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 Trap
     
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
 |  | Several Shots
< on 11/3/2009 8:09 PM >
|  | | | Shots taken from several different explores constructive criticism welcome. All pictures taken with a Kodak Easyshare something or another PnS.
1. From the inside looking out
2. Furnace at a steam plant
3. Inside the furnace
4. Stairs at the steam plant
5. Doors at a burlap factory
6. Restroom at a casket factory
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Several Shots
<Reply # 1 on 11/4/2009 1:15 PM >
| | | | THEY'RE BAD BEYOND WORDS!!!
LOL that's the conclusion I've drawn
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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bighoss19
Location: da Berkshires
Gender: Male
The possibilities are endless
| |  |  | Re: Several Shots
<Reply # 2 on 11/4/2009 3:43 PM >
| | | | Okay, first things first - take a deep breath and give folks a chance to see and absorb your photos. Now on to the photos, they are not works of art but snap shots and with some advice you should be able to improve upon slowly and with a "work" (I find photography too much fun to call it work). The photos taken in the dark environments are very noisy this comes from high ISO likely picked by the auto settings of the P&S camera. Most P&S cameras have some level of manual function read, learn and practice with these setting until you find a combination that works for you. Also when first shooting in low light, use a tripod, graduate up to a mono pod and then you MIGHT be able to shoot in low light with support.
I drink too much caffeine and shake too much to hand hold low light shots most of the time.
Some other general stuff:
Don't always center your subject - search the web for info about the rule of thirds.
Keep things level - landscape photographers call it a horizon, unless doing some off the wall artsy stuff straight floors, walls, and ceilings will look the most natural to the human eye.
Work on have the light on your subject, unless back lighting it which seems to be popular on this site, particularly with the drainers.
BTW 4 & 5 are pretty good with some sharpening in Photoshop and other slight adjustments they'd be even better.
All fires go out and all bleeding stops - eventually.
It is all about risk vs benefit. |
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Several Shots
<Reply # 3 on 11/4/2009 4:49 PM >
| | | | Oh hey thanks for the tips! And admittedly, they are exactly what you said, an amateur's snap shots, I know they're not works of art, but damnit I'm still proud of them! 
Thanks again
[last edit 11/4/2009 4:51 PM by Trap - edited 1 times]
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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bighoss19
Location: da Berkshires
Gender: Male
The possibilities are endless
| | | | Re: Several Shots
<Reply # 4 on 11/4/2009 5:40 PM >
| | | | Pride is a good thing - (warning: corny fatherly to follow).
Also note the more effort and pride you put into something the better it will be and the more reward you will get out of it.
All fires go out and all bleeding stops - eventually.
It is all about risk vs benefit. |
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AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC
Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
| | | | Re: Several Shots
<Reply # 5 on 11/4/2009 8:14 PM >
| | | | It's easy to tell that these came from a PS camera. There are some tricks to make those things work pretty well though. I never know how much people have played with 'em so I just spit the basics out or something. I finally finished that homework so here I am. These are lookin' cleaner than your early stuff, so it's clear you're having fun at it.
Half-pressing the trigger locks all the 'auto' values on most cameras. The autofocus on these things needs light to work, or it'll guess wrong. I would always point the camera at what I wanted to shoot, hit that with a light - It'll be able to focus there, but this can screw up lightmetering. Then I frame the shot the way I meant (still holding the half-press) and it turns out pretty well. Also, a tripod will make a big difference but I know there's times you can't unpack the thing in time.
Composing shots is a way of seeing things as your camera would, so that the picture will look as the scene appears. There's tricks because the camera never sees like you do, so you have to do some things. Pick a subject, it's the reason for taking the picture. The photo should lead you to that - In a drain, backlit concrete/brick/poo points directly to whatever's in the center, for example. When I say "points to," it's about lines. Contrast and color make lines before they make things, and your eye darts across the lines (Up the crane, down the hallway, etc). Put something there or it feels confusing, you went to look at Something and there wasn't anything. Poke around at photography techniques for some good examples, because I can't claim that any of mine are ;)
One of my least favorite things about the PS is that sometimes you have to trick it into doing what you want. Keep on practicing that, think about composition, and you're set!
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