Photo Critiqing Thread
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Alright, I do not consider myself a good photographer, but here are the ones I've taken recently that I like the most. All are taken with a point and shoot Canon Powershot A530.
4 Peaks Road outside of Phoenix, AZ.
This photo is from Portugal. I was on a boat so it was difficult to get a stable photo.
Fountain at my school
View of Mt Wilson, CO. Near Telluride
A tree at my school:
Please tell me how to improve them!
4 Peaks Road outside of Phoenix, AZ.
This photo is from Portugal. I was on a boat so it was difficult to get a stable photo.
Fountain at my school
View of Mt Wilson, CO. Near Telluride
A tree at my school:
Please tell me how to improve them!
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Clark White
Explorer
I wen't out in the rain wanting to play around with some more artful photography to capture the feeling of the heavy rains we had here in town, but I'm not 100% happy or certain what I should have done differently?
I can't decide which one I like more, or if I need to do something differently? They are cropped down a fair bit because I had to shoot wide since I had to run around the car in 10sec I had with the self timer (camera was in the car for rain protection). Edit differently? Maybe a more moody color rather then B&W?
Ustadza says she loves this one, but it doesn't speak to me...what are your opinions?
And the same goes for this one; I like it but somehow it isn't speaking to me?
Thanks for any input!!!
Clark
I can't decide which one I like more, or if I need to do something differently? They are cropped down a fair bit because I had to shoot wide since I had to run around the car in 10sec I had with the self timer (camera was in the car for rain protection). Edit differently? Maybe a more moody color rather then B&W?
Ustadza says she loves this one, but it doesn't speak to me...what are your opinions?
And the same goes for this one; I like it but somehow it isn't speaking to me?
Thanks for any input!!!
Clark
Clark White
Explorer
I tried with the LR4 spot removal, but it isn't cutting it. I could do it in PS, but I currently don't have PS though hopefully I'll have it in the next few days again. I can see what you mean about it drawing your eye though, I keep looking at it rather then the photograph as a whole...rather ironic since he's the reason I decided to take that picture in the first place, go figure!
Clark
nwoods
Expedition Leader
Ustadza says she loves this one, but it doesn't speak to me...what are your opinions?
Thanks for any input!!!
Clark
Clark, I like this shot. I think the larger you can display it, the better it reads. When I first read this thread update, it was on my iphone, now I'm on my 27" monitor, and wish you had posted a larger size to your Smug account so that I could see it in X3 size
To make it pop more, I think some manipulation could be really cool. I would show the branches in the foreground in color, and mask out the background in black and white. I am incredibly busy right now this week, but if you send me the originals, or post them up on Smug, I'd bet others would be willing to play with these last two images as discussed and see what can be done with them.
Clark White
Explorer
I decided to go back and give a color version of these two a try. I think I like them better, but I'm not totally sold on the quality of color I ended up with?
For this one I took nwoods advice and tried to make everything B&W except the foreground branches...quite a tedious process with the limited masking ability in LR! I do like it though, I'll have to really bug my room mate about getting PS tonight so I can use it's better masking.
Clark
P.S. The copies of these last three in my smugmug are much larger, but these are the largest sizes I can link.
For this one I took nwoods advice and tried to make everything B&W except the foreground branches...quite a tedious process with the limited masking ability in LR! I do like it though, I'll have to really bug my room mate about getting PS tonight so I can use it's better masking.
Clark
P.S. The copies of these last three in my smugmug are much larger, but these are the largest sizes I can link.
nwoods
Expedition Leader
Its easy to link larger versions, and ExPo's forum layout supports X2 size just fine. In Chrome or Firefox, right click on the image from Smug, and choose "Copy Image URL", then just paste it in ExPo between two tags. The last digits of the URL represent the display size Smug will provide to your linked image. clarkwhite.smugmug.com/photos/i-prn5wcT/0/[B][COLOR="#FF0000"]X2[/COLOR][/B]/i-prn5wcT-[B][COLOR="#FF0000"]X2[/COLOR][/B].jpg Your options are as follows:
S - Small
M - Medium
L - Large (what you've been using by default)
XL - Extra Large
X2 - Quite large
X3 - Gloriously Large
O - Original size that you upload to Smug
[img]http://clarkwhite.smugmug.com/photos/i-prn5wcT/0/S/i-prn5wcT-S.jpg
Clark White
Explorer
Sweet! Learn something new every day! I had been going to sharing and get a link, which doesn't go that large. Thanks!
Clark
Clark
Resurrecting an old but useful thread.
I'm a first time smugmug user and am just now becoming somewhat proficient in digital photography. How would you improve these shots?
This one needs a little something extra. Maybe something in the foreground. Otherwise, waiting till early morning or evening when shadows are being cast would help a lot.
I like this one, but the tree in the foreground is distracting.
Tripod and longer exposure and higher ISO would give a bit more light, detail, and color. Would have effectively blurred the clouds too. See pic below.
Rule of thirds. What was the subject for this pic? I actually like the lens flare. Would have been awesome-er if a MTB or motorcycle was blasting by with a trail of dust behind it!
Gallery
This one was pretty much completely dark to the nekkid eye. I'll have to confirm the info, but I recall it being a 5 minute exposure on about ISO800.
Mirror Lake, looking back at Tincup Pass in Colorado.
t4rman
Adventurer
Thanks for the advice. Most of those photos were taken on Auto with a D60 and a cheapo f3.6 18-55.
That's a great photo. How did you get such a long exposure with so little noise?
That's a great photo. How did you get such a long exposure with so little noise?
Tucson T4R
Expedition Leader
Some of the newer DSLRs have pretty good long exposure noise reduction built in if you choose to enable the function.
For me, I usually just post process high ISO or long exposure shots in Lightroom 4 which has some pretty impressive noise reduction capabilities.
For me, I usually just post process high ISO or long exposure shots in Lightroom 4 which has some pretty impressive noise reduction capabilities.
No editing at all on this one...
I was wrong about my info... was almost a year ago.... so..... pardon me!
| Date Taken: | 2011-10-16 07:30:42 |
| Camera: | NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D7000 |
| Exposure Time: | 0.0333s (1/30) |
| Aperture: | f/3.5 |
| ISO: | 100 |
| Focal Length: | 18mm (27mm in 35mm) |
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