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What are your thoughts?
Photo Critiqing Thread
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Every Miles A Memory
Expedition Leader
What are your thoughts?
Is there a reason you blurred out the logo on the Spork? Just wondering because my eye goes to the logo, but I cant make it out, so I look at it even more.
I might clone it out completely rather than blur it, or just up the DOF so it's in focus
Just my thoughts
FLYFISHEXPERT
LivingOverland.com
Great color, good positioning, but too dark. I'd crank up the Brightness a bit and tone down the vignetting... Also, being very picky now, themushrooms are a bit of a turn off
Are the mushrooms a turn off because you don't like mushrooms, or because they do not look appetizing?
I blurred the logo with my depth of field because was trying to showcase the meal and not the equipment. After I spent some time looking at the photo, I too noticed the logo but didn't think about why it was bugging me. I cloned it out.
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Thank you guys for your comments! Keep them coming.
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nwoods
Expedition Leader
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FLYFISHEXPERT
LivingOverland.com
Thank you for your help! I believe the home-made marinated mushrooms are key to the recipe and would like to show them. Can anyone offer a way to make cooked mushrooms look appetizing?
Photog
Explorer
Mushrooms:
Cut the mushrooms as a full slice, so they still have the mushroom outline shape. Then place one of them to the side, revealing a little more of the pasta shell shapes.
This will be easier to fix than the mushrooms:
Reduce the vignetting. Brighten the image. It feels like we are peeking through a pin-hole, to see the meal and can not reach out to take a bite.
Nice work.
Cut the mushrooms as a full slice, so they still have the mushroom outline shape. Then place one of them to the side, revealing a little more of the pasta shell shapes.
This will be easier to fix than the mushrooms:
Reduce the vignetting. Brighten the image. It feels like we are peeking through a pin-hole, to see the meal and can not reach out to take a bite.
Nice work.
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Snafu
Adventurer
GREAT thread by the way! Loving the info so far...plus the shots are quite cool to see too.
I've been thinking over some of the tips and spent a while messing with some pics from up in the Gila Forest (Southern New Mexico) and came up with this:
This one had me thinking about what Photog mentioned with walling off the viewer and allowing them to step into the picture...I kind of liked the mix of both when I saw the grass all around me.
Searching by snafu-kb, on Flickr
I tried for a while with this one but, I think the original might have just been too dark for me to really pop out the color in an interesting way.
Lake Roberts by snafu-kb, on Flickr
I've been thinking over some of the tips and spent a while messing with some pics from up in the Gila Forest (Southern New Mexico) and came up with this:
This one had me thinking about what Photog mentioned with walling off the viewer and allowing them to step into the picture...I kind of liked the mix of both when I saw the grass all around me.
Searching by snafu-kb, on Flickr
I tried for a while with this one but, I think the original might have just been too dark for me to really pop out the color in an interesting way.
Lake Roberts by snafu-kb, on Flickr
Every Miles A Memory
Expedition Leader
Much better with the logo cloned out
Funny the little things like that we notice in photos
Funny the little things like that we notice in photos
Every Miles A Memory
Expedition Leader
GREAT thread by the way! Loving the info so far...plus the shots are quite cool to see too.
I've been thinking over some of the tips and spent a while messing with some pics from up in the Gila Forest (Southern New Mexico) and came up with this:
This one had me thinking about what Photog mentioned with walling off the viewer and allowing them to step into the picture...I kind of liked the mix of both when I saw the grass all around me.
Searching by snafu-kb, on Flickr
I tried for a while with this one but, I think the original might have just been too dark for me to really pop out the color in an interesting way.
Lake Roberts by snafu-kb, on Flickr
I thing the vignetting on the 1st one is too much. I'd tone it down a bit and it would be a stellar image
2nd one is great
Clark White
Explorer
These were taken while camping in eastern AZ, was wondering what you guys thought of them and what you would suggest to make them better.
Thanks for the input!!!
Clark White
Thanks for the input!!!
Clark White
Snafu
Adventurer
Great shots by the way!! Really like the glowing tent and stars...
I was wondering exactly where in Eastern Arizona that is though? I'm always in search of lakes and trees...I have a kayak and living in the desert makes it interesting
Snafu
Adventurer
Thanks so much! Will give that a try then...getting all the tips I can before I head out for a trip to Colorado...no doubt I'm taking several hundred shots :ylsmoke:
Clark White
Explorer
That is on Lake Chevlon, about 50mi north of Payson. Google find's it just fine, though their map isn't the best for the roads in the area (but will give you an idea of where it is and how to get there). That site is on the south end of the lake, it's about a 1/4mi walk from the parking area down to the lake.
Clark
Snafu
Adventurer
Thanks! Looks like the perfect three day weekend trip. Love the view of the stars out here...but your pics are really adding to my desire for a tripod!