Staleghoti: faces. You need faces. You also need to be able to focus. A lot of these are compromised by ridiculous levels of camera shake and inexplicable focus. If Mr. Girl Talk is the focus of the photo in number 2 of the girl talk series then why isn't he in focus? If you're saying that the crowd is the focus, because they are at least slightly in focus, then you've probably missed the more important part of the shot by choosing a poor subject for focus.
In addition to my advice on getting faces, you need to work on actually isolating a subject. Hands coming into the frame for no apparent reason are bad. Don't keep those shots. Find your subject, cut the extraneous, and isolate it, only then, if there is something that adds to the overall quality of the photo, should you consider including other things.
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This point can be veeery difficult in a concert setting, and you gotta work on your game.
I remember trying to shoot some photos at a St. Vincent concert, and knowing the venue, my glass range and the lighting of the venue, I burrowed myself underneath a raised speaker platform to get a decent shot. And I waited the whole show for the frontwoman to pick up a damn guitar from the stand that was right in my shot, blocking half of her goddamn body.
Guess what? She never picked up that guitar.
The moral of the story? ... i dont know, I am drunk, but this shit aint easy.
No, it's not. And it's hard to describe how you get that shot. It takes a lot of practice and it takes a good deal of instinct. I mean, I can sit here and say that he just needs a D3 and the 200 f/2 and a monopod and he needs to have UDMA cards and stand on his head etc., but that saying about "f/8 and be there," really does apply, as it balances the technical f/8 with the less than technical "be there" and, the fact is that these two ideas go hand in hand and that makes it very difficult.
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Edit: all things said are true. For every click there should be a thought involved. Those pictures posted before did not have thought. They had Michael j fox like twitches, perhaps, but not thought.
also that one in the back is totally checking out the other ones fin
"hmpf, mine's much better. why's hers so erect? i'm sure she's had work done on it."
My old SLR was all manual, and times were good. But since I stopped buying film and do not have the dough for a DSLR I've been relying really heavily on auto focus.
So, how many lashes is that worth?
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Here are some picturz:
I think it is slightly crooked...
Will have to come back and take some close up shots of this place. It has a very interesting facade. Hope that no-one will mind me taking shots of a run down strip joint in the bad part of murder-city, USA.
There are a few more on my photoblog (shameless plug tripppagephotography.com). I can not wait till I have my real website up and running. So tired of linking to a wordpress.
Project: Only one really doin' much for me is the last one, which I think the DoF and comp works great together. I think it might be the crops doing it for me in the rest. First one for example - too much empty space on the left of the gent, if he was facing the other way it'd be one thing. Anyways, just my 2cents.
Anyways, despite my lack of posting pics... like at all. I am still taking some from time to time, feel like I'm in a huge slump though.
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Kinda makes me feel like the guy is waiting nervously to go on stage and perform.
Sorta creepy, accidentally artsy thingy
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Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
The feeling is mutual, both on the issue with the leg and the "liking of photos". My reasons for not liking yours are purely from a technical and think through aspect .
Edit: projek - last one is indeed nice.
Does anyone know if it has an audio input? or is it just a little hole for recording sounds? Thanks!
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I like the Mark II, don't get me wrong... but the price tag seems a little crazy.
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not sure how i feel about this one
Ok, I'm almost done with the series...
I took this while walking home today. Apart from being resized, I've left it unedited so as to show my meagre photography skills and not my equally meagre photoshop ones.
I did a photo shoot for a musician/friend-of-a-friend. Got paid in baked goods, which is alright
I like all of these, especially the second. They're more interesting and less mundane than most city-photos
Edit: one more thing I forgot to say - you could drastically improve 2 if you used a white reflector / foamcore board on the lower right for that portrait. Would light up and bring out the eyes like crazy.
I'll let you guys know if it's any good. For $100 it better be
Staleghoti: I use autofocus 99% of the time. The only time I am not using it is if I am shooting something like a landscape at night. In that case I just put it on manual and slap it all the way to infinity. My rule of thumb is that I would rather have a grainy picture from using a high iso than a photo that is blurry and basically unusable. So put your autofocus on manual so you pick which AF point it is using and then make sure you point that at your subject.
This is a good shot; I just love the feel too it. I would probably crop maybe 10% off the edge of the whole picture.
Nice composition. The right side of the face is almost too dark but the little bit of light on the cheek I think saves it. Your focus is off and is on the hair on her forehead and not on her eye. With such a low DOF you have to be really careful about that or about moving at all after focusing.
Sort of interesting but doesn't really match the rest of the series. Also it would be nice if her head and eyes were another 15-30 degrees closer to the camera.
This is a really 'meh' shot because of the lack of light on the right side of her face and because of the slight downward angle that it was shot at.
This picture is ok but I would try and bring her eyes out in post. The shirt almost blends in with the background but is just a few shades lighter so I think it works.
The model looks a bit uncomfortable in this photo. Also I would crop off quite a bit of the water in front of her and a tiny bit at the top. With portrait photos you want the model to take up the majority of the frame, but with environmental portraits its a little bit different. So I would suggest in general cropping, zooming in, or just getting closer next time you do something like this.
This is a rather good portrait. You haven't cropped her hand like the other shot like this. She fills the frame and her mouth is closed which are good things. You have lost quite a bit of definition in the right eye from some shadows. The eyes are key to portraits so you want to either bring that out in post or bring a reflector next time and bounce some light up into the face to get it more evenly lit.
Overall I think you need to work on making sure the subject isn't in the smack middle of the frame the majority of the time and making sure the model takes up just a little bit more of the frame in the environmental portraits. Remember think about what you are trying to bring out as your subject. Is it the waterfall/water or is it the girl in said water?
I like 6
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Er... that is what's happening, right? The performance is projected for people sitting far away? It's a little confusing imagining how that was set up, from your photo, but the visual confusion sort of works too, so it's cool.
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Can anyone list some methods on removing that chroma noise
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Make a new one Staleghoti.