Photography The Post Your Photos Not For The Photocomp Thread For Critique Or Just For Fun Thread

[old.user4556]

Yeah, or two squares.

 

[Clown]

The jumpsuit won't fit in a square
Not too sure on the two 4x6s side by side. Seems a bit too wide.

Might just have to pick a different picture

 

[old.user4556]

Here's one from the reject pile. I went out to try to catch a sunset through rain clouds, but the sunset didn't arrive and the rain prevented any decent shots. I only got one shot fired off and the clouds were 'meh' (even though it was a 30 second exposure) and the lighting was "hrrmm". Here it is anyway, critique away.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I would have cloned out the rugby sticks. Also your bordering seems random in every picture giving me OCD.

That's a big massive rock in the other one. Did you not see that when you took the picture? I like the colours though. Did you do more of that tonemapping magic?

The "rugby sticks" are the unique point of the photo. Doubt I would have taken it otherwise!

Bordering is perfectly normal - plain white 40 pixel border, unless there's an expanse of white/close white to the edge of the border in which case I insert 10px black then 30 white. This is pretty standard for printing the old fashioned way and I kinda like to continue it.

Yes, more tonemapping magic.

The horizon is a bit off in that latest one.

There's a few things wrong with this one Wazz, the lack of DoF on the rock on the left is a distraction and the hills behind don't add to the shot. I'd say that you might want to get in closer and make more of the stream and the waterfalls to fill the frame a bit more? I'm not sure how practical that is never having visited the location.

I've got some more shots of those falls, but they're only a few inches tall really so it's quite hard. Doubt I'll be going back there anytime in the future that I can see - maybe some of the others will be better when I get round to doing them. In the mean time, are these improvements?

 

[caLLous]

You could try a square crop of the first one to get rid of that rock but I have a feeling, with the lines of the hill and thee right hand side of the stream, that the viewer's eye will be pulled right up to the left hand side of the frame.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Could shop that stream shot, remove the blurry rock and make the water flow lasrger instead. Kind of extend the pool.

I know it's shopping nd it's cheating, but hell it would look nice

 

[Wazzerphuk]

The problem is if you crop the rock out completely you lose the middle in-focus rock on the left and the colour in the top left. I don't think it would be worthy of even looking at without those extra elements.

 

[caLLous]

Yep losing the blue sky is a big price to pay and all the lines in the image are pointing off out of the left hand side and it doesn't work.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Here's one from the reject pile. I went out to try to catch a sunset through rain clouds, but the sunset didn't arrive and the rain prevented any decent shots. I only got one shot fired off and the clouds were 'meh' (even though it was a 30 second exposure) and the lighting was "hrrmm". Here it is anyway, critique away.

Unfortunately the water colour really ruins this one for me. It just looks a bit unpleasant, which can happen sometimes. As a result, if you can't bring a bit more natural colour out of it, I'd consider a crop taking a lot of the water out. The car park isn't ideal, possible contender for cloning out? The buildings look good and the greens are nice, it's just a shame there isn't a little more of them. The way the diagonal lines crisscross on the bridge looks a little fuzzy, but that looks more like a result of the angle maybe? The sky and the colour balance of the bridge itself look great.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

What would be the best way of defocusing the background of something? I've got a shot of an interesting rock here, but it's merging into the background a lot and making it hard to stand out. I foolishly shot it at f8 for some retarded reason. NOB.

 

[Clown]

Black and white fixes everything.

 

[caLLous]

Post it in the RAW thread Wazz. NOB.

 

[old.user4556]

Unfortunately the water colour really ruins this one for me. It just looks a bit unpleasant, which can happen sometimes. As a result, if you can't bring a bit more natural colour out of it, I'd consider a crop taking a lot of the water out. The car park isn't ideal, possible contender for cloning out? The buildings look good and the greens are nice, it's just a shame there isn't a little more of them. The way the diagonal lines crisscross on the bridge looks a little fuzzy, but that looks more like a result of the angle maybe? The sky and the colour balance of the bridge itself look great.

Would you be surprised if I told you Visit Scotland snapped my hand off for it?

Chocolate medal for guessing where this is:

 

[Clown]

I work on the bottom left
How the hell did you get this?

 

[old.user4556]

Courtesy of BA Cityflyer.

The Tokina 11-16mm (you can take your Sigma 10-20mm and ram it...) is f/2.8, so was able to maintain a decent shutter speed (about 1/40 iirc) by shooting at f/2.8.

The plane was banking at this point, the view was awesome.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Post it in the RAW thread Wazz. NOB.

It's not fit for human consumption until I've PPd some!

I work somewhere in the middle top of that photo. The bottom part of that is they ghey part of London.

 

[- English -]

lovely photo BigG

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Tried the old magnetic lassoo shizzle and blurred that way. Not convinced personally. Comments please!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I gots me some content aware!

This is much better now I think, any glaring bits that look obvious to you guys?

 

[Clown]

Quick one after work, I know it's the same picture as before but I liked the colours in the sky.

Canary Wharf at sunset. by Clwn, on Flickr

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Been (re)processing and uploading a few really old shots on my flickr over the last few days, will probably work through the rest of the worthy ones in the next few days before moving back to my Devon shots.

 

[Clown]

I've seen some of them. Some abstract ones where I don't know what's going on but they aren't offensive to my eyes so thumbs up from me.

 

[old.user4556]

Had an early start to get this. Been a while since I dragged myself out of bed, I need to do it more often if I'm going to keep producing quality work.

 

[Clown]

I want more pictures from the plane

 

[old.user4556]

There's a set on my Flickr called "from the window seat"

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Had an early start to get this. Been a while since I dragged myself out of bed, I need to do it more often if I'm going to keep producing quality work.

One for pre-dawn? I struggle with times as well, never had a morning shoot in my life. I know the light's best then but.... mmmm, warm bed.

 

[caLLous]

Yeah, you would think a pre-dawn competition would be exactly the catalyst that we need to get up and get out... but... warm bed. :\

 

[Shagrat]

i got out of bed especially to go looking for a good shot last weekend, and it was just grey and drab and crap. Was glorious the day before, bastard weather

 

[old.user4556]

Yeah that's the problem with photography; if you want really good landscape shots with great light it's a lot of hard work and planning.

If you've got a 9-5, or even worse a 9-5 with kids then it's down to your weekends. If the weather is shit, that's another week gone by without a good photo.

I was reading in Outdoor Photographer about a guy who camps on hills and mountains to get the shots he wants - some of them are spectacular, but he admits that he can spend a couple of weeks there and get absolutely feck all.

 

[Raven]

I would be abusing the crap out of camping in Scotland, I just wish they would introduce the Scottish laws south of the border.